30 Day meme challenge

[dizzojay]

Day 7 - Do you read? What are your favorite books?



My attitude towards reading:



I've always loved reading, and can lose myself for hours in the right book.

My favourite books include:

Watership Down
Lord of the Rings
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy (all five books!).
Anything by Bill Bryson
The Da Vinci Code
The Harry Potter books
The Adrian Mole books
The Mists of Avalon

I also like most books by Terry Pratchett, Stephen King, Ben Elton and Alison Weir and the comic books, Calvin and Hobbes and Footrot Flats.


Day 6

Comments

[sillie]

Nice list. :D

Oh, I have a question for you... I want to get back into reading books, and I've never read anything by Terry Pratchett, but I'm sure I would love his books. I've heard good stories about the Discworld series, but I'm not sure where to start. Any recommendations?

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

I have to be honest, I haven't read all of Terry Pratchett's novels. I've read about eight, and of the ones I've read, my favourites are Mort, Eric and Going Postal.

Terry Pratchett has developed a fantastic, intricate universe in Discworld, with it's own geography, civilisation, and characters so I'd probably suggest you started with the first novel, The Colour of Magic, to get the proper introduction to it all.

[sillie]

Thanks for the recs. My sister actually has The Colour of Magic, so I guess that's the best place to start. :D

[julchen11.livejournal.com]

Great books! the Adrian Mole books are new to me, I have to check them out :-)

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole is a comedy diary of a thirteen and three quarter year old boy in England who thinks he's an intellectual, and a cut above all his friends (when he's clearly not). There is a series of several books written at various points in his life, where he lurches from one crisis to another, right up until his forties. The lady who wrote them, Sue Townsend, sadly passed away recently, so there won't be any more, but they were very funny, and very bittersweet. There was some very dark humour and a lot of pathos in them.

I would recommend them, but start right at the beginning so you get to know the characters :)

[julchen11.livejournal.com]

Sounds very interesting, just order book #1 :-)) thank you, my dear. I'm looking forward to it!

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

Adrian Mole, MAN that takes me back!!

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

A real blast from the past :)

[jj1564.livejournal.com]

Great choices and I love that artwork about books, so very true.

Ah, Adrian Mole! The books are so funny, and I saw the stage play which was hilarious.

Bill Bryson books crack me up, I've laughed out loud on the bus to one of his!

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

I never saw the stage play, but I saw the series, which was really funny.
Bill Bryson is hilarious, I've done exactly the same, laughing out loud in public at his books :)