Favourite book??

TheHolyStickman wrote:I wish he could keep writing.

Don't we all...

Me too, the guys a leg-end. But I guess he would rather quit while he is ahead which I respect. He has created an amazing legacy in his books that has influenced the world of fantasy fiction so much.

If you like Pratchett, you should check out Robert Rankin - he has the same sense of humour in his writing....my favourite is A Dog Called Demolition

Valley of the Dolls, The Bell Jar, The Glass Castle, The entire Sweet Valley High Series (not joking), Are you there God? its me Margaret, The Scarlett Letter, The Final Days, Go Ask Alice, Lovely Bones, The Kite Runner, Eloise, To Kill a Mockingbird, Little Women, She's Come Undone, Shopgirl, 740 Park, The Kennedy Curse, And I don't want to live this life

SunburnedPenguin wrote:If you like Pratchett, you should check out Robert Rankin - he has the same sense of humour in his writing....my favourite is A Dog Called Demolition

I'll take note. Of course, you don't need me pointing you to Neil Gaiman, right?

I was at a dinner party last Saturday, where this same topic was floated around the table.

The girl next to me, she stated her favourite book was Hamlet. I pointed out that this was a play, but didn't really go after her for it, and no one else around the table seemed that bothered by the choice.

But the more I think about it, the more the pretentiousness of that answer winds me up. F--king Hamlet, for God's sake! The whole point of a book is that it's not a play! It does something different. It explains. It goes into depth. Books are to be read, Plays are to be performed. Hamlet as your favourite book? Jesus Christ!

I just wanted to vent that.

[Take cover, guys. AC is having another of his "that's-not-a-hatch!!!" fits... ]

Funny I pictured AC at that table giving the Hamlet girl a sneer.

Sorry AC.... 4b my love.


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(bk) n. 1. A set of written, printed, or blank pages fastened along one side and encased between protective covers.
2. a. A printed or written literary work.
b. A main division of a larger printed or written work: a book of the Old Testament.

3. a. A volume in which financial or business transactions are recorded.
b. books Financial or business records considered as a group: checked the expenditures on the books.

4. a. A libretto.
b. The script of a play.

5. Book a. The Bible.
b. The Koran.

6. a. A set of prescribed standards or rules on which decisions are based: runs the company by the book.
b. Something regarded as a source of knowledge or understanding.
c. The total amount of experience, knowledge, understanding, and skill that can be used in solving a problem or performing a task: We used every trick in the book to finish the project on schedule.
d. Informal Factual information, especially of a private nature: What's the book on him?

7. A packet of like or similar items bound together: a book of matches.
8. A record of bets placed on a race.
9. Games The number of card tricks needed before any tricks can have scoring value, as the first six tricks taken by the declaring side in bridge.

v. booked, book·ing, books
v.tr. 1. To list or register in or as if in a book.
2. a. To record charges against (a person) on a police blotter.
b. Sports To record the flagrant fouls of (a player) for possible disciplinary action, as in soccer.

3. To arrange for (tickets or lodgings, for example) in advance; reserve.
4. To hire or engage: The manager booked a magic show for Saturday night.
5. To allocate time for.

v.intr. To make a reservation: Book early if you want good seats.

adj.

Blonde: For "book", read "novel".

Example, the title of this thread was 'Favourite Book??' and everyone understands it means novel.

A book is a novel and everyone knows what a book is.

Either way, it ain't a play.

Don't fire me up, Blonde! Don't stoke this furnace! Comet's burn white hot!

I guess you will have to have this one out with "Hamlet girl" & Webster. I did publicity for Barnes & Noble & Random House...you would probably have convince them as well. A play can be a book. It is the written word... in print... bound together. Regardless, "Hamlet girl" may have been referring to the book version of Hamlet of which there are many. If so, that would be alright as well. Example: Wicked was a musical on broadway with a script & we all know that. After it's popularity peaked it was released in book form. Now it is available as a book (AS IS HAMLET).

Looks like a duck. quakes like a duck, walks like a duck its a Klingon??? WTF? I`d bet this would piss off CF!

please excuse all spelling. I was/am dealing with 3 children climbing on me & yelling that they want to play Dora on the computer. I gave my 5 year old my macbook & he just spilt orange juice on it.....another day in paradise.

AngeloComet wrote:Blonde: For "book", read "novel".

Example, the title of this thread was 'Favourite Book??' and everyone understands it means novel.

A book is a novel and everyone knows what a book is.

Either way, it ain't a play.

Don't fire me up, Blonde! Don't stoke this furnace! Comet's burn white hot!

I have to disagree as well. Shakespeare -- every one of his works a play -- is generally considered literature. Many people have read Shakespeare without any opportunity to see one, if not all of his plays performed.

Oh, she meant the Shakespeare version all right.

Pretentious cow.

Not you, her.

(BTW, publicity for publishers, eh? Sounds like a pretty good job. Sounds like cocktail parties and long lunches and meetings about pictures. Probably that's not the truth of it, but let's not let reality get in the way of good fiction. God knows the Lost writers don't.)

I have to disagree as well. Shakespeare -- every one of his works a play -- is generally considered literature. Many people have read Shakespeare without any opportunity to see one, if not all of his plays performed.

HUH?

Poems are literature. Novels are literature. Plays are literature.

My point is that a play is not a novel, and when people talk about books they means novels - therefore citing a play as your favourite 'book' is a faux pas, especially in intellectual dinner party circles.

Let's behead her.

Blonde... you did sound like this

"Let's behead her!"

(Is it just me, or does the expression really fit the statement here?)

LOL guys....and now a note from daughter Lyla...

I have two favourite books:



and

Molly,

I also love the giving tree, it is such a great but sad story.

Although the author's picture always made me laugh because he looks so evil!








No offence Shel, if you happen to read this! We still cool bro, just joking!

Stitch

But if you put that photo into the context that Kojak was still cool when this was taken...

Nah, he still looks like a serial killer.

And you thought that was bad...

blonde wrote:And you thought that was bad...

Nah... there he just looks like a muppet.

Goddamn, thought, that guy was insane, wasn't he?

Well...according to some people he actually was insane. Google him. He was an interesting guy. Anyway, in a bizzare thread twist....
Shel wrote "a rap version of Shakespeare's Hamlet that was published (on yellow-beige specialty paper) in Playboy magazine in 1998." So...AC....I guess that would fall into the publication category, right? (blonde shakes hands with AC??)