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[Jim]

Alexandra wrote: "Just finished Thread Slivers now reading The Sanctuary Sparrow"

I'm on the Devil's Novice ;-)

[Kath]

Patti (Number 69) wrote: "Oh you know something else I wish all authors would do?

If they've written a series, put #1 or #2 or whatever in the title.

What a pain having to google the order they should be read. :("

O HELL YES !!!!

[A.L.]

Jim wrote: "Alexandra wrote: "Just finished Thread Slivers now reading The Sanctuary Sparrow"

I'm on the Devil's Novice ;-)"

Bah faster than me then:)

[Joo]

I've knocked a star off a rating for the book finishing at 60% and I also mentioned it in the 2 books I've recently read, one was 83% and the other 88%.
With one of them, there was a few pages of an interview with the author, which wasn't too bad - if it was just that.
Seeing the counter somewhere in the 80s makes you think you are in the prelude to the finale, the big build up. I want THE END to be on at least 95%.
The very worst I came across was 51%. It was a short story anyway and the other 49% was a few chapters of the author's previous book.
If you are enjoying a book, you can click on "book description", then click on the author's name, then download a sample of another book. It is that simple (assuming you have internet connection at the time hehe).

[Shaun]

Patti (Number 69) wrote: "Oh you know something else I wish all authors would do?

If they've written a series, put #1 or #2 or whatever in the title.

What a pain having to google the order they should be read. :("

You mean like this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kult-Prosper-...

;)

[Patti (baconater)]

Exactly like that Shaun.

It's so nice when authors look at things from a reader's point of view. :)

[Michael]

I've just finished Terminus X, which was a fun read until it ended without warning and said I had to buy part 2 :-(

I'm now onto The Mariner, which is off to a crazy mental start.

[Patti (baconater)]

Oh grrrrrrr

I hate that Michael.

Will you buy part two?

[Michael]

Probably not, but if he does a collection with them all I'd probably buy that.

I'm not a fan of episodic content.

[Patti (baconater)]

Nor me.

Seems money grubbing to me. Give me the whole story and charge a fair price for it, I reckon.

[Tim]

Grand tradition, episodic fiction -- even Dickens did it. But don't forget you can wait for the Omnibus edition at the end of the season, which is usually cheaper than buying each part separately.

Works great for audio too :)

[David]

Just started The White Queen. Had it waiting to be read and then discovered they put it on the telly. So now I'm reading it trying to finish it before the TV series finishes.

So far I've read not quite up to the end of the first TV episode - so should overtake it today.

[Jud]

I loved The White Queen and I have the TV programme recorded to watch with my mum when she gets over this weekend

[David]

Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "I loved The White Queen and I have the TV programme recorded to watch with my mum when she gets over this weekend"

I'm quite taken with it so far - it is the first of hers I've read. My usual historical fiction reading is things like
Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe and so on- men with swords slicing each other's appendages off.

[Elle]

The TV programme is meant to be VERY problematic (or so many of my friends say)

[David]

Elle wrote: "The TV programme is meant to be VERY problematic (or so many of my friends say)"

In what way?

[Elle]

I'll find it and copy it in.

(view spoiler)[
That was completely fucked up. Right?

He "loves" her so much, after seeing her briefly once or twice, that he has to rape her? That was an unambiguous rape scene. She was saying no over and over again. She had to use a knife to get him off her.

Then he tells her she's humiliated him and he'll never see her again and she goes home and tells her mother she's going to regret not having sex with him for the rest of her life?

The fact that the writers, apparently, want the viewer to see this situation as romantic or something makes me feel sick. Really? In 2013 we're still in this place?

Anyone read the book? I've never read Phillipa Gregory, so I don't know what she's generally like or how much the show mirrors her type of writing.

Ugh.
The worst part is I'm going to watch the next bit, just because it all looks so beautiful. I'll just come back here and rant some more afterwards. (hide spoiler)]

[Kath]

Just finished A Novel Way to Die by Lynda Wilcox. It's a wonderful light and funny read.

[Patti (baconater)]

I deleted your post David.

The spoiler was showing.

[David]

Patti (Number 69) wrote: "I deleted your post David.

The spoiler was showing."

Whoops.

I shall await my punishment.

[David]

Elle wrote: "I'll find it and copy it in."

Ah. Right.

[Patti (baconater)]

Have you learnt your lesson, young man? ;)

[Lissa]

Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "Sharon4 wrote: "I'm reading A Game of Thrones and enjoying it more as a Kindle book than I think I would in the paperback edition, where its bulk would be an issue. I'm getting through more of it i..."

I am also reading A Game Of Thrones on the Kindle but find the 80,000 pages rather daunting at the bottom of the screen! However, I don't think my back or handbag could have suffered the paperbacks!

Are you enjoying it as much as everyone else?

[Jud]

I love Game of Thrones next season filming starts soon :o)

[Patti (baconater)]

Are you all caught up with last season Jud?

[Jud]

I am, I am!!

[Patti (baconater)]

Coolio.

I admit I did sort of get into the last couple episodes.

Well, the second last one.

But I'm rather bloodthirsty.

[Jud]

The final was a bit of a let down I thought compared to the penultimate one (check me and my fancy words this morning)

[Patti (baconater)]

I agree. I thought they should have ended the season right there.

And yeah, thought you were Ignite there for a second!

[Jud]

Like Grandmother like Granddaughter, eh? She must be rubbing off on me (wish she wouldn't it's a bit awkward)

[Patti (baconater)]

Oh sheesh. Is she rubbing off AGAIN??

Sigh. I'll go get the towel.

[Jud]

Maybe a packet of wet wipes too, she's tough to wash off you know. Tough and a little bit sticky

[Patti (baconater)]

I'll get the WD40 as well.

http://wd40.com/uses-tips/

[Jud]

You suggesting Ignite is rusting?

[Kath]

I'm listening, you know!
I might be rusty but I'm not deaf - yet!

[Patti (baconater)]

Oops.

She heard us.

*looks innocent*

[Kath]

I don't think your innocent look gets enough excercise. It's not convincing me!

[Patti (baconater)]

I need to practice.

Dave sez I look like I have wind.

[Jim]

Patti (Number 69) wrote: "I need to practice.

Dave sez I look like I have wind."

probably better than the alternative which is to look as if you're constipated

[Karon]

Can I join in here?
Just finishedDark Cotillion: First in the Brenna Strachan Series which I really didn't enjoy. I am now in the middle of Wait For Me which I am enjoying and am a third of the way through Inferno

[Natasha]

Just finished The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde, wonderfully wacky and really amusing book about time-travelling literary detectives. (What was it you didn't enjoy, Ignite??)

Just started The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins, which purports to be a mystery story (as is its subject, biology) and to read as if it were science fiction.

[Kath]

The frivolity. The triviality.

[Natasha]

Ignite wrote: "The frivolity. The triviality."

Well, I can't argue with that :-)
Did you laugh even once?

[Jim]

Well I've just finished the third Caedael omnibus and am about to start on the fourth :-)

[Kath]

I can't remember. I was put off reading any more though.

[Robert]

Finished The Road which was a collection of stories about his time as a hobo. Started The Last Gift which I'm really enjoying so far.

[Karen]

Finished Midnight Come Again - not yet read a bad book in this series. She writes with real warmth - despite the often Arctic conditions of Alaska - and the Native American background is always informative and interesting.
Now started on The Judas Pair which was a recent Amazon daily deal.

[Robert]

Finished The Last Gift, pretty good, breezed through it in a couple of days. Started A Game of Thrones.

[Tim]

Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "The final was a bit of a let down I thought compared to the penultimate one (check me and my fancy words this morning)"

I think they should have swapped the last two episodes around, and gone out on a bang. As it was, the finale was rather a damp squid, I thought.

[Patti (baconater)]

Did I hear 'squid'?