Summer reading

8 Jul 2005

Ready for the summer away, so next week I'll be mostly stockin up on boooooks!
Any reccs anyone???
Still reading The Water Method Man.....
Joni Mitchell a/b coming out but not till December :cry:
Come on give me some corkers!
Cathy x
(Sorry if this has been done before, I may have even asked last year redface

or was that a different forum????? rolleyes

)

8 Jul 2005

Really have to suggest Dan Brown - "The Da Vinci Code" in case you haven't read it - amazingly clever book...
or wait 2 weeks for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince lol

8 Jul 2005

billy connelly autobiography is good wink

8 Jul 2005

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell.
Aaaaaamaaaaaaazing!!!!!!

8 Jul 2005

Quote by 3someinpreston
Really have to suggest Dan Brown - "The Da Vinci Code" in case you haven't read it - amazingly clever book...
or wait 2 weeks for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Eek I right don't do the Harry Potters dunno why and I've tried. Reading the Lemony Snicket's SOUE with the kids though. Maybe I should start from scratch with Harry Potter again.....
Ta's xx
Cathy x

8 Jul 2005

Im currently reading Long Way Round...cos I love bikes, Ewan McGregor, travel, Charley Boorman, bikes, adventures and did i mention bikes? :twisted:

8 Jul 2005

Quote by supercachondo
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell.
Aaaaaamaaaaaaazing!!!!!!

Agree totally Aaaaaamaaaaaaazing.
Also 'The Time-Traveller's Wife'. Amazing and sexy too.
How come so many good books are still being written? You would think every idea had been done already, but no.
Jezzay.

8 Jul 2005

Quote by GenHertsCpl
Im currently reading Long Way Round...cos I love bikes, Ewan McGregor, travel, Charley Boorman, bikes, adventures and did i mention bikes? :twisted:

did you watch the programme? damn good biggrin

8 Jul 2005

If you havent read the Discworld books they are top - especially if you like silly humour.
I thought it was only one week to Half Blood Prince, its out on the 16th (next Sat) isnt it?

8 Jul 2005

Quote by Andy_Wakefield
I thought it was only one week to Half Blood Prince, its out on the 16th (next Sat) isnt it?

Yep :bounce: I have mine on pre-order lol

It will be a fight to see who gets to read it first.... Me or our 7 year old daughter :lol:
I have just finished "The Charm School" by Nelson Demille and I really enjoyed it. Terry Brooks is another fave of mine biggrin

Shireen
xxx

8 Jul 2005

Quote by Shireen_Mids
Terry Brooks is another fave of mine
Shireen
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The Magical Kingdom of Landover books are excellent! smile

As for the new Harry Potter, I was disppointed with Order of the Phoenix, should have been about 400 pages shorter. lol. So I dont really have my hopes up for this one - I will read it, but I'm not as hyped up this time. Half a book sitting in a house doing not very much? Pass. :)

8 Jul 2005

another good read is the the guvner, lenny mclean biography wink

8 Jul 2005

Quote by Andy_Wakefield
The Magical Kingdom of Landover books are excellent!

I found once I read The Sword of Shannara I was hooked lol

As for the new Harry Potter, I was disppointed with Order of the Phoenix, should have been about 400 pages shorter. lol. So I dont really have my hopes up for this one - I will read it, but I'm not as hyped up this time. Half a book sitting in a house doing not very much? Pass. :)

Ooohhh now I was the opposite with the Order of the Phoenix, I couldnt put it down.... I have never been able to read a book a second time with only a few exceptions. The Harry Potter series, all the Terry Brooks books and Colin Forbes...
Shireen
xxx

8 Jul 2005

Quote by jezzay
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell.
Aaaaaamaaaaaaazing!!!!!!

Agree totally Aaaaaamaaaaaaazing.
Also 'The Time-Traveller's Wife'. Amazing and sexy too.
How come so many good books are still being written? You would think every idea had been done already, but no.
Jezzay.
Every idea HAS been done already, but there's an infinite number of ways of writing about them. And an infinite number of monkey banging out the complete works of Shakespeare. Do you know how much they pay those monkeys? Peanuts. It's a bloody disgrace...

8 Jul 2005

apparently the bible is a damn good book too but i havnt got round to it yet as im a sinner lol lol

8 Jul 2005

Quote by supercachondo
Every idea HAS been done already,

You recommended 'Cloud Atlas' (and I agreed.) So who did that one before? Or anything remotely similar?
Jezzay

8 Jul 2005

I can recommend "Guv'nor" by Lenny McLean - excellent auto-biog, and I also echo Andy_Wakefield's suggestion about Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, but I would also recommend Christopher Brookmyre, in particular "Quite Ugly One Morning" ( 1st Jack Parlabane novel ) "A Big Boy Done It And Ran Away" ( 1st Angel X novel ) "Not The End Of The World" or "One Fine Day In The Middle O The Night" ( both stand alone, but have references to chatracters in other books ).
Someone else I have started reading is Zane Radcliffe, not finished yet - but a very similar style to Brookmyre, crime thriller, with a wide streak of black humour. If you want a particular genre, I'll try to help out. wink

8 Jul 2005

Quote by jezzay

Every idea HAS been done already,

You recommended 'Cloud Atlas' (and I agreed.) So who did that one before? Or anything remotely similar?
Jezzay
Fair point, someone somewhere is going to come up with another story that doesn't contain echos of previous literature, and this doesn't happen that often, but what I meant was that there's essentially 2 types of fiction - the one that goes crisis-denoument-resolution and the cyclical story. Cloud Atlas is basically 6 glorious, technicolour swirling versions of the former variety woven together seamlessly with the finest silk thread but the clever bit is that the novel as a whole is of the cyclical variety. So (in my own funny little world) we're both right.

8 Jul 2005

ok, here goes....
All of Dan Browns are great reads, very well thought out...
If your into vampire books with a twist and a bit of romance i highly recomend Laurell K Hamilton there are 12 in the series, the first one is The Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Series - Guilty Pleasures.... i have all 12 if anyone wants to pm me for the pdf!
For horror books there is no one better than Richard Laymon... all great reads a mix of gore and sex, what more could you ask for?!?
for a bit of a reality check The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold..
there are loads more i could reccommend, but will leave it at that

8 Jul 2005

I have some books you can borrow Red(rhg)..... some of them aren't even coloured in yet !!! lol

8 Jul 2005

I have some books you can borrow Red(rhg)..... some of them aren't even coloured in yet !!! lol

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8 Jul 2005

anything by Iain Banks, will have you hooked for ages. :P
The crow road
The wasp Factory
compliciticy
All 3 brilliant :P

8 Jul 2005

Cathy~
As an alternative to DaVinci Code, you might wanna try Foucalt's Pendulum by Umberto Eco. Far better researched in esoterica, imho. We've got a copy you can borrow, but you'll have to come get it. ;)
~Reese! :love:

9 Jul 2005

I would go for Lovely Bones, The Time Traveler's Wife, The Little Prince (everyone should read it once in their life), The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath). I could give you a long list but some of the books are not recent as I am still trying to catch up smile

9 Jul 2005

Quote by Reese
Cathy~
As an alternative to DaVinci Code, you might wanna try Foucalt's Pendulum by Umberto Eco. Far better researched in esoterica, imho. We've got a copy you can borrow, but you'll have to come get it. ;)
~Reese! :love:

:P
Read 'The Name of the Rose' years ago! You jogged me memory! Pick it up eh? :twisted:
Postie please don't send any with dot-to-dots wink

Have tried the odd discworld book and yeah enjoyed but they aren't really my cup o tea.
Like John Irving, Angela Carter and Isabel Allende.
Have still got Bonfire of the Vanities on the shelf, perhaps I should look through what I've got first! Definately buying new book on Lizzie Sidall (pre-raph model).
Thanks for all your suggestions kiss

I should be hoping to get no reading done shouldn't I?
Cathy x

9 Jul 2005

The Da Vinci Code effectively plagiarised The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail without any credits at all. And Dan Brown's writing style leaves much to desired. The ending of The Code was a complete anti-climactic cop out - Yup I really enjoyed it. When I finished it I left it in a hut in the middle of South Africa and I now regret doing it to the South Africans - they don't deserve it.
If you want something well written and totally engaging I'd recommend Saturday by Ian McKewan or any of his other books. Atonementis really good - they're making it into a film.