[retired_gitfresh]

Originally posted by qwerty2k:
ok, so there seem to be many different version of 1984 , which do i pick?

Get the Penguin Classics version if it's there.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/1984-Nineteen-Eighty-Four-Georg...4762?ie=UTF8&s=books

[retired_Rynny]

cheers batch, will order now, just worried that i haven't really read since leaving school that i may find it hard going and give up on it (got an a for language and literature at gcse though (although you wouldn't have thought it looking at my posts on here )

[retired_coliniscool]

Originally posted by Kolin:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by Jonno-Blood:
my brother keeps telling me to read The Hobbit and then Lord of the Rings. Anyone read LOTR?

Many many times. simply out performs the films. could take quite a while to read i'd certainly recommend reading the hobbit first, although its more of a kids book, it's sets up the whole world in which LOTR is set. </BLOCKQUOTE>

Entirely agree with Kolin. I've read The Hobbit and LOTR many times.

[cbhoyhern]

Currently reading "Black Coffee Blues" by Henry Rollins.

I was reading The Traveller by John Twelve Hawks, must have got about a third into the book and just stopped reading it.

[retired_ietus]

O.k so I haven't read a book in at least 6 months due to the fact that I have become lazy and usually I read in bed and when I get into a good book I can't put it down and am usually shattered the next day.

However I have decided that I need to start reading again so anything that isn't too heavy/hard to read etc. as like I said I haven't read in a while and the last books I read were John Grisham or Stephen King or other stuff like that.

[retired_edpt]

im very inot john grisham at the moment and am working my way through the library's section of his which is only small actually.
after that i may go for stephen kings dark tower series. i read the first 3, but that was a while ago and i have forgotten all about it now.

[retired_alwaysrunnin]

Starting to read James Herbets new book, but as Always, the best book I've read this year is by far "Secret hunters" by Ranulph Fienes.
Could not put it down

[retired_rlkoenig16]

Currently reading - The Anti-Flag - For Blood and Empire album booklet, it's heavy stuff!

[retired_mom3wings]

currently reading 'united states of europe' by TR Reid. a look at the development of europe as the world's second superpower with a slightly alternative approach. quite enjoying it really.

[retired_craftynm@pa.net]

Started Love in the Time of Cholera last night. The first Marquez book I read was The Autumn of the Patriarch, which, quite frankly, was sometimes a slog of Finnegans Wake proportions. (Maybe it just didn't lend itself well to English?) But eventually I got my hands on 100 Years of Solitude and loved, loved, loved it. Time of Cholera appears to be more in 100 Years' vein, so I'm excited.

I also started Dos Passos' USA today, which may or may not be surrendered to the pile of epics I start and then set down never to read again during my off-periods in the school library.