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I'm going to have to come back with pen and paper to write all these suggestions down - I've heard of most, but some of the others sound fantastic, too. One book: Maurice by EM Forster. Much better than all the others as it doesn't have his normal sappy females and there's no death and no...

I've given up on LOTR three times now and feel particularly bad about it because my twelve year old stepson has read it and he thinks it's great. Also given up on the English Patient and the Barchester books more times than I can count. However, Anne of Green Gables and Wuthering Heights I've...

I used to do that. Sometimes i listen to music for someone's voice, but the ones that stay favourites for years are the ones where the lyrics mean a lot to me. If I hear songs enough I learn every word, so when I did a production of Guys and Dolls I knew it inside out. I even learned all the...

I'm reading one book with a stepson and another with another every so often. If I'm reading non-fiction I'll sometimes intersperse it with something that takes no brain power. But I spend my life in the kitchen and if I sit down, that's where I am so I keep my book on the table in there...

I read the first one nearly two years ago and then did the other two a few months back and they were amazing. I'm not wild about sci-fi and fantasy because I find it hard to follow the worlds, but these were amazing. I only read them because of all the talk about Pullman's ideas on creation...

Yes!!!! If I really get into a book I can lose track. When I read Northern Lights by Philip Pullman it was a hot summer, but I was surprised when i looked up that there was no snow. I've found myself waiting for Heathcliffe to ring or Anne of Green Gables to call around, been surprised when...

In terms of most read, it's LM Montgomery with the Anne of Green Gables series. Also Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights and all the Jane Austens, Wilkie Collins and Victor Hugo. Modern writers: Stella Duffy, Vikram Seth, Frances Fyfield, Alice Seebold. Modern classics: To Kill a...

Try "In the Cut" by Suzanna Moore. It happens there.

:eek: I never liked him. I'd heard about the book and finally read it last year. I thought he was self-obsessed (but who isn't?) but I didn't think he really knew what he was doing or why. He went around dismissing everyone he met except his sister, but I couldn't see what gave him that...

I read several books years ago by the same man and can't remember who he is. I remember a scene where a man and woman sat opposite each other and stimulated each other sexually and the winner was the one who held out longest. I'm sure there was a footnote to say he wouldn't describe it in...