best book you've read

[GUT]

I loved 'The Ghost of Dibble Hollow'!!

G'day Archaic

No one I mention it to has even heard of it, a copy still sits in my library and every so often I pull it out.

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I forgot good old Samuel Langhorne Clemens.

I was lucky, my parents, in fact my grandparents and great grandparents, had very little formal education, and not a lot of money but books were always a part of my life, one of my earliest memories is sitting with dad on the sofa [probably about 2 years old] while he read a "Golden Book" to me and my siblings, I am so grateful that I was encouraged to read.

[Archaic]

OK I'll jump in.

The first will sound stupid..

It was called "The Ghost of Dibble Hollow" I read it when I was about 6 and it probably got me hooked on reading, then when I was about 40 I found it in a 2nd hand bookshop and couldn't resist and enjoyed it almost as much.

I loved 'The Ghost of Dibble Hollow'!!

I still recommend that book to younger kids who either read voraciously (like I did as a child) or complain they can't find any books that interest them.

So far every kid I've suggested 'Ghost of Dibble Hollow' to has loved it. Some even found copies in their own school libraries, which impressed me.

If kids can fall in love with just one book, there's hope to get them reading The Black Stallion, Tom Sawyer, and Oliver Twist.

I was very little when I read those books, maybe 6 or 7. I remember Oliver Twist seemed like the longest book in the world, and I'd never heard of a "Workhouse" or a "Beadle", but I read it many times, and still do every so often.

Cheers,
Archaic

[pinkmoon]

What about that great book by Russell Edwards seems everyone is talking about it.

Right I don't know where to start firstly a piece of evidence which wasn't a piece of evidence in the first place was used to conduct a d.n.a test however the scientist doing the testing had trouble with his sums now the first thing I would do when it comes to hard sums is use a calculator but obviously times were so hard he couldn't find the couple of quid it took to purchase one.So armed with every thing( apart from the facts) the book is published and we are told case closed I think this book has one use only the table we all have with the wonkey leg needs propping up so let's not waste this book but put it to good use

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What about that great book by Russell Edwards seems everyone is talking about it.

[pinkmoon]

The rise and fall of the third Reich by William shirer is truly scary the author was a foriegn correspondent for an American newspaper who spent ten year's living in Berlin up to pearl harbour he saw hitler and his cronies grow from a small party he got to know them quite well and interviewed them and the conclusions he draws are very disturbing.

[Cogidubnus]

Has anybody else read the "Hunger Games" trilogy?

I have to admit I was rather late on the scene and initially hard to convince...but those books really rather grabbed me... far too good for just kids...

All the best

Dave

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To kill a mockingbird anyone or how about "animal farm" I think the "all men are equal but some are more equal than others" sums up the world we live in perfectly.

Good old Atticus Finch.

[Cogidubnus]

Hi GUT

I'm ashamed to say I haven't seen the Mousetrap either...

All the best

Dave

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I was forced to read "Lord of the flies" at school and I hated it read it thirty years later and I loved it because been older I realised that if a bunch of school kids were left on an island that is exactly what would happen.

G'day Pinkmoon

Another one I enjoyed at School while everyone else hated it.

[pinkmoon]

To kill a mockingbird anyone or how about "animal farm" I think the "all men are equal but some are more equal than others" sums up the world we live in perfectly.

[GUT]

G'day Dave

PS Agatha Christie - I think I've almost all of her worthwhile ones in paperback - about four feet on a shelf! I've a few Tommy and Tuppence one's which are sadly a bit dated though!

I've got them all and yes Tommy and Tup were good, but I agree showing their ages now. Also got the DVD's. Also Parker Pyne investigates. Also got all the plays, one day I'll get to see Mousetrap, it came to Sydney, but at that tme my health wouldn't let me get there.

[pinkmoon]

Hi GUT

I agree with you wholeheartedly about the Canterbury Tales - I should probably have mentioned them myself...brilliant...I love the Wife of Bath letching up the men's legs, I love the lewdness of the arse out the window of the Millers Tale...in truth it's the earthly reality of it all which convinces...glorious stuff and brilliant on stage with the right company...

...and anything by Dickens...well yes...Christmas Carol has become a little passe...but the characters both in this and all the rest are still as present and realistic as they ever were...and yes I've not quite read all the works despite starting at eight years old with the Pickwick Papers...but I WILL get there...

All the best

Dave

PS Agatha Christie - I think I've almost all of her worthwhile ones in paperback - about four feet on a shelf! I've a few Tommy and Tuppence one's which are sadly a bit dated though!

I love old agatha "endless night" and "sittaford mystery "stand out .

[Cogidubnus]

Golding rules!

Hi Jason

Yes, I agree, another great one

Dave

[pinkmoon]

I was forced to read "Lord of the flies" at school and I hated it read it thirty years later and I loved it because been older I realised that if a bunch of school kids were left on an island that is exactly what would happen.