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:D NO!!!!! Educating the rea... oh, I give up. :D Don't admit it though! :eek: ;)

*burns thighs due to backpedaling so quickly* Er, no. But had his stories contained pure fact, rather than fiction, then I would say yes. I did find The Da Vinci Code an entertaining read. Obviously I've seen much better writing, better plots, better character development, etc; but I've also...

Why should a criminal have no human rights? I do agree that he should be deported (well we don't want him :p) but I can't agree that certain classes of people should have their basic human rights abolished. Also, cannot ever agree with capital punishment.

Dickens is literature, I expect. But I do believe Dickens educates. He educates the reader on his times, such as with workhouses and whatnot; and he educates us on the scope of human nature. His books contain characters from the rich to the poor, from the malevolent to the kind, lucky and...

I would disagree and say the purpose of literature is more to educate than entertain. There is less of a story, as such.

Like the others, I loved Lolita. Check out the extensive Lolita thread (or its various secondary threads) for some excellent discussion on Lolita and Nabokov. I've read The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, and so wouldn't recommend any of his works unless you've got nothing better to read, or just...

I think you can get some worthwhile reads from books that don't always appear on several lists. In other words, you want to read books only that appeal to the masses. For example, my favourite Vladimir Nabokov book is Pnin, but rarely would you see that book on a 'list', whose creators...

I read this and was NOT instilled with a sense of wanderlust. I struggled to get through it, sometime last year. I don't even remember anything about it, so it was, to me, a waste of time. But I too, had heard "good things" of this book prior to picking it up.

Oh wow, what a very insightful thread.

Ah. Yeah, that's true. Okay then, I'll share my chocolate stash with you. :D

Oh well thanks, abc. I love you too. Can't I share the chocolate though. Go on, you know you want to share. ;)

Yeah, now I remember why I stay away from this forum. Because unless it's a 'discussion' on why this book is "fantastic" and who "absolutely loves" whatever novel or author (which frankly, don't tell the rest of us much, do they?), when it's an actual 'real' discussion on what people do or don't...

Oh, that's wonderful, Aqua! Colt, have you gone to play with your friends yet?

Uh... no. I think if anybody reads this you can both have a pat on the back.

Thanks Robert, it doesn't sound very special when you put it like that, and since yours is the most useful 'review' here... I have read elsewhere that Cervantes can get quite repetitive throughout the book, and that was a turn-off in itself, but I've heard too, that there's a lot of 'political...

Quite strange that they should include A Portrait of the Artist in the same list as The Shipping News or On the Road. :eek: (I know I'm too late but...) For a class I would go for well-known works. Just because it helps that whoever has to mark it might have read, or at least heard of...

Why? Read Animal Farm George Orwell Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Judy Blume Atonement Ian McEwan The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood Catch-22 Joseph Heller The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck The Lion, The Witch and the...

I don't read nearly enough non-fiction, but am slightly obsessed with travel writing, and books that have a psychological basis, such as The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks. People are so fascinating.

Can somebody explain just how this book happens to be "the most amazing", "touching", "wonderful" or "heart-warming" book? I haven't read it, and wondered just why I should.

Well it grabbed my attention. Welcome to the forum. I'm sure you'll like it here. :)