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Woohoo...finished! Now onto 'The First Stone' by Elliott Hall which promises much. Let's hope it delivers...

Joan Aiken- The Wolves of Willoughby Chase Clive King- Stig of the Dump Michelle Magorian- Just Henry Jonathan Stroud- The Golem's Eye Richard Adams- Watership Down

No.......

and a bunch of sad middle-aged women obsessed by pararomance...yuk! Maybe we should relegate pararomance into the dark, damp basement as most straight-up readers of sci-fi/fantasy and horror are perfectly affable and intelligent people.....

Yep think I'll give it a miss as well....

Wading through 'Gallows Lane' still.....feel a bit of skip reading coming on...

Nice one Larry:D

The English Patient Trainspotting The Missing -(Thomas Eidson's 'The Last Ride') Don't Look Now Vanity Fair Probably not very many more on my list as most film adaptations wind me up beyond belief......

Yeah I agree with your comments. I much preferred Richard Bach's- The Bridge Across Forever on a similar topic but far less of the schmaltz...

Yeah with you on this one. I understand that the majority of chick-lit readers can't really handle anything more mentally taxing than these books (and Heat/Grazia magazine) and probably just enjoy having their nails done and spraying themselves orange. But having asked some 'intelligent' women who read it what the appeal is they simply say it's fun and undemanding...You can't argue with that even though most of it is a waste of trees:lol:

Ditto....

Just been on a charity shop raid and got some corking books. I skipped home with: Yrsa Sigurdardottir- My Soul To Take Richard Stark- Ask The Parrot Joseph Wambaugh- The Blue Knight Robert Wilson- The Silent and the Damned Bruce Kennedy Jones- The Last Straight Face All nearly new and under a tenner- result:lol:

To quote Blackadder I think it's more likely to be 'two crossed dead animals emblazoned on a mound of dead animals motif' but definitely organically raised and probably from Norfolk.... My dinner guests would be: Michael Caine Tony Benn Dave Gorman Rich Hall Morgan Freeman Barack Obama Jenny Eclair Sheila Hancock

1. Bobby Moore 2. Geoff Hurst 3. Bobby Charlton 4. Paul Gascoigne 5. Gary Lineker That's what I call class....

'Deadwood', 'Journeyman', 'Jericho', 'Carnevale' and 'Invasion' all bit the dust and yet 'Desperate- and quite frankly tedious- Housewives' and 'Grey's- oh no-not another mawkish voiceover- Anatomy' survive...where's the logic?

Good call...very tedious book...

Just thought I'd give everyone the heads-up that the upcoming Kate Mosse novel 'The Winter Ghosts' is a rehash of this Quick Read and only stretches to 200 pages with illustrations! So if you've read 'The Cave' you've pretty much got it covered.....

Just started the new Stuart B. Macbride book 'Halfhead'...Apparently this was the type of book he always wanted to write but had to establish himself as a crime author first to make his dream come true:lol: So he's added a superfluous initial and set this in the Glasgow of the future instead of contemporary Aberdeen and it's started off magnificently...if slightly weird....

I'm very easily distracted by the promise of a new Dexter as well! Hope you enjoy Fox...

You must have a splendid library! Our one's rubbish and you have to wait for the dawn of the new millenium to be in with a sniff of a new title:lol: Mind that back!!!

Monster Love- Carol Topolski Yeah I've read this as well and the darkness of it was completely absorbing- the intense mental and physical connection between the main protagonists was so difficult to comprehend on a certain level and what drives them to the acts of cruelty they perpetrate. On another level though the author makes this behaviour seem so natural within the confines of this relationship and their obsession with each other- extremely clever writing if morally unsettling...

Once you get past the first 40 pages it is a thing of beauty- perfect crime writing. 'The Girl Who Played With Fire' is even better and will leave you gagging to read the third one...Promise!

I think Linwood Barclay has definitely hooked into the Harlen Coben school of twists and having read these two and the upcoming 'Fear The Worst' he is starting to get a bit formulaic. Has anybody read his 'Zack Walker' series?

I'm with you on this one- Cornwell has always been quite formulaic and I'm afraid Reichs is going the same way. Can definitely recommend Kathryn Fox who also writes about a forensic physician- start with 'Malicious Intent' and see what I mean!

I always feel the need to defend the true crime genre because aside from the more salacious titles ( I particularly like the one about cannibalism that includes recipes!) and dodgy gangster biogs there are some damn well-written books. Some of the Mafia books are great including the two by Philip Carlo, David Lane's 'Into The Heart of the Mafia' and Roberto Saviano's 'Gomorrah'. You can't beat Herbert Asbury's 'Gangs of New York/New Orleans/Chicago' and of course Capote's 'In Cold Blood' Charriere's 'Papillon' and Berendt's 'Midnight In The Garden of Good and Evil'...ooh stop me now...