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[Patti (baconater)]

Adrian wrote: "The Dead Zone(film) I thought was one of the best adaptations of a King book. Walken and Sheen were both fantastic in it."

I've not seen it! Didn't even know it existed! Wow.

I've not read the book in years n years. I'm gonna have to re-read it then find the film.

Thanks Adrian!

[Michael]

Here's my review for David Wailing's Auto 2 - it's a fascinating and plausible vision of the future and a great read to boot!

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

[Kath]

I really enjoyed that one too, Michael.

[Kath]

A good story by Nigel Bird The Shallows. I gave it four stars. It was a decidedly good read!

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

Just started A Barrow Boy's Cadenza which, after I'd begun it, I realised was number 3 in a series! Must wear glasses when book buying. However, it's turning out quite good.

[Heather]

I've just finished by Guy Portman. I found it a fascinating read. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show....

[David]

Just finished Mary's Escape From B-Movie Hell. A great entertaining read.

Just started Limitless. I enjoyed the film, and the book is off to a good start.

[Neil]

Just finished Kingdom of Darkness and my review is
here

Just started

The Towman's Daughters

[Jim]

Just finished HMS Expedient

It's not just the usual naval war story, it's actually set between wars in peace time.
An interesting read, I enjoyed it and it did keep me turning pages. A lot of the 'action' is coping with superiors and dockyards :-)

[Jim]

Daughter is reading The Story of My Escape: The Story of My Escape from the Prisons of the Republic of Venice Otherwise Known as the Leads at the moment and enjoying it hugely. So much so she keeps coming and reading me selected passages :-)

[Guy]

Just finished reading Concrete Island by J. G. Ballard. This is my review — https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

About to start Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

Just finished The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, which started very interestingly but didn't quite live up to its early promise; The Strange Death of Fiona Griffiths which was a fairly competent thriller/police type with an interesting premise; and The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry which was quirky and reasonably diverting. Just started The Damage Done by James Oswald (can't find it on here), no.6 of one of my favourites Det Inspector McLean series. Set in Edinburgh as all the best books are, with fairly heavy supernatural elements. Hope this one is as good as the first five...

[Patti (baconater)]

Jim wrote: "Daughter is reading The Story of My Escape: The Story of My Escape from the Prisons of the Republic of Venice Otherwise Known as the Leads at the moment and enjoying it hugely. So m..."

That is a sign of a very good book.

[Jim]

yes, that's what I thought. I'm hoping she finishes it before she goes so leaves it in her room to avoid having to carry it on the train :-)

[Pam]

Think I forgot to mention that I finished Ten-Second Staircase: and am now on book 5 in the series, White Corridor

[Kath]

After ditching a book I couldn't get on with, I've just read a really good psychological thriller Guilty Innocence by Maggie James.

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

Just started a YA book from Netgalley Radio Silence It's already proving a hard one to stop reading!

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

Kath wrote: "After ditching a book I couldn't get on with, I've just read a really good psychological thriller Guilty Innocence by Maggie James...."

That's possibly the most irritating book title ever! Would in fact have been enough to put me off it

[Patti (baconater)]

I agree. That's a terrible title.

[Kath]

It's a belting story.

[Lexie]

Not long finished a good new crime story set in South Africa with lots of food (and indeed recipes at the back). Hurried off to buy the next one and found it's £10.99 on Kindle! For a new author? Even one endorsed by the sainted Alexander McColl Smith? Who are they kidding?

[Kath]

They usually come down when the paperback's been out for 6 months or so.

[Lexie]

I know but really!

[Kath]

Yes, they are taking the wee-wee. ;)

[Pam]

Just finished White Corridor

[Elle]

I could easily spend 10.99 on coffee in less than two days. It's weird how I'd never spend that on a book though aha

[Jim]

I have books I paid £40 for. They're non-fiction, and they're the definitive book on the topic Sea Power in the Medieval Mediterranean: The Aragonese Fleet in the War of the Sicilian Vespers being a case in point. :-(

[Kath]

Just finished Radio Silence by Alice Oseman. Fantastic story. Very different and I loved it.

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

Just started THE THESEUS PARADOX by David Videcette.

[Lexie]

I'd spend it on a nice book, a book I can feel and touch and smell and put on my bookshelf as well as read! Not on coffee, though, probably ...

[Jud]

I finished Looking for Trouble: K'Barthan Series, Part 4 if you haven't read this series yet then you really should. I'm gutted I've finished the last one :o(

Going to start Dreaming Anastasia next, it was a freebie I got back in 2011 so no idea what it'll be like. It's another series so I'm kind of hoping it'll be crap so I can ignore the rest of them!! There needs to be more stand alone books that are not part of a series, for every book I read I gain another 6 on my TBR list...

[Pam]

Just had another 'free' book offer on Amazon, but they are all cr*p according to the reviews.

Anyway, now reading the second novel by Jan Mark, Divide and Rule

[David]

Just finished Genghis: Bones of the Hills the 3rd book about the Khan band's world tour. Probably the best in the series... so far.

Just started Heart-Shaped Box, another one by Stephen King's boy. I liked the last one of his I read and this one too is very much in his dad's footsteps... so far.

[Jud]

I got about 3 pages into Dreaming Anastasia before giving up and starting Death of an Officer's Lady instead :o)

[Kath]

You won't regret it!

[Lexie]

I'm listening again! Thanks!

[Elle]

just finished Outlander

first book in a series i won't be continuing. it's 846 pages and i'm wary about recommending it to the group as a whole. most of you would utterly hate it.

i gave it 4 stars but it had serious issues. those 4 stars were very very forgiving (or if you are in Outlander that is "verra verra" forgiving... seriously..)

[David]

Just finished Heart-Shaped Box , which I really liked a lot, except for that moment when you see the protagonist has dogs and you know then what is going to happen to those dogs before the end of the book.

Just started The Facts of Life and Death, who has become somewhat of a favourite author of late.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

David wrote: "Just finished Heart-Shaped Box , which I really liked a lot, except for that moment when you see the protagonist has dogs and you know then what is ..."

I need to get hold of a Joe Hill book.

[David]

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "I need to get hold of a Joe Hill book."

I've read this and NOS4A2 and liked both of them.

[David]

Just finished The Undercover Economist , which I thought was an excellent light and entertaining read on the subject.

Just started Four Laws That Drive the Universe.

Just finished rereading Changing Places , which was ok. A bit dated now with its own literaryness sometimes getting in the way of the story.

Just started rereading Catch-22 which I see I gave 5 stars to from memory after reading it at least a couple of times. It will be interesting to see if it still lives up to that on this 3rd or 4th reread.

[Elle]

I can read about humans dying for an entire book but I can't stand reading even a page of anything happening to an animal!

[Natasha]

David wrote: "Just started rereading Catch-22 by Joseph Heller which I see I gave 5 stars to from memory after reading it at least a couple of times. It will be interesting to see if it still lives up to that on this 3rd or 4th reread. "

I loved it so much eighteen years ago, David, that I'm afraid of rereading it in case it doesn't match up to my memory.

[David]

Elle wrote: "I can read about humans dying for an entire book but I can't stand reading even a page of anything happening to an animal!"

That's what gets me too.

[David]

Natasha (Diarist) wrote: "I loved it so much eighteen years ago, David, that I'm afraid of rereading it in case it doesn't match up to my memory. "

I have read it at least a couple of times and still loved it, so I think it is one of those books that does stand up on rereading. So you could be safe to try it again.

[Kath]

It took three goes to get as far as 40%. Coudn't finish it. I read much of that with gritted teeth. Just didn't do anything for me but waste my time

[Jim]

It's strange, I read Catch-22 on the second attempt. I've never felt the need to read it again but there were bits I enjoyed.
It's not a book I ever recommend to people

[Stuart]

Have to say Catch-22 is one of my favourite books. Each time I've read it I've found something different to admire about it.

[Pam]

Embarrassed to say that I think I read it a long time ago but have completely forgotten, though I did 'enjoy' the film in an odd sort of way.

[Pam]

Just finished Dragons, An Introduction To The Modern Infestation which is a really odd (fictional) scholarly writeup on dragons, as if they existed in the (1980s) modern day. I'd had it so long I'd forgotten it wasn't a short story anthology until I started reading it.

Now reading another book that I thought was a collection of short stories, Millennial Women, but only the first few are, and the rest consists of a novelette and an actual novel!

[Elle]

I have Catch 22 on my Kindle. Bought it for my Brother but didn't really seem like my kinda book so I ignored it.

[Nigel]

Kath wrote: "A good story by Nigel Bird The Shallows. I gave it four stars. It was a decidedly good read!

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

Just started [book:A Barrow Boy's Cad..."

Lovely and thanks.

[Joo]

I tired Catch 22 and didn't like it.
I couldn't decide what to read next and since I spotted it was on a freebie sale I decided to re-read Cellar Door by PA Fenton. I love this book.

I did notice he had a new one out last summer. I shall get that one soon.