holiday reads

[hitchcock]

any good books that you would suggest reading on holiday/long flight

Any way that you want me by Lucy Diamond

ew whats it about???

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, about a boy growing up in Afghanistan, tad sad near the end but a cracking story

is it a true story

The Kite Runner is v. good.
Any way that you want me is chick lit (s'cuse the terminology) and was described in the observer as Briget Jones all grown up with children (though it's not written in that email style). It's about a mother of two who tells a few wee lies about her life and where they lead her and the consequences.

I don't think the kite runner is a true story. Maybe it's because the author is did flee his country but as far as I'm aware that's the only autobiographical part.

The kite runner is'nt a true story but I think it is based on the authors experiance. I found it un-put downable.

any one else ???? need about 5 bks going for a month

OK. So here's my must-read holiday list.

A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

Under the Skin by Michel Faber

A Passage to India by E M Forster

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen.

now that's interesting?????

Small Island by Andrea Levy
The Glassblowers by Daphne Du Maurier (she is fab!)
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

You might switch Rebecca for Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler, depending on whether you want an English or American story.

The Smiley is unputdownable - really, the best. The movie of it is a total bum steer. The Michel Faber is startling, original, brilliant story that will have you in tears by the end - it's about a woman who picks up hitch hikers on the A3 in the Highlands. The Forster is classy - so wise about the English people. Rebecca - a love story packed with twists and turns, even better than Hitchcock's version imho. The Corrections has been drooled over in other parts of this topic area so I won't go on, just to say that I laughed and cried during it more than any other novel and finished it in Newark airport over endless refills of coffee.

Ladder of Years: woman with teenage kids and nice husband goes to buy an ice cream while on a family holiday and keeps walking down the beach and walks and walks away from it all to set up a new life.

Yes - you must take "The Kite Runner" which is the best book I've read in about the last ten years (and I read A LOT!). But you'll need something feel-good to follow it - "The Five People You Meet In Heaven" is sweet - or "This Book Will Change Your Life" or a Bill Bryson if you don't mind non-fiction.

I'd also be tempted to take a classic that you've already read and loved, in order to love it again. My money is always on Miss Austen, of course, but "Rebecca" is worth a read, or maybe "The Handmaid's Tale"?

A bit fat fantasy book would be my other book of choice - a Stephen King or even a children's fantasy - "The Tales Of The Otori" by Leanne Hearne are stunners.

the handmaids tale NOW you are talking....loved the book and the film...

what a couple of bks to veg with and and a couple gritty ones love crime bks

crime:-
Phoenix by John Connor
Mr Clarinet by Nick Stone (fab evocation of Haiti, actual ending bit of a let down)
The Halo Effect by M R Rose (trashy but fun)
Grave Tattoo by Val McDermid
The Sculptor by Minette Walters
Any of the Garnethill trilogy by Denise Mina

non-fic quite easy reads
Freakonomics
Call of the Weird by Louis Theroux

I don't really "do" crime but I recently really enjoyed this:
www.amazon.co.uk/Dissolution-C-J-Sansom/dp/0330411969

The Sherlock Holmes stories might be good to vege with?

This is meant to be good too, although I haven't read it:
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product//0755331427/202-3501903-9445467?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-6&pf_rd_r=01YWXW6ANPFRD7PA670Q&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=114511291&pf_rd_i=62

Arggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh - why can't I do links?!!!

anyone else??? some really good ideas