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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Couple of us keep hijacking other threads with our book recommendations - so I thought I'd start a thread where we bookworms can swap authors and titles without taking thread off topic!!
Anyone else looking forward to getting a stack of books for Christmas day?  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Couple of us keep hijacking other threads with our book recommendations - so I thought I'd start a thread where we bookworms can swap authors and titles without taking thread off topic!!
Anyone else looking forward to getting a stack of books for Christmas day? "
I have been given a book as a pressy "the road"
Cant remember who by but apparantly its a good un.
I also love maeve binchy and i love really really graphic horrors....But cant watch horror films.   |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Yes I would like the new Richard Montanari novel, the Violet Hour. As mentioned previously, I will start The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory and hopefully I will like this book as I understand there are various other novels of the same genre to get through.
I am a bookworm and usually read a book a week. Its been a bit slow at the moment because I have a corneal ulcer so have some vision problems at the moment which means I cant read for very long - always love finding new authors though.
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Same here. I love Phillipa Gregory's historical stuff. If you like her, try CJ Sansom - set in the Tudor period and follows a lawyer through various murder cases. Ace! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I like a really gruesome serial killer crime novel - but I cant read these kind of books in summer. I dont mind chick lit at times,when I want something a bit lighter. I also like to be transported to the world of rich husbands, apartments in New York, designer clothes, those kind of novels, total escapism. When im sensible I like biographies  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The film of "The Road" is very good if some what bleak.
My recommendations would be SciFi:Peter F Hamilton or Neal Asher. Orson Scott Card - Enders Game, very good!
Fiction:Nelson Demille - John Corrie series, K J Parker - The whole memory, engineer and related set.
There are a shit load more too, I have several hundred books at the mo! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I like a really gruesome serial killer crime novel - but I cant read these kind of books in summer. I dont mind chick lit at times,when I want something a bit lighter. I also like to be transported to the world of rich husbands, apartments in New York, designer clothes, those kind of novels, total escapism. When im sensible I like biographies "
Karin Slaughter!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Yes I would like the new Richard Montanari novel, the Violet Hour. As mentioned previously, I will start The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory and hopefully I will like this book as I understand there are various other novels of the same genre to get through.
I am a bookworm and usually read a book a week. Its been a bit slow at the moment because I have a corneal ulcer so have some vision problems at the moment which means I cant read for very long - always love finding new authors though.
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Have you thought about audio books I get them for my nan as she loves books/stories but cant focus on the words any more. |
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I just bought myself the new Karin Slaughter one... and another one but I wrapped it up and put it under the tree and I can't remember who its by.
If you like crime fiction and want a good read then the Karen Rose books are amazing. She's twisted! You kind of need to read them in order although there's a trilogy (Die for me, Scream for me, Kill for me) that doesn't relate to the others. She has a website that tells you the order.
The Stieg Larsson books are also really great. Read the books before you see the films.  |
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By *mumaWoman
over a year ago
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"I just bought myself the new Karin Slaughter one... and another one but I wrapped it up and put it under the tree and I can't remember who its by.
If you like crime fiction and want a good read then the Karen Rose books are amazing. She's twisted! You kind of need to read them in order although there's a trilogy (Die for me, Scream for me, Kill for me) that doesn't relate to the others. She has a website that tells you the order.
The Stieg Larsson books are also really great. Read the books before you see the films. "
oooh Dirty, a girl after me own heart.. got all books by Rose and Slaughter.
I go through books like i do men - a new one every couple of days |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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tim vine biggest ever joke book.
that always picks me up.
also i recommend.
On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society by Dave Grossman
trust me.its an interesting insight. |
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"oooh Dirty, a girl after me own heart.. got all books by Rose and Slaughter.
I go through books like i do men - a new one every couple of days "
Yup... the Karen Rose ones I couldn't put down. Read the trilogy when I was in Cyprus last year... done in four days.
Lisa Gardner is another one... need to read them in order too but they're good as well. I love crime books. I'd really like to get into the Tess Gerritson books but I need to print out the order and read them from the beginning. I'm a bit anal about that. |
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"dirty, got them all, have over 1000 books, and all chronologically ordered by author (No I don't have OCD lol) . also love jonathan kellerman, John grisham and James patterson"
James Patterson rocks! Have you read the Quentin Jardine books? Also quite good.
So when's the book club party round yours then?
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By *harpDressed ManMan
over a year ago
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I tend to be "boom and bust" with books - I read 5 in a week on holiday, then none for months.
I currently have a Pratchett and a Jasper Fforde waiting to be started, both will be excellent. Fforde is extremely creative and it's very literary material...in its own way!
For crime, I'd recommend Ed McBain - he died a couple of years ago, but has a huge catalogue of books set in the same city.
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The other Bolyen Girl is excellent.I love historical fiction.
The best written erotica ever is by Maxim Jakubowski,
http://www.thedonotpress.com/titles/kissmesadly.html
The book i have asked for is I shall wear Midnight.Though i doubt there will be enough Granny Weatherwax to please me.
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Pratchet, always worth a read, very inventive.
Dean Koontz... thriller/horror, really well written.
Tom Holt and Tom Sharpe for comedy.
And Chris Ryan or Andy McNabb for shooting people and blowing things up lol! |
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We've both got the Kindle e-reader and you can change the font size if you have trouble reading.
Recently I've been reading The Pillars of the Earth, Hilary Mantel's A Place of Greater Safety, Bill Bryson's At Home, Grisham and You Never Give Me Your Money about The Beatles finances.
So many great books, so little time! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I will give Karen Rose a try after the Philippa Gregory novel. For me crime has to be gruesome but fairly realistic. Old ladies solving crime doesnt do it for me, Ithate Miss Marple. I prefer British crime too. One of my fave books was the Jigsaw Man by Paul Britton, a forensic psychologist who did the offender profiling on big cases such as James Bulger, Fred and Rose West, Rachel Nickell tho a lot of controversy over that case and they havnt long discovered the real killer after pinnning it on another guy, but its a great read. What I especially love is that a crime featured was a case which the police force i was working for at the time and i knew the officers involved and i remember them inviting Mr Britton to our rather dingy police station |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick Maker for tongue in cheek exploits of one very horny lady.
The Tuesday Erotica Club by Lisa Beth Kovitz. Quite amusing Sex in the city type stuff.
Reading my first Stephen King novel, Duma Key. Pretty good.
And of course, anything by the inspiration behind my profile name. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I`ve just been taking a look at the books you guys have mentioned, now I`m really worried. A vast majority are about physcopaths, serial killers or horror stories....... Now I`m convinced your a scary lot out there. |
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By *oxy_minxWoman
over a year ago
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I am a complete crime thriller buff!! Michael Connelly, Lee Childs, Karin Slaughter, Karen Rose, Kathy Reiches, Tess Gerritson, Harlen Corben, Dean Koonz, have a good ££££ worth for free uplift if anyone wants them.....Merry Xmas (Serious Offer) xxxxx |
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