tell me a book you where you said "wow, that was blankety, blank amazing!

[christie1]

I am in a dry spell, been filling it with some solid mysterys interspersed with Dr. Zhivago, but I am craving a reall good read where I fall in love with the book. Help me please! I read anything from chick lit to classics but find everything I pick up, bores me.

I have just discovered Marian Keyes, and read nearly all her books in 3 weeks. Marketed as chicklit, but serious/optimistic/funny, they are great books.

am also a Georgette Heyer fan.

to answer the original question: the books of 2006 for me, were 3 Orhan Pamuks:
Snow, My Name Is Red, and The Black Book.

Black Book has just been re-released in a different translation, it is far better. I couldnt get into the first translation, it was terrible, but the new one is haunting.

Stayed up until 1am last night finishing We Need to Talk about Kevin, which was absolutely riveting. Couldnt say that I 'enjoyed' it exactly, but probably one of the most thought provoking reads of the last couple of years. For chicklit, I like Phillipa Gregory as I can convince I'm reading it for the historical detail.

I agree, multitasker. I've seen some of the original manuscript in the British Library.

Incredible.

That she could conceive of such an idea and write it as she did.

She (Bronte) must have really, really loved Rochester.

Pretty much blows a lot of hte modern stuff out of the water, IMO.

multitasker, try Persuasion. [salivates at the thought of reading it for the first time again]

I'm not up to much beyond genre fiction atm, so within that: A Town Like Alice by Nevile Shute, Dead Cert by Dick Francis, A Civil Contract by Georgette Heyer.

And Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons. The slightly odd sensation of a satire that has outlived what it satirises. but who could not love it.
'There were few times that Mr Mybug was not reminded of a pair of breasts by the hills...'