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[Sam]

Kath, yes, Harold Fry.

[Bob]

Karen wrote: "Bob wrote: "I'm considering giving up on Gone Girl. Will I be the first not to finish it?"

Nope, I gave up too! Disliked the writing style and it just didn't grab me."

Oh phew. I've been galloping through it today as I hate giving up on books. Not sure I particularly care what happens though. Perhaps if it was shorter...

[Kath]

When I found out what happened I cared even less! ;)

[Bob]

Kath wrote: "When I found out what happened I cared even less! ;)"

Oh goody. Can't wait.

Harold Fry was okay. Written very simply but with a certain depth, I thought. I didn't laugh or cry though, as I think I was supposed to.

[Lance]

Bob wrote: "I'm considering giving up on Gone Girl. Will I be the first not to finish it?"

Probably not. I got through it mostly because I kept hoping the two lead characters would kill each other, about the only satisfying ending I could think of. (view spoiler)[Sadly, not to be. (hide spoiler)]

[Guy]

Just finished Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski. I really enjoyed it. This is my review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Next up is Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut.

[R.J.]

Just finished A Light in the Cane Fields, a fascinating and moving tale of a boy whose innocence founders on the rock of jagged reality in Marcos' Philippines, where rich landowners repress their smaller brethren. I am sure this story captures the genesis of armed resistance movements the world over and the fate of millions of thousands of kids. The first half of the story felt a touch laboured, but the second half was powerfully compelling and above all moving.

[Michael]

I've posted my review for Edward Parker's fantastic horror novel 'Clown Friday', check it out here:

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

Definitely one for Coulrophobics! :-)

I'm now onto

[Katie]

I just finished Shadowfell by fellow West Australian, Juliet Marillier. Excellent! Here's my review -

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Jud]

On my holidays I finished Treespeaker, Fuel to the Fire, Snowy White World to Save, Falling Star, Little Library Mouse, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Lonely Christmas Tree, The Dragon Box, Peter Pan, Footprints and I started Dragonmaster

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

What did you think of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Jud? I finished The Front, by Patricia Cornwell last night, wasn't impressed, and have another Mary Higgins Clark to read. Am also on the 4th of Mel's Justice series

[Jud]

I was expecting it to be more spooky, I've only seen part of the movie but I guess I figured it would be more like that rather than a quick overview of the characters of the village and then the spooky bit which wasn't very spooky. A bit disappointing.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

YEah, I found it a bit disappointing too - I really like the film

[Jim]

More importantly, what did you think about Peter Pan?
I read it in one (long) night when I was about ten and it was just the most amazing thing :-)

[Jud]

Peter Pan was brilliant. He's a wee scut in the Disney movie but not half as much as in the book. I wish I had read it when I was younger, it would have been so much more magical.

[Jim]

It is a truly magical book
Quite a lot of years ago I did 'Peter Pan' the Wargame. You're placed in charge of the peacekeeping force the UN has sent to Never Never land

http://www.sfsfw.org/a/13/peter.php

[Jud]

Ha! Amazing!

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Thats hilarious!

[Marc]

just started & am enjoying



How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

[Michael]

I gave up on , so I've started which is all kinds of awesome so far.

[Jud]

I started and finished Slime and Other Stories so i started A Bottle of Plonk

[Jim]

Gingerlily - Elephant Philosopher wrote: "Thats hilarious!"

And it works as a solo game ;-)

[Patti (baconater)]

I just finished a book about Stockholme Syndrome. The beginning was awful but by the end I loved it.

[Marc]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "I just finished a book about Stockholme Syndrome. The beginning was awful but by the end I loved it."

I see what you did there P

[Patti (baconater)]

;)

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Hahahahaha Patti!

[Fiona (Titch)]

I am around, just not been reading much as I have had a bad case of thinking I liked a book and it turned out I didn't. Then there is my eldest son who wanted to move to Scotland and now isn't and my fridge/freezer blowing up and having to fork out £100 (GBP) for a new fridge lol.

On a good note, I am reading Exquisite Betrayal - A.M. Hargrove which I am enjoying.

[Lexie]

Currently on Rachel Abbot's Sleep Tight, Shirley McKay's Friend and Foe, and Frank Demain's The Gambian Reprisal. I'm reading 10% of each at a time because I like them all and can't decide which to concentrate on. So far it's okay because they're pretty different in style!

[Natasha]

Took me an age to get through the bonkers The Eye in the Pyramid by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson (book I of the Illuminatus trilogy). Can't cope with books 2 and 3.

Am now halfway through The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith. Wow.

[David]

Just finished which I didn't really like that much, but I did get to the end of it - eventually.

Just started , which seems pretty decent.

[Sam]

David, it's funny and wonderful that we all have such divergent tastes. I love Imajica, to the extent it would probably make my top ten favourite books. Yet I can't stand certain books that others love. Thank goodness, or it'd be a dull world.

[Michael]

I enjoyed Imajice, it wasn't as good as Weaveworld, although I've enjoyed all of Clive Barker's books.

[Patti (baconater)]

Oh, Weaveworld! Loved that book! Haven't thought of it in years.

[Lexie]

Excellent book, but made me suspicious of rugs.

[Patti (baconater)]

Lexie wrote: "Excellent book, but made me suspicious of rugs."

Hahaha!

Gave my rug SUCH look just then.

[Kath]

I'm scared. Mine looked back at me!

[Patti (baconater)]

Time to run the Hoover over it, Kath. Or at least beat it with a stick.

[Kath]

Stick it is, then. :)

[David]

Sam wrote: "David, it's funny and wonderful that we all have such divergent tastes. I love Imajica, to the extent it would probably make my top ten favourite books. Yet I can't stand certain books that others ..."

Odd, ins't it? I didn't hate it. Just couldn't get into it.

Somebody said the other day about reading several pages and suddenly realising they couldn't remember anything of what they'd just read. I had a lot of those episodes with this book.

Although, on the other hand there are quite a few bits that have stuck in my memory.

[Natasha]

Just finished The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith, which I found wonderfully gripping.

Just started He Gave Me a Shilling by Sandra Ann Ciannella, a short memoir of sexual abuse at eight years old by a stranger. I am reading this because I met the author. Having been disbelieved by her mother at the time, she has at last found peace, aged sixty-two, in the telling of her story.

[Bookworm]

Just started Doctor Sleep. Just discovered it on recommendations, had to download it.

[David]

Just finished which was an excellently good thing. As the blurb says 'Armchair Nation reveals the fascinating, lyrical and sometimes surprising history of telly'

Just started which is looking good.

[Patti (baconater)]

I really wish the cover thumbs were bigger. They're too small to read the titles on and I can't be arsed to click them most of the time.

Not a comment on your post in particular, David.

Would be nice to see the titles as well, is all.

I bet I'm not the only one who has thought that. ;)

[Patti (baconater)]

Bookworm wrote: "Just started Doctor Sleep. Just discovered it on recommendations, had to download it."

Be sure to let us know how you get on with it, k?

[Kath]

If you hover your cursor over the picture the whole title is displayed.

[Lexie]

No, you're not - I keep peering at the screen. Thought I was just getting old.

Now feeling rather wary of curtains.

[Patti (baconater)]

Kath wrote: "If you hover your cursor over the picture the whole title is displayed."

There is no cursor on mobile devices.

Just we cursers.

[Kath]

Curses!

[Patti (baconater)]

Language, Kath!

[Kath]

EAL? *runs away*