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    Bored of some authors

    in Book Search and Reading Recommendations

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    I’ve decided that I’m bored of both of these writers. With James Patterson it’s just the same old storylines, with just the names of the killers being changed. I’ve read most of the Alex Cross books and I’m sure if that were real life he would have been dead by book two. Similarly with Karen Rose it’s always the detective seemingly falling in love “too early” after losing a spouse etc. With both writers the killers are always too close to home or once a lifelong friend and quite frankly I’m bored of them.

     

    I like the characters of the killers and the methods but I just wish the personal lives of those pursuing them would be different to what I already mentioned or maybe not delved into much at all. Maybe I’ve gotten used to the characters that continue throughout the books and need a change.

    Any recommendations?

    Has anyone ever had a mishap with a book?

    in General Book Discussions

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    The other day I was reading in the bath and had just finished my book. I reached over to put the book on top of the toilet seat, and then heard a splash!! :o The seat was up thanks to my husband who had interrupted me whilst I was engrossed :irked:

     

    Needless to say that it was very soggy indeed!

    Thank goodness it was mine and not one loaned from the library!!

    Oldest book in your collection?

    in General Book Discussions

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    A few years ago I bought a bible in an antique shop for £10. I'm not particularly religious but I just liked the look of it. Inside the front cover there is a handwritten message that I can't quite make out. I recognise some of the words but I keep saying I'll go to my local museum to see if anyone there can read it. I think it was published in the 1830's.

    What is it about Crime?

    in Crime / Mystery / Thriller

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    I'm the same as you Coffin Nail, the gorier the murder the better!! My family always say "never upset Rachel she knows too much!" :D

     

    I see you're reading Lynda la Plante, she's one I'm yet to read. I enjoy the dramatisations of her books on ITV so the books themselves must be much much better!

    Toe-Curlers

    in General Chat

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    My boyfriend (now husband), my sister and her boyfriend took me on a weekend away in New York a few years ago for my birthday. One morning we went to a diner for breakfast and as we were leaving I fell down the stairs. The whole diner was packed and everyone just turned to gawp at the mad woman making a racket. I stood up and said "It's ok you can laugh because if it had been one of you I would be laughing right now" with that everyone started laughing. I then made a quick exit with a very bruised arm from hitting it on a corner of a table and a large bump on the head from hitting it on a fire extinguisher!

     

    Later that day my boyfriend proposed to me in Central Park and we joke now and say that I only said yes because I had a bump on the head!!:)

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