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Originally Posted by keemanan
Appears you read an awful lot of female writers ODM.
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I realised that as I was writing out my post Keem. To be honest, I used to be a prolific reader (who's somehow managed to avoid picking up any idea of how to spell
). I've tried to read most things, even the bible (which was a pile of wank - he dies in the end by the way, if you haven't read it).
I started off reading the "Just William" books (though I stress that I'm not old enough to remember the original publications before anyone mentions it
and in the winter when the weather was too bad to play football, I'd get through three or four books a day.
I've tried to read a wide range of stuff (though Oscar Wilde would have to be my fav writer) I've even tried the Catherine Cookson type bollocks on the basis that I shouldn't really knock it until I've tried it but by the time I'd got three chapters into the third book it all started to look strangley familiar. I've had several discussions with women about what they see in it and they all seem to quote "escapism". If your idea of escapism is reading about some young trout who is so poor that she has to eat coal sandwiches, works 23 hours a day and then gets pregnant by being raped by the lord of the manor then your life must be pretty damned bad I reckon
. I suppose the key is that they always come good in the end (a la Barbara Taylor Bradford type shite).
I hate Stephen King books. I like (though don't love )Terry Pratchett - Which reminds me, "
The Truth" was one I particularly liked. I think that was the name anyway, or something similar. That one and the one where they went to war over an island that no fucker wanted anyway.
Oh, and James Herbert too. Not much time for horror at all, although I did enjoy "The Spear" I think that was Herbert but I may be wrong.
I love all things Sherlock Holmes. Books, films, spoofs, anything. Even Basil the great mouse detective on DVD
Anyway, the bottom line is that I love books, which is why I'm whittering on like a fuckin granny at a cake baking contest.
Sorry
