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I’ve finally got time to contribute to my own thread so here goes my ramble :P

PortuGoose I love ‘Brave New World’. What did you think of it?

The last book I read was ‘Wuthering Heights’ which was one of those novels I always wanted to read just because it’s a classic but I was convinced it wouldn’t do much for me (a bit like when I ploughed through ‘Sons and Lovers’) but I absolutely fell in love with it. It is without doubt one of my favourites now and I wished I’d studied it at school so I could have delved into it a bit more.

My all time favourite is ‘To kill a Mocking Bird’. I recommend that book to anyone. It’s probably not the most unoriginal suggestion in the world but it is well worth a read even if you only end up finding Scout dressing up as a giant ham interesting.

‘All My Sons’-Arthur Miller is fantastic too for anyone who likes stories based around the ‘American Dream’. I quite like reading plays and it’s very short so anyone with an attention span as short as mine should enjoy it.

I’ve also recently read and recommend:

Dan Brown’s ‘Angels and Demons’ which I feel is his best work but that might just be because I have been to many of the places mentioned in the book. Brown’s work is much better than the film too.

‘Oroonoko’-Aphra Behn

‘The Straw Me’n- Michael Marshall

‘Watership Down’ (yes, the one about bunnies)

‘An Inspector Calls’- JB Priestley which is another play.

I’m planning on tackling ‘The Day of the Triffds’ because Keith told me to. Has anyone read it?

Oh dear Steph…. Dan Brown…..!

Actually I quite liked Angels and Demons and the Da Vinci code, but unfortunately I’m now thoroughly bored of his rather formulaic writing. And Lost Symbol was unquestionably the worst book I’ve read in a lonnnng time! But Angels and Demons is good for Rome-ing

On a more wider topic, obviously it is in everyone’s imagination but who in your minds are the most attractive characters in literacy. For example I think that Robert Langdon’s alleged “pretty lady” in The Lost Symbol was a bit of an old boot, but Ann Smiley from Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy was a real stunner! :-)

I’m going to feel so left out in this thread, aren’t I? As a Literature student, I am all about a specific poetry volume edition or a collection of rare letters from some Dadaist author while you guys gush over Dan Brown (oh, the torture!) and mostly contemporary English & American writers.

In the racing vein though, I just received (for no particular reason at all, lucky little spoilt me) the first two volumes of Marvano’s Grand Prix series (Renaissance and Rosemeyer!) about the Grand Prix business in the 1930′s and the involvement of Hitler. It looks amazing and I cannot wait to start reading them.
http://www.dargaud.com/blog/grand-prix/
Does anyone have any idea whether these have been translated by the way?

Currently reading “A Storm of Swords” of the A Song of Ice & Fire books by George RR Martin. Il admit that i was influenced by the recent TV series (A Game of Thrones) but I just love the books, and the 2nd of the series (A Clash of Kings) is up there with my favourite book, Dune (Frank Herbert)

Ive got a Motorracing book to read still, Ford Vs Ferrari by Anthony Pritchard. I actually got into reading books by reading Bios of Racing drivers, i never really read before. Some of those i have read include books by David Tremayne (Jochen Rindt & The Lost Generation), Gerald Donaldsons on James Hunt & Gilles Villeneuve, Jackie Stewarts Autobiography and some other driver bios.

Steph, five years of pure Literature over here (there is no Major/Minor degree option in the French university system so you have to pick one thing and stick with it until the bitter end, oh the cruelty!). Between the obligatory Ancient French Arthurian novels, the baroque era’s sexually loaded thousands of pages of vulgar humour, the Romantics and all the rest, I’m afraid most of these recent TV series-like pieces of writing are lost on me. But I’ll soldier on!

On the subject of Nuvolari, I found this quirky 15 page PDF thingy on him that features some seriously nice big classic racing sketches in it. Got one printed out professionally on luscious textured paper and framed it: it’s gorgeous cheap wall art for the race lovers… If you want the URL link to download it, just let me know on Twitter!

I’m currently reading a book by Andrew Gross called Killing Hour and it is brilliant! But it is really scary. When you’re in bed you just think about it!

@Smifaye – I’ve read The Curious Incident of the dog in the night time as well. I’m autistic, so i enjoyed it even more!

A good book to try might be this one ;) http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/forum/topic.php?id=2067