Sex God
what sort of books do you like reading Flavio?
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any bookworms in the cafe
Sex God
what sort of reading?
try the 3 books to a desert island thread
http://www.swingingheaven.co.uk/swingers-forum/viewtopic/70851.html?highlight=3 books
the link if it works
try the 3 books to a desert island thread
http://www.swingingheaven.co.uk/swingers-forum/viewtopic/70851.html?highlight=3 books
the link if it works
i'm an avid reader and hardley ever watch TV and when I get a spare min i'll contribute a lot more to this but you've caught me as i'm about to log off (bath night again Sex God
that time of year again for a bath!! Must be a special occassion 
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Am avid reader here, but mainly historical, I doubt anyone else would be interested in the sort of books I devour!!
I read very little fiction, though I can get lost in a good historical novel, thought I prefer ones based on reality.
And sometimes I like to relax with a little erotic fiction but only that has a good story line too it.
The last book I read that anyone will have heard about is The Davinci Code , which I thought had a very disapointing ending. Anyone else agree?
Btw , if there is anyone else on here that shares my taste in reading (particulaly the Elizabethan and Georgian Eras I would love to hear from them!!
Like you I found the Da Vinci Code a disappointment........but I too love historical books especially Tudor/Elizabethan (enjoy erotic fiction too......& Dave is getting quite good at writing that too lol)
Have you read the Other Boylen by Philippa Gregory??
Fav book of all time though is The Far Pavillions by M M Kaye ( love it so much have to read it once a year
)Just in from the cinema having watched Memoirs of a Geisha .......has inspired me to read that book again!!
Nothing quite like a good book
Sexlightened
enjoyed the wilt books and tom sharpes humour, like a wide variety of stuff
An oldie but a goodie know (for me at least) coming from a farming background (f'n hard work glad to be out of it) I always enjoyed the James Herriot series the dryness and the simple life of some of the characters if by a large means still alive in some of the country comunities not so far from me even to this day. Also I read Spike Milligan's war memoirs recently ( theres 7 in total I think) what a bloody funny if not troubled man. But don't get me wrong I do enjoy much more than humour when it comes to reading at the end of the day i'm a lad at heart so all the action stuff also apeals to me.
If travel and culture is your thing a short but good book is Che Guevara motorcycle diaries (yes the guy of the T shirts) is also an interesting read it's the tale of Che and his friend as they travel around South America on an old Norton motorcycle after leaving university, it gives an insight into that area in that day and age but also puts a more human tilt to the man that became one of the most notorious people of the last century.
If travel and culture is your thing a short but good book is Che Guevara motorcycle diaries (yes the guy of the T shirts) is also an interesting read it's the tale of Che and his friend as they travel around South America on an old Norton motorcycle after leaving university, it gives an insight into that area in that day and age but also puts a more human tilt to the man that became one of the most notorious people of the last century.
Sex God
Just finished a brilliant novel: Small Island by Andrea Levy. Bluddy brilliant!
More into factual stuff myself - and I would recommend this one to anybody....
Janine Di Giovanni - The Place at the End of the World
Basically an author of "human rights", she travels to the nastiest places and accounts what goes on - war in Rwanda, Iraq etc... , HIV in India, all sorts.
I gotta admit it's not for the feint hearted, but my God it makes you think, and value what you have!!
The bravery of this woman is unbelievable - thoroughly recommend!!
Leo
Janine Di Giovanni - The Place at the End of the World
Basically an author of "human rights", she travels to the nastiest places and accounts what goes on - war in Rwanda, Iraq etc... , HIV in India, all sorts.
I gotta admit it's not for the feint hearted, but my God it makes you think, and value what you have!!
The bravery of this woman is unbelievable - thoroughly recommend!!
Leo
Sex God
aawww bless.
If your interested in Psychology books I've got loads of text book!!
If your interested in Psychology books I've got loads of text book!!
Sex God
I like well written books. In many ways character drawing and the creation of atmosphere can be more important than a story line.
Ian McEwan hits the button every time with me. I think Atonement is a modern classic of the future (
). It was a shame that they made Enduring Love as his first film. That was a very difficult piece to turn into a film.
I detest the Da Vinci Code - it is plagiaristic claptrap. Far better to read Michael Baigent et al's The Holy blood and the Holy Grail - far more entertaining and informative. I see Michael Baigent is suing Dan Brown - quite right too. Funny thing is they have the same publisher
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Thanks for the other tips from some reliable tipsters - my reading list has just expanded a tad.
Ooh and I'll tell you who's a good light read -George MacDonald Fraser and his Flashman Papers series - well written, hilarious and, apart from old Flashy's part in things - historically accurate too.
Love these threads.
Ian McEwan hits the button every time with me. I think Atonement is a modern classic of the future (
). It was a shame that they made Enduring Love as his first film. That was a very difficult piece to turn into a film.I detest the Da Vinci Code - it is plagiaristic claptrap. Far better to read Michael Baigent et al's The Holy blood and the Holy Grail - far more entertaining and informative. I see Michael Baigent is suing Dan Brown - quite right too. Funny thing is they have the same publisher
ops: Thanks for the other tips from some reliable tipsters - my reading list has just expanded a tad.
Ooh and I'll tell you who's a good light read -George MacDonald Fraser and his Flashman Papers series - well written, hilarious and, apart from old Flashy's part in things - historically accurate too.
Love these threads.
i love a good book and can get through two sometimes three a week, nothing better than a bubble bath with all my candles on a good book for an hour.....or 4 :giggle:
i like autobiographies and I'm currently reading extreme my Sharon Osbourne.
i love authors like Martina Cole, Lesley Pearce, Sidney Sheldon and Jeffery archer, think my all time favourite author would be James Patterson.
i like autobiographies and I'm currently reading extreme my Sharon Osbourne.
i love authors like Martina Cole, Lesley Pearce, Sidney Sheldon and Jeffery archer, think my all time favourite author would be James Patterson.
Sex God
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Ian McEwan hits the button every time with me. I think Atonement is a modern classic of the future (
There was a film of The Innocent in 1993. Nowhere near as good as the book, of course.
Atonement was brilliant.
Warming the Bed
not sure i would class myself as a bookworm, however I do write books. My first novel came out in August and my second is due out in the summer
They are horror novels, and anyone interested is more than welcome in messaging me (signed copies available )
They are horror novels, and anyone interested is more than welcome in messaging me (signed copies available
) Sex God
AAArrrhhhh thats cool writing horror books. Love reading them. Do you base them on peeps you know?
Oooh I love reading, one of my favourite things.
Crime - James Patterson or True Crime books
Horror - Clive Barker, Poe, HG Wells
Fantasy - David Gemmel, Terry Pratchett, Michael Moorcock, Terry Brooks
Humour - Bill Bryson, Jasper Carrott
General - Pretty much any author, I'll try anything once.
The Gemmel books are truly fantastic though and worth a read at any time.
Jas
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Crime - James Patterson or True Crime books
Horror - Clive Barker, Poe, HG Wells
Fantasy - David Gemmel, Terry Pratchett, Michael Moorcock, Terry Brooks
Humour - Bill Bryson, Jasper Carrott
General - Pretty much any author, I'll try anything once.
The Gemmel books are truly fantastic though and worth a read at any time.
Jas
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All my wonderful friends are now residing in boxes at my parent's home 
Got deep DTs :cry: Packing up my place in readiness to move to Ireland and won't get to have my library with me for a good long while.
So finding this thread on here has brightened me up no end! :P
Tolkien is my number 1 - with other fantasy and sci-fi including Stephen Donaldson, Piers Anthony, Isaac Asimov are all good reads - although the Gor series got too much after the first 28 books or so!
Love anything with a historical theme - fact and fiction - so Sian Rees, Sarah Waters and Catherine Cookson
Eat dictionaries for breakfast and drool over maps too - can travel in my mind better than in reality due to motion-sickness
Got deep DTs :cry: Packing up my place in readiness to move to Ireland and won't get to have my library with me for a good long while.
So finding this thread on here has brightened me up no end! :P
Tolkien is my number 1 - with other fantasy and sci-fi including Stephen Donaldson, Piers Anthony, Isaac Asimov are all good reads - although the Gor series got too much after the first 28 books or so!
Love anything with a historical theme - fact and fiction - so Sian Rees, Sarah Waters and Catherine Cookson
Eat dictionaries for breakfast and drool over maps too - can travel in my mind better than in reality due to motion-sickness
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Oooh I love reading, one of my favourite things.
Crime - James Patterson or True Crime books
Horror - Clive Barker, Poe, HG Wells
Fantasy - David Gemmel, Terry Pratchett, Michael Moorcock, Terry Brooks
Humour - Bill Bryson, Jasper Carrott
General - Pretty much any author, I'll try anything once.
The Gemmel books are truly fantastic though and worth a read at any time.
Jas
XXX
Got to agree with you there Jas.
My "bedtime book" at the moment is Legend by David Gemmel. Only just started it, but finding it VERY hard to put down.
Marcuso
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Sexlightened
a good literary selection here, I enjoyed Small Island when I read it, also Ian McEwen rushed out and bought " Saturday " when it first came out, sound like there could be demand for a swinging heaven book group
Warming the Bed
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AAArrrhhhh thats cool writing horror books. Love reading them. Do you base them on peeps you know?
Not sure that would be a good idea
I do base a lot of the action around where I live and have lived, so I am sure some people recognise a little about themselves in it
Just finished 'Arthur & George' by Julian Barnes, very good book (probably enjoyed it more because I grew up in the area in which the true events in the book are based).
Started to read 'The Godfather' again as I bought 'Saturday' by Ian McEwen but can't find it in the house anywhere !!
S is currently reading the 'Emperor' series of novels by Conn Igguldon
Started to read 'The Godfather' again as I bought 'Saturday' by Ian McEwen but can't find it in the house anywhere !!
S is currently reading the 'Emperor' series of novels by Conn Igguldon
Master of Sex
I'm fond of fantasy. Tolkien knocks everything else out of sight. Terry Pratchett is wonderful, funny and humane. I'm currently reading 'Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrlell', a weird fantasy about the revival of 18th Century magic.
I like erotic novels but they are not always well written. Anais Nin and the books about sexual daydreams by Nancy Friday are good.
I have also liked the comic crime capers of Donald Westlake.
I like erotic novels but they are not always well written. Anais Nin and the books about sexual daydreams by Nancy Friday are good.
I have also liked the comic crime capers of Donald Westlake.
