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I've put some books on, and a few words. Add some more! Help me out with how to do this :))

hhhmmm I tried to add some books to the bookshelf but couldn't work out how to do it!

I've failed but I really want to do it!

Hi I put some more of my favourite books on. My very best 2 books ever are A Town Like Alice and On The Beach which books are your favourites?

Actually I love all Nevil Shutes books I believe I have all of them bar one and am rereading them through currently. I have just found and joined this group but am sorry to see so little activity. I wonder if anybody will read this comment.

I like the one with the guy that prays with everyone, and also the ones set in the war. Gave all my ancient copies to my son, along with my ancient John Wyndhams.

Sybil, know what you mean about the level of group activity! Who knows... This website is a bit unnecessarily complex and has poor linkages - this put me off the whole site. However, we can persevere. My fave is Round the Bend, but have loved all of them really. Was delighted to see on Amazon that it looks like there are some I haven't read, and that there are many recent reprints.

Ann and Sybil am glad you are members. When I set this page up I was surprised that we didn't get hundreds of members in the first week!

Teresa, are you there?!

Hi Jill, nice to hear from you. I must admit that when I first found this group it seemed totally dead and minute. There is a group on Facebook 'Shutist' which Ann put me onto and that has over 100 members and is pretty active.

Hi Sybil,
So: are you going to contribute to this group? As I said, I started it up, but so far only three NS fans appear to be on this site. And so far, you have said TWICE that this group is not very busy, when are you going to say something useful and interesting then, and get it moving? I'm not going to do it all! All groups start off small, what do you expect? As for Facebook, I closed my account, but thanks anyway.

From tiny acorns do mighty oaks grow. The group now has 4 members! In the Wet and Ordeal (What Happened to the Corbetts) are two of my favorites.

Hi, just wondering if this group is still active? I hate Facebook so I will not be looking there for any groups. I love Nevil Shute and would like to discuss his books with others who have actually read them.

Unfortunately the group isn’t that active, as it would be good to meet other fans and discuss his books.

That’s too bad. Thanks for the info.

Rose wrote: "Hi, just wondering if this group is still active? I hate Facebook so I will not be looking there for any groups. I love Nevil Shute and would like to discuss his books with others who have actually..."

I check Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ pretty regularly and have read most, if not all, of Shute's novels. And some more than once. Feel free to post something. I will reply for sure.

And what is your favorite Shute novel?

Thomas—my favorite is A Town Like Alice with The Rainbow and the Rose a close second. I reread A Town Like Alice at least once a year, have the audiobook, and I spent a small fortune to get the VHS miniseries with Bryan Brown from the mid-80s. Love it.

Rose wrote: "Thomas—my favorite is A Town Like Alice with The Rainbow and the Rose a close second. I reread A Town Like Alice at least once a year, have the audiobook, and I spent a small fortune to get the VHS..."

I'm not sure I knew there was a mini-series of A Town Like Alice. I can imagine it was hard to find. I think his books are particularly good on audiobook. I go back to In the Wet pretty frequently.

My first Shute was On the Beach when I was 16 in 1985. That was at the height of nuclear war fears and I sobbed like a baby through the last 30 pages.

I read Pied Piper earlier this year, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I love his unemotional writing style, which due to it's dryness when reading, does become very emotional at times. I wish more people would read his books.

I think it’s great that his style of writing is on the drier side. It’s better than being told what to feel as we read. I really felt like that when reading On the Beach—sure people are going to be emotional in that situation, but we don’t need to be told that. I think about Moira watching the submarine go out to sea on that last day and in someone else’s hands it would have been an overemotional, hyper dramatic moment. I think it’s a style of writing that’s sorely missing now.

Hello all, I just joined this group. I’ve enjoyed Nevil Shute since I first discovered him. I just finished ‘The Chequer Board� and was sorry when it ended. You would think that engineering and romance wouldn’t go hand in hand in a novel but Shute does it so well!

Hi Brenda—I haven’t read that yet. Will have to add it to my TO READ list.

And now I’m reading‘Beyond the Black Stump�. Shute has the amazing ability to transport me to Australia 🇦🇺.

Hi all. I just wanted to advocate the joy of re-reading books - particularly NS books. My history with NS is that I read my first, "Requiem for a Wren" in 1974, and by about 1985 I had read them all. From time to time I have re-read Requiem, and as I have previously reported; I fall in love with Janet Prentice every time!
I don't understand why Requiem is so rarely referred to in these sites.

A few years ago I reached a milestone of having read 1,000 books in my lifetime, and I thought - what next? I decided to continue reading new novels, and biographies, but I would intersperse these with re-reads of favourites - roughly every 3rd book is a RR. I have to say that after a dozen or so re-reads I have been delighted with every one of them.

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