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Midnight Express by Billy Hayes - the only book I've stayed up all night to finish (but I was a student then and could cope with the sleep deprivation)

I enjoyed it too - once I realised it wasn't a travelogue about the county where I live

I started The Shadow of the Wind on a very long flight to India and it certainly passed the time! Not sure now whether to read it again before the prequel, or read the prequel and then read TSOTHW afterwards so they're in the "right" order

I read it a couple of years ago and enjoyed it (although I have to say I can't now remember the ending and whether I thought it was good or bad) Was very frustrating knowing what we know now about the plague, and how they could have prevented the spread, but I thought it very well written

I'm amazed you're actually admitting you STARTED it! I found The Handmaid's Tale disturbing too, as well as Oryx and Crake and, in a completely different way, Perfume by Patrick Suskind

Yay! Thanks for that - I feel all logical now!

Someone on the Off Topic forum on hitched recommended you

I enjoyed it too, although I found it a little unsettling not to know when it was set - and some of the characters annoyed me - but I think they were supposed to

Phew! I was reading this thread and thinking "It must be me!" I hated it. I only finished it because I'm a closet masochist and I wanted to see how bad it could really get. There are very few books where I feel I've wasted part of my life by reading it, but this was one of them Makes you wonder how this got published (*cough* Bertie Aherne's daughter *cough*) I had to resort to a reread of Jilly Cooper's Riders, to recover

Just been recommended this forum by someone on another one I use, so thought I'd pop over and see I'm a member of a book club with friends from work, and I see that some of the books we've chosen are already on here,which will be interesting. It's coming up to my turn to choose, so I'll be looking for inspiration I like to read a variety of books - contemporary, historical (I go through phases of a certain era), crime and thriller, comedy, and so am looking for recommendations Oh, and if anyone can tell me how I get the threads to display from the 1st post on Page 1, through to the latest post on the last page, I'd be very grateful - at the moment I have to click on the last page and scroll down to the bottom to find the first post, which is a bit weird!

I've only read Saturday which I enjoyed with an interesting moral twist at the end I see On Chesil Beach has had some mixed reviews, but will probably get round to reading that and Atonement I've seen the film Enduring Love - is it close to the book?

Oooh, my first post! The only book that's evermade me cry was A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry It follows the lives of a number of people in Bombay, and their ups and downs. Just when you think they're getting on their feet, there's another knockback, but you're willing them to overcome it One of my all time favourite books