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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"A brief history of time by Stephen hawkin"
Oh yes my kind of book. Any good? I'm currently reading Why does E=mc2 for the second time actually. Physics/astronomy is a big interest of mine |
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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago
Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum |
"I am about to start Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman since I have been meaning to for years."
One of my favourite books.  If you enjoy it I recommend looking at Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch.
I'm currently reading A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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I also read a book called Penpals by Dathen Auerbach. It's about a child who is stalked from an early age and his mother tries to do everything she can to protect him. It's really great thriller |
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By *ee VianteWoman
over a year ago
Somewhere in North Norfolk |
"Posts in the Lounge, obviously! 
That would make for a rather interesting book. I wonder what narrative you could pull together only using posts from the Lounge?"
I'd need medication just to consider it, I think. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I also read a book called Penpals by Dathen Auerbach. It's about a child who is stalked from an early age and his mother tries to do everything she can to protect him. It's really great thriller "
That sounds interesting. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I am about to start Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman since I have been meaning to for years.
One of my favourite books. If you enjoy it I recommend looking at Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch.
I'm currently reading A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson."
just finished rivers of london...loved it!
christopher fowlers bryant and may series may appeal to you if you enjoyed that |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I also read a book called Penpals by Dathen Auerbach. It's about a child who is stalked from an early age and his mother tries to do everything she can to protect him. It's really great thriller
That sounds interesting. "
It really is. It started as a short stories serious online, in a stories forum but it got such great recognition he turned it into a book. It's such a gripping read. And actually quite terrifyingly real |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"A brief history of time by Stephen hawkin
Oh yes my kind of book. Any good? I'm currently reading Why does E=mc2 for the second time actually. Physics/astronomy is a big interest of mine "
just started it so will let you know :0) |
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By *ipsTeaserCouple
over a year ago
here and there, thereabouts |
Two on the go; Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett (again) and The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien(again)
Just downloaded Gone Girl for my kindle so that will be next.
Anything by Louis De Bernieres is worth checking out. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I also read a book called Penpals by Dathen Auerbach. It's about a child who is stalked from an early age and his mother tries to do everything she can to protect him. It's really great thriller
That sounds interesting.
It really is. It started as a short stories serious online, in a stories forum but it got such great recognition he turned it into a book. It's such a gripping read. And actually quite terrifyingly real "
That's my next read sorted. Xx |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Just read The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman. It's not a long book but it's beautifully illustrated.
Tomorrow I'm starting Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett  "
Amazing book love Terry Pratchett |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I have a few books lingering around somewhere I can't seem to finish. A couple of fantasy books about angels and werewolves. Savage detectives that hurts my brain with all the Spanish names,I can't remember the other two. I give up for now |
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"Just read The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman. It's not a long book but it's beautifully illustrated.
Tomorrow I'm starting Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett
Amazing book love Terry Pratchett "
My favourite author |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Espedair St. by Iain Banks
My favourite author ever.
Yeah - i like him too, most of his stories remind me of the places I grew up!"
Great author, love his stuff as well. |
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By *ipswingCouple
over a year ago
portrush |
" the black mirror "... its the follow up to " the man in the mirror "... by l e hartley...
... it puts a spell on you.. tingles, dampness.a pistol in your pocket.
what a difference a day can make ...
and this is the tale of a week , in the lives of ....
its written by a local author ..not too far away
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fabulous ... ... |
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"A brief history of time by Stephen hawkin
Oh yes my kind of book. Any good? I'm currently reading Why does E=mc2 for the second time actually. Physics/astronomy is a big interest of mine just started it so will let you know :0)"
Good luck with that.. I got as far as page 5,...
A lighter and more entertaining treatment of time crops up in the latest book I've started : Time and Time Again by Ben Elton...So far , so good (and I'm way past page 5) |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Dean Koontz the 5th in the Frankenstien series. But I've been reading them all one after another and now I need a break. I want something with dragons but coming up empty |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I've just finished Tess Gerritsons Die Again and I'm now reading Kate AAtkinsons Life after Life and Karin Slaughters Cop Town.
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Struggled to get into Cop town, usually love Slaughter, recently finished Die Again, that was good |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I've just finished Tess Gerritsons Die Again and I'm now reading Kate AAtkinsons Life after Life and Karin Slaughters Cop Town.
Struggled to get into Cop town, usually love Slaughter, recently finished Die Again, that was good "
Ive looked at cop town and not keen on it being set in the 70's! I prefer Sara/Will Trent series |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I've just finished Tess Gerritsons Die Again and I'm now reading Kate AAtkinsons Life after Life and Karin Slaughters Cop Town.
Struggled to get into Cop town, usually love Slaughter, recently finished Die Again, that was good
Ive looked at cop town and not keen on it being set in the 70's! I prefer Sara/Will Trent series "
Same here |
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By (user no longer on site)
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" Tao of jeet kune do.............written by my good self! lol
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Also reading physics of the impossible by Michio Kaku.
Slightly geeky but very interesting indeed  |
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In half way through the Jack Reacher series, i read a book in about 7-10 days though. The jack reacher books are great.
I did read the bourne series last year aswell, all very good but nothing like the films.
The missus is on muddy waters and some 13 year old lawyer book but the name escapes me |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Dead Men Risen by Tony Harnden for the 2nd time.
About the Welsh Guards in Afghanistan.
Extremely powerful and anyone who wants a true understanding of what our troops do over there and what they face on a daily basis should definately read it |
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By *avindaWoman
over a year ago
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"Dean Koontz the 5th in the Frankenstien series. But I've been reading them all one after another and now I need a break. I want something with dragons but coming up empty "
How about the Christopher Paolini Eragon books. All about Dragons. I loved them.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Diary of Anne Frank.
hope you have a box of tissues by your side while reading this ,  "
I've not read it for a while and I found a revised edited fuller version.
Mike |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Anyone read anything by Laurell K Hamilton? ...currently reading Jason!!"
yeah I think i have most of the vampire ones. Really liked them to start but by the end it was just sex. |
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By *ipsTeaserCouple
over a year ago
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"Dean Koontz the 5th in the Frankenstien series. But I've been reading them all one after another and now I need a break. I want something with dragons but coming up empty
How about the Christopher Paolini Eragon books. All about Dragons. I loved them.
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The inheritance cycle? Oh soooo good. Might have to fish them out again |
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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago
Titz Towers, North Notts |
"I'm thinking of re-reading Lord of the Rings, but I'm not sure I'm ready for that kind of commitment.
Dooooo it!!!
It's gets better every time "
I've taken the plunge, running the risk that no-one will get me a book for my birthday. Tom Bombadilo is still irritating, though. |
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By *ipsTeaserCouple
over a year ago
here and there, thereabouts |
"I'm thinking of re-reading Lord of the Rings, but I'm not sure I'm ready for that kind of commitment.
Dooooo it!!!
It's gets better every time
I've taken the plunge, running the risk that no-one will get me a book for my birthday. Tom Bombadilo is still irritating, though. "
Have more than one on the go at once
Hmmm he is rather isn't he; I feel like am ment to like him more than I do 
Am now onto Wives & Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell. Seem to be falling back on all my favourites, waiting for something new to grab me. |
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The Taliban Cricket Club by Timeri N Murari
"There is no place for any act of violence on the field of play," states preamble No 6 in the Laws of Cricket – an epigraph to this topical novel. So what happens when the Taliban form a propagandist cricket club? It is an intriguing question, which the author explores in this vivid novel set in a war-torn Kabul, where citizens are brutally assassinated and a woman has her finger chopped off for wearing nail varnish. The reader is less bowled over by comedy-drama than stumped by harrowing tragedy.
There is, though, a feisty female protagonist who finds a sense of freedom in sport. in journalist Rukshana, who has written about Taliban abuses and so fears the worst when she is summoned to the "Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice". But the minister in charge has other plans – a cricket tournament, and his intention to marry her. Through her knowledge of cricket, learnt in Delhi, Rukshana sees a means of escape, for the winner will travel internationally. The plot is far-fetched, but the cinematic descriptions of war, and the joy of cricket, score highly.
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The Taliban Cricket Club by Timeri N Murari
"There is no place for any act of violence on the field of play," states preamble No 6 in the Laws of Cricket – an epigraph to this topical novel. So what happens when the Taliban form a propagandist cricket club? It is an intriguing question, which the author explores in this vivid novel set in a war-torn Kabul, where citizens are brutally assassinated and a woman has her finger chopped off for wearing nail varnish. The reader is less bowled over by comedy-drama than stumped by harrowing tragedy.
There is, though, a feisty female protagonist who finds a sense of freedom in sport. in journalist Rukshana, who has written about Taliban abuses and so fears the worst when she is summoned to the "Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice". But the minister in charge has other plans – a cricket tournament, and his intention to marry her. Through her knowledge of cricket, learnt in Delhi, Rukshana sees a means of escape, for the winner will travel internationally. The plot is far-fetched, but the cinematic descriptions of war, and the joy of cricket, score highly.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I'm reading Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children.
But the new Zom-B book by Darren Shan is published next Thursday so I'll be buying and reading that as soon as it's out. |
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"I've just finished Tess Gerritsons Die Again and I'm now reading Kate AAtkinsons Life after Life and Karin Slaughters Cop Town.
Struggled to get into Cop town, usually love Slaughter, recently finished Die Again, that was good
Ive looked at cop town and not keen on it being set in the 70's! I prefer Sara/Will Trent series
Same here "
Today I finished both Life after Life and Coptown and heartily recommend both! |
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I'm reading some sports and exercise stuff atm, as this is a specialist area of mine. Loving the sports lads that I'm studying with atm, so much muscle around me
No time for non-professional reading atm, as I've got too much student reading to do - it's a hard life. |
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The Macpherson Report (the inquiry into the death of Stephen Lawrence) and Hidden in Plain Sight (the inquiry into disability related crime instigated by the deaths of Fiona Pilkington and Francecca Hardwick).
Also reading The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantel when I get a spare few minutes.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Always love a good book so im always curious to know what other page turners people are currently indulged in.
So what are you currently reading?"
Geoff, the Buddah and me
Absolutely love it |
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