What are you reading at the moment??

[kevindj]

A lacy apron wouldn't go well with your football boots and cricket bat either, Kevin...

Too right, Jayne - the colo(u)r clash would be terrible!! 

Oh I don't know.  If the devil's wearing Prada now, seems like just about anything would be a go, fashion-wise. 

What colo(u)r's in this season, then, Heidi? 

[The Shannon Hoon Appreciation Society]

Just started Romanitas by Sophi McDougall. It's an interesting premise, set in the modern world but the Roman Empire didn't fall. It expanded and now controls 2/3 of the world.There's also a thriller element to it. Which is nice

[Gaz]

I'm currently flying through Douglas Clegg's Hour before Dark. It has me captivated so far.........hope I don't get let down in the end though. I'm very sceptical after reading that rubbish The Prestige
On a lighter note, I have just finished James Rollins' Excavation and was pretty impressed. Although I did find it very similar to Amazonia, it's certainly a winning formula. I just wouldn't recommend reading them in succession

[Anne Gray]

I just finished The Gunslinger and The Drawing of the Three and I really liked them.  I took a break from that series and read Predator by Patricia Cornwell.  Somone on this forum (?) told me not to bother and I should have listened.  Her characters are assholes, all of them.  And I had the plot figured out before the end, which should not be the case.  I barely graduated high school - it shouldn't be that hard to keep me guessing!   

And personally, I would love to see Kevin in a frilly apron and football boots.  Oh wait...

[alisonoc]

I'm reading the books of blood by some one or another.....its about peoples hands trying to get away from their bodies and start a revolution of hands.......its even more shit than it sounds....

I always feel compelled to finish a book thought no matter how much I dislike it but this one is so bad I think I'll give up!! 

[Heidi G]

Oh I don't know.  If the devil's wearing Prada now, seems like just about anything would be a go, fashion-wise. 

What colo(u)r's in this season, then, Heidi? 
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Pink and brown (together) which are NOT good lace colors.  Check in with Mrs. Kevin, Kevin.  All women know the best way to dress their husbands, even if the men don't agree. 

Hey, we finally get to see GAZ!!  Hi Gaz!  Now it's my turn to do a Dave and say, "You know, you don't look at all like I pictured you..."


Finishing up One More For the Road. Bradbury is an incredibly fast read. There are three stories in there, though, that have topped my list of all time favorite short stories.  Just think they're amazing...not sure what I'm going to read next. 

[norby]

Anne, for a long time now I have been increasingly disappointed with the Kay Scarpetta series from Cornwell.  All of the characters have become extremely bitter and one-dimensional.  Pete Marino used to be a very complex individual who seemed like someone she could take in a lot of directions.  Well, you see what she's done with him.

[john hubbard]

It was me Anne. Thge Scarpetta novels have been bad for years and the last 3 have been impossible to follow or comprehend - like the plot of a crazy person. There was a story several years back in The New York Times about how Cornwall interviewed a FBO agent for reserach in her novels and ended up having a lesbian affair with the agent's wife. The agent divorced his wife and sued Cornwall (got a lot of money from her in the end too) and that ever since that mid-life crisis she went on Prozac. During those years she wrote some boring and uninspired novels that took place in Charlotte. Then she got off the Prozac and now her Scarpetta novels don't make any sense and are awful. Even though she is rich and famous i still feel sorry for her. I think she has serious mental issue. And her non-fiction book on Jack The Ripper was not only way off base and historically inaccurate but her atittude and beahviour during that press toru turned many people in the emdia off to her.

Predator - if I remember - is the book that makes no sense fro mstart to finish and thenat the end we find out a girl, a serial killer, a prisoner and a doctor are all the same person and they have multiple personality disorder. that excuse hasn't been interesting in 20 years. It's overdone and in this book it made no sense since as it was introduced in the last 5 pages.

[Anne Gray]

Now I remember John!  Wish I'd listened! 
You're right norby, they are awful!  Why is she destroying her characters?  Marino and Lucy need a session with Dr. B*tchslap and Kay needs stick removal surgery, if you know what I mean.  I don't think I've ever read a more dry or humorless book.  I don't ask for much, and I'm not usually quick to criticize someone who does something that I can't, but jeez!  I don't think I've ever been ticked off after finishing a novel- this is a first! 
I read one of the Charlotte novels, just because I live in Charlotte I guess.  I thought it was just a phase, then I saw there were three of them.  She can keep them. 
I'm starting The Waste Lands, Dark Tower 3 tonight. 

[Gaz]

Hey, we finally get to see GAZ!!  Hi Gaz!  Now it's my turn to do a Dave and say, "You know, you don't look at all like I pictured you..."

Well Heidi, I noticed everyone was posting their real pictures so I didn't want to be left out. No jokes about Pennywise the Clown looking better either

[Jayne]

Currently reading "Psycho", Stuart Pearce's autobiography. Very interesting if you like football, not so interesting if you don't.

[kevindj]

Currently reading "Psycho", Stuart Pearce's autobiography. Very interesting if you like football, not so interesting if you don't.

Do you have to be mad to read that, Jayne? 

(Sounds pretty good actually!)

I'm leaving my next book until the 25th to start: The Burning Girl by Mark Billingham. 

[Jayne]

I've been a fan  of Stuart's ever since Italia '90, Kev. I wrote him a nice letter after that penalty miss, and he sent me a signed photo. I remember watching him and Roy Keane play for Forest against Barnsley at Oakwell - think it was the Zenith Cup (or something). And Barnsley won! Can't believe Barnsley beat a team that included Stuart Pearce and Roy Keane! And who scored? A certain Gerry Taggart, who I just happened to be dating...

[Mike Lowrie]

Anne, Drawing of 3 is one of Kings best and I feel the best of the Dark Tower series as a whole. Wastelands is good but it just doesn't capture the magic of the first two books. Wizard & Glass is very good though; enjoy your journey to the dark tower it is worth it.

I am curently reading Rain Fall by Barry Eisler and surprisingly it is pretty good half way through.

[norby]

I'm about to start The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson.  It's about the cholera epidemic in London in 1854.  Science geek that I am, I enjoy these kind of books.