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What are you reading at the moment? (Part 4)
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dymafi
03-12-2012
Finished Stella Gibbons`s Cold Comfort Farm .. Really good humorous tale. Would have been a big waft of fresh air in the 30s .. same as Flora Poste`s impact on the Starkadder family.
benjamini
03-12-2012
Originally Posted by dymafi:
“Finished Stella Gibbons`s Cold Comfort Farm .. Really good humorous tale. Would have been a big waft of fresh air in the 30s .. same as Flora Poste`s impact on the Starkadder family.”

Great book. Lovely characterisation and very funny.
kate36
04-12-2012
Miss Read "Changes at Fairacre"..lovely books and this is no exception

i have just found 4 more of her books in the library, that should keep me quiet for a while!
Goldbear86
04-12-2012
The Baby Group by Rowan Coleman.
KT-Williams
04-12-2012
Chelsea Cain - Heartsick..... good read, actually i can't put it down... 22 chapters in and im hooked
wildhollie
04-12-2012
Just finished "Prayers for Rain" by Dennis Lehane, now started on "Moonlight Mile" the follow up to "Gone baby Gone" also by DL.

Prayers for Rain was excellent....i'm expecting good things from Moonlight Mile too !
Beautiful_Harv
04-12-2012
Jane Casey- The Last Girl
the_lostprophet
05-12-2012
Originally Posted by mel_drew:
“Wilkie Collins, "No Name".

Since I got the Kindle I've been reading the freebies. I'm stunned by Collin's readability. Modern in style. Humourous. Joyous.”

I've always enjoyed reading the classics but I think the rise of the Kindle freebies has been a great way to get more people interested in them. I've only read The Woman in White by Collins so far, but yes he does have an easy to read style.
benjamini
05-12-2012
Originally Posted by the_lostprophet:
“I've always enjoyed reading the classics but I think the rise of the Kindle freebies has been a great way to get more people interested in them. I've only read The Woman in White by Collins so far, but yes he does have an easy to read style.”

The Woman in White is Brill. Loved it.
mel_drew
05-12-2012
Originally Posted by benjamini:
“The Woman in White is Brill. Loved it.”

I've never thought to read "The Woman in White", so far. My opinion has always been coloured by an unenjoyable theatre experience some years ago when my daughter treated us to birthday tickets and a hotel because my wife was a fan of Michael Crawford who was playing Fosco. He decided to be ill and was understudied (quite well, but not the same), and I found myself behind the tallest man in London so only saw half the stage.

However, having now experienced Wilkie Collins, It'll be my next read.
clm2071
05-12-2012
Picked up a couple of Agatha Christies today, have started 5 Little Pigs this afternoon.

Nothing like a good old fashioned murder/mystery on a winter's evening when it's chucking it down with snow outside!
stud u like
05-12-2012
"Ban This Filth!: Letters From the Mary Whitehouse Archive" edited by Ben Thompson.

"The Twits" by Roald Dahl. I can read this in less than half an hour.
MazMarik
06-12-2012
Book of Blood by C.Barker
benjamini
06-12-2012
Originally Posted by stud u like:
“"Ban This Filth!: Letters From the Mary Whitehouse Archive" edited by Ben Thompson.

"The Twits" by Roald Dahl. I can read this in less than half an hour.”

Hi, whats the Mary Whitehouse one like? Im mildly curious.
Arcana
06-12-2012
'The Dark' - James Herbert
stud u like
06-12-2012
Originally Posted by benjamini:
“Hi, whats the Mary Whitehouse one like? Im mildly curious.”

I found the book a mixture of sadness and amusement at things she found objectionable.
benjamini
06-12-2012
Originally Posted by stud u like:
“I found the book a mixture of sadness and amusement at things she found objectionable.”

Worth a read ?
stoatie
06-12-2012
I'm reading The Baader Meinhof Complex by Stefan Aust- it's about the Red Army Faction, as the title would suggest. It's the book the movie that came out a few years ago was based on, and it's VERY well-researched and indepth. Fascinating to see how rational people can embrace extremism.
-Sid-
06-12-2012
100 pages into The Mystery Of Mercy Close by Marian Keyes and I'm not enjoying it at all. Neither the plot nor the characters are gripping me and though Keyes usually has me crying with laughter, I haven't laughed once so far. And my god it's sloooooow.

Can anyone tell me if it gets better? Or does the entire story revolve around this obnoxious "Laddz" band? I mean, why would I care about the disappearance of one of the band members? The reader has no connection with him whatsoever.

So disappointed. Had been eagerly awaiting her new book.
Reddybook
06-12-2012
Tripwire by Lee Child.. I'm reading his books in order, and once you have got used to Lee Child 's style of writing, and the character of Jack Reacher, his books are unputdownable.
KT-Williams
06-12-2012
Originally Posted by KT-Williams:
“Chelsea Cain - Heartsick..... good read, actually i can't put it down... 22 chapters in and im hooked ”

Onto book 2 in the Archie Sheridan series... and it's as fab as the 1st one... am loving Chelsea Cains book... hooked!
Abriel
06-12-2012
The Sleeping Doll, Jeffrey Deaver
Yog101
06-12-2012
Currently half way through Cujo by Stephen King.

Out of all the SK books I've read so far, it's my least favourite, but it still has the second half to save itself.
stud u like
06-12-2012
Originally Posted by benjamini:
“Worth a read ?”

Yes, if you were aware of the programmes and the people discussed in the letters. It adds to the background.
Teo Doll
06-12-2012
Death On The Nile - Agatha Christie.
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