JohnL
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Well done, John - did you borrow anything after clearing your conscience, or leaving it till later?
I did indeed, King/Cornwell and Demille. Currently reading the latter, The Gate House
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I have heard rumours there will be another dark series book but nothing substansiated yet, I would love to read another of those.
Check SK official website - out 2012
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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 !
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.
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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.
I am still running things through my mind. Was Mr Gray actually in charge of Jonesy or did he actually die in Hole in the Wall. Was Jonesy actually really holed out in a small section of his own mind, or did he just think he was, after Mr G died in HITW. Did Duddits set this up just to see his old mates one more time ?
Just ordered three more used paperbacks from Amazon for the Hols - think I am now a fan
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I am reading Patricia Cornwell at the moment but not one of her usual murders with Scarpetta but Portrait of a Killer about Jack the Ripper - certainly makes you think?
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 !
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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.
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Looking for historical fiction (ala Michener or Rutherford) set in Liverpool.
I am likely moving there in the fall, and want some background on the geography or history of the town/region.
j
I live 8 miles outside of the City and travel through every day. Let me know if I can help in any way
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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 !
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This is a bit of an obsession of mine and my siblings! We've each read that book no less than eight times. Fantastic re-read!
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 ?
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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
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I used to live in the middle east and have a bookmark bought from Bedouins and made from camel hair haha total random x
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"
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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 !
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I would but I owe them a fine from 1998 and am scared of the interest!
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 !
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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
how to selected books?
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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 ?