What are you reading?

[goldencup]

Already read 'Shopaholic and Baby' (working in a library does have its advantages!).  It's excellent - much better than the last one.

[loulou]

You couldn't pay me to read Terry Wogans book. He's a drunken old git.

[Cherry_Ripe]

I draw the line at reading autobiographies from people who are about 21 (aka Coleen!!!) Surely there's not much to write yet.

Normally I agree although Ellen MacArthur's book was good and she must have been in her 20s when it came out.

[smurfboy]

But she's an exception to the rule - she's actually done something. By the same token you could be 80 and have had a very dull life.

Through my contacts in the publishing world, I have managed to secure a sneak peel of Colleen McLoughlin autobiography:

Chapter 1: Started going out with potato-faced footballer.
Chapter 2: Potato-faced footballer slept with old whore. Forgave him because he's stinking rich.
Chapter 3: Went shopping.
Chapter 4: Er... that's it.

[oldspice]

  What about Jordan? She's managed to write TWO autobiographies! They read something like this:

 

Born plain and boring

Had my tits enlarged, had various bits of my body sucked out or pumped up, dyed my hair and took my clothes off

Sh*gged a footballer, got pregnant, lost my footballer

Wrote my autobiography

Took some more clothes off

Sh*agged a has-been meat-head

Married meat-head

Took my clothes off again

Wrote another autobiography

 

[Scarlet Passion]

But she's an exception to the rule - she's actually done something. By the same token you could be 80 and have had a very dull life.

Through my contacts in the publishing world, I have managed to secure a sneak peel of Colleen McLoughlin autobiography:

Chapter 1: Started going out with potato-faced footballer.
Chapter 2: Potato-faced footballer slept with old whore. Forgave him because he's stinking rich.
Chapter 3: Went shopping.
Chapter 4: Er... that's it.

That sounds really interesting. I wondered why there were all those queues all the way down the street from the tills at the book stores this afternoon. They must have been placing advanced orders for her book.

That reminds me have you all got your advanced copies of the last Harry Potter on order at Amazon??? I hope so!

 

P.S. I think Jordan is silly.

[oldspice]

I prefer to read biographies rather than autobiographies. One of my favourite people to read about is George Orwell. He's my favourite writer. I love his fiction and his essays. He has been a hero of mine for over thirty years.

[Scarlet Passion]

Which is your favourite book of his oldspice?

I've never read any of his. We were supposed to do "Keep The Aspidistra Flying" at school but I was sick that week.

[smurfboy]

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That reminds me have you all got your advanced copies of the last Harry Potter on order at Amazon??? I hope so!

 

 

No chance.

[Scarlet Passion]

 

No chance.

 

 And I thought everyone in the whole world was a Harry Potter fan.  

[smurfboy]

I just don't get why people are so excited about it. I've never read Lord of the Rings either.

[Scarlet Passion]

I haven't read the LOTR either, I tried once but they're too hard to make sense of to be fun and I like to read books for fun.

 

[wjp666]

if you haven't done so already, read The Hobbit. not 'really' a kids book - it's like LOTR 'lite'. THE best fantasy book ever.

[Scarlet Passion]

Thanks wjp666.

Will check out the library after the weekend. I should think they'll have a copy.

Just picked up a copy of Dracula by Bram Stoker on Wednesday. It's interesting, I don't know what else to say about it.

One of my friends said  "Oh you must read it , it's a classic."

But I really couldn't say it's fun. I think I'm only reading it so I don't offend her.

[wjp666]

Dracula is seriously overrated. the 'format' of it (journal entires and letters etc) really lets it down. may be a classic, but it sure aint no 'fun'!

 

The Hobbit is a great book, and reading LOTR after it is easier.

 

other than that - i totally recommened anything by Terrt Pratchett.