Harry Potter.

[a2b chris]

i am planning on starting harry potter books next. just finishing colouring this one in first

 

[The Esk]

Have to admit started reading them when my kids started. I've read them all. I tend to like them better than the movies adaptations of the each book. But then I was a big Enid Blyton fan in my day too with the secret seven, five series and the mystery series.

Agree with you Mike - similarly I read them as my kids read them - I'm of the Famous Five, Adventurous Four, Adventure and "The secrets of..." Enid Blyton era

 

[teppic]

Or you could read Kafka, Orwell, Hemingway, Bukowski, Celine, Whitman, Cervantes...

or Jeanette winterson or Martin Amis or Jaroslav Seifert or Milan Kundera or Salman Rushdie...

Or Plato, Homer, Nietzsche, Sartre, Virgil, Voltaire etc.

lol nice one!

i'm reading crime and punishment at the moment by dostoevsky. it is very readable and anyone who has missed this it's well worth a look. i thought it would be one of those where every 2nd word you reach for the dictionary but it's refreshingly easy on the eye.

 

[Chris]

Have to say always avoided anything to fo with Harry Potter like the plauge! As im not one for buying into hype.

But i was backpacking around the world, and books can be scarce on the ground so i read one of the books, i got hooked and read the rest in a couple of weeks. Have to say im well and trully converted into a fan.

Any others out there?

I went out my way to insult the pants out of all my mates who were 25-40 that were reading them and trying to hide it. Then I read the first chapter of the 1st book when I was waiting for a delivery.
I ended up reading all the books in a week and a half back to back.

Only saw one film and it was absolute rubbish compared to the book. Not bothered with the rest.