Milamber

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Excellent I'm glad someone else has read it and enjoyed it as much as me

Milamber

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for anyone interested in the books by Raymond E Feist he is coming to the UK in september for a book signing tour

These are the dates.....


Friday 15th September
12.30pm Waterstone=92s Leadenhall Market Signing
1-3 Whittington Avneue, EC3V 1PJ
Call 0207 220 7882 for more details

5.00pm Fordidden Planet, London Signing
179 Shaftesbury Avenue,WC2H 8JR
Call 020 7420 3666 for more details

Saturday 16th September
1pm Borders, Glasgow Signing
98 Buchanan Street, G1 3HA
Call 0141 222 7700 for more details

Monday 18th September
Belfast venue tbc

Tuesday 19th September
Dublin venue tbc

Wednesday 20th September
12.30pm Ottakars Bury St Edmunds Signing
Unit A, 36 Buttermarket, IP33 1DW
Call 01284 750 877 for more details

7.00pm Ottakars Chelmsford Talk/ Q&A/ Signing
76 High Street, CM1 1EJ
Tickets =A34, =A32 redeemable against book
Call 01245 268 737 for more details

Thursday 21st September
12.30pm Borders, Leeds Signing
94-96 Briggate, LS1 6NP
Call 0113 24 24 400 for more details

7pm Waterstone=92s, Manchester Talk/ Q&A/ =
Signing
91 Deansgate M3 2BW
Tickets: =A33, redeemable against purchase of the book on on the night


Friday 22nd September
3pm Waterstone=92s, Nottingham Signing with Clive
Barker =20=

(tbc)
1/5 Bridlesmith Gate, Nottingham NG1
Call 0115 948 4499 for more details

Guest of Honour at BSFA Fantasycon with Clive Barker and Neil Gaiman,
=20=

Britannia Hotel, 1 St James Street, Nottingham
Got to http://www.fantasycon.org.uk for more details



Saturday 23rd September
11am FantasyCon: Stage Interview with Sandy Auden from =20
Alien Online

5pm FantasyCon: Panel


Monday 25th September
12.30 Forbidden Planet Birmingham Signing
38 Priory Queensway, Birmingham B4 7LA
Call 0121 236 3026 for more details

7.00pm Ottakars, Milton Keynes Talk/ Q&A/ Signing
72 Midsummer Place, MK9 3GA
Call 01908 395384 for more details
=A34 ticket =A32 redeemable against the book



Tuesday 26th September
12.30 Waterstone=92s Southampton, Signing
69 Above Bar, S014 7FE
Call 023 8063 3130 for more details

7.00pm Waterstone=92s Reading, Talk/ Q&A/ Signing
89 Broad Street RG1 2AP
Call 0118 958 1270 for more details
Tickets =A33, redeemable against purchase

hail-hail

Well I haven't been back on here for going on a year, but I have been reading plenty of books..............

Here are just a few, I'll try and add the rest with comments I'll need to dig around the office to refresh the memory....

A Million Little Pieces - James Frey - excellent story about a drug user / criminal as he makes his way to and through rehab - you really can't help but like the guy.

Magician - Raymond E. Feist - one of milambers recommendations - excellent, may have to read it again.

Replay - anothe of milambers - nuf said

Jonathon Strange & Mr Norrell - struggled through this and never really got into it, may have to try again

The Wasp Factory - Ian Banks - weird but good.

Complicity - Ian Banks - this guy needs help, i'll stick to just a few of his per year.

The Algebraist - Ian M Banks - scifi - I found this hard to read and not very rewarding - struggled to visualise the settings.

All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye, Country of the Blind, The Sacred Art of Stealing, One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night, Quite Ugly One Morning, A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away, Not the End of the World, Boiling a Frog, Be My Enemy - all Christopher Brookmyre - A scottish author. books are funny and addictive - well thought out stories but essentially easy reading.

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - Oliver Sacks - true case journals - truth is stranger than fiction.

The Jester - James Patterson - Excellent - my favorite book of his hadn't read much of his stuff before this one (When the Wind Blows and The Lake House), now ploughing my way through all of his stuff, just started on the Womens Murder Club series. I also managed London Bridges, Honeymoon, Four Blind Mice, The Big Bad Wolf, Pop Goes the Weasel and a few more probably

Labyrinth - Kate Mosse - not bad, but a bit of a Da Vinci code bandwagon book.

The Lincoln Lawyer - Michael Connelly - Anotehr good read from Richard and Judys Book Club.............don't knock it till you try it.


That will have to do for now.

And your right, I rellay do need to watch more telly.........



We Need to talk about Kevin - Lionel Shriver - Fiction about the mother view of her son, who went on a killing spree in his school a la Columbine - struggled to get into it, not my thing.

Iv'e also read about 4/5 of Clive Cusslers Dirk Pitt book - all very entertaining and easy reading.

Milamber

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Glad you liked Replay and Magician, now you need to read "silverthorn" and "A darkness at sethanon" by Feist to complete the story

Stick with Jonathon Strange, the transitition from student to master is just excellent. It's true that its hard going but ultimately worth it

Crazy Chick

I've read the set of books by Raymond E. Feist mentioned above more than once - brilliant stuff

I've just finished reading "The Book of the New Sun" by Gene Wolfe, bought for something different to read (not really a fantasy and sci-fi fan) - nearly 600 pages later and I wasn't impressed

TopBanana

I read this on the beach on holiday. Quite hard going isnt it? I think it was a book for real sci fi geeks - it went into far too much detail!

Drunken Bungle Whore

Just read a fabulous autobiography - Alan Alda (M*A*S*H, West Wing etc. etc.) "Never have your dog stuffed". A real change from the usual TV star autobiogs - no real name dropping and didn't talk all that much about TV shows, this guy has just had an intersting life and is a very funny writer!

Leslie

I have read avidly since I was 4 1/2 years old. I read anything which looks interesting to me. Reading Barry Cryer's "sort of autobiography" at the moment.

Best way of education going

Les.

Milamber

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Same here. Read every night before going to bed and my job involves a fair amount of reading too..........

hail-hail

Right milamber, your mission , should you chose to accept it, is to read:
A Million Little Pieces - James Frey.
One of my recent favorites.
Just ordered "silverthorn" and "A darkness at sethanon" so i'll get going on those next week

Milamber

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Mission accepted

Give me a while i have a bit of a backlog but am going on holiday tomorrow so should catch up

Couple of Dean Koontz, a stephen King and a Solzhenitsyn - phew

Miss Kinky

My favourite book is Mists of Avalon by Marion Z. Bradley, can read it over and over.

Also love anything by Anne Rice...

Horror is definitely my favourite genre, but do enjoy romantic stuff too...

gixer6

Just finished reading The Feather Men by Ranulph Fiennes, very interesting book indeed.
Now a good way into Daniel Silva's The Kill Artist which is also proving to be a good read.

Not really a major fan of Stephen King, but read Dean Koontz / James Herbert / Lee Child / Jeffrey Deaver / James Patterson and haven't read a bad one among em

amazinggrace

Reading Autobiography of a Geisha by Sayo Masuda at the mo, not as good as Memoirs of a Geisha, but still decent to read.

Never finished Whatever love means by David Baddiel, just couldn't get into it, but I loved his book Time for bed.

Book I've read over and over is Red Dwarf by Grant Naylor, classic.

lordretsudo

I've just finished 'The Theatre of the World' by Peter Marshall (a book about Rudolf II's reign in Prague in the late 1500's/early 1600's) and 'Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition' by Frances Yates. I usually intersperse classics or historical books with my main literary love: classic SF.

The one and only book I've ever started to read and not completed is 'Naked Lunch' by William Burroughs - completely unreadable IMO, and that's coming from one of the few people who actually completed 'The Coming of the King' by Nikolai Tolstoy...

I often re-read books by my favourite authors - especially Gene Wolfe, Jack Vance, M John Harrison, Philip K Dick. I also really like 'The Third Policeman' by Flann O'Brien and 'Moby Dick', as pretentious as that might sound.

Favourite book (well, books strictly speaking) of all time would be Gene Wolfe's 'Book of the New Sun' (I noticed someone earlier in the thread mentioned this ;-))

lordretsudo

If you've only read 600 pages, then that's just the first half (the first two books of four). You really need to read the other half in order to fully appreciate it. There's also a later fifth book, a sort of coda to the series, 'Urth of the New Sun', which is admittedly heavier going...

hail-hail

I've got the Feather Men sitting my desk now. I started to read it recently only to remember I had already read it

Milamber

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Is it true or not though

Milamber

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I was given "Carter beats the devil" by Glen David Gold for my birthday. Not yet read it has anyone else?

The Rani

I'm reading "The Knights of Bushido" at the moment (just started it), and I like anything by Shaun Hutson.

hail-hail

Fiction for me, but very well done

brumdaisy

You're right it didnt Its taken since your post for me to get round to finishing the bloody thing, vague hope that there might have been some tantalising twist towards the end. There wasn't

hail-hail

Ok, well last week, there wasn't much on the telly so i read.....

James Patterson: 2nd Chance, 3rd Degree and 4th July - all quite good, don't usually go for books with female leads, but I find you can't really go wrong with JP for an easy enjoyable read.

James Frey: My Friend Leonard - The sequel to A Million Little Pieces - didn't realise this until a recent google search, but there seems to be quite a bit of controversy around James Frey and the truth in his books. Although these books are read as truth, some of it appears to be little white lies.
Nevertheless, these books are both belting reads and recommend them to anyone

I have now started Silverthorne - Raymond E Feist.

btw, I'm not sure I mentioned this before but Shantaram is another of my recent favorites, a true story narrating the life an Australian drug addict/criminal as he tried to build a new life in India after escaping from prison. A must read for everyone out there

Apparition

Just completed the last of all the Dan Brown books.
That guy writes like he's writing a film script. Ok for a jolly yarn but no real depth or fabric to his tales. And if I had read one more exclamation !!!!!! I think I'd have chucked the book from a very high building . Got a bit tedious.
Yve

mart360

Zen & the art, blimey i was 13 when i last read that one!!!


Mart

mart360

Just finished 4 in the last couple of weeks,

vulcan 607 (***** of steel)

stephen leather (its in the car so i cant recall the title)

John grisham the partner nice twist!!

just about to start a new one by baldaci (cant remeber the first name at the mo)

would read again.....

Pillars of the earth ken follet an underated masterpiece!!

Jaws peter benchley

Mart

Turbohot

Very true.The guy is after a commercial success.He wants his material travelling from books to films.

*Sonic*

one question, how the hell do you lot find time to read books, especially so many !!

I started one a few months ago, and im not even half way through it!!

Turbohot

If you get interested in one,you end up finishing it asap.From toilet to bed,lunch breaks to cuppa tea break! Whenever you can enjoy the read,you would do it.
It is a matter of feeling caught or hooked by a book.

*Sonic*

Yeah I guess so, doesnt help when I leave my books in Wales

Donna has managed to just about complete LOTR including the Hobbit, since starting it in January, but then most of that has been bedtime reading (when im not there )

I personally struggle to read in bed, and usually end up doing other things in the evenings instead and forget about reading

I really should make time, I used to many years ago but got out of the habit after a while