The Bookshelf

The book I’ve read most times. :oops:
I read the first two or three pages of this book and could not put it down. :shock:
Unusually, the film was as enjoyable as the book. 8)
The film was almost as good as the book. :twisted:
I didn’t want this book to end! :(
This is the book I’m most grateful to. :-k
This is the book I wish I hadn’t read. :?
This is the book I threw at the wall in disgust! :evil:
And by the same author, a book I adored. :D
I never venture abroad without the relevant copy of this book. :wink:
My favourite authors are, George Orwell, Hermann Hesse and Mervyn Peake. =D>

Hi, MHOs

Fave Books?..

London Fields (Martin Amis). The Glass Bead Game (Hermann Hesse)

Fave Authors?..

Martin Amis

Books to Film..

1.The Plague Dogs is an excellent film to an excellent book.
2. Never read LA Confidential, but American Tabloid by the same author, James Ellroy, is wicked.

“The Concordance Of Nicola Six’s Kisses” is the best chapter title ever; London Fields, definitely a great read.

CCV

@Dr Pepper wrote:

Fave Books?..

An invitation to ramble all day. I’ll confine myself, for now, to mentioning probably the most influential work on my life to date, Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco. It’s not easy, but, if you can stick with it, it will innoculate you to the evil that is pot boilers like The DaVinci Code. And you will be glad. Glad, I say.

@Chile Pepper wrote:

Fave Authors?..

The aforementioned Mr Eco, certainly. The Island of the Day Before and Baudolino are further examples of his genius. Those masters of spine chilling, don’t you dare look over your shoulder, the world is not as it seems concoctions MR James and HP Lovecraft would also deserve a mention. Hunter S Thompson and Ernest Hemingway were marvellous writers of prose that might swallow you whole. Anyone who ignores the work of George Orwell is a mighty fool. PK Dick could be, by turns, infuriating and mind expanding but his madness was more than worth sharing. Enough.

@Bell Pepper wrote:

Reviews..

Gloriana or the Unfulfilled Queen by Michael Moorcock is a book I first read as a teenager and have only recently re-read. I remember enjoying it immensely back then. Now new depths have been revealed, new messages and new subversions. Fantasy is all too often a lazy rehashing of Tolkien, Moorcock has never fallen for it.

@White Pepper wrote:

Recommendations..

For Whom the Bell Tolls. You’ve probably never read a war story like this before.

@Ground Black Pepper wrote:

Books to Film..

Bladerunner, from PK Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is the best example I can recall of a film delivering more than a book. Flukey genius. Harrison Ford’s laconic Magnum PI type narration was done in an actor’s sulk yet works perfectly.

@S-S-S-Salt an’ Pepper’s here wrote:

Excerpts..

“Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop. Your normal speeder will panic and immediately pull over to the side. This is wrong. It arouses contempt in the cop-heart. Make the bastard chase you. He will follow.”
HS Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

@Could you please pass me the Pepper? wrote:

Excerpts..

“But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World