http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/favourite-book Just another bbPress community en-US Wed, 22 May 2013 20:49:19 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/search.php http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/favourite-book#post-47006 Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:28:20 +0000 kashmira 47006@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ &quot;Surgeon and Life&quot;,by professor Petrovskij http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/favourite-book#post-41158 Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:28:47 +0000 Chatter Box 41158@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ and if only I could spell better - though (thought)! http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/favourite-book#post-41157 Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:27:13 +0000 Chatter Box 41157@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ I have just finished 'The Liar' and 'The Hippopotamus' both I though were cleverly constructed and witty, I preferred 'The Hippopotamus' and particularly like Ted. Both novels had a marvelous twist at the end X-D frequently and found very difficult to put down.<br /> <br /> Being written a fair time ago and watching 'Who do you think you are' you realise how much some authors put of themselves into a book.<br /> <br /> They say there is a good book in all of us...... I'm often tempted to try, if only there was more time. http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/favourite-book#post-40971 Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:44:34 +0000 olga_v 40971@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ I adore Steinback, Stoppard, Dostoevsky, Bulgakov, Wilde. So I like writers with humor. That's why I like Fry) http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/favourite-book#post-40903 Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:02:41 +0000 Anonymous 40903@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ Despite the fact that I read 18th and 19th Century lit all day for my job my favourite texts are decidedly contemporary (and would likely give dear old Austen a heart attack, the poor dear). I enjoy Hugh Laurie's <em>The Gun Seller</em>, Dave Barry's <em>Big Trouble</em> and <em>Risky Business</em>, and (because I apparently quite enjoy books that deal with the various eccentricities of Florida) most anything by Carl Hiaasen http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/favourite-book#post-40791 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 08:20:20 +0000 keats 40791@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ I love Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'. Some people might find the language off-putting but I find it utterly compelling. <br /> <br /> </blockquote><br /> <br /> One of my very favourite novels.<br /> <br /> It's incredible that a novel written so long ago, and by such a young girl could have been so prescient.<br /> <br /> So Keats, have you ever posted on <a href="http://www.john-keats.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.john-keats.com/</a> &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_confused.gif&quot; title=&quot;:-?&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; </blockquote><br /> <br /> <br /> no, i haven't posted on johnkeats.com. probably should, though. i adore his poetry. He is one of the greats in my opinion. http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/favourite-book#post-40790 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 07:16:57 +0000 Eastend Girl 40790@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ I love books but have to say Isabel Allende is my all time favourite writer, I love everything she's ever written - House of the Spirits and Daughter of Fortune are probably my favourites.<br /> <br /> Other best authors are - Armistead Maupin - everything espectially Tales of the City series and Gabriel Garcia Marquez - hard going but very worth it. Love in the Time of Cholera is my favourite http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/favourite-book#post-40763 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:05:21 +0000 Saturn 40763@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ I love Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'. Some people might find the language off-putting but I find it utterly compelling. <br /> <br /> </blockquote><br /> <br /> One of my very favourite novels.<br /> <br /> It's incredible that a novel written so long ago, and by such a young girl could have been so prescient.<br /> <br /> So Keats, have you ever posted on <a href="http://www.john-keats.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.john-keats.com/</a> &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_confused.gif&quot; title=&quot;:-?&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/favourite-book#post-40752 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:22:30 +0000 keats 40752@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ I love Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'. Some people might find the language off-putting but I find it utterly compelling. <br /> <br /> I'm quite happy to admit that I'm a snob when it comes to books. Modern writing, more often than not, really annoys me. Now a days everyone thinks that they can write, and write well. http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/favourite-book#post-26732 Sun, 01 Jul 2007 22:38:07 +0000 Lorna 26732@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ I read The House At Pooh Corner 8 years ago, just before Moab Is My Washpot in fact. The last story is so sad.</blockquote><br /> <br /> Yes it is. Especially since the very first time I read it was when I was reading it aloud to my youngest son who was five. His elder brother was away at college and I missed him very much. I barely managed to finish the words aloud, then had to hold in til my son ran out to play! :'( <br /> Most of the books I read to my children aloud was the first reading for me, my own childhood being rather deprived. But see, our time machine works already, because the child in me was stil alive and well, able to enjoy all the stories right along with my children as I read them aloud.<br /> One of our forum posters has a cool signature talking about a prayer being heard, and wondering then where is his million and his pony? I firmly believe that mine are yet to come!<br /> <br /> &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_cool.gif&quot; title=&quot;8)&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/favourite-book#post-26710 Sun, 01 Jul 2007 21:25:55 +0000 Anonymous 26710@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ I read The House At Pooh Corner 8 years ago, just before Moab Is My Washpot in fact. The last story is so sad. http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/favourite-book#post-26666 Sun, 01 Jul 2007 19:25:25 +0000 Lorna 26666@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ The Happy Prince is just so darn sad!!! :'(</blockquote><br /> <br /> this reminds me of a book my dad got me when i was little, The Little Prince? has a boy standing on a moon thing on the cover...<br /> that and The Velvatine Rabbit. he bought that for me too... still have them. they are 2 of my most prised books even though Ive been bought alot over the years.</blockquote><br /> <br /> Both these book are so lovely, but I had trouble when I read them to my children, because my throat would choke up, and the tears begin. I did not want to embarrass my children by crying, but it was a hard as trying not to laugh in church! The same for the last Winnie the Pooh book, the one where Christopher Robin is going off to school.<br /> I loved reading Beatrix Potter's books to my children. My oldest son would convulse with laughter when he was three as I would read in <em>Mrs. Tittlemouse</em> the part when she offers her uninvited guest, Mr. Toad, a snack of thistle-down seed -' &quot;Tiddly, widdly, widdly! Pouff, pouff, puff!&quot; said Mr. Jackson. He blew the thistle-down all over the room.'<br /> But as for 'grown-up' books, whatever Wodehouse book I happen to be reading at any given time is my favorite book - though I like Stephen Fry's writing very much indeed. http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/favourite-book#post-25435 Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:35:59 +0000 SlowBlackCrowBlack 25435@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky. I also really love his first book, Poor Folk. In fact I like most of his books. If poetry books count as well then Boudelaire's Fleurs du mal and Blake's The book of Thel are simply amazing. I would love a copy of The book of Thel with the pictures in, sadly I'm poor. Perhaps I will go ask the mole afterall. http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/favourite-book#post-23812 Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:02:14 +0000 Frylu 23812@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ You didn`t hear of this books?ß<br /> well I`m jiggered &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_biggrin.gif&quot; title=&quot;:-D&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; . http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/favourite-book#post-22684 Sat, 02 Jun 2007 17:10:58 +0000 amyl_nitrate 22684@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ Sometimes I think I'm the only person who's never read:<br /> <br /> The Happy Prince<br /> A Harry Potter novel<br /> Anything by Paolo Coelho</blockquote><br /> <br /> Don't worry I haven't read The Little Prince or anything by Paolo Coelho either. I haven't heard of either.<br /> <br /> I've read Harry Potter and The Happy Prince though. I love the HP series and I loved Oscar Wilde's children stories when I was a child before I'd even heard of him. I really like The Soul of Man Under Socialism, The Picture of Dorian Grey and his plays as well. Didn't enjoy that piece he wrote about the Sonnets though. <br /> <br /> I still haven't read the Hitchhiker's books. I've seen the old BBC tv series and loved it and keep meaning to get round to reading the books. For anyone who's really into sci-fi comedy I highly recommend the Red Dwarf books by Grant Naylor and Rob Grant. Very entertaining reads and quite different to the tv series in that they take different directions in the storyline and character development and they expand on some of the tv storylines and make them more interesting.