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:confused:Having waited so long for it's publication, I have just finished James Herbert's 'Ash', and to be honest I found it quite disappointing. Having been a long time fan of Herbert's books, and been suitably impressed by most, I found this one to lack the punch that he usually achieves in his novels. Would be interested to hear other opinions.

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Th'Hobbit by that Tolkien fella

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"Man walks into a pub" a sociable history of Beer by Pete Brown, lots of trivia & anecdotes relating to the amber nectar & it's position in our society from early doors through to modern day. It's a recent reprint (second edition) so a bit more in than first time round, lots of manageable chunks so can be picked up & read as & when. :D

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Re-listening to Swan Song by Robert McCammon

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I have to get this one ... sounds like a great read.

Oh ... Man with a toad sitting on his head walks into a pub. The bartender looks at him and says, "What the hell happened"? "I have no idea," says the toad; "it started out as a wart on my ass.";)

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"Get Those Sheep Off The Pitch" by Phil Staley - Memoirs of non-league football

Best read ever

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Good man Eric, as a connysewer of the Ale, you'll appreciate it. ;) :)

Man Walks Into A Pub: A Sociable History of Beer Fully Updated Second Edition: Amazon.co.uk: Pete Brown: Books

have a look inside & see.

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Just started on the Complete Sherlock Holmes Stories (4 novels, 56 short stories) on my kindle. Hoping to have finished by Christmas! ;)

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Just finished those. Cassic.

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The Autobiography Of A Thief, Bruce Reynolds at the moment cracking insight.

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My favourite ever set of stories, absolutely classic.

If you ever get the chance look out for the Peter Cushing BBC adaptations. Only four or five stories survive in the archives but he is my definitive Holmes.

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My husband had a few of the old Basil Rathbone films in black and white stored on our Sky + box.
I hated them with a passion. Recently we had some problems with the box, I had to call Sky and the only thing that would rectify the problem was a total reboot.....this meant he would lose all these favourite films.........Awwwwwwww, how sad I was(NOT).......I watched as the box erased all those hideous films and I rubbed my hands with glee!
Every cloud has a silver lining.:D

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This is one of those occasions when I wholeheartedly agree with you, Ken! ;) First read 'em about 40 years ago, so I'm on a voyage of rediscovery now.

Never seen the Peter Cushing Holmes, so I'll watch out for them. Funnily enough, I've been watching the Basil Rathbone ones over the last couple of weeks. Obviously a lot of the tales aren't the original ones and they're in a 1940's setting, but I reckon Basil Rathbone plays a great Holmes.

Thanks for the heads up.

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Oh...please don't tell me they are showing these films again:(

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The Basil Rathbone ones? No, I've bought a DVD of them, Margaret. I take it they're not your cup of tea?

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Dean koontz. 77 Shadow st. Going to be followed by Jimmy the Weed, my time in the quality street gang.

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Basil Rathbone was always me favourite Sherlock.

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Thank goodness for that.......I was going to have to engineer anothe box fault and wipe the disc again. I hate 'em with a passion......well, perhaps not quite as much as the EU...but nearly!

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We'll have to agree to disagree on that one!

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I think Margaret likes the films from her youth, i.e. in black and white and silent!

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The Cushing episodes were a 1960s BBC series which was incredibly made in colour but unfortunately went the way of so much great TV in the mass wipings of the 1970s. Nigel Stock played Watson, the only other thing I remember seeing him in was Yes, Prime Minister as a rather starchy civil servant.

By far the pride of my collection is the complete radio series with Clive Merrison and Michael Williams, every single story and novel with the same lead actors. Again made by the BBC during the 80s and 90s and absolutely sublime. I think I paid £130 for all 64 discs and it was a steal.

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Sounds good, Ken, but I think that might have to go on the wish list! ;)

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"SUB" its about life on a British Trafalgar class Hunter killer Nuclear submarine

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"changeling" by morgan gallagher.... its not what i expected

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Reading Charles Dickens at the moment, Really enjoying his books. I use a Kindle which is brilliant. Most classics are free which makes it more attractive. So far I have covered Hard Times, Bleak House, Tale of Two Cities, The Old Curiosity Shop to name a few. I really enjoy Dickens.

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"Pies & prejudice - in search of the North" by Stuart Maconie, a northern lad looking to define what makes Northerners, Northerners, a light hearted look at the differences between us & them Southern Jessies & trying to understand where the North begins. :)

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He Was My Chief...........The memoirs of Adolf Hitlers Secretary. - Christa Schroeder. Was only published after her death in 1985, in German. Translated in 2009, n interesting read imho.

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I like reading about true crime. I read 'Goodbye, Dearest Holly' by Kevin Wells recently, as well as several books about Joseph Fritzel. I've not got stuck into a good book recently, house moves and other things have stopped me-I tend to gain knowledge via the internet, and when I moved I got rid of most of by books ( I HAD to hang onto 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists', as well as a couple of others, though)!
This thread has inspired me. I need to get stuck into a good book soon now things are settled :)

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Im hoping for more audiobooks by Robert Rankin. But since that isn't going to happen soon and that I have just found where I packed it when I moved...


Robert Rankin - Sex and Drugs and Sausage Rolls

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"no cry toddler sleep solution" hopefully encourage the small boy to sleep more than 5 hours a night!

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I like audiobooks. I find they cause me to get lost a lot, if I have them on whilst driving, though!

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Currently reading Alice's adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carol (sp?) on my android tablet

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just started hitchhikers guide to the galaxy read by stephen fry

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Thriller readers can't go wrong with Karen Rose.

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One of my 'birthday books' was -
Magnetic Reversals and Evolutionary Leaps/ The true Origin of Species - Robert W Felix.

I read half last night and it is like a crash course in paleontology.

The next half is an explanation of electromagnetic interaction between suns, moons and planets.

The basic theory is that Darwin was wrong,
'creationists' are wrong,
'ET interventionists' are wrong,
and evolution occurs rapidly linked to pole reversals (not just shifts).

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Just finished Robin Hobbs "Farseer trilogy", intrigue, double dealings, invading barbarians, swords & sorcery & all with a dollop of romance & loss lobbed in. :)

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61 hours - Lee Child

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Childs is very good Dave I take it, its a Jack Reacher story

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I'm halfway through You've been Warned by James Patterson, a bit different from his Alex Cross novels but quite entertaining

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Have 2 on the go at the moment -Edwardian Accrington Observed by Richard Crossley which Katex recommended and is a lovely read full detail about life in the town 100 years ago. The second book was a Xmas present and is a completely different genre. Derek J Ripley's "Tripe" book Forgotten Lancashire and parts of Cheshire and the Wirral, very tongue in cheek, high groan factor and some genuine laughs!

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I used to do something similar but we sent pound notes instead.:confused:

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For the third time "August 1914" by Solzhenitsyn. The tale of the incompetence and backwardness of the Russian military in the First World War. The author clearly loves his country and his people and gives a moving portrayal of the common soldier. On the officers and generals he is very hard and few can be said to have been either competent or honorable.

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Just started reading The Diary of Anne Frank on my IPad

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Well, at the moment I'm re-reading the foundation Isaac Asimov.

The thing is, never mind the twists and turns of the plot, it's the extra detail Authors put into each sentence that keeps us turning the pages, we all wish we could write a best seller, but how much imagination do we need to deserve to have it published?

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I've read The Diary of Anne Frank a couple of times and couldn't put it down. She was a really interesting girl and a very gifted diarist. Such a shame her story ended really sadly. Her father went on to marry again and also had her diaries published.

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Also, Wild Swans by Jung Chang is a really good read. It follows three generations of Chinese women through all the trials and tribulations of each. From concubine through to the cultural revolution to today. Quite a thick book but worth the effort.

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Nearly finished a book about the Enigma m/c and Bletchley park and code breaking
very interesting book

the next book I have planed to read is a history of the Vulcan bomber

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I remember reading this quite a while ago. Glad it is still giving pleasure to people.

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Have never read any of Asimov's books -not really a fan of Sci-Fi apart from John Wyndham which I read as a young teen. The Day of the Triffids, The Midwich Cuckoos and The Kraken Wakes come to mind as well as The Chrysallids...

More than imagination for getting published you need a lot of luck (as well as the inevitable "talent"). I have just finished a re-working of the first draft of my attempt at a novel.( Bear in mind the last piece of creative writing I did was in 1982 for my Gen. Studies A-level!) I started it in Jan 2012 and completed the first draft in Nov 2012. Left it to stew for a while and then went back over some bits and struggled to write a synopsis. I have had 7 refusals in the meantime -all very nice refusals though:rolleyes::p which is why I have done a bit of re-working before trying to send it out to another round of agents.

The imagination comes before the publishing stage in creating believable characters, describing their lives and actions and making everything fit together and tie up at the end in a satisfactory way. All the factual details have to be researched and checked -which takes as much time as the actual writing, and when you are making characters take part in real events, like two wars for example, you have to get it right!

My own story is set over 100 years from 1912-2012 and for 90% is set in the North of England -it starts off with a love story in Italy and also ends up back in Italy 100 years later. Probably not your genre Less as it is quite romantic! Accyweb actually features in the last chapter so if it ever does get published I hope it will sell well and give the forum some publicity!

Probably all "pie in the sky" - I'm not thinking that I have written a best-seller but it would be nice just to get it published. I would love to see it in print and not just on my computer screen anymore! (All 380 pages of it!)

It seems it is much easier to write a novel than to get it published.

Oh, to tie in with the thread properly what have I been reading recently? A manuscript by an "as yet" un-published author called "The Passion Flower" ! :)

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John Wyndham excellent, especially his short stories.
As for you, why not call a biography a biography?
Though I must admit, I didn't realise you were that old!

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As you probably know most first novels have a strong autobiographical bias...mine is not an exception to the rule;):D

I am however not quite as old as the (Pennine) hills...

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Perhaps not but do you have as many contour lines?
http://www.sherv.net/cm/emoticons/fi...cannonball.gif

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My inclines are gentle -they have to be seen to be believed.

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At last, a woman that allows us to climb to the pinnacle of her mound AND she keeps the light on!

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I am listening to the audio book Lycan Fallout by Mark Tufo

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Camp David - David Walliams....on mi electronic thingy

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Just read Twopence to cross the Mersey, Liverpool Miss and By the waters of Liverpool by Helen Forrester about a family torn from an upper middle class life in to absolute poverty in 1930's Liverpool. An autobiographical story, I couldn't put it down. Well worth reading though I don't know if it's still in print.

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Sounds good

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I've read those three Helen Forrister books too...great reads.

We are currently reading 'Forever Amber' in hardback, by Kathleen Winsor. I read it to hubby as our bedtime book before snuggling down for the night. This book is a classic, the first of the boddice-rippers piblished in 1946.

Hubby is reading a paperback Harry Bosch, the LA detective book by Michael Connelly called 'Lost Light', also an audio book by Eric Ambler called 'The Light of Day' which was made into the film 'Topkapi' starring Peter Ustinov. It's about the robbery of a Turkish Museum.

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Aspects of Accrington

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Tim 2 by Mark Tufo

Tim2 (Timothy #2) by Mark Tufo - Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists

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I'm reading Game of Thrones again , and a book about Celtic myths and legends , both very entertaining :)

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Just finished a great book called "The battle for the enigma"
It even shows all the calculations at the back of the book on how they broke the code

Now reading. Curious customs throughout the Country
Interesting and silly customs we did and still do