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Generally Amazon - but I can' pass any bookshop without a browse

Ok, since we're talking about The Sandman - What was everone's favorite story / collection and favorite character? Favorite story / collection - The kindly Ones (I loved the doomed inevitability of it all) Favorite Character - Death (I always had a bit of a crush on her:o )

I've finally finished Human Traces and thoroughly enjoyed it. The book is epic in scope over 500 pages long it covers 60 years and 3 continents in its journey. The book traces the lives of two "mind doctors" from their early days in France and England in the mid 19th century through to just...

I wouldn't say so. But its popularity will usually only surge after it's won an award or if the author is particularly well known. Also depends on how you define a bestseller as every book I pick up claims to have achieved this. I guess my definition of literature is something which will...

Don't think it will spoil anything for you and may certainly help some understanding. There were certainly a few I hadn't heard of and I've since checked up on them.

Thought I had remebered one but I'm out by about 60 years: American Notes - Charles Dickens From the Book Cover I have made up my mind (with God's leave) to go to America--and to start as soon after Christmas as it will be safe" So wrote an exuberant Dickens shortly before his voyage to...

Got a good one this weekend. It's my daughters birthday soon so we've decided to take a trip to the Natural History Museum to show here th dinosaurs etc. Although the highlight of the trip for her will be stopping for a muffin and an applejuice.

Ouch , tough one I'll need to give it some thought. I can't think of one off the topof my head. Most of the "visions" we foreigners see/hear of America are in the media. Please keep us updated with your findings. Cheers,

Guys, Good work on keeping the site free of spam etc. I've been on the site for about a month and today was the first time I saw any. When I checked back 1/2 an hour later the three or four threads had been deleted. Excellent work mods and admins!

All the best Lady Cordelia hope things go well.

Are these your top 200 or a list from somewhere else? If so where and if yours how do you rank them?

Bit of a tangent but I found it funny.News of the alternative Nobel Prizes. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5411816.stm Boy I'm never goingto wolf down my food again:eek:

I could be wrong but I suspect it is Edward Woodward: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0940919/ I remember him from a TV Series - The Equalizer

I recommend both books and authors if people ask me, but too many to have a single "one size fits all" favorite to recommend. It tends to be friends looking forward for something to read on holiday, in which case I'll recommend something short or lighter - like Alistair McCall Smith. I have...

Immature discussion more like ... anyway serious point was what are the odds of someone outside the usual literary sources (authors, poets, playwrights) winning and who could they be?

First Oprah book = modern literary fiction genre; afraid you've lost me. Are you saying they read something by Oprah and as a result won't read anything by a contemporary author again?:confused:

On the Winston Churchill thread; I wonder if the oratory of any of our current political leaders could ever catapult them to Nobel Laureate status:)

I'm not in a book group which is one of the reasons I'm here. I'm ashamed to say I've not read any of the books on your list....not even the "classics":o

Brain must be dead this morning - took me till Stewart's post to realise who "him" was:o hello and welcome to the site

Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman Seek My Face - Updike Priestess of the White - Trudi Cavanan