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hystericali · Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 1:36 pm Post subject: Favourite Books

My all time favourite book is 'To Kill a Mockingbird' by Harpur Lee, I can't say why, I just adore the story.

I also enjoy the Patricia Cornwell books about Dr Kay Scarpetta, partly because if I was clever enough I'd love to have had the oppertunity to work in criminology/forensic science

I like ghost stories (true ones) and stuff about aliens/UFO's etc. I'd probably enjoy conspiracy theories too. I have a book I can't put down about how some of the most famous people ever died, such as Marilyn Monroe and JFK, and some of the evidence presented does make me wonder.

What does everyone else like?

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Political_Assassin · Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 5:51 pm Post subject:

ooooooooh!!a book thread!!lol, i used to be quite one-sided in my book reading, if it wasn't a good horror...it was no good to me!!lol, i still love horror, but recently i've read a lot of biographys and autobiographys.the best ones so far, Jeff Buckley,Muse,*Long Hard Road Out of Hell* Marilyn Manson, *Scar Tissue*RHCP, and sorta autobiography *A Child Called It*- really pulls on the ol' heart strings.Currently reading a book called *the long road home* by danielle steel....i used to have reserved opinions about her...but if u can get hold of this book....GET it!!it's beautiful and very sad. The best autobiography i've read top date would have to be Manson's, gripping,shocking yet beautifully written.good eye opener for any fan or non fan.best fiction book the one i'm now reading!!!ooooh....John Milton's Paradise lost...more one for a poetry thread really...but read!
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The Idiot by Fyodor Doestoyevsky
Ghost Story by Peter Straub
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellman
The Passion of Michel Foucault by James Ellis
Sexual Personae (Art & Nature) by Camille Paglia
Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness by Erich Fromm
The Occult by Colin Wilson
The Holy Blood & The Holy Grail by Baigent, Leigh & Lincoln
In God's Name by David Yallop
Orson Welles by Barbara Leaming

Northern-Star · Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 6:08 pm Post subject:

I've read , Marilyn Manson~the long hard road out of hell
Heavier Than Heaven~ Charles R.Cross(about Kurt Cobain)
A book about how Marilyn Monroe supposedly died, but I cant remeber the name! It was new about 2yrs ago, very interesting

I like a nice horror, crime fiction anything really

My faves are
Phillip Pullman: His Dark Materials
James Ellroy: The Cold Six Thousand, American Tabloid, The Big Nowhere
David Mitchell: Ghostwritten, Cloud Atlas
Bret Easton Ellis: Glamorama, American Psycho, Rules Of Attraction, Less Than Zero
Anne Rice: Interview With the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen Of The Damned, The Tale of the Body Thief, Memnoch The Devil, The Vampire Armand
Stephen King~ IT
I am currently reading The Plot Against America by Philip Roth, its very good

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Interview & Lestat are great books - I loved the part in Interview where Louis and Claudia are looking for other vampires, and in Lestat, where Gabrielle and Lestat seek out haunted houses

Political_Assassin · Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 6:16 pm Post subject:

quite a morbid bunch really aren't we!!! :smt077 (the choice of emoticons is by far the best i've seen for a while!!!)lol
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Northern-Star · Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 6:21 pm Post subject:

Hannah · Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 7:42 pm Post subject:

Pah! Smelly Anne Lice

I'm very much into Terry Pratchett - Genius Books

Helen · Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 6:20 pm Post subject:

Love Patricia Cornwell too, also Robin Cook - read his books so quickly though - cant put em down, also love most of the Stephen King books but am reading some cheesy romance books by Jill Mansell - they are fab, but a bit cheesy

* Edit oh forgot I have read 3 of Dan Browns books - Deception Point has been the best so far.

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'The Stand' is my fave Stephen King book

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I loved the films for The Stand when I was young (yes, and had a crush on Rob Lowe I imagine) but then I got the book from library and read a few pages and it was so sick that I never finished it.

My fave books would include

Good Omens by Gaiman and Prachett
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien
The Hobit by Tolkien
Trainspotting by Welsh
Hamlet by Shakespeare

I also like Edgar Allan Poe's short stories and what else now...
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Political_Assassin · Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 11:31 am Post subject:

mjy favourite book of stephen king's (out of the ones i've read...there's millions!!)would probably be Thinner...soooo damn good.i can't get hold of the green mile in hardback tho :cry: the film was sooooo good, now i wanna read the book!
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