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This is excellent. I like my Sci-fi and fantasy, but tend to be very choosy, as I don't like it too dumbed down, but I also don't like a proper story (some of the "hard" sci-fi gets too mired in technical details for my liking - get on with the action already!). So I've shyed away from the whole genre for a while now. The chart has led me to Hyperion by Dan Simmons, so I'll look out for that and give it a go.
BTW, is it OK to cheat and work backwards from a book you like the look of the cover of?
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Finished "The Devil's Star" by Jo Nesbo. This is the second Jo Nesbo book I've read, the first being the Snowman. I can't say that I enjoyed it quite as much as that, but still a very enjoyable read
4/5
My next read is something I've never heard of, given to me by the other voracious reader at work - "Sanctus" by Simon Toyne. I know nothing about this, so we'll see
Books read this year - 4
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Talk of boats made me rethink my choice. Can I be Mole from Wind in the Willows?
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I'm throwing in another vote for the girls.
I think there may be more females than males about the place, and two regular fellas are now gone (Raven & Mac).
Does that make me an irregular fella?
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If you enjoy Ian Rankin's Rebus novels, you would probably also enjoy Jo Nesbo's books too. They are very similar in subject and tone
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A friend of mine has one for her family jewelery, but I'm not sure where. If not a bank, then I think these storage places where you can store whole house contents etc, must also do them.
I would have one, but the temptation to turn up wearing a trenchcoat and a Trilby pulled low would be too great. I'd probably end up getting arrested for acting suspiciously!
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Talk over their favourite TV programme - see how THEY like it!
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That's why websites such as this one are so important. While we may not always agree with reviews, we always know that the person reviewing has actually read the book and is expressing an honest opinion of it.
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Got given a whole load of 2nd-hand books - all of them tie-in books to the TV series "Quantum Leap" if anyone remembers that? I used to love that programme, but not sure if these books will be any good. Still, it's given my TBR pile a big boost, cos there's about 20 of them!
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Hustle (last series - so sad)
Top Gear (love The Stig!)
Call the Midwife (Guilty pleasure!)
Mrs Brown's Boys (VERY rude - VERY funny!)
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I don't know what it was about this book, but it was the first Mickey Haller book I didnt enjoy. I like Michael Connelly, but sometimes I find his books hard to get into, I know though it is worth the perseverance because I DO get hooked, but this one, I don't know, I could have taken or left it. Won't stop me buying the next one though. I agree with Harry Bosch being his bread and butter though.
I do understand what you mean, Kirsty. I struggled with The Lincoln Lawyer at the time. I think it's the charactor of Mickey Haller himself. He isn't very likeable ( especially in TLL) which makes it very hard to have any sympathy for anything that happens to him. Having said that I personally found this book more approachable.
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I wonder if you have read "The man in the high castle" by Philip.K.Dick? I've struggled with his full novels before, including A scanner darkly - I've always enjoyed his short stories more, but this blew me away! I'd also agree that Flowers for Algernon is very sad!
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I can't read in the same room as the TV as it's too distracting. If I say I'm going upstairs to read, I get accused of being anti-social, but if I say I'm going to sit in the garden (not an option this time of year!) I'm usually OK. Don't know why one is acceptable and the other isn't!
I'll normally bring my book to work and read in my lunch hour. I even get to work a little early so I have half hour before I start.
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Someone asked me once if it was anything to do with keeping the flow of the story going, and when I thought about it, I guess it is.
That's a good point, Devi. Sometimes the gap between books can be so long, with other books read inbetween, that you can forget what become important threads in later books. Especially difficult for me as I tend to borrow most of my books rather than buy (if I buy, I want to keep 'em, and I just don't have the room!). I recently read The passage by Justin Cronin, the first book of a, so far, unwritten trilogy. I know that when I get to book 2, I will have forgotten large parts of the plot and minor characters. But if I had a photographic memory, there'd be no fun in re-reading!
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Finished 11/22/63 by Stephen King over the weekend. What can I say? Absolutely blown away by it, best thing he's written in years.
Score = 5/5
Failed to get inspired by anything I saw in the library on Saturday, so I think I'm going to go with "The Devil's Star by Jo Nesbo which I've had in my TBR pile for a while now
Books read this year = 3
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I must admit that I had never heard of this book. It sounds excellent, and the back story about the writing of it makes it even more interesting to me. Great review!
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I'm going to count this as my second book of the year - The Lion,the Witch and the Wardrobe. I was actually reading this to my daughter, but it was on my TBR list as I hadn't read it since I was about 10.
What can you say? It's a children's classic and rightly so
score 4/5
Books read this year = 2
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I don't think I've ever actually cried over a book, but I've certainly had some books that have made me quite sad or emotional.
The Kite Runner
Of mice and men
are two that spring immediately to mind.
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You could try Len Deighton - his Game, Set and Match trilogy is excellent, although maybe a little dated now
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I'm about a third of the way through this and really enjoying it. It's really evoking America in 1958, which is odd as I am not American, have never been to America and I'm not old enough to know anything about the '50's or '60's. So far, this is King back to writing at his finest
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Hustle. Such a shame this is the last series, I watch every episode with a big, silly grin on my face
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Ian's Reading 2012
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I do this a lot! I tend to get most of my books as swaps from friends or from charity shops (If I buy 'em, I want to keep 'em, and I just don't have the room anymore!), so I read them as I get them so I can pass them on again. Consequently, they are all read out of order. Still, I don't think missed too much, as the story all made sense and no doubt I'll get to the intervening book eventually.
I understand that the first two books are yet to be translated into english, so unless my Nowegian improves, I'll have to wait anyway. I assume the first book deals with this serial killer he captures in Austrailia?