Quote Originally Posted by Lex View Post
Just thought I'd get the obligatory Tolkien & Harry Potter mentions out of the way......

I got Treasure Island for Christmas, which is a damn fine book. Wuthering Heights is good too, along with Dracula & Frankenstein.

Never got into Dickens, though. I tried reading The Pickwick Papers a few years ago; I found school textbooks more interesting.
I like Dickens but yawned through Pickwick at school
Try his "The Uncommercial Traveller" true story.

I collect books and have just bought -from one of the antiquarian bookshops in Warwick--(the one at the bottom of the hill) 'A Child's History of England.
by Charles Dickens- never heard of it before. A beautiful little Victorian book starting 50 years before Christ and ending in 1837.
Quite a find.
Shut me up Ican go on forever