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[Jud]

Something wicked this way comes just makes me think of Harry Potter

[Steven]

just finished Flesh House by stuart McBride. this is the 4th book i've read of his and i've got mixed feelings about it. maybe because the other books were so good but i didn't like this one as much as the others and it is very very disturbing. it was still a good read though!
just started Wanted by Tim arnot which i'm about 10 percent in to so far and loving it so far.

[Elle]

Finished Charlie and the Chocolate Factory last night. Was just thinking this morning that this book may be my most re-read book ever.

[Patti (baconater)]

Not Harry Potter?

I started Helliconia Spring at stupid o'clock this morning. Read the whole series yonks ago and loved it.

Sometimes it's nice to revisit an old friend. :)

[Elle]

I tend to read bits and pieces of Harry potter and not entire books and Roald Dahl has been on my reading list prior to HP!

[Steven]

i re read hp regularly. i have the audio books read by stephen fry who really adds a little extra to the wonderful stories!

[Lexie]

I have The Hobbit nearly permanently in my tape recorder (haven't upgraded to CD for that yet!) read by Martin Shaw - lovely. Have you heard David Tennant read Cressida Cowell's Dragon books, though? Absolutely brilliant.

[Karen]

Penny wrote: " Winter in Madrid.

I have this on my Kindle ready to go Karen, did you enjoy it? I really liked his Shardlake series, but couldn't get on with Dominion at all, so was just wondering?
"

Hm. Am glad I finished it, but don't think I'd actively recommend it. It's very well researched, I should think (what do I know about the Spanish Civil War tho!) but with books like this, I can't help thinking - why?

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

I found Winter in Madrid unremittingly dreary and quite frankly dull. Much prefer Shardlake!

[Steven]

I've got Winter In Madrid on my kindle from when it was 20 p a while back. like others i loved the shardlake books and i also enjoyed Dominion so am looking forward to reading winter in madrid

[Kath]

Not read Shardlake but I really loved Winter in Madrid. Seems to divide people!

[Joo]

Just finished the dreadful (well I can't call it delightful, lol)

And now I'm reading something random from my list -

[Lorraine]

Finished The Girls He Adored,started Our Lady of Pain.

[Penny]

Karen wrote: "Penny wrote: " Winter in Madrid.

I have this on my Kindle ready to go Karen, did you enjoy it? I really liked his Shardlake series, but couldn't get on with Dominion at all, so was just wondering?..."

Thanks Karen I appreciate your opinion. They do seem to be a bit divided, some like it some not! As I said before I didn't like Dominion at all, so all I can do is give it a go! Thanks folks.

[Kath]

Just finished the wonderful The Scream of Angels by David Haynes.

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

[Stuart]

Just finished Dracula. Here's the review...

http://wp.me/p3wNu4-2S

[Penny]

I have been reading Les Miserables since the beginning of June (I have not seen either film or stage show) and whilst I am enjoying the story, I find Victor Hugo's habit for pontificating over vast swathes of the book quite annoying, I find it really hard to hold my concentration and take in all the stuff he is talking about!! What does anyone else think?

[Michael]

I've just finished The Scream of Angels and is an incredible read:

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

Next I'm on to The Next Planet Over

[Kath]

Great review Michael. If I hadn't just read it - I'd read it!

[Michael]

Everyone should read it. I'll be using it in my rebuttal piece for why horror works best as books compared to film.

[Nigel]

Just reviewed Blood On Blood by Jim Wilsky and Frank Zafira - 4 stars. I'm a bit behind on reviews, which is quite nice. I've just finished Gone To The Forest by Katie Kitamura - it's grim, well-written and dense, so it's not for faint hearts, more for those with literary determination. Now I'm reading I Was Dora Suarez (talk about 'out of the frying pan' it's as dark and twisted as anything I've ever read, but it is hugely absorbing).

[Stuart]

Michael wrote: "Everyone should read it. I'll be using it in my rebuttal piece for why horror works best as books compared to film."

I would contend that Dracula is the exception! ;-)

[Michael]

Stuart wrote: "Michael wrote: "Everyone should read it. I'll be using it in my rebuttal piece for why horror works best as books compared to film."

I would contend that Dracula is the exception! ;-)"

Don't get me wrong I love horror films, I had a guest post on my blog about why movies are a better medium than books for horror, so on Saturday I'll be posting my rebuttal :-)

[Nigel]

I'm off to check out Scream Of Angels - sounds good. And thanks.

I have Dracula on my kindle - I'll get there one day.

[Jud]

I loved Les Miserables!!! But then I love the musical inside out and then I saw the film (John Malcovitch & Gerard Depardieu one - no singing) and loved that too so when I read the book it was like really getting to know all my favourite characters and being able to understand them better. I did skip the 2nd half of the sewers and sky line of paris chapters though once I realised I didn't need to read them.

[Stuart]

I think Les Miserable is wonderful - as is Notre Dame de Paris. Having finished Dracula, I'm now about to start For All Our Dreaming by Stephen Leatherdale.

[Penny]

Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "I loved Les Miserables!!! But then I love the musical inside out and then I saw the film (John Malcovitch & Gerard Depardieu one - no singing) and loved that too so when I read the book it was lik..."

Thanks Jud.

[Lexie]

Just started 'If Snow Hadn't Fallen', a short story by S.J. Bolton, recommended on the Mystery & Crime forum. It's a bit sad to say I've just started a short story rather than reading it at one sitting, but I'm just back from work and not very focussed - it seems good so far, though!

[Steven]

loved the musical of les mis but can't work up the inthusiasm to taccle the book! maybe one day...

[Karen]

Penny wrote: "I have been reading Les Miserables since the beginning of June (I have not seen either film or stage show) and whilst I am enjoying the story, I find Victor Hugo's habit for pontificating over vast..."

Never was a fan of Victor Hugo - he did go on a bit, tho the siege of Paris stuff was interesting. Rats on the menu. Much prefer Zola. Much more realistic, gritty, and stronger characters.

[Karen]

Finished An Indecent Death on the train today. Rather dull fare. Now started on The Light Years, which was a recent Radio 4 dramatisation, but at the mo it is v slow going. Not sure I'm really going to care much about the Cazalets.

[Jud]

Yes, I did find the chapter on the building of Paris' sewers a bit extensive

[Lexie]

I found the Cazalets thoroughly unsympathetic and didn't care much about the radio version either! I'm not sure why it's so much talked of - I must be missing something.

[David]

Started White Bonesa few days ago - very good so far.


Always liked Masterton.

[Karen]

Lexie wrote: "I found the Cazalets thoroughly unsympathetic and didn't care much about the radio version either! I'm not sure why it's so much talked of - I must be missing something."

Exactly what I thought, Lexie - tho the radio version had just cut to the affairs, which was more fun!

[Michael]

Right, finished Albert Speer's journal Inside the Third Reich the other day. Fascinating stuff and I almost felt sorry for the Nazi berk.

Resumed David Copperfield for a few days.

Just downloaded Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing, and Dying a book about comments and conversations by German WWII POWs that were covertly recorded.

Looks like Dickens is going on hold again. Man, I love this non-fiction malarkey.

[Stuart]

just have to say that I am halfway through For All Our Dreaming and it is wonderful!

[Michael]

I've just finished The Next Planet Over, it's an interesting story, but needed more development:

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

I'm now onto The Time Machine

[Kath]

Just finished Julia's Room which had a hugely disappointing ending. I'm fairly confident I know what he was getting at but it dropped in out of the blue - and it felt contrived. Shame, because up till then it was excellent.

[Michael]

Ignite wrote: "Just finished Julia's Room which had a hugely disappointing ending. I'm fairly confident I know what he was getting at but it dropped in out of the blue - and it felt contrived. Shame, because up..."

I had a similar opinion, it's an excellent read right up until the end.

[Simon]

Just finished Hunter: A Thriller. An excellent vigilante thriller that really makes you mad about the weaknesses in the justice system.

[Joo]

I'm reading The Time Machine too. It's not really gripping me, though.

[Natasha]

Just finished The Cuckoo's Calling by 'Robert Galbraith.' It wasn't the sublime miracle of a literary feat that is The Casual Vacancy, but it was very enjoyable nonetheless (my few words on it).

Just started The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt.

[Kath]

I read The Time Machine when I was 13 and I was blown away by it. Read it again in my early 20s and I was amazed at how much I'd gown up in those 10 years. It came over the second time as a bit juvenile.

[Tim]

I recently read The Space Machine by Christopher Priest, it's a kind of mashup between the Time Machine and War of the Worlds. Great fun, lots of red weed and martian fighting machines...

[Pat ()]

Just finished Stealing Power by Bo Brennan
Thoroughly enjoyed it. Hope there is more in the pipeline.

[Kath]

It is good, isn't it? More power to that pipeline!

[Lexie]

I vaguely remember C.S. Lewis' Out of the Silent Planet and the other two books in the trilogy were a bit like a grown up Time Machine - this may be a view via the rose-tinted spectacles of my teenage years, though!

[Kath]

Oh, I loved those Lexie. I found That Hideous Strength, the last of the three, the least accessible. I loved SciFi so being set on earth, it let me down somehow.

[Jim]

Yes the last of the three somehow lost it a bit, I never enjoyed it as much as the other two