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What book wouldn't you read in a fit,even if you were locked in a cell with it (and nowt else) for weeks on end????

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moondog · 06/04/2006 16:01

'Bravemouth' (I need another set of inverted commas for that one) Pamela Stephenson.

I sooooooo don't care about the self indulgent musings on deprived infancy by a purple bearded Scottish shortarse as related by his even more tedious wife.

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Nightynight · 06/04/2006 21:49

greensleeves, Helen Forrester was the original Liverpool author, and the only one worth reading when she was talking about her own childhood. I found it fascinating stuff.

Agree with most of the rest of whats said here, except for Harry Potter, which I like a lot.

I'll add anything by David Lodge to my loo paper list.

BadHair · 06/04/2006 21:49

Anything with a sepia coloured picture of children in pinafores on the cover, especially if they're standing in cobbled streets, under a sub-title of "A heartwarming tale of gentle courage" or some such twaddle.
Or any pink cover books like Lady Topham Hatt said.

MrsSpoon · 06/04/2006 21:48

Agree LTH, chick lit usually has me running for the hills, although I might read Bridget Jones as the films were very funny.

Rhubarb · 06/04/2006 21:46

The Tory Party manifesto

fennel · 06/04/2006 21:45

would read anything really. have read many of these already.

perhaps the Jordan autobiography would be the absolute last choice from the prison library though.

LadyTophamHatt · 06/04/2006 21:43

I'd read the bloody yellow pages if needs be.

I've never read any of those girly, chickflick type books though...you know anything with a pink cover with cartoon stilettos/hangbags on or Bridgette Jones and all that shite

MrsSpoon · 06/04/2006 21:36

Anything David Pelzeresk, made the mistake of reading his first couple of books when postnatal after DS1, wasn't coping particularly well postnatally and those books almost tipped me over the edge.

Maeve Binchy or Dan Brown (wasn't impressed with the Da Vinci Code).

Caligula · 06/04/2006 20:50

Anything by Hemingway or DH Lawrence.

Even watching the cell walls and chanting mantras would be more interesting than anything by them.

Bink · 06/04/2006 20:49

Blu, is that a tease about dead people not being able to write so an autobiography by such being rather a rare & exciting find?

Or if you do want a good autobiog by someone-who-was-(naturally)-alive-at-the-time-but-isn't-now, have you read Edmund Gosse's Father and Son?

fullmoonfiend · 06/04/2006 20:47

Da Vinci Code. We have it in the house (dh ot sucked in but couldn't finish it) and even though I have been reduced to reading the Asda magazine from cover to cover, I will not read it :)

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canadianmum · 06/04/2006 20:21

would read anything if stuck in a cell but would happily leave anything by terry pratchett until I had finished reading any old car manuals and graffiti!!

beansprout · 06/04/2006 20:08

Biographies by people as tedious as Jordan or Victoria Beckham.

Books for people who don't like books IMO.

skinnymawhinny · 06/04/2006 20:06

who's David Gemmell?!

jampots · 06/04/2006 20:04

Trainspotting - tried it once couldnt get used to the weird accent (sorry Scottish) written words

ks · 06/04/2006 20:04

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GDG · 06/04/2006 20:04

Hopecat - my dh is a David Gemmell nut too - he buys and sells his books on ebay and has met him a couple of times

motherinferior · 06/04/2006 20:02

I was wondering if I'd read, say, Mein Kampf but I'd probably feel I should do, just to see what depths evil can reach.

crunchie · 06/04/2006 20:01

The bible (well the new testement bit. Id read the first 5 books :)

lucy5 · 06/04/2006 20:00

I would read anything if I was locked in a cell.

motherinferior · 06/04/2006 19:57

Yes, actually I'd read a physics textbook if locked in cell, vg point.

Ellbell · 06/04/2006 19:48

Would read almost anything if locked in a cell.

Might draw the line at horror (I'm a wuss)...

oh, and the Daily Mail, obviously...

bossykate · 06/04/2006 19:33

sorry if i were locked in a cell i would probably read anything that came to hand.

Blu · 06/04/2006 19:31

Hopecat, she's such a clumpy writer. her style is clumpy, silly description words in sentences, lame sentence structure. . I had to read some aloud to a child - drove me mad with boredom.

skinnymawhinny · 06/04/2006 19:30

agree GF utter tosh - i burnt it!!!
also hate Maya Angelou and also Hotel New Hampshire. Tried really hard with Catch 22 to like it but it was sooooo boring!!!!!
But have to admit am reading We need to talk about Kevin and am loving it Blush