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[H.M]

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Holly wrote: "Just finished a Dean Koontz called Strangers. I'm so glad that it's finally finished! It just couldn't hold momentum, and at over 700 pages it was just too long. I'd also guessed the ..."

Well to be honest I don't have a lot of patience! Have you read False Memory? That was quite similar in length and substance, but I found it a far more engaging read.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Holly wrote: "Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Holly wrote: "Just finished a Dean Koontz called Strangers. I'm so glad that it's finally finished! It just couldn't hold momentum, and at over 700 pages it was just t..."

Again, sounds familiar. Must remember to look on the bookcase. PS - love your pic, have you told us about him in the Animal thread?

[H.M]

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Holly wrote: "Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Holly wrote: "Just finished a Dean Koontz called Strangers. I'm so glad that it's finally finished! It just couldn't hold momentum, and at over 700 pages..."

Thanks! Unfortunately he passed away in October after a long battle with renal failure.

Yes I should pay tribute to him in the Animal thread. Good idea, thanks.

[Robert]

I fit in a collection of flash fiction - Never Trust Your Cellphone which I really enjoyed. The stories have a dark edge which I liked and the author also had a wry sense of humour which ran through the collection.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Holly wrote: "Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Holly wrote: "Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Holly wrote: "Just finished a Dean Koontz called Strangers. I'm so glad that it's finally finished! It just couldn't hold m..."

Aww, I'm Sorry to hear that.

[Jim]

Well I've just finished Coraline and Other Stories and Looking for Jakeand I've been really virtuous and done reviews as well
Now I've got all four of Will's Banned underground books and I'm intending to read them one after the other as a treat :-)

[Jenna-Marie]

I have just finished . It's a good read although I was quite shocked by the sex content and it stopped me from enjoying the book as much as I would have done otherwise. I am not a fan of graphic sex in films, tv or in books and I always try to avoid it. However, this was not stated before I read it and therefore it really did let it down in my eyes. Other than the sex - which is really un-called for - it is a good story!

I've just started reading as part of a read and review (via http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/5...). So far so good. Lacking a little in action for me personally at the moment (30% of the way through) but that could change. I'm far from bored with it.

[Natasha]

Just finished Maureen goes to Venice by Jonathan Hill. Five stars. Ace.

Still on Talk Language by Allan Pease and Alan Garner. Looking at the excerpt of The Third Rule by Andrew Barrett (checking it's not too scary).

[Kath]

Just finished Faust 2.0. Excellent - review here http://ignitebooks.blogspot.co.uk/201...

Currently reading Wanted and The Color Purple for the village book club.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Holly wrote: "Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Holly wrote: "Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Holly wrote: "Just finished a Dean Koontz called Strangers. I'm so glad that it's finally finished! It just couldn't hold m..."

I did check the bookcase this morning, and I own both STrangers and False Memory, which means I have read both.

[Mago]

Finished Odd Thomas #3 (great fun) onto #4 and the start of a marathon read: .

[Robert]

So I finished The Adventures of Tom Sawyer on Sunday. This morning I read a collection of short stories by Jack London, but I was a bit disappointed because they were more like articles and a couple of excerpts from plays rather than stories.

I just started Great Expectations and Meditations by Marcus Aurelius since its been a while since I've read anything philosophical.

[Lorraine]

Finished Trophy Hunt,another good read by c.j.box,just wish they would sort out the typos,it's annoying when they put b's for e's.Started Don't Cry,am 15% in and enjoying it.

[Fiona (Titch)]

I've finished The Morganville Vampires Book Thirteen: Bitter Blood - Rachel Caine. Now I am going to read Hyde, an Urban Fantasy - Lauren Stewart.

[Kath]

Natasha (Diarist) wrote: "Just finished Maureen goes to Venice by Jonathan Hill. Five stars. Ace.

Still on Talk Language by Allan Pease and Alan Garner. Looking at the excerpt of The Third Rule by Andrew Barrett (checking ..."

I wouldn't call The Third Rule scary Natasha. It's dark, gritty, poignant in places and you could say horrifying, but not horror in the usual sense. Fantastically written!

[Natasha]

Thanks, Ignite. I'm going to go for The Third Rule. Love your review of Faust 2.0. How intriguing.

[Kath]

Michael's got a wonderful imagination and there's always a metaphysical element in there. I don't know anyone who writes quite like him!

[Jim]

Ignite wrote: "I wouldn't call The Third Rule scary Natasha. It's dark, gritty, poignant in places and you could say horrifying, but not horror in the usual sense. Fantastically written! ..."

I'd go so far to say the most horrifying horror doesn't have gore etc, but instead plays on the readers imagination

[Natasha]

If there's no actual horror or gore, I think I can cope :-)

[Kath]

There are deaths ... It's forensics so there are descriptions but it's not frightening, I'd say.

[Jonathan]

The Third Rule is more tense and thrilling than scary. Well worth a look, Natasha! (Thanks for the review of Maureen - glad you enjoyed!)

[Patti (baconater)]

Well now. I'd say The Third Rule is scary in that it's a graphic depiction of where our society is headed. Is it graphic in that context? Yes.
Is it splashing, wet, icky? No.
It's where your own imagination takes you. As the best books do.

[Natasha]

Patti (Ogre for Hire) wrote: "it's a graphic depiction of where our society is headed ..."

I'm looking forward to going to bed with The Third Rule tonight. ...

(I might just keep the light on though. Just in case)

[Natasha]

Jonathan wrote: "(Thanks for the review of Maureen - glad you enjoyed!)"

You're welcome, Jonathan. A really excellently written book.

[Kath]

Read and reviewed both The Color Purple - a modern classic - and Wanted by Tim Arnot. I'd like to conjecture that this might be a future classic. It's pretty damned good!

Reading The God Portal by Tim Ferguson. Strange combination of particle physics and religious belief vs atheism. Oddly compelling. Quite exciting, really.

[Natasha]

Ignite wrote: "Reading The God Portal by Tim Ferguson. Strange combination of particle physics and religious belief vs atheism. Oddly compelling. Quite exciting, really. ..."

Wow, yes. ... But 734 pages??

[Kath]

I'm well hard Natasha! I'm over a quarter of the way through. I thought it would be rambling but it's quite coherent.

[Ian]

Just finished Howard Linskey's The Dead and am ploughing my way through Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White Ploughing is probably the wrong word as I'm absolutely loving it. Reading it for the third time. Brilliant stuff.

[Mago]

Just started there are 20+ of these interconnected volumes of shorts which are all as mad as a box of mutant frogs.
That's three books I'm reading at the moment; I'll need to borrow the group brain cell methinks.

[Mo]

Just finished Citadel not a favourite but much better than Cloud Atlas which I am struggling through. Now 1/3 way through and it feels like a load of short stories, I want it to come together. A friend says stick with it....for how long?

[Mago]

Until at least half way Mo!
Trust me. I'm not a doctor, but I have read it :-)

[Michael]

I've just finished Pompomberry House a superbly funny read:

http://thecultofme.blogspot.co.uk/201...

I've also posted a review for Thief, a pretty good fanatasy tale.

http://thecultofme.blogspot.co.uk/201...

[Lance]

Just finished The Meeting, Episode I of Trench Coats . Seeley James hits all the marks in these first six chapters of the sequel to The Geneva Decision , returning soccer-star-turned-security-CEO Pia Sabel to a new adventure. Part 1 of this serialized novel shows James' growth as an author while delivering on many of the qualities that made the previous book a good read. A solid four stars.

My review is at http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/....

[Jud]

I've just started the child inside I'm not sure about it, the son needs a good slap and the mum needs to wise the bap and grow up. I'm only 8% in but it better improve. Has anyone else read it?

[Kath]

Just finished The God Portal by Tim Ferguson. It's long - 700+ pages and is overtly Christian which won't suit some. Decent story though, but it could stand to be edited down a bit.

Edit - whoops, forgot. Just started Rebecca by Adam J Nicolai, author of 'Alex'.

[Jim]

700+ pages is a fair length, I think you have to be really good to keep things moving properly at that length.
I just checked, Lord of the Rings is 1209 and that was initially written as three books

[Kath]

I'll be reviewing it today. It could have been edited down by removing some of the wandering about in the countryside which I think was there to demonstrate the author's in-depth knowledge of the Holy Land in New Testament times. OK, he has it. I think it should support the story, not be part of it.

[Michael]

I've just finished Deceptive Comfort, an interesting short story, well worth a read.

http://thecultofme.blogspot.co.uk/201...

I'm not sure what I'm reading next.

[Jud]

This is a momentous occasion, I've given up on the child inside and wouldn't recommend it. Unless you like reading about all the reason why someone else is depressed. The final straw was when she said she was an outsider because her husband, his mother and their son were all tall and dark unlike her. She's worse than bella from twilight I want to bang her head off a wall to knock some sense into it.

Just really can't keep reading.

[Kath]

Free yourself up lass! Start something good.

[Jim]

Yes, life is too short to read a book you don't like about characters who irritate you. I walked away from The Catcher in the Ryeand never went back

[Jud]

Glad I did. My next book was infinitely better by he first chapter (Roma)

[Kath]

Forgot to say I've started (well, I'm now about a third through) Dartmoor...The Saving by BJ Burton. Loving it so far.

[Michael]

I've just finished , which is a great horror short story. It deserves a longer form, but well worth a read.

I'm now onto , lovely premise and off to a good start.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Finished The Boy from Nowhere by Rosie Goodwin, having a break from her, starting a Mary Higgins Clark paperback next. Going to finish Forever Odd before I do though

[Christopher]

finished Dear Fatty - Dawn French and started Cruel and Unusual - Patricia Cornwell

[Joo]

I've just stopped reading My Friend Miranda. I was enjoying it until a teacher shows her class photos of the hedgehogs in her garden. "who come every day at 6pm, she sees most days and feeds them bread and milk" OMG!!!! Those hogs would be dead within days.
I tried to find a contact for the author, but can't so will have to write that in a review. But I don't know if I want to finish the book that I was quite enjoying until that point.

[Kate]

Just read a Kate Atkinson novel for the first time - When Will There Be Good News? - which I loved. Don't know why I've never read her before. Have already ordered another one from the library.

[Kath]

I enjoyed that one Kate. We read it for our village book group. Some found it dismal - I loved it.

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

Kate wrote: "Just read a Kate Atkinson novel for the first time - When Will There Be Good News? - which I loved. Don't know why I've never read her before. Have already ordered another one from the library."

I think I'm a bit in love with Jackson Brodie.

Especially when he's played by Jason Isaacs (although that's not at all how I imagined him when I read the books!)