Easy reading - my brain is mush

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Suggestions please? i like:
stephen king
not much chick lit
nancy mitford
elmore leonard
the secret history
armistead maupin

i want books to inhale - they need not have much literary worth. i recently read the free jane green book in under a day whilst thinking 'this is shit, why am i reading it?'

Ikwym but I think W&G is the hardest one to read, after that there's still sad parts but not as heartwrenching.

Just read Pillars of the Earth and now reading World Without End by Ken Follett. Writing is awful but very readable - page turner just no literary merit - and the research is great for creating lusty medieval period.

Tilly - I think you are right re: Wizard And Glass. I find that one a bit of a slog - I prefer the ones with Jake, Eddie and Susannah in.

I'm probably just jealous of Susan getting to snog Roland a lot though! :)

BG , I love W&G, especially Cuthbert!! I do wish SK had written more about what happened to Roland's friends, iirc he never really went into detail

staines, if crime fiction with laughs appeals to you, check out Malcolm Pryce's books, too - they're Raymond Chandler set in Aberystwyth, basically! He has a lot of fun playing off the Welsh setting against the hard-boiled film noir style. It's very silly but funny, and if you like Elmore Leonard (me too), I suspect you might warm to this. Afaik there are 4 in the series now, starting with 'Aberystwyth Mon Amour'.

I second Miss Pettigrew. Lovely book.

Also American literature - William Maxwell (Time Will Darken It), Joyce Carol Oates, John O'Hara (A Rage To Live).

Lindsay Davis' Falco books are very unserious, historical crime fiction. They are brilliant and really easy to read.

I didn't get on with Lindsay Davis at all.

CJ Sansom v good (although the latter ones are huge). Frank Tallis' Vienna ones are okay too.

reading ?? you got too much time on your hands

everyone has already said the ones i like

Not too keen on the shopahollic books but Undomesticated Godess & Remember me were excellent. Anything by Cecelia Ahern is unput downable (is that a word) too

I second pillars of the earth. Such a page turner and massive so keeps you going for ages. I don't like many of ken follett's other books though.
Have you read elizabeth Jane howards cazalet books? They were the easy going read of choice on the dec 08 postnatal thread (from where you abandoned us don't think I don't remember! )
also the help was a read in one sitting kind of book very very readable

Second CJ Sansom (and seemingly anything suggested by BelligerantGhoul )

Isabel Allende wrote a series of books, first one is City of the Beasts. It might be more of a YA book, but I really liked it

Just lost 2 weeks of my life reading the Sookie Stackhouse books by Charlaine Harris.

Twas marvelous.

Marking place for future reference :)

PD James is always excellent but not difficult, iyswim.

Have just devoured Michelle Paver's Dark Matter

Unbelievably good ghost story set in the arctic

What about the Patricia Cornwell Scarpetta books?

Ed McBain, straight up police procedurals with huge easy swathes written in simply the best dialogue.

Patrick O'Brien, twenty "Master and Commander" novels. Some find the descriptions of the sailing a bit tricky, but if you happen to be comfortable with ropes and sails, or are happy to skip over them then it's two friends (Captain Jack Aubrey and ship's surgeon/spy/naturalist Stephen Maturin) for life. Jam packed with incident and not short on humour.

Oh, Yes, C.J. Sansom. The Shardlake books are brilliant.

If you like fantasy, Raymond Fiest is really good, as is Robin Hobb, particularly the Farseer books. Also, J.V. Jones, her Baker's Boy books are awesome and the Watcher of the Dead books are a good, not to deep, read.

Adult fiction is definitely the best area of mn!

for crime fiction, I really enjoyed Susan Hill's Serrailler series

If you like crime / thrillers I would recommend all the Mo Hayder books - Birdman was the first one! Also, Mark Billingham, Tess Gerritsen and all the Stieg Larsson ones (although you've probably read those already!)

just ordered aberystwyth mon amour - think i have enough recommendations for 2011 here.

summer lightning, stop shaming me! i'm just too lazy for the post natal threads, all those names to remember. i can barely remember the names of the ds's!