General Chat

Anything and everything
have to own up to being bored with King and Herbert.
Pratchett well still in to collect now as he has alzeimers and will not be doing many more.
Terry Brookes Magic Kingdom series is good for those who like Pratchett . The Shannara series I found hard going.
Robert Jordan is another good fantasy writer with his wheel of time series
as is Robin Hobb she also writes under her real name of Lindholm

give me a book and I will read it

Ex Military Cop Jack Reacher
brilliantly composed and well written if you want to get to grips with crime etc. Lee Child is a fantastic author.

Books include:
The Killing Floor
Die Trying
Tripwire
The visitor
Echo Burning
Without Fail
Persuader
The Enemy
One Shot
The Hard Way
Bad Luck And Trouble.

All fantastic reads would recommend them to anybody who likes a well told story.

Least Fav Author ANDY McNABB(Bravo 20) have read a couple of his and find them extreemly boring (he goes into too much detail and repeats himself too often)

Happy reading

Paul

Hi

Thanks Hayley

We do have a reading group but the suggestions tend to be mainly fiction. We have read some great books though. The ones by Elizabeth Chadwick which are set in the 12th and 13th century were particularly good.
We have also read the Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Kaleid Hosseini both fiction but based on fact and set in Afghanistan, horrific and informing.

Our book club is called Greaders. If you put that into advanced search it will bring up the threads of what we have read and what we though of the books.

Ann
Glos

I don't read many books. I alternate between puzzle books and reading. I'm reading Danielle steel HRH at the moment. I used to read a lot more of hers but find she repeats herself. It's alright for a little light reading.

Janetx

Hi Newdaydawning

I have read Nicky Cruz's book The Cross and the Switchblade it is a very very good book, I have also been to one of his ministries when he toured the UK back in the 70s.

If you have read that you may like to read God's Smuggler by Brother Andrew. there is also another one from him cannot think of the title at the mo.

Tina x

I love Deaver, Cornwall, Reichs any sort of forensic crime books. For a light read you cant beat Pratchett. I also like King and Herbert, although dont read so much of them these days.

Biographies and Autobiographies and history books.

I am rarely found without a book and there probably isnt a room in the house without one im half reading.

I hope to finish Bones to Ashes tomorrow which has been one I cant put down which is why I have logged on so late in the morning this week as have been reading for half an hour in bed from 6.30 lol

Mainly true crime. After that it ranges through James Herbert,Stephen Fry,etc oops & cert poets

I love a good mystery...

My favourite authors are...Peter James and Andrew Taylor....well worth a read.

Also...Lisa Scottoline...an American writer

I loved Stephen King's earlier novels..then they seemed to get very complicated. Pet Cemetery was one of my favourites.

Linda

Sci fi....not for me...I am afraid....

anything with a twist..problem is..you dont know until youre reading it...!..read most Pat cornwell James patterson...Murder mystery....CSI type forensic thang...is my "bag"

Science Fiction - the hard stuff,
not the soppy swords & fantasy rubbish.

xxx mick

My most recent read has been
My Warriors and I: Among the Samburu of Northern Kenya by Roger Stoakley.

(see review here http://www.amazon.co.uk/My-Warriors-Among-Samburu-Northern/dp/0951376691)

The author came and spoke to a group in our village a while ago and I bought a copy but hadn't got round to reading it until last weekend.
It's fascinating finding about how such a completely different culture views the world and life.

Before that I finished reading
The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution by Sean B. Carroll.
This was excellent and easy going for non scientists to read.
http://seanbcarroll.com/books/The_Making_of_the_Fittest/

For light relief I've also recently read some of Bill Bryson's work. Very funny.

Sue
x

i like tess gerritsen,reading bloodstream at the moment
barbara

Big fan of Michael Connolly for fiction and about anything reference wise

I read all popular authors. Martina Cole and Michael Dobbs are good reads too.

My latest is Terry Pratchett. I am hooked on the Discworld books, they are so funny.

I've got duplicates of three of them so if anyone is a Pratchett fan pm me and if you haven't read the ones I have then you are welcome to have them.

Aileen xxx

Tory Haydon ,yes but Patricia Cornwall Reitch(sp) Donna Leon,Minette Walters,Cathy Glass
Any books with a murder/thriller story but not Science Thrillers etc.Forensic Psycologist type stuff is my kind of book

That does sound interesting

Hve You ever read about Nicky Cruz ( cross and the switchblade )

Fascinating story.

dave pelzer is an amazing man who overcome a very shocking and disgusting childhood to achieve so much in adult life

and tory hayden she is a teacher of speacial needs children and helps them overcome some horrific challanges there family life

I read some offbeat stuff

Paranormal / Reincarnation / afterlife

That kind of thing.

Can't say I have Stray

What are they about?