Favourite read - Page 2

slinky · 17-10-2006, 14:10

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Originally Posted by shillelagh

Think Accyweb should set up a book club! lol

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

I went to Iceland today ( shopping not the place)

and they have Kerry catona's autobiography on sale there. I was tempted to buy it but didn't in the end.

mrskitty · 17-10-2006, 15:42

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

maxwell silver · 17-10-2006, 16:10

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?

lettie · 17-10-2006, 16:19

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..

harwood red · 17-10-2006, 22:22

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Originally Posted by lettie

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..

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

slinky · 17-10-2006, 22:24

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.

harwood red · 17-10-2006, 22:27

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

mrskitty · 17-10-2006, 22:37

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Originally Posted by maxwell silver

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.

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.

junetta · 17-10-2006, 23:31

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)!!!

steeljack · 18-10-2006, 05:38

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

SPUGGIE J · 18-10-2006, 11:18

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.

Billcat · 18-10-2006, 22:10

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.