"Diary of a Nobody" - ah, yes, great book! It's one of my dad's favourites.



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Sarah

One question: how come His Dark Material count just as 1?
In the end you can read the books separately and get 3 great books....

Because they fudged it to make sure that Lord of the Rings could count as one books, and therefore the Dark Materials trilogy counted as one 'book'. Surely the logic should have been extended to Harry Potter though? And Hitchhikers should be the no-longer-increasingly inaccurately named trilogy...



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

but harry potters makes sense separately. the phillip pullman and the LOTR you kind of need to read the 3

38...but that's mostly because of all the kiddie books, my little bro has reawakened me to *those* classics!

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I've read 64 of them that I can remember. (There's the possibility that I read one or two more that didn't make enough of an impression for me to remember reading them.) I had never heard of Jacqueline Wilson either.

So how do they come up with this list, anyway? For the non-classics, it seems to be awfully skewed towards certain authors. There must be a lot of current authors who have a prolific output and just as many fans as Terry Pratchett or Jacqueline Wilson, but who don't show up at all.

As Jon said before this was a public vote for the "Best Loved Book", maybe fans of other books didnt bother to vote...

And Jacqueline Wilson has massive following, last year she had a signing in a Borders shop that lasted over 4 hours, and in a smaller Books etc a few months ago lasted 2 hours...

Her books are quite good dealing with things like death and domestic violence and mums with tatoos and being bullied and stuff. If I was 10 I'd probably be buying all her books and voting for them as well.

I can add one book to my number because I just remembered I read Vicky Angel and that one made it to the list.

The Great British Public do not - to be brutally honest - have much of a brain (with some notable exceptions such as me and Carla and Jon and PSD and etc) and so they would not think to nominate the three separate titles within either Lord of the Rings or His Dark Materials. The Princess Diaries have 4 or 5 titles in that series as well but I suspect the nominators wouldn't stop to think about this and would just go "oh yes, I like the Princess Diaries books" and voila, The Princess Diaries appear!

*waves at Auntysassy*

I have a brain, sometimes...

However, I've completely forgotten what I voted for, so I may have mislaid it.

It was either Babel Tower by AS Byatt or The Eyre Affair. Or possibly something else entirely.



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Do something pretty while you can...

Maybe some authors with lots of books to their name lose out because their fans' votes are split between a lot of different titles?

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Rob: 4 JK Rowling and 2 Roald Dahl (5 Terry Pratchett, 2 George Orwell, 2 JRRR Tolkien, all others 1)

and a partridge in a pear tree....

Alan Partridge?

"I've got cheese!!"

Obscure Alan Partridge quote for those who didn't know.

H'mm. I think those two exclamation marks have a distinctly Nextian significance. Nobody would have two exclamation marks' worth of cheese-related excitement unless they'd just escaped from Thursday's universe.

Mr Partridge could be someone to watch.



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
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Sarah

I've read 37 and two halves (Captain Corelli and Noughts and Crosses) and heard of a great deal more.

Not bad for my 17 years I reckon.

Anyone else read Clan of the Cave Bear? Anyone get as far as the Shelters of Stone? I'm halfway through the fourth at the moment, though it's a little hard going at times...



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i haven't read them, i hear someone describing the books as "a bunch of cavemen sh*gging"

Isn't that 'Footballer's Wives?' ....



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Sarah (B) -- very impressed that you've read so many -- you're less than half my age and if you removed the crap from my list (Archer, Rowling etc) you'd have me beaten hands down -- would that I had been so well read all those years ago.

Never read Clan of the Cave Bear -- it's always been one of those "ooh that's famous, and it might be interesting, but I've got a list of stuff I'm supposed to be reading" books. How is it?

While I was delighted that Perfume made it onto the top 100 list, I was a little suprised that The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov) didn't make it -- if you haven't read it, rush out and buy it now (I seem to say that kind of thing a lot on here).

It's rather magical realisty, though (warning for jon). But Stalin banned it, so it can't be all bad. And Bulgakov was condemned by the Pope as a heretic because of it -- if His Holiness (though it wasn't the current one) and Stalin both hated it, it must have had something going for it. (ooh dear, religion and politics all in one sentence. sorry)

Anyway, seriously, it's a very good read, and nowhere near as sensible and grown up as the fact that that it's a big fat Russian novel might make you think.



Jesus saves; Buddha does incremental backup.

I'm just addicted to books, that's my problem. And there are self help groups, only I forget to go because I'm still reading... lol

Well, Clan of the Cave Bear and subsequent books are pretty much what Carla said about the cavemen really. OK, so that's a bit harsh...

The first one (CotCB) is nt bad at all, good enough to make me want to read the second one at any rate.

The second one is a bit dull - kept waiting for the story to happen.

Third one is better again, so convinced me to go and by books four and five.

Fourth one I've just started and looks to be more like book two. Oh joy. But I'm plodding through on the off-chance that book five might be another decent one.

Unfortuneately, at over 700 pages each you can't just skip a book, or the next one makes no sense at all...



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