Boof's comments
Boof's comments from the The Next Best Book Club group.
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Tisha, glad you loved A Tree Grows in Brooklyn as I have decided to take it on holiday with me this week. What made you love it so much?
Emilee, do you like Animal Farm? I just LOVE that book so much. I read it years ago and it still breaks my heart when I think about Boxer the horse :o(
Yay, Logan - reread Life of Pi!
I do know what you mean about the final third - but I read somewhere that Yann Martel said that the whole point of the book was for the reader to make up theor own mind and that there wasn't a right or wrong answer (you'll know what that means but I don't want to spoil it for others).
What stays with me about Pi is the tiger - I just loved it. I am a huge animal lover anyway but I just fell in love with Richard Parker (I think he is my favourite ever character in a book). The thought of him swotting flying fish with his big stripey paws on a boat in the middle of the indian ocean just cracked me up!! Maybe it's a British thing - in the same way that Ian the cat from the Raw Shark Texts cracked me and the other Brits up but left the Americans scratching their heads, LOL.
Books that have stayed with me (apart from The Road) are:
Memoirs of a Geisha (so beautiful, and I still think about the chatacters now over 6 years later)
Blindness (read recently but made such an impression on me)
Animal Farm (broke my heart and still makes me sad when I think about Boxer the horse)
life of Pi (I love that tiger so much and I still think about him now)
We Need to Talk about Kevin (fantastic book that still haunts me now)
Connie, I loved what you said about The Road - that is exactly how I felt. I read it in July and it is still haunting me and I too checked out all the reviews on Amazon. I couldn't stop thinking about it.
If there was a book-buying marathon in the olympics, I would win gold medal I think. Mind you, there would be quite a few contenders from here (LOL).
Hi Jenny!!!! Great to see so many fellow Brits arriving. I'm from Yorkshire. Where in Wales are you from? I studied at Cardiff Uni and I also lived in Prestatyn for a while too about 10 years ago so I love all things Welsh :o)
My favourite film in the whole world (at the moment) is The Painted Veil. It is the most stunning movie and I can watch it over and over. I saw it before I read the book by Somerset Maugham and although I did like the book, it wasn't a patch on the movie.
Books
Goodreads (hah! easy one, that).
Tell me the first 2 things you'd buy if you won the lottery.
I have been "banned" from buying more books for a while by my husband who saw a bank statement and was horrified how much I had spent on books since I joined GR (way to piss on my bonfire - I was feeling really smug!)
Apparantly I have a "problem". Erm, yes, it's called bookaholism!
Hi Giovanna - always nice to greet a fellow Brit. I live in Yorkshire. I was up in Glasgow a few years ago for the Red Hot Chili Peppers concert (fab!).
Yay, Stacie - there's always room for you! When are you planning on Dickens?
JT, yep still up for Tale of Two Cities but will probably be mid to end of October as I'm going on holiday until the 20th and I don't fancy Dickens accompaning me on the sun-lounger!
Ann, I'm so glad you're loving Pi now. It's one of my favourite ever books - I fell in love with Richard Parker.
I took everything (and still do) to be literal. Spudsie, help me out here!!!
JT, kudos to you for sticking with old Anna - you really are determined to get through it, aren't you?
Lizzy, you must read Life of Pi. I insist!! (LOL). Yes, it's about a boy and a tiger stranded in the middle of the Indian Ocean (and later an island) and it's fabulous.
Spudsie, I'm here!!!
*waves arms around madly*
Yep, Life of Pi! I love that tiger so much. That big hunk of stripy fur in the middle of the Indian Ocean has had such a lasting effect on me. I now have a colledtion of stuffed tigers in my library at home too (I'm 37!)
My friend borrowed my book about 3 years ago and still hasn't given me it back and I was gutted so I bought myself a new copy (which isn't the same thing *stamps feet and sticks out bottom lip*) but then my wonderful husband bought me a first edition, signed copy for me to treasure lovingly. Woe betide anyone who touches it!
LOL, Andrew, that cracked me up.
I cry really easily at books and TV and movies (I even cry at commercials!).
The ones I can remember that had me weeping buckets were:
My Sisters Keeper
The Book Thief
Animal Farm
Of Mice and Men
There are loads more but I have made myself upset thinking about Animal Farm now.......:o( (poor Boxer).
Fiona, LOL, what an awful image that conjures up. It must be only us and the ozzies that don't use it for ass though. I had a french penfriend in school called Fanny Jamme (so unfortunate for her when she landed in an English school full of over 1000 teenagers, LOL).
Hope you feel better soon Andrew. Being too sick to read is no fun. :o(
