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> Books, What are you reading?
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post Aug 7 2007, 09:36 PM
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My Cousin Rachel is another good one by Daphne Du Maurier!

I have recently read the biographies of Tony Handcock, Oliver Reed and Oscar Wilde. Am now reading the biography of the actor Alan Bates. Quite an eye opener, it has to be said!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mellow.gif)
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post Aug 7 2007, 10:04 PM
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Im reading the Cambridge Companion to Brahms at the moment - really good stuff
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post Aug 7 2007, 10:05 PM
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QUOTE(LittleChoLo @ Aug 7 2007, 03:34 PM) *

also 'Une Femme'; Annie Ernaux.


that sounds an interesting book. Is it readily available?

I am reading "The Flight from the Enchanter" by Iris Murdoch. Not the best I have read by her.
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post Aug 8 2007, 08:13 AM
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Quote from 'Porridge';

"I once read a book. It was green."
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another quote:

It was interesting. I read parts of it all the way through.

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post Aug 8 2007, 08:49 AM
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Just started Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
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QUOTE(SaxFan @ Aug 8 2007, 09:22 AM) *

another quote:

It was interesting. I read parts of it all the way through.

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Has anyone read The Time Travellers Wife by Audrey Niffenberger?
It's really great ut I cried loads!



Thats was such an imaginative book, so gripping!

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Just finished Labyrinth by Kate Mosse (no, not the supermodel). I nearly didn't bother as it was described as "chick lit with A levels" and I ain't a chick but I'm glad I did. Echoes of The Da Vinci Code but better written and even more engrossing.


I fond that book SO hard going for the first few chapters, when I had settled into it, I was completely engrossed one of the best books I read last year. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

I really need some help guys I am going to turkey for two weeks and need lots of books for lazing by the pool can any one give some reccomedations?????

Also on the subject of reccomedations - read Purfume by Patrick Suskind if you get the chance and can handle the weird and wonderful.
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Just started Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky



Thats my next one , waiting on the shelf.
I am an avid reader of modern novels, and get through one about every two or three weeks, then pass them to a charity shop
This year ones I have particularly enjoyed include 'The Kite Runner', by Khalid Hossein 'Blackberry Wine' by Joanne Harris and 'Notes on a Scandal' by Zoe Heller
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"Chaos" - James Gleick
"The Evolution of Co-operation" - Robert Axelrod
"Climbing Mount Improbable" - Richard Dawkins
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QUOTE(OlderClarinetPlayer @ Aug 8 2007, 09:49 AM) *

Just started Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky



Thats my next one , waiting on the shelf.
I am an avid reader of modern novels, and get through one about every two or three weeks, then pass them to a charity shop
This year ones I have particularly enjoyed include 'The Kite Runner', by Khalid Hossein 'Blackberry Wine' by Joanne Harris and 'Notes on a Scandal' by Zoe Heller



QUOTE(Phil Dixon @ Aug 8 2007, 10:50 AM) *

"Chaos" - James Gleick
"The Evolution of Co-operation" - Robert Axelrod
"Climbing Mount Improbable" - Richard Dawkins



Thanks I will bear these in mind (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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post Aug 8 2007, 10:06 AM
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Blackberry Wine' by Joanne Harris
Joanne Harris is a fantastic author. I chose to study her novel 'Five Quarters of the Orange' for English last year, and I was absolutely captured by it (whereas various other people in my class couldn't bear to read the books they'd been given to study). I'd thoroughly reccommend her books to anyone who isn't sure about them.
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Blackberry Wine' by Joanne Harris
Joanne Harris is a fantastic author. I chose to study her novel 'Five Quarters of the Orange' for English last year, and I was absolutely captured by it (whereas various other people in my class couldn't bear to read the books they'd been given to study). I'd thoroughly reccommend her books to anyone who isn't sure about them.


Five Quarters of the Orange is my favourite Joanne Harris as well - I think I read eveything she has written from Chocolat onwards (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

After Suite Francaise I've got William Boyd's Restless (another of my favourite contemporary authors).
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post Aug 8 2007, 10:54 AM
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Bill Bryson - A short history of nearly everything
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QUOTE(OlderClarinetPlayer @ Aug 8 2007, 11:28 AM) *

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QUOTE(fsharpminor @ Aug 8 2007, 10:47 AM) *
Blackberry Wine' by Joanne Harris
Joanne Harris is a fantastic author. I chose to study her novel 'Five Quarters of the Orange' for English last year, and I was absolutely captured by it (whereas various other people in my class couldn't bear to read the books they'd been given to study). I'd thoroughly reccommend her books to anyone who isn't sure about them.


Five Quarters of the Orange is my favourite Joanne Harris as well - I think I read eveything she has written from Chocolat onwards (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

After Suite Francaise I've got William Boyd's Restless (another of my favourite contemporary authors).



Yes, I enjoyed 'Restless' too, we seem to be on the same wavelength !
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