can anyone recomend a good easy read book which isnt true to life

[misdee]

maybe soemthing totally obscure.

but not chick lit

def not mis lit.

am feeling very fed up looking at books lately.

all seem to be 'my father sold me for a mars bar and 10 fags' type stories.

havent read a good book in ages.

want something that i wont want to put down.

[sighs]

[shoshe]

The Clan of the Cave Bear series by Jean Auel, brillant books set in Neanderthal times.

[frisbyrat]

The Secret Seven?

[avenanap]

Tony Blair's autobiography . Katie Price's autobiography....

[shoshe]

here misdee

[cadelaide]

What A Carve Up, Jonathan Coe.

very funny, very clever, unique.

[suwoo]

Shoshe, I loved clan of the cave bear when I was about 18? May have to revisit it.

[cadelaide]

Or his next one, House of Sleep, hilarious.

[misdee]

right now the secret seven and famous five is looking very appealing [sighs]

checking that link now though

[cadelaide]

never read those Cave Bear books but when i was a bookseller i sold them over and over.

Enormously popular, so must be good.

[frisbyrat]

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde. Easy, witty and fun.

[Farb]

the Hobbit always cheers me up when I'm sick of RL. I have it on tape in the car.

[avenanap]

Harry Potter.

[shoshe]

I have the whole series, and have read tham over and over, I wqas given the first one by a friend when I was in hospital, it really wasnt the sort of book I would have bought myself, I couldnt put it down.

[Cappuccino]

can't recommend highly enough

utter hokum but tremendous pageturning fun

[cadelaide]

Oh yes, jasper Fforde, brilliant.

[misdee]

aveanap, have read all the harry potter books

when i say easy reading i dont mean a childs book. just something you can totally immerse yourself in the plot without too much thinking and refernecing back in the book when they mention something in chapter 58 which happened in chapter 2, sort of thing.

i almost accoasted an old lady in the shop today to ask her what she would recommend

[cadelaide]

I've just read To Kill A Mocking Bird for the first time.

That would fit the bill, I reckon.

[avenanap]

I've read them. Jackie Collins, have you read any of her books?

[misdee]

i read a couple of jackie collins books years ago, it was when i was babysitting and it was all the woman had on her bookshelves. cant say i really enjoyed it much. cant really remember which one it was either.

[avenanap]

How about some of the classics? Bram Stokers Dracula? Mary Shelley's Frankenstein?

[MrsCurly]

I've just read On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan which was utterly engrossing and very short. And very thought-provoking. Couldn;t stop thinking about it afterwards. Can very strongly reccommend.

[misdee]

willing to go into classics.

am adding these all to my lists and will order a couple tonight

then can plan an evening just reading. i'm sure there must be footy on one night this week so i can get some peace...

[cadelaide]

Another classic i keep meaning to get around to is I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith.

Oh, that reminds me (but i don't know why); Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons.....perfect.

[cyteen]

Non-fiction, but I can heartily recommend Frost On My Moustache by Tim Moore, in which he follows in the footsteps of a famous 19th century lord by cycling across Iceland and then travelling up the coast of Norway. It's really interesting (lots of historical stuff and info about Scandinavian culture etc.) and also pant-wettingly funny (the guy whose journey he's following is a dashing man of action, whereas he's a travel-sick weakling with a childish sense of humour). A bit like Bill Bryson, but better IMO.

All of his travel writing is fascinating and funny, but this is still my favourite

[NorthernLurker]

The Silver Pigs - Lindsay Davis - if you like it there's another 16 after it.