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Ray&Sarah
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Status: offline |  Posted - 17 Apr 2005 : 19:55:00  
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I am now reading the first book about the Famous Five by Enid Blyton! I thought I'd like to remind myself why I enjoyed them so much!! 
Hairy legs!!!!
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chrizzy100
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Status: offline | Posted - 17 Apr 2005 : 20:09:47
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I have given the lashings of ginger beer a miss (actually I never did like it) but I have got some tins of fruit and ripe plums beside me as I read!!
Chrizzy, the first book is called Five on a Treasure Island. It involves a shipwreck, a castle and some gold ingots. Is that the one you are talking about do you think?
I think so.....I'll go look it up online and see......
I just did.....and yes it is.....I may just have to go out and buy it now....... |
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Thorogoods
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Status: offline | Posted - 17 Apr 2005 : 21:32:55
| My Favorite Terry Pratchett book has to be Mort because this was the first one I read but also it has my favorite charcter Death in it,But I also enjoy the Witches one's and the Guards book's .
But I do agree Lord of the Rings is also my favorite of all time which I have read so many time I have to keep buying new copies as they seem wear out. But you must not discount the Hobbit which I read for the first at school which is also very good. |
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jo carroll
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Status: offline | Posted - 17 Apr 2005 : 22:48:22
| I like Lord of the Rings too and have read it twice - will probably read it again but not for a good while, so much other stuff to read and I don't have as much time these days what with kids, work, a villa etc. If you like Lord of the Rings you may well like the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy by Phillip Pullman. I read them last summer and they really were unputdownable for me, my hubby got quite cross because we went on holiday and all I wanted to do was read.
I will keep going with The Time Travellers Wife but agree the need for a nice fluffy book afterwards.
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chrizzy100
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Status: offline | Posted - 18 Apr 2005 : 00:23:40
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My Favorite Terry Pratchett book has to be Mort because this was the first one I read but also it has my favorite charcter Death in it,But I also enjoy the Witches one's and the Guards book's .
But I do agree Lord of the Rings is also my favorite of all time which I have read so many time I have to keep buying new copies as they seem wear out. But you must not discount the Hobbit which I read for the first at school which is also very good.
The Last Continent is my all time fav Disc World book......
"Will you stop talking about jam and be sensible for a moment!"
Rincewind lowered the sandwich. "Good grief, I hope not," he said. "I'm sitting in a cave in a country where everything bites you and it never rains and I'm talking, no offence, to a herbivore that smells of a carpet in a house where there are a lot of excitable puppies, and I've suddenly got this talent for finding jam sandwiches and inexplicable fairy cakes in unexpected places, and I've been shown something very odd in a picture on some old cave wall, and suddenly said kangaroo tells me time and space are all wrong and wants me to be sensible? What, when you get right down to it, is in it for me?"
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Cruella DeVilla
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Deb
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Status: offline | Posted - 18 Apr 2005 : 13:52:21
| I have recently read "Snobs" by Julian Fellowes. All about the 'upper classes' and all their rules about mixing with the 'peasants'!! The story follows a young woman with ambitions to marry for money and she does so, but is not accepted by her in-laws family. A very entertaining, light hearted look at the aristocracy and what snobs they all are!! I don't think they would even visit Florida - it was all country pursuits for them.
I'm now onto a James Patterson murder mystery set in San Francisco. I've read several of his books and one or two have been made into films - Morgan Freeman was excellent in Along came a Spider.
I think my next one will be a chick lit novel, just something nice and easy. |
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stabard
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Status: offline | Posted - 18 Apr 2005 : 14:49:58
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Oh Elaine I love Gingerbeer and have found a really fiery one from Jamaca in Walmart, I was gong to bring some round with my copy of Enid
I have the Gingerbeer too - find it is a great ingredient in some of the interesting cocktails I have been practising lately
Have just finally managed to finish the entire set of Enid Blytons "Barney" stories. ( I was reading them to my youngest son at bedtime - honest) We have now gone on to The Mr Men so may have to find something a bit more challenging to counter act this  |
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E. Cosgrove
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Ana
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Status: offline | Posted - 18 Apr 2005 : 17:52:39
| My taste in books changes with the weather! I often start three to see which one I fancy.
I read Angels and Demons, but haven't yet read Dan Brown's others. The Da Vinci Code is in my pile of books to start, as is The 2.5 Pillars of Wisdom - same author as the no.1 Ladies Detective agency books (which I really enjoyed) I also love "chick lit". I have just finished Jemima J (Jane Green) and The Baby Trail (Sinead Moriarty) both great light reading. I'm currently reading The Bad Mothers Handbook (Kate Long) a great read so far.......... |
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DisneyDreamer
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Thorogoods
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jo carroll
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Status: offline | Posted - 19 Apr 2005 : 20:04:27
| We obviously enjoy the same books.  I like Terry Pratchett too, have only read the first two of the discworld series, Mort is next and is in the pile on the bedside table, I'm looking forward to it, maybe I'll choose that one to follow my slow reading of the time traveller's wife ( still keeping going).
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Cruella DeVilla
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benfilo
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Status: offline | Posted - 19 Apr 2005 : 22:19:01
| like Jo one of my favourites is lord of the rings and I also read Dark materials last summer and really enjjoyed them. for those who like to visit strange lands like that, Steven Donaldson's White Gold Wielder is worth a go.
I'd never read any Stephen king up until last year, and never thought I would, but i stumbled on his Gunslinger series last and got hooked on his writing. The cover blurb says it's a cross between The good the bad and the ugly and Lord O T rings, I found it an excellent Sci fi fantasy with some horror. Then there's The Stand, Needful Things....
perhaps we should get people to nominate there 5 favourite to create our own top 100
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jo carroll
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stabard
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Status: offline | Posted - 19 Apr 2005 : 22:44:49
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"Stephen Donaldson's White Gold Wielder is worth a go"
Yes! I've read these too but many years ago, had almost forgotten about them. Maybe time for a re-visit. Better get off the forums and get reading - both are enjoyable and addictive pastimes, I am torn.
There is a new one out now - Lee bought it for me for Xmas. Linden Avery is back in The Land. It looks to be the start of another Trilogy. |
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