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Is There A Book You've Never Read, But Tell People You Have? Why?
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In my youth, I used to carry around a copy of "Zen and the Art of Motorcyle Mechanics" - absolute tosh of the highest water, I never got beyond chapter one ...
... but very good for impressing young women of the opposite sex.
... but very good for impressing young women of the opposite sex.
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I read it all the way through ( the art of motorcycle maintenance)...in the absence of anything else to read at the time...tosh of the highest order and I finished it thinking that the author was a most unpleasant man who was horrid to his son.... Tried Das Kapital 3 or 4 times and managed to read as far as page 9...gave up trying!
There are loads of books that it has always been 'cool' to have said you read them, but I never ever pretended to have read a book I haven't read, for any reason.
Top of that list has to be Lord Of The Rings - we have a connection, JRR's oldest son John was our parish priest and he married the present Mrs Hughes and I.
Still never managed to read his dad's book though - gave up after four tries.
Another one is The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy which I always found to be far too smug and clever for its own good, and about as witty and humorous as a root canal filling.
Top of that list has to be Lord Of The Rings - we have a connection, JRR's oldest son John was our parish priest and he married the present Mrs Hughes and I.
Still never managed to read his dad's book though - gave up after four tries.
Another one is The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy which I always found to be far too smug and clever for its own good, and about as witty and humorous as a root canal filling.
takes all sorts. I loved LOTR. I found Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance hard going - not tosh, though, and I did read it all the way through.
Books I just couldn't get into and abandoned early include Captain Corelli's Mandolin. I'm told it improves as you go, but really, editors ought to impress on writers the need for a compelling first chapter rather than a boring one.
Books I just couldn't get into and abandoned early include Captain Corelli's Mandolin. I'm told it improves as you go, but really, editors ought to impress on writers the need for a compelling first chapter rather than a boring one.
Another entire series I have never managed to figure out the appeal of is Terry Pratchett's novels, although I know he is hugely popular.
I remember years ago, in our local shopping mall, Fred Truman was signing copies of his autobiography in WH Smiths on the second floor, and Terry Pratchett was signing his latest Discworld novel at the Waterstones two floors down.
I was in Smiths for about twenty minutes, during which time one lady bought FT's book and got it signed, and when I headed past the queue at Waterstone's, it was about three hundred people and growing fast out of the doors and down the street!
I remember years ago, in our local shopping mall, Fred Truman was signing copies of his autobiography in WH Smiths on the second floor, and Terry Pratchett was signing his latest Discworld novel at the Waterstones two floors down.
I was in Smiths for about twenty minutes, during which time one lady bought FT's book and got it signed, and when I headed past the queue at Waterstone's, it was about three hundred people and growing fast out of the doors and down the street!
I have never read the book where Noddy got mugged by the golliwogs and stripped him naked in the woods and nicked his wheels
But I will admit to howling the house down when my elder sister read it to me as a bedtime story,
"It isn't very good in the dark dark wood in the middle of the night when it isn't very bright"
Poor old Enid.
But I will admit to howling the house down when my elder sister read it to me as a bedtime story,
"It isn't very good in the dark dark wood in the middle of the night when it isn't very bright"
Poor old Enid.
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