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Post by dutchdiva on Aug 14, 2008 7:21:35 GMT
James May's Magnificent machines (second time)
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Post by TheDaisy on Aug 14, 2008 7:33:33 GMT
I'm on a Discworld hike right now - just got to 'Carpe Jugulum'.
I luff Terry Pratchett, he makes me laugh, and I need a few laughs right now.
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Post by Puss on Aug 14, 2008 7:33:52 GMT
Well, it will proabably come as no surprise to you that I am engrosed in "The Little Sister" by Raymond Chandler and I have just finished "Murder on the Ballarat Train" by Kerry Greenwood.  |
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Post by lymaze on Aug 14, 2008 8:54:58 GMT
Hot Six by Janet Evanovich. Stephanie Plum novels - nice bit of easy reading and very funny. |
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Post by Shortie on Aug 14, 2008 9:06:54 GMT
I'm about to read P J Tracy's 'Snow blind' - good, clever thriller/detctive story and not at all serious. I've had it for ages and was saving it for my holiday. The Man is taking the last Harry Potter. He started it on holiday last summer, read a bit more at Christmas and says he might finish it this time. I doubt it. He says it's seriously boring and has only got half way. I shall read it when he's done with it but am not expecting to do that any time this year ...
I have 6 books in the case which should us both through the next two weeks.
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Post by TheDaisy on Aug 14, 2008 11:58:59 GMT
HP gets a bit more boring as it goes on. The books, IMO, get too long and too clever after the 3rd one.
I have them all (I'd get shot if I hadn't, as I used to work in a bookshop LOL) but I don't read them much. I prefer the 'His Dark Materials' books, if I *had* to choose at gunpoint, it's be Pullman all the way. His books make you think a bit more. HP is just fun reading really.
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Post by TheDaisy on Aug 14, 2008 12:01:51 GMT
Read 'em all. Queued up like a sad loon at midnight for the last one, only because a mate still worked in the shop and snagged me a free entry ticket, mind you!
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Post by emmap on Aug 14, 2008 12:03:04 GMT
I've bought the HP books for my eldest and I've been the one reading them!I'm busy reading Spike Milligan's the war memoirs (again)
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Post by TheDaisy on Aug 14, 2008 12:04:53 GMT
I didn't go that far tho! I bought it when they came available and ended up finding an English copy in france a few days prior to it's legal release! o.O And you managed this HOW? I thought there were armed guards at the book depots LOL |
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Post by Liz on Aug 14, 2008 12:31:04 GMT
Stuart Maconie's 'Pies & Prejudice'... an excellent read for those 'oop north'  |
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Post by Shortie on Aug 14, 2008 12:33:59 GMT
I agree, daisy, the third one was the best, after that they just got long and rambling. She didn't really have to try at that stage, she could have written a shopping list and it would have sold!
The films make better stories by the time they reached the fourth one, they cut out most of the irrelevancies.
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Post by mansonmaniac on Aug 14, 2008 12:37:47 GMT
I was going to start reading my Harry Potter books again but then thought, nah..... I'm too busy reading all the brilliant fan fics on here! |
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Post by dutchdiva on Aug 14, 2008 12:37:51 GMT
I can't get my hands on any of James's books in Belgium! I have 4 Clarksons and Hamster's Biog but no May.... I'll have to raid Amazon yet again! got the same problem here in Holland wild. i only got this book because Star got it for me (with autograph) |
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Post by janette on Aug 14, 2008 12:39:38 GMT
I've read all the HP ones several times. I've put them away now as I could recite them without opening them ;D. I'm now in the middle of reading Val McDermid, who is very good and I have loved all of them so far. Recently read some Simon Kernick and they were also very good, but a bit samey. I love a good crime thriller |
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Post by mansonmaniac on Aug 14, 2008 12:52:24 GMT
Celia Rees is another author I like.
Also Anthony Horowitz
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Post by TheDaisy on Aug 14, 2008 12:55:58 GMT
I can thoroughly recommend Mark Billingham (crime author and stand up comedian).
He's a good author and a very nice man - he came to do a signing at the shop i used to work in, and I had left my books by him at home. When he found this out, he took my address and then sent me some signed book plates to put in my books.
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Post by Liz on Aug 14, 2008 12:57:02 GMT
Aside from our guys (who are always on top form)... you can't beat a good bit of Pratchett!! |
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Post by februarystar8 on Aug 14, 2008 13:52:36 GMT
just finished 'the turn of the screw' by henry james and now im reading 'the end of the affair' by graham greene...
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Post by Mayfayre on Aug 14, 2008 17:48:28 GMT
I'm almost at the end of The Witching Hour (Anne Rice). I've been reading it for over a year - I don't seem to get much time to read. I'm also half way through Making Money (Terry Pratchett) but someone borrowed the book & I've yet to get it back. Started reading May on Motors on the flight to Portugal & 20th Century about 3 months back (managed the 1st chapter, I think).
And many, many of the fics on here.
In the queue are several Anne Rice books, Wintersmith (Pratchett) and whatever James's other book's called Notes from the Hard Shoulder.
Never got into HP though.
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Post by Vixen on Aug 14, 2008 20:47:17 GMT
I love HP!  I'm currently reading 'Daddy's little girl' By Mary Higgins Clark, I have read another book by her called 'no place like home' she is a very talented crime writer |
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Post by Wyvern on Aug 14, 2008 20:50:19 GMT
I'm not reading anything right now. But... there's a new Kathy Reichs novel coming out soon!
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Post by cantervilleghost on Aug 16, 2008 5:14:21 GMT
I just started a book called "The Last Templar" by Raymond Khoury. I spotted it at the local department store and thought it sounded intresting. It's quite good so far. It's along the same lines as "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown.
I've read all the Harry Potter books. For the last one, "Deathly Hallows", I had to buy 2 copies since my daughter is a huge fan! She and I kept doing page checks with each other to make sure we didn't spoil things for one another. ;D
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Post by suzie on Aug 16, 2008 15:59:49 GMT
"Moondust" by Andrew Smith. It's about the men who went to the moon. Just a tad disturbing.
Good though.
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Post by cantervilleghost on Aug 22, 2008 19:38:29 GMT
I'm nearly done with The Last Templar and not impressed. Forcing myself to finish it. Khoury is no Dan Brown! I'm thinking of trying that new James Bond book, Devil May Cry. Anyone read it? I'm a huge James Bond fan! I love the books even more than the movies! Ian Fleming was brilliant! ;D
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Post by incognito on Aug 27, 2008 21:24:57 GMT
Jolly good - a reading thread!
I am reading several books presently, though if I'm going to drag them out I prefer to do it with two at a time.
Mandelson and the Making of New Labour
Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethics
The Elements of Judaism
and Mr. Monk and the Blue Flu as a bit of light fluff
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Post by mansonmaniac on Aug 27, 2008 21:28:53 GMT
I'm reading Romeo & Juliet again!  But I don't mind it ;D "Oh Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I'll no longer be a Capulet." ;D |
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Post by inky on Aug 27, 2008 21:39:27 GMT
I'm into horses and horse racing in a big way and am reading a lovely book called 'Ruffian - Burning from the start' by Jane Schwartz. It will have a very sad ending cos I know what happened to Ruffian but it's really well written and captures her character so well. I have already decided that the next generation of Jayal boxers will contain a 'Ruffian' and also a 'Shenanigans' (Ruffians mother) |
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Post by chasingtime on Aug 27, 2008 21:57:54 GMT
Been ages since I read any fiction I really liked, but that's probably because I love history, travel, biographies, and true crime much more. I've *bought* several HP books for friends and their kids, but honestly haven't read a chapter yet (looks away guiltily)...
Reading:
"Literary Trips" by Victoria Brooks (traces famous places through famous books)
still trying to make my way through Patrick O'Brian's Captain Jack Aubrey series (still, 2+ years)
Highly recommend:
"Blue Latitudes" by Tony Horwitz (tracks adventures/problems/history of explorer Captain Cook, including first recorded landings of English in Australia and South Pacific)
"Scars of Sweet Paradise: Life & Times of Janis Joplin" by Alice Echols
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Post by cantervilleghost on Aug 27, 2008 22:29:49 GMT
Chasingtime-- Oooo!!! You read the Captain Jack series too??? I discovered Patrick O'Brian after seeing Master And Commanader: The Far Side Of The World. He was a brillant writer. ;D
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Post by chasingtime on Aug 27, 2008 22:58:16 GMT
Chasingtime-- Oooo!!! You read the Captain Jack series too??? I discovered Patrick O'Brian after seeing Master And Commanader: The Far Side Of The World. He was a brillant writer. ;D LOVE THAT FILM...don't get me going about Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany as Aubrey and Maturin. Of all the damn c**p that gets made into sequels and prequels and whatever else, that potential film series (beauty and intelligent, mostly factual) was a damn one-off and gone. Everybody on the cast and crew impressed me with the final product...Crowe and Bettany have great chemistry imho...and hats off to Peter Weir for directing that stunner. Yeah, trying to get through the series by O'Brian. Lord they can be a bit technical for me at times, (I grew up completely landlocked and never saw anything of the ocean until college, so the nautical terms require me to have a dictionary nearby, plus I can be a bit slow to 'settle in' to some books at times)...I think that's why I have so many starts and stops with them. Need to have a rainy day with a pot of tea and/or ambrosia juice and some Walkers shortbread biscuits to really do it right, (or so I think), ya know? Fantastic reads for the beach at winter, though. Also, have same experience and love for the Horatio Hornblower (Ioan Gruffudd) and Sharpe's Rifles (Sean Bean) TV series (and accompanying books)...although A&E hasn't shown Hornblower in years here, and public television last played Sharpe's (in my area at least) more than a decade ago. Really should have went into a career with history or something instead of medicine... So, canterville, who's your fave...Aubrey or Maturin? |
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