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????

[moondog]

'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.

Lord of the flies. Got bored, very quickly, with teachers telling us this was about how little it would take for civilisation as we know it to break down. No, it's what one person imagined might happen in a world populated entirely by small boys.

Agree re PS btw, very tedious.

'we need to talk about kevin'

PS has written another one,about her latest vanity project-sailing around the Pacific.
Yaaaaaaaaaaaawn.

PS has written another one,about her latest vanity project-sailing around the Pacific.
Yaaaaaaaaaaaawn.

Whatever happened to Pamela Stephenson? She was very, very funny, then she disappeared for ages and when she reappeared she had turned into exactly the type of pompous bore that she used to take the piss out of on Not the 9 0'clock news.

I wouldn't read 'A child called It' or any of those tortured childhood books, just too depressing for me.

this could be one of the most consensual threads ever on Mn, especially at the mo
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...

oh snapola Bran. They creep me out.

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.

The Politics of Breastfeeding by Gabrielle Palmer

arf

The book by Gloria Hunniford on Caron Keating

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

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

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.

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

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).

Book of Mormon.

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

anything written by a tv presenter type such as alan titchmarsh

Mills & Boon

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

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.

Anything by:

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

Any autobiography written by anyone still alive

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

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

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.

Gina Ford...

Really do not want to share my recent reading matter .