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mrbaggins1
15 yrs ago
Oh yes, it's actualy Sebastian Faulks not Stephen Faulks....who wrote "Birdsong"
mrbaggins1
15 yrs ago
This is, as far as I am concerned a great book and the best that Stephen Faulks has written to date. Yes, it is a grim subject, but it brings that terrible war alive in a way that I have seldom experienced in fiction.
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mrbaggins1
15 yrs ago
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"The Stand" by far. Just finished reading Stephen King "On Writing" where he states that he nearly didn't complete this great book as he wrote himself into a sort of corner and had to kill of some of the characters to ge…
mrbaggins1
15 yrs ago
I have an eclectic taste in reading and stumbled on the 1000 journal project by accident a while ago and ordered the compilation of this journal project. What an amazing record of creativity. It closely links to the phil…
mrbaggins1
15 yrs ago
I had both "On the Road" & "Dharma Bums" on my shelf for years and have read them both. When I released my first 10 books about a month ago I was looking at what I won't ever bother to look at again and "On the Road" was…
mrbaggins1
15 yrs ago
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I can identify with not lending books to anyone! I work for a children’s literacy organisation among people that supposedly absolutely love books. There’s two of my favourite books, “In Patagonia” of Bruce Chatwin and “B…
mrbaggins1
15 yrs ago
> Funny you mentioned Stephen King. Did you
> know that Joe Hill is his son?
Thank you for this. I was unaware of this, I just googled his name on wikipedia. The weirdness must run in the genes! I read very widely (…
mrbaggins1
15 yrs ago
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Just finnished reading this one...about an aging rock star that buys a ghost on the internet. If you love Stephen King and Neil Gaiman this is the one for you. Brrrrr!
mrbaggins1
15 yrs ago
Read this about three months ago. Quite good but not as good as Chocolat. I can recommend Joanne Harris's other books; "Blackberry Wine" & "Three Quarters of An Orange" which were excellent
mrbaggins1
15 yrs ago
I read this book in 2007 and rate it as the best of the some 50+ books I read.
Death as the narrator is such an absolutely haunting idea, and when this narrator state time and time again his weariness with the human c…
