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Post by jammy on Aug 13, 2014 22:35:58 GMT
Despite being an avid reader, mostly Sci-Fi and Horror, I am now (Getting my teeth into) reading Bram Stoker's - Dracula for the first time...!!!
I guess we all reckon we know the Dracula story.......But the book is very very good.......indeed a classic.
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Post by Dave on Aug 13, 2014 22:42:18 GMT
Despite being an avid reader, mostly Sci-Fi and Horror, I am now (Getting my teeth into) reading Bram Stoker's - Dracula for the first time...!!! I guess we all reckon we know the Dracula story.......But the book is very very good.......indeed a classic. I've not read Stoker's Dracula Jammy, I really should though. I bet there's a version on Amazon for the Kindle, I need to check it out along with Shelley's Frankenstein. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2014 22:51:40 GMT
Have just finished reading The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, another classic which was excellent. I can also recommend Robinson Crusoe if you want a real classic page turner.
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Post by jammy on Aug 13, 2014 22:53:10 GMT
Dave ive read Frankenstein a few times - Again quite superb.
Films just dont seem do do the classics justice.
The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston leroux is imho another fine novel.
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Post by ChrisB on Aug 13, 2014 23:00:09 GMT
I recently read 'Plan of Attack' by Bob Woodward it's the story of Bush jnr and his gang of idiots in their eagerness to go to war, told by the Assistant Managing Editor of the Washington Post, who interviewed them all. "There are no plans to invade Iraq currently on my desk", said Bush, repeatedly. He wasn't lying, the plans were on Rumsfelds desk!
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Post by Dave on Aug 13, 2014 23:00:11 GMT
Dave ive read Frankenstein a few times - Again quite superb. Films just dont seem do do the classics justice.The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston leroux is imho another fine novel. Agree with that 100%. I think the closest any film (or series of films) has come in relation to the novels is Peter Jackson's Lord Of the Rings trilogy, but even here there are omissions and unnecessary additions which are somewhat annoying. On the whole though Jackson's 'minds eye' pretty much mirrored my own. |
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Post by ChrisB on Aug 13, 2014 23:01:32 GMT
I read the Wilkie Collins for O level
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2014 23:08:38 GMT
I read the Wilkie Collins for O level To Kill a Mockingbird and Romeo and Juliet for me. The Moonstone is also a great read, and a bit shorter than The Woman in White. Nowadays I don't think you have to read a book to get an O level (or whatever they're called now), apparently you just text a smiley to the exam board (along with the requisite fee) and it's an A*  |
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Post by ChrisB on Aug 13, 2014 23:20:26 GMT
Henry IV part one was our bit of Shakespeare, parts of which
I can still quote now......
"Yea, there thou makest me sad and makest me sin, in envy that my Lord Northumberland
Should be the father to so blest a son, a son who is the theme of honour's tongue
Amongst a grove, the very straightest plant who is sweet Fortune's minion and her pride
Whilst I, by looking on the praise of him see riot and dishonour, stain the brow of my young Harry"
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2014 23:27:16 GMT
Henry IV part one was our bit of Shakespeare, parts of which I can still quote now...... "Yea, there thou makest me sad and makest me sin, in envy that my Lord Northumberland Should be the father to so blest a son, a son who is the theme of honour's tongue Amongst a grove, the very straightest plant who is sweet Fortune's minion and her pride Whilst I, by looking on the praise of him see riot and dishonour, stain the brow of my young Harry" That's most impressive, I can't quote anything at length other than the script for Withnail and I :-) I went to see 'Shakespreare for Breakfast' at the Edinburgh Fringe at the weekend, excellent and very funny. This year they set the play on Shakespeareland, an island inhabited by characters from the plays. Lots of very clever lines, along with big chunks of text all woven into a very clever plot. When they introduced Arial from the Tempest as "the font of all knowledge" they got a big laugh :-) |
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Post by ChrisB on Aug 13, 2014 23:29:09 GMT
If you think that's good, I can also do the parrot sketch!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2014 23:37:40 GMT
If you think that's good, I can also do the parrot sketch! :-) I'm reading a biography of Peter Cook at the moment, which has the transcripts of many of his best sketches. A real comic genius and sadly missed. Talking of Monty Python, The Four Yorkshiremen is very funny IMO, one of the best sketches ever written IMO..... www.phespirit.info/montypython/four_yorkshiremen.htm |
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Post by Chris on Aug 14, 2014 0:16:25 GMT
For classics,JulesVerne is superb - 20,000 leagues under the Sea in particular and the follow up Mysterious Island is excellent. Journey to the centre of the Earth is good as well. Factual stuff the book of Papillions story is tremendous,much,much better than the film. For a real laugh round Ireland with a Fridge is hilarious as is One People by Guy Kennoway - a history of Jamaica and it's people.
More will come to me and I will update as they do.
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Post by John on Aug 14, 2014 5:38:08 GMT
Just re read Satan His Cure and Psychotherapy By Jeremy Leven Funny sexy and philosophical in places
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Post by MikeMusic on Aug 14, 2014 12:27:22 GMT
Sad to say I have read very little in the past few years and I must get back to it.
Back demon TV !
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Post by pre65 on Aug 14, 2014 17:33:14 GMT
"British Pacific locomotives" by Cecil J Allen is a good read. 
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Post by MartinT on Aug 14, 2014 19:14:03 GMT
Henry IV part one was our bit of Shakespeare, parts of which I can still quote now...... Mine, too. I detested it then and I haven't changed my mind since. Why couldn't I have had Julius Caesar or Romeo and Juliet? |
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Post by ChrisB on Aug 14, 2014 19:49:52 GMT
Well........if hours were cups of sack and minutes were capons.......
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Post by Chris on Aug 14, 2014 22:39:54 GMT
Congo Mercenary by Mad Mike Hoare is good as is My Friend the Mercenary which is the story of the failed coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea.
There's a big question mark over whether Shakespeare even existed as well. Very odd.
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Post by Chris on Aug 14, 2014 23:06:30 GMT
The Ice Master by Jennifer Niven is also an excellent read.
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