I loved Wild Swans - anyone else read it?
2006-08-16 00:22:02 · 46 answers · asked by |Chris 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
lord of the ring
by:J.R.R. COLKIEN
2006-08-16 00:29:05 · answer #1 · answered by AHMED EMAD 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've read Wild Swans, it's a real eye opener! What a book!
Similar to it is The Rice Mother
I loved reading Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Citadel, The Valley of Horses, tale of Two Cities, Lord of the Rings, others I can't recall off-hand but I know later on I'll think oh! should have put that on the list!
so many great books! so hard to say which is the best!
2006-08-16 11:39:29 · answer #2 · answered by used to live in Wales 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've never read Wild Swans, sounds interesting though, the best book I have ever read was probably The Best Of Enemies by Taylor Smith.
2006-08-16 00:29:36 · answer #3 · answered by gpdw1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wild Swans. No, I hadn't heard of this book.
I truly can't choose which book, of the probably 100 or more books I have read, which one I would choose to be the most fantastic.
Sorry.
2006-08-18 17:32:31 · answer #4 · answered by jmiller 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have never read Wild Swans, but to answer your question the most "fantastic" book I have ever read would be Gormenghast.
My favourite book would be anything by Patrick O'Brien but my Desert Island book would be The Oxford Book of English Verse.
2006-08-16 08:20:45 · answer #5 · answered by Si R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dan Brown does have some great works, but I just recently read a book called Map Of Bones, by James Rollins... So much better! I want to check out more of his stuff. I also enjoyed, The Cryptonomicron, and Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson. The Ingenuity Gap, by Thamos Homer Dixon. Neverwhere, American Gods, and Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman, (Terry Prachett teamed up with Neil to do Good Omens). Any book of Terry Prachetts should be good. Of course the Harry Potters are great reads... Aw who am I kidding... I just love books. :)
2006-08-16 01:02:10 · answer #6 · answered by Joe K 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Ian Allan Bus Spotters Guide, 1947
2006-08-16 00:33:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey |Chris,
Wild Swans, eh? I haven't read it yet. I remember it was on the bookshelf in the room I used to rent in Welwyn Gdn City.
The only reason why I did not read it, and which actually answers your first question, is because there were other books on that same shelf: Dance, dance, dance (Haruki Murakami), El Aleph (Jorge Luis Borges),and Siddharta (Herman Hesse).
2006-08-16 09:29:19 · answer #8 · answered by اري 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
John Gordon Davis - The Year of the Hungry Tiger.
Story is set during the Chinese takeover of Hong Kong. British policeman falls in love with a Chinese communist girl. The first chapter is a bit heavy - full of pimples on golden backsides - but the story is engrossing and is a beautiful love story. Also interesting from a historical point of view.
2006-08-16 06:55:11 · answer #9 · answered by True Blue Brit 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the most "fantastic" book I've read--meaning it was a complete load of nonsense--was Jules Verne's "Journey To the Centre of the Earth". Perhaps the best book I have read is Anthony Burgess' "A Clockwork Orange".
2006-08-17 10:59:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
'Ulysses' by James Joyce. It's got so much in it that it keeps you engaged despite the occassional obscure passages. I've read it three times and I am going to read at least another five times before I die. 'Finnegans Wake' by the same author is also an intriguing but enormously difficult book. I've never been able to finish it, but it is the kind of book that you can dip in anywhere and it will blow your mind. If you're new to James Joyce read 'Dubliners' or 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' first though.
2006-08-16 02:17:12 · answer #11 · answered by William G 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋