what book are you reading right now.......?

shrimp


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Message Posted:
20/01/2012 23:14

so, what book are you all reading right now and what mark out of 10 would you give it?

metin


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Posts: 1587

Message Posted:
20/01/2012 23:20

Sharon Osbournes 'Survivor"

10 out of 10

shrimp


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Posts: 939

Message Posted:
20/01/2012 23:30

just reading girl with the dragon tattoo..............not my usual choice of book, but keeping me interested......8/10

Riddles


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Posts: 429

Message Posted:
20/01/2012 23:46

'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist' again .....never trust a Tory!

TRNCvictim


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Posts: 1417

Message Posted:
20/01/2012 23:47

"Zorba the Greek" by Nikos Kazantzakis! second time round 10/10

oldshep


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Posts: 609

Message Posted:
21/01/2012 07:24

Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres,

one of the best books ever , a must read for everyone

herindoors


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Posts: 138

Message Posted:
21/01/2012 09:54

World without end......sequel to The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett.... can't put it down

ilovecyprus


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Posts: 2880

Message Posted:
21/01/2012 11:04

'The Fallout - How a guilty Liberal lost his innocence' by Andrew Anthony....never trust a Guardian reader!

dizzycows


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Posts: 2736

Message Posted:
21/01/2012 11:21

War horse ... loved it, very teary at the end,... but nice ...

suehowlittle


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Posts: 1202

Message Posted:
21/01/2012 11:42

Wedlock by Wendy Moore, true history of Queen Elizabeth (the Queen mother's great, great grand-daughter), the Bowes family. It is the story of how Georgian Britain's worst husband met his match in Mary Eleanor Bowes. I found it quite heavy going in the beginning but now I am almost finished and it has been fascinating and full of facts which were previously unknown. Just little things like the inception of the jockey club in Britain in 1752.



Another unknown fact is that whichever man married into the Bowes-Lyon family had to take the Bowes-Lyon name so the Title stayed in the Bowes family. I wondered what happened then after the Queen Mother who did not have a son and married a soon to be King? It made me want to find out. Very interesting if you love history.

Turtle


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Posts: 2669

Message Posted:
21/01/2012 12:18

The Other Grocers Daughter.



About half way in but the jury's out on the marks out of 10 ?

RadioAngel


Joined: 21/01/2012
Posts: 426

Message Posted:
21/01/2012 12:27

Hi My name is Denise Phillips and I am starting a new book review programme onmy Radio Angel show at Bayrak International radio.



If anyone is interested in talking to me about their favourite books and why, could they please email me on radioangel@hotmail.co.uk



Thanks ! D x

batterboy58



Joined: 20/04/2008
Posts: 442

Message Posted:
21/01/2012 14:14

11/22/63 by Stephen King



10/10

antuan.o


Joined: 21/01/2012
Posts: 1

Message Posted:
21/01/2012 14:26

Hi i'm Antuan and now i am reading Automatics and electronicsw By John Wilson 2005

RadioAngel i would like to talk with you.

Regards





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kaiserphil


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Posts: 1096

Message Posted:
21/01/2012 14:29

Neither here nor There, by Bill Bryson.

simbas



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Posts: 5943

Message Posted:
21/01/2012 14:30

Tick Tock --- James Patterson

Simbas

RadioAngel


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Posts: 426

Message Posted:
21/01/2012 14:56

Hi Antuan



Your link doesn't seem to work. Please email me at radioangel@hotmail.co.uk



Thanks D x

zookeeper


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Posts: 168

Message Posted:
21/01/2012 15:49

Treasure Islands by Nicholas Shaxton

aussiejock



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Posts: 350

Message Posted:
21/01/2012 16:02

Along came a Spider, by James Patterson, I like the Alex Cross series, always a good read.





Robert

daisy dukes


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Posts: 3815

Message Posted:
21/01/2012 16:48

Batterboy...i have been wanting to read that for a while now!!





I am reading Lasher by Anne Rice...it's the 2nd part of a trilogy about the Mayfair witches...utterly absorbing, everytime i read these books, i end up depserately wanting to go to New Orleans. Anne has shuch a way of turning a mere fantasy novel into something completely believable..like reading real history.



suehowlittle...i am rather intrigued by the Bowes-Lyon...as in this trilogy, the Mayfair name also must be kept to keep the family legacy tight and in the family.



the other 2 in the series are The Witching Hour and Taltos



DD

Ed1957


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Posts: 377

Message Posted:
21/01/2012 17:17

'At Home' Bill Bryson



Loving it, too early for marks, but learning loads and enjoying it too

suzi1951


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Posts: 191

Message Posted:
21/01/2012 17:43

Jeffrey Archer's latest one (cannot remember the title and I have returned it to its owner) Roll on the sequel due our in March. 10/10

jimchris09


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Posts: 547

Message Posted:
21/01/2012 20:59

The Genocide Files - Harry Scott Gibbons 5/10

Ballyboffin


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Posts: 903

Message Posted:
21/01/2012 21:02

It's A Long Way From Penny Apples by Bill Cullen. Reading it for the second time...

hattikins


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Posts: 2793

Message Posted:
21/01/2012 21:02

The Trial, James Patterson, very good but graphic in places..

bookworm


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Posts: 340

Message Posted:
21/01/2012 21:08

Run for your lıfe James Patterson.

MsGarnet


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Posts: 989

Message Posted:
22/01/2012 02:19

Jerome K Jerome's 'Three Men in a Boat' the original version - loving it, he has a great sense of humour - it's a jolly spiffing read!!!!!!!

Glasbury


Joined: 13/08/2010
Posts: 268

Message Posted:
22/01/2012 02:24

I'm reading the biography of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson - very interesting so far.

jimchris09


Joined: 13/02/2009
Posts: 547

Message Posted:
22/01/2012 05:17

Also reading Riotous Assembly by Tom Sharpe....VERY funny, especially if you've lived in Southern Africa. 10/10 for the first two chapters alone.

kaiserphil


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Posts: 1096

Message Posted:
22/01/2012 12:54

jimchris 09 - Indecent Exposure is a good read too.

canada


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Posts: 195

Message Posted:
22/01/2012 18:37

master and margarita

jimchris09


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Posts: 547

Message Posted:
22/01/2012 22:16

I should have said RE-reading...all Top Sharpe's stuff is top notch!

TRNCvictim


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Posts: 1417

Message Posted:
22/01/2012 22:56

oldshep (mess 6)



The television adaptation of "Bird without Wings" is on BBC tonight (Not read the book)! so on your recommendation, and many critics in the Newspapers, I shall be watching



I have read "Captain Correlli's Manderlin" it was a wonderful read!

rowlo



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Posts: 4796

Message Posted:
22/01/2012 23:31

a universal guide to buying in trnc ,

its riveting .

TRNCvictim


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Posts: 1417

Message Posted:
22/01/2012 23:36

rowlo (mess 34)



The Universal guide to buying in the TRNC is "DON'T" and yes it is riveting



Nothing to do with the Book "Bird without Wings" which this thread is about?

rowlo



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Posts: 4796

Message Posted:
22/01/2012 23:42

im on the page where it starts , a fool and his money , you know the rest ?

TRNCvictim


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Posts: 1417

Message Posted:
22/01/2012 23:51

You certainly do rowlo, hope your caravan remains warm in Scotland!

shrimp


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Posts: 939

Message Posted:
22/01/2012 23:56

I think you may be getting muddled with Bird song.........on BBC tonight.....book was better.........

Track


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Posts: 22

Message Posted:
23/01/2012 01:18

Re-reading the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson... currently on book 3, "The Hero of Ages." About halfway through... can't wait to finish to start on the newest book, "The Alloy of Law'

grahamsteptoe


Joined: 22/10/2010
Posts: 110

Message Posted:
23/01/2012 08:50

Just about to finish 'Charles Dickens:A Life' by Claire Tomalin. A really insightful biography about England's no. one Victorian novelist. Will be re-reading all his wonderful novels this year (200th anniversary of his birth on 7 February 2012)

fiendishpaul


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Posts: 1720

Message Posted:
23/01/2012 12:29

I have recently read 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' by Khaled Hosseini - a fantastic novel which is both moving and uplifting in equal parts.



I can also highly recommend 'The Art of Racing in the Rain' by Garth Stein -



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Racing_in_the_Rain



A must for dog lovers

highnoon


Joined: 28/09/2009
Posts: 22

Message Posted:
23/01/2012 14:22

11/22/63 by Stephen King



as msg #13 says: 10/10

gemini39


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Posts: 89

Message Posted:
23/01/2012 14:32

Meetings with remarkable people by Gjiergiv Sorry spelling of author is wrong

shrimp


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Posts: 939

Message Posted:
23/01/2012 19:52

message 41, one of my favourite books of alltime............

kenny



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Posts: 405

Message Posted:
23/01/2012 20:18

yeah shrimp, after reading kite runner i could not wait or his next book. Worth the wait, loved ' A Thousand Splendid Suns. About time for a new one....

TUTOR4U


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Posts: 80

Message Posted:
24/01/2012 12:46

Dark Fire by C. J. Sansom 1st in the Matthew Shardlake series - Excellent

parkview



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Posts: 1123

Message Posted:
24/01/2012 13:11

I agree TUTOR4U I am reading Dissolution by C.J Sansom, brilliant series of books, I have read a couple of his others from the series and all are an excellent read

davpat


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Posts: 225

Message Posted:
24/01/2012 14:30

I'm not,I am on the computer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

darrener2


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Posts: 187

Message Posted:
24/01/2012 14:58

Just re-read the Yasim the Eunuch series by Jason Goodwin.

The Janissary Tree

The Snake Stone

The Bellini Card

An Evil Eye

Yashim Togalu is an Ottoman investigator in early 19thC Istanbul with links, albeit reluctant, to the royal court.

Goodwin’s use of well known buildings and sites in Istanbul and beyond as contemporary dwellings and locations of nefarious deeds, together with his descriptions of every day life, evoke the sounds and smells of the old city and bring the historic sites to life as no amount of guide books ever could.

Good twisty turny tales as well )

davpat


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Posts: 225

Message Posted:
24/01/2012 17:31

....also reading At Home by Bill Bryson,an interesting read

suehowlittle


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Posts: 1202

Message Posted:
27/01/2012 21:40

Just finished Love & Death in Cyprus by Harry Blackley (who served in Cyprus in the 50's)



What an amazing book. Not too heavy, with an biographical feel to it.



As its title suggests this is the story of the tragedies of Cyprus as seen through the eyes of a young, Scottish, national serviceman who falls in love with a cypriot girl, a story of love and loss.



Historically accurate, the book makes you feel the raw emotions of the people involved in that period of history and helps you to understand the dreadful events which happened in all the lovely places we now enjoy visiting.



If anyone would like to read this book - just email me and I will happily pass it on.

delikomsu



Joined: 27/10/2010
Posts: 504

Message Posted:
28/01/2012 10:42

oldshep message 6 or anyone else. I am trying to find a copy of 'Birds without Wings' if anyone has one for sale please contact me. Thanks

jimchris09


Joined: 13/02/2009
Posts: 547

Message Posted:
28/01/2012 16:39

Tutor4U - message 46. Sorry..it's the second in the series. Dissolution is the first. Sovereign the 3rd, then Revelation and finally (so far) Heartstone.



Dark Fire was the first one I read...great stuff. Apparently BBC are thinking of serializing them (K Branagh as Shardlake?) Just waiting for the dust to settle after the last Tudors series last year.

nuttynora


Joined: 29/05/2009
Posts: 118

Message Posted:
28/01/2012 16:48

The Hanging Shed by Gordon Ferris. Set in 1946 Glasgow - page turning riveting read. 10 out of 10

shrimp


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Posts: 939

Message Posted:
28/01/2012 16:56

Room by Emma Donnague, winner of Man booker prize, excellent read 10/10

reyntj


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Posts: 229

Message Posted:
29/01/2012 17:31

agressor andy mcnab

daisythedog


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Posts: 73

Message Posted:
29/01/2012 18:57

As a 'Reacher creature' 9/10 for Lee Child's latest Jack Reacher novel 'The Affair'.

Also enjoyed Clive Cussler's 'Crescent Dawn'

Just started 'The Sixth Man' by David Baldacci - looks good

Have 2 other goodies yet to read - 'Shatter The Bones' by Stuart McBride (recommended by lady in Smiths at Gatwick) , and 'The Drop' by Michael Connelly.

Nothing like a good book to while away the cold, dark winter evenings.

'

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AndyR



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Posts: 317

Message Posted:
29/01/2012 19:36

A people's tragedy by Orlando Figes, a history of the Russian revolution from 1891 - 1924. I'd give it 8 out of 10 so far (I'm half way through it).