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I fucking love books!
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Seriously, give me a bookshop to wander through and I am the happiest I have ever been.
Who else loves books?
What was the last book you read?
Any book recommendations? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I spend hours in bookshops and charity shops.
The last few books I've read have all been very dry criminology tomes for my dissertation, apart from The Handmaid's Tale that got another reading as I was watching the TV series. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Just finished Ready Player One... Great book.
I'm getting severely impatient for George R R Martin to finish the next installment if a Song of Fire and Ice... |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Ohhh! I always recommend it but The Night Circus -Erin Morgenstern."
I got a pre-publication copy to review and I adored it 
The last book I read (finished last night) is Holding Up The Universe by Jennifer Niven- really lovely YA book. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Love it, and love woman that read!
Just started The Untold History of the United States, Oliver Stone and another!
Best book ever 1984, love Orwell.
Best book recently Tragedy and Hope, Carroll Quigley! |
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Just about to start The Tommyknockers by Stephen King. I've been a Constant Reader since I first read Carrie at 13, but this is a new one for me."
It's not terrible but I thought it was about three times longer than it needed to be. It would have made a better novella in my opinion. |
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By *rrol.BMan
over a year ago
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I like books, I love to read.
For in they mind they plant a seed
and worlds sprout forth, adventure blooms.
Crossing oceans, raiding tombs.
(and all whilst curled up in my chair
I'm rescuing a maiden fair)
I think that it is safe to say.
Books made me who I am today. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Just about to start The Tommyknockers by Stephen King. I've been a Constant Reader since I first read Carrie at 13, but this is a new one for me.
It's not terrible but I thought it was about three times longer than it needed to be. It would have made a better novella in my opinion. "
Don't tell me negative things before I even start it  |
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By *rrol.BMan
over a year ago
Wrexham |
To answer the OP...
I'm just about to finish Feersum Endjinn by Iain M. Banks.
I would recommend...
Vurt (and Pollen) by Jeff Noon
As She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan Lethem
The Troika by Stepan Chapman
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I love books too - if anyone's ever stuck for something to buy for me I'd be delighted to get a book. I've got several thousand littering my house - the bookshelves are all double stacked, then there are piles of books on the table, by my bed, under the bed, in my wardrobe etc. If and when I win the lottery I want a big house for the library potential so I can sort them all out properly at long last.
I am, however, exceptionally ashamed to say that I don't read as much as I used to. I've got a couple of books 'on the go' at the moment, both non fiction - one about London, the other about railways - but lately Fab and the forums have been too much of an easy distraction when I've got a little spare time. Not that this has stopped me buying new ones - I've got at least 200 unread books waiting at the moment .... |
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Just about to start The Tommyknockers by Stephen King. I've been a Constant Reader since I first read Carrie at 13, but this is a new one for me.
It's not terrible but I thought it was about three times longer than it needed to be. It would have made a better novella in my opinion.
Don't tell me negative things before I even start it "
Sorry. That was thoughtless of me. I'm sure you'll enjoy it, just be prepared for the long-haul! |
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By *kivaMan
over a year ago
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"Seriously, give me a bookshop to wander through and I am the happiest I have ever been.
Who else loves books?
What was the last book you read?
Any book recommendations?"
I recommend Daughter of Smoke and Bone. It is the fire angel I refer to in my essay level profile.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Just on another Robin Hobb, working through Stephen King's Dark Tower as i find them, for something quite dark and erotic i suggest The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh |
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"Bookworm here too. Into thriller/adventure types....lee childs, clive cussler etc
Need more though lol
I've one side of a huge bookcase dedicated to Lee Child, Clive Cussler and Wilbur Smith "
When can i view your bookcase  |
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"Bookworm here too. Into thriller/adventure types....lee childs, clive cussler etc
Need more though lol
I've one side of a huge bookcase dedicated to Lee Child, Clive Cussler and Wilbur Smith "
Oh boy, Wilbur Smith wrote some epic books back in the day. Can't tell you how much I wanted to move to Africa and hunt lions when I was a kid. Early Clive Cussler was good too... Pity he sold out. I jump on any new Lee Child books the day they come out. Excellent taste you have there! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I have never read read a story book in my life. Saying that, I have read hundreds of text books on maths, science, humanities, religion, engineering and electronics. Not sure its the same thing. Maybe that's why I struggle writing dissertations for degrees.
I can produce the evidence and facts, just not in an academic way. |
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"Bookworm here too. Into thriller/adventure types....lee childs, clive cussler etc
Need more though lol
I've one side of a huge bookcase dedicated to Lee Child, Clive Cussler and Wilbur Smith
When can i view your bookcase "
Shipping might be an issue  |
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"Bookworm here too. Into thriller/adventure types....lee childs, clive cussler etc
Need more though lol
I've one side of a huge bookcase dedicated to Lee Child, Clive Cussler and Wilbur Smith
When can i view your bookcase
Shipping might be an issue "
Not if i come down lol |
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God yeah I love books and bookshops. I could never see someone who didn't feel the same. Well by see I mean have a relationship lol
I've just finished Assassin's Fate by Robin Hobb, god it was good, very emotional. I'm feeling sorry for the book I've just started, the comparison won't be good... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I'm currently reading Jerusalem by Alan Moore. It's an epic. About 20% of the way through at the moment and I have no idea what it's all about but I'm enjoying every word of it.
David Mitchell (cloud atlas) is awesome.
The Name Of The Wind by Patrick Rothfuss is a really good fantasy.
Zen & The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance is a book that really did change my life.
And Hitchhiker's Guide is a must read for anybody. |
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"I've one side of a huge bookcase dedicated to Lee Child, Clive Cussler and Wilbur Smith
Oh boy, Wilbur Smith wrote some epic books back in the day. Can't tell you how much I wanted to move to Africa and hunt lions when I was a kid. Early Clive Cussler was good too... Pity he sold out. I jump on any new Lee Child books the day they come out. Excellent taste you have there! "
Smith's Courtney series and Egyptian series are epic... Both have huge appeal for me.
Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino are my favorite bromance lol, and I love how Cussler shamelessly gives himself cameo appearances in his own books
Jack Reacher.... Need I say more?? One of the grittiest, sexiest, most larger than life characters to ever jump off a page  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I love reading too though I'd stopped reading for quite a while and it was Errol B on here who inspired me to start reading again.
I'm reading Fingersmith by Sarah Waters at the moment. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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A dream; To own a house that can spare a room, tall bookshelves filled with paper that rustles and swishes as pages are turned. Draped windows shutting out the light and a single comfy armchair to curl up in with a small oak table beside. No wifi, no tv, no phone. Just books |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Hello, my names Alley and I have a book problem
Is it a problem though really?? Ohhh... Just had the inspiration for a new thread... "
Good point. No, it isn't. Well, not for me at least  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I love the smell of books, just the faint scent and I get carried away to somewhere else... "
God yes, the smell of a second hand bookshop. Anyone ever been to Strand Books on Broadway? The smell knocks you over, think of the biggest Tesco you've been in and ram it with books on shelves that need ladders for the top tiers. They advertise it as 8 miles of books. If I lived there I'd never go to the pub again I reckon. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I love book shops and can spend hours in one. I usually get dragged out by whoever I'm with.
I'm cheating at the moment and listening to American Gods on Audio as I'm walking lots. It keeps me going being able to listen to a book. |
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I did have a book problem- tried to limit myself and was only allowed to buy one book at the airport. but every time I moved a had to give away loads... moved on to audiobooks now- great fun and free... listening to tana French at the moment- very nice! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I love books it's my greatest passion
I've tried a kindle but it's not the same
Just leave me in a book shop running my fingers down the spines of a good book
I'm a forensic fan so anything to do with murder |
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I - Mrs, love reading a good book.. but once I start I don't want to put it down until Iv finished it. unfortunately don't get the time to do that these days
My kindle is loaded with lee child, Clive cussler, martina cole to name a few, but I have a cupboard full of books by all sorts of authors waiting to be read. |
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Last read- the girl with all the
gifts.
All time favorite-anything by ray Bradbury.
Best recent reads-ham on rye by Charles bukowski...death and the penguin by andrey kurkov.....stranger In a strange land by Robert Heinlein.....dahlgren by Samuel R Delaney.....the dancers at the end of time by Michael Moorcock.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Anything by David and Leigh Eddings.
David's early stuff was truly captivating. Still reading his stuff that I read almost 30 years ago!  "
Redemption of altheus, one of my favourite books.
I'm reading the long earth series by Terry pratchett and Stephen Baxter |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I'm a complete bibliophile
mainly for American history and art history but I do like biographies too..
the last book I read was Set the boy free by Johnny Marr although I wouldn't recommend it  |
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"Seriously, give me a bookshop to wander through and I am the happiest I have ever been.
Who else loves books?
What was the last book you read?
Any book recommendations?"
Love books and book shops and have a gradually increasing collection of poetry.
I can't remember what I read last... I tend to read in bursts, several books in quick succession and then nothing for a while.
I have a fondness for crime fiction but read almost anything except romance. Particularly like Jo Nesbo and Mark Billingham at the moment.
Nita |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Seriously, give me a bookshop to wander through and I am the happiest I have ever been.
Who else loves books?
What was the last book you read?
Any book recommendations?
I recommend Daughter of Smoke and Bone. It is the fire angel I refer to in my essay level profile. "
Erm.....your profile is one word? |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Tell a lie...
The last book I read was The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena. I think I read it in one evening.
Nita"
NO SPOILERS!!!
Is it good though? I have an hour on Wednesday with nothing to do, stuck in the middle of nowhere and that is the book I am taking with me to read |
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By *ammyDodgaMan
over a year ago
Nottingham/and everywhere my location says i am ;) |
I loved Waterstones when they had a coffee shop in them. Go pick a book, grab a brew, and just read.. Now the miserable sods just want you to buy the thing... What if I don't like it  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"A dream; To own a house that can spare a room, tall bookshelves filled with paper that rustles and swishes as pages are turned. Draped windows shutting out the light and a single comfy armchair to curl up in with a small oak table beside. No wifi, no tv, no phone. Just books "
You've just described my perfect room. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Does anyone else admit to finding it hard to read now they have a mobile/laptop?
Like 'what am i missing on forums/facebook?'"
YES!!! Ashamed to say my laptop takes over my evenings but i always make time for some reading when i go to bed. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I love books too - if anyone's ever stuck for something to buy for me I'd be delighted to get a book. I've got several thousand littering my house - the bookshelves are all double stacked, then there are piles of books on the table, by my bed, under the bed, in my wardrobe etc. If and when I win the lottery I want a big house for the library potential so I can sort them all out properly at long last.
I am, however, exceptionally ashamed to say that I don't read as much as I used to. I've got a couple of books 'on the go' at the moment, both non fiction - one about London, the other about railways - but lately Fab and the forums have been too much of an easy distraction when I've got a little spare time. Not that this has stopped me buying new ones - I've got at least 200 unread books waiting at the moment ...."
I love the sound of your house! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Seriously, give me a bookshop to wander through and I am the happiest I have ever been.
Who else loves books?
What was the last book you read?
Any book recommendations?"
Yep, books are my weakness (well, them and cakes) Always got several books on the go at any one time. Love reference books as well as fiction. Strangely i quite like chick-lit novels. |
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I love stories. Love watching TV and movies. I even write screenplays.
But I would absolutely love to get into reading. I have a book pile to get to reading but I just never get to it or have the free time to sit down, disconnect and just read! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Not that I am trying to make anyone jealous, but I have a second hand book shop 20 minutes from me where all books are £1 and also 3 for 2
I'm off this afternoon, because I only have 527* books I haven't aready ready.
(*527 is an approximation because I can't count that high) |
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By *anny77Man
over a year ago
glasgow |
I'm a massive fan of books and reading. Stephen King is probably my favourite. I think it's tragic a lot of people are put off by his genre because, in my opinion, he's the best author there is.
The last book I read was Imajica by Clive Barker |
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I'll probably be burned as a heretic, but since I travel so much I switched to ebooks years ago.
I think I have tens of thousands stored in the cloud now and a Kindle unlimited account.
I read on my phone and I love that I always have a book handy. Great for those times you have to sit and wait for something; I don't mind at all any more! |
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"Not that I am trying to make anyone jealous, but I have a second hand book shop 20 minutes from me where all books are £1 and also 3 for 2
I'm off this afternoon, because I only have 527* books I haven't aready ready.
(*527 is an approximation because I can't count that high)"
You sound like a dream lady |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Read fantasy sf horror and ghost stories mostly . last book i read was doctor who fairy tales .Id recommend anything by steven king Charlie Higson darren shan or james herbert |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Seriously, give me a bookshop to wander through and I am the happiest I have ever been.
Who else loves books?
What was the last book you read?
Any book recommendations?"
We need to talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver is AMAZING!! And another one that I'll go back to over and over again, 1984 by George Orwell |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Yep, big book fan. I tried downloaded books on a tablet but it just isn't the same. I've just unpacked some of my favourites that are now quite dog-eared.. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Seriously, give me a bookshop to wander through and I am the happiest I have ever been.
Who else loves books?
What was the last book you read?
Any book recommendations?"
I love books. Jus read Babylon Idol by Scott Marini. Something Wicked by Kerry Wilkinson . Going to start on The Isis Convenant by James Douglas tonight.
Do you when you nearly finished a book stop. I can not bare to finish . I never want to end a good book? |
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"I cant get on with a kindle. I need to turn the pages over plus you dont have the same feel or smell of paper as you read"
I know what you mean. I miss real books, but since I often read two a week and supply is limited in the middle east, Ebooks are my only choice.
One huge problem: The footnotes in Terry Pratchett's books (possibly the best parts) lose all their charm when you have to click a link. |
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"Tell a lie...
The last book I read was The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena. I think I read it in one evening.
Nita
NO SPOILERS!!!
Is it good though? I have an hour on Wednesday with nothing to do, stuck in the middle of nowhere and that is the book I am taking with me to read "
I enjoyed it but did guess the "twist in the tale".
Enjoy
Nita |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The unbearable lightness of being.
The first 2 pages got me and I've just stuck with it.
Pre this I was reading Stephen Frys books... but there was something about them that seemed almost like they were excersizes in writing rather than a need to express something. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I'm a complete bibliophile
mainly for American history and art history but I do like biographies too..
the last book I read was Set the boy free by Johnny Marr although I wouldn't recommend it "
It's rubbish when a book disappoints |
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I presume there will be other copies of the countryman series I,ve got some from the 1960,s late 1950,s little storys of the times and happenings from villages and towns past and present of the time with pictures and sketch,s high lighting some events like two suffolk punch or working horse,s pulling the plough etc before the tractor took over totally. |
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By *iffaWoman
over a year ago
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Currently reading a teen fiction series called gone. Lord of the flies style all adults are gone in a town. Thinking bout giving up on them though just too depressing. Back to re reading the discworld again me thinks |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I fucking love em as well. I'm reading a book called Skintown a debut novel by a bloke called Ciaran McMenamin. I'm about halfway through and really enjoying it. |
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"Just finished Ready Player One... Great book.
I'm getting severely impatient for George R R Martin to finish the next installment if a Song of Fire and Ice... "
Me too! And thanks to the net I'm going to find out how the series might end if the show has the same ending as the book! I'm wondering if he's finished both books but is keeping it under wraps until Winds is released |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Seriously, give me a bookshop to wander through and I am the happiest I have ever been.
Who else loves books?
What was the last book you read?
Any book recommendations?"
I actually just finished reading a 4 book series my Marty Talbot
The Viking
The Vikings son
The Vikings daughter
The vikings bride
I've never been so entised into a set of characters before but these books gripped me and I'm now onto his second series the Highlanders definitely worth reading as they had me on the edge of my seat all the way through it |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I'll probably be burned as a heretic, but since I travel so much I switched to ebooks years ago.
I think I have tens of thousands stored in the cloud now and a Kindle unlimited account.
I read on my phone and I love that I always have a book handy. Great for those times you have to sit and wait for something; I don't mind at all any more! "
I love my Kindle and i also use my phone if iv not got my Kindle with me. I would need a mansion to store them if i still read paper books instead. |
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By *reygorCouple
over a year ago
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nothing like a good book .bit of sun and cold cider .having a clear out a couple of weeks ago .and found a copy of :king solomands mines :last read it in my mid teens .what a great yarn it still is |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Hello, my names Alley and I have a book problem
The only 'problem' with books is not having enough of them.
Although not having enough time for them is also a problem. "
I make time. I don't watch TV and I have no friends  |
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"Hello, my names Alley and I have a book problem
The only 'problem' with books is not having enough of them.
Although not having enough time for them is also a problem.
I make time. I don't watch TV and I have no friends "
Can i be your friend, we wouldnt need the books either  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I shouldn't be allowed in bookshops, I can't be trusted in them. I went into an antique book shop in Cambridge having sworn I'd just look around. I came out with all seven volumes of Gibbon's Decline And Fall. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Imagine one has a been said already but,,, one flew over the cuckoos nest and fear and loathing in Las Vegas. There's nothing quite like losing yourself in a bit of madness |
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Only genre I've not been able to 'get into' is fantasy.
But other than that I will/have read anything. My favourites are classics, Victorian and crime mystery but I'll also read/have enjoyed biography, historical, travel, philosophical, literary, saga, condition of, fairy tale, comedy...and of course erotica - which is more difficult to write well than people appreciate I think.
Favourites are pride and prejudice and Rachel's holiday.
Closely followed by waterland and behind the scenes at the museum and wuthering heights.
3 years doing English at uni was heaven, hoping to do a masters at some point. |
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