What Are You Reading?

[HayleyB]

I'm still waiting for then next Dean Koontz or Stephen King - didn't like the last one so much as I'm not a short story person.

Desperately hope Dick Francis does another one.

[SarzWix]

Oh, poor Dick Francis, his books seem to be very influenced by his son now, he's getting on a bit isn't he? I didn't really enjoy the last one I bought (the chef one). The earliest ones are the best I think.

[vikkib]

i read that book too.. awesome

did you know he wrote a sequel to it called "banco"

Thanks MG, I remember hearing about it but then promptly forgot all about it. Will have to track it down!

I'm at a loose end now because the next on the list is usually 'Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell' - Susannah Clarke

I bought this from Amazon ages ago as a holiday read... and in hard back too... only upon delivery did I decide it wasn't coming along for the ride! I had no idea how huge it was!

I keep meaning to getting round to read it but as I only make time to read on the train my eye is always drawn to a slightly smaller volume!

[SarzWix]

I bought this from Amazon ages ago as a holiday read... and in hard back too... only upon delivery did I decide it wasn't coming along for the ride! I had no idea how huge it was!

I keep meaning to getting round to read it but as I only make time to read on the train my eye is always drawn to a slightly smaller volume!

I got the paperback second time, it's very nearly as big It's definitely worth reading, but, it took me a little while to get into first time around - the magic in it is very different from any other book I've read. Once I got to grips with it I couldn't put it down!

[annacruachan]

Well, I've finished all the HP's again, I've read all Susan Cooper's again, all the Diana Wynne Jones... I'm at a loose end now because the next on the list is usually 'Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell' - Susannah Clarke and I've foolishly loaned it out again (this is the second one I've loaned out and not got back )
I'm not really in the mood for grown-up books at the mo, so that puts 3 massive book shelves out of bounds...

You could try Philip Pullman, Sarz - the Northern Lights Trilogy. Much better than the film version (The Golden Compass)

[vikkib]

You could try Philip Pullman, Sarz - the Northern Lights Trilogy. Much better than the film version (The Golden Compass)

I LOVE the His Dark Materials books! Probably read them once a year and I still cry at the end!

Another film I never want to see as I loved the books so much!

[Flummery]

I LOVE the His Dark Materials books! Probably read them once a year and I still cry at the end!

Another film I never want to see as I loved the books so much!

I love most of them but the bears get on me wick!

[Pumpkin Becki]

... and in hard back too... only upon delivery did I decide it wasn't coming along for the ride! I had no idea how huge it was!

I bought myself two Jane Austen trilogies in hardback, which was a huge mistake as I only tend to read in bed and have a nasty habit of nodding off...book falls on floor **CRASH** OH wakes up 'What the...!!'...consequently I don't read hardbacks in bed any more...

[SarzWix]

Another book NOT to read...

I've just finished ploughing through "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt, after it being pressed on me several times by a friend... Oh my word, it was hard work I still haven't managed to work out if it was set in the 60's or the 90's seems to be a mixture of both. About a clique of Ancient Greek students who committ a murder while trying to recreate some of the more bizarre Ancient Greek rituals, and how they try to cover it up. But none of the characters are particularly likeable, there's far too much Ancient Greek language and allusions in it, and it made my head hurt

[Hilary B]

I love a good detective story. Current favourites are set in Rome 1,97something years ago!

[allotmentlady]

I am reading Bill Clintons autobiography, interesting reading, god he was an interesting man...

[bluemoon]

I'm feeling a little under the weather, and after battling it for about ten days have finally given in and I'm going to have 48 hours where I do nothing except put my feet up, drink tea and read. I asked my friend to pop to Waterstones for me this lunchtime and she bought; 'Two Caravans' by Marina Lewycka (who wrote 'A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian', which I loved); 'A Spot of Bother' by Mark Haddon, (who also wrote 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime,') 'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt; 'The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters' by G.W. Dahlquist; 'Running With Scissors' by Augusten Burroughs and 'The Book of Lost Things' by John Connolly.
I've started with 'A Spot of Bother', simply because it was top of the pile.
As we always swap books she's confident in buying what I would like and tends to know what I've already read, though she does occasionally lose track, the book she sent round last night (Cloud Atlas) was one I'd originally lent her.

Another friend, who doesn't know me so well, lent me a book called 'Trust Me', by someone called Jeff Abbott, on Saturday night. The blurb on the back makes it sound like it's going to be a tight, intelligent, psychological thriller. Wrong, it's a piece of rubbish and the author is illiterate. I gave up a third of the way through when I came across a sentence which said (after someone had tried to shoot our hero) 'We had nearly gotten dead'. Our primary teacher wouldn't have stood for a sentence like that, so if 30 seven year olds are able to write something a little more literate, I'm sure a published author could manage it. To me it feels like a lack of respect for his potential readership.

[TEB]

I am reading Bill Clintons autobiography, interesting reading, god he was an interesting man...

"Was" is he dead then

[allotmentlady]

lol TEB...........i aint heard anything about him since the 'i did not have sexual relations with miss lewinsky'.

[Comfreyfan]

I love a good detective story. Current favourites are set in Rome 1,97something years ago!

Are those the Lyndsey Davies ones? - love 'em!!