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Old 23-01-2012, 11:38
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Old 23-01-2012, 11:43
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I read that a few months ago and made no apologies about it. Like yourself, Jasper Fforde, is a favourite author and I was interested to see how his style translated into younger reader's books - whilst he has a silly sense of humour so much of it is also very clever. I thoroughly enjoyed the book and intend to read The Song of the Quarkbeast before long
I must admit that now I'm halfway through it I'm completely forgetting it's a kids book - I'm loving it

The Song of the Quarkbeast is definitely next..
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Old 23-01-2012, 11:46
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Currently reading Life As We Knew It by Susan Pfeffer. It's YA fiction, but I'm absolutely hooked. Read it for 3 hours solid last night.
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Old 23-01-2012, 19:39
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Old 23-01-2012, 20:00
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One of the best books I read last year!
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Old 23-01-2012, 21:09
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Outpost by Adam Baker - a slightly different take on the "end of the world" type story. Very pacey and gripping so far.
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Old 23-01-2012, 21:29
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Richard, by Ben Myers. It's a fictionalised version of the last known days of Richey Edwards (of the Manic Street Preachers- even though much of their recorded output recently has been arse, The Holy Bible is one of my all-time favourite records, and at the time I was in a pretty bad place myself and identified with his shit quite a lot, so I had to check it out, really). Much in the vein of David Peace's The Damned United, I guess, and to start with it kind of annoyed me how much Myers was so obviously trying to write like Peace... but it kinda works, and he does it well, and Peace is such an awesome writer you can't really blame anyone for being inspired (I'm probably just cross because I've tried writing like Peace and it just hasn't worked. Myers is better at it than me- trufax).

There's still something weird about writing a book about the guy in the first person, and I wonder how his family/friends/bandmates feel about it- it's written with empathy and compassion, though, and it's not to my mind needlessly offensive.

All that said, though, I'm gripped, and fascinated, and it's a really, really good book. As much for the brilliantly chaotic flashback scenes about the band as for the intimate, measured internal monologue that forms the book's backbone.
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Old 23-01-2012, 22:42
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Old 24-01-2012, 07:05
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One of the best books I read last year!
Yeah, I'm enjoying it, but there seems to be a lot of ermm waffle but I am almost finished, saying that I actually started reading it about 3 years ago, got half way through then I didn't read anything until a few months ago when the reading bug came back, which is why my resolution is to read every day, even if it's just a paragraph
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Old 24-01-2012, 14:04
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Game of Thrones.
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Old 24-01-2012, 16:49
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Currently reading Life As We Knew It by Susan Pfeffer. It's YA fiction, but I'm absolutely hooked. Read it for 3 hours solid last night.
I read that last year and really liked it. I actually found it quite...creepy because I could imagine it and actually looked out to make sure the moon was normal
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Old 24-01-2012, 20:38
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Siege - Simon Kernick, very good so far!
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Old 24-01-2012, 20:47
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Siege - Simon Kernick, very good so far!
I want to read that, I find his books a bit hit and miss though.
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Old 24-01-2012, 21:51
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Currently reading Life As We Knew It by Susan Pfeffer. It's YA fiction, but I'm absolutely hooked. Read it for 3 hours solid last night.
Loved that book, think I may re read it
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Old 24-01-2012, 23:02
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I want to read that, I find his books a bit hit and miss though.
I do recommend it so far I've read all of his books and enjoyed the majority of them apart from The Payback which I was a little disappointed with.
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Old 25-01-2012, 15:01
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I've just started to read The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins.
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Old 25-01-2012, 15:29
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The Girl with the dragon tattoo.

Someone told me they couldn't put it down. From reading half of the book i can only assume they super glued it to their hands.
After a very slow start it gathered a bit of pace & ended up being a pretty good read.
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Old 25-01-2012, 17:03
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I've been to Asda and come across the new 30th anniversary rerelease of the diaries of adrian mole aged 13 3/4 - reading it for the hundredth time, but the first in maybe 10 years!
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Old 26-01-2012, 11:22
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Old 26-01-2012, 11:55
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I read that last year and really liked it. I actually found it quite...creepy because I could imagine it and actually looked out to make sure the moon was normal
I did too. Bit cloudy though!!

I've read the 2nd book in the trilogy, The Dead and The Gone which I also really enjoyed and now on book 3, This World We Live In. It does seem to be getting bleaker though!!
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Old 26-01-2012, 11:58
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Old 26-01-2012, 15:04
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I have just started re-reading all the Harry Potter books. Enjoying them much more than I remember.
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Old 26-01-2012, 15:43
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I did too. Bit cloudy though!!

I've read the 2nd book in the trilogy, The Dead and The Gone which I also really enjoyed and now on book 3, This World We Live In. It does seem to be getting bleaker though!!
Glad it wasn't just me!
Oo I didn't realise there were sequels! Need to add them to my list now.
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Old 26-01-2012, 15:57
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Finished Simon Hoggart's Send in the Clowns - a collection of his parliamentary sketches. Adds colour to the House of Commons's debates.
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Old 26-01-2012, 15:59
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For those that are interested, "Before I Go To Sleep" and "Into The Darkest Corner" are amongst the books that are going to be reviewed on More 4's Book Club (Sunday evenings)
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