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Frankie, I think that The Broken Window is much better than The Bone Collector, & Charm is right - you can definately enjoy reading the series in any order.

That is a very good question!

No, it's the blurb that doesn't sound familiar. Think I might have to buy it to see!

Hmmmmmm, can I make a guess on that one? I promise I have not googled, or any other search if I am right & I have sooooooo not heard that term used before. However, that said, I shall guess that you mean the Southern US states, like Alabama, perhaps?

You're welcome! I've been looking at the books on that list & I am positive I have read them all, but for some reason The Cold Moon does not sound the least bit familliar....................is it possible I've missed one?

Indeed, I had been looking at buying it, but won't be now!

It's my OH's birthday today, so he got the choice of what we were having for dinner tonight & he chose his favourite meal - fish & chips from the chippy. I was going to have a chicken shish kebab, but was too lazy so settled for the fish supper, too. Wish I hadn't!

Exactly!!!

Basketball - College basketball. All shown on tv in Canada, too. Used to drive me crazy as I detest basketball!!!

I must read this! Have any of you who have read it, read it after seeing the movie? The movie is one of a very small handfull of films which have made me cry & I cried buckets at the end of this one!

Thanks! My Thesaurus worked hard on that sentence! I've only read Darkly Dreaming Dexter & Dearly Devoted Dexter - I'm planning on buying Dexter in the Dark & Dexter by Design on payday next friday.

I agree, the delightfully devious Dexter does deserve devotion!

The Lincoln Rhyme Series: The Bone Collector(1997) The Coffin Dancer(1998) The Empty Chair(2000) The Stone Monkey (2002) The Vanished Man (2003) The Twelfth Card (2005) The Cold Moon (2006) The Broken Window (2008)

Since there seems to be a fair few of us who have become fans of Darling Dexter (the book version), I thought maybe we should have a thread dedicated purely to Dexter, where we can all share our devotion to the darkly demented delight!

I'm one of those ones who has stopped reading Patricia Cornwell's books. They, IMO anyway, are horrible now. I stopped reading them, funny enough, after the same one Raven mentioned, where there was that helicopter chase. When I was home in Canada last summer I did pick up blowfly, which my Mom had recently finished reading, but I really had to force myself to read it all & I actually skimmed over a lot of it. I'd take Kathy Reichs any day over Patricia Cornwell. **I agree with all of the points raised with ref to Darling Dexter! **

It is great! I can send it to you if you want!

Frankie, you will love it! I think that it & The Broken Window (also by Jeffery Deaver) are books that everyone should read.

I haven't read Chocolat, but loved the film & hated both the book & the movie version of Captain Correli, but the book was marginally better.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible - *Though not cover to cover* 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 1984 - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 34 Emma - Jane Austen 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen- 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell - 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy- 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel 52 Dune - Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth - 56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez- 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov- 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac- 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding 69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker- 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses - James Joyce 76 The Inferno - Dante 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal - Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray - 80 Possession - AS Byatt - 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry - 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton - 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo Only 27 for me!

Walkers Sensations Roasted Chicken & Thyme crisps - I could eat an entire bag on my own (& I mean one of the big bags!) Snickers chocolate bars (even better if there was no chocolate on them!) Tim Horton's French Vanilla Cappuccino (my family send me tins of it from home) Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream None of the above do I EVER buy for myself as if I did, well, I'd be even more over weight than I already am, , but the cappuccino is a nice treat every once in a while (have to ration it as the container isn't that large & it's expensive to post from Canada)

Hi Gil, welcome to the forum! Also very interested in the story of your 3 marriages!

In the books to made for tv movie category, the absolute worst has got to be Stephen King's Lawnmower Man. The people who made the movie must have read a different short story than what I read, because the only thing that is remotely the same is the titles!