Ive just started Forever Odd ~ Dean Koontz

The Falls by Ian Rankin - after watching the tv programme I am rather confused so have to refresh my memory! Loved this book, so looking forward to reading it again.

Mother in law also gave a very early autobiography by George Michael, I think it is called Bare so that will be next read!

I'm about to start 'Hide & Seek' Ian Rankins 2nd Rebus tale! :naughty:

Ive just started Forever Odd ~ Dean Koontz
Is that the sequel to Odd Thomas? I absolutely loved that book and am dying to read the sequel.

What has Robson Green written out to you since you mooned him and all Flippy-poo??:naughty:

Sadly nothing msg - I think he just htinks of me as that slapper who bared 'nearly' all on the crags!!! One night stand 'n all that!!:sad:

I am on to a new book called - The Rule Of Four - and I would have to wlak to the bedroom to remember the author and I can't be bothered.

I just got "A Million Little Pieces" by James Frey. It's on Oprah's Book Club but that's not why I got it. I'd heard tons of stuff about it and thought it might be interesting. Here's the summary: At the age of 23, James Frey woke up on a plane to find his four front teeth knocked out, his nose broken, and a hole through his cheek. He had no idea where the plane was headed nor any recollection of the past two weeks. An alcoholic for ten years and a crack addict for three, he checked into a treatment facility shortly after landing. There he was told he could either stop using or die before her reached 24. This Frey's acclaimed account of his six weeks in rehab.

I hope to pass it on to a family member or two after reading it. If only they will read and heed.!!:wacko:

I just got "A Million Little Pieces" by James Frey. It's on Oprah's Book Club but that's not why I got it. I'd heard tons of stuff about it and thought it might be interesting. Here's the summary: At the age of 23, James Frey woke up on a plane to find his four front teeth knocked out, his nose broken, and a hole through his cheek. He had no idea where the plane was headed nor any recollection of the past two weeks. An alcoholic for ten years and a crack addict for three, he checked into a treatment facility shortly after landing. There he was told he could either stop using or die before her reached 24. This Frey's acclaimed account of his six weeks in rehab.

I hope to pass it on to a family member or two after reading it. If only they will read and heed.!!:wacko:

I just read this book. Finished it over the holidays. AMAZING book. It blew me away...the writing is done very well to give the sense of what he was goign thru. Can't wait to hear your thoughts on it when you are finished.

I'm about to start 'Hide & Seek' Ian Rankins 2nd Rebus tale! :naughty:


I read Ian Rankin's first book The Flood and it his introduction he says that he uses one of the main characters from The Flood in his first pages of Hide & Seek - I have every Rebus book and guess what one I can't lay my hands on!

Just finished The Falls and even more annoyed at the TV adaption of it - what a fabulous read, I honestly could not put this book down. I urge anyone to read this and not be gripped! I am definitely going to write to SMG now!

As I can't find Hide & Seek I am going to read Rebus's 3rd book Tooth & Nail where Rebus ends up in London to solve The Wolfman case!

Just finished "Aftermath" by Peter Robinson - One of his Alan Banks ones

Migt dig out "The Falls" for a re-read - Thanks for the idea Bella:thumbsup:

I just read this book. Finished it over the holidays. AMAZING book. It blew me away...the writing is done very well to give the sense of what he was goign thru. Can't wait to hear your thoughts on it when you are finished.


I'm about 1/2 way through and CANNOT stand to put it down....even TRIED reading it with my reading glasses broken!!!! I agree that the writing style goes with what he must have been processing at the time....will let you know when I finish!!:excl:

Might dig out "The Falls" for a re-read - Thanks for the idea Bella:thumbsup:

Couldn't find it - so I'm re-reading "Let it Bleed" instead!

Just started re-reading 'Breakfast on Pluto'...by Pat mc Cabe..coz I want to go see the film.It's dreary and tragic and yet funny af the same time.
Cillian Murphy looks INCREDIBLE as 'Kitty'.
purrrr.

One of Minette Walter's older books - The Scold's Bridle.
I like the complexity of the characters.

'Britain's Walters, whose The Sculptress won the 1993 Edgar for best novel, excels at depicting monstrously dysfunctional families and the murder and mayhem they wreak; and old Mathilda Gillespie's clan is a humdinger. The daughter of this bitter, snobbish, nasty-minded recluse is a prostitute on dope; the granddaughter's a schoolgirl being blackmailed into theft by a rapist lover. Gillespie's own past contains its share of feeblemindedness, violence, booze, abortion and incest. When the old woman is found dead in her bathtub, a peculiar medieval device over her head (the "scold's bridle" of the title), there is no shortage of suspects in her Dorset village. Both the local woman doctor, one of the few people who could tolerate the dead woman, and the cynical artist husband from whom she is separating spar with empathetic Detective Sgt. Cooper as they search for a killer. The fact that it takes these very bright people longer to figure out the perpetrator than it does a not-especially-smart reader is the chief strike against this otherwise intelligent and enjoyable-if slightly overplotted-mystery, which is essentially an English cozy with distinctly quirky overtones. '

I'm in a kind of re-read mode at the moment and I'm reading "Good Omens" by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman - one of the funniest books ever in my opinion!

One of Minette Walter's older books - The Scold's Bridle.
I like the complexity of the characters.

'Britain's Walters, whose The Sculptress won the 1993 Edgar for best novel, excels at depicting monstrously dysfunctional families and the murder and mayhem they wreak; and old Mathilda Gillespie's clan is a humdinger. The daughter of this bitter, snobbish, nasty-minded recluse is a prostitute on dope; the granddaughter's a schoolgirl being blackmailed into theft by a rapist lover. Gillespie's own past contains its share of feeblemindedness, violence, booze, abortion and incest. When the old woman is found dead in her bathtub, a peculiar medieval device over her head (the "scold's bridle" of the title), there is no shortage of suspects in her Dorset village. Both the local woman doctor, one of the few people who could tolerate the dead woman, and the cynical artist husband from whom she is separating spar with empathetic Detective Sgt. Cooper as they search for a killer. The fact that it takes these very bright people longer to figure out the perpetrator than it does a not-especially-smart reader is the chief strike against this otherwise intelligent and enjoyable-if slightly overplotted-mystery, which is essentially an English cozy with distinctly quirky overtones. '


I've read this one and the one about the woman who is found with her dead husband in his gallery and her father thinks she did it and she thinks her father did it but it turns out to be someone else entirely....can't recall the name. Enjoyed both!!

Reading 'Cell' by Stephen King. Only a few pages into it as I just got it Wednesday and they have worked me to death this week!!! Will give my book report later.:thumbsup:

Just finished a fantastic book called : Taming the Tiger by Tony Anthony

Its an amazing biography based on his life as a Kung Fu Master and three time winner of the Kung Fu World Championships and how his life comes crashing down around him. He lands in Nicosia (check spelling) prison in Cyprus, which is basically hell on earth. A guy visits him and basically leads him to a new life in Jesus.

Some of his experiences will make your toes curl and make you wonder how he ever survived...it gives a very insightful look into the world/art of Kung Fu and how one becomes a master and how it can be misused.

I highly recommend this book...even my dad read it (he has an interest in martial arts) and he has only ever read one other book in his life!

I am now reading: A Spy by Nature by Charles Cumming - 12 pages in and all is well :thumbsup:

Still running through the Rebus books and reading Let It Bleed at the moment. I think after this one I may have a bit of break from him and read something different. On saying that I am not getting bored with the Rebus collection at all!

Bella, did you see my commentary on 'Rebus' in TV section??:sad:

Well, I know Islandman read this book and I have too and now there's a hell of a bruhaha over it. "A Million Little Pieces" by James Frey. It was supposed to be his REAL LIFE experience with drugs, alcohol, the wrong side of the law, and finally, rehab and redemption. Now it's come out that a lot of the book is a lie! People have been using it to try and HELP others with it and it's A LIE!! It was an 'Oprah's Book Club' book and she initially backed him after the fallout but has since had him on her show and tore him a new orifice!! I'm really upset! If it had been fictional or partially fictional, I would have still read it. It is a good book! But to hurt for someone because you feel awful for what they've been through and to hope to pass it on to (my family members ) others that NEED it, it's not got the same OOOOMPH! it would have had!!:wallbash:
You can go to: www.thesmokinggun.com to find out all the false stuff, if you are interested!

Got Stephen King's new one 'Cell'. It's ok, kinda reminescent of 'The Stand', except with cell phones. About halfway through.

I would like to read one of the Martina Cole books I purchased this week. But they are being held hostage until I turn up at work..if I turn up this week I get the books.:laugh:

Buzz, WHO would do such an EVIL thing to you as hold a book hostage???
MEOW, MEOW??:laugh:

I'm currently half way through 'A Spy By Nature' a book lent to me by my friend and one which is well ok...however soon I will be starting a Graham Hurley book. I can't beleive I haven't discovered this guy before as he writes modern crime novels based around my local city and my home town often gets a mention apparently...really looking forward to reading his stuff! :book:

Stupid White Men by Michael Moore - don't know why I haven't got around to reading it before now!

Coastie I have read CutTo Black by Graham Hurley, he is very good and it makes it more interesting if you know the area being written about.

Stupid White Men by Michael Moore - don't know why I haven't got around to reading it before now!


Michael Moore the American Rob??

Coastie I have read CutTo Black by Graham Hurley, he is very good and it makes it more interesting if you know the area being written about.

I can't remember the name of the two books I picked up for a fiver the other day but I am already excited about reading them. It was a guy a work who put me onto Graham Hurley after a freind of his (from Scotland bizzarly) mentioned them to him....:book:

Michael Moore the American Rob??

Yup - That's the guy!

Stupid White Men by Michael Moore - don't know why I haven't got around to reading it before now!

I loved that book.

I've just finished reading Bill Brysons, "Notes from a small island", his trip around Britain before he moved back to the states, then moved back over here:laugh:
Good book though.
I started reading his book "A short history of almost everything" but couldn't get into it. I like his books of all his travels.

My next book I want to read doesn't actually get published here until March, but I was reading a review in the sunday papers, and it looks set to equal The Davinci code, in the conspiracy stakes.

It's called "The Secret Supper" by Javier Sierra.
It tells the story of a vatican monk who infiltrates a monestry in Milan, after anonymous letters to the Pope accuse Da Vinci of concealing subversive ideas in his work - the denounciation of the catholic church.
Look out for it in a bookshop near you soon!

I just finished "Cell" by Stephen King. It was good and I was interested, but it wasn't hole up and take no calls, visitors, or showers, good. As I stated earlier, kinda 'The Stand' but with cells phones. My literary idol, is wearing down!:cry:

On a different note: Rob, have you read "Bowling for Columbine" yet by Michael Moore? It's really good and started a stink over here!! He's not a Dubbya lover either.

I bought 'The Distant Echo' a while back (by Val McDermid) and was ensnarled in all things Ian Rankin. I am going to re-start this book. Her shows of 'Wire in the Blood' are just AWESOME, better than BOTH of the REBUS shows even, but I still look for something Rankin in it and it's another author!! That's crazy-talk but I know what I mean. Ooops, getting too long here! :book: :book: :laugh:

On a different note: Rob, have you read "Bowling for Columbine" yet by Michael Moore? It's really good and started a stink over here!! He's not a Dubbya lover either.



Not yet - but I did see the film!

Did you like it?? Wasn't it crazy that you could get a SHOTGUN for opening up a checking account??

The McDermid has fallen by the way-side and I've gotten into 'The Closers' by Michael Connelly. It seems really interesting!! Will tell........

I like Michael Connolly's stuff - Have you read "The Poet"?

No, this is the first of his I'm to read...but I like it so far!:thumbsup:

I am still reading my way through Rebus and am now on The Hanging Garden. Soon be at the end, then I quite fancy reading The Memoirs of A Geisha.

at the moment i am reading Billy Hayes 'Midnight Express', the tale is slighty different to the movie about the book, but it's an excellent read.

I found myself wondering what happened to Timothy Davie the 14 year old British Smuggler that Billy writes about in the book.

Just started James Patterson, The Lake House.
After the first few pages I thought, damn I've read this before, I remember about these kids with wings. But this is a sequel to the other book I'm thinking of, When the Wind Blows.

I'm reading The Rule of Four.
it's states on the cover by one of the reviewers "The Da Vinci Code for people with brains" lol!
I'm finding it quite tough going, but very interesting read.
I suppose what I should do is take time out over the bits I'm having trouble understanding. I normally only read on my lunch break which slows things down a lot but i made good progress with it on hols. I've left it at work and I'm kicking myself as I'm not going into work for a bit and could do with something to read. But I might opt for a DVD instead. I have over 30 films in the draw not watched at all yet!

I have just started 'Just a Boy' it is written by the son of the first victim of the Yorkshire ripper.

I am reading a book called 'The Historian'...it's a re-telling of bram stoker's Dracula...and all the victims are librarians or archivists.:laugh:
It's kind of cool as it takes ya on a trip of libraries and archives all over europe.It's not 'dusty' tho'...it's all picnics outside in the mountains and ruinds of old monasteries in the Alps,and balconies in Crete, and yummy descriptions of food etc.
It is very evocative.It's also very creepy and menacing.I am enjoying it, and it has given me real wander lust.
:-)

Just bought myself a new book today, hadn't heard of it before but apparently it's on the Richard and Judy list (whether that's anything to go by though:wacko: )

It's called "Labyrinth" by Kate Mosse, (no not the model:laugh:) and from what little I've read up to now it's about a link between a woman in the present day, to a woman in the 12th century, the Cathar movement, the Catholic church and a grail!

I have just started Astonishing splashes of colours by Claire Morrall.

Very good, dark but good.

Just bought myself a new book today, hadn't heard of it before but apparently it's on the Richard and Judy list (whether that's anything to go by though:wacko: )

It's called "Labyrinth" by Kate Mosse, (no not the model:laugh:) and from what little I've read up to now it's about a link between a woman in the present day, to a woman in the 12th century, the Cathar movement, the Catholic church and a grail!

Is that the one set in Brittany Andrea? I saw them reviewing that one and I had forgotten the title. I quite fancied it and would be interested to know what you think of it before I buy it.

Maz, it's set in France but southern France.
I've only read a bit of it yet but it doesn't seem too bad so far.

I read the reviews on Amazon and one said it was a bit slow whereas the other praised it highly, so we shall see.

Actually Maz, if you want I can send it to you when I've finished it.

I just got and started "The Poet" by Michael Connelly (thanks Rob for the referral!!) and it's got a forward by Stephen King!! I like it so far, as I liked the other Connelly I just finished as well. It may be my American 'Rebus'...I didn't know I could find such a thing!!

I'm just reading one of those Goosebumps books because our teacher forced us to borrow from the library :glare:

i've just finished reading "The Family Way" by Tony Parsons (I think). It was boring and very Mills and Boonish. He thinks he's a real clever bloke getting inside the head of women for his main characters, but he so obviously hasn't got a clue about what makes women tick!

I'm going back to Biographies! I'm just going to start Dudley Moore's. I read Peter Cooks a couple of years ago which was very good.

Msboy #2 and I went to the bookstore Friday to 'fill up' in case we were as ice/snow bound as they were predicting of the past weekend. I got all of the rest of the Dianna Gabaldon's, even 1 I hadn't been able find and was going to have to order. So, I can read them all in order and wait till the new one comes out in paperback. Msboy #2 got him a reading light(red) for $2.00, and a page marker, and 2 Star Wars Comic Books which were really kind of 'growny' language wise, but the little turkey read them and only had to ask about 3 words total!! He's re-read them several times as well. I'm just so overjoyed he's interested in reading that I'm giddy. The other 2, hubby and Msboy #1 only read in life or death circumstances!!:laugh:

Maz, it's set in France but southern France.
I've only read a bit of it yet but it doesn't seem too bad so far.

I read the reviews on Amazon and one said it was a bit slow whereas the other praised it highly, so we shall see.

Actually Maz, if you want I can send it to you when I've finished it.

I read that last year.I loved it.I LOVE the way it keeps hopping backwards and forwards in time.
It was like a gazillion times better than the da vinci code.(which would'nt be hard):laugh:
Enjoy.

Just bought myself a new book today, hadn't heard of it before but apparently it's on the Richard and Judy list (whether that's anything to go by though:wacko: )

It's called "Labyrinth" by Kate Mosse, (no not the model:laugh:) and from what little I've read up to now it's about a link between a woman in the present day, to a woman in the 12th century, the Cathar movement, the Catholic church and a grail!

I quite fancy that one Andrea, I saw reviewed on the R & J but still reading my way through Rebus. I am now on book 10.....or 11 Dead Souls, which was one of the ones that was shown on TV with John Hannah, when his friend threw himself off Arthur's Seat!

Just started 'Turnstone' by Graham Hurley - It's very good so far - a modern crime novel set in and around Portsmouth...it's like Bella reading Rebus! Fantastic! :thumbsup:

The Narrows - Michael Connolly - It's the sequel to The Poet

I have just started Astonishing splashes of colours by Claire Morrall.

Very good, dark but good.

I recommend this book. Different, dark and extremely well written for a first book. Bravo Claire.

Re picked up Memoirs of a Geisha and hooked.

I havent read a book in ages. I tend to buy a couple of magazines every week - and thats it. I dont tend to have time to sit and read at the moment.

In the summer though that will all change when i can sit out in the garden and get stuck into a good novel.

I tend to do all my reading in bed - except when I am on holiday.

I tend to do all my reading in bed - except when I am on holiday.

Me too Rob! I read before drifting of to sleep, then I read if I wake up/disturbed during the night to get me back to sleep.

On holiday, when I have a book - I'd read it in the morning, I'd read it in the evening....all over this land. I'd read about danger, I'd read about warning...I'd read about the love between my brothers and my sisters..all over this land.

Woooo hooooooooo oo0000000000 oooo.

I'm still reading my Michael Connelly's but I got this hysterical but informative book called 'Why Do Men Have Nipples?'...I'll have to post some of the stuff on here!! It's a hoot!!

I'm still reading my Michael Connelly's but I got this hysterical but informative book called 'Why Do Men Have Nipples?'...I'll have to post some of the stuff on here!! It's a hoot!!

I thought men had nipples to make their chest more interesting...I'm looking forward to learning more! :laugh:

I thought men had nipples to make their chest more interesting...I'm looking forward to learning more! :laugh:

Larf! :laugh:

Should be fun :naughty:

Right now I'm reading "Southern Cross" by Patricia Cornwall - and I'm struggling with it. Up until now I'd read, and enjoyed, her Kay Scarpetta novels - sort of crime from a medical examiner's point of view.

This one is nothing like those - it would appear to be some attempt at a comic novel - but it doesn't work.

The only good thing is that I only paid 50p for it from a charity shop!

I've read a few of hers as well, Rob.
Tried to read Southern Cross ages ago, but never did finish it.

Almost at the end of the Rebus books - reading Resurrection Men at the moment.

I really fancy reading March that was shown on R & J book club yesterday. It is the story of the Mr March, the father of The Little Woman and about him going to Civil War and getting involved with the slavery etc. The reviews sounded really, really good.

At the moment I am reading "Mr Tambourine Man: The Story of the Byrds' Gene Clark" by John Einerson

The Byrds are my favourite band of all time so this is a fascinating read for me.

I am reading a book called 'The Alchemist's Daughter' by Katharine McMahon.
It is a dark broody novel set in 1700's.It raises interesting issues regarding the role of women in society and the limit of their lot in life.It's a bit about Issac Newton and Robert Boyle...but mostly about social and educational life.
I am enjoying it.

I'm reading "The Insider" by Piers Morgan and I'm rather enjoying it in a guilty snobbish "i usually read classical literature" kind of way!

He's actually on my list of blokes I shouldn't fancy but do! :blush:

I am reading a book called ' No one can hurt him anymore' by Carol Rothgeb, i was so angry when i had finished reading the book, i wanted to beat the
shi-t out of his stepmother, who mentally and physically abused Andrew her 10 year old stepson, eventually resulting in his murder, there is one pic of her sitting in the courtroom being questioned with a big smug grin on her face.
:evilmad: it's a good book but heartbreaking to read.

I am reading a book called ' No one can hurt him anymore' by Carol Rothgeb, i was so angry when i had finished reading the book, i wanted to beat the
shi-t out of his stepmother, who mentally and physically abused Andrew her 10 year old stepson, eventually resulting in his murder, there is one pic of her sitting in the courtroom being questioned with a big smug grin on her face.
:evilmad: it's a good book but heartbreaking to read.

it sounds harrowing bridge. I couldn't get past the first couple of paras of "a boy called it" ... very disturbing. Although my friend who was reading it insisted on reading out passages to me cos she couldn't quite believe what she was reading.

very very sad stories, unbearably sad.

it sounds harrowing bridge. I couldn't get past the first couple of paras of "a boy called it" ... very disturbing. Although my friend who was reading it insisted on reading out passages to me cos she couldn't quite believe what she was reading.

very very sad stories, unbearably sad.

I have read a Child called it, it's so awful but at least Dave lived to write about it.

I am currently reading Spot Goes on Holiday, and I Went To The Zoopermarket :glare:

I really really wish I had time to get immersed in a book like I used to, but the small people have developed a "mummy's horizontal" radar and feel the need to have me upright at all times .

I am currently reading Spot Goes on Holiday, and I Went To The Zoopermarket :glare:

I really really wish I had time to get immersed in a book like I used to, but the small people have developed a "mummy's horizontal" radar and feel the need to have me upright at all times .

here's a tip for later on ... if you want your child's attention just lie down on the settee, it's 100% guaranteed to get their complete attention!


back on topic:

I'm still reading The Insider and really can't put it down. it is a fascinating book, not for the reasons that I think Piers Morgan thinks it is, it is fascinating cos it just goes to show what a load of old flannel politics and papers are ... the game of you scratch my back is absolutely mindblowing, well it is for someone who's not media savvy or used to thinking too deeply about these things!

back on topic:

I'm still reading The Insider and really can't put it down. it is a fascinating book, not for the reasons that I think Piers Morgan thinks it is, it is fascinating cos it just goes to show what a load of old flannel politics and papers are ... the game of you scratch my back is absolutely mindblowing, well it is for someone who's not media savvy or used to thinking too deeply about these things!
Im reading this too Dol. Mr.B bought it me for Xmas and im enjoying it .... but i just havent got time to sit and read for ages. Its a good read though.

I recommend this book. Different, dark and extremely well written for a first book. Bravo Claire.

Re picked up Memoirs of a Geisha and hooked.

This was truly one of the best written books I have read. It might not be the most exciting story but you are there with the narrator, you feel, smell and are almost in the room with the characters.

Very good, I shall miss it.

Highly recommended.

After all your recommendations Cat, I bought Memoirs of a Geisha the other day.
I'm really enjoying it.

Finished Labyrinth the other day, and it was OK. It was hard to get into at first, but the ending was a bit more exciting.

After all your recommendations Cat, I bought Memoirs of a Geisha the other day.
I'm really enjoying it.

Finished Labyrinth the other day, and it was OK. It was hard to get into at first, but the ending was a bit more exciting.

Cheers Andrea, I hope you enjoy to the end as much as I did.

We shall discuss the end when you have finished.

Reading Fleshmarket Close which is the final book in the Rebus series. Coastie, I can pass it on afterwards if you like!

I have ordered March and Empress Orchid from the Richard & Judy Book Club.

I am also going to join a local book club and looking really forward to that!

I've just started Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, its about an hermaphrodite. Very promising so far.

LOL - Bella...I picked up Fleshmarket Close for £1.50 at a local charity shop but cheers anyway! I still have another four or so Rebus books to get through in the right order before I can approach that one though! :wallbash:

I am absolutely loving Graham Hurly's local modern crime novels...fantastic!

I will never again trust Richard and Judy...they made me read 'The Lovely Bones' and what a total load of :pooh: that was!

I'm really not in the mood for reading anything new just now so I just finished re-reading "The Da Vinci Code" - before the film comes out.

Now I've started to re-read "Angels and Demons" - which I thought was a better book!

I have just started reading 'Big girls don't cry' by Helene ? Paula Yates mother, it's so far a good read, i can't help feeling that she wasn't there when Paula needed her most though, sad.

I'm reading a couple of Michael Connelly's and a Diana Gabaldon, "Lord Grey and the Private Matter". It was at the book store when I re-newed my discount card as well as the others in the series, except the new one which is in hardback ('Breath of Snow and Ashes) and the next to the last one, 'The Fiery Cross' which I found in another book store in the 'used' section, in hardback for $6.00 (!!) {and it looked BRAND NEW}, which is less than I would have paid for the paperback with my discount!!! So now I have a zillion books to read and little or no time!!:ranting: Hopefully after I get the Spring cleaning and refurbish done and bind and gag my husband in a closet, I will have time to loll around reading and eating bonbons!! And maybe a mint julep or two...:naughty:

I have just started reading 'Big girls don't cry' by Helene ? Paula Yates mother, it's so far a good read, i can't help feeling that she wasn't there when Paula needed her most though, sad.

Paula Yates' ex-husband just re-married. They are worried about telling her b/c of her mental state. They have agreed to give her another trial based on some technicality and she's been transferred to a mental hospital until and while it lasts. I guess they will either decide to put her back in jail or in a mental institution b/c I can't see them letting her back out in society. She looks so pitiful. She's my age and looks like my mother's age. Of course we can never know all that's been through her mind and how realizing what she has done has affected her! What a tragedy!:unsure:

I think that msgirl is talking about a different Paula Yates to the one I know :unsure:

Are there two?

Rob, I'm sorry!! I meant ANDREA YATES. Read about her here. (http://crime.about.com/od/current/p/andreayates.htm) I had a brain fart last night I guess!! Sorry.:wacko:

Rob, I'm sorry!! I meant ANDREA YATES. Read about her here. (http://crime.about.com/od/current/p/andreayates.htm) I had a brain fart last night I guess!! Sorry.:wacko:

Oh that's sad. ummm about Andrea Yates not about you having a brain fart! Hee

It's ok bridge...the brain farts are getting more regular!! LARF!!!:wacko: :unsure:

Finished Memoirs of a Geisha, and would fully recommend it.
I don't normally go for these kind of books, I'm more a crime/horror person, but I really enjoyed this one.

Not sure what to go for now though, I'm having a bit of a break from books for a few weeks and sit there with my puzzler book instead whilst having a fag
:pimp:

do you like Dean koontz then Andrea? He's kinda a bit of both....

Just started Volocity by him. The tag line is:

'If you don't take this note to the police I will KILL a lovely blonde schoolteacher somewhere in Napa County......If you don't take this note to the police I will insteac KILL an elderly woman active in charity work.

You have six hours to decide. The choice is yours..............'


eeewwwwoooooh!!!:huh:

Yeh TE, I've read quite alot of Dean Koontz.

I read a load of his for a while but I think you need a break from him every now and then because they can be very similar.

Although I've not read any of his for ages, and I did see the one you are talking about on the book shelves, so I may go and get that one.

Good lord, my book groups next book is entitled:

'A short history of tractors in Ukranian' by Marina Lewycka - HELP I am drowning.... glug, glug, glug ... do I have to???:(

'A short history of tractors in Ukranian' by Marina Lewycka - HELP I am drowning.... glug, glug, glug ... do I have to???:(


:shocking: :wacko: :shocking:

Here you go Flip, just to get you started...

http://cla.calpoly.edu/~lcall/213/tractors.jpg

Andrea - THANKS MATE!!!!:huh:

I don't know whether to larf:laugh: or cry:(???

Ruby Wax - autobiog :ohmy:

Riven Rock - TC Boyle - weird and weird

and dipping in and out of A thousand pieces of gold ~ Adeline Yen Mah

- yep I always have several on the go :blink:

I'm reading Ray Davies unofficial autobiography.

I think i will need to take more drugs to get the full impact ... someone pass the suppositories....

Went to a bookshop today but couldn't remember the name of the book or the author that I wanted to buy.
How dumb was I trying to explain to the assistant what I wanted and she had no idea what I was on about.
Bought the new Dean Koontz book instead.

Note to self, remember to write down author and title before going to the shop:wallbash:

Ruby Wax - autobiog :ohmy:

Riven Rock - TC Boyle - weird and weird

and dipping in and out of A thousand pieces of gold ~ Adeline Yen Mah

- yep I always have several on the go :blink:

My husband does this - I can't. I can only read one a time, one set of characters filling my mind, meeting the other ones that are there already.

Would like to read Ruby Wax though - didn't she have quite a sad time with her parents.

I've just started Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, its about an hermaphrodite. Very promising so far.

Excellent book, I recommend.

IOW it mentioned the phrase 'Carpet Munchers', took me a while - but I got there.:shutup:

Not sure what to read now, I've been on a bit of a roll with reading recently. Will have a peruse on my bookshelf before bedtime - my brother bought down a load of his recently so have plenty to choose from.

I finished reading Angels and Demons by Dan Brown yesterday and enjoyed it much more than the Da Vinci Code. I'm now reading one of Danielle Steels latest, Toxic Batchelors.

I I'm now reading one of Danielle Steels latest, Toxic Batchelors.


Ohhh I used to read lots of hers, but started to find them all a bit depressing......

Have just finished "A Whole New World" by Jordan, and..............I hate to admit it, I really have grown to like her :huh: over the last few months......

before that it was Aggressor by Andy McNab (I fancy Nick Stone his lead character, you know what I mean girls, remember Rupert Campbell-Black in all the Jilly Coopers :wub: )

Am now reading a book about my beloved Pink Floyd which is about the making of The Wall and is in their words and mixed with some press reports, also has a couple of DVD's with it, my mate Blondie bought it for me......

when that is finished I have a few autobiographies to get through, starting with Paula Yates, then it will be Dolly and then Barry White..........:)

Have just finished "A Whole New World" by Jordan, and..............I hate to admit it, I really have grown to like her :huh: over the last few months......



I'm just reading one of Jordan's autobiographies! notsure what it's called, but yes I rather like her too, Isis! just wish she didn't seem like such a hard-faced cow in real life!

I'm just reading one of Jordan's autobiographies! notsure what it's called, but yes I rather like her too, Isis! just wish she didn't seem like such a hard-faced cow in real life!

Is it before Pete or since she met him - the 1st one is "Being Jordan" I think, I read that last year! And yep I know what you mean when you say about her being hard faced, cos when you read the 2nd book you see what a great and loving mother she is and how much she has to deal with, with Harvey and his medical problems........

As it is in Heaven; Niall Williams.

A love story with a difference, it really is written rather well.

I'm noe reading Forever Odd , the sequel to Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz.
If you haven't read Odd Thomas then READ IT! It's good.

I've got 3 Michael Connelly's and a Dianna Gabaldon going...it's a wonder I can keep them straight BUT I do b/c I'm TALENTED at multi-tasking...or I could just be finicky...:huh:

Well...I got a giftcard for Bookland for my b/d and went in and found "Witch Hunt" by Ian Rankin!!:applause: So add that to all of my OTHER books I'm reading!!:book:

Just finished The First Casualty - Ben Elton. Just could not keep Col. Melchet, Capt. Darling et al out of the 'voices' - was an okayish two nighter read, but didn't really do it for me.

:bored:

Just finished The First Casualty - Ben Elton. Just could not keep Col. Melchet, Capt. Darling et al out of the 'voices' - was an okayish two nighter read, but didn't really do it for me.

:bored:

Quite suprised here Stench Bomb. I have read most of his others...Popcorn, Inconceivable, Post Mortem..did you enjoy these - I did.

I especially enjoyed learning the terminogy Fisting, I can't boil potatoes without wincing anymore.

Have really enjoyed all the other books of his I've read ... but felt that First Casualty was 'rushed' ... some fine descriptive prose spoilt with character daring-do. Maybe because I've enjoyed the rest of his books I expected a tad more.



It's no Birdsong (Sebastion Faulks- haunting read - throughly recommend)

I have just started reading Germaine Greer - The Female Eunuch, it's bloody hilirious, i tell you if i had read this book when i was in my 20's i would never have got married and had children.

I know i`m probably one of the few people in the country who hasn`t read it but i`ve just started The Da Vinci Code

I've just bought 'The World according to Clarkson'

Jeremy Clarkson, that is.

It's no Birdsong (Sebastion Faulks- haunting read - throughly recommend)

Oh Smelly...goose bumps on arms....this is my most favourite/haunting read - it really blew me away. No book has ever made me feel so bereft of hope for those poor sods, SF put it into words that you took into your soul.

I have just lent this to a colleagues husband who used to work down the mines oop north for 40 odd years to see how well it describes that feeling.

She came in this week and said he was enjoying the fruity bit - had forgotten about the beginning, but its essential isn't it - the heightening to the dulling of emotions.

Excellent book.

Have you read Charlotte Gray and The Girl from the Lion D'or. Theyre all part of a trillogy. Birdsong - CG - GLD

I have just started The Undergroundman by Mick Jackson.


The opening page starts thus:

I have no idea how an apple tree works. The quiet machine beneath the bark is quite beyond my ken. but, like the next man long, I find Imagination always willing to leap into Ignorances's breach.....

The tree roots, I imagine, play a major part - managing somehow to soak up the richness of the earth. I picture this richness drawn slowly up the trunk, pumped out along every branch.

No doubt the sun and rain are also invovled, their warmth and moisture in some way being essential to the constitution of the tree. But how the richness of the earth, the sun and the rain come together to produce (i) a perfect blossom, then (ii) a small apple-bud - well, that remains a mystery to me"


Wunderbar!

I am reading Andy Warhol's Diary's book at the moment, it will probably take me a while as it is thick book, i love reading abot Studio 54, and what a mad bitchy world he lived in. good book though.

I have just started The Undergroundman by Mick Jackson.


The opening page starts thus:

I have no idea how an apple tree works. The quiet machine beneath the bark is quite beyond my ken. but, like the next man long, I find Imagination always willing to leap into Ignorances's breach.....

The tree roots, I imagine, play a major part - managing somehow to soak up the richness of the earth. I picture this richness drawn slowly up the trunk, pumped out along every branch.

No doubt the sun and rain are also invovled, their warmth and moisture in some way being essential to the constitution of the tree. But how the richness of the earth, the sun and the rain come together to produce (i) a perfect blossom, then (ii) a small apple-bud - well, that remains a mystery to me"


Wunderbar!

I took your recommendation on the book about 'Memoirs of a Gesha' and loved that, but somehow, this book I'm not so sure:unsure:

Actually, edited to say, I come in here to look for recommendations of books when I want to read something, it introduces me to books that I probably wouldn't even look twice at.
But I'm still not sure about the mysteries of apple trees:unsure:

I took your recommendation on the book about 'Memoirs of a Gesha' and loved that, but somehow, this book I'm not so sure:unsure:

Actually, edited to say, I come in here to look for recommendations of books when I want to read something, it introduces me to books that I probably wouldn't even look twice at.
But I'm still not sure about the mysteries of apple trees:unsure:


Its more of a fairy tale, you have to let you mind just go with it. Its funny yet sad. I am still reading and enjoying a lot. Yes.

The Saint Around the World by Leslie Charteris

I have'nt read a Saint book for a long time - but I'm really enjoying this!

Rob, aren't these types of books fun! I'm a closet fan of Agatha Christie, especially the earlier ones.

Looks like you're out of the closet now!

I haven't read Agatha Christie in ages - maybe it's time I dug out some of her books!

I agree about these books being fun - too many people get po faced about books these days. Reading should be about enjoyment - full stop!

Remember Dickens wrote for the masses!

Just like Dick Francis :bag:

Truly out of the closet

Anderson Cooper's bio "Dispatches from the Edge"...he's a CNN Reporter (has his own show "Anderson Cooper 360", he's Gloria Vanderbilt's and Wyatt Cooper's son, Wyatt Cooper was born and raised in Quitman, MS, where I was born and where my Granny and G'Pa lived, and I have an Uncle, Aunt, and some cousins.
It's really good as he dicusses how he's been affected by Irag and Katrina and the suicide of his brother in alternating passages and they kinda relate.

The next book that I'm reading in tandem is a book that just came out about Hurricane Camille in 1969 (the first one I remember...I was 4) and they have some parrallels to Katrina but it was in production before Katrina hit and it doesn't relate but 1 chapeter to Katrina as an addendum to point out that the MS Coast was decimated once and came back and will return again. It also show's the tracking of the two storms on 12 hour periods and they actually overlap 2x!:shocking: I'm waiting for the library to call me with a book called "The Great Deluge: The Drowning of New Orleans" that goes into all the 'truth' and 'bs' of what REALLY went on during the days and weeks that followed with actual records, letters, e-mails, reports, etc. Both of these books were excerted in 'Vanity Fair' last month and I found both very intrigueing!! PLUS, they are subjects 'in my neck of the woods'.:bag:

I've started reading a book called "The Last Templar"
I'm quite interested in the 'Templers' as my dad is in one of the masonic Templar lodges and I always wonder what they get up to behind closed doors:w00t:

But actually it's reading very similar to the DaVinci Code.

A cipher machine, someone wanting it, the church wanting it, an FBI agent following the case with a pretty woman archeologist thrown in there for good measure.

It's a decent read at the moment though.

I've started reading a book called "The Last Templar"
I'm quite interested in the 'Templers' as my dad is in one of the masonic Templar lodges and I always wonder what they get up to behind closed doors:w00t:

But actually it's reading very similar to the DaVinci Code.

A cipher machine, someone wanting it, the church wanting it, an FBI agent following the case with a pretty woman archeologist thrown in there for good measure.

It's a decent read at the moment though.


OMG...I just got this book as well...are you stalking me Andrea??:huh:

We both must just have such good taste.:w00t:

Well, of course I TOTALLY agree!!:w00t:

Hey you two! You are soooooooooooooooooooo last season.
Myself and Isis read this AGES ago...we are way way back up the list somewhere! Boast.
Isn't it a FANTASTIC opening seen tho'....the horsemen?

Just finished "Category 5: The Story of Hurricane Camille". I was 4 when this hit and remember it well. The book was very informative and good!! Now I'm on 'The Great Deluge' by Douglas Brinkley about all the misfortune and stupidity surrounding Hurricane Katrina...and I'm still dipping into my other books, put these were library books and I MUST get them fininshed and get the hurricanes out of my system...but not the liquid ones that go down so easy and make for a pleasant evening....:yahoo:

I've started reading a book called "The Last Templar"
I'm quite interested in the 'Templers' as my dad is in one of the masonic Templar lodges and I always wonder what they get up to behind closed doors:w00t:

But actually it's reading very similar to the DaVinci Code.

A cipher machine, someone wanting it, the church wanting it, an FBI agent following the case with a pretty woman archeologist thrown in there for good measure.

It's a decent read at the moment though.

BRILLIANT BOOK!!!!!! I read it when I was in hospital last year, its one I bought Ma for her birthday last year.........

I LOVED the ending and it summed up just how I feel about all the religion malarkey.......you will LOVE it girls!!!! Cant wait to discuss it with you all!!!!!

I am reading and enjoying every rootin tootin page...... Dolly Partons biography.................its a great read and I just luuuurve her more for reading it, so much so, I have asked the same friend who leant it to me to sort me some of her music out too......I only really know Islands in the Stream as its one my mate used to play to me and Mr I saying she thought of us every time she heard it.....awwww aint that the sweetest thang ever.....

I'm reading, and have been since Christmas, 'Bleak House'. I only read about 3 or 4 pages at a time, usually when I'm doing a 3 or 4.:whistling:

I'm reading, and have been since Christmas, 'Bleak House'. I only read about 3 or 4 pages at a time, usually when I'm doing a 3 or 4.:whistling:

Its not the most heartwarming read is it Max :shocking:

Give in and find a racy chick lit novel..................its summer!!!!!!!

Its not the most heartwarming read is it Max :shocking:

Give in and find a racy chick lit novel..................its summer!!!!!!!

I can't, I'm nearly there. I just want to finish it before my hols so I don't have to take it with me - it's blumming heavy.

I can't, I'm nearly there. I just want to finish it before my hols so I don't have to take it with me - it's blumming heavy.

Aww bless ya, you will have to make sure what you take on hols is extra racy then hunnie!!!! Jilly Cooper has a new one out!

I can't, I'm nearly there. I just want to finish it before my hols so I don't have to take it with me - it's blumming heavy.

that's the last time I try to cuturalise you for Christmas! :angry:

I've just read Cybill Shepherd's autobiography which had the words "alarmingly frank" on the cover ... well it aint! it's quite boring and it's only after reading it that you realise what a medicore actress she must have been (Cybill the series aside).

Just like Dick Francis :bag:

Truly out of the closet

I'm a secret Jean Plaidy admirer!

that's me out of the literature snob gang now!!

Im reading a book that came free with a magazine i bought this afternoon.

Its about prostitutes .... and its a little kinky :shocking: Im enjoying it though :blush:

Im reading a book that came free with a magazine i bought this afternoon.

Its about prostitutes .... and its a little kinky :shocking: Im enjoying it though :blush:

Its not "Confessions of a Manhattan Call Girl" is it?

Its not "Confessions of a Manhattan Call Girl" is it?

No i dont think so (i cant check as the book is outside and im inside) - but i think its written by the same author.

Finished a brilliant book called The Kite Runner about 2 boys growing up in Afganistan before the war, I would recommend this one!

Read Labyrinth on my hols and another brilliant read, really enjoyed it and despite it being 700 pages long I finished it in the week.

Have started The Pact by Jodi Piccoult.

Finished a brilliant book called The Kite Runner about 2 boys growing up in Afganistan before the war, I would recommend this one!

Read Labyrinth on my hols and another brilliant read, really enjoyed it and despite it being 700 pages long I finished it in the week.


I have read both those books and I agree - I thought they were both superb. Especially Kite Runner.

I have read both those books and I agree - I thought they were both superb. Especially Kite Runner.

Have to say that when this one was suggested for our Book Club, I didn't really rate it much but I really enjoyed it, in fact it's one of the best books I have read in a long time. It was a very emotional book and quite sad to think that Afganistan was once a happy place.....shame that we have grown up to see only as war-torn and a breeding ground for terrorists.

got through with the hurricane books and am now reading a book started by Michael McDowell, who then died and Tabitha King (wife of Stephen King) who finished the book. Tabitha King is an awesome and overlooked writer.

Its not "Confessions of a Manhattan Call Girl" is it?

Oooooo I got that free last week with a mag and it was on my "wish list" along with another of the same authors (cant recall the title :blush: but its similar and both were reviewed in a mag I read)

Im now reading The Man Who Makes Husbands Jealous by Jilly Cooper - for the 3rd or 4th time, why? cos its summer!!!!!!!

The Fall of Berlin - Antony Beevor

Excellent.

What with all the hype surrounding the Ozone and sh*t, i thought now would be an apt time to pick up a book i purchased in about 1994 titled 'Portent' (authored or authorized...or just plain written by James Herbert)

I think I've got as far as the cHAPTER tHREE (oops!! - looks like i may have caught Coastie's disease) on about three separate ocasions (oops!! - looks like i may have caught 'Sippy's disease).

I havernt red a buck in agies, butt ime knot to shore its had mutch iffect on me...:smartie: :unsure:

You almost made it WS...but I think I may have to get the shovel and lime and stuff loaded up again...tsk, tsk, tsk...:huh:



You need to figure out a way to get one of these on your side...:surrender:, and F-A-S-T!!! Honeychile...you REALLY need to figure out and quickly!!

I know what you could use that shovel for...:boxing:








...:pooh: (...and it's your mess not mine) :wave:

i am reading and enjoying - Village People by Paula Yates, it's really funny a good Summer read.

We had our book group last night and the chosen book for this month's read is going to be "The Catcher in The Rye".

I know this is a classic book but I haven't read it, so looking forward to reading it.............when I get it that it, think I may try the library, they are sure to have a copy!

We had our book group last night and the chosen book for this month's read is going to be "The Catcher in The Rye".

I know this is a classic book but I haven't read it, so looking forward to reading it.............when I get it that it, think I may try the library, they are sure to have a copy!


It's a good book Bella, i had to read it a few times though to understand it properly. hope you enjoy it.

Im currently reading 'The Line of Beauty' which was made into a TV adaptation.

It ok, although im finding it a little boring. I knew it was about a main character who was gay and living in the decadent 80's - but i wanted to learn more about the excesses of 80's living rather than man on man sh*gging :huh:

Im currently reading 'The Line of Beauty' which was made into a TV adaptation.

It ok, although im finding it a little boring. I knew it was about a main character who was gay and living in the decadent 80's - but i wanted to learn more about the excesses of 80's living rather than man on man sh*gging :huh:

Bonnie, I started to watch this when it was on and that is mostly what happened!

Bonnie, I started to watch this when it was on and that is mostly what happened!

Oh :unsure: I did want to watch the drama on TV, but i missed it - so i thought i would read the book.

Personally i wish i had saved my £6.99 :glare:

I didn't watch the second half on the programme when it was on Bonnie, I found it quite slow and uninteresting hope you have better luck with the book.

Just finished Catcher in the Rye, can't believe this book was banned in the States - I didn't find it controversial at all but maybe when it was written in the 50's it was deemed as being a bit OTT. I did enjoy it though and found myself really liking Holden Caulfied and agreed with a lot of things that he came up against. Felt a bit sorry for him and he was clearly misunderstood!

I am going to read another classic next Lord of the Flies just as soon as I finish decorating the house!

I've just started Book Lover by Jennifer kaufman and Karen Mack. According to Heat it's chick lit for educated birds, hence my purchase :laugh: .

Haven't had a chance to get into it yet though.

I am reading The Take by Martina Cole. Mr M works in the returns dept of the book firm where I run the canteen and gets all the gash books he wants. Normally apart from the Dummies range I am not interested in any of the books as they are university type stuff although I do have a nice surgeons book that I look at if anyone I know is having an op

Last week they had a box of books in and the Martina Cole and some others were amongst the boring books and he was told to dump them so that is how I came by it.

I have read a lot of her books but they seem to be getting a bit samey, still I must like the format cos I have nearly finished it and only started it yesterday, on page 425 out of 505. I treated myself to a whole afternoon and evening of reading.

oh just bought 'The Take' maz, have you finished it and was it any good? Didn't read much of the blurb but it's kinda about east end villains isn't it?

Yes I have finished it I and yes I did enjoy it. I sat up till gone midnight and was knackered this morning.

It is a tale more of the families of the gangs rather than gangland warfare, I have read most of her books and enjoyed them but its a bit like listening to a CD of one artist I prefer a mix of things so I leave a long gap in between reading her books.

At the Mo i'm reading William S Burroughs Jr's book Speed/Kentucky Ham, it's very good in a drug orientated way, he was obviously drugged out of his tiny mind when he wrote it?

But it's an interesting read.

I've just ordered from the States "The shory unhappy life of William S Burroughs Jr" and can't wait to read it, i can't find out anything about him on the web.

I loved Naked Lunch, but it isn't a comfortable read. Just Google William Burroughs Bridge, there's a load of stuff about him.....:thumbsup:

I started reading "The Constant Gardener" on holiday and it looks quite good. Trouble is, now I'm back I probably won't finish it.

Should I bother?

Anybody read Peter Robinson?? Our bookstore had by 5 paperbacks for the
price of 4, and they looked VEDDY INTERESTING!! He also got a good recommend by Stephen King...can't go wrong there. I got: "Playing With Fire", "Close To Home", "Blood At The Root", "Gallows View", and "In A Dry Season". Anyone that has read any of these or others by him, pitch in with a review/commentary!! :book: :nerd: :applause:

Does he write the Inspector Banks books? I think I have a couple, but I can't remember which ones.

I've just started Book Lover by Jennifer kaufman and Karen Mack. According to Heat it's chick lit for educated birds, hence my purchase :laugh: .

Haven't had a chance to get into it yet though.

Just finished this and I was a bit diappointed. Basically it's your standard chick lit fare, with a lot of literary references and quotes thrown in, seemingly to either:

a) make thick people feel not so thick, by letting them think they're reading a 'proper' book, or

b) patronise the hell out of everyone else. Or maybe

c) do awful name-dropping showing off thing that bookish people do, to impress their friends by how well-read they are.

Whichever it was, the plot was weak, the characterisation uninspiring and the prose laboured.

I'll be sticking with Shopaholic :sun:

I've just read Extreme by Sharon Osbourne. I have to say I enjoyed it too. It only took me about four sessions to read it so it must have been good.

I still don't think she's a likeable woman but she is an interesting one.

Yes Dear Feef...Inspector Banks. I've started "Blood At The Root", so far I like him. He could help me heal my Rebus withdrawal...have y'all heard ANYTHING about the last Rebus installment?? Why can't Rebus be a Police counsultant...or a Private Eye...or sumpin'????:unsure: :sad:

I have just finished reading Dead Famous by Ben Elton. I don't know if it has been discussed on here before as there are too many posts to look back on.

I thought it was a good read and got through it in a day. Its about a murder in a Big Brother type house so was quite a topical read.

Has anyone else read it?

I read it a couple of years ago Maz, wasn't that impressed to be honest. I find it hard to disassociate Ben Elton's character from his books, so I found it all a bit sneery and snide, in that it clearly criticises the whole reality TV genre, but at the same time markets the books at those people who will enjoy reality tv.

Reading a huge tome called The Sword of Shannara Trilogy. Not too bad, but in the first book, I did wonder if the writer simply got the text from LoTR and replaced some key words, like The One Ring with The Sword of Shannara or Frodo with Shea, it really was that similar.

I'm about a quarter of the way through the second of the three books and so far the quality of the writing is a definate improvement and moves at a much faster pace.

As with most of these books the formula is basically the same; World is in peril, old codger finds someone young (and nubile...or is that just me) to go off on a bloody long journey that means certain death. Against the odds, the young, fit nubile and looking good in a spandex (again, this may be me reading too much in to the text) hero succeeds where any other spandex wearing hero would have failed, and the World is safe once again, phew! Until I presume book 3, when evil will once again rear it's ugly head. Talking of which why should evil always have an ugly head? Bet his mother still loves him. :confused:

I have just finished reading Dead Famous by Ben Elton. I don't know if it has been discussed on here before as there are too many posts to look back on.

I thought it was a good read and got through it in a day. Its about a murder in a Big Brother type house so was quite a topical read.

Has anyone else read it?
I really like this book, I've read it a few times. I don't mind Ben Elton Floops, but I understand how you can find it hard to read it without prejudice, it's hard when you "know" and don't like the writer

I am trying to read Lord of the Flies at the moment but finding it a bit hard to get into but I am going to stick with it.

Our Book Club choice for this month is That Old Ace in The Hole written by Annie Proulx who also wrote The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain - anyone read of her books?

I've just started Watership Down.

I loved Naked Lunch, but it isn't a comfortable read. Just Google William Burroughs Bridge, there's a load of stuff about him.....:thumbsup:


Cheers Tig's

I am really struggling to read at the moment, I have mountains of books that people have been kind enough to buy me as well as the load i bought in a few charity shops, but I just cant seem to get stuck in to any at the moment.....and Im such an avid reader usually......must be the medication :blink: - thats my excuse for everything else :blush:

I loved Naked Lunch, but it isn't a comfortable read. Just Google William Burroughs Bridge, there's a load of stuff about him.....:thumbsup:

I have read Naked Lunch, i struggled with it and it was a bit shocking.

Have you read Jack Kerouc's "On the Road" Tigereye? now that book i loved.

I remember starting it about thirty years ago Bridge,
[oh god, I'm depressed now!:( ] but at 14 I reckon I just 'didn't get it, man'.

I spotted a copy in a box of books in the shed though, so might ressurect it and give it a lash, as they say....

I am really struggling to read at the moment, I have mountains of books that people have been kind enough to buy me as well as the load i bought in a few charity shops, but I just cant seem to get stuck in to any at the moment.....and Im such an avid reader usually......must be the medication :blink: - thats my excuse for everything else :blush:


Isis, I usually go lay down and read AFTER taking my meds at night and find myself 1)not getting hardly a thing read and 2)falling asleep, hubby having to remove my reading glasses, etc. So, I read during my class' naptime and get SO much more read and understood. 'Course, I know you're in a different sitch with having just had the surgery and having to take the pain meds and all. Good Luck Sweetie...I'm thinking about you and sending good vibes.

Nocturne by Graham Hurley

Basic plot: Young woman lands job with small TV company and moves to a small flat in London. Her upstairs neighbour is a bit of a nutter and her married boss fancies the pants off her.

I am really enjoying this...it doesn't shock or surprise but has a really good story telling flow making it so I actually care about the characters.

I am also kinda reading 'Inherit the skies' by Mama Coastie...well at least the author shares the same name anyway...it's kinda cheesy but keeps me hooked.:nerd:

Anybody read Peter Robinson?? Our bookstore had by 5 paperbacks for the
price of 4, and they looked VEDDY INTERESTING!! He also got a good recommend by Stephen King...can't go wrong there. I got: "Playing With Fire", "Close To Home", "Blood At The Root", "Gallows View", and "In A Dry Season". Anyone that has read any of these or others by him, pitch in with a review/commentary!! :book: :nerd: :applause:

Funnily enough I'm reading one of his just now - Wednesday's Child. I've read quite a few of his and enjoyed them.

A word of warning - you can often get the books as - one book two novels - if you know what I mean - but they are not always in the correct order - for example I got Strange Affair/Play with Fire - the first book was written later than the second - and totally gave away the plot of it - I was BUGGED!!!

Im currently reading 'The Line of Beauty' which was made into a TV adaptation.

It ok, although im finding it a little boring. I knew it was about a main character who was gay and living in the decadent 80's - but i wanted to learn more about the excesses of 80's living rather than man on man sh*gging :huh:

Im still trying to read this book. Do you think I should give up ???

Its one of those books that you really struggle to pick up, and then you read a few pages, get distracted and put it down again.

Just about to start reading: Bare Bones - Kathy Reich - this will be my first experience of her books but apparently she's pretty good!

A few of us at work have decided to set up a book lending club...(we will not be swapping books as some of us are too over protective and can't let our books go so we will want them back) - we shall be sharing our book shelves with each other which is great since quite a few of us have a similar taste in books! :w00t:

I'm like you Coastie...I have to know people, have background and credit checks before lending a book to someone. I have lent a few I haven't gotten returned and they like lost parts of me...:unsure:

One of my friends used to keep her books in absolutely pristine condition, no bent spines etc and would put in in a plastic bag inside her handbag. Surprisingly 99% of the time she offered to lend me books I declined :D

I'm trying to read Miss Smilias Feeling for Snow, but not getting very far... am finding it hard to concentrate.

I'm reading Peter Kay's biography - it's very funny and has made me snigger a few times and I haven't even read the first chapter!

although he does seem to have been a bit of a geek in his younger days, obsessively taping tv programmes etc ... a marvellous man with a marvellous brain for humour!

One of my friends used to keep her books in absolutely pristine condition, no bent spines etc and would put in in a plastic bag inside her handbag. Surprisingly 99% of the time she offered to lend me books I declined :D

I'm trying to read Miss Smilias Feeling for Snow, but not getting very far... am finding it hard to concentrate.

I hate bending spines on books...people yes books know!

I'm still on my Peter Robinson series, but I got a book called "Good Karma: How To Find It And Keep It" by Joan Duncan Oliver. It's been interesting so far...I swap between the Robinson's to it, and back again. I'll let you know how 'enlightened' I am by the end.

I've never read anything by Charles Dickens for pleasure - so I'm reading "The Pickwick Papers" - and enjoying it!!

I know it's weird but i like reading manga books. Not so heavy on the reading bit but the stories are great!!!

I'm currently reading an inspiring true story called:

Holding On - by Jo Gambi

She and her husband were the first ever couple to complete the seven summits challenge (climbing the highest peaks of the seven continents). The amazing thing is he began completing the challenge a mere two years after recovering from cancer the second time! :wacko:

I'm really enjoying it!:)


I recently finished a hillariously funny true story called:

The Good Life - Up the Yukon Without a Paddle - by Dorien Amos

Dorien and his wife decided to up sticks from Cornwall one day and set off on a grand adventure and new life in the Yukon territories of Canada. The book tells of their trials and tribulations as they perform their venture with little money and very little knowledge of what to expect.

It's a laugh a minute and I would highly recommend it. :thumbsup:

I am in the middle of Rupert Everetts biography Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins, its pretty good actually, I really like him.....

I have got Paula Yates' to read next and I bought some "chick lit" in Waterstones last week ready to take on my jollies at the end of June....

Recently read The Templar Legacy and I cant remember who wrote it some New York journo, but its along the lines of The Last Templar, Da Vinci Code and Labyrinth.......

Ooo Isis - I think Ruperts lovely!

I watched him film a pilot for a TV show in the States called 'The Ambassador' with Derek Jacobi...it was hilarious and he was particularly good...never did find out if they went on to produce the whole series! MsG or IM any info?? :huh:

I'm reading local author - Graham Hurley again at the mo...he writes crime thrillers set in Pompey! They not bad...although I think I could do better:whistling:

Just had a local author visit work for some research for his next book...it was fab chatting to him :)

I am in the middle of reading "The Historian" by Elizabeth Kostova.

Its a vampire story essentially, which sn't my usual genre. but is littered with genuine historical facts about Vald Trepes (Vlad the Impaler).

Its keeping me, this book. Its a bit slow in parts, but the good bits keep you interested.

I don't know that I'd gush about it, but its certainly whiled away the time on a holiday sun longer and a good few tube journeys.

I've never been all torn up over the Civil War, but I do love history (hence my dipping back and forth into the Dianna Gabaldon books), but I've come accross this book called "The Widow of the South" by Robert Hicks and it is labled as historical fiction and I just love it!! It's kinda like "Cold Mountain" by Charles Frazier...just a really good read!! Not that kind of deep reading out there that often.:sun:

im reading..........

Chakra Clearing: Awakening Your Spiritual Power to Know and Heal by Doreen Virtue

so now you will all think i have lost the plot :huh: :laugh:

so now you will all think i have lost the plot :huh: :laugh:

Didn't most of us think that already...or was I ahead of the game for a change? :huh:


T-he :laugh: