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Deb
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Status: offline |  Posted - 25 Mar 2005 : 15:15:02  
| I can't see that this idea has been suggested before, but I think a Book Club could be popular, in a similar way to Richard's & Judy's Book Club. There is always a great book you have read or has been recommended to you. I'm reading Dan Brown's 'The Da Vinci Code' at the moment. It is a very controversial subject but just'unputdownable'. I only manage to read @ bedtime, and this last week my lights been going off later and later.
The club could be separated into different catergories - Fact & Fiction. What do you think?
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Cruella DeVilla
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Status: offline | Posted - 25 Mar 2005 : 16:39:25
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CDV
Don't you dare 
My friend said to me the other day 'when you finished the book did you ....??' because Kev (her husband) did and she realised I hadn't finished it and stopped mid sentence.
I also like any of John Grisham's - hopefully his latest will be in paperback when I'm over next week.
I like Jeffrey Deaver, James Patterson, Jack Higgins, Patricia Cornwell and the likes. Mr CDV likes things like Ben Elton, Stephen King etc. I like a good who dunnit. When I was 15/16 I used to read Jackie Collins and the Harold Robins, think it was all part of growing up
So OV would have its own answer to Norris and Emily's bookclub then |
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Cruella DeVilla
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Status: offline | Posted - 25 Mar 2005 : 16:42:55
| There is a another book, it's at home and I can't remember its name or author at the minute but it is the answers to the theories in the Da Vinci Code. Won't discuss it yet til you have finished the book.
I enjoyed the book more so as I had a real intrest in the cryptography as I worked as a Cryptographer for 10 years and only changed direction recently.
P.S. I had sussed out the baddie well before the end, it's all there......... |
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DiannaUK
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Status: offline | Posted - 25 Mar 2005 : 17:05:17
| | I've read the Da Vinci Code too, and agree it was fantastic, just wanted to read page after page! I've also read Deception Point by Dan Brown which is similarly "unputdownable", I've got the other 2 "Angels and Demons" and "Digital Fortress" which I'm trying to save for my flight to FL in May (but may not be able to resist). Jeffrey Deaver and James Patterson fan as well - Michael Connelley, John Connelley, Ian Rankin and Martina Cole are also very good reads. |
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Deb
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Status: offline | Posted - 25 Mar 2005 : 17:06:25
| I like to vary my reading. If its been a John Grisham I'll pick Marian Keyes next, and I always choose a new book in the airport to suit where I'm going. Thats getting difficult now -there's not many set in Florida, but I do like Nora Roberts.
I'm fed up reading about perfect,successful,beautiful,size 8 female, meet & marry billionaire type books. Like you CDV I read all those and the Jackie Collins book years ago. Wishful thinking maybe?
Your job sounds fascinating, was it? |
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Snapper
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Status: offline | Posted - 25 Mar 2005 : 18:14:16
| | I read Digital Fortress (Dan Brown) last week on the flight back from Orlando. It's another real page turner, but not great for Jet Lag. Dean Koontz is another of my favourite authors. I've been reading his stuff since he wrote under the Leigh Nichols pen name. A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson) and The Life Of Pi (Yann Martel) are both recent reads and I think pretty excellent. I'm reading Kate Adie's autobiography, The Kindness of Strangers, at the moment and it's turning into a very good read. |
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emm
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Status: online | Posted - 25 Mar 2005 : 21:48:12
| I have also read Digital Fortress - which I thought was very good, and felt very pleased with myself for working things out towards the end of the book, before the characters had. The last book I finished was The Time Traveller's Wife. I enjoyed that too, and found I had to pay very careful attention to everything that was happening, or all the time-travelling got very confusing!
Currently I am reading The American Boy. It is quite good, but not really a page-turner for me.
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Cruella DeVilla
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Status: offline | Posted - 26 Mar 2005 : 04:12:23
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[i] Like you CDV I read all those and the Jackie Collins book years ago. Wishful thinking maybe?
Your job sounds fascinating, was it?
It was actually, have the option to go back and do it in the future.
They tend to house us undereground in rooms with no windows etc, bit like Phantom of the Opera living in the caverns! Talking of which I read the follow up to that, somebody unexpected like Dick Francis wrote it. Shocking ending!  |
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LiesaAnna
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Status: offline | Posted - 27 Mar 2005 : 20:29:10
| well my taste is............ romantic books based around thw world war 2, and any others around that time! mostly the ones i like are based in and aound Liverpool, the one i am reading at present is .... dont laugh.... Annie Murray, Miss Purdy's class, and the next is Chocolate Girls!!, my favourite authors are Lyn Andrews, Maureen Lee, Joan Jonker, and many others!
i am a right bookworm have just been bidding on several on ebay!
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janice
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Status: offline | Posted - 27 Mar 2005 : 22:38:15
| | I have just read The Jane Austen Book Club, one of R & Js book clubs, it was very good but could have done with a bit more discussion on the actual books (especially Mr. Darcy, Pride & Prejudice ). Before that I read The Bookseller of Kahbul, that was brilliant. When I am in Florida I always like to buy African American books, they are such good reads, especially the non-fiction, you learn a lot. |
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Cruella DeVilla
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Status: offline | Posted - 28 Mar 2005 : 15:58:42
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I've seen in today's paper they are going to make a film of the Da Vinci Code starring Tom Hanks. I hope they capture the intrigue & mystery of the book - films are often disappointing.
Deb
They might have filmed it already or be in the process of it as I read that last year. Tom Hanks is a brilliant actor so hopefully he can do it justice! |
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