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Post by revmichael on May 12, 2007 10:46:49 GMT
I don't read much fiction but I like to take one or two on holiday.
I've read all of Robert Goddard's books and like that style of book. I like to learn something about a country and it's people in a novel but I don't like badly written ones.
Any ideas? - particularly of books currently in paperback.
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Post by cheesygrin on May 12, 2007 10:49:48 GMT
Robert Goddard is good isn't he? Do you like sort of whodunnits? if so you might like PD James, I've always found her stuff really good. Also Ruth Rendell is good though her stuff tends to be a bit light and fluffy.
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Post by senga on May 12, 2007 11:31:36 GMT
I don't read much fiction but I like to take one or two on holiday. I've read all of Robert Goddard's books and like that style of book. I like to learn something about a country and it's people in a novel but I don't like badly written ones. Any ideas? - particularly of books currently in paperback. Not whodunnits, but highly recommended John Boyne - The Boy in Striped Pyjamas (a very quick read) Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner (Afghan/American author) In both books you will learn of the people and country, and both are beautifully written.
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Post by smiffy on May 12, 2007 12:19:05 GMT
Lunch With A Soldier - Derek Hansen
The Waddi Tree - Kerry McGinnis
Both are set in Australia, mum read the Hansen one, I have read the McGinnis one.
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Post by revmichael on May 12, 2007 12:49:06 GMT
Thanks so much. I've read one of PD James, and liked it very much. I haven't heard of the other authors. Those about Australia sound just my 'cup of tea'; we love Australia and its people.
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Post by bittymatriarch on May 12, 2007 18:15:22 GMT
Those about Australia sound just my 'cup of tea'; we love Australia and its people. Any novel by Nevil Shute - although set in WW2 or thereabouts, they still make wonderful, compulsive reading. Other suggestions: any of the Brother Cadfael novels by Ellis Peters; Victoria Hislop's "The Island" set in Crete - read this last year on holiday and didn't put it down until finished - brilliant story. One of my all time favourites - "Exodus" by Leon Uris. HTH Ann
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Post by cheesygrin on May 12, 2007 18:22:46 GMT
Victoria Hislop's "The Island" set in Crete - read this last year on holiday and didn't put it down until finished - brilliant story. I agree, this is a brillaint book
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Post by revmichael on May 12, 2007 18:48:02 GMT
Those about Australia sound just my 'cup of tea'; we love Australia and its people. Any novel by Nevil Shute - although set in WW2 or thereabouts, they still make wonderful, compulsive reading. Other suggestions: any of the Brother Cadfael novels by Ellis Peters; Victoria Hislop's "The Island" set in Crete - read this last year on holiday and didn't put it down until finished - brilliant story. One of my all time favourites - "Exodus" by Leon Uris. HTH Ann Yes, I read all of the Nevil Shute novels as they were published -and enjoyed them. Many years later I went to Alice Springs - 'A Town Like Alice' and there was one about re-incarnation centred on, what was then, a very small town called Cairnes. I've been there too. Perhaps I should go up into our loft and dig out those Shute novels again. Thanks for all your help and guidance.
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Post by Mo Termouth on May 13, 2007 6:15:48 GMT
I think you might like 'My family and other animals' by Gerrald Durrell
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Post by Dancin' Girl on May 13, 2007 17:46:23 GMT
Fiction: "The Horse Whisperer", "The Loop" "The Smoke Jumper" and anything else by Nicholas Evans ......... absolutely brilliant. For non-fiction try any Torey Hayden book: "Ghost Girl", "Beautiful Child", "Murphy's Boy" + more - an inspiration that out of something very bad, lives can be turned around.
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Post by revmichael on May 14, 2007 6:52:12 GMT
I think you might like 'My family and other animals' by Gerrald Durrell Yes, yes, a really brilliant book. It sparked our interest in Greece; we've now been around 60 times to that country and have many Greek friends there. 'My family and other animals' started it (about 18 years ago) when we were both feeling very jaded. Our doctor said we must get away somewhere. We had just read this book and so we booked a cheap one-week passage to Corfu.
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Post by cheesygrin on May 14, 2007 8:00:56 GMT
I think you might like 'My family and other animals' by Gerrald Durrell I met him once, he sold me a raffle ticket, I didn't win anything.
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Post by michaelesterol on May 14, 2007 8:24:28 GMT
I don't read much fiction but I like to take one or two on holiday. I've read all of Robert Goddard's books and like that style of book. I like to learn something about a country and it's people in a novel but I don't like badly written ones. Any ideas? - particularly of books currently in paperback. John Irving writes some really good stuff. The World According to Garp being a particular fave. Oldies but great ! Douglas Adams writes some very good stuff and Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea Time of The Soul are both first class books - and not as 'out there' as hitchikers guide. Melvyn Brag, The Soldiers Return is also highly recomended though he tends to suffer slightly from what I call 'D.H.Lawrence Disease' which inflicts the need to use 50 words where one will do !
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Post by Sir Blimely Windy on May 14, 2007 8:27:16 GMT
Choppy, it must be something to do with having birthdays on April 29th. Feel free to read the 'My Favourite Book' thread.
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Post by Lucy Lastic on May 14, 2007 23:05:30 GMT
I don't read much fiction but I like to take one or two on holiday. I've read all of Robert Goddard's books and like that style of book. I like to learn something about a country and it's people in a novel but I don't like badly written ones. Any ideas? - particularly of books currently in paperback. Have you tried Alastair McLean or if you like stories with a nautical setting try Brian Callison
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Post by revmichael on May 15, 2007 16:19:03 GMT
I don't read much fiction but I like to take one or two on holiday. I've read all of Robert Goddard's books and like that style of book. I like to learn something about a country and it's people in a novel but I don't like badly written ones. Any ideas? - particularly of books currently in paperback. Have you tried Alastair McLean or if you like stories with a nautical setting try Brian Callison Thanks I read all of the Alistair McLean books, and I think he also wrote under another name as well. They are all upstairs in the loft. I must rescue them to read again. I also liked Hammond Innes in those days too.
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Post by scoo on May 20, 2007 19:43:09 GMT
Michael Lawrence, kids books really the Jiggy Mc Cue stories, absolutely hilarious
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Post by oldbean on May 21, 2007 10:55:22 GMT
Try Jodi Picoult... I particularly recommend Plain Truth which is set amongst the Amish. Also her latest book 19 Minutes, which is about a shooting in a school... not as grim as it sounds and certainly very thought provoking with an excellent twist.
If you want good books about Venice, then go with Donna Leon.... you can smell the canals, long for a grappa and a decent expresso and they are jolly good read too!
I am currently working through the Michael Connelly canon, which are set in LA and Hollywood with an American detective called Hieronymous Bosch... Harry for short. I find them really difficult to put them down and they make my journey up to London go very quickly.
Also try Arturo Perez Reverte, a Spanish thriller writer, loved the Seville Communion, Flanders Panel and the Dumas Club... and best of all Queen of the South which has great twists and turns and you just can't work out how it will finish. I just wish that they would translate his work more quickly.
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Post by smoggie on May 23, 2007 10:05:50 GMT
I'd strongly recommend Pigtopia by Kitty Fitzgerald. Beautifully written and if it doesn't touch you, you've a heart of stone!
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Post by meltemi on Sept 30, 2007 9:30:14 GMT
Yep would endorse the Michael Connelly's thememsahib & I have read all available paperbacks of his...as a very good read...also only as Greek odyssey ( our ramblings, not a tour operator) holiday reads..
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