What are you reading right now! [Archive] - Page 4

LucyK!

22 Feb 2007, 20:29

I've started Peter Kay's autobiography "The Sound Of Laughter" but I made the mistake of starting to read it on the train - got half way though the first chapter and the guy next to me asked me what on earth I was reading as I was trying so hard to keep my laughing in that I was sat making odd little giggle sounds :shock:

Fantastic so far and I'm only onto chapter 2!

mszee

22 Feb 2007, 20:32

First Among Sequels - the new Thursday next book is due out this summer.

My attention span disorder kicked in and I had to put it away for now...wait...Tuesday Next or is it now about her child???

Chris

22 Feb 2007, 20:52

mszee

22 Feb 2007, 20:56

It is still about Thursday although it does feature her son Friday who, you will recall from Thursday death in the Well of lost plots, is to become the best ChronoGuard known to mankind.

Apparently it is all set in Pride & Prejudice and mainly revolves around Jurisfiction - i much prefer these to the Nursery Crime books.

I really thought he was done with those series...the last book wasn't as good as the rest...it almost felt like Fforde lost his own interest in it...

I liked first nursery crimes...this one...don't know just got stuck and had to put it aside for now...

I preferred Thursday Next too...

Rockette

23 Feb 2007, 05:58

... Songs My Mother Taught Me... the autobiography of Marlon Brando ... :shock: ... lol... i'm gettin' there... i'm gettin' there... :lol: ...

:shock: I haven't visited this thread in weeks!

Welcome Home, Stranger ~ Matthew Daniels. Brilliant stuff, even if not among the most recently released.

rick

23 Feb 2007, 09:27

My christmass credit card bill's

AAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!

Skeleton

23 Feb 2007, 10:55

Terry Pratchett - Witches abroad (Noitia maisemissa in Finnish)

Hypnobabe

23 Feb 2007, 13:21

American Psycho - Brett Easton Ellis

geordieloaf

23 Feb 2007, 19:45

Well i'm finally going for it. I have started my first novel! It will be fiction/horror (what else). Just need to gag the daughter while i'm writing and i will be sorted.

mszee

23 Feb 2007, 19:47

Well i'm finally going for it. I have started my first novel! It will be fiction/horror (what else). Just need to gag the daughter while i'm writing and i will be sorted.

Good luck!!!

Can I have signed copy when you're all done and published???

geordieloaf

23 Feb 2007, 21:50

Good luck!!!

Can I have signed copy when you're all done and published???
Of course you can, i'm sure i can give you a mention a rather scarey cross mouse bat creature?:twisted: Yea i think that has got something not sure what though! :-)

mszee

23 Feb 2007, 21:51

Of course you can, i'm sure i can give you a mention a rather scarey cross mouse bat creature?:twisted: Yea i think that has got something not sure what though! :-)

Creatures like me always fit nicely into horror stories...trust me...:lol:

Sue K

26 Feb 2007, 23:18

... Songs My Mother Taught Me... the autobiography of Marlon Brando ... and i've ruined alll good feelings i'd built up for Marlong by reading an article about him... written while he was lying on his deathbed... i just don't know how to feel about the man now... hmmm... :( ...

mszee

27 Feb 2007, 00:44

shadow1000001

27 Feb 2007, 17:04

Just finished A Book Of Angels by Sylvia Browne and just started Cell by Stephen King

Hypnobabe

27 Feb 2007, 17:39

Currently still reading American Psycho - Brett Easton Ellis, plus Infamous Murderers, and about to start A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess...

mszee

27 Feb 2007, 17:44

Currently still reading American Psycho - Brett Easton Ellis, plus Infamous Murderers, and about to start A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess...

uhhhh...one of my favorites...Clockwork Orange...can learn a few Russian words from this book by the way...

Hypnobabe

27 Feb 2007, 18:11

It's one of those books I've always thought I should read and never have... and never seen the film either...

mszee

27 Feb 2007, 18:26

It's one of those books I've always thought I should read and never have... and never seen the film either...

Both masterpieces in my opinion...each one in it's own right...

Sue K

27 Feb 2007, 19:33

I don't think you have to feel anything for him now...think he is quite dead...

... lol.. i called him Marlong... oops... and imo... even if someone is dead... and you didn't know them... and then you read about them... from what you read about them... you can still ... ummm... form an opinion of them... if you want to...

Sue K

04 Mar 2007, 16:46

ummm... it's like a bad running joke at this point... i'm aware but... yepper...

... Songs My Mother Taught Me... the autobiography of Marlon Brando ... HEY... nobody wants to give up their seat on the bus in the morning so i can sit and read this tome !!... lol... only have a couple pages left HONEST... so... onward and upward and sieze the day !... i shall be on to a new book soon...

i hope... me shoulder's KILLing me from lugging this loverly piece of literature about... hahaha...

Sue K

05 Mar 2007, 10:47

drumroll puleeeze...

I HAVE FINISHED...

... Songs My Mother Taught Me... the autobiography of Marlon Brando ...

i liked it... i REALLY liked what he said in the final chapter...

next up...

Angela's Ashes...

mszee

06 Mar 2007, 03:12

Rockette

06 Mar 2007, 07:21

drumroll puleeeze...I HAVE FINISHED...

:shock: :shock: :shock: :faint:

Was the publisher paying you by the hour to read it? Maybe now you can enrol in a speed reading class. :D
I hope you never try reading Evil Angels. :twisted:

Monstro

06 Mar 2007, 09:35

Health & Safety NEBOSH training manual

Sue K

06 Mar 2007, 10:17

Angela's Ashes... up to page 12 ! ... it's going swimmingly !! ... :D ...

Caelan

06 Mar 2007, 11:53

this thread..:shock:

Blackkat13

07 Mar 2007, 21:23

this Thread

mszee

07 Mar 2007, 21:24

Jonathan Kellerman's Therapy

So far so good...the other one I wouldn't recommend really...

Rickmonster

07 Mar 2007, 22:02

Dombey and Son (Charles Dickens)

allrevvedup

08 Mar 2007, 10:56

Bono's autobiography, v wordy but it's good.

Bono has a lot of passion about his music and the work he does for charity

Hypnobabe

08 Mar 2007, 14:21

Currently still reading American Psycho - Brett Easton Ellis, plus Infamous Murderers, and about to start A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess...

Ditto... still haven't started A Clockwork Orange yet, and I've got Michael Connelly's City Of Bones, Richard McCann's The Boy Grows Up, and Griff Rhys Jones' Semi Detached to add to the waiting pile, plus another three or four on order from Amazon...

mszee

08 Mar 2007, 14:43

Ditto... still haven't started A Clockwork Orange yet, and I've got Michael Connelly's City Of Bones, Richard McCann's The Boy Grows Up, and Griff Rhys Jones' Semi Detached to add to the waiting pile, plus another three or four on order from Amazon...

Me and you should get together...I have bags and bags of books waiting for me besides those 6 bookcases that are already full...

needmoremeat

09 Mar 2007, 12:43

Have sort of given up on Lisey's Story, haven't read for weeks:(
I'd like to read Clockwork Orange, haven't seen movie, either. But then, there are hundreds of books I'd like to read!:lol: Maybe when I finish uni, own my own little place, little Nissan Micra and have a nice job I'll get around to reading them:lol: That'll be in about ten years, then!

Blackkat13

11 Mar 2007, 06:58

this board

Sue K

11 Mar 2007, 11:19

Angela's Ashes ... and i was so engrossed in it the other morning... while riding the bus to work... i dang near missed me stop !!!... Marlon never did that for me... lol...

mszee

12 Mar 2007, 04:04

Angela's Ashes ... and i was so engrossed in it the other morning... while riding the bus to work... i dang near missed me stop !!!... Marlon never did that for me... lol...

That's cause I already told you he is dead

Hypnobabe

23 Mar 2007, 23:00

Bought More Twisted by Jeffrey Deaver at about 2.30 this afternoon, and I'm currently on page 294 of 432...

mszee

24 Mar 2007, 01:28

Straight Into Darkness by Faye Kellerman

Monstro

24 Mar 2007, 01:29

This thread

tinkerbell

24 Mar 2007, 02:18

guilt by association - Susan R Sloan

Rockette

24 Mar 2007, 11:29

Writing the Story of Your Life.
Could be on this one for quite some time too.

SW31

24 Mar 2007, 11:34

threads on mlukfc

Hypnobabe

24 Mar 2007, 17:16

Bought More Twisted by Jeffrey Deaver at about 2.30 this afternoon, and I'm currently on page 294 of 432...

Finished...

Reading The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly

Chris

24 Mar 2007, 21:01

Brave new World - Aldous huxley

Sue K

08 Apr 2007, 01:15

... crim.... last i was here was March 11?.. where the BOOH did the TIME go?... lol... and... DON'T HOLLAR... i'm STILL reading Angela's Ashes... :shock: ... lol...

geordieloaf

08 Apr 2007, 11:34

I have written 198 pages so far on my story! It is taking me alot longer than i thought, the trouble is i keep going back and re writing most of it.
Hopefully i will get it finished before the next millennium.

Hypnobabe

08 Apr 2007, 11:59

I've been working my way through a collection of Michael Connellys... I've done Trunk Music and A Darkness More Than Night since I was here last, and I'm currently in the middle of The Narrows

Sue K

08 Apr 2007, 15:46

... still Angela's Ashes ...

mszee

08 Apr 2007, 17:41

Cell - Stephen King

Chris

08 Apr 2007, 17:51

Waiting for the latest Lee Childs novel to arrive.

Currently reading Madame Bovary by some french dude!!

Paul191

08 Apr 2007, 17:56

Just finished reading 'The Magus' by John fowles. All I can say is that I loved every second of it.

mszee

08 Apr 2007, 18:02

Waiting for the latest Lee Childs novel to arrive.

Currently reading Madame Bovary by some french dude!!

You need to get more depressed?

I can recommend a few Russian writers who will put Flaubert to shame...

Sue K

08 Apr 2007, 18:12

... still Angela's Ashes... but not at the present moment ... :-) ...

Chris

08 Apr 2007, 18:24

You need to get more depressed?

I can recommend a few Russian writers who will put Flaubert to shame...

I'm rather enjoying it.

mszee

08 Apr 2007, 18:26

I'm rather enjoying it.

I did too actually...not as complicated as most French novels...

Have you read Dostoevsky?

Chris

08 Apr 2007, 18:32

Not that I recall.

mszee

08 Apr 2007, 18:33

Not that I recall.

Try sometimes then...I think one of the best one is an Idiot...although the most popular is Crime and Punishment...which I don't consider his strongest novel at all...

Sue K

08 Apr 2007, 18:36

... still Angela's Ashes ...

Chris

08 Apr 2007, 18:39

Try sometimes then...I think one of the best one is an Idiot...although the most popular is Crime and Punishment...which I don't consider his strongest novel at all...

C heers, will order it from the library when I go this week.

mszee

08 Apr 2007, 18:41

C heers, will order it from the library when I go this week.

Not a cheerful reading though...just a word of warning...

Sue K

08 Apr 2007, 18:42

... still Angela's Ashes ...

shadow1000001

09 Apr 2007, 01:15

Cell - Stephen King

Me too .... lol

mszee

09 Apr 2007, 01:15

Me too .... lol

So far I am not wild about it...how about you?

shadow1000001

09 Apr 2007, 01:16

I'm not either. Not some of his best work.

mszee

09 Apr 2007, 01:17

I'm not either. Not some of his best work.

What page are you on? Is it even worth to continue? I have piles and piles of other books to read...

shadow1000001

09 Apr 2007, 01:18

I'm almost half way thru it and I'm considering giving up... lol

mszee

09 Apr 2007, 01:21

I'm almost half way thru it and I'm considering giving up... lol

You know...I thank you...I am on page 45 or something...and it's...BLEH...so if you're in the middle and considering giving up...maybe I should give up before I get there and ask myself why did I waste so much time on it...

shadow1000001

09 Apr 2007, 01:22

I agree. Too bad I didn't have someone tell me that when I started ...lol

mszee

09 Apr 2007, 01:23

I agree. Too bad I didn't have someone tell me that when I started ...lol

Well, the thing is...somebody at work virtually forced it on me with highest recommendations...I had no intention of reading it...everybody knows that Stephen King doesn't own cell phone and is quite paranoid about them...big deal...

shadow1000001

09 Apr 2007, 01:26

Yeah I know. I got it because I normally like his books but this one is doing absolutely nothing for me.

mszee

09 Apr 2007, 01:28

Yeah I know. I got it because I normally like his books but this one is doing absolutely nothing for me.

Thanks...will give it one more lunchtime...and that's it...thank you very much!!!

Did you read his Hearts in Atlantis? Or last books of Dark Tower series?

shadow1000001

09 Apr 2007, 01:30

Yes, I have read both. I think I could of cried the way the dark tower series ended. Definately not what I was expecting but still good.

mszee

09 Apr 2007, 01:32

Yes, I have read both. I think I could of cried the way the dark tower series ended. Definately not what I was expecting but still good.

Really...I LOVED the ending...in my opinion...although I haven't expected it...it couldn't have ended any other way...I thought it was brilliant ending...I was cringing thinking of how it will all end...but...wasn't disappointed...

shadow1000001

09 Apr 2007, 01:34

I guess you are right. It couldn't of ended any other way. I guess it just broke my heart to think of him doing it all over again and again ...lol

mszee

09 Apr 2007, 01:35

I guess you are right. It couldn't of ended any other way. I guess it just broke my heart to think of him doing it all over again and again ...lol

But I think at the end of the day...that's what it was all about...searching for holy grail, fountain of youth, ultimate secret of the Universe...and never quite reaching it...

shadow1000001

09 Apr 2007, 01:38

That is so true.

mszee

09 Apr 2007, 01:39

That is so true.

I find it interesting that he wrote all this AFTER his coma...faced the death so to speak...

shadow1000001

09 Apr 2007, 01:41

Yes that's right. Especially where there were periods of 7-10 yrs between books. It almost seemed like he wanted to wrap up all the loose ends.

mszee

09 Apr 2007, 01:43

Yes that's right. Especially where there were periods of 7-10 yrs between books. It almost seemed like he wanted to wrap up all the loose ends.

He wanted to for a long time...and right after brush with death...he has written some great books...so it's surprising that he is coming back to writing trash...guess he is all better now...:lol:

shadow1000001

09 Apr 2007, 01:52

yes he must be:lmao:

mszee

09 Apr 2007, 01:54

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/03/20/books.joe.hill.ap/index.html

Have you seen this?

shadow1000001

09 Apr 2007, 02:05

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/03/20/books.joe.hill.ap/index.html

Have you seen this?

That's pretty cool. I may have to pick that one up

mszee

09 Apr 2007, 02:08

That's pretty cool. I may have to pick that one up

Yep...got good reviews too...also Jonathan Kellerman's son published a book...also got good reviews...new generation is coming up...

shadow1000001

09 Apr 2007, 02:09

Yep...got good reviews too...also Jonathan Kellerman's son published a book...also got good reviews...new generation is coming up...

I suddenly feel so old :shock: lol

mszee

09 Apr 2007, 02:10

I suddenly feel so old :shock: lol

You're telling this to me??? hahahahahahahahhahah...

shadow1000001

09 Apr 2007, 02:19

lol

Sue K

09 Apr 2007, 10:29

... still Angela's Ashes ... :-) ...

tinkerbell

09 Apr 2007, 23:47

an isolated incident - susan r. sloan

Hypnobabe

10 Apr 2007, 16:26

Just finished Echo Park - Michael Connelly - don't know what I'm going to read now, 'cos I've got no new books left!

Sue K

25 Apr 2007, 11:59

... still Angela's Ashes ... :-) ...

isn't anyone reading anymore?... lol... just HAD to rush in and proclaim the news... I'VE FINISHED ANGELA'S ASHES !... lol... and have started... Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood...

i hope it gets better ... i mean it's GOOD... but strikes too close to home and crimps me tummy reading it... lol...

sieze the day !!

t....

Hypnobabe

25 Apr 2007, 12:22

mszee

25 Apr 2007, 14:07

Read a few books in between but forgot to post...so...gave up on The Cell and now reading Dean Koontz The Husband...is ok...

Skeleton

26 Apr 2007, 11:45

Stephen Hunter -Point of impact (The Shooter film is based on the book)

Sue K

26 Apr 2007, 11:48

... still ... Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood ... should i just come back in 6 mos and tell you i've finished and onto the next book???... hahahhaha.. hic...

Hypnobabe

06 May 2007, 23:42

Re-reading The Firm - John Grisham. Watched the film again the other day and decided to re-read it...

AndyK

06 May 2007, 23:49

Re-reading The Firm - John Grisham. Watched the film again the other day and decided to re-read it...

The books way better than the film isn't it?

Currently on Vulcan 607, the story of the epic bombing raid during the Falklands Conflict,

Hypnobabe

07 May 2007, 00:05

The books way better than the film isn't it?

It's been a while since I read it, but they generally are.. and I'm only about ten pages in so far...

AndyK

07 May 2007, 00:35

It's been a while since I read it, but they generally are.. and I'm only about ten pages in so far...

OK, we won't spoil the ending for you just yet then :lmao:

mszee

07 May 2007, 06:24

Puppet by Joy Fielding

Lord Kagan

07 May 2007, 09:57

A Level notes sadly

Spider

10 May 2007, 19:58

isn't anyone reading anymore?... lol... just HAD to rush in and proclaim the news... I'VE FINISHED ANGELA'S ASHES !... lol... and have started... Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood...

i hope it gets better ... i mean it's GOOD... but strikes too close to home and crimps me tummy reading it... lol...

sieze the day !!

t....

Who wrote The Divine Secrets, etc, would like to get it!

Reading Holy fools - Joanna Harris

Sue K

20 May 2007, 15:59

Who wrote The Divine Secrets, etc, would like to get it!

Reading Holy fools - Joanna Harris

it's written by Rebecca Wells... and i've finished it... i laughed ... i cried... thought about sending it to my daughter... and thought better... lol... as i said... much too close to home...

now i'm reading The Mighty Freak.. the book the film The Mighty... that Meat had a small part in... is based on... it's very good...

Hypnobabe

21 May 2007, 01:52

Reading The Bone Collector, Jeffrey Deaver.

Planning on re-reading the Harry Potters next, that should take me up to the release of the new book... on second thoughts, maybe I'll wait a few weeks to start them, it's not out until the middle of July...

Sue K

21 May 2007, 02:04

.. hehehe.. i'm not reading The Mighty Freak.. hehehe.. it's called Freak The Mighty ... :oops: ... don't even know what the BOOH i'm reading... lol...

Chris

21 May 2007, 20:53

I've just finished The Runaway Jury by Grisham and The Cell by Stephen King.
Also recently re-read the Jasper Fforde series (the Eyre Affair, The Well Of Lost Plots, Lost In A Good Book and Something Rotten) in anticipation of the new thursday next book (First Among Sequels) being out in July.

And part of the book being out then means that firstly i am busy planning a road trip to Swindon for the launch in the vague hope that the Unitary Authority of Warrington Cat is there! and it is time for the annual Thursday Next Xtreme Reading Challenge so i need to come up with somewhere unusual to be photographed reading the book.

Currently reading Terry Pratchett's Witches Abroad which i appear to have previously overlooked.

Monstro

21 May 2007, 22:19

i need to come up with somewhere unusual to be photographed reading the book.

Front row at WWRY?

JanT

21 May 2007, 23:50

Dibs - In Search Of Self by Virginia M. Axline

Skeleton

22 May 2007, 11:38

H.P Lovecrafts´s Call of Cthulhu

tinkerbell

27 May 2007, 17:33

The Caller - Alex Barclay

Sapphire Lady

27 May 2007, 21:47

Ian McEwan - On Chesil Beach

Hypnobabe

27 May 2007, 22:39

Unusually for me, nothing... but I did just finish The Coffin Dancer, by Jeffrey Deaver...

Sue K

28 May 2007, 03:41

i've finished... Freak The Mighty... lovely sweet sad but filled with hope and future...

now i'm reading... Gone .. by Jonathan Kellerman ...

Cpl Mickey

28 May 2007, 10:37

I'm reading The Hogfather by Terry Pratchett at the moment. I have Dan Brown's - Da Vinci code to read next.

Sue K

28 May 2007, 11:31

... still ... Gone .. by Jonathan Kellerman

Hypnobabe

28 May 2007, 19:34

I'm reading The Hogfather by Terry Pratchett at the moment.
Brilliant - I managed to get my copy signed by Pratchett when I bought it, along with about four or five others I've bought at various times!

I have Dan Brown's - Da Vinci code to read next.

Enjoyed that one too, but don't read it unless you've read Angels and Demons first!

Oh, and I'm reading The Empty Chair by Jeffrey Deaver - going through a bit of a phase...

Sue K

28 May 2007, 22:17

... still ... Gone .. by Jonathan Kellerman

mszee

03 Jul 2007, 18:28

Elizabeth George - With No One As Witness

Highly recommend for mystery lovers!

vrg

03 Jul 2007, 18:38

mszee

03 Jul 2007, 18:39

I'm backtracking - The Forsyte Saga - Galsworthy.
(The edition published when the recent remake came out last year.)

I'm comparing and filling in dates on the family tree from the episodes of the original series shown in the 60's - the first on Masterpiece Theatre here in the US, before Upstairs, Downstairs.

Funny...that was on my liste to re-read...even bought a new edition but didn't get to it yet...and didn't see new episodes...but did see recently the old ones...actually...it was such an event in Russia when they come out...people would cancel their lives to see them...

samurai7

03 Jul 2007, 19:03

Diamonds Are Forever - Ian Fleming.

next up are From Russia With Love and Dr No :)

RadioMaster

03 Jul 2007, 19:52

must say I didnt read anything for the last couple of months.
Started Crichton's 'Next' about half a year ago and it bored the hell out of me, so it's still lying next to my bed and I cant be arsed to continue, Should throw it away and look for a good one.

vrg

03 Jul 2007, 20:19

Funny...that was on my liste to re-read...even bought a new edition but didn't get to it yet...and didn't see new episodes...but did see recently the old ones...actually...it was such an event in Russia when they come out...people would cancel their lives to see them...

That was happening in the US and, of course, the UK as well. I won't see the new version because I love the original so much, I want to remember the characters as played in that version.

mszee

03 Jul 2007, 20:21

That was happening in the US and, of course, the UK as well. I won't see the new version because I love the original so much, I want to remember the characters as played in that version.

It was a good one...however, I like to see all kinds of versions...it's actually on my Netflix list but I keep on shoving it to the back because of the new movies...

Sue K

04 Jul 2007, 02:59

... HEY... i've finished Gone and am on to ... Wuthering Heights ! ...

firefly

04 Jul 2007, 11:34

The Ulltimate Guide To Vista :shock:

Hypnobabe

04 Jul 2007, 12:13

Sue K

04 Jul 2007, 12:25

... still Wuthering Heights... but we all know how this goes... hehehe... i'll be saying that for about 6 mos ... :shock: ... hehehe ...

mszee

04 Jul 2007, 18:59

Since I last posted here, I've read The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, The Dark Tower: The Drawing Of The Three, The Dark Tower: The Waste Lands and I'm currently reading The Dark Tower: Wizard And Glass - all by Stephen King. I'm hoping to get the rest of the series read in time to re-read the Harry Potters before the last one comes out..

Should you have asked me before...I would have suggested you can miss The Waste Lands and The Wizard and the Glass...:lol:

BUT...the rest of the series - new books are VERY good...and the ending is SUPERB...

(Seriously considering to ruin it for Claire...:lmao:)

Spider

04 Jul 2007, 20:36

[Enjoyed that one (Da Vinci Code) too, but don't read it unless you've read Angels and Demons first!]

Does it matter? I enjoyed Da Vinci Code, but if you think it's that important, maybe I should read Angels and Demons as well!

just begun reading Succulent Wild Woman by Sark at the moment - my daughter says its weird, so I'll have to wait and see!!

heat

04 Jul 2007, 23:43

Dibs - In Search Of Self by Virginia M. Axline

Ohh i read that during my uni course... twas fab.

Am currently not working on anythign more pressing then the daily local rag...

SamCat

04 Jul 2007, 23:47

[Enjoyed that one (Da Vinci Code) too, but don't read it unless you've read Angels and Demons first!]

Does it matter? I enjoyed Da Vinci Code, but if you think it's that important, maybe I should read Angels and Demons as well!

Is Dan Brown's new book out soon? Its supposed to be about the masons i think!!

RadioMaster

05 Jul 2007, 00:41

what a surprise! lol

should really get out of the closet and write about anything else but conspiracies.
though I have to admit they're his best, digital fortress and the other one werent really that good.

Hypnobabe

05 Jul 2007, 00:45

Should you have asked me before...I would have suggested you can miss The Waste Lands and The Wizard and the Glass...:lol:

BUT...the rest of the series - new books are VERY good...and the ending is SUPERB...

(Seriously considering to ruin it for Claire...:lmao:)

You can't ruin the ending, I already know it... I re-read the series every summer... I think I'm on about the eighth run through for the early books, I can remember reading them when I was pregnant with Jordan, and he was seven this year...

I quite enjoy Wizard and Glass, not so much The Waste Lands... and the ending is the only possible ending for the series, IMHO...

Back on topic: As well as Wizard and Glass, I'm also reading The Book With No Name by Anonymous...

RadioMaster

05 Jul 2007, 00:52

definitely got to buy a good book tomorrow.
any advice?

Hypnobabe

05 Jul 2007, 00:54

Depends what you like...

I'd recommend...

The Time Traveller's Wife, by Audrey Nieffenegger
The Book With No Name, by Anonymous
The Interpretation of Murder, by Jed Rubenfeld for starters...

Sue K

05 Jul 2007, 02:37

... still Wuthering Heights ... http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u204/tinksStuff/icon_reading.gif ...

mszee

05 Jul 2007, 05:48

Depends what you like...

I'd recommend...

The Time Traveller's Wife, by Audrey Nieffenegger
The Book With No Name, by Anonymous
The Interpretation of Murder, by Jed Rubenfeld for starters...

Claire...Time Traveller's Wife??? Marry me!!! :heart:

RJ...the book is a bit...feminine...but it's an amazing book and certainly is a great achievemnt in contemporary literature...I highly recommend it too...

Sue K

05 Jul 2007, 10:33

... still Wuthering Heights ...

Cpl Mickey

05 Jul 2007, 13:41

Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

Hypnobabe

05 Jul 2007, 13:44

Finished The Book With No Name, back to Wizard and Glass..

And have The F*** You Up and Families And How To Survive Them to follow too..

Fallen Angel

06 Jul 2007, 12:50

red dragon- thomas harris

RadioMaster

06 Jul 2007, 13:03

wanted to buy a new one, but found an old one I havent read yet in the cupboard: James Rollins, Excavation
we'll see what its like...

Sue K

07 Jul 2007, 19:42

... still Wuthering Heights ... and i was SO involved in it last night on the bus home... i nearly missed my stop ! ... :shock: ... hehehe ...

tinkerbell

07 Jul 2007, 21:18

Triptych - Karin Slaughter

Hypnobabe

07 Jul 2007, 22:49

Finished Wizard and Glass, now reading Wolves of the Calla, by Stephen King

mszee

08 Jul 2007, 06:12

You'll like the rest of the series!!!

Alright...I had my therapy session - visiting my favorite new/used bookstore...

For some reason it's a season of mysteries for me - ADD is kicking butt...

So...it's Twisted by Jonathan Kellerman

Sue K

08 Jul 2007, 11:44

... still Wuthering Heights ! ... :-) ...

KebLou

08 Jul 2007, 21:54

Manual of the Warrior of Light by Paulo Coelho

One of my birthday presents, it's very interesting but not one to race through it needs some reflection.

Sue K

09 Jul 2007, 10:02

... still... Wuthering Heights ! ... :D ...

geordieloaf

09 Jul 2007, 23:00

Read Charlie Brockett Autobiography very interesting and i actually started to warm to him towards the end.

Fallen Angel

15 Jul 2007, 22:37

still red dragon lol great so far, trying to finish it b4 harry potter come through the door lol
hugs
leeann
xx

mszee

16 Jul 2007, 14:38

Faye Kellerman - The Sacred And Profane

KebLou

25 Jul 2007, 23:01

Don't know if it counts as I finished reading it Sunday Morning but the new Harry Potter book. Meh is all I can say.

firefly

26 Jul 2007, 14:45

Don't know if it counts as I finished reading it Sunday Morning but the new Harry Potter book. Meh is all I can say.
JJust started to read the new Harry Potter book

The Flying Mouse

26 Jul 2007, 21:46

:twisted: Sharpe's Fury - Bernard Cornwell.

Be starting on the new Harry Potter when this one is read :mrgreen:

Cpl Mickey

26 Jul 2007, 22:00

re reading Harry Potter half blood prince

duke knooby

26 Jul 2007, 22:55

the what are we reading thread

mszee

27 Jul 2007, 03:26

Yeah, ok...for a moment there I thought I am back in kindergarden...

The Dogs Of Babel - Carolyn Parkhurst

needmoremeat

30 Jul 2007, 10:18

Started reading Colin Dexter The Remorseful Day last week.
Had Harry finished within hours of buying it, would have had it finished 45 mins earlier if I didn't have to go to mass!!!!:evil::evil::evil: 30 pages from the end and I have to put it down for an hour!

Rockette

30 Jul 2007, 10:59

Marley and Me - John Grogan

I'm an even slower reader than Tink, so don't go expecting an update anytime soon. :lol: However, I do believe this story (about a pet dog) ends in tears - and what dog story doesn't?

mszee

30 Jul 2007, 15:01

Finished Dogs of Babel...incredible book, couldn't put it down...

Highly recommend it, especially to ladies...

Next...

Bloodstream by Tess Gerritsen

Hypnobabe

30 Jul 2007, 19:27

Still halfway through The Dark Tower, because I didn't take it with me, but since I last visited I've read One Red Paperclip - very amusing - and The Five People You Meet In Heaven - enjoyed that too - and I've just started The F*** You Up.

duke knooby

30 Jul 2007, 23:24

the what are we reading thread

as above, again

RadioMaster

09 Aug 2007, 17:39

Finished Michael Crichton's "Next".

I am very very disappointed with this one.
Probably his worst book ever.
Anybody else read it?

Re-reading MC's Lost World now.

Sue K

13 Aug 2007, 02:03

... still Wuthering Heights ! ... :-) ...

congratulate me ! ... i've finished Wuthering Heights... and i have to say... i've heard tell the film made based on the book is a weeper... but dang... i think that the filmmakers must not have delved into the characters very deeply... that Heathcliff was a bastid... though i guess in a way i can understand why? ... but most of the characters.. OH the pissin' and moaning going on... and all so weak and dying off easily.. why not?... i think half of them intermarried or something right?... plus it's quite dated for these modern times i guess... but saying all that?... i couldn't put it down... i needed to know what happened next ! .... lol...

annnnd... i've also read Tuesdays with Morrie... a great little easy read... that made me smile... laugh a bit and weep... on the ride home Friday or perhaps it was Thursday?... yes... Thursday... i finished the book and nearly hyperventilated myself holding back the sobs... it's a book i'll keep within arm's reach and look up passages... and hope that i can find a way within myself to live according to Morrie's final lessons... no promises ... but i'll try... now i'm onto More Lost Towns In Southern New Jersey... i think it's called... it's a factual book... i picked up at the Salvation Army Shop... because it mentioned the town of Tuckerton in the index and that's where my grandfather lived and we'd visit there in summer... not until i started the book did i realize... it's an updated book ... dated 1963 ... updated from the original written in 1937 i think it said.. hahaha... it's got a nice old time feel to it... and i'm enjoying the walks and rides hither and thither along with the author immensely... i read on the bus... and get so deep into it... i'm surprised when i look up to find myself in modern times ! ...

it's a lengthy read so see yez in a couple months... hahahahah... hic...

tink...

Hypnobabe

13 Aug 2007, 10:03

... i've also read Tuesdays with Morrie... a great little easy read... that made me smile... laugh a bit and weep...

Tink, while I was away a few weeks ago, I read The Five People You Meet In Heaven, by the same author - that was also very good, and I'll be looking out for Tuesdays..

I've only read a couple, unusually for me, 'cos I ran out of space in the suitcase! Managed a couple of Richard Laymans, a Jeffrey Deaver, Richard Branson's Screw It, Let's Do It, the last half of They F*** You Up, (very good for anyone even slightly interested in psychotherapy) and something else that I can't remember right now since it's still locked in the suitcase on the kitchen floor and I'm posting from my bed....

mszee

13 Aug 2007, 14:45

Forgot an update...now it's The Eight by Katherine Neville

Hypnobabe

13 Aug 2007, 22:36

I've only read a couple, unusually for me, 'cos I ran out of space in the suitcase! Managed a couple of Richard Laymans, a Jeffrey Deaver, Richard Branson's Screw It, Let's Do It, the last half of They F*** You Up, (very good for anyone even slightly interested in psychotherapy) and something else that I can't remember right now since it's still locked in the suitcase on the kitchen floor and I'm posting from my bed....

Right.. okay.. now I've had the chance to check..

I've read@ The Sleeping Doll, by Jeffrey Deaver, Chart Throb, by Ben Elton, Dance for your Daddy, by Katherine Shellduck, Midnight's Lair and The Woods Are Dark, both by Richard Layman, They F*** You Up, by Oliver James, and the Richard Branson.

mszee

13 Aug 2007, 22:39

Right.. okay.. now I've had the chance to check..

I've read@ The Sleeping Doll, by Jeffrey Deaver, Chart Throb, by Ben Elton, Dance for your Daddy, by Katherine Shellduck, Midnight's Lair and The Woods Are Dark, both by Richard Layman, They F*** You Up, by Oliver James, and the Richard Branson.

Do you ever have sex? And if yes...when???? :shock:

*Runs and hides*

Hypnobabe

13 Aug 2007, 22:42

Do you ever have sex? And if yes...when???? :shock:

*Runs and hides*

Yes, but I don't need books for that!!! :lmao:

(I'm a very fast reader...)

mszee

13 Aug 2007, 23:56

Yes, but I don't need books for that!!! :lmao:

(I'm a very fast reader...)

I am not commenting but I am laughing my you know what off...

RadioMaster

14 Aug 2007, 00:05

what was this a fanclub of again? ;sherlock:

duke knooby

14 Aug 2007, 00:25

autocar magazine

RadioMaster

14 Aug 2007, 00:53

ah, right

Rockette

14 Aug 2007, 04:40

does MLUKFC forum reading count?????

mszee

14 Aug 2007, 10:05

what was this a fanclub of again? ;sherlock:

It was called...no shite, ;sherlock:

:lmao:

Hypnobabe

18 Aug 2007, 22:11

Red Carpets And Other Banana Skins - Rupert Everett's autobiography

Cpl Mickey

19 Aug 2007, 11:12

mszee

24 Aug 2007, 22:39

Michael Palmer - The Patient

firefly

24 Aug 2007, 23:14

Such A Pretty girl ( A True Story)

Hypnobabe

24 Aug 2007, 23:16

Just finished Blaze, by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman, and I confess I'm a little disappointed with the ending...

Next is either Families and how to survive them, by Robin Skinner and John Cleese, or The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins

mszee

25 Aug 2007, 23:21

Finished Michael Palmer's book...very fast read...

Next...James Patterson Big Bad Wolf followed by London Bridges

Sue K

26 Aug 2007, 00:38

[QUOTE=Hypnobabe;360989]Tink, while I was away a few weeks ago, I read The Five People You Meet In Heaven, by the same author - that was also very good, and I'll be looking out for Tuesdays..

QUOTE]

oh... ta for that 'Babe... i've heard great things about the book ... but wasn't aware he'd written it ! ... i enjoyed the way he tells a tale... i'll check out if anyone's turned that one into the Salvation Army Store yet... that's where i've been collecting me books as of late... :-) ...

as for me... gosh... i've gotten about halfway throught that book about lost towns in New Jersey... and suddenly just became depressed and saddened over it... all these people with their dashed dreams ... there was this one photo in the book that was unbearably sad to even look at !! ... right out loud on the bus i said... "that is the loneliest picture i've ever seen"....it became too much... i will go back to finish it... but i've taken a break from it with Roald Dahl's The Umbrella Man... a collection of 13 of his stories... and i'm enjoying it immensely ! ...

ta again for the recommendation 'Babe !

t ...

and as you can see... i STILL don't know how to sort the dang quote thingie... sorry about that... hehehe ...

Rickmonster

29 Feb 2008, 13:45

Recently read Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations by Georgina Howell. A gripping biography of a fantastic English woman, with the side benefit of providing incite into the Iraq issue.

Hypnobabe

29 Feb 2008, 14:04

On my bedside table at the moment is:

Atonement - Ian McEwan
Ten-Minute Mysteries - Albert Jack
Wicked - Gregory Maguire
Fortune & Feng Shui 2008 Tiger - Lilian Too & Jennifer Too
The Appeal - John Grisham

K1ttycat

29 Feb 2008, 15:35

I'm currently reading Stephan King's Duma Key. Normally I can read a 600 page book in about three days. I'm about two weeks into this book and I'm still only on page 250. I'm enjoying it but it is so wordy and dragging. I managed to get it at the library so it is due back a week from tom. and I'm really wondering if it is worth continuing and if I'll actually finish it in time. I am a major Dean Koontz fan and read the Darkest Evening of the Year in January and there are some similarities in parts of Koontz's book which are really annoying me as well!

K.

mszee

29 Feb 2008, 16:34

I hate King's verbose books and sometimes I think he gets paid per word or per page. I haven't read him recently cause I get tired of this plus his new books are nothing new.

Same goes for Koontz...nothing new or exciting.

Currently reading Sense and Sensibility. Yes, I am on Jane Austen's roll...reads much better than it did in college.

allrevvedup

29 Feb 2008, 16:48

Just finished a book called Loving The Alien, about David Bowie which was very good.

The Flying Mouse

29 Feb 2008, 19:33

:twisted: Still reading It by Steven King.

Took me a while to read as i've not been reading it very constantly, but i'm into the last 100 pages now 8)

belladonna-took

29 Feb 2008, 20:47

'It' is one of the scariest books i've ever read..and i don't scare easily!

belladonna-took

29 Feb 2008, 20:47

The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant.

SamCat

01 Mar 2008, 05:50

I read The Good Guy by Dean Koontz on the plane and really enjoyed it I thought it was better than The Darkest Evening!!

MeatGrl1

03 Mar 2008, 04:57

Nothing at the moment... Mabe I should start my Sweeney Todd paperback then... :lol:

angelica

03 Mar 2008, 22:41

Always reading something ... Sherlock Holmes Anthology at the moment!

Monstro

04 Mar 2008, 01:46

note from Emma... don't drink, don't smoke, don't piss the neighbours off, put the rubbish out.

I'll put the rubbish out lol

mszee

04 Mar 2008, 14:48

note from Emma... don't drink, don't smoke, don't piss the neighbours off, put the rubbish out.

I'll put the rubbish out lol

One out of four is poor...:lmao:

Monstro

04 Mar 2008, 14:55

One out of four is poor...:lmao:

I tried lol

Betty

04 Mar 2008, 16:04

easy reading... Sex and the city novel :mrgreen:

mszee

04 Mar 2008, 16:10

easy reading... Sex and the city novel :mrgreen:

You're kidding...I've tried her 4 Blondes and I think maybe I got to page 5...no further...

Betty

04 Mar 2008, 16:20

mszee

04 Mar 2008, 16:40

Haven´t read 4 Blondes yet... But the SATC book is, well it´s easy reading and really funny at times. Something you read to be distracted for a few hours from the shit around you... It totally achieves its purpose for me there ;)

Sometimes I read chick lit...there is plenty of better fluff around...her I can't read even when I need to relax...mostly read mysteries for relaxation anyway...

SamCat

04 Mar 2008, 21:48

note from Emma... don't drink, don't smoke, don't piss the neighbours off, put the rubbish out.

I'll put the rubbish out lol

I actually said please don't smoke in the flat til i'd gone so my clean clothes didn't smell and like i could stop you drinking, which usually goes hand in hand with pissing the neighbours off!!

Hypnobabe

11 Mar 2008, 13:44

Surprisingly enough for a two week trip, I've only brought two books, Wicked (which I finished last week) and The Appeal, which I'm halfway through...

mszee

11 Mar 2008, 13:47

Wicked is a great book although my favorite out of those series of books is Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (Cinderella)

Still on Jane Austen and plan to read everything by her. As of now it's Persuasion.

Rickmonster

13 Mar 2008, 02:13

Still on Jane Austen and plan to read everything by her. As of now it's Persuasion.

Perhaps you would also like Anthony Trollope (if not already). Recently finished The Way We Live Now. As with Austen, great stuff!

mszee

13 Mar 2008, 15:04

Perhaps you would also like Anthony Trollope (if not already). Recently finished The Way We Live Now. As with Austen, great stuff!

Perhaps...it's all those classics that they force fed me in school and college with their dumb never ending analysis of nothing at all that I have to get back to now and look at it with fresh eye.

The Flying Mouse

20 Nov 2008, 17:16

:twisted: The Godfather's Revenge - Mark Winegardner.

I read Wingardner's previous book, "The Godfather - The Lost Years" a few years ago, and enjoyed it very much.

Winegardner tells the story of what happens between the Godfather movies, making the original three part story that much tighter.

As expected, all the classic characters are present, and new important characters are introduced, who's actions contribute much to what takes place in the films, even though they are never mentioned.
Wingarder creation, Nick Geraci, for instance, who is shown to be the driving force behind the betrayal of the naive Fredo Corleone in The Godfather Part II.

This second book (so far.Never rule out flashback stuff with The Godfather lol) has dealt with events that have taken place after Part II.

The Wingardner books draw very obvious parallels with reality, so much so that you could forget you were reading a fictitious novel and mistake it for a history of crime and politics in America.

Not everyones cup of tea, but if you like The Godfather, or crime fiction in general, these books are well worth a look 8) .

mszee

20 Nov 2008, 17:44

Memoirs of the Geisha

angelica

20 Nov 2008, 23:51

Agatha Raisin and The Love From Hell ... M.C. Beaton

A bit far fetched but a book you can escape into!

Hypnobabe

24 Nov 2008, 21:07

At the moment, mostly DD100 Workbook 2: Questioning Identity.

With Dale Peck's "Now it is time to say goodbye" on the bedside table for when I've got five minutes to have a go at reading something else...

allrevvedup

24 Nov 2008, 21:22

Just finished Light My Fire by Ray Manzarek, really good book about his life in the Doors.

Debbi V

25 Nov 2008, 13:36

Just finished Brisinger by Christopher Paolini. Now comes the multi-year wait for the last book in the series.

*sigh*

Monstro

26 Nov 2008, 03:42

trying to read Arctic Drift - Clive Cussler

MeatGrl1

30 Nov 2008, 00:42

http://i37.tinypic.com/fkbpzb.jpg

I borrowed this off my sister ages ago, finding it hard to get to grips with it but it interests me because I first heard of him through Johnny Depp's 2001 film, Blow based on drug dealer George Jung.
I find things like this interesting and so when I saw this book on the book shelf I had to borrow it, though I've not really got to grips with it yet.
The actor who potray's Pabalo is very eerily similar !

http://i36.tinypic.com/2j4t3kx.jpg

Am going to try and get into it again.

SamCat

30 Nov 2008, 01:10

CSI Miami-Cut and Run by Donn Cortez Its my first one by this guy but i've read the other ones by Max Alan Collins and they're really good!!

Hypnobabe

30 Nov 2008, 15:37

At the moment, on my desk I have 'The Nurture Assumption' by Judith Harris, 'Understanding Psychology' by Ken Richardson, 'Introducing GCSE Psychology' by G C Davenport, and 'Questioning Identity: Gender, Race, Class' by Kath Woodward....

Fun, eh?

mszee

14 Dec 2008, 18:18

Little Friend...just started it so dunno about it...

allrevvedup

14 Dec 2008, 18:19

Just finished White line fever by Lemmy, good stuff

MissAsh

14 Dec 2008, 19:06

Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow.

Once I finish that I'll be re-reading Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series.

Hypnobabe

14 Dec 2008, 20:55

Now It Is Time To Say Goodbye, by Dale Peck....

belladonna-took

15 Dec 2008, 18:38

Phil Rickman..The Fabric of Sin. I love his books and buy them all as soon as they make it to paperback.

Hypnobabe

24 Apr 2009, 17:15

The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir, Small Gods by Terry Pratchett, 50 Psychology Classics by Tom Butler-Bowdon and Knowledge and the Social Sciences: Theory, Method, Practice edited by David Goldblatt.

samurai7

24 Apr 2009, 17:19

just finished reading Wild Boy, by Andy Taylor (fromerly of Duran Duran)
good read!

mszee

24 Apr 2009, 17:26

I have discovered Sophie Kinsella

My guilty pleasure...:oops:

The Flying Mouse

25 Apr 2009, 19:27

:twisted: Still ploughing through "65 Great Tales Of Horror".

On the whole, the standard has been pretty high :up:

KebLou

03 May 2009, 10:25

Other than various comics, mainly Eureka, Kick-Ass and No Hero. The book I'm reading is White Teeth, very enjoyable I don't know where I've found the time to read so much of it already.

Hypnobabe

03 May 2009, 12:41

Just finished re-reading Angels and Demons again, and am trying to decide between Small Gods, and The Da Vinci Code...

Betty

03 May 2009, 15:02

Ellen DeGeneres´ book "My point is...and I do have one"
Hilarious!!!!

MeatGrl1

05 Jun 2009, 02:33

I found and bought this yesterday;

http://i43.tinypic.com/262mwb7.jpg

I find things like this fascinating, and hopefully my aim is to read this before I go and see the film with Johnny, it isn't released here till August and hopoefully I'll get it read by then, did you know that four major gangs were in operation at the same time in 1933-34;

The Barrow Gang, The Barker-Karpis Gang, The Baby Face Nelson Gang and The Dillenger Gang.

As it's a new book I haven't gotten very far with it yet but I love this sort of stuff, I watch all the Mafia documentarys etc and so far what I have read so far has just captivated me. Can't wait to read some more :cool:.

duke knooby

05 Jun 2009, 13:49

a book

Hypnobabe

05 Jun 2009, 20:17

Six book fulls of OU Course material, as I try to finish my final essay...

Sue K

24 Jul 2009, 13:57

Notes From A Small Island ... Bill Bryson ... and there's been moments of laughing out loud on the bus ...

firefly

30 Jul 2009, 09:19

The Most Haunted Island (Isle Of Wight)

angelica

30 Jul 2009, 12:15

nothing at the moment ... gotta change that!

Skeleton

30 Jul 2009, 16:38

Leonie Swann's Glenkill (Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story)

Murha laitumella (Finnish title)

It's a great book.. :lol:

Elijah's way

31 Jul 2009, 10:32

The Watchers by Mark Andrew Olsen

really good read

howlerformeatloaf

04 Aug 2009, 12:49

Boy Alot of them really look good. I am reading Harry Potter for the millionth time. Dont have alot of books like I want. We ought to start trading books maybe? I like quite a few of your reads. They really interest me.

heidi

04 Aug 2009, 17:34

world without end - ken follett - great story, very, very good!

The Flying Mouse

04 Aug 2009, 19:16

:twisted: I've just finished re-reading "The Body" from the Stephen King compilation book, Different Seasons.

I've re-read the first three stories (Shawshank Redemption, Apt Pupil, The Body) so I might as well re-read the final story in the book, The Breathing Method. :shrug:

MissAsh

06 Aug 2009, 02:58

Re-read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows over last weekend, going to start The Silmarillion tomorrow I think. I love Lord of the Rings but never quite managed to get into the Silmarillion so much when I tried it a few years back and didn't finish it, about time for another go!

howlerformeatloaf

06 Aug 2009, 12:50

Just finished Harry Potter. Went to book store yesterday and picked up the story on the polygamy group with Warren Jeffs, called Stolen Innocence. I love reading true stories when I can.

Sue K

13 Aug 2009, 14:46

Notes From A Small Island ... Bill Bryson ... and there's been moments of laughing out loud on the bus ...

i got a bit overwhelmed OR lost interest and/ or focus so set NFASI aside for now... and a bit...

i've just finished reading Shorts ... a collection of short stories/ articles by various writers including Steve Martin (comic/actor) and oh loaf... others... lol ...

i don't think i'm ready to get back to Bryson just yet ... so ... next on the agenda is ... The Bridges Of Madison County ... i'm probably the last person in the world to read it ... lol ...