Kyloe on 21/7/2006 at 06:16
In the next poll, will you state the original title and language of the suggestions? I know I could always look it up myself, but that's no reason to have the info not available in the poll. With some authors you just can't tell, e.g. Yann Martel or Nabokov.
As I've said before, if a book isn't written in English, I'd rather read a German translation.
Para?noid on 21/7/2006 at 09:44
Quote Posted by Stitch
If that gets picked I swear to god I'm bowing out and starting a book club that only Noid and Ulukai are invited to.
We'll call it TOOK club and immerse ourselves in hobbit fanfiction
My suggestion is <h1>THE WASP FACTORY</h1> by Ian (Iain) Banks. I read it a long, long time ago in school but I've forgotten all of it and I really want to read it again and it was a good book!
failing that heart of darkness by joseph conrad or something
i know nothing about books ignore me
Stitch on 21/7/2006 at 14:50
Quote Posted by Kyloe
In the next poll, will you state the original title and language of the suggestions?
Hell no.
Feel free to provide this service if you feel there's a need for it but I already bust my ass enough as it is on the poll post.
Aerothorn on 21/7/2006 at 15:52
You guys read Iain Banks in school? I don't think anyone over here has ever heard of him - I searched through tons of used bookstores just to find a single book by him.
Paz on 21/7/2006 at 16:15
He must mean outside school - English schoolchildren are fed a nutritious, yet strict, diet of Lord of the Flies, Animal Farm, An Inspector Calls, WW1 Poetry Anthologies and Shakespeare.
Vigil on 21/7/2006 at 16:54
And the English blame their misery on the weather.
Para?noid on 21/7/2006 at 17:27
Quote Posted by Aerothorn
You guys read Iain Banks in school? I don't think anyone over here has ever heard of him - I searched through tons of used bookstores just to find a single book by him.
I think they might have gone over it in English. OnionBob reccomended it to me in the first year of what you Americans call "high school".
quinch on 21/7/2006 at 18:26
'Cry the Beloved Country' and 'Return of the Native' for A' level. Good books and everything but so miserable when your a teenager they nearly put me off reading forever.
I would recommend The Quincunx by Charles Palliser but it's nearly 1300 pages long and denser than a neutron star. I was out of work when i read it and it still took me a couple of weeks. I also want someone to explain to me what happened at the end because i couldn't quite figure it out :(
Uncia on 22/7/2006 at 01:01
Quote Posted by Para?noid
My suggestion is <h1>THE WASP FACTORY</h1> by Ian (Iain) Banks. I read it a long, long time ago in school but I've forgotten all of it and I really want to read it again and it was a good book!
Seconded. If only so I'll finally have someone to discuss...
that... chapter with.
Also, another repeat if "you read Iain M. Banks in school?". Awesome school that.
Aerothorn on 22/7/2006 at 06:06
Quote Posted by Paz
He must mean outside school - English schoolchildren are fed a nutritious, yet strict, diet of Lord of the Flies, Animal Farm, An Inspector Calls, WW1 Poetry Anthologies and Shakespeare.
We didn't even get to read Animal Farm in my school, I had to do it in my free time:(
