I have read so many great books .Nearly all crime or thrillers.
best book fiction has got to be Harper Lee -To kill a Mockingbird
best non fiction Ernest Hemingway -Death in the Afternoon (about bullfighting in the 1930s )
The Hitchhikers Trilogy - Douglas Adams
Book of the New Sun - Gene Wolf
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
This Time Next Week - Leslie Thomas
Most of the Discworld books - Terry Pratchett
The Dark Tower - Stephen King
Early Tom Sharpe especially the Wilt series and the South African ones.
Escape from Colditz/The Colditz Story - Pat Reid
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'Beer is for all day, not just for breakfast'.
Not really a big reader of novels and stuff but the last 10 books I've read are:
Creation Stories - Alan McGee
Common As Muck - Roy 'Chubby' Brown
My Liverpool Home - Kenny Dalglish
The Real Bob Paisley
Renegade - Mark E Smith
Substance, Inside New Order - Peter Hook
Goodbye 20th Century, Sonic Youth - David Browne
Girl In A Band - Kim Gordon
Anger Is An Energy - John Lydon
A Drink With Shane MacGowan - Victoria Clarke
I'm not a great reader of books but enjoyed Brave New World which was similar in some ways to 1984. I read another of Huxley's books, I think it was called Legless In The Kaze or something and was so long and boring that I couldn't stay awake for more than two pages at a time.
I was talking to a woman about Science Fiction and we couldn't agree whether Asimov's Foundation Trilogy was any good. She thought it was great so I went on to ask her if she liked Moorcock and she slapped me in the face!!
I can't remember the last book I read to be honest but I was a fairly big reader when I was younger.
I always loved The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings. On a side note my daughter went to school with a relation of Tolkien. in fact her middle name was Tolkien.
I was a bit of a collector or Biggles books by W.E Johns and Just William books by Richmal Crompton.
I also loved Jules Verne, H.G Wells and Edgar Rice burroughs.
Going back further you couldn't beat Enid Blyton!
I am a salmon !!
Eyeless in Gaza.
I had a vaguely similar experience to yours about a year or two ago. An East European barmaid poured my pint and said 'Would you like some more head?'. 'No thanks', I replied. 'Just the pint's fine'. And no I'm not making that one up either - the perils of learning a new language.