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Post by meltemi on Sept 16, 2007 10:34:10 GMT
Kalimera all finished it.Well the story ran it's unremarkable course, hey-ho the kleftico is ready...memsahib is demanding that the cork gets extracted now...over & out. Yep love Rebus...watch out for old stories being re-issued with new titles!!
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Post by paul Zernikazof on Sept 16, 2007 16:53:16 GMT
I am currently reading Dolphins of Pern by Anne McCaffery. I like the world she has created in her dragon books.
I have also read recently, three by Paul Doherty,
The Corpse candle, The slayers of Seth and The treason of the Ghosts. all historical whodunnits
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Post by tigerlily on Sept 16, 2007 17:14:08 GMT
I am currently reading Dolphins of Pern by Anne McCaffery. I like the world she has created in her dragon books. I have also read recently, three by Paul Doherty, The Corpse candle, The slayers of Seth and The treason of the Ghosts. all historical whodunnits I loved the Pern books, pZ, although the more recent ones have been a bit of a let-down. I had a friend's father who is a wonderful artist paint a copy of the bookjacket for Dolphins of Pern for me - it's hanging on my living-room wall. I re-read the entire series from time to time, although in the move I seem to have left one or two of them behind. I keep looking for them in the local bookstore, but it carries a very limited Sci-Fi/Fantasy range. Waiting for the last part of the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan to come out. Unfortunately he has a very nasty illness and so it may never be published, or may have to be completed by another author. I bought Stardust by Neil Gaiman and have been reading it at bedtime. It hasn't really gripped me as yet, though.
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Post by margo on Sept 16, 2007 22:23:41 GMT
Just finished Getting Out of the House by Isla Dewer. I've really enjoyed all olf her books. Well worth a read.
I read the Dragon books by Anne McCaffery many years ago and really enjoyed them. I must try theDolphin ones.
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Post by Conrad Grills on Sept 18, 2007 21:54:28 GMT
I am reading 'The Heart of the Matter' by Graham Greene.
He doesn't seem to write books any more.
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Post by Ann R Kay on Sept 19, 2007 7:09:24 GMT
'The Last Precinct' by Patricia Cornwell. It's one of a series of books with the same characters. I also like Kathy Reichs' books, I've read all of them to date, and I've just finished 'Naming of the Dead'. - excellent.
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Post by faeryboots on Sept 20, 2007 7:21:34 GMT
Andy, I'd suggest for teachers of younger ones "Can I tell you about Asperger Syndrome?" - Jude Welton.
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Post by idiotmittens on Sept 20, 2007 12:23:41 GMT
Stalin - The Court of the Red Tsar. Not exactly a laugh a minute, but I had no idea of his 'slaughter by numbers' policy in the mid-thirties to rid the country of so-called enemies of the state.
He's just about to meet Hitler for the first time........
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Post by camdoon on Sept 20, 2007 14:18:03 GMT
Mid way through the latest/last Rebus novel, "Exit Music." Very much up to the high standards that Rankin has set himself.
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Post by tigerlily on Sept 20, 2007 16:12:38 GMT
I received a free book yesterday.
Thomas Hardy. Far From the Madding Crowd. Which I have to review.
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Post by faeryboots on Sept 20, 2007 16:18:37 GMT
I received a free book yesterday. Thomas Hardy. Far From the Madding Crowd. Which I have to review. Fantastic book, the descriptions of the landscape and storms etc are beautiful.
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Post by lindasahandir on Sept 20, 2007 18:25:05 GMT
I received a free book yesterday. Thomas Hardy. Far From the Madding Crowd. Which I have to review. Fantastic book, the descriptions of the landscape and storms etc are beautiful. Indeed they are! This was the first Hardy I read (I studied it for O-level), and I went on to read all the rest in the following few years - except for Jude the Obscure which I only managed to get to the end of a couple of years ago.
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Post by MrsE on Sept 20, 2007 23:38:40 GMT
Just finished Julie Walter's "Maggie's Tree" - confused!! Did anyone read this and can explain to me what it was all about?!
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Post by MrsE on Sept 20, 2007 23:46:26 GMT
Just about to start "The House at Riverton". Enjoyed "The Memory Keepers Daughter" though it was a bit stereotyped on DS
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Post by MrsE on Sept 20, 2007 23:50:58 GMT
Like you I read "Far From The Madding Crowd" at school. Great story - film version was something else!
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Post by EmmaNemms on Sept 21, 2007 11:58:25 GMT
The Book With No Name - Anonymous Human Traces - Sebastian Faulkes . Read Human Traces last year - must admit I was glad to get to the end of that one. It's probably heresy but I find Sebastian Faulkes hard work! Currently burrowing through a pile of chick lit at the moment, my pregnancy hormones have left me with the concentration levels of a moth. And a particularly skittish one at that.
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Post by idiotmittens on Sept 21, 2007 12:05:52 GMT
Read Human Traces last year - must admit I was glad to get to the end of that one. It's probably heresy but I find Sebastian Faulkes hard work! I liked Birdsong, mainly due to my interest in WW1, but Human Traces (IMHO) was probably the most boring, pretentious pile of twaddle that I've read in a long time. Actually, saying that, I did have a go at a job lot of Aldous Huxley books that I got off eBay, and apart from Brave New World, I wasn't impressed.
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Post by tigerlily on Sept 21, 2007 12:27:33 GMT
It took me a long time to read Birdsong, and I have been ignoring Human Traces for quite a long time. It's not so much that he's difficult to read, but that it does require some thought and concentration.
Both of which I occasionally have difficulties with!
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Post by tde on Sept 21, 2007 19:36:34 GMT
Read Human Traces last year - must admit I was glad to get to the end of that one. It's probably heresy but I find Sebastian Faulkes hard work! I liked Birdsong, mainly due to my interest in WW1, but Human Traces (IMHO) was probably the most boring, pretentious pile of twaddle that I've read in a long time. Actually, saying that, I did have a go at a job lot of Aldous Huxley books that I got off eBay, and apart from Brave New World, I wasn't impressed. I read 'The Doors of Perception' when I was in a very dark place, mentally, and it did make me curious. Not so curious as to score some peyote off the internet, mind you.
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Post by Dibley on Sept 22, 2007 14:49:27 GMT
Just finished Julie Walter's "Maggie's Tree" - confused!! Did anyone read this and can explain to me what it was all about?! I got as far as page 19, and gave up.. BORING! Should I have continued with it? Dibs xx
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