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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'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.

Don't feel PC, as my name would suggest, I regularly pick up a Harry Potter book and re-read it for the enth time. Some things are worth reading even if the intellectuals amongst us look down on them!

Oh Lord, I gave my grandmother the audio book of Bill Clinton's autobiography (read by Bill himself) for Christmas. Is she going to disinherit me?

Bizarre. An MN thread where I can't find anything to argue about! There's not a single book on here that I would defend (or read).

I love Harry Potter. Studied Childrens Literature for a large part of my degree (ooh posh), and it pushes all the buttons. Horribly derivative obviously...

I got cross with Linda Smith for slamming people who read it on the tube, then felt guilty when she died. Irrational, I grant you.

A note of dissent though Mercy: I loved MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN. Read GOD OF SMALL THINGS afterwards and felt like a pale imitation.

Can STAND David Gemmell. DH hooked.

I love Harry Potter. Studied Childrens Literature for a large part of my degree (ooh posh), and it pushes all the buttons. Horribly derivative obviously...

I got cross with Linda Smith for slamming people who read it on the tube, then felt guilty when she died. Irrational, I grant you.

A note of dissent though Mercy: I loved MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN. Read GOD OF SMALL THINGS afterwards and felt like a pale imitation.

Can STAND David Gemmell. DH hooked.

Can anyone recommend one of these apparantly more readable autobiographies written by dead people ?

Wouldn't read Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Celestine Prophecy, Most science fiction.

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

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.

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

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...

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

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

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

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.

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

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

who's David Gemmell?!

Biographies by people as tedious as Jordan or Victoria Beckham.

Books for people who don't like books IMO.

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!!

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 :)

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?

Anything by Hemingway or DH Lawrence.

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

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).