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hello pilgrim i've recently finished amsterdam by ian mcewan & thought it was a good read. by the way don't hold your breath for replies to posts as they can take a few days. everyone's probably got their nose stuck in a book i suppose :)

this is my favourite poem Futility by the great war poet Wilfred Owen Move him into the sun-- Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields unsown. Always it awoke him, even in France, Until this morning and this snow. If anything might rouse him now The kind old sun...

in no particular order apart from no. 1 1) london fields - martin amis 2) all quiet on the orient express - magnus mills 3) a prayer for owen meany - john irving 4) underworld - don delillo 5) our man in havana- graham greene

i really loved the moominvalley books by tove janssen when i was a nipper.

Re: Cat among the pigeons no i borrowed someone elses to impress you all! :rolleyes: i put "classics" in commas to denote the fact that they are; as you point out "academically thought of as classic.". and i listed them because i think they're all good books. as for j.d. salinger didn't...

Re: A Murder of Crows a long december is a great slowie too! i've got all their cd's apart from the new one hard candy (how rubbish is the cover of big yellow taxi by the way, embarrassingly dull!) on their last cd there was a mega tune called mrs potters lullaby. i also rate REM, james...

a prayer for owen meany has some of the funniest setpieces i've ever read. i challenge anyone not to laugh at the rehearsal for the nativity when owen gets overexcited. also the plot is tied together gradually through the book leading to a fantastic climax. the only slight annoyance is that...

i read a christmas carol by dickens over the festive period. absolute cast iron classic. other "classics" i'd recommend to anyone: on the road - jack kerouac catcher in the rye - who IS that by? the outsider - albert camus 1984 - george orwell brave new world - aldous huxley

is it just me, or is to the lighthouse by virginia woolf a "difficult' book? i just couldn't seem to get my brain into gear with it & gave up after about 50 pages :confused:

i use a translucent, orangey coloured one that came from amazon. whenever i put it down on a table or desk it sort of disappears like a chameleon:confused:

i read this about 5 years ago so i've pretty much forgotten the story. i liked the way it meandered along at it's own gentle pace though. i've been half-heartedly thinking of trying another of her books but there's always so many other unread books on my shelf....:)

i'm about 150 pages into the corrections by jonathan franzen, it's certainly as good as i've been hoping & i'm glad i stuck it on my xmas list.:cool:

hi everybody i live in northolt in london. my favourite authors include martin amis, john irving,douglas coupland & ian mcewan. fave book ever is london fields by martin amis, an absolute masterpiece! closely followed by a prayer for owen meany by john irving. :)