Apologies in advance for how long this is going to be! I?m typing into Word and will copy and paste ? so I can see all the thread as I write!
I find Lovecraft quite mixed ? some of them are too way out for me, I must admit.
God ? don?t read ?Heart Of Darkness.? Conrad is sooooooooo tedious. I loathed, ?Never Let Me Go? too. I was also not at all impressed by, ?A Fine Balance? which I read because lots of people on here had told me to ? a tedious catalogue of misery. Sorry, Jajas but I hated it. ?The Grapes Of Wrath? is a similar catalogue of misery but at least it?s more believable.
I hated ?The Poisonwood Bible? too.
I take it you?ve read, ?Lord Of The Flies?? Can?t think why it?s taken me so long to remember that. I love it.
Yes to Pullman (but you will, I am sure, hate the bloody wheeled horse thingies, as I do).
I can?t believe I?m the only person who loved (LOVED) ?The Virgin Suicides.? I just loved the way that all the boys watched the tragic events unfold like a sort of freakshow ? imagine what it would be like now, with Facebook etc!
Song Of Ice And Fire ? you would HATE it Cote. It is v v badly written and it?s all that fantasy stuff you dislike. I?ve read the first two but won?t read any more ? only toiled through those two because a friend had lent them to me, having loved them.
Pat Barker?s Regeneration trilogy ? the first is stunning, the second is ridiculous, the third is okay. Tbh I?d just read the first and have done.
Room - I think you'd think it's trite. I liked the first half but thought the second half was crap.