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I dont know about anyone else but I'm now an avid book reader, the only thing is I had never read one book until I was 42 years old, some 18 years ago. Some times I can read as many as 3 books a week, horrer mystery been my my preferance. My favourites autjur is Dean Koontz, Steven King, James Herbert and James Patterson, In fact I have just finished my 47th Koontz offering and am just into Cat and Mouse by Paterson. Anyone else have the same tastes as me.

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Afraid not-i hate horror stuff,although i am an avid book reader.I like chick lit,autobiographies and shopping catalogues as my bedtime read:)I love it when i find a really good book that i cant put down.The latest one i found that was like that was Sandra Gregory's 'doing time in the bangkok hilton',it was an amazing read and then a short documentary was on channel 5 two days after i finished it so i was well happy :) i loved the book but i also was doing work experience at Cookham wood prison whilst she was there at the end of her sentence so i prob met her.

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Not into horror. I've got local politics to give me the willies instead.:D

However I am an avid reader, and like you if I find a good book read every single thing ever written by that author. Which is much easier if they are dead, and don't keep adding to their body of work.

Suprisingly most of my favourite authors are American, and include, James Baldwin, Truman Capote, Bret Easton Ellis, and Alice Walker.

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If you like a good mystery just try Dean Koontz Willow, not so much horrer but a guy with a very weird imagination, in fact in front of every book it says the he lives in Orange County with his wife and a very vivid imagination, I think you have something like 50 to choose from and they are a good read

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So whose willy are you after this time? :D

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Lorenna Bobbit's body of work is very inspirational...so watch out!

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I bloody love reading......:D

I am currently reading Martina Cole - Faceless...... I started reading this book because I borrowed A book from Tinks called Two women by the same author and couldn't put it down.

Other than that I like to read Virginia Andrews... my favourite being Flowers In The Attic of course.

Read All the Harry Potter books and am waiting patiently for the last book to be released :D

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I read allsorts! All different authors all different kinds of books. I normally have a couple of books on the go one upstairs and one downstairs. When i was a kid my mum used to take me to the library every week. I used to complain to the library assistants because a kid under the age 16 was only allowed to have 3 books and i wanted to take out 4. At the minute i've got Jilly Cooper's Wicked going downstairs and Tom Clancy's The teeth of the Tiger going upstairs. Dont like horror books that much. Liked Misery that was good but normally stay clear of them like i stay clear of horror movies. Like the Harry Potter books - i've got 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th - lent the 1st one to someone and never returned it. Cant wait for the 7th - whats going to happen - does Harry die? does Hermione & Ron finally get it together? Who knows until it does come out.

Jack Charlton's autobiography is a good one its funny especially when hes telling about his time with the irish team.

Virginia Andrews - read Flowers in the Attic in 5 hours - i couldnt put it down.

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Love reading to, always have, was reading Agatha Christie when I was 10. Just finished The Time Travellers wife by Audrey Niffenegger, it was fantastic. You really have to concentrate on it thpugh, its very complicated and took me a while to get my head round it. So am having a bit of light relief now and reading a trashy Jackie Collins.

Once read a James Patterson, very good, cant remember the name but it was about a girl who had wings.

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Basically I will have a go at reading anything, I prefer psychological thrillers, I've just read Blue Nowhere .... very scary ;) but an excellent read. Just started reading George Orwells 1984, it's ok it hasn't exactly gripped me. Virginia Andrews is also one of my favourite authors but I'm not so keen on the New Virginia Andrews books. Martina Cole, also an excellent read, as is, Patricia Cornwell. Another favourite is the criminal psychologist Paul Britton but he's only wrote 2 books Jigsaw Man and Picking Up The Pieces, if anyone has any interest in true life crimes these 2 are must read books :)

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Did you read them all though??

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Yes i did slinks - didnt like them as much as the first one though. I dont like the new Virginia Andrews books either. To me once a writer is dead or has stopped writing for any other reason then why try to copy that writer? You will never be as good/bad as that writer. You will have different styles of writing and its not the same.

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I thought the 1st & 2nd book were great, but the 3rd one was boring and hard to get into. And yes I agree that the New Virginia Andrews were deffo not as good.

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Think Accyweb should set up a book club! lol

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yeah good idea lol....... save a fortune on books.

I went to Iceland today ( shopping not the place) :D and they have Kerry catona's autobiography on sale there. I was tempted to buy it but didn't in the end.

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i belong to a website called readitswapit.com and its fab,when you have finished a book you put it on this site and others do the same,choose a book,request from other member and if they like a boo you have got you swap it-just have to pay the postage of your own book-its fab:)

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Couple of good books iv'e read lately are Cider With Roadies by Stuart Maconie,which tells of his early days in Wigan(seeing The Beatles at 3 years old!),through to his time as a music journalist with the New Musical Express & his time on the road with various bands.Something i could relate to as he's around my age and i used to read his work in the NME.At times it is extremely funny.The other book is The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon,wich is a kind of murder mystery but the narrator & detective is a 15 year old boy with Asperger's Syndrome (think Rain Man),it is both a sad and very funny,and has won several awards.On the subject of horror books,can anyone remember those you could buy in the 70's & 80's with several stories in one book?What were they called?:Banane18: :Banane18: :eek: :eek:

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I love a good read and have seriously neglected reading novels this year due to having to do the work to finish my degree. I can get through 3-4 books in a week on holiday. I have read most of the Patricia Cornwells but would recommend Kathy Reichs (if you like Cornwell). I am also eagerly awaiting the final Harry Potter..

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Ooo cheers for that Lettie as I'm a big cornwell fan :)

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I have three patricia Cornwell here - All that remains - Body of evidence - and post mortem. haven't had chance to read them yet, but going off this thread I might start them soon.:D

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you won't regret it, there is only one book that I have been disappointed of hers and that is when she went down the route of writing about a cop and to be honest she is better sticking to the scarpetta novels :)

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What a fantastic book that is,i know someone with Aspergers, so it kind of gave me an insight.....i still have the book if anyone wants to borrow it.

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Good idea Jen, send them over!

I've read a few of Stephen King's. I can't get into all of them but I did enjoy the one where he handcuffed his wife to the bed and dropped dead! I particularly like Penny Vincenzi but never got on with Virginia Andrews.

My favourites are the ones which have a family saga and my idea of heaven is to lie in bed all day with a book I can't put down!

(At one time it was a man, lol, how age creeps up)!!!

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I can read anything , at present I'm enjoying anything by
Ian Rankin ....Rebus series , (detective fiction set in Edinburgh)
Reginald Hill ...Dalziel and Pascoe series (detective fiction set in Yorkshire)
Bruce Chatwin ...travel....pity he is dead
Daily Telegraph book of obituarys vols 1 thru ..? .......about 6 in the series ,
good bedtime reading
Antonia Fraser ...biography
Molly Ivens ....American political humor
John Berendt...Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and the City of Fallen Angels

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At the moment my favourite read is a dictionary and thesaurus as my spelling, grammer punctuation etc are attrocious. Other wise it is Stephen King novels natural history and general history books. :D

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I read a lot. Not at all into Dean Koontz or Steven King.

Some recent favorites:
The Fall of the Year - Howard Frank Mosher
History books by Stephen Ambrose
Truman - David McCullough
The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde

Also have been a fan over the years of Arthur C. Clarke, Mark Twain, Jane Austen, J.K. Rowling, Josephine Tey.