JohnL

I think the minute you start to introduce any rules or methodologies to a basic pleasure like reading then it can stop becoming a pleasure. I tend to buy one book at a time as the decision is very much based on "I have nothing to read I need a book". When I have bought books in the past in multiples, by the time I have finished book one, book two often looks far less appealing than it did at purchase. I am finding the same now I have joined the library - I have taken unread books back because they don't seem to appeal. I think many here are the same as I see lots of "on the pile don't fancy it" messsages. My standard method, and its very loose, it to have my TBR pile as virtual. Its a file on my PC that I add to when I see something I fancy - and I may order it later somehwere. I don't keep books either, though, I do see them as a disposable commodity in the main - novels anyway - and can't get my head around re reading something. As in most things though, its whatever makes you happy - reading is one place where rules aren't needed ?

I did indeed, King/Cornwell and Demille. Currently reading the latter, The Gate House

Check SK official website - out 2012

I went on Saturday. Returned my book 9 years late - no fine, a bit of teasing, and I feel so much better. Great selection available too.

I just finished Dreamcatcher on Wednesday, it was my first King book - always had a block about the genre I suppose, but I am determined to widen my scope this year. Anyway, the book - fantastic story - had me hooked and spent all last weekend ploughing through it. Just ordered three more used paperbacks from Amazon for the Hols - think I am now a fan

I loved the Scarpetta's for a while years ago, then I figured she liked Italian cooking, she had a black amex, she liked good scotch and the best thing is for her to stay at home as the serial killer always shows up at her house !

You may remember the air crash in Greece 5 years ago, when a plane flying from Cyprus lost pressure and eventually crashed on the Mainland I think ? Well, I was caught up in the backlog in Cyprus - and bought a book ! No idea why its come to mind - something to do with Bonnie Tyler being on the radio just now - she shared the delay in the airport ! Anyway, this book. Written in the first person, starts with our male hero in an airport. I seem to recall hes a journalist. He travels to/is invited to an island where the bad guy has a system that is making/causing people to commit suicide. Thats a bit sketchy, but I remember the book being a real page turner.

I live 8 miles outside of the City and travel through every day. Let me know if I can help in any way

From the remnants of a Comic Relief booksale at work - £1.50 got me Icon - Frederick Forsyth The Janson Directive - Robert Ludlum Dan Brown - Deception Point John Connelly - Bad Men In the case ready for Summer and will be left in the Hotel foyer Fuerteventura when completed. I wonder about the journeys some of these books undertake before they end up in the bin !

I discovered this book years ago on an outdoor bookstand in Lanzarote when on Holiday. It was before I had heard of the hype but I found it outstanding, and recommended it to everyone. I bought another copy about three years ago, with the intention of re reading it, but it sits there still waiting. I have never re read a novel - guess I don't see the point. The only books I have re read are the Bill Bryson books "Notes from a small Island" and "Neither here or There" So many more out there I guess ?

Normal reading pattern (I.e when working Mon to Fri) is maybe a book every three weeks - I am starting my 4th of the year today. When not working, it picks up - in a 2 week vacation I usually pack five books and take one in the hand luggage. I am both shocked and impressed by the pace some of you guys get through books

I tend to use two. One is leather and was purchased from a souvenir shop at one of the Hadrian's wall fort's a few years ago on a trip up there. The other is my last remaining dollar bill from my first trip to the USA, which I have laminated. I do fold corners in paperbacks though, I see them as "disposable"

I have started to read Dreamcatcher and as a result I have also introduced myself to Stephen King. Always had a bit of a block with this author - but 50 pages in and I am wondering why I waited so long. Hes got me already !

Lol - me too. My wife and son have cards, and no address based alarms went off when they joined. Part of me thinks If I break cover they will say "oh don't worry we have an amnesty", but part of me knows they are there, waiting, for me to show, and to lock me away ! I will have to do it, though, as I love Libraries and my absence has coincided with child rearing. Seem to have more time now !

Morning, New user from St Helens, Merseyside - John, 49 Life long reader of books - started with Blyton's Famous Five/Secret Seven (how long ago was that???), I remember a teenage obsession with Sven Hassel, and since then it's been bestseller really, with a leaning to crime fiction and travel, with lots of hobby based reference stuff. Ambition is to get into Stephen King - never read one but picked up two at a comic relief book sale on Fri. Pet hate - TV book programmes and book lists that feature books that no one has heard of, let alone read ! Secret pastime - watching what people are reading on the train. Just finished the Vanished Man, by Deaver