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im going on a train journey and i will eb able to READ A BOOK!!!

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LOLcod · 27/09/2005 21:00

ok recomendations please
do not watn anything pre20th cent
anything indian ( suitable boy did me in)
anything with dead children in it or ghosties ( although charlie st cloud was goood)

like biograpghy and history
fave authors are saint margaret forster, kate atkinson etc tec

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NotQuiteCockney · 27/09/2005 21:11

Eh, I found Kate Atkinson unreadably complex, so it may be a matter of taste. Cloud Atlas is a bit form over function, but enjoyably so.

Oh, read Haruki Murakami. Any of his, they're all the same.

Nightynight · 27/09/2005 21:11

Margaret Attwood is * overrated

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LOLcod · 27/09/2005 21:10

dh is canadian!

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LOLcod · 27/09/2005 21:10

read scandal - LOVED ti
dh has atlas but cant get into it and he did english s level so there no hope for me

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NotQuiteCockney · 27/09/2005 21:10

Hmm, I found Cloud Atlas lovely. But I love David Mitchell, he's just so enjoyable.

I don't like Margaret Atwood, but then she's "that Canadian author", which tires me out.

(Margaret Lawrence is better, and v. Canadian with it.)

albosmum · 27/09/2005 21:10

or toast by i have forgotten his name

hermykne · 27/09/2005 21:10

you lucky thing is all i can say

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LOLcod · 27/09/2005 21:10

read small island
( sorry everyone)

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Nightynight · 27/09/2005 21:09

just take a nice jilly cooper dear

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LOLcod · 27/09/2005 21:09

went off kate atkinson when her sedcond book was crappy wasnt it
also like that book abotu fire - waht was that

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albosmum · 27/09/2005 21:09

try small island by andrea levy

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LOLcod · 27/09/2005 21:09

ben elton read

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NotQuiteCockney · 27/09/2005 21:09

Toast is kinda annoying. Not enough detail. (And I love Slater's recipes.)

hoxtonchick · 27/09/2005 21:09

notes on a scandal is good. easy to read. cloud atlas is very hard work...

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LOLcod · 27/09/2005 21:09

and toast

blubbed all through th at

lovely bones - dead kids again

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tassis · 27/09/2005 21:08

Have you read Kate Atkinson's Case History?

How about the Pact or My Sister's Keeper? Both by Jodi Picoult (they do involve dead children but are FANTASTIC)

lucy5 · 27/09/2005 21:08

Anything by Margret Atwood is good imo. This week ive read man and wife by Tony parsons, thoroughly enjoyed it, Inconcievable Ben Elton, didnt enjoy it. The testament John Grisham really enjoyed it. You can tell I buy all my books from the local market as they are so old.

I also like Rose Tremain and Wally Lamb. Ive also been reading alot of James Herbert recently.

I am now reading an Allan Carr book about giving up smoking.

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LOLcod · 27/09/2005 21:08

god I LOVED THAT GARFIELD
the y are telvising it
bored everyone shitless reading bits out

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NotQuiteCockney · 27/09/2005 21:08

Sebastian Faulks?

Or Cloud Atlas?

(NB: I haven't read Margaret Forster, and my attempts at Kate Atkinson have been unsuccessful.)

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LOLcod · 27/09/2005 21:07

am llooking ont eh dreade d r and j site
have read starte r for 10 VERY funny

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littlerach · 27/09/2005 21:07

Simon garfield(?)His book sounds like Forster.

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LOLcod · 27/09/2005 21:06

ooh i went off him a bit (sorry am i sounding picky)

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Nightynight · 27/09/2005 21:06

um some dead children in birds without wings too.

fairyfly · 27/09/2005 21:06

I quite like How to be good by nick hornby for easy reading entertainment. It's fun.

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LOLcod · 27/09/2005 21:04

read that
ther aare a lot of dead kids all around theplace

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