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That's a hard one. I don't know many of them. Margaret Atwood --vs-- George Orwell --vs-- Daphne Du Maurier Vladimir Nabokov --vs-- John Banville Samantha Hayes --vs-- Stephen King Edward Rutherford --vs-- L.E. Modesitt Sophie McKenzie --vs-- Leo Tolstoy Peter F Hamilton --vs-- Chris Manby Franz Kafka --vs-- Bernard Cornwell Hilary Mantel --vs-- Terry Pratchett Charles Dickens --vs-- Salman Rushdie Robert Jordan --vs-- Edgar Allan Poe Donna Leon --vs-- Paul Auster Elizabeth George --vs-- E M Forster Tash Aw --vs-- Oscar Wilde Maggie O'Farrell --vs-- George Eliot Virginia Woolf --vs-- JRR Tolkien Fyodor Dostoyevsky --vs-- Edith Wharton Conn Iggulden --vs-- Jane Austen Neil Gaiman --vs-- Sophie Kinsella Gabriel Garcia Márquez --vs-- William Faulkner Paulo Coelho --vs-- Rebecca Gable

Wow, I would want some of those bookmarks!

Sorry! And that's not a real spoiler, anyway As you don't know the series, its like most crime series, where a crime ist solved in every film of the series, mostly unrelated to the next one.

I don't know of an e-reader that's a tablet as well, just the other way round. I'm reading on my laptop as well and don't mind that, but I also have a kindle touch and that's looking nearly like a book. I actually prefer it to printed books, because it has a dictionary and I can check my e-mails as well.

Hi Alanna, welcome to the forum! I watched the first 2 or 3 seasons of Castle on TV, until it became apparent that it would only be about the chase for the murderer of the detectives parents later on. That's not my cup of tea.

I had quite a good time reading today. Still reading Hawaii, which is very slow-going, because I read other books in between. It's not like the book ist tedious, but its descriptions are in a way which I can stand only a while at a time.

I think there's quite a difference in authors you really like and authors that touch your heart. I only had two or three of the latter in my life so far. It wouldn't do you any good to know the names, because they've never been translated. But I even had the chance to meet one of them once and I found out that he's not only writing well but he's one of the nicest men I ever came to know.

Odds are, I visit England somedays. Probably I can visit a library such as this there. If one was anywhere near my place, I'd be their best client and you'd have to drag me out after hours!!!

I haven't read any book of the other series yet. Can you recommend them? Sounds very creepy!

Where are they? And what's to be simple about the second one?

Sure Virginia, I soon found out that life is a lot easier if most people like you.

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That is a word???? national

LOL I love the way in her novels that most of the victims don't evoke the question of who had a motive but of whom of them was the first to strike!

ME! Worst thing was: that film in which Helen Clyde was shot was completely different from the book!

Good idea 1. Elisabeth George 2. Edward Rutherford 3. Rebecca Gable (I don't know, if her books are translated into English, but I think so)

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I also can't picture them as they are in the books. Their movie characters are far too fitting for that. But why on earth couldn't they find actors who look like in the books?

Well, I'd have a hard time to describe it in German, let alone in English.

I've read that book a couple of years ago, just because it was a gift, and it was very boring. Funniest thing was the English of van Halen. A vocabulary that large would do an Englishman good, but he couldn't get the simplest sentence right.

No kidding, bobblybear???? None of those online markets would work, if it's all done by hand!!!!

We had a family meeting today, so not much reading. I concentrated on the Hindenburg story, because I fear, if I don't finish it in the next couple of days, I won't ever.

I'm a great fan of her! Not only that her books are well researched, she's got a writing style that makes her books breathing England to me.

The Hindenburg Murders. It sounded interresting, being about the Zeppelin, but every other sentence is about how bad everybody felt about the Nazis (they were, no question, but it would be enough to say it a couple of times.) And Hawaii by James Michener A great book but rather complicated to read in a foreign language.