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The Biggles Forum

jenngorham said:
what in the name of flippin' hell is a biggles?
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Childrens' Books by Capt W.E.Johns and the Biggles series were about a pilot named James Bigglesworth who had ripping adventures with his pals in flying boats. :cool: I know I am a sad man :( Reg

My favourite Biggles site:
http://www.biggles.info/

Hope that helps
 
Hi again, I guess my question got lost along the way which was:

reg said:
I wondered what anyone would say a sad old Biggles fan should read to start him off on non-Biggles literature?
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I would read other stuff if I had any idea what to start on :rolleyes:

Reg
 
So, it's suggestions you want?

Well, I haven't a clue as to what Biggles is, besides what you told Jenn a few posts up, so I can't give you any suggestions on books similar to Biggles; all I can really do is suggest a few books I've read and enjoyed in the past.

You could try the Jasper Fforde books - The Eyre Affair, Lost In A Good Book, The Well Of Lost Plots, and Something Rotten.

You could try Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, the Dirk Gently Books.

You could try Kurt Vonnegut - The Sirens of Titan, Slaughterhouse-5, Galapagos, to name a few.

I could go on and on and on ...

Cheers
 
He's actually a very good author, but yes, you're right, he's slightly out of your league.

Cheers
 
Martin said:
He's actually a very good author, but yes, you're right, he's slightly out of your league.

Cheers
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ah ah ah ah ah sputter sputter cough sputter ah. out of my league.......HA

from now on you are known as nick, as in nick carter of the backstreet boys.
 
reg said:
Hi again, I guess my question got lost along the way which was:

I would read other stuff if I had any idea what to start on :rolleyes:
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Reg, what are you interested in? It's really hard to make recommendations when we don't know much about you other than that you're a Biggles fan.

These are just guesses as to what I think you might like:

Douglas Adams - His "Hitchhiker's" series. Funny, irreverent romp through the galaxy.
Neil Gaiman - American Gods, Good Omens (with Terry Pratchett)
Stephen King ?
C S Lewis - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (entire series)

- Please look a few of these up on Amazon or the like and see if they seem interesting to you. Let us know and I'm sure you'll get more responses.
 
Oh yes I have read the Holistic Detective Agency, thats a super book.
I'm a bit of a Sci-fi fan (W.E.Johns author of Biggles wrote some sci-fi also), I'm more into ripping tales and aircraft but seem to have got stuck in a Biggles rut, which is ripping adventures with aircraft but childrens books at the end of the day I am afraid. An adult version of the same would be very good :)
Thanks for the other recommendations and I will look them up. I am also interested in reading something with some 'guts' as in a bit more grown up (I am 44 after all!!) I wanted to read something heavy aswell to expand my mind so to speak. The most heavy I have got so far is Dickens, which is not very is it?
Reg
 
Ell said:
Douglas Adams - His "Hitchhiker's" series. Funny, irreverent romp through the galaxy.
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Ha ha ha ha ha!

...ahem...

reg - have you tried George Orwell's 1984? It's classic literature, which you seem to looking for. Otherwise what about looking at some military-based books? I'm not an expert on this sort of thing, but Tom Clancy comes to mind.
 
1984, that is an idea, I have read Brave New World by Aldus Huxley, but that was a bit of a dissapointement :(
 
reg said:
Oh yes I have read the Holistic Detective Agency, thats a super book.
I'm a bit of a Sci-fi fan (W.E.Johns author of Biggles wrote some sci-fi also), I'm more into ripping tales and aircraft but seem to have got stuck in a Biggles rut, which is ripping adventures with aircraft but childrens books at the end of the day I am afraid. An adult version of the same would be very good :)
Thanks for the other recommendations and I will look them up. I am also interested in reading something with some 'guts' as in a bit more grown up (I am 44 after all!!)
Reg
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Since you like science fiction, you might try Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood.

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson is also VERY good, although it's somewhat daunting at 900+ pages. The plot goes back and forth between WWII and the present. It has adventure, intrigue, great characters.

I wanted to read something heavy as well to expand my mind so to speak. The most heavy I have got so far is Dickens, which is not very is it?
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Reg, heavy doesn't necessarily mean classics (like Dickens) and classics aren't always heavy. How about Crime and Punishment by Doestoyevsky?

ell
 
Ell said:
Since you like science fiction, you might try Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood.

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson is also VERY good, although it's somewhat daunting at 900+ pages. The plot goes back and forth between WWII and the present. It has adventure, intrigue, great characters.
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Wicked recommendations - two of my favourite books, ever.

Cheers
 
Thanks! This is great!
I have ordered:
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-5]
&
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (I like a big book to get my teeth into)
That will do to be going on with
Thanks all!! :eek:
Reg
 
Hello again all

I read Slaghterhouse 5 but I must say I was quite disappointed.

All the best

Reg
 
I only found and joined this Forum this morning so there is tons of interesting stuff to read. When I saw this thread it reminded me that, during a recent spring-cleaning, I discovered in the attic all my childhood books including Biggles galore. As a child I couldn't get enough of Biggles books and had read and re-read them over and over.

My initial reaction was that I should read one of them at least just to see if there was any magic left. But, in the end, I opted out just in case a re-read after all these years would spoil my memories. Silly, maybe, but there you go :rolleyes:
 
yes I know how you feel, when I sold all my Biggles books (which I had read SO many times) I thought about keeping my favourite 3, but decided against it just so I could remember them all in my head. I'm sure they were much more like magic when I was a kid than when I read them as an adult.
 
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