Mine's 'Sea Room' by Adam Nicholson.
I'm forever having the piss taken as I recommended this to Mrs Scroat's book club and it was universally derided.
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Anyone got a favourite book that nobody else likes?
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edward hack
offlineMemberLee Child & Robert Goddard books...bet sauce is glad to see the back of them
I still find Ben Elton books highly entertaining
I know it's fashionable to dislike him (no doubt due to his enormous succes) but the man is undeniably funny
Biggles and Just William booksPosted 3 years ago # -
The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberNot so much that no one else likes them, more that they are looked down upon, but I love all the Harry Potters. Just finished reading them all again, for the umpteenth time, and still feel that sense of loss and emptiness that there will be no more. I'm such a sad git, that I want to know what the next generation of Potters and Weasleys get up to at Hogwarts.
However, anything that has so successfully persuaded children to read books again is a good thing.
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Scroat
offlineMemberMr Oxbridge, we've all heard of this illustrious tome. Several times in fact...
Thank you Chiggers. Someone who understands. At last. The people at the book club passed it on to their husbands with whom I have been known to have the occasional pint. So I had their derision to put up with too. It's a standing joke.
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The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberI very briefly joined a book club, but couldn't bear the literary snobbery of the other members.
For me, books are as much about entertainment, escapism and enjoyment as they are about education. (Ooh alliteration!) Too many book clubs use the book choices as a way to demonstrate their perceived intellectual superiority, which to me, is a sign of their ignorance.I've read a great number of the so called "Classics" purely for enjoyment, whereas a number of people in my acquaintance have read them just to be able to say they've read them. Hell, one of them was waxing lyrical about the great love story "Wuthering Heights"! Yeah, there is an element of love, but the book is about lust, deceit, tragedy, and loss more than romance. Yet when I made these points she asked if I'd read the book or just seen the film.
Read whatever you want to read, read to learn, read to escape, read for readings sake, but for God's sake, dont' read to criticise other peoples reading choices!
[End of rant]
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rikkor
offlineMemberI think that book didn't sell because most people think "interregnum" is a high-tone word for vaginal warts. Oh, and John Square is right. "Mein Kampf" is a real page turner. Much more believable than "Protocols of the Elders of Zion". Some bits in that stretch credulity.
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ramblesid
offlineMemberHow about popular authors of not too long ago who have disappeared. J.P. Donleavy for one. The Onion Eaters and Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B remain as two of my desert island books but I haven't seen him in a bookshop or library for years. Mind you, libraries round here don't concentrate too much on books anymore.
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pagan witch
offlineMemberPerhaps the opposite ? I just can't get on with Shakespeare despite having managed to avoid it entirely through my school years and waiting 'till I was over 40 to try.
I still think it's crap.
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thisisall1word
offlineMemberWell, it has to be 'How to draw Hands' which many of my friends thought was rot.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-draw-Hands-Oliver-Senior/dp/B0017XG2V0/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1269470261&sr=1-5Posted 3 years ago # -
Quaz
offlineMemberThe Haynes manual for Apollo 11. Not many people want to chat about the difference between a G class lunar lander and the J class that carried the lunar rover. Also, i'm having trouble finding a second hand Saturn 5 to do up and the back garden really isn't large enough so I need to rent a very big garage.
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