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Ian Robinson · Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 2:11 pm Post subject:

...and to show my level, I've just finished Jodi Piccoult's latest work: Wonder Woman Issue 6. It's OK, but she's saddled with a silly set-up and it all feels a bit dated in a post-Captain America world.

(I'm also ploughing my way through Wicked, but more on that later...)

belinda · Joined: 13 Dec 2006 Posts: 63

Pryor Convictions: And Other Life Sentences
Richard Pryor.

I have to stop occasionally to either wipe away the tears or to lift my jaw up from the floor.
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nod · Joined: 24 Dec 2006 Posts: 3558

Fred - biography of Fred Dibnah Very Happy

Minx · Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 4:09 pm Post subject:

marietta honeybun · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 915 Location: Holland

Am now reading The Cold Moon by Jeffery Deaver. So far so excellent. It's a Lincoln Rhyme crime story. I think JD's books are very gripping and extremely well written.
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Minx · Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 10:37 am Post subject:

Just finished "The Memory Keeper's Daughter" by Kim Edwards. An interesting scenario - woman gives birth to twins, the girl with Downs Syndrome, the boy healthy, and father (the doctor who delivered) tells her the daughter was stillborn whilst secretly consigning this child to a home - to spare his wife's suffering.

All this happens in the first few pages - the rest of this slow-moving story charts the lives of all those involved in this tragedy. Not one I would whole-heartedly recommend but still very readable.

marietta honeybun · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 915 Location: Holland

Finished Jeffery Deaver's The Cold Moon which was excellent, gripping and not the ending I expected. How does he do it? Cool

Am now reading one of Katie Fforde's books Living Dangerously. Nice comfy read, humorous.
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marietta honeybun · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 915 Location: Holland

I'm waiting for that too. Have ordered it .... Cool

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I am reading Andy Summers's autobiography One Train Later. His writing on his life before The Police is excellent so far, and his time as a skiffle fan just reminded me of my brother!
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Red Baron · Joined: 30 Mar 2007 Posts: 120

I read JW's autobiography last week. It was excellent - I couldn't put it down!

RB

marietta honeybun · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 915 Location: Holland

Katie Fforde's book Living Dangerously was really a nice romantic read. After that I read James Patterson's Beach Road. Very good, gripping and fast paced with a nice twist in the tail. I am now reading Marion Keyes book Anybody Out There which is, by turns, funny and very sad.
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Briant · Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 12:58 pm Post subject:

'The Ultimate Bogart' by Ernest W Cunningham.

'Discovering the Maltese Falcon and Sam Spade' by Richard Layman.

'Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir' by Eddie Muller.

I like anything along the lines of the Private Detective , Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and the like.

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Red Baron · Joined: 30 Mar 2007 Posts: 120

Yes, I haven't said too much as I know I read it before a lot of people - but it just shows how two-faced Lesley Douglas really is! Though I'm sure some people will excuse it as 'it's business'

Tiggy's chapter is very moving.

RB

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What I admire about johnnie is that he bears no grudges and is a very pragmatic kind of bloke. Although I have listened to him for years and years I learned a lot about his character. Money well spent.

Red Baron · Joined: 30 Mar 2007 Posts: 120

Just listened to an interview with JW on Radio Devon with Judi Spiers. It was on Tuesday's show, about 11.15 if anyone wants to 'Listen Again'

RB

marietta honeybun · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 915 Location: Holland

Read quite a few books recently whilst on holiday - too many to list! Smile

I have just started The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd which is, so far, excellent.
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nod · Joined: 24 Dec 2006 Posts: 3558

John Peel, Margrave of the Marshes. Smile

iwarburton · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland

Have just finished Ed Stewart's autobiography, which came out in 2004. A very good account of his origins, radio and TV life and favourite music but rather a lot of golfing anecdotes and, as I don't play the sport, I skipped over quite a few of them.

More biography on the go now with Barry Johnson's Round Mr Horne, which covers the late Kenneth. So far, so very good--KH was evidently a more complex man than was immediately apparent. Did you know, by the way, that his father, Charles Silvester Horne, was a Congregational minister, hymnwriter and MP? Two of his hymns, Sing We the King and For the Might of Thine Arm, are still well-known to older Methodists.

Ian.

marietta honeybun · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 915 Location: Holland

Finished The Mermaid Chair which was really excellent. Have been reading since then and have now finished The Lesson of Her Death by Jeffery Deaver. Not one of his Lincoln Rhyme stories but still a very gripping story and a good read. I have just started reading The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson. So far, so funny!!
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Behind Geddon's Wall · Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 10:12 am Post subject:

I've just got the new Terry Pratchett 'Making Money'. So far, Mr P is on form.
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essexlady · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 348 Location: Essex

I've just started reading "Frozenlight" an autobiography by Colin Betts who grew up around the music scene in the 60s. So far I'm enjoying it very much - especially the chapter telling of the time he spent with Nick Drake in Aix-en-Provence.

marietta honeybun · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 915 Location: Holland

Have read a load of books since my last posting ... in no particular order they are:

Yours Faithfully - Sheila O'Flanagan (very good)
A Spot of Bother - Mark Haddon (excellent)
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian - Marina Lewycka (rather boring)
What Came Before He Shot Her - Elizabeth George (excellent)
The 5th Horseman - James Patterson (haphazard story and not very good)
Miracle - Danielle Steel (too sugary and perfect)
Blue Smoke - Nora Roberts (good believable storyline)
The Old Wine Shades - Martha Grimes (not terribly good)
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I'm currently reading Mike Oldfield's autobiography, Changeling. I was particularly interested in his family background and how his mum came to be mentally unbalanced through his teenage years.

I liked his writing about the time he and his sister Sally were in the duo Sallyangie. I've known times like that where the elder sibling wants to be the centre of attention!
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nod · Joined: 24 Dec 2006 Posts: 3558

Redemption Song - biography of Joe Strummer Smile

Briant · Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 8:42 pm Post subject:

'Things do go wrong' by Spencer Leigh. The story of the ill fated 1960 tour of the UK by Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran.

'I only wanna be with you' by Chris Dickerson, a Hollywood based screen writer and fellow Humphrey Bogart fan.

marietta honeybun · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 915 Location: Holland

Rage - Jonathan Kellerman. The story of two "just teenage" boys who abduct a 2 year old girl and murder her and the subsequent effect on all the people involved; the police, the families and friends.

The Lost Continent - Bill Bryson. His return to America in search of the "perfect" small town.
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nod · Joined: 24 Dec 2006 Posts: 3558

Touching from a distance - Ian Curtis & Joy Division

Very interesting Smile

marietta honeybun · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 915 Location: Holland

Have read quite a few books within the last month. The latest was The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly which was very good. Have now just started reading Blood from a Stone by Donna Leon. Another crime novel but this time set in Venice.
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scorpio · Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 148

I am reading "Enduring Love" by Iam McEwan at the moment. Hooked me in from the first page.

I discovered Ian McEwan by reading Atonement by him, which along with "House at Riverton" by Kate Morton are my favourite books this year.

Very Poignant.

I read "Touching from a Distance" too! I have read another book about Ian Curtis , can't remember who it was by.. Shocked

..but it was from a different perspective than Deborah Curtis' book. Both very moving reads.

pickle

I have just finished 'Spike - An Intimate Memoir' by Norma Farnes. She was Spike Milligan's agent and then manager and saw that he could mean well and yet be completely horrible to people at other times.

There is a dreadfully embarrassing moment where they're at Peter Sellers's funeral and Harry Secombe goes up to sing 'Bread Of Heaven'.

Milligan creased himself laughing on the line 'feed me till I want no more'. I am just as bad with 'All Creatures Of Our God & King' because I can't hear the 'oh praise him, hallelujah!' bit without thinking of the Mr. Bean scene where he's in a church and he only knows the chorus of that!
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frank · Joined: 26 Jun 2008 Posts: 20 Location: calais france

I like Adolf Hitler - my part in his Downfall, thats one of my favourite books.

quickssandra · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 158 Location: Scotland

I'e just finished 'The Return', Victoria Hislop's second book.

Another good book.

QS

Briant · Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 9:36 pm Post subject: Mel Tillis.....

I am reading 'Stuttering Boy' the autobiography of Country singer Mel Tillis. Though Mel stutters when he talks this does not affect his singing. Mel has written some classic songs such as 'Detroit City' and 'Ruby don't take your love to town.' The book gives a good insight into the constant touring life and temptations of a singer in any field of music.

Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19382 Location: Cheshire

I've just finished The Island by Victorian Hislop.

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frank · Joined: 26 Jun 2008 Posts: 20 Location: calais france

I am reading some beano and dandy annuals i have found in the loft.

Minx · Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 8:26 pm Post subject:

Recently enjoyed The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak. Started it once, and gave up then was recommended by a friend so went back and persevered. A good read, written in the persona of "death" and covering Germany during the war. Well worth persevering.

Ian Robinson · Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 8:42 pm Post subject:

I am reading Watchmen - the classic graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. I've vowed not to read anything else until I've finished it. Which, sadly, means I read nothing for months as it's rubbish and I can't bring myself to finish it off.

Clive55 · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 1336

Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson. an astonoshing book!!!
I am also reading lord of the rings