[ebooktalk] Re: BOOKS OF MY LIFE
- From: "Shell" <shell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 16:17:10 +0100
Hi Ian,
The Unsworth takes a little time to get started. I so nearly gave up on it, but
am so glad that I had nothing else to read at the time. I read it on talking
book.
I found it hard to pick a Steinbeck as he has written so many brilliant books,
but I think that is my favorite.
I totally agree with you about John Irving. I loved Owen Meany and The
Ciderhouse rules, both of which I read from the RNIB. However I hated The
World According to Garp, I would never have believed it was the same author.
The Hotel New Hampshire was also very good and a Widow for one year was sort of
average. I think, on the whole, I've enjoyed more than I've not.
Shell.
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From: "Ian Macrae" <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2013 12:03 PM
To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: BOOKS OF MY LIFE
> some good ones there Shell, and others I'll take as recommendations beginning
> with the Unsworth. When I think that Grapes of Wrath wasn't in mine, it
> makes me realise how difficult and in many ways how pointless an exercise
> this is. Owen Meany is really well read on TB by Garick Hagan. I find
> Irving either totally spell-binding or virtually unreadable. I also loved
> Ciderhouse Rules which again is brilliantly read on TB by Peter Marinka.
> thanks for those.
> On 28 Jun 2013, at 11:33, Shell wrote:
>
>> Well, I've narrowed it down to 6 books, I just couldn't bare to knock one of
>> these off. I had to discard Charlie and the chocolate factory and Wind in
>> the Willows, which was quite traumatic, but here are the final 6.
>>
>> Millroy The Magician by Paul Theroux.
>> A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving.
>> The grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.
>> The Ragged Trousered Philanthopist by Robert Tressell.
>> Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth.
>> A Man In Full by Tom Wolfe.
>> Shell.
>
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