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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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motherinferior · 06/04/2006 18:06

Little Bloody Altars Every Bloody Where.

Greensleeves · 06/04/2006 18:05

Well, she does bear a startling resemblance to Gillian McKeithGrin

PiccadillyCircus · 06/04/2006 18:04

Nothing interesting - I am Blush due to some recent comments on the books that people wouldn't ever want to read Smile.

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moondog · 06/04/2006 18:03

Oh come on PC.Give us a larf.
GS you're so right about autobiographies from the living.
And JK Rowling. Zzzzzzzz
Her pronouncements on dieting on her website made the front page of the Telegraph today.
FFS!
Since when did she become the healthy living tzar??

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BettySpaghetti · 06/04/2006 18:03

ooh... do tell us more. Must be interesting if you are Blush

Hausfrau · 06/04/2006 18:02

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PiccadillyCircus · 06/04/2006 18:02

Really do not want to share my recent reading matter Blush.

madamechocolat · 06/04/2006 18:00

Gina Ford...

Greensleeves · 06/04/2006 17:58

Ooh, yes, Maeve Binchy, and all that homogenous tripe by Catherine Cookson and Helen Forrester...and Collen McCullough, and all the other books with melodramatic titles and front covers featuring pretty girls clutching threadbare shawls around their thin shoulders.... yeuch.Grin

BettySpaghetti · 06/04/2006 17:51

Anything along the lines of:
Joanna Trollope
Maeve Binchey
Jeffrey Archer

also (ducking now to avoid the likely onslaught!Wink)
any Harry Potter
Lord of the Rings

Greensleeves · 06/04/2006 17:45

Anything by:

Martin Amis
Kingsley Amis
DH Lawrence
Ernest Hemingway
Tom Clancy
James Herbert
Jeffrey Archer

Any autobiography written by anyone still alive

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moondog · 06/04/2006 17:36

Well...in a fit,what does it mean??
What are you highly unlikely to do?
GGG,really?
I have a copy on my shelf that I keep on thinking I really should look into.

Anything churned out in about 2 weeks by some cricketing bore or other,like that geezer with a streak in his hair.

Anything by Dave Pelzer.

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fishie · 06/04/2006 17:35

anything by jeffery archer - didn't take enough to read one holiday and his short stories the only book in the apartment. complete toss.

JoolsToo · 06/04/2006 17:34

Mills & Boon

zippitippitoes · 06/04/2006 17:33

what does "wouldn't read in a fit" mean?

anything written by a tv presenter type such as alan titchmarsh

ggglimpopo · 06/04/2006 17:30

Book of Mormon.

Hopecat · 06/04/2006 17:27

Dumbledores Girl: I started reading THE NAME OF THE ROSE by Umberto Eco, having been informed by my DH that it was considered a classic. (He'd never read it).

Got halfway through and had to stop, due to the fact that life is too short to wade through such a pile of twaddle.

Never thought I'd say his, but I've finally found a book more impenetrable than HEART OF Bl**dy DARKNESS.

BTW, in total agreement re PS. What a tw*t. (Sorry - feel like swearing today).

DumbledoresGirl · 06/04/2006 16:25

Foucaults Pendulum by Umberto Eco. I really couldn't get past page 1.

picnikel · 06/04/2006 16:24

The Bible.

Or American Psycho - started it years ago & had flashbacks for ages after.

Agree re PS too - unbelievably self absorbed, wonder if it's because of her that Billy Connolly isn't funny anymore or because he's gone all Californian.

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moondog · 06/04/2006 16:14

Hmm,doubt it Lillibet.
When is she going to shut up about it??

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lilibet · 06/04/2006 16:11

The book by Gloria Hunniford on Caron Keating

although I realise I could be in a minority of one with that!

GDG · 06/04/2006 16:10

The Politics of Breastfeeding by Gabrielle Palmer

arf

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moondog · 06/04/2006 16:10

She was a relationship/sex therapist in LA for ages.
Triple yawn.
I fecking hate Billy bollocksing Connolly.He was funny for about 30 minutes in 1981.

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ToujoursMarine · 06/04/2006 16:09

oh snapola Bran. They creep me out.

ToujoursMarine · 06/04/2006 16:09

this could be one of the most consensual threads ever on Mn, especially at the mo Shock
I think PS is tedious beyond belief too.
However, for me, you can add all of Ben Elton's novels, any books by Sting/Trudie Styler, and any of the recent rash of books documenting the author's sad, abused childhood. Dave Pelzer started something bad in publishing.
I might need a double cell...