Alphabet Books

[Amethyst]

Books in alphabetical order.......... by book Title (not author)


include author if you know it, and a little description of the book and what you liked about it.

See if we can do it with books you have actually read.


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A

Alice in Wonderland

Just a long trip really

Synopsis
When Alice follows the White Rabbit down a hole, she enters a world of strange places and even stranger characters: Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee; the Mad Hatter, the March Hare and the Dormouse; the Duchess; and the Cheshire Cat.

[Paradox]

B

Beach (The) - Alex Garland

In our ever-shrinking world, where popular Western culture seems to have infected every nation on the planet, it is hard to find even a small niche of unspoiled land--forget searching for pristine islands or continents. This is the situation in Alex Garland's debut novel, The Beach. Human progress has reduced Eden to a secret little beach near Thailand. In the tradition of grand adventure novels, Richard, a rootless traveller rambling around Thailand on his way somewhere else, is given a hand-drawn map by a madman who calls himself Daffy Duck. He and two French travellers set out on a journey to find this paradise.
What makes this a truly satisfying novel is the number of levels on which it operates. On the surface it's a fast-paced adventure novel; at another level it explores why we search for these utopias, be they mysterious lost continents or small island communes. Garland weaves a gripping and thought-provoking narrative that suggests we are, in fact, such products of our Western culture that we cannot help but pollute and ultimately destroy the very sanctuary we seek.

I really enjoyed the book, then went and saw the film.. What a terrible remake of a fantastic novel.

Matt

[Amethyst]

C

Crash


I adored this book and driving got a whole lots more exciting (and worrying) for me for ages after




synopsis

Synopsis
The cult status of "Crash" has intensified since its original publication in 1973, making it a classic of underground literature. In this hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a 'TV scientist', experiments with erotic atrocities among crash victims, each more sinister than the last: ultimately, he craves a union of blood, semen and engine coolant in a head-on collision with Elizabeth Taylor.

p.s I havent seen the film and have no intention of ruining my view of the book by seeing the apparently pants film.

[Tools]

D

Desperation - Stephen King

[Mochamoos]

Earth from above -cant remember who by


very cool pictures of earth all from above

[Mochamoos]

Faceless by Martina Cole

London underworld, crime, families, life, gripping thriller

[Koenigsegg]

Great curries of India

....enough said lol

[Mochamoos]

Great curries of India

....enough said lol

I have it... brilliant!


HARRY POTTER!!!!!!

Had to ... sorry....

[Mochamoos]

I dreamed of Africa - Kuki Gallman

Favorite book of all....

from amazon

Synopsis
This autobiography tells the story of an Italian woman whose life is driven by love of Africa. The prologue covers a string of deaths which shaped Kuki Gallmann's life including that of a woman friend who died in a car crash. The widower, Paulo (who then married Kuki), his two daughters and Kuki's son by a previous marriage all went to Kenya and bought a large estate. Paulo died in an accident and Kuki's son died aged 17, bitten by one of his own puff-adders. Kuki had a couple of affairs - one with a married white planter, another with a film stuntman who involved her in the film "Out of Africa". Finally she set up a foundation which in fact is more like a private wildlife park.

Still doesnt do it justice though!!!

[crashbandicoot]

James and the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl....

[Fendyweather]

Kits wilderness.

Fantastic kids book, well young adult.......... Fab.

[coup d'état]

Lair - James Herbert

Synopsis -

"The mutant white rats had grown and mated, creating offspring in its own image. They dominated the others, the dark-furred ones, who foraged for food and brought it back to the lair. Now the dark rats were restless, tormented by a craving they could not satisfy. But the white sluglike thing that ruled them knew. Its two heads weaved to and fro and a stickiness drooled from its mouth as it remembered the taste of human flesh..."

[coup d'état]

Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust
(Richard Rhodes)

Synopsis -

Masters of Death is Richard Rhodes's chronological account of the Third Reich's Einsatzgruppen (a hand-picked task force) and its death work--the executions of 1.5 million people, Jews and non-Jews--in Russia and Eastern Europe from 1941 through 1943. Rhodes sees these operations (the victims were, almost exclusively, shot) as a ghastly prelude to the subsequent (and much more written-about) horrors of the death camps. In chilling--and occasionally excessive--detail, Rhodes describes the killings and the reasons behind the Reich's cautious, rather than precipitous, escalation of the same: the military's "concern for German and world opinion"; the need to improve methodology; and finally, the need to "condition" the troops, thereby avoiding "disabling trauma." Rhodes makes good use of firsthand accounts and outlines the effects the larger war (Pearl Harbor; the failure to defeat Britain) had on Hitler's attempted obliteration of European Jewry. His chapters on the nature of evil seem hurried and not particularly fresh.

[crashbandicoot]

Noddy!!!!!