What a wonderful thread! I'm just sitting here going 'oh, yes!!' every time I come across yet another book/author I've forgotten.

'Billy' was superb - gave me more respect for the great man, and his wife.

'The Road Less Travelled' I found difficult to put down and need to find time for more of his work.

Most Sci-fi goes down well with me, as long as it's well written. I think I first read Bradbury's 'The Illustrated Man when I was about twelve.

Couldn't read 'When the Wind Blows' -anything do do with nuclear war is a no no after readin 'On the Beach' just a few months before the Cuba Crisis, when I was only about fourteen.

Matbe I will try some other Hemingway sometime. At the moment I'm finsihing Lord of the Rings and have Bernard Cornwell's new book, plus the latest Stephen King paperback and Jilly Cooper's Pandora lined up for attention. That lot should keep me going until Christmas 'cause I just don't have the time for all the reading I would like to do! Now if I could just cut out sleep!