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    Do any of you guys read? I do when i have the time... and i have just read the most emotionally charged book ever 'child called It' 'the lost boy' and 'a man called Dave' if you havent read these, then i suggest you do! its such a good book, although its really really sad.... likely to make u and cry loads (or is that just me )

    What other good books are around? im on the look out now, tend to not read for ages and then i cant stop
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    I do read quite a bit when I am at work but not much at home really. When I do read it is nearly always fiction as well. Just finished reading Hitler by Ian Kershaw and have just started on In The Comapany Of Heros by Michael Durant.

    Have to be in the mood to read though.

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    I read but it's normally technical guide/learning books
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    I found 'A Man Called Dave' to be a bit of an anti climax, tbh. DUnno why, I know its about his life but it seemed really disorientating. The stuff that happened to him was disgusting though.

    I still can't stop reading the Harry Potter books at the moment though.

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    I dont often get time to read these days, uni, essays, placements, relationship! Iam on holiday atm, so it doesnt matter what time i go to bed... just chillin and reading a good book, its been nice


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    Quote Originally Posted by TechnoKitty
    I found 'A Man Called Dave' to be a bit of an anti climax, tbh. DUnno why, I know its about his life but it seemed really disorientating. The stuff that happened to him was disgusting though.

    I still can't stop reading the Harry Potter books at the moment though.
    Yeah i found that, all three where good but once i read the first two the last one didnt seem as good for some reason i dont know why! I couldnt understand how he made peace with his mother tho, i mean why? it wasnt the physical abuse he suffered that upset me, it was the emotional stuff like ripping his school pictures up in front of him he brought home from school, or how he repeatedly tried again and again to make her proud of him that really really upset me more then stabbing him or anything else she did


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    Quote Originally Posted by lynni
    Yeah i found that, all three where good but once i read the first two the last one didnt seem as good for some reason i dont know why! I couldnt understand how he made peace with his mother tho, i mean why? it wasnt the physical abuse he suffered that upset me, it was the emotional stuff like ripping his school pictures up in front of him he brought home from school, or how he repeatedly tried again and again to make her proud of him that really really upset me more then stabbing him or anything else she did

    Yeah I know what you mean, it was like all the time in the first 2 you were screaming at his mother to stop it, but in the third book you were screaming at him not to make up with his mother. Shows what a strong character he was though. I don't think I would have even survived, let alone been able to make up with someone who did that to me!

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    Quote Originally Posted by TechnoKitty
    Yeah I know what you mean, it was like all the time in the first 2 you were screaming at his mother to stop it, but in the third book you were screaming at him not to make up with his mother. Shows what a strong character he was though. I don't think I would have even survived, let alone been able to make up with someone who did that to me!
    He had to be strong tho, he had to prove that he couldnt be beaten... he had no1 in his life that was on his side from the age of four upon till foster care.... even his teachers and the school nurse couldnt help him, thats why he lived through it all. He made his mistakes in his adult life, like stealing when in foster care, marrying the wrong woman.. he paid for what happened to him, even if he initially survived
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    Last good book I read was 'join me' by danny wallace... the story of a man who started a cult by accident... its good

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    I have started reading Robert Ludlem. They are pretty good books, about 600pages they are spy type things. "The Promethius Deception" and "The Janson Directive" are the best two i have read.

    You can get them on amazon (last one i got was 1p 2nd hand + £2.75 for pp) still a bargin. If your interested.

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    i'm reading Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold at the moment. I started reading it when i was doing cloakrooms at work and i'd forgotten my usual book so i borrowed one off someone at work and it happened to be this one. So i read the first 5 chapters in one night and got quite hooked. But i couldnt for the life of me remember the name of it till i saw it in a book shop the other week and bought it.

    It's about a girl who's looking down on earth from heaven, watching her family and friends coping in their own ways following her death and hoping that someone will suss who it was that murdered her so brutally.

    Some parts of the book are really fustrating, cos you just wish she could talk to the people on earth, but that's one of the conditions of heaven. You get everything you've ever wished for, but you cant connect with the people on earth.

    It's a very moving and heart warming novel, gripping in places too.

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    I'm reading Antony Worrall Thompsons autobiography (or biography.. can't remember which is which!) - "RAW". Absolutely brilliant reading about his past, how he got into cooking, and all that malarkey. Anyone finds themselves in Waterstones with cash and nothing to read, I thoroughly recommend this.

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    Predictably, I've just finished "Pegasus Bridge" - story of the British Airbourne raid on D-Day, and I'm half way through reading "The Luftwaffe - A History" The title really speaks for itself... ahem.. I'm ALWAYS reading - I have boxes upon boxes of books, piled everywhere, and I've read most of them twice. I can't buy any more really cos I got nowhere to put them

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    that's what libraries are for

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    that's what libraries are for

    Yeah.... but there aint nowt like actually OWNING a book is there. Plus you have to go out where it's all icy cold and nasty to take books back......



    mebbe I should build my own library.. or at least construct some more shelves....

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