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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

I'm currently re-reading - PS I Love you. For once I actually enjoyed the film as well as the book.

After this though, I'd like something new to read. What are you reading at the mo and would you recommend it to others?

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By *olly RogererMan
over a year ago

Braintree

If you have not read the jack reacher series give them a try. Very addictive

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"If you have not read the jack reacher series give them a try. Very addictive"

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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

Try and of the Jeeves and Wooster series by the inimitable PG Wodehouse.

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By *awty MaxWoman
over a year ago

Edinburgh

"I'm currently re-reading - PS I Love you. For once I actually enjoyed the film as well as the book.

After this though, I'd like something new to read. What are you reading at the mo and would you recommend it to others?"

Agreed I liked both the book and the movie.

I would recommend 'The horse whisperer' a brilliant book by Nicholas Evans. The film is also very good starting handsome Robert Redford.

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By *verysmileMan
over a year ago

Canterbury

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr

Mindblowing account of Post Traumatic Stress

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By *awty MaxWoman
over a year ago

Edinburgh

"I'm currently re-reading - PS I Love you. For once I actually enjoyed the film as well as the book.

After this though, I'd like something new to read. What are you reading at the mo and would you recommend it to others?

Agreed I liked both the book and the movie.

I would recommend 'The horse whisperer' a brilliant book by Nicholas Evans. The film is also very good starting handsome Robert Redford.

Starring I mean

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

200 Tagine and Moroccan recipes

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"200 Tagine and Moroccan recipes "

Is that like Tantric

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Live at the Brixton Academy by Simon Parkes.

I know, I'm biased, but a brilliant local history and a hymn to the bands I grew up with.

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By *i fem huntersCouple
over a year ago

london

Kama sutra

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"200 Tagine and Moroccan recipes

Is that like Tantric

Gimp"

It's exotic

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Kama sutra"

Too many pictures

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Kama sutra"

Oooo i love that Boy George Song

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"200 Tagine and Moroccan recipes

Is that like Tantric

Gimp

It's exotic "

Ahh its a foreign Pie n Mash then

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I'm currently re-reading - PS I Love you. For once I actually enjoyed the film as well as the book.

After this though, I'd like something new to read. What are you reading at the mo and would you recommend it to others?"

Sophie kinsella shopaholic books there's a few of those.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The book thief by Markus something (sorry, forgot his surname). You will laugh. You may cry though. Blame the author not me.

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

I really loved Apple Tree Yard last year. I can't say too much as it will give it away.

I've just started Elizabeth Is Missing, which is a twist on the mystery genre as the protagonist has dementia.

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By *taffs_hotwifeCouple
over a year ago

Wolverhampton

Sick Puppy by Carl Hiaasen. Hilarious

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By *ipsTeaserCouple
over a year ago

here and there, thereabouts

"I'm currently re-reading - PS I Love you. For once I actually enjoyed the film as well as the book.

After this though, I'd like something new to read. What are you reading at the mo and would you recommend it to others?

Agreed I liked both the book and the movie.

I would recommend 'The horse whisperer' a brilliant book by Nicholas Evans. The film is also very good starting handsome Robert Redford.

This is a great book.

Anything by Joanne Harris is very good.Author of Chocolat which was adapted into a film with Johnny Depp in- Also worth a watch.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

'Red Rain' and 'the curious incident of the dog in the night' the only books i've ever read and that says a whole lot about these 2 books

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You should read The magic of reality by Richard Dawkins or Paolo Coelho The Alchemist both incredible books (although now that I've put them together like that they seem rather contradictory lol) x

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Try and of the Jeeves and Wooster series by the inimitable PG Wodehouse.

I remember my grandfather reading all of those. You should go up to London Tina and watch the play. I'll have a look at the books too.

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By *awty MaxWoman
over a year ago

Edinburgh

"I'm currently re-reading - PS I Love you. For once I actually enjoyed the film as well as the book.

After this though, I'd like something new to read. What are you reading at the mo and would you recommend it to others?

Agreed I liked both the book and the movie.

I would recommend 'The horse whisperer' a brilliant book by Nicholas Evans. The film is also very good starting handsome Robert Redford.

This is a great book.

Anything by Joanne Harris is very good.Author of Chocolat which was adapted into a film with Johnny Depp in- Also worth a watch."

Not read the book 'Chocolat' but the film is indeed worth watching with Johnny Depp and Juliette Binoche.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Thanks everyone, I'm writing a list, so can have a look at what I fancy reading next. Lots to choose from.

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Try and of the Jeeves and Wooster series by the inimitable PG Wodehouse.

I remember my grandfather reading all of those. You should go up to London Tina and watch the play. I'll have a look at the books too. "

The stage show is very funny. I went at the start of the run and it is very clever in its execution.

I haven't read any of the books for many years but I enjoyed them 30 years ago.

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By *ipsTeaserCouple
over a year ago

here and there, thereabouts

"I'm currently re-reading - PS I Love you. For once I actually enjoyed the film as well as the book.

After this though, I'd like something new to read. What are you reading at the mo and would you recommend it to others?

Agreed I liked both the book and the movie.

I would recommend 'The horse whisperer' a brilliant book by Nicholas Evans. The film is also very good starting handsome Robert Redford.

This is a great book.

Anything by Joanne Harris is very good.Author of Chocolat which was adapted into a film with Johnny Depp in- Also worth a watch.

Not read the book 'Chocolat' but the film is indeed worth watching with Johnny Depp and Juliette Binoche."

The book is very good and as is the follow on from it too, the lollipop shoes.

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By *inkxRabbitWoman
over a year ago

Mostly in GU24

Room

The best book I've ever read. Written from the point of view of a five year old child which was born in captivity.. add his mother wad kidnapped and held in a house for years.

I was so moved I've been unable to read since. In fact, I think I'll read it again!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Highway Code

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By *oobsandballsMan
over a year ago

st andrews

Anything by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. The Ocean at the End of the Lane is a gorgeous book that I devoured in one sitting on a bus journey.

I enjoyed Gareth Powell's Ack Ack Macaque books, about a monkey spitfire pilot.

Emma Newman's 'Split Worlds' series is fantastic - magic meets Victorian.

Apocalypse Cow is a hilarious read - Shaun of the Dead, but with cows. What's not to love?

I'm currently doing Harry Potter Book Club, a fantastic series that I've read so many times

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By *zeye73Man
over a year ago

Amersham

Nobody True by James Herbert

An ordinary man has an "out of body experience". When his spirit returns he finds his body has been murdered. Lingering in the real world, he learns that the killer now plans to murder his family. Despite his lack of a physical body, he must find a way to prevent this from happening.

A little weird in places but very readable

I think there's a film in the pipeline now

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

joy land Stephen king....idle book for holiday read not too taxing ,cracking yarn

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Examined Life by Stephen Grosz

This book is about learning to live. In simple stories of encounters between a psychoanalyst and his patients, The Examined Life reveals how the art of insight can illuminate the most complicated, confounding and human of experiences.

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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

"Try and of the Jeeves and Wooster series by the inimitable PG Wodehouse.

I remember my grandfather reading all of those. You should go up to London Tina and watch the play. I'll have a look at the books too.

The stage show is very funny. I went at the start of the run and it is very clever in its execution.

I haven't read any of the books for many years but I enjoyed them 30 years ago.

I'm off to see the stage show with my folks this year, but not in London. Great minds think alike

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By *heOwlMan
over a year ago

Altrincham

Quiet - The power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking. By Susan Cain.

Facinating study of the differences between introverts and extroverts, and their place/value in society (albeit from an American perspective).

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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago

In Your Bush

Gobbolino The Witches Cat - Ursula Williams

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By *ee VianteWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere in North Norfolk

"Gobbolino The Witches Cat - Ursula Williams"

Just lend them your colouring book.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Joe Abercrombie at the moment.. the book of the first law

Previously, faves include Game of Thrones,

All Laurell K Hamilton, Anne Rice and Charlaine Harrisand Bernard Cornwell's Uhtred of Bebbanburg books

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Room

The best book I've ever read. Written from the point of view of a five year old child which was born in captivity.. add his mother wad kidnapped and held in a house for years.

I was so moved I've been unable to read since. In fact, I think I'll read it again! "

Sounds like a good read. I have books like that , some I've read over and over.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Quiet - The power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking. By Susan Cain.

Facinating study of the differences between introverts and extroverts, and their place/value in society (albeit from an American perspective)."

What a great title!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

'Hell's Angel', bio of Sonny Barger. Gritty account of the early days of motorcycle clubs from the guy who started the Hells Angels. Writing is pretty poor but it paints a good picture.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Porno by Irvine Welsh. His sequal to Trainspotting. One of my favourite books ever.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Oh I agree with Pratchett, Gaiman and Sophie Kinsella books.

Also I recommend Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London series. Magic realism in London. I *think* it's being adapted for television.

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By *ikeC81Man
over a year ago

harrow

Steve jobs biography

Jonny ive industrial design biography

Bobby charltons biography

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By *ee VianteWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere in North Norfolk

Kelley Armstrong.

The Women of the Otherworld and the Nadia Stafford series.

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By *oobsandballsMan
over a year ago

st andrews

"Oh I agree with Pratchett, Gaiman and Sophie Kinsella books.

Also I recommend Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London series. Magic realism in London. I *think* it's being adapted for television. "

Yes! Love Aaronovitch's 'Rivers of London' books. Got the latest for Xmas, can't wait to read it

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By *awty MaxWoman
over a year ago

Edinburgh

"I'm currently re-reading - PS I Love you. For once I actually enjoyed the film as well as the book.

After this though, I'd like something new to read. What are you reading at the mo and would you recommend it to others?

Agreed I liked both the book and the movie.

I would recommend 'The horse whisperer' a brilliant book by Nicholas Evans. The film is also very good starting handsome Robert Redford.

This is a great book.

Anything by Joanne Harris is very good.Author of Chocolat which was adapted into a film with Johnny Depp in- Also worth a watch.

Not read the book 'Chocolat' but the film is indeed worth watching with Johnny Depp and Juliette Binoche.

The book is very good and as is the follow on from it too, the lollipop shoes.

Great will make that my next book to read

I tried reading Terry Pratchett many times, his books appeal to me but unfortunately being a French native, reading him is very difficult. I just get confused lol

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By *rica-tvTV/TS
over a year ago

sunderland

The Charlie Parker series by John Connolly,they need to be read in order though starting with "every dead thing"

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By *oobsandballsMan
over a year ago

st andrews

"I tried reading Terry Pratchett many times, his books appeal to me but unfortunately being a French native, reading him is very difficult. I just get confused lol

He does play on the absurd British customs/habits etc so I can see why that would be confusing

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By *onbons_xxMan
over a year ago

Bolton

Re-reading Catch 22 as the beside book, and getting through The Killing Pool by Kevin Sampson. Both highly recommended

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By *illwill69uMan
over a year ago

moston

"The Little World of Don Camillo" by Giovanni Guareschi is a very good and amusing read.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Fifty sheds of grey is hilarious.......just my warped sense of humour and not to be taken seriously.

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