Thread: Reccomend something fun
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24th Sep 2007, 8:32 PM #1WhiteCrow Guest
Reccomend something fun
With luck I'll be going on holiday at the end of the week.
I'm trying to find a book to take with me. Nothing too epic, just a good fun read.
I'm currently reading Silk and Cyanide, a book about the code maker for SOE in World War 2. A lot of people die in it.
I've kind of got into a rut of late that if I read anything it should be factual to expand my knowledge. Hence the last fiction I read was nineteen eighty four in February 2006. And as you can imagine that was a barrel of laughs.
I bought the last Harry Potter the day it came out, but I can't really be bothered. Besides I'm not prepared to pay the excess baggage it'll cost to put the tome in my luggage!
Recommendations anyone?
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24th Sep 2007, 9:02 PM #2
Try The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith, Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin, I Robot or Foundation by Isaac Asimov or The Toyminator by Robert Rankin.
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24th Sep 2007, 9:10 PM #3
I recommend Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency or The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul. Both are fantastic for a holiday.
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24th Sep 2007, 9:46 PM #4WhiteCrow Guest
Thanks Steve
Been trying to browse through Amazon - I'm tempted by "Unrequited Love: On Stalking and Being Stalked - A Tale of Obsessive Passion"
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Unrequited-L...666433&sr=1-93
I'll try to look up your suggestions instead.
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25th Sep 2007, 8:50 AM #5
Mortal Engines by Phillip Reeve. Its a sci-fi adventure story thats light but also has a great emotional edge and brilliant characters.
Or Stardust by Neil Gaiman. An adult fairy story .Last edited by Paul Monk; 25th Sep 2007 at 9:03 AM.
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25th Sep 2007, 9:18 AM #6
I suggest the marvellous Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death.
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25th Sep 2007, 12:02 PM #7
Ever read any of the books in Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series, or his two related Nursery Crime stories? Good fun.
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28th Sep 2007, 1:27 PM #8
If I'd known you needed some, I'd have brought Tony Hawks's "Round Ireland With A Fridge" and/or Jerome K Jerome's "Three Men In A Boat" to the last meet up for you to take. Those at least are my immediate recommendations.
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28th Sep 2007, 1:58 PM #9
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1st Oct 2007, 6:08 PM #10
I don't think I have ever heard from anyone claiming to have read Jim Butcher's Fantasy/Mystery series The Dresden Files and not liked them. You might give them a try if you have never read them. The first book in the series is 'Storm Front'.
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1st Oct 2007, 6:12 PM #11Pip Madeley Guest
I keep it in the loo. Thoroughly absorbing.
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1st Oct 2007, 6:30 PM #12
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1st Oct 2007, 6:36 PM #13Pip Madeley Guest
Of course I do! I have a few library books in the toilet, if I'm there for the duration.
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1st Oct 2007, 10:09 PM #14
Ahh.. I see. I thought perhaps the book wasn't very good and you were making a clever joke with a play on words.... the loo... absorbing... nevermind.
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2nd Oct 2007, 11:48 AM #15
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2nd Oct 2007, 3:07 PM #16Pip Madeley Guest
There's eight so far:
1. The Spaceship Graveyard
2. Alien Arena
3. The Time Crocodile
4. The Corinthian Project
5. The Crystal Snare
6. War of the Robots
7. Dark Planet
8. The Haunted Wagon Train
They're rather fun if you're 8 or 22 years old.
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2nd Oct 2007, 7:11 PM #17
I think I'd buy that just for the wonderful cover.
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3rd Oct 2007, 11:58 AM #18
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3rd Oct 2007, 12:43 PM #19Pip Madeley Guest
Oh aye.
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