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bednobs | 19:28 Mon 04th Apr 2011 | Arts & Literature
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What is the best book you've ever read?
for me it would have to be his dark materials by phillip pullman
ok, so it's not technically 1 book, but i bet if i get any answers, people will be giving 2 or three!

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well it wouldn't miss your ass JTH
It's set in a recognisable, if different 'world' and you just have to accept some of the things (like the armour-making polar bears, etc.) but they are quite beautifully written and do make you think....like I said, I enjoyed them :o)
I thought you'd flounced off, somewhere, DTC ?

Don't let us keep you............
The Dark Materials trilogy was just an allegorical tirade against the Catholic church.

I enjoyed the books as stories, though.
'The Dark Materials trilogy was just an allegorical tirade against the Catholic church. '

^^^ Well bednobs and jack should have just said that in the first place... Now I might buy it... ;0)
LOL China

It is a very good read, actually.
don't know why anyone would buy an anti-Catholic tirade when they can read R&S for free. I think I'll go with Catch-22.
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well i didn't even notice - too wrapped up in the story
bednobs ...

The Magisterium, with their obsession with the original sin, and who wanted to separate children from their daemons, was a thinly veiled allusion to the Church.
JJ, you could read it as being an attack on atheists who insist that daemons are superstitious nonsense and humanity must learn to live in a purely scientific universe.

I am guessing Pullman did not mean it this way, however.
The Choirboys by Joseph Wambaugh. A masterpiece of black humour.
I think Pullman's been pretty outspoken in a "Yes, I was attacking the Church" kind of way.
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hmmm clearly too thickly veiled for me to even realise!
JJ, yes, I know. But when you get tangled up in allegory there's sometimes more than one parallel you can spot.
Nobody's mentioned Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird - great read. And, just being squeezed into second place is The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon.
Oh, yes ... The Curious Incident was a great book.

Not sure if it makes the "Best Ever" list, though.
to kill a mocking bird - harper lee
josiah wedgwood - brian dolan
the brothers karmasov - dostoyevsky
You read The Brothers Karamazov?

Crikey.

Is it worth the effort? I might give it a go it it is.

I've read Anna Karenina.
Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice and Les Liaisons Dangereruses.

Factual - Elizabeth I by quite a few authors.
dt - please get off my horse. can be very tempremental at times and does not like strangers. will try to throw anyone not completely familiar with.
come and have a cup of builders instead.
jj - did you enjoy anna karenina? i thought it was so romantic.
there are lots of books i like but those are the ones i read again and then again
also read dear mr leach - edmund de waal by dipping into it quite a bit and hans coper and lucy rie by tony birks

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