Good Reads? - Page 3

pendy · 07-04-2005, 08:44

Agree with Lindsay on Reginald Hill and Stephen Booth - an idea dawns! - why don't we have an Accyweb book swop? I have three of Stephen Booth's, there is a fourth one but I haven't tracked it down yet. At my flat in South London I have several thousand books (yep, honest), we have God knows how many in our flat in Bloomsbury, and a load at the Ossy house - we could start our own library! If anyone is coming to the next meeting and wants to try Stephen Booth, pm me and I will bring them along.

Terry Pratchett's Discworld is great - I also like Beryl Bainbridge, but she's not everyone's cup of tea.

janet · 07-04-2005, 12:12

My favorite author is Patrica Cornwell, the Kay Scarpetta books, excellent crime stories.She always uses the same characters so you really get to know them through the series of books.The First one is called Postmortem, you can get them from the library.

Bazf · 07-04-2005, 13:07

Margaret Atwood Alias Grace
Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer, Thomas Kinnear, and Nancy Montgomery, his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence, Grace claims to have no memory of the murders.

Toni Morrison Beloved
A haunting story; it tells the story of slavery, especially when it comes to the human heart, and the lengths to which a runaway slave will take to keep her children free.

Isabel Allende The House of Spirits
A magnificent saga of the Trueba family. It begins at the turn of the century in a South American country with the child Clara del Valle, the future matriarch of the Trueba family. Mute for nine years after her sister, Rosa the Beautiful, mysteriously dies, Clara finally speaks to announce that she is getting married. Her husband-to-be is Estaban Trueba, a lonely, stern and willful man who was engaged to Rosa. Clara has willed him to her through her special telepathic powers.

Ernesto Che Guevara The Motorcycle Diarys
Follows an inspiring journey of self-discovery and traces the youthful origins of a revolutionary heart.

g78 · 07-04-2005, 14:02

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

I enjoyed "The DaVinci Code" with it's mixture of prophetic revelations, factual information and "who done what and why?" mystery novel.

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Willow did you not find the ending though a bit anti-climatic? I enjoyed the book but just felt that the ending was missing something.

lindsay ormerod · 07-04-2005, 19:48

My Dad just said the other day that he read the "Da Vinci Code" on Bank Holiday Monday[he doesn't mess about!] and reckoned it was the most predictable book he had ever read,which coming from an ex librarian is quite something.He read it to get an idea of what makes a "Best seller" these days!

But he did agree that it's a page turner.

Margaret Pilkington · 07-04-2005, 19:53

Daughter of Fortune by Isobel Allende is another good one........I finished that off on a flight back from Oz.

lindsay ormerod · 07-04-2005, 20:15

There is one that I absolutely love called "Pearl" by Tabitha King [wife of Stephen].I have read it time and again.Once I get it back off my Mum i will happily lend it out but I must get it back as it's out of print now!

Doug · 07-04-2005, 20:20

Stupid Question time and it had to be me.....Anybody got a copy of "Towards the light". I haven't seen a copy for twenty years. It’s a book about a 19th Century Danish? Spiritualist.

ANNE · 07-04-2005, 20:30

I havn't sat down and read a book for a long time.
Cathrine Cookson is My favorite.
I dont think there as been one book I havn't enjoyed reading.
Also the books of Doris Stokes are amazing.

PurpleLass · 09-04-2005, 22:10

Just finished Tears of a Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith, the second in the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency series - just as good as the first book.

By the way, don't ever try reading White Teeth by Zadie Smith - it was a Booker Prize winner and it's a complete waste of time. I only got half way through it and gave up, and I read all sorts of dross normally without giving up.

pat · 10-04-2005, 11:00

Since you like crime novels, I just read" The Long Firm" by Jake Arnott, good London crime novel. George Pelecanos writes about Washington DC, everything I've read of his was good, his grocery list would probably be interesting, Loren Estleman writes hard boiled crime about Detroit in the vein of Raymond Chandler, and Chandler is still good some 70 years on. Dennis Lehane has written several good novels set in Boston, Boston Massachusetts I mean. Not "Mystic River" , perhaps because Sean Penn's scenery chewing in the movie was so over the top. "Gone Baby, Gone" was a better book.

fireman · 10-04-2005, 11:30

MESSIAH by BORIS STARLING and its follow up, STORM. FANTASTIC>

Margaret Pilkington · 10-04-2005, 19:38

I am glad that someone else found Zadie Smith's book' White Teeth' a dead loss........I thought that it was just me. Just because something wins the Booker Prize doesn't automatically make it worth a read.

PurpleLass · 10-04-2005, 20:47

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

I am glad that someone else found Zadie Smith's book' White Teeth' a dead loss........I thought that it was just me. Just because something wins the Booker Prize doesn't automatically make it worth a read.

I sometimes think they pick books for these prizes because they're 'worthy' and not necessarily because they're readable.

Margaret Pilkington · 07-05-2005, 19:28

I have resurrected this thread because I have just finished a book called THE READING GROUP by Elizabeth Noble. I really enjoyed this book and would heartily recommend it.
I know there are lots of ladies out in Accyweb who would really enjoy this book.

It's not really one for the fella's.