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.

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

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.

The Tory Party manifesto

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

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.

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.

The Helen Forrester books are great.

good one Rhubarb.

or any guide to the German tax system. Even the prospect of saving a few hundred euros doesn't tempt me to read that.

LadyTH - I kept well clear of chicklit for ages, but Ive jsut read the Undomestic Goddess, and did actually enjoy it.

The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail. I had it thrust upon me by a friend who urged me to read it about 20 years ago and I felt obliged. Got about half way through and couldn't go any further. So dull.

And the first book that taught me I didn't have to finish a book - Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner. Oh how it dragged.

Barbara Cartland - no that I could name a single title

Sorry, must defend Barbara Cartland! I love her. Anyone who can publish 95,667,000 books has got my attention for the time it takes to read one!

really that many NN??

"He kissed her until she was no longer herself but his, and it was so wonderful that it was impossible to think of anything except that she loved him and he filled her whole world, and she was no longer afraid." (from Love on the Wind, 1983)

boak!

my MIL keeps giving me those Liverpool romances.

i don't read any of htem and give them to charity

lol re BH's stories of 'gentle courage'.
You forgot the bit about them 'triumphing over the odds'

Who does/did read Barbara Cartland's books? Apperently she would lie on a chaise longue and dictate them full speed to her hapless secretary.

BC is still in print - Ive seen German translations of her books for sale over here.

Bink - yes I was a bit puzzled about the autobiographies that MN-ers wouldn't read if they were written by somone alive - still am - but that does sound like a good recommendation. And since he's dead NOW, I'll try it!

I think I would read anything - even "Mason & Dixon" - if stuck in a cell. I would probably then trying reading it backwards or translating it or something to make life a little fuller....

Anything by that snivelling little wuss Tony Parsons

Oh enter into the spirit wimmin!
I know we'd read anything (I would even devour the manual to my boiler),but lets just pretend ok???

I read Helen Forrester's books when I was younger. They were like a dreary self-indulgent version of Maeve Binchy crossed with Catherine Cookson. Dreadful shite IMO

ooh how can you say that, have you no heart.