Anyone got any book recommendations?

30 Dec 2007

I have a Waterstones voucher to spend and so am looking for any good book recommendations.
I just finished 'Atonement' and thought it was good. I also got 'Sepulchre' by Kate Mosse for Christmas and that was great. I'll read anything from classics to thrillers to fantasy to erotica.
Anyone got any suggestions?
Ta muchly,
Noladreams30 xx

30 Dec 2007

I love anything by Jeffrey Deaver, especially his 'Lincoln Rhyme' Novels.
The Bone collector, praying for sleep, speaking in tongues, the devils teardrop, and so on
also loved the chick lit 'shopaholic' books which are soo funny.

30 Dec 2007

Anything by Wilbur Smith I've got his latest 'The Quest' to read when I've finished reading 'Atonement'.

30 Dec 2007

If you enjoyed Atonement, another of his books 'Saturday' is good smile

30 Dec 2007

Anything that's not to hard to colour in rolleyes

30 Dec 2007

Quote by woohoo
Anything that's not to hard to colour in

how about join the dots :giggle:

30 Dec 2007

Nola, I read 'Labyrinth' and enjoyed - sounds like we have the same taste in books. 'Sepulchre' is on my list to buy next.

30 Dec 2007

Quote by woohoo
Anything that's not to hard to colour in

Colour by numbers?

30 Dec 2007

Quote by Freckledbird
Nola, I read 'Labyrinth' and enjoyed - sounds like we have the same taste in books. 'Sepulchre' is on my list to buy next.

Yes!!
Sepulchre is fab. I think possibly not quite as good as Labyrinth, but still a great read.
Thanks also to Mrs BD and Posh Kate... will make me a lil list!
Any other suggestions happily received though - I love discovering new books! (Is that sad?! dunno

)
Nola x

30 Dec 2007

Quite out of the blue and just because it was laying around on my friends bed whilst I was serving away with the forces I started to read Anne Rice's Interview with a Vampire.
I had seen the film and thought it was crap but the book however was such a different story (pardon the pun). It is dark, has a fantastically Gothic and underlying erotic edge, and is really well written. I have since read all the Vampire Chronicles and have become a big Anne Rice fan.
I would recommend it to anyone whether a Vampire fan or not as it is so well written and gripping I am sure they would be by the end.
Alternatively I hear DC Comics Superman issue #634 is a decent read!! lol

30 Dec 2007

PS I hate to go on a moral crusade but instead of buying books local libraries are great and whats more free!! biggrin

30 Dec 2007

Quote by Srne
PS I hate to go on a moral crusade but instead of buying books local libraries are great and whats more free!!

Are you a librarian by any chance? :D

30 Dec 2007

Quote by Srne
Quite out of the blue and just because it was laying around on my friends bed whilst I was serving away with the forces I started to read Anne Rice's Interview with a Vampire.
I had seen the film and thought it was crap but the book however was such a different story (pardon the pun). It is dark, has a fantastically Gothic and underlying erotic edge, and is really well written. I have since read all the Vampire Chronicles and have become a big Anne Rice fan.
I would recommend it to anyone whether a Vampire fan or not as it is so well written and gripping I am sure they would be by the end.
Alternatively I hear DC Comics Superman issue #634 is a decent read!!

Srne... having spent some time living in New Orleans I am a HUGE Anne Rice fan. If you liked the Vampire Chronicles then can I recommend the Mayfair Witches trilogy? In my opinion, better than the Vampire Chronicles. The stories are set in an amazing house which is based on her own house in the Garden District in N.O. and they are fabulous stories. Also, she has written a book called 'The Feast Of All Saints' which is a historical novel rather than supernatural and again, is soooooo very evocative of the city of New Orleans and filled with detail.
Also, if you like Anne Rice, you may also like Poppy Z. Brite...
okay y'all... am back down off my N'awlins soapbox!!

30 Dec 2007

Quote by noladreams30
Quite out of the blue and just because it was laying around on my friends bed whilst I was serving away with the forces I started to read Anne Rice's Interview with a Vampire.
I had seen the film and thought it was crap but the book however was such a different story (pardon the pun). It is dark, has a fantastically Gothic and underlying erotic edge, and is really well written. I have since read all the Vampire Chronicles and have become a big Anne Rice fan.
I would recommend it to anyone whether a Vampire fan or not as it is so well written and gripping I am sure they would be by the end.
Alternatively I hear DC Comics Superman issue #634 is a decent read!!

Srne... having spent some time living in New Orleans I am a HUGE Anne Rice fan. If you liked the Vampire Chronicles then can I recommend the Mayfair Witches trilogy? In my opinion, better than the Vampire Chronicles. The stories are set in an amazing house which is based on her own house in the Garden District in N.O. and they are fabulous stories. Also, she has written a book called 'The Feast Of All Saints' which is a historical novel rather than supernatural and again, is soooooo very evocative of the city of New Orleans and filled with detail.
Also, if you like Anne Rice, you may also like Poppy Z. Brite...
okay y'all... am back down off my N'awlins soapbox!!
I will have a look in the local library for Ms Brite's literature, of which im a MEMBER not an employee FB smackbottom

30 Dec 2007

Quote by Srne
I will have a look in the local library for Ms Brite's literature, of which im a MEMBER not an employee FB

:giggle: :giggle:

30 Dec 2007

I just love A Child Called IT. It's a biography of this man's chilhood. The follow-up are great aswell, The Lost Boy and A Man Named Dave. They are very sad but excellent reads.
Actually, I got Wayne Rooney's autobiography for my sis for Xmas last year and the Mr and I read it. That was really good!
Miss Cream xxx

30 Dec 2007

Quote by creampie123
Actually, I got Wayne Rooney's autobiography for my sis for Xmas last year and the Mr and I read it. That was really good!
Miss Cream xxx

He can write? :shock:

30 Dec 2007

Quote by noladreams30
I have a Waterstones voucher to spend and so am looking for any good book recommendations.
I just finished 'Atonement' and thought it was good. I also got 'Sepulchre' by Kate Mosse for Christmas and that was great. I'll read anything from classics to thrillers to fantasy to erotica.
Anyone got any suggestions?
Ta muchly,
Noladreams30 xx

Aaah now Ian McEwan - a favourite topic of mine. You'll not get much better prose from the modern pen. The stories are often dark and plumb the depths of the human psyche but wow - what a pleasure to read! Try the Cement Garden or his latest On Chesil Beach - both electrifying. Amsterdam won the Booker Prize but was, as a result, overrated methinks.
Enjoy!
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30 Dec 2007

Don't read......
On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy by Carl Rogers, its boring the hell out of me and I'm only a few pages into it rolleyes

30 Dec 2007

He dies at the end Dawnie :gagged: wink

30 Dec 2007

Alastair Reynolds (sci-fi)
Peter Ackroyd (historical fiction -dark- or biography & history)
Umberto Eco...
lp

30 Dec 2007

Quote by LondonPlaything
Alastair Reynolds (sci-fi)
Peter Ackroyd (historical fiction -dark- or biography & history)
Umberto Eco...
lp

Ackroyd - The Clerkenwell Tales looks good. Gonna get it methinks.
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31 Dec 2007

Quote by westerross
Ackroyd - The Clerkenwell Tales looks good. Gonna get it methinks.
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one that I haven't yet read Mr Tune... however.. I surely will
Hawksmoor...
London (a biography)
Charles Dickens..
others that have slipped my mind of a sunday evening... I can do nowt but recommend the man.. a solid read
lp

31 Dec 2007

patricia cornwell, crime writer, excellent, couldnt put her books down, read a whole series of twelve in four weeks. but start from book one and follow on as you need to read all twelve in sequence.

31 Dec 2007

Quote by Freckledbird

Actually, I got Wayne Rooney's autobiography for my sis for Xmas last year and the Mr and I read it. That was really good!
Miss Cream xxx

He can write? :shock:
Apparently so lol

Miss Cream xxx

31 Dec 2007

I would deffo recommend
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks ( now on my fave books of all time list )
Life After Life by Raymond Moody
An Unquiet Mind by Dr Kay Jamieson
The Surgeon by Tess Gerrison ( or anything by her )
Talking Heads - Alan Bennett
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Venus In Furs - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

31 Dec 2007

So many that I could mention biggrin

I like anything by Philipa Gregory - particularly her Tudor novels.
CJ Sansom - Dissolution
Elizabeth Chadwick - The Greatest Knight, The Scarlet Lion or Daughters of the Grail
And I had Russell Brand's autobiography for Christmas which I thought was hilarious.
Let us know what you get and if it's worth a go lol

31 Dec 2007

for pure off the wall humor and book that would make me laugh out loud even if i was of a train.
GOOD OMENS by Terry Prachet
I now have two copies as I thought I had lost mine

31 Dec 2007

Quote by creampie123

Actually, I got Wayne Rooney's autobiography for my sis for Xmas last year and the Mr and I read it. That was really good!
Miss Cream xxx

He can write? :shock:
Apparently so lol

Miss Cream xxx
I think he had a lot of spiritual guidance whilst writing his book. Supernatural forces helped him to form coherent sentences.
How interesting is his book? I don't think that it would interest me, what has he done in his life?
Can I do a summary?
" I was born, started kicking a football about and got really good. Signed for a youth team at Everton and met this girl called Colleen. Left school and started playing for Everton, had a night I'd rather forget with a woman called "auld slapper" an Coleen nearly dumped me an was in the papers.
Am making loads of money now and still playing football but for a team called Manchester United 'cos they offered me loads of dosh. The End"
Might save some people a few quid :lol:

31 Dec 2007

:lol2: that'd about be it, Srne.