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pywacket ([personal profile] pywacket) wrote2003-05-21 04:14 pm

the bbc list

ok ok

i'll do it this way

these are the ones I haven't read



Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
The Godfather, Mario Puzo
Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
The Hobbit, LOTR JRR Tolkien (I TRIED and HATED them)
I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
Katherine, Anya Seton
The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
Magician, Raymond E Feist
Perfume, Patrick Suskind
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins

I've read all the rest. I'll probably read a few of these and won't read the others (the thorn birds? *shudder*)
I can't wait until I can go to bed tonight. I'm just going to do my best to sleep through as much of this week as possible.

[identity profile] jgcr.livejournal.com 2003-05-21 02:34 pm (UTC)(link)
well, i can highly recommend the faraway tree. especially if you pair it with v for vendetta. (this will make sense if you do read them both)

[identity profile] enzie.livejournal.com 2003-05-21 02:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I found The Thorn Birds to be surprisingly good airport reading.

[identity profile] gigglinggorgon.livejournal.com 2003-05-21 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
I REALLY like Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White... it's considered to be the very first mystery novel printed in mass ;)

The others on your list (except for Tolkien) I've not read either, heh!

[identity profile] eyesickle.livejournal.com 2003-05-22 09:44 am (UTC)(link)
hee hee. you may borrow dogeared copies of "the woman in white" (which i love more than is right or natural... but then i DIG slogging through massive amounts of victorian detail and form for form's sake...) and "perfume" (which does, indeed, rock like a hurricane..), should the mood strike you.

i'm amused by the enid blyton content. why do americans not love EB's books...?