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

[LOLcod]

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

dh is canadian!

Margaret Attwood is * overrated

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.

I'm Canadian, Cod.

If you want CanCon, I can recommend some really lovely Canadian authors, W.P. Kinsella is really really great, but I'd avoid the baseball books, unless you can stand baseball, and stick to the Native books. Very funny, very sweet, very well-written.

I really did try with Cloud Atlas got no where - everyone else who I know has loved it

Case Histories is really good, give Kate another try?

latest Kate atkinson 'case histories' is worth a read, and i really enjoyed 'the catalpa tree' by Denyse Devlin, very well written. Latest Tony Parsons is ok too..

hilary mantel is great (worked with her BIl for a while)

loved toast

i really liked david mitchell's other books nqc so was disappointed to not like CA.

how about transmission by hari kunzru cod? well written, good plot. a very little's set in india though....

I do like The Edible Woman, by Atwood.

I hate hate hate that stupid SF book she wrote, but I always hate it when mainstream authors try to write SF. Nearly always, I guess, as Cloud Atlas is SF-y.

,ma try kate
NOpe to india
cant geta handle ont he names

agree with Small Island, Case Histories.

althoguh LOVEd far pavilions ihtink

I've just read Good Behaviour by Molly Keane and really enjoyed it, but it's been around for a while so you've probably read it.

richard and judya re no good
have read most of hteir offerings

Harry Potter

is it chick lit?
cant stand that.. my siter has ne reading " good news bad news " its crap!

she also recommends the 110 mintues or whatever abotut he twin towers

i thought the sixth lamentation (obscure R & J book that noone seems to have read!!) was very good.

What about Anita and Me by Meera Syal, or 'Life isn't all ha ha hee hee' (also by Meera Syal).
Very readable, and very enjoyable.
I also enjoy Kate Atkinsson, I have CLoud Atlas sitting on the shelf, but haven't got round to reading it yet - maybe when I start commuting again when I go back to work after maternity leave I will be able to fit it in.

There was one in the Booker short list last year about drunks. It was sortof enjoyable. Something about early in the morning ...

Oh The Master wasn't bad. All about Henry James, nicely written. I don't care about Henry James, but still enjoyed it ok.

Oh! Read "We Have to Talk about Kevin"!

It does have dead kids (lots) but on the sidelines. It's very biting and funny, sortof.

I saw a boigraphy the other day about a woman who bought a houdeon london, then researched it's previous inhabitants. Lookes quite Forster ish. But I can't remember the name ot author.

or oranges are not the only fruit by jeanette winterson - semi-auto biog about a lesbian girl growing up with a very erm eccentric methodist mum

A HOUSE in London!

no here the twin towers bok here

liekd oranges years ago
it was good on tv wasnt it

julie myerson, littlerach?