Beagles Book Club

[Hurricane Puffrose]

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but but the slippery slip Inca!!

Going down the slide on a cushion!!

Anything that lets go you off in to flights of fancy I love! LOVE RA Salvatore and the Legends of Drizzt books!
Drizzt is a Drow (Dark Elf - boo hiss) who turns his back on his people and sets off to live among the goodly peoples of the spine of the world, and makes friends.

[MissFM]

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Younger children = "The Little prince" ("Le Petit Prince" if you read french or they want to learn it) Antoine de St Exupery - his adult books "Wind, Sand and Stars" "Flight to Arras" are hauntingly beautiful too

[Hurricane Puffrose]

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The Shawshank Redemption is a must too.

Little known fact, its written by Steven King under a psuedenom!

The Silence of the Lambs is a BILLION times better than the film if that is humanly possible, and the other big read it is The Shinning, but have a teddy/partner/pillow to cuddle at bedtime cos it plays games with your head!!

I absolutely (to the point Hubby says are you reading that AGAIN??) love The Phantom of the Opera too!

[lexis200]

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(altho you can't beat a kindle on the beach or propped up in bed),

I have enough trouble falling asleep with a book and waking up to a heavy thwack as I drop it on my forehead. I reckon I'd get concussion if I had a Kindle

[Hurricane Puffrose]

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More reccomendations, this time from The Daughter (aged 10)

ANYTHING by Jacqueline Wilson. She is a HUGE fan, and this is the same woman who wrote the Tracy Beaker books.
She says " They are great, you'll love them!"

The Borrowers: "It's not just fantastic it's BRILLIANT!"

Percy The Park Keeper: "Percy gets up to loads of trouble, love his books "

[GeorgeFormby]

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I love a good read and Military History is my preferred choice. If anyone is of a similar kind than I suggest Chickenhawk by Robert Mason, it's regarding the authors experiences of being a helicopter pilot in the Vietnam war and I've lost count of the amount of times I've read it. Can't recommend it highly enough!!

Don't cry for me sergeant major by Hands and McGowan is another excellent read.

My daughter (15) is also a bookworm and loves Meg Cabot and although I've read none of them myself she reads them over and over again so they're ideal for her age group (hopefully!)

[Hurricane Puffrose]

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if your in to the military vein, may i reccomend The Watch Man by Chris Ryan.

I don't normally like that kind of book, but I could not put it down.

Another favourite is The Ice Child by Elizabeth someone, will find out.
It is based on truth, the fight by Franklin for the Great North Passage (canada)
EXCELLENT.

[Celestine]

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Just finished:

The 100yr old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared.

Brilliant.......very ingenious and funny.

Holes by Louis Sachar - Awesome

Sailing Alone Around The World by Joshua Slocum - Incredible diary of a lone sailors trip around the world in 1899 FASCINATING and free Kindle Book

[labman]

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After a day of thought, my adult list would include the following. I've tried to get some variety, and it's been HARD choosing them:

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

The Call of the Wild - Jack London

Chart Throb - Ben Elton

The Street Lawyer - John Grisham

The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

[Hurricane Puffrose]

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If I may make a few Don't Bother's..

Gormonghast: Read it 4 times and STILL don't know what the blood and liver salts its about!! And I only read it 4 times in the hope I might actually figure out what was going on!!

Inca Gold: Not to be mistaken with our own 5 foot wonder, my Incs, but... total and utter bovine excrement to quote BB! Never read such a crock of crap in all my life!!!

Contreversial one here but Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORING!!!
Total toot from start to finish, I tried to like it honest, but what a disappointment!

I am thinking on buying a new fantasy novel, maybe another RA Salvatore, or a Wiess and Hickman but see what I get

[Eloise01]

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If I may make a few Don't Bother's..

Gormonghast: Read it 4 times and STILL don't know what the blood and liver salts its about!! And I only read it 4 times in the hope I might actually figure out what was going on!!

Inca Gold: Not to be mistaken with our own 5 foot wonder, my Incs, but... total and utter bovine excrement to quote BB! Never read such a crock of crap in all my life!!!

Contreversial one here but Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORING!!!
Total toot from start to finish, I tried to like it honest, but what a disappointment!

I am thinking on buying a new fantasy novel, maybe another RA Salvatore, or a Wiess and Hickman but see what I get

Salman Rushdies "Satanic Verses" - I had to read it purely because people wanted to ban/burn it. If they had bothered to read it they'd have discovered it wasn't worth the effort!

"Mein Kampf" - author obvious - read this years ago for similar reasons, you can't simply oppose a viewpoint if you don't try to understand what it is saying. Really wasn't worth the effort of even finding a copy, never mind reading it!

Richard Dawkins "The God Delusion" - factually inaccurate; flawed logic; and it's amazing how much effort someone can put into rubbishing a "non-existant" thing. Made me think that he was more upset that God wouldn't prove it's existence than he was convinced that it didn't exist.

Anything by Frank Herbert!

[Hurricane Puffrose]

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my b-i-l reccomends anything by Wilbur Smith, and I can reccomend Warlock by him.. awesome book.

[Celestine]

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BBC's Big Read Top 50 Books.

BOLD = Read
RED = Favourite
* = Plan to Read
= Over my dead body

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman*
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee*
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller*
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks*
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger*
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving*
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett*
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy *
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian *
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck *
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth*
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett*
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles*
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman*
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett*
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell*
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett*
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt*
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake*
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy*
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley*
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac*
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie*

What's your list like?

[MissFM]

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Agree about 100 years of solitude

[Celestine]

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Agree about 100 years of solitude

Bit special isn't it?

'Perfume' was also incredible....