best book you've read

[Magpie]

Wasn't Day of the Triffids a B-Movie? No idea it was a book.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

The B movie is only very loosely based on the book.

There have been several excellent television adaptions in the UK that have followed the book quite closely.

Day of the Triffids remains one of the best post-apocalyptic novels ever written.

[Robert]

When you're reading a book at school, you know you're enjoying it when you carry on reading it in your lunch hour. That happened for me with Animal Farm and White Fang.

We started doing Wuthering Heights. I'd already read it at home. Unfortunately the other lads (all boys school) got fed up with it so the teacher put us on another book instead.

[Beowulf]

I have a copy....and I've been there!....Alright once you get used to the locals' webbed fingers........

Lol. Webbed fingers? Really?

How wonderful to have been there too! That book is a definite lure to the region. Wish I could see it.

Btw, Ever have any 'experiences'?

btw, I'm having a great deal of difficulty accessing this site, Internet Explorer keeps shutting me out of it, says there is something wrong with it. Don't know if I will get to write this anywhere else...it took me about 7 attempts to get here!

[The Good Michael]

Sorry, but you're all obviously wrong. The correct answer is clearly 'Moby Dick'.

"All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks ..."

I'll say this about that: I read Moby Dick at about age 10. Nothing scared me in any work of fiction more than the narrator seeing and describing Queequeg for the first time when the headhunting harpooner came into the room as he was lying in bed. I was also terrified when the whale attacked the ship. I've read tons of horror since then and love it all, but those early memories of Moby Dick are still haunting.

Mike

[Robert]

One of the most magical sights in the area :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgh_Castle_Roman_Site

[Steve S]

Lol. Webbed fingers? Really?

How wonderful to have been there too! That book is a definite lure to the region. Wish I could see it.

Btw, Ever have any 'experiences'?

btw, I'm having a great deal of difficulty accessing this site, Internet Explorer keeps shutting me out of it, says there is something wrong with it. Don't know if I will get to write this anywhere else...it took me about 7 attempts to get here!

Not in that area..........If Lovecraft had written in the UK, He'd have set them in Norfolk...........

[Scorpio]

I always imagined Lovecraft's stuff set in Cornwall.
The Atlantic coastline seem's to conjure the sense of cosmic power at work beyond the mundane provincial world.

[Steve S]

I always imagined Lovecraft's stuff set in Cornwall.
The Atlantic coastline seem's to conjure the sense of cosmic power at work beyond the mundane provincial world.

I can see that......East Anglia just seems to have that air of decay and the history of the Witch Trials.........

[Limehouse]

If had to pick just one book?

To Kill A Mockingbird.

[Cogidubnus]

Noviomagus

Hi Robert

Surprising resemblance there to Chichester City walls which albeit somewhat medievally rebuilt, largely survive...long live cogi (or togi) dubnus!

All the best

Dave

[Beowulf]

One of the most magical sights in the area :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgh_Castle_Roman_Site

Robert,

Didn't get a chance to see this. I did look up Burgh Castle on Google maps, and 'wandered about a bit' on googles map view.

Of course being from the other side of the pond...and a bit inland (Arizona) I have been totally unaware of Norolk. The Bure, Yare and Waveny. I'm always looking at the map in the book. Suddenly sizing myself waaaay down and I'm there, looking for the old castle, the ghosts and the rivers.

I would love to know if anyone has had any ghost experiences, the author lists dates as important to the reoccurrence of the past in ghostly form.

I've wondered if on those days there are flocks of people at Burgh Castle or Breydon Water or other places.

It's fun to dream and a book can do a lot for ones imagination

[Stewart P Evans]

Burgh Castle

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Didn't get a chance to see this. I did look up Burgh Castle on Google maps, and 'wandered about a bit' on googles map view.
Of course being from the other side of the pond...and a bit inland (Arizona) I have been totally unaware of Norolk. The Bure, Yare and Waveny. I'm always looking at the map in the book. Suddenly sizing myself waaaay down and I'm there, looking for the old castle, the ghosts and the rivers.
...
I've wondered if on those days there are flocks of people at Burgh Castle or Breydon Water or other places.
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You might like this book which has chapters on Burgh Castle and Breydon Water.





Ghosts of the Broads by Charles Sampson, London, Yachtsman Publishing Company Limited, 1931.

[Robert]

Looks good, Stewart.

Beowulf, if you'd like to see film of Castle Burgh, here's a little item :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6baQMU8tFwc

[Beowulf]

Thank you! Was big, wasn't it? Interesting build with the flint lines. I wonder if that is for strength, seems they wouldn't do it for beauty but it works out to be kind of attractive.

I wonder if the stories of the ghosts are true, though they are entertaining. I'm glad Sampson preserved the old stories.

Stewart, I think that is the same book I do have but a newer addition. Love that cover.

I saw the older one is selling for about 75 dollars.

[robert newell]

Great thread..It's funny, I look at hundreds of books on my shelves and realize that I've read so many, many, more over my almost six decades. I try to do the math and cannot figure out how I accomplished anything with the amount of time I've spent with a book in my hands. Best book ...Crime and Punishment.......Robert