The Literary Society

yo-less

notice the irony :cool:

i haven't read dracula :eek:

have you?

not yet but i have the book and will read it sometime ....hopefully soon

Reply 781

Weejimmie

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ayaan

Has anyone read the Pickwick papers?
Generally I like Dickens, but this one seems to be of a slightly lower quality than his usual work.
Does it get better, or am I justified in just giving up?

His first novel, so he was still learning to be a novelist. "Slightly lower quality" is kind. Not much improvement if I remember rightly.

Reply 782

Don't be mean! I loved David Copperfield and Great Expectations.

Out of interest do you write?

Reply 783

asmodexx

speaking of vampires, have you guys read I am Legend? it's an amazing book. yo-less, i don't know if you got a reply to the question you asked when you first started the thread, but the answer is yes, there is a sequel to When the Wind blows, it's called The Lake House and it's also amazing. When the Wind Blows was my favourite book for so long, but then Kelley Armstrong came along.

Reply 784

Kaninchi

Has anyone read 'Kushiel's Trilogy' by Jacqueline Carey??

I gave it to my flatmate to read, who doesn't really like to read and now i have her hooked. Hard as it is to choose a favourite anything this set has to be my favourite book(s).

Reply 785

asmodexx

speaking of vampires, have you guys read I am Legend? it's an amazing book. yo-less, i don't know if you got a reply to the question you asked when you first started the thread, but the answer is yes, there is a sequel to When the Wind blows, it's called The Lake House and it's also amazing. When the Wind Blows was my favourite book for so long, but then Kelley Armstrong came along.

omg,i adore those two books.
is there a 3rd book,a follow up to the lake house?

Reply 786

we had the annual book sale in Colombo yersterday and i bought the following:
Terry Pratchett:The Truth(discworld)
Terry Goodkind:can't remember the name... :eek:

2 books by Garth Nix
Thomas Harris:Black Sunday

have you guys read any of these authors.Terry Goodkind is new to me... :o:

Reply 787

Weejimmie

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ayaan

Don't be mean! I loved David Copperfield and Great Expectations.

sorry: I meant there's not much improvement in Pickwick. Dickens got much better. Bleak House andOur Mutual Friend are very good. An influence on dickens and Pickwick especially, though I think he's better than pickwick is Surtees: Mr Facey Romford's hounds snd Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour. They also explain a lot about the English obsession with fox-hunting.

Out of interest do you write?

No: still catching up on my reading.

Reply 788

Weejimmie

sorry: I meant there's not much improvement in Pickwick. Dickens got much better. Bleak House andOur Mutual Friend are very good. An influence on dickens and Pickwick especially, though I think he's better than pickwick is Surtees: Mr Facey Romford's hounds snd Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour. They also explain a lot about the English obsession with fox-hunting.No: still catching up on my reading.

If I didn't already have so much reading to catch up on myself, I'd say I'd read them all, as it is, just point out the 'best' one.

Reply 789

Weejimmie

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The later books: Bleak House or Our Mutual Friend, I'd say.

Reply 790

you guys have killed my thread :frown:

Reply 791

Me and weejimmie? um weejimmie and I?

Reply 792

the latter! :security:

Reply 793

But look! we're posting, the thread lives!

hurrah !

um...huzzah!
:rolleyes:

evil people,you lot :frown:

not that i'm one to talk...

Reply 796