..lay a little egg for me Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 Did you see they are showing a TV version of the No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency soon? I saw a trailer for it the other day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 Yes, Sunday the 15th I think. Its done by Richard Curtis who did the first one with the late Anthony Minghella, which was shown just after his death last Christmas. It was wonderful, & I am so looking forward to this series Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alih Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 Me too, thought it captured the spirit of it beautifully Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 UPDATE - the one that was shown a year or so ago is on BBC3 (or 4) on Saturday this week, with the new series starting on Sunday on BBC 1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willow Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 I must make sure I watch them. I love the books and it's nice seeing a fat heroine on tv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cordelia Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen X 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien- 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte X 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X 6 The Bible - 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - GEORGE ORWELL X 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens X 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy X 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller X 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier X 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell X 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy X 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh X 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 34 Emma - Jane Austen X 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen X 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell X 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown X 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood X 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding X 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel 52 Dune - Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen X 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth 56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding X 69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens X 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses - James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal - Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession - AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens X 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert -X 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White X 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle X 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton X 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare X 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl X 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo I've read 31, assuming I've counted correctly....fun to go through and see what was there.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hen Watch Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 Right..... I will be the first to confess..... everyone on here is sooooo well read I score a MASSIVE 5. 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown X 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding X 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton Now I pride myself that I read a novel a week and I visit the library every 2 weeks but I have to say I am strictly a "chic lit" sort of a girl..... and the odd crime/murder/jeffery archer thrown in for good measure .....!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms Marple Posted March 12, 2009 Share Posted March 12, 2009 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - Orson Welles X 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks X 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger X 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame X 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini x 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell X 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown X 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan X 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel X 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon X 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck X 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold X 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding X 69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams X 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl X Total: 42 Surprised myself there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
