What book do you love the most? and what book do you loathe the most?
The contrast can be interesting.
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I have too many favourites to name an outstanding traditional or contemporary novel.
My favourite traditional author is Jane Austen. You don't accidently stumble onto perfection six times - Walter Allen.
My favourite contemporary author is Michael Morpurgo.
Those two brilliant authors are closely followed by Rosemary Sutcliff and Sharon Creech.
There isn't a novel I loathe because I read self-interestedly. I read award winning novelists and winners and finalists of the Carnegie- and Newbery medal, so I'm never disappointed.
Thank you Debbie & SW. It's good to know that there are good books with lots of swearing. I haven't read 'When My Dog Bites', but I'll look into it.
I agree with SW regarding creative writing. I always believe that good English need not include the use of bombastic words or lots of trash words. An occasional sprinkle of both is fine. Not too much of it though.
I love a simple, easy read like Paulo Coelho and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie as well but books like Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse intrigue me as well. I think the human mind in all the ways it tends to bend fascinates me. The way I see it is; we can be so different yet so similar it is a paradox to me. There are new things all the time yet there is nothing new under the sun. We seem to forget so we can start anew and continue with the cycle of life.
I have too many favourites to name an outstanding traditional or contemporary novel.
My favourite traditional author is Jane Austen. You don't accidently stumble onto perfection six times - Walter Allen.
My favourite contemporary author is Michael Morpurgo.
Those two brilliant authors are closely followed by Rosemary Sutcliff and Sharon Creech.
There isn't a novel I loathe because I read self-interestedly. I read award winning novelists and winners and finalists of the Carnegie- and Newbery medal, so I'm never disappointed.
Learn from the best is my motto.
Thank you Debbie & SW. It's good to know that there are good books with lots of swearing. I haven't read 'When My Dog Bites', but I'll look into it.
I agree with SW regarding creative writing. I always believe that good English need not include the use of bombastic words or lots of trash words. An occasional sprinkle of both is fine. Not too much of it though.
I love a simple, easy read like Paulo Coelho and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie as well but books like Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse intrigue me as well. I think the human mind in all the ways it tends to bend fascinates me. The way I see it is; we can be so different yet so similar it is a paradox to me. There are new things all the time yet there is nothing new under the sun. We seem to forget so we can start anew and continue with the cycle of life.