DanC_84 Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 Not only have I not read any of these, I haven't even heard of any of them.. I think I'm living under a rock.The Sarah Waters sounds interesting, at least. Back in India, I tried to read last year's winner "White Tiger," but didn't like it at all. LOL, I'm with you Beth, never heard of any of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SweetiiPie85 Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 hmm - Sarah Water's book is a great haunted house novel. That could well be up your street. My fave of the bunch has to be 'Me Cheeta'. Tarzan's simian sidekick's autobiography. hilarious and brilliant. Thanks I will have a look for The Little Stranger when I go to the bookstore at the weekend! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 The winner has been announced... Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel My Mum's reading this for her bookworms. I'm waiting for the paperback! ETA: More details Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freewheeling Andy Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 From what I've heard on the grapevine, it's fairly unreadable and very hard work. More a triumph of intellect than necessarily a good read. From what else I heard, the Simon Mawer book sounded by far the most interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 (edited) From what I've heard on the grapevine, it's fairly unreadable and very hard work. More a triumph of intellect than necessarily a good read. The grapevine is talking complete rubbish then!! I'm about a third of the way through, and it's brilliant - wonderfully readable, totally captivating, I resent having to put it down. So far, comfortably one of the best books I've read in the past few years. And whilst one could wait for the paperback (next May I gather), Amazon are currently selling for the price of a paperback. Edited October 7, 2009 by willoyd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 It's not a cost issue. I just don't like hardbacks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 It's not a cost issue. I just don't like hardbacks. I can empathise with that, especially given the degree I want to travel around with my books. Trouble is, I like the print size in hardbacks nowadays. All too many paperbacks are impossibliy small to read with relaxed ease. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 Yes, print size is definitely an issue. I have to check the inside to see how small it is before buying these days. That's one reason I never buy magazines with 'free' books inside even it's tempting, because they're nearly always smaller books with smaller print - I imagine it's to keep the costs down. I also want to read Byatt's The Children's Book which was one of the shortlisted books - that doesn't come out in paperback until January but I guess that will be here before we know it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted October 8, 2009 Share Posted October 8, 2009 I've been wanting to read AS Byatt's 'The Childrens Book' for ages .. I was tempted again in Waterstones yesterday but although it's very beautiful in hardback I'm waiting for the paperback. Also wanting to read Sarah Waters 'Little Stranger' .. and on the strength of it winning and blencathra's review above I'm adding 'Wolf Hall' to my list .. any book described as 'the best book I've read in years' has got to be worth a look. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted October 8, 2009 Share Posted October 8, 2009 any book described as 'the best book I've read in years' has got to be worth a look. ONE of the best!! To give you an indication of what that means in terms of my taste, my other fiction reads over the past two or three years that I'd rate in the same sort of bracket: A Thousand Acres, Moby Dick, War and Peace, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Hours, A Suitable Boy, Bleak House, This Thing of Darkness, A Month in the Country, Cryptonomicon, Rosetta, The Conjuror's Bird, The Tenderness of Wolves. That might help you decide whether that recommendation is worth taking any notice of from your point of view. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 ONE of the best!! To give you an indication of what that means in terms of my taste, my other fiction reads over the past two or three years that I'd rate in the same sort of bracket: A Thousand Acres, Moby Dick, War and Peace, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Hours, A Suitable Boy, Bleak House, This Thing of Darkness, A Month in the Country, Cryptonomicon, Rosetta, The Conjuror's Bird, The Tenderness of Wolves. That might help you decide whether that recommendation is worth taking any notice of from your point of view. Well, I love 'War and Peace', 'To Kill a Mockingbird' and 'Bleak House' ... and the rest I haven't read (two are in the cupboard waiting though) so going on that I'm prepared to trust in your taste Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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