The idea being we each recommend a book we have enjoyed and warn each other away from a book we couldn't stand.
Inspired by two books I read last week.
Bad Book
Mr McGregors Garden by Alan Titchmarsh.
Worse than Barbara Cartland worse than Jeffrey Archer quite the worst book I have read in the last ten years. The dreadful plot and cliche ridden text made me wonder how on earth this ever came to be published. I kid you not it could have been written by a 10 year old. Drivel.
Good Book
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
A delight. A beautiful novel that combines a simple science fiction convention with romance and humour.
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Master of Sex
Ooh, I love book threads. I rarely post on these because I don't like to show what a philistine I am 
Bad Book - Anything by Dan Brown, really, but particularly Deception Point...ooh and then we fell off the edge of this iceberg and you'll never guess, but this submarine just came up and rescued us! Then, we all lived happily ever after, with me in the Whitehouse wearing the presidents pyjamas.
Good Book - just a teeny tiny read called Address Unknown by Kressman Taylor. One of the first fictionalised books about the Holocaust and is about a series of letters between two German friends, one jewish, the other not and the development of the relationship over the course of the letters and the war.
Bad Book - Anything by Dan Brown, really, but particularly Deception Point...ooh and then we fell off the edge of this iceberg and you'll never guess, but this submarine just came up and rescued us! Then, we all lived happily ever after, with me in the Whitehouse wearing the presidents pyjamas.
Good Book - just a teeny tiny read called Address Unknown by Kressman Taylor. One of the first fictionalised books about the Holocaust and is about a series of letters between two German friends, one jewish, the other not and the development of the relationship over the course of the letters and the war.
BAD BOOK
Twilight
Stephanie Meyer.
A book about young vampires in the USA, it was recommened by my daughter, she could not put it down, said it would occupy my time on a long flight.
I took only that book on the plane, bad times!
So badly written, i finished it, but what a waste of paper!
GOOD BOOK
A Thouand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
His 2nd book, I read this before The Kite Runner.
This is amazing book, very disturbing at times, I was moved to in Afganistan, it is a story of despair, but with hope also.
So well written, I read it in one go.
I would implore all to read it, and The Kite runner, they will effect you and make you a more compassionate person!!
Twilight
Stephanie Meyer.
A book about young vampires in the USA, it was recommened by my daughter, she could not put it down, said it would occupy my time on a long flight.
I took only that book on the plane, bad times!
So badly written, i finished it, but what a waste of paper!
GOOD BOOK
A Thouand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
His 2nd book, I read this before The Kite Runner.
This is amazing book, very disturbing at times, I was moved to in Afganistan, it is a story of despair, but with hope also.
So well written, I read it in one go.
I would implore all to read it, and The Kite runner, they will effect you and make you a more compassionate person!!
Awww Ben you took my good book. I loved The Time Travellers Wife by Audrey Nieffenegger. It moved me so much I trawled Amazon and bought her only 2 other books. How disappointing! They were both sort-of picture books and showed her mind to be a little erm disturbed imho. I hope she writes another like 'Time Traveller' though.
I can't read Harry Potter. I just couldn't get into the first book and put me off even watching the films.
I can't read Harry Potter. I just couldn't get into the first book and put me off even watching the films.
Sex God
Lucy: a million heartbroken teenage romantics are now weeping into their copies of Twilight - shame on you! Stephenie Meyer is sooooooo the next big thing in teenage fiction!! 
Good Book
Can I have more than one?
Jonathan Frantzen - The Corrections; John Updike - The Rabbit series of books; James Lee Burke - The Tin Roof Blowdown; Marthe Blau - Submission; Benjamin Zephaniah - Refugee Boy; Lemn Sissay - Morning Breaks in The Elevator; Daisy Goodwin (ed.) - Poems to Last a Lifetime; Kate Chopin - The Awakening; John Twelve Hawks - The Traveller
Bad Book
Erm... I tend not to do bad books - they usually all have their merits in so far as I would love everyone to read something.
But if I had to choose, as someone has already said: Dan Brown. I just find his novels way too formulaic.
Good Book
Can I have more than one?
Jonathan Frantzen - The Corrections; John Updike - The Rabbit series of books; James Lee Burke - The Tin Roof Blowdown; Marthe Blau - Submission; Benjamin Zephaniah - Refugee Boy; Lemn Sissay - Morning Breaks in The Elevator; Daisy Goodwin (ed.) - Poems to Last a Lifetime; Kate Chopin - The Awakening; John Twelve Hawks - The Traveller
Bad Book
Erm... I tend not to do bad books - they usually all have their merits in so far as I would love everyone to read something.
But if I had to choose, as someone has already said: Dan Brown. I just find his novels way too formulaic.
Sex God
Good
Birdsong by Seb Faulks
Bad
My Booky Wook by Posturing Asshole
Birdsong by Seb Faulks
Bad
My Booky Wook by Posturing Asshole
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Sex God
Two classics
Austens - Pride and Prejudice - Pure literary class sort of oddly humurous intelligent gossipy 18th century brilliance.
Margaret Atwoods - A Handmaids tale - Studied it for A level Eng but by god it was hard going drudgery. got me top grade though but still hated it.
Austens - Pride and Prejudice - Pure literary class sort of oddly humurous intelligent gossipy 18th century brilliance.
Margaret Atwoods - A Handmaids tale - Studied it for A level Eng but by god it was hard going drudgery. got me top grade though but still hated it.
good books ....
Rotten no irish no blacks no dogs
by John Lydon .( aka Johnny Rotten) Brilliant autobiographical look at the beginning of punk rock
and
Hey Ho Let's Go the story of the Ramones
by Everett True
an insight into Americas greatest ever punk band
bad books
can't really say i've read a bad un
Rotten no irish no blacks no dogs
by John Lydon .( aka Johnny Rotten) Brilliant autobiographical look at the beginning of punk rock
and
Hey Ho Let's Go the story of the Ramones
by Everett True
an insight into Americas greatest ever punk band
bad books
can't really say i've read a bad un
Ohhh I love books! Ben the time travellers wife is my all time fav! It is the most wonderful book! But as it is already taken I will pick something else.
Anything by Paulo Coelho - 11 minutes, the alchemist, the zihir.
The bad, The Di Vinci code - I actually quite liked it but it was very badly written and full of inconsistencies.
Current reading list – Twilight watch by Sergei Lukyanenko (3rd part of a trilogy), the reader Bernhard Schlink, long way round Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman and what a carve up Jonathon Coe
Will let you know what they are like when I have finished them.
Anything by Paulo Coelho - 11 minutes, the alchemist, the zihir.
The bad, The Di Vinci code - I actually quite liked it but it was very badly written and full of inconsistencies.
Current reading list – Twilight watch by Sergei Lukyanenko (3rd part of a trilogy), the reader Bernhard Schlink, long way round Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman and what a carve up Jonathon Coe
Will let you know what they are like when I have finished them.
Sex God
Oh So many to choose from...
Good Books :
Most things by Stephen Fry, Bill Bryson, Thomas Harris. Douglas Adams, Big Bang and Fermat's last Theorem by Simon Singh, Brief History of Time (No honestly, just read it while you are alert and it isn't that difficult), Philip K Dick's stuff, Orwell, HG Wells, Longitude by Dava Sobel, Michael Moore, Stuart Maconie, Tony Hawks, Richard Dawkins, Stephen King, Loads of biographies and autobiographies, Harlen Coben and best out of every single one of them, Roald Dahl and the Mr Men (In particular Mr Bump, Mr Forgetful and Mr Dizzy who I can empathise with entirely).
Bad Books :
It's customary to kick Dan Brown nowadays and I don't want to join in, but of all his books only Angels and Demons has any kind of merit for me, though I can see why they appeal. I'm baffled by the Harry Potter cult, Jeffrey Archer obviously, and Ben Elton is a real mixed bag but the real bum-wipingly bad stuff for me has been the dreadful Andy McNab "Bravo, I've got a knife and know hot to use it, two, I'm well hard me, zero" kind of books. I always think the soldiers who do their jobs well and don't feck up whilst doing it, don't have to earn a crust writing about their cock ups for the masses. There's plenty of dross out there too. Barbara Cartland for example and I will be honest, Tolkein bores the trousers off me.
(EDIT : To fit in with Bens original idea)
I'd recommend : Moab is my Washpot by Stephen Fry or The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon or Who Moved my Blackberry, by someone I can't remember and Bill Hicks Love all the People and most of all The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.
I'd avoid : Harry Hill Flight from Deathrow (Thought it would be funny. Piles are funnier) The Goldilocks Principle by Paul Davies - (the most half arsed attempt at marrying religion and science you can find)
Good Books :
Most things by Stephen Fry, Bill Bryson, Thomas Harris. Douglas Adams, Big Bang and Fermat's last Theorem by Simon Singh, Brief History of Time (No honestly, just read it while you are alert and it isn't that difficult), Philip K Dick's stuff, Orwell, HG Wells, Longitude by Dava Sobel, Michael Moore, Stuart Maconie, Tony Hawks, Richard Dawkins, Stephen King, Loads of biographies and autobiographies, Harlen Coben and best out of every single one of them, Roald Dahl and the Mr Men (In particular Mr Bump, Mr Forgetful and Mr Dizzy who I can empathise with entirely).
Bad Books :
It's customary to kick Dan Brown nowadays and I don't want to join in, but of all his books only Angels and Demons has any kind of merit for me, though I can see why they appeal. I'm baffled by the Harry Potter cult, Jeffrey Archer obviously, and Ben Elton is a real mixed bag but the real bum-wipingly bad stuff for me has been the dreadful Andy McNab "Bravo, I've got a knife and know hot to use it, two, I'm well hard me, zero" kind of books. I always think the soldiers who do their jobs well and don't feck up whilst doing it, don't have to earn a crust writing about their cock ups for the masses. There's plenty of dross out there too. Barbara Cartland for example and I will be honest, Tolkein bores the trousers off me.
(EDIT : To fit in with Bens original idea)
I'd recommend : Moab is my Washpot by Stephen Fry or The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon or Who Moved my Blackberry, by someone I can't remember and Bill Hicks Love all the People and most of all The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.
I'd avoid : Harry Hill Flight from Deathrow (Thought it would be funny. Piles are funnier) The Goldilocks Principle by Paul Davies - (the most half arsed attempt at marrying religion and science you can find)
I have not been a book reader for a number of years now ( too busy reading me tabloids ).
But for me one of the greatest reads was Lord of the Rings. The Hobbit was brilliant reading as a child.
Mrs777 is an avid book reader and can read one in a day if it really holds her thoughts.
As a child the Billy Bunter books were fantastic, and things like Tom Browns schooldays kinda thing.
But for me one of the greatest reads was Lord of the Rings. The Hobbit was brilliant reading as a child.
Mrs777 is an avid book reader and can read one in a day if it really holds her thoughts.
As a child the Billy Bunter books were fantastic, and things like Tom Browns schooldays kinda thing.
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I have not been a book reader for a number of years now ( too busy reading me tabloids ).
But for me one of the greatest reads was Lord of the Rings. The Hobbit was brilliant reading as a child.
Mrs777 is an avid book reader and can read one in a day if it really holds her thoughts.
As a child the Billy Bunter books were fantastic, and things like Tom Browns schooldays kinda thing.
Ooh that reminds me, as a kid, my favourite books were 'Jennings' - I think they were my mum's originally - but I can't remember who by. Would it be Richmal Crompton?
Sex God
This is busty staggerless partner who never comments on forums but have had a giggle at kents 777 posting regarding the fact that he never reads books i would say by reading the postings that he posts on here he can just join the dots as that is the quality of newspapers that he reads sorry people who know me will tell you that i am a very quiet person who rarely says anything about anyone but some of kents postings are guaranteed to drive me to drink
