Sophie Kinsella, Cecelia Ahern what are they like?

[suzywong]

never read them but th ey seem to be frightfully popular

[DCSsunhill]

Love the Shopaholic series. It is really, really funny. Kinsella used to write under another name also, but her earlier books under other name are nowhere near as good as Shopaholic.
Cecilia Ahern book covers always put me off...always seem rather twee.

[suzywong]

thanks snatch, I didn't know there was a series

anymore for anymore?

[compo]

Shopaholic ones are great
there is to be a film of the first book with Isla fisher in it next year

[MaryAnnSingleton]

don't klnow what they're like but don't fancy them..but in a similar vein I do like Lisa Jewell

[compo]

I loved the last C. Ahern book, forgotton it's name though , Remember me? maybe?

[wotulookinat]

I really enjoyed Sophie Kinsella's work. Light hearted and easy to read.
I also like Cecelia Ahern, although her books are a bit different. 'If You Could See Me Now' was very good, and I have recently finished 'A Place Called Here', which was nearly as good.

[HomeintheSun]

I read PS I love you (which I thought was much sadder than the film) If you could see me now was good but I didn't really like Love Rosie. I don't think I've read any of Sophie Kinsella's books

[BalloonSlayer]

I have never read Cecilia Ahern (but might give her a try as people on here seem to like her.)

I like Sophie Kinsella, although I am not as keen on the shopaholic books as the others.
I have just read "Remember me" in just under a day, which means that, although very enjoyable fun, I didn't get an awful lot of said enjoyable fun for me money.

[kickassangel]

i HATE cecilia ahearn books. if you think the covers are twee, the inside is far more so. i know there are a lot of people who like her, but i don't get fairy stories for grwon ups, and there are a lot of things about her writing style that i could pick holes in. i won't upset people by ranting here, but ... i could say so much more!

[wotulookinat]

ooohhhh

[Fimbo]

I am in the middle about Cecelia Ahern - I read PS I Love You and really like it.

Dh bought me Where Rainbows End for Christmas and it was so predictable from page 1 what the outcome was going to be.

Love the Shopaholic books,

Kiss - please do share your thoughts.

[Cies]

I've read some of the shopaholic books. IMO they are light and frothy, won't change the world, but fun nevertheless.

[suzywong]

oh are they adult fairy story types?
but are they funny?

[wotulookinat]

No, not funny.

[Fimbo]

I have just finished Notting Hell by Rachel Johnson which has a touch of humour to it. It's based around the Notting Hill communal gardens/yummy mummy types.

[Fimbo]

Notting Hell Synopsis

[suzywong]

I roared at Jenny Eclair and I tittered at Chuck Palahniuk and Carl Hiaasen.
I only ask about Kinsella and Ahern because Amazon told me that people who bought Jenny Eclair often bought them too, but they could be just trying it on with me to boost flagging sales.

[expatinscotland]

their popularity speaks volumes about the dumbing down of society.

[suzywong]

really?

OK let's move on then

Witty, funny, erudite authoresses please

[Linnet]

I'm with kickassangel, Cecelia Ahearn books are awful. Sorry, but that's my opinion. I have read one which was about an imasginary friend which I finished but wasn't overly impressed with. Then I tried to read "Thanks for the memories" and it was so awful that I had to put it down it was all just so incredibly unlikely, even for fiction it was unlikely.

Sophie Kinsella though I love, shopaholic books are good, I didn't know that there was a film coming out must keep an eye out for that.

[kickassangel]

suzy - cecilia is just about the complete antithesis of chuck.

badly written, overly sentimental drivel for women who still want to wear frilly pink dresses & skip around in meadows. hugely predictable from page one, contradictions and errors in the writing, overblown, endless and needless description, cliched and stereotyped throughout.
apart from that, you may like it?

[kickassangel]

now i do like anita shreve, and have just started reading 'crow lake' by mary lawson, who reminds me of shreve's style.

not witty, but easy to read. 'typical' of good american writing - simple, straightforward style, no poncing about with endless metaphors or clever but disruptive vocabulary, but tells a really intriguing (and i fully expect heart wrenching) story. although i think i can see what's coming, it's well enough written that i need to read on.

a little like arundhati roy's 'the god of small things' but not so harrowing

ps, love jenny eclair on tv, never read. love chuck pala thingy, so perhaps we have similar tastes