I just finished reading The hundred year-old-man who climbed out of the window and disappeared. It was fantastic, and really fun.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hundred-Year...mm_kin_title_0
I just finished reading The hundred year-old-man who climbed out of the window and disappeared. It was fantastic, and really fun.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hundred-Year...mm_kin_title_0
Shooooooo-ryuken!
baggy13 (16th September 2013), crazyal (30th July 2013), inspectercoley (16th August 2013), Rhinoz (19th May 2013)
Recently finished "the unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry" and "the woman who went to bed for a year". Both were excellent, and of a completely different genre to what I normally read. The latter finished a little too quickly for my liking though.
Just finished "Midnight at the Well of Souls". Excellent sci-fi by Jack L. Chalker. I can also recommend "Legacy of Heorot" by Niven, Pournell and Barnes.
crazyal (3rd June 2013)
Finally finished the Harry Potter series! Loved it and as I mentioned in an earlier post the fact that I hadn't seen the films made it all the better for me.
Just finished 'All played out'. It's Pete Davies account of his journey around the World Cup in 1990. Shows how much the Premier League was actually built on the success of the England team. It's recently been republished under the name 'One night in Turin' if you can find it.
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baggy13 (16th September 2013)
Anyone who has enjoyed reading game of thrones up to now might be interested in reading The broken empire trilogy by Mark Lawrence. Although this series is a single perceptive it does have a similar setting to GoT and is a really good read. The first book is called Prince of Thorns for anyone interested.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/0007423632
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Bang Bang,
you just dropped dead
viz on the bog is one of lifes pleasures. Read a book in 10 mins. Read the beginning chapter and the last and the middle is just mostly what you expect. Just guess the cunt!
"Your proposition may be good. But let's have one thing understood
Whatever it is, I'm against it! And even when you've changed it Or condensed it
I'm against it!"
A top man
ok so ive been away for a while (a few months) due to working two jobs as well as editing and re-writing my own books so i've not got quite so many to list as I would have had, had I not been covering for a couple of sick delivery drivers
so I've read
Maria Semple - Where'd you go Bernadette?
P J Tracy - Two Evils
Kate Mosse - Citadel
Pierre LeMaitre - Alex
Camilla Lackberg - Lost boy
Philippa Gregory - the lady of the rivers
Ian Rankin - Standing in another mans grave
Paul Finch - Sacrifice
Michael Robotham - Say your sorry
Linwood Barclay - Open your eyes
Carsten Stroud - Niceville
Dean Crawford - The Chimera secret
Katia Lief - Dead Rich
Jussi Adler-olsen - redemption
Linda Fairstien - Night Watch
John Grisham - the racketeer
JK Rowling - The Casual Vacancy
Terry Hayes - I am pilgrim
Jeffery Deaver - the kill room
Karin Slaughter - Unseen
Iain Banks - the quarry
James Oswald- Natural Causes
Gill Hornby - the hive
Stephen Booth - dead and buried
Harlen Coben - six years
Mark Haddon - the red house
Jeffery Deaver - XO
Patricia Cornwell - the bone bed
Anton Gill - City of gold
John LeCarre - a delicate truth
John Grisham - theodore boone the activist
Mark Billingham - the dying hours
Simon Mawer - the girl who fell from the sky
Charlaine Harris - dead ever after
I know there's a couple of others I've missed out but I can't remember what they were because they were on my old kindle
Doors of perception, also the standard brave new world.
Jungle book by Kipling is bloody good.
"Your proposition may be good. But let's have one thing understood
Whatever it is, I'm against it! And even when you've changed it Or condensed it
I'm against it!"
A top man
Having fully converted to ebooks, I'm working my way through the cheapos on amazon. The best one so far is called Nameless by Joe Conlan - it's his first book, and only costs 38p:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nameless-ebo...6592229&sr=1-1
It's about a guy chasing a serial killer. The main characters are well defined, the story carries itself well, and it's nice and graphic. I really enjoyed it; certainly worth more than the money it costs.
I've recently read Asbo, Sam, The Peeling, The Final Winter and Seasick all by Ian Rob Wright. Some good scary stuff (and some weird shit too).
Stick with the series... It gets much much better. Although be warned that they have signed up for a second season so the ending is likely to be very different (it would have been anyway) or not at all!
There is another thread for this discussion.
If you have not read Duma Key by King, grab that. I found it much better than Under the Dome.
We all make mistakes sometimes
crazyal (16th September 2013)
Simon Kernick for me, like a spin off of Dan brown, like his stuff, Severed is one of my best buys of his!
after reading on here im half way through the hundred year old man and must say a big thx for the recomendation. its brilliant and looks like being the first book ive fully read on my ipad
Read Karen Slaughter - Unseen,
Dan Brown -Inferno - raises an interesting point really.
Dean Koontz - Intensity - Seems very padded out with masses of description for the sake of it
Just got the new Reacher but haven't started it yet.....
Just read the new Jack Reacher - No Way Back
@casio what did you think of the 2 John Grishams? Read all of his earlier ones but haven't picked one up for a couple of years
I read 11/22/63 when I was on holiday (and a bit beforehand). It's a decent book but really long and it sometimes feels like no progress is being made. The story gets a bit ridiculous near the end, after the main event. I don't know if I would recommend it because although the story keeps being moved along it did feel at one point like part of the story was going to be repeated (again - I'll say no more than that).
Good book. If anyone's interested I'd say read the beginning of a synopsis and figure out from that if it's the sort of story that would interest you. Then be prepared to set a lot of time aside.
No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...
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