New attempt at world record

Post by **wangi** » 01 Aug 2004, 19:50

Poppy wrote:One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night [C Brookmyre]

My complete collection of Brookmyre is currently on loan to my mum!

Beach Babe · Post by **Beach Babe** » 01 Aug 2004, 19:50

so it looks like To Kill a Mockingbird is the most popular so far

Poppy
I swithered about Maeve Binchey but I love them all and couldn't decide on a favourite in the end

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 01 Aug 2004, 19:50

Tell me about the Chalet School series. Sounds a bit raunchy.

Beach Babe · Post by **Beach Babe** » 01 Aug 2004, 19:51

Bob wrote:Tell me about the Chalet School series. Sounds a bit raunchy.

ROFL

you couldn't be further from the truth if you tried

bellybabe · Post by **bellybabe** » 01 Aug 2004, 19:51

Beach Babe wrote:Bellybabe

I am proud to admit that I possess the entire series

it was no mean feat to aquire them all

I stand in awe.
Total awe.

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 01 Aug 2004, 19:51

Aha! Le Carre! Nice one.

"The Gulag Archipelago" by Solzhenitsyn

"The Road to Stalingrad" & "The Road To Berlin" by John Erickson

froglette · Post by **froglette** » 01 Aug 2004, 19:52

One book NOT to take would be "One Hundred Years Of Solitude". Billed as an enthralling, exceedingly comic novel. Yeah, they were laughing when they took my money for it

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Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 01 Aug 2004, 19:53

You should see our respective bookshelves. I think our worst nightmares would be to be trapped on a desert island with only our spouses books for company.......

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 01 Aug 2004, 19:53

I've read most of Brookmyre's books - I bought Sacred Art of Stealing some time ago and haven't got around to it just yet. My favourite of his so far is Boiling a Frog.

bellybabe · Post by **bellybabe** » 01 Aug 2004, 19:54

froglette wrote:One book NOT to take would be "One Hundred Years Of Solitude". Billed as an enthralling, exceedingly comic novel. Yeah, they were laughing when they took my money for it .

I had to give a seminar on the circular nature of time in the novel. I didn't do too badly given that i couldn't be bothered reading it... I never was a very good student...!

froglette · Post by **froglette** » 01 Aug 2004, 19:54

Anybody suggest Philip Pullman and you will be dragged outside and shot.

Post by **wangi** » 01 Aug 2004, 19:54

Just the one suitcase?

http://www.pbase.com/image/32054456

Beach Babe · Post by **Beach Babe** » 01 Aug 2004, 19:54

Dadaist wrote:You should see our respective bookshelves. I think our worst nightmares would be to be trapped on a desert island with only our spouses books for company.......

Russian political history versus early 20th Century Girls' Own type books

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 01 Aug 2004, 19:56

Beach Babe - I chose Firefly Summer as I cry everytime I read the tragic bit. It's also very funny in places. I like it best, perhaps, because it's mainly written from the children's point of view without being a child's book.

bearcub · Post by **bearcub** » 01 Aug 2004, 19:57

Anything by Christopher Brookmyre, one of the few authors to make me laugh out loud while reading - epecially A Big Boy did it and Ran Away

The Beach by Alex Garland

Harry Bosch novels by Michael Connelly

and just for a change

To Kill a Mockingbird - the film's not bad either!

Beach Babe · Post by **Beach Babe** » 01 Aug 2004, 19:59

Poppy

I think that I don't like that one as much because it is tragic. If pushed, my favourite is probably Echoes or maybe Tara Road

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 01 Aug 2004, 20:00

Film of Mockingbird - Gregory Peck [yum yum] was born to be Atticus Finch!

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 01 Aug 2004, 20:01

That was a classic film, wasn't it? And Gregory was perfect in the role.

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 01 Aug 2004, 20:06

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 01 Aug 2004, 20:07

That's not Gregory Peck!!!

He was never as cute as that!

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 01 Aug 2004, 20:07

beachbabe

I think Tara Road and Evening Class are my favs, though I loved Circle of Friends... she's got a new one coming out soon set on a Greek Island.

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 01 Aug 2004, 20:10

Brookmyre:

Oddly enough, ecm, I also bought the Sacred Art of Stealing and have never got round to reading it either! You-know-who has read it, though. Mind you, he's borrowed and given away half my collection of Brookie's book.

I believe Quite Ugly One Morning is being made into a film or TV series with James Cheeky Chap Nisbett as Parlabane

As for Wangi lending the books to his mother, that made me smile. My mother saw QUOM at my house and asked if she'd like it. I said no she would not. She died earlier this year, and looking through one of [numerous] notebooks, found out that she had read the book for the book group she was in .... and no, she did not find him funny [did not like the swearing. She could not get past the first chapter!!!

Beach Babe · Post by **Beach Babe** » 01 Aug 2004, 20:13

have to say that I've never seen the film, partly because I hardly ever watch films but also I tend to not enjoy the film if it's based on a book that I've loved

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 01 Aug 2004, 20:13

'Quite early one morning' was being filmed here in Edinburgh just a couple of months ago - not sure when it's to be screened though.
Poppy, your Mum and my Dad would have been in agreement over the bad language issue!

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 01 Aug 2004, 20:23

Beachbabe

I don't normally like the film of a book but the to Kill a Mockingbird film is really like the book. Honestly.

I loved the Beach by Alex Garland but the film was total rubbish.

S

bearcub · Post by **bearcub** » 01 Aug 2004, 20:29

[quote="Poppy"]Brookmyre:
no, she did not find him funny [did not like the swearing. She could not get past the first chapter!!![/quote]

Funnily enough, my Mum has most of my Brookmyre collection on loan at the moment too. I can guess almost exactly what she'll say about them though - "They're quite good............but does he have to swear quite so much"

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 01 Aug 2004, 20:31

Sandra - I totally agree re the Mockingbird film. I think it's a wee bit because it's in B&W?

bearcub · Post by **bearcub** » 01 Aug 2004, 20:37

Only watched To Kill A Mockingbird recently, but yes one of the few films that's 'almost' as good as the book.

Agree with Sandra re The Beach, great book, terrible film. Probably because they seemed to try and make the film fit around Leo DiCaprio when he wasn't really suited to the role.[/quote]

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 01 Aug 2004, 21:14

Having already broken one world record this evening, it looks as though we are about to reach another milestone pretty soon. We only need a few more posts to break the 3000 barrier. It only seems a few weeks ago we reached 2000 posts, proof that the board has really taken off.

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 01 Aug 2004, 21:54

Sorry I missed this folks but congratulations. Im sure when I joined on June 18th? there were less than 2000 posts, maybe 1900. More than 1000 in less than 2 months is indeed evidence that this place is taking off.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 02 Aug 2004, 18:55

I think we've reached critical mass! Sorry I wasn't able to join in.

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 02 Aug 2004, 21:10

Here's a link to Brookmyre's website - a very funny [and topical] short story:

http://www.brookmyre.co.uk/bampota.htm

Saw an item on Teletext that Quite Ugly should be on ITV this autumn. Will be interesting to see how they 'do' the item on the mantelpiece at the start of the book.

mr magnolia · Post by **mr magnolia** » 02 Aug 2004, 22:13

froglette wrote:Anybody suggest Philip Pullman and you will be dragged outside and shot.

Oh please - why? I cant believe I could disagree so strongly after nodding vigorously at your 100 years of solitude comment.....

PS how do you get to show 2 quotes in one posting?

Mimpty · Post by **Mimpty** » 03 Aug 2004, 13:45

Bellybabe / Beach Babe

How absolutely ripping to see that others remember the "La Rochelle" series! I read them when I was still at primary school, they were my mother's copies as were all the Chalet school books and not to mention Enid Blyton's Mallory Towers etc.
How many people wanted to go to boarding school and have midnight feasts after reading those?
I initially was not aware of when they were written and thought it a bit odd no one watched television, and, even more bizarre, boys knitted!!

Sorry I couldn't join in this at the time but I don't have a computer at home and only log on at work during lunch.

bellybabe · Post by **bellybabe** » 03 Aug 2004, 14:38

Remember them?! I booked our holiday this year to guernsey just because of La Rochelle and the CS books! And it was wonderful. Family were reasonable patient with my "Oh, but this is the place where they reopened the school after the anschluss!" and "That's the island they pretended to haunt!" and "That's the house the Willoughby family stayed in when they were in Guernsey!" type exclamations...but they did get a bit fed up after a while.

I used to beg and beg my mother to let me go to boarding school... She used to tell me it wasn't like the books but I didn't believe her! Still, probably best not to have gone to the Chalet School, as chances are i'd have fallen off a precipice <grin>... Might have got to marry a doctor though - all the important characters got to do that!

Hehehe...you should have heard other half's groan when I said that beach babe had all the CS books...
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