[Sad news about Iain Banks]

Very sad indeed. Not just a great writer. And Inspirational one!

[The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown]

Count me ... out

 

The Da Vinci Code was dreadful, so badly written it almost made Twilight look like a masterpiece! Thankfully, I had to read it for my library reading group, so I didn't have to pay any of my own money for it, but that did mean I had to read it all to be able to talk about it fully

dear ms Beach

I'd very much like to join your club.

 

Unless submitted to a very unlikely Clockwork Orangesque torture, i shall never read Angels, Demons, Davinci Codes or any such tosh by Mr Dan Brown

I hope the below quoted earlier post explains why

 

PS : I've been to Chesil Beach... It looks very nice from Portland Bill!

 

Digital Fortress was the first Dan Brown novel that I read (before the ensuing hubbub) and the one that caused me to decide in no uncertain terms never to read another.

 

Imagine my astonishment, as he became the world

[Recently published GOOD crime novels]

Tony Black

For new and 'different' crime yarns his debut novel 'Paying For It' Is definitely worth a read.

 

Without doubt a very different take on the police procedural.

 

Ta

Pat

[Notebookholics Anonymous]

Have you people never heard of Alcohol?

 

The original addiction and still the best!!!

[The Ossians - Doug Johnstone]

Ah I getcha

The Ossians is a hectic tale of a band

[The Ossians - Doug Johnstone]

I

[Donkey Punch - Ray Banks]

Fast making his way into my favourite author list, Ray Banks.

This writer gets better with every new instalment and well, he wasn

[Dan Brown - Digital Fortress]

Digital Fortress was the first Dan Brown novel that I read (before the ensuing hubbub) and the one that caused me to decide in no uncertain terms never to read another.

Imagine my astonishment, as he became the world

[Cult Writing]

I