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Post by Ginnie on Jul 5, 2009 0:44:30 GMT
Just what is says folks...
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Post by Ginnie on Jul 5, 2009 0:45:33 GMT
Just bought a few books at chapters.... Tonight I'm going to enjoy "The WOrlds Worst Cars" cause it has lots of pictures in it!
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Post by Ginnie on Jul 5, 2009 2:00:33 GMT
Dead Until Dark by Charlene Harris
The first book in the Sookie Stackhouse series from which the True Blood TV series is based. Vampires! My honey made me a fabulous Pina Colada so I have the cable radio station playing Gold Rock and reading.
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Post by helen on Jul 5, 2009 6:55:58 GMT
Ok I tend to have several books on the go at once, at the moment it's only two, one at home and one at work (in case I get stuck with people I dont want to talk to when on my break).
Necroscope 5 - Brian Lumley (Horror/Vampire series) and Dragonfly in Amber - Diana Gabaldon (Historical/Fantasy/Romance type thing)
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Post by platterpete on Jul 5, 2009 8:55:55 GMT
I am reading Gullivers Travels by Jonathan Swift and Rupert Everett's Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins
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Post by trench on Jul 5, 2009 9:37:03 GMT
Midnight by dean Koontz
It takes me ages to finish a book,i have to keep re reading the last few pages to catch up. I've got the memory of a wasp.
Don't you get the characters/stories mixed up if you read more than one book at a time. eg; Heathcliff approached Cathy and whispered softly in her ear "The martians are coming ,they're eating everything in their path"
Helen, you must have better concentration than me. Having said that i've only just finished 'janet and john go on holiday with Timmy the dog' Riveting read ,good pictures.
And Janet is older than she's letting on and strangely quite attractive for a drawing!
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Post by bluesrider on Jul 5, 2009 13:28:56 GMT
Labyrinth Kate mosse bit of a girlie book but good story
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Post by C.Cat on Jul 5, 2009 18:21:33 GMT
I'm reading the Hounds of the Morrigan by my granny
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Post by caveman on Jul 5, 2009 18:26:11 GMT
Just finished Snowball in Hell by Christopher Brookmyre, Brilliant, been reading Carl Hiassen as well, funny man, also just finished a Lee Child book, one of the Jack Reacher novels, not as good as they were at first, there are just so many adventures an ex US Military Officer can have, kinda getting silly now, reminds me many years ago there were a series of books where the central character was an ex-Vietnam Special Forces chappie whose family were killed by the Mafia, que much revenge, first two or three books were quite enjoyable in a pulp fiction way, but the last one i saw was up to about 200 books, he's been in space and all sorts.
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Post by Ginnie on Jul 5, 2009 19:13:25 GMT
"The Little Book of Mathematical Principles" ... might be little but I don't know if I have enough brain cells to understand it. Very interesting though...
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Post by CROOK TOWN on Jul 6, 2009 11:23:06 GMT
yesterdays sunday sport...
craigie give me it down the mill yesterday..
a proper paper..
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Post by Ginnie on Jul 6, 2009 22:40:21 GMT
I don't have much of a problem with multiple books on the go - as long as they are non-fiction. I would never get Caesar mixed up with Edward II for instance... BUT with fiction I stick to one book at a time. My bathroom book right now is TIME magazine "Person of the Century" issue from 1999 and WIRED mags as they arrive. Sometimes I get out old UNCUT or MOJO mags too. Uh, I guess I should say magazines not books.... My bedroom book right now is the forementioned DEAD UNTIL DARK. My cigarette book (for when I go outside to smoke) is usually anything interesting I pull from the "library". BTW does anyone else have the magazine "NME Originals: GLAM" I've often wondered why there is absolutely no mention of SAHB at all in the issue...
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Post by platterpete on Jul 7, 2009 16:49:44 GMT
Michael Palin - Diaries 1969-1979 The Python Years
Very funny and a great insight
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Post by bluesrider on Jul 7, 2009 18:13:48 GMT
The words that are appearing on the screen its amazing its as if I know what they are before they are written!!!
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Post by penny on Jul 7, 2009 18:35:53 GMT
Dean Koontz is a great writer, Trench!
At the moment I am reading Armistead Maupin 'Tales of the City'. I first read it years ago and it was dated then (set in the mid 1970's San Fransisco). There are a lot of references to American people and products that Ive never heard of, so it can spoil the story a bit. Very funny though.
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Post by penny on Jul 7, 2009 19:23:40 GMT
Am also reading Lynda La Plante 'Above Suspicion'. Only just started it, seems good so far.
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Post by bluesrider on Jul 7, 2009 19:25:44 GMT
Ive just read pennys last post.....................exciting wasn't it
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Post by platterpete on Jul 8, 2009 15:18:13 GMT
Just started reading
Under The Skin by Michel Faber
quite creepy
Under the Skin introduces Isserley, a woman obsessed with picking up male hitchhikers - so long as they're well-muscled and alone. But why? As the novel unfolds and the reason is made explicit, the reader is drawn inexorably into a completely unexpected and increasingly terrifying world.
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Post by twid123 on Jul 8, 2009 16:16:32 GMT
Just picked up "S is for Silence" by Sue Grafton a private detective novel.
Also flicking through "Hitch" The life and work of Alfred Hitchcock written in 1978
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Post by C.Cat on Jul 9, 2009 13:29:40 GMT
The Snow Spider by Jenny Nimmo
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Post by mehrtsfan on Jul 9, 2009 14:41:27 GMT
I'm not going to read the front page on Wikipedia today. Where did that come from.
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Post by platterpete on Jul 9, 2009 15:15:42 GMT
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Post by mehrtsfan on Jul 9, 2009 15:24:14 GMT
I think they would pick up loads of 'complaints'. However if they hung about until 1940-something there was penecillin to the rescue.
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Post by Catherine on Jul 10, 2009 8:41:17 GMT
I'm not going to read the front page on Wikipedia today. Where did that come from. There is a Grope Lane in Shrewsbury........so they tell me
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Post by caveman on Jul 10, 2009 10:43:01 GMT
A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle, a story of a young lad growing up in poverty in Dublin and going on to become a Repulican soldier in the Irish Citizen Army , its all set at the start of the century, and as with all Roddy Doyles books, its very hard to put down, also reading Exit Music by Ian Rankin, another highly readable Rebus story, its not bad at all, and at the risk of showing off, i'm also reading The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connolly, not too sure about this one, but I always persevere to at least 100 pages before i give up on a book, so we'll see about this one!!!
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