What's your all-time most fav book?

Post by **diamond lil** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 3:02 pm

very apt Lisa !

Poledragon · Post by **Poledragon** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 8:55 pm

As I'm the culprit who mentioned Day of the Triffids...

I'll have to own up and confess to being totally addicted to books. My house is full of them - I'm thinking if I put a bookcase on everywall, then I'll double the insulation value of my house and save on fuel!

Favourite authors include Neil Gaiman, David Eddings, Tom Clancy, Jean Auel and I've got a bad cookbook habit (120+ at the last count).

Books that really stand out in my memory: American Gods, James Herbert's Fluke, the Chrysalids, Hunt for Red October, The Horseclans series, The Host... shall stop there.

House bible is John Seymour's Self Sufficiency. What a fabulous way with words that man had. He didn't mince them!

Post by **hobo** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 9:18 pm

Post fall type stuff:
1. 'Earth Abides' George R Stewart 1949 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Abides
2. 'The Purple Cloud' M P Shiel 1901 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Purple_Cloud

Fave ever (non-apocalyptic): 'As I walked Out One Midsummer Morning' Laurie Lee 1969 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_I_Walke ... er_Morning

Currently am very much engrossed in Eric Hobsbawn's latest 'How to change the world : tales of Marx and Marxism'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/ja ... awm-review

Hobo

smileyt · Post by **smileyt** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 9:31 pm

Creeps in and whispers 'Pride and Prejudice' by Jane Austen, and 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte.

Lil, you might like a book I've just read. It's called 'Cold Earth' by Sarah Moss. Review here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/ju ... oss-review

ro2935 · Post by **ro2935** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 9:37 pm

lisaloolibell wrote:Children of the Dust, its actually aimed at teenagers but I couldnt put it down. Its about a young girl and her family coping in the aftermath of a nuclear attack on the UK.

I read this book a couple of weeks ago and have now passed it on too my sister.
Lights out is a good book.
Susan Beth Pfieffer -Life as we knew it followed by This world we live in, are good too

Post by **diamond lil** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 9:39 pm

OMG that book sounds good - is funny because I read one not long ago about the Viking colony and why it failed, and the hopelessness of their situation stuck in my mind and wouldn't go. I will def get this one- ta smiley !

Poledragon · Post by **Poledragon** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 9:41 pm

Books for when TSHTF - "When Technology Fails" http://amzn.to/gXZpsS is pretty good, although I was quite taken with "The Transition Handbook" http://amzn.to/h6PvOV too. Would love to see that idea take root more widely.

Carrot Cruncher · Post by **Carrot Cruncher** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 10:29 am

Jupiter's Travels by Ted Simon for me.

A bloke riding round the world on his own on a Triumph Tiger Motorbike in the early '70's

I defy anyone to read it and not want to jump on a motorbike and disappear for a few years

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Simon

Poledragon · Post by **Poledragon** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 7:29 pm

Carrot Cruncher wrote:I defy anyone to read it and not want to jump on a motorbike and disappear for a few years

Won't show that one to DH then...

Post by **diamond lil** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 7:35 pm

We've currently got a Suzuki Bandit in the back room and the son's Ninja will be joining it soon

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