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Ric.ror | 12:06 Tue 06th Jul 2010 | Books & Authors
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For me it has to be Catcher in the Rye - I just wanted to smack him
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Anything by Dickens....cannot stand.
12:46 Tue 06th Jul 2010
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Totally agree with you, Ric.ror, I ploughed through Catcher in the Rye but just felt he would benefit from a good slap.

Loads of people recommended 'Perfume' to me but it really did nothing for me. Again I just found it impossible to get involved with any of the characters and really did not care what happened to them.
16:43 Tue 06th Jul 2010
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Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre, in fact anything by the Brontes, I don't know why I just cant get into them
18:21 Tue 06th Jul 2010
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War and Peace......
18:22 Tue 06th Jul 2010
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Finnegans Wake is as good as a sleeping pill.
18:22 Tue 06th Jul 2010
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Not keen on anything by George Eliot .....especially Middlemarch...yawn yawn yawn.
20:19 Tue 06th Jul 2010
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I like most of George Eliot, but just couldn't get on with Middlemarch.
22:39 Wed 07th Jul 2010
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Never ever understood the fuss about 'Catcher in the Rye'. Totally un-interesting. Probably the reason it was picked as one of the A-level books.
16:35 Fri 09th Jul 2010
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I dont understand why they dont use the shortest books for a levels - more chance to re-read them then
16:39 Fri 09th Jul 2010
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Agreed re Dickens. I also have very little time for Trollope and the whole romantic fiction genre...
16:39 Fri 09th Jul 2010
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Anything by Shakespeare.
18:50 Sat 10th Jul 2010
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that irritating hitch hikers guide to the galaxy
15:28 Sun 11th Jul 2010
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Love Shakespeare hate hitchikers
10:03 Tue 13th Jul 2010
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Didn't like "To Kill a Mocking Bird".
10:07 Tue 13th Jul 2010
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Dickens so dreary
Trollope is twee
The brontes ....too fevered
And Elliots not for me
Mockingbird, Catcher etc can't be fluffed
Mostly the classics can go and get stu***d
If I spend my time with a book I'd repeat
I want to be kept on the edge of my seat...
So don't give me shakespeare or Wilde or the rest
A nice bloody murder suits me the best
10:08 Tue 13th Jul 2010
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Yaay ... FORZA !! rowanwitch.

(joins in with applause for rowanwitch)
10:11 Tue 13th Jul 2010
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Love H.G Wells....and Jane Austen.....Hate Dickens.
10:17 Tue 13th Jul 2010
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Quite enjoyed Wells, and didn't mind Dahl
Suitably strange she said with a smile
Loved Bradbury Wyndham and Azimov too
Spent most of my teens with an alien or two
Moved onto writers with feminist bent
Half of the time didn't know what they meant
Found Tom Holt and Pratchett
Much more fun to read
You don't need pretensions or be
heavily degreed
10:21 Tue 13th Jul 2010

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