Moldy - what is War Of The Flowers like?

I've read other Tad Wiliams stuff, like the Dragonbone Chair series and Shadowmarch.

My favourite book is LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov. I could read and reread it over and over. I never tire of it's amazing prose.

Others include (in no particular order):

The Cloudspotter's Guide
His Dark Materials (the Philip Pullman trilogy)
Moby Dick
A Clockwork Orange
Any poetry by W.H. Auden
Cosmos (by Carl Sagan)
The Origin of Life (by Paul Davies)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

Regards
dj

my fav book is kiss chase by fiona walker.

there are many many books in my house that i cannot live without. lol
anything by, stephen king, fiona walker, kelly armstrong, laurell k hamilton, simon clarke and there are about three or four more authors definitely in my favourite pile.

but the one book i'd never do without on a desert island, all alone......... would be my photo album with all my kids piccies in it.

yep...soppy.

not sorry lol

Drucula By bram Stoker
The Thirty Nine Steps
Any Conan book by Robert E Howard
A Boys Story

If forced to choose, I'd take:
-my Sappho translations, because Sappho is ace and wonderful and the world needs more poetry like hers
-Lolita, for the gorgeousness of the prose
-Brideshead Revisited, for the pretty gay boys and Sebastian Flyte
-Shakespeare's complete works, for which I refuse to give a reason
-Wilde's complete works, because of the aceness
-Fire and Hemlock, which I am absolutely in love with
-The Once and Future King, because of the characters and the humour and the Arthurian legend that everybody should read at least once

Normally i'm into either the crime / spy stuff or Terry Pratchett but just read one my brother lent me which gave me a good laugh:

"Is It Me Or Is Everything Shit ? - The Encyclopedia Of Modern Life"

This is a comical view on life, events and products in general written in plain language, if a little colourfull in places (as you might expect with the title!).

It's sort of Jack Dee / Billy Connelly in written form so if you're into that kind of humour this one's a definate one to get

I have alot of non-fiction stuff, autobiographies, stuff on the paranormal etc.

My favourite non-fiction would have to be Tom Slemens "Haunted Liverpool" series.

Fiction, I read alot of H.G. Wells, and I just got finished reading J.D. Salinger's "Catcher In The Rye" which was a good... read.

Lately too I've been reading some Shakespeare, namely The Winters Tale and Much Ado About Nothing. I find it a little hard to understand but I'm getting there.

I am off soon to a very small island, but not a grain of sand in sight!

The Alchemist - Paulo Coehlo
eleven Minutes (A Very differnet Paulo Coehlo)
Laughlab - Univeristy of Hertfordshire
The History of Love - Nicole Krausee
By the Sea - Abdulrazak Razak

Zen teachin of Huang PO - transalted
The Hobbit - J.R.R Tolkein
Any book on Plato \ Socrates
1984 - George Orwell
Clare in the Community - Harry Venning

Animal Farm George Orwell
Private Eye Annual - any of them!
The Mind Gym -mind gym

& if it was abook
Cheeky Song (Touch my Bum) - The Cheeky Girls

just kidding!!!! - the above books are nice books as opposed to what i would take


--------
stevie

The DaVinci code, to start a fire with.
To read I'd take Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
The Bible for toilet paper as it usually has soft pages.
Has anyone ever made a book from rice paper? You would need food.

whilst i like reading biographies especially of rock stars and actors/actresses of the silver screen, i do enjoy a bit of history, of the british kind. this book....
Imperial Reckoning by Caroline Elkins
im reading it at the moment, its interesting, as i love a book which teaches me about humanity and compassion. having said that i have also read some right dross over the years lol. my book cabinet is gonna run out of shelf space soon though

The tao of pooh ~ benjamin hoff.

illusions of a reluctant messiah - richard bach

life of pi ~ yann martel

the unbearable lightness of being ~ Milan Kundera


i read lots of other things/genres but these are my favorites by far.

THE BEST BOOK EVER WRITTEN IS MY NOVEL WHICH IS TO BE PUBLISHED IN 2008
ITS CALLED THE "THE NEWTON FACTOR" I WAS GIVEN 300,000 POUNDS FOR THIS AS AN ADVANCE. Its a bit like the DAVINCI CODE BUT DIFFRENT AND ORIGINAL DEFINATELY NOT A COPY.

Well the first book which really influenced me was Jack Kerouac's
"On the road" which says it all in the title really. I loved it and still do !!

The second was Carlos Castaneda's "The active side of infinity" which is the definitive account of a anthropologist's quest to learn and gather knowledge from a shaman warrior in Mexico. True story and very intense. I had to read it three times to truly understand it's content.

Bill Hicks autobiography was very very funny and insightful, from his early years in school to his gigs in some of America's most retarded towns. Very morose towards the end of his life and how it finishes with him dying from Pancreatic cancer which was very spooky and ironic considering his act was mainly pro-smoking and freedom of speech and choice.

"Down and out in London and Paris" by George Orwell was another great read and i thoroughly enjoyed the book.

Oliver Reed was another autobiography which was a real eye-opener into a real actor and film personality who thought "fuck it i'm gonna booze, snooze and piss my life away". No intellectualizing that one i'm afraid

So many books to mention which i have read but i'll keep it short so as not to confuse/bore the yuppy Dan Ackroyd and Dan Brown readers who seem to think soft back literature actually counts for something these days

Norman Mailors "American Dream" and "The Naked and the Dead"
which we're both written in controversy and a huge public backlash at it's portrayal of it's characters and sometimes obscene and offending content. Although it was the 60's so it probably ruffled a few conservative readers who couldn't handle a little realism.

Last but not least - Aldous Huxley's "The doors of perception", probably one of the most influential, objective and downright coolest books ever written on a subject as risky as LSD. For all those who haven't read it, go buy it !!

Over and out ............

My favourite book ever is 'Death in the Afternoon' by Ernest Hemingway, I never thought I'd fall so in love with a book about bullfighting, but it is AMAZING.