Favourite Author

[Silent Bob]

Orwell innit.

 

[Brighton Breezy]

Dickens was a bit crap.

I think the majority of his works were originally published in newspapers which accounts for the wanky over the top setting of the scene in every chapter.

Orwell is untouchable.

The single greatest author of modern times.

BAR NONE.

 

[Thimble Keegan]

the film wasn't bad , but the book was far superior

Nah, the film was poor and it bears only a slight resemblence to events in the book. On it's own the film does not stand up.

Albion & England forever.

Thimble Keegan
Worthing BHA

 

[Braders]

Nah, the film was poor and it bears only a slight resemblence to events in the book. On it's own the film does not stand up.

Albion & England forever.

Thimble Keegan
Worthing BHA

agreed, quite a bit of the book should deffo have been in the film , they kinda skimmed over it

 

[Brighton Breezy]

The book is better but that said the film is far better then I thought it would be.

Could have dealt more with the OAP's though and a bit more of the social commentary of the book.

 

[Thimble Keegan]

Will also be interesting to see if they make a film out of the second book which is about a different set of characters entirely...Although the 3 main characters from the first book (there was only 2 in the film so 1 must have gone missing!!) make a cameo appearance in 1 of the chapters.

The second book is my favourite of the 3.

Albion & England forever.

Thimble Keegan
Worthing BHA

 

[Brighton Breezy]

Rumour has it they are making all of them eventually.

I would expect the other two to be different from the book though.

The film on the Soul Crew is due out this year. Meant to be even more messy then Football Factory.

 

[oapdodge]

Tom Sharpe
Wilt books brilliant

 

[Braders]

Will also be interesting to see if they make a film out of the second book which is about a different set of characters entirely...Although the 3 main characters from the first book (there was only 2 in the film so 1 must have gone missing!!) make a cameo appearance in 1 of the chapters.

The second book is my favourite of the 3.

Albion & England forever.

Thimble Keegan
Worthing BHA

is Headhunters the second and England away the third or the other way round ?

 

[Brighton Breezy]

I think Headhunters is the last one.

 

[crasher]

Dickens was a bit crap.

Call for you Richie, it's Newsnight Review. They want to know if you can stand in for Germaine next week.

 

[Brighton Breezy]

Cant do it I am afraid. I am too busy writing a pretensiously wank feminist left wing newspaper column for her.

 

[Theatre of Trees]

Will you get it in on time though?

 

[Brighton Breezy]

Well most of her political ideas are straight out of the 1970s feminist movement so wont matter if I dont.

 

[Schrödinger's Toad]

Bill Bryson, Samuel Beckett.

 

[aftershavedave]

george orwell, graham greene and jean-paul sartre for my 20th century lit, emile zola, honore de balzac and dickens for my 19th century lit, paul theroux, jonathan raban and ryszard kapuscinski for reportage type stuff.

 

[wilderabeast]

Bernard Cornwall the Shape series Rock

 

[Tom Bombadil]

Graham Greene or Kazuo Ishiguro

 

[Digweeds Trousers]

PG Wodehouse for me.

 

[Dave the OAP]

Dickens was a bit crap.

Thankyou for this uneducated insight into literature. You cretin.I do hope if you are doing a Degree in English, you do not put this as an answer.

Why do you feel the need to say such rediculous things?

Literature, like music and art is a very personal thing. Oliver Twist was an extremely well written, fast moving and authoritive work based on the sub-culture existing in London at the turn of the last century. A Christmas Carol was a superb piece of literature. But this is in my opinion.

My favourite author at the moment is J K Rowling. Her Harry Potter books are as far as I am concerned everything a good read should be. As far as "serious" authors are concerned, my favourite is Alison Weir