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  1. I completely missed the 2nd series due to being on hols. I won't have time to catch up with them all on iPlayer but would you suggest I watch the last one only or do I need to see them in sequence to get the drift?

     

    Chris Evans was encouraging people to watch it on the iplayer but he recommended that you watch the second one first, the first one second and the last one last - I have to say I completely see where he is coming from, but I also agree with Ruth if you only have time to watch one then make it the last one.

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    There's another theory doing the rounds that it wasn't Sherlock lying on the ground, but a corpse that Molly had appropriated from the mortuary. The corpse was wearing a Sherlock mask, which would tie in with why the little girl screamed when she saw Sherlock (because Moriarty also wore a Sherlock mask when he held the kids captive).

     

     

     

    of course and that also reminds me that in the first episode of this sereis that woman (the "escort")

    faked her own death and we saw her "body" in the morge so Molly and Shelock must have used the same methods

     

  3. Oh nice theory KO

     

    I hadn't actually put any thought into it as decided I would be no where near the truth but now that you have said that it does make sense to one question I had. My question was how comes a crowd gathered around Sherlock when he was partially hidden but no one went to check in John when he was clearly in the middle of the road so using your theory

    the crowd around Sherlock must have been actors

     

     

    I will definitely have to watch that one again

  4. My only "challenge" is to try to read all the Dickens I haven't so far read (and I have no idea at this point how many books that will ammount to)

     

    I am sure you will manage it. I wish I could read more Dickens but I find him hard going he is too wordyfor me. I have read Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend and have started A Tale of Two Cities and am currently listening to a couple of them on the I-player at the moment.

  5. Skipping Christmas: Christmas with the Kranks

    John Grisham

    Rated: 3/5

    Comments: This was the perfect read to end the holiday season with. In the aftermath of Christmas you fully empathise with the Kranks and their wish to avoid the holidays for just one year. I almost envied them and their plans to get away but knew in my heart that things would not run so smoothly. An entertaining tale that manages to point out all of those silly festive rituals that we go through year after year whilst at the same time, holding on to those reasons that we do it. Anyone who thinks they've had enough lights and tinsel for one year, I recommend this read to you.

     

    I remember reading this book on the bus and I started crying at the end it was so touching. Its a nice little read and very different from all his lawyer books.

  6. I just finished The Search by Nora Roberts, could be considered a crime novel..

     

    Thank you. I have got crime sorted I was under the impression that Nora Roberts would do for romance.

     

    I am thinking about doing another challenge alongside the genre one and that is to read an Agatha Christie book a month but only after I have read my genre books.

  7. I felt the same way Easy Reader about the first book after I finished it and reviewed it. I thought the pervy bits were in it for gratuitous purposes. But, I changed my mind after reading the second book. You will enjoy that much more it is all about Salander. After reading all 3 books I felt that Larsson was making a serious point about women in society.

     

    I am now on page 70 ish of Fire and am enjoying it so far but I am worrying about the poor girl in the prolouge.

  8. I have loads of these kinds of questions especially when it comes to Harry Potter. I quite often think I will ask around on that one and then think I will be baffled by the answer so in the end I just put it down to magic.

     

    How comes all these teachers and wizards keep putting blocking charms/spells over everything but Hermoine can break them ?? (which reminds me another reason I don't like to ask is my wording isn't very good)

     

    One I thought of when watching Chamber of Secrets at the beginning of terms first years arrive by boat (after getting off the train) but where is the water they sail across the rest of the year? Which also leads me to why doesn't the train go right up to Hogwarts save the first years go by boat and everyone else go by those horse things you can only see if you have seen someone die??

     

    I could go on.

  9. Not really my kind of book I only purchased them because they were on offer and lots of people seem to enjoy them. After getting them I did think that I would never get around to reading them but they have slotted in nicely into the 2012 genre challenge. I have finished Tattoo and just started Fire, although I did enjoy Tattoo I don't think I would have carried on with the series if I hadn't already purchased them. I found the beginning slow going and the book didn't really pick up until Mikael and Lisbeth met. I was also a little disappointed with the conclusion of what happened to Harriett in that I was expecting it to be more complex. I don't understand the need to the constant references to the many members of the Vagner family there was just an unnecessary number of them especially given that between them all there were only two personalities. Basically I did enjoy the book despite it not being my "thing" although I would have enjoyed it more if it was shorter, less gruesome and had less characters. 7/10

     

    However my interest rapidly faded away as gore and fashionable sexual perversions accumulated.

    I was just starting to enjoy the books when this came up and I did think that I wasn't enjoying the book enough to carry on with it but found I still had to read it. I did think it would be nice if these parts of the book were in a different font so people like myself could skim over those bits

    :lurker:

    Hope there's more Lisbeth, less Mikael! (Sorry I found all the financial/Wennerstrom stuff a bit dull!)

    Her parts in the books were definitely more interesting than his and as for the Wennerstrom stuff :sleeping-smiley-009

  10. Well I was a little disappointed

     

    I suppose it was good but I was expecting better esp. as Russell Tovey is one of my fav. actors (I think he was too similar to his Being Human character)

  11. Could do with a little help picking out a romance. Although a lot of books I have read could be called romances, I want something completely typical, maybe Mills and Boony. What authors should I go for?

     

    Romance is the genre I am least looking forward to so I will be doing it in February (the shortest month) and thought about doing a mills and boons (because they are small) whatever I get I will be getting it from the library so I can return it and never see it again.

  12. I read my first Genre Challenge book- like Ooshie and Kell I was keen to try a Western. Under A Texas Star by Alison Bruce.

     

    I'm looking forward to the Western one so I will be saving it for later on in the year give me time to do a bit of research on what book(s) to choose. And also to see what others have read for this genre

     

    I have decided that I am going to try and double up on my Genre challenge, and read 2 genres per month. I need two more genres though to make 24, any ideas anyone?

     

    how about: - Political, Urban, Religious, Self Help (I'm not saying you need it just a suggetion), diary

  13. I have caught up with it now

     

    I did read the books years ago and was a bit sketchy on the ending and it sort of rang true but I felt it was missing something

     

    I remember really feeling for Joe Gargary in the book and felt he didn't really come across as being the same in this but not in a bad way. I really enjoyed watching it and recapping on the story, I felt it was just the right length and I got a little bit emotional at the end.

     

    Might have to re-read it now

  14. January - crime fiction / mystery

     

    The Girl With A Dragon Tattoo 7/10

    The Girl Who Played with Fire 6/10

    The Girl Who Kicked a Hornets Nest 8/10

     

    February - romance

     

    Mills & Boons 4/10

    All That Mullarkey ~ Sue Moorcroft 9/10

     

    March - Western

     

    The Sisters Brothers - Patrick de Witt 8/10

    True History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey 10/10

     

    April - Autobiography /Biography / Memoir

     

    Dreams From My Father - Barack Obama 7.5/10

    The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again - Andy Warhol 6/10

    The Fry Chronicals - Stephen Fry 7.5/10

     

    May comedy- satire

     

    The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole 1999-2001 - Sue Townsend 7/10

    Carry on Jeeves - P G Wodehouse 8/10

    Charlotte Street - Danny Wallace 7/10

     

    June - Children's books

     

    Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince 8.5/10

    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 9/10

    The Twits 4/10

    The Magic Finger 3/10

    George's Marvellous Medicine 6/10

    There's a Boy in the Girls Bathroom - Louis Sacher 5/10

    Young Sherlock Homes: The Death Cloud - Andrew Lane 7/10

     

    July - Fantasy

     

    One of Our Thurdsy's is Missing - Jasper Fforde 8/10

     

    August - Action/Adventure

     

    Deception Point - Dan Brown 6.5/10

     

    September - Steampunk

     

    Viridis - Calista Taylor 3/10

     

    October - Newly Published in 2012

     

    Casual Vacancy - JK Rowling 8.5/10

     

    November - Histroical Fiction

     

    The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver 7/10

     

    December - War

     

    War Horse - Michael Morpurgo 7/10

     

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    Books not part of the genre challenge

     

    Prince Caspian - C S Lewis

    The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie

    Murder is Easy - Agatha Christie

    Murder on the Links - Agatha Christie

    Destination Unknown - Agatha Christie

    Elephants Can Remember - Agatha Chrisite

    The Mystery on the Blue Train - Agatha Christie

    Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne

    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - JK Rowling

    At Bertrams Hotel - Agatha Christie

    Dead to the World - Charlaine Harris

    Mrs McGinty's Dead - Agatha Christie

    Why Didn't They Ask Evans - Agatha Christie

    Murder at the Vicarage - Agtha Christie

    Oh Dear Silvia - Dawn French

    The Sittaford Mystery - Agatha Christie

    Hercule Porriot's Christmas - Agatha Christie

  15. Well I am feeling pretty pleased with myself I started the year with the challege of reading 52 books (previous high total being 40) and today Ihave finished my 54th

     

    finished with a re-read of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - my least favourite of the HP's I think I read it to quickly before as I didn't really follow it this time around I had a large break from it in the middle a few months back and the other day I realised I could set myself the challenge of finishing it before the new year. I am glad that I have re read it it wasn't as bad as I remember it being although I do still feel its unnecessarily long.

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