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Buckley

Buckley

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My latest recommendation. Moving, poignant and inspiring. Brought tears to my eyes at times.

Yours?
 
Read this on holiday in about a day - easy reading but very funny / sad in parts.

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Hmm...I've got an unread copy of '...Curious Dog...' at home somewhere. Have you read it? Worth reading?
 
Curious Incident is ok, i didnt think it was worth all the praise heaped on it though - i think i prefered A Spot of Bother.
 
Just finished reading this - thoroughly dont recommend it - horrible story - didnt care enough about her to feel for her troubled addictions.


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This is my light reading - really funny, always liked Mr Maconie

and this is the heavy stuff

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but going to come back to this, which is my fave book ever ever ever ever:

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Half way through In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin. Chatwin goes awol from his office job one day in the early 1970s and spends several months walking around southern Argentina meeting a slew of crazy characters and searching for the place where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were supposed to have been killed. Looking forward to seeing it for myself next year.
 
Currently reading The Green Mile by Stephen King.

Loved the movie and I am a massive King fan so got the book as I knew there would be more in the book than the film as usual.

I will cry at the end when John Coffey goes to the electric chair.....as I do when I see the film.....
 
SmokinBabe said:
Currently reading The Green Mile by Stephen King.

Loved the movie and I am a massive King fan so got the book as I knew there would be more in the book than the film as usual.

I will cry at the end when John Coffey goes to the electric chair.....as I do when I see the film.....
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Have you read this:

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Absolutely brilliant - its got The Shawshank Redemption in it, also the story that the film Stand By Me was based on... top stuff
 
SmokinBabe said:
Stand By Me is one of my all time best films. I get goose bumps thinking of it...
The story is called "The Body"
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Thats the one.

The Shining is one of my favorite films, and the book by Stephen King really gives you so much more than the film does (obviously) it fills in all the blanks that Kubrick left out. A bit like A Clockwork Orange the film and the book by Anthony Burgess (another pair of my all time favourites). Both are awesome, but the film leaves out a lot...
 
Currently reading through the Brentford trilogy (of which there are 7).

Alot like Terry Pratchett books.

Brilliant, cos they remind me of Ealing
 
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