The hiuse at riverton....this is a pile of crap isn't it...and are all richard and judy reads awful?

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...bouhgt it in tesco as i wanted to read something and a few pages in it is not my kind of book at all, can't stand the faux way it is written and just seems a horrible big house illiterate cliche...does it get any better or should i just bin it?

and are all books with richard and judy recommends on rubbish?

I liked the memory keepers daughter.

so it's enid blyton for women isit...what possessed me to buy it?

supermarkets shouldn't be allowed to sell books

a flavour for those who haven't read it..

now let me think...master david was out having riding instruction. that's what started it all. miss hannah were none too happy to have been left out, so she bundled up miss emmeline and gave nanny brown the slip....

oh yes nancy said matter-of-factly, polishing fiercely.

I am going to have to double wrap it and take it to the tip buried in an old blanket

probably written abput hugh's great grandparents fio so not too wrong

ROFL @ your extract.

I bet there will be another scandal and we will discover they are getting kickbacks from publishers (note to legal dept: this is pure speculation, I have no evidence for it whatsoever, other than the fact that the books are shit).

so richard and judy recommends is

the same as zippi recommends book burning

I should have guessed this as i don't read heat or closer watch big brother or richard and judy

Not all the R&J recommended books are crap, although seeing the R&J sticker certainly wouldn't encourage me to buy one. I've just finished The Savage Garden which I enjoyed. I didn't know it was a R&J until I bought it and saw the sticker.

I'm pretty sure they don't choose the books themselves. I don't think either of them have the concentration span needed to actually read a whole book, let alone a collection of books.

I thought it might be a light read rather than total trash

I just read atonement which I class as a light read

LOLOL Fio, not a fan of HFW either then? I think we all know what happens to fancy Lunnoners if they try smallholding in less chichi parts of rural England
I am not convinced by the R & J thing either, but it has boosted the sale of books in general in the UK, and the publishing industry at least thinks they are demigods. They are fuelling book groups and people talking more about what they are reading, which is good - especially if children are seeing their parents (OK, probably mothers) reading for pleasure.

Agree that book sounds dire though zippi.
Like Bran, am quite enjoying The Savage Garden, although we have reached a smouldering Italian bosom interlude (yawn)

well i had become aware that they were supposedly doing good stuff promoting reading and thought they were promoting proper books

One can always live in hope zippi. I have a sneaking suspicion that there is an unhealthy number of Harper Perennial titles on their list but have never followed that up by counting and checking

what are harp[er perennials..a sort of book equivalent of werthers originals?

I don't watch R&J but 3 books I have enjoyed recently have had their stickers on front.

The Historian
The Labyrinth
The Time Traveller's WIfe.

The book you're reading sounds crud though.

I think I am in a sullen and disagreeable frame of mind as they probably would say in riverton house

Harper Perennial is a BIG publishing conglomerate - so yes, Werthers just about sums it up. Paperbacks as units to be placed at checkouts and shifted in bulk

LOL - is there no possibility of taking a walk today then?

I am going to the gym and swimming and getting back for the builder who claims to be coming to lay a brick at noon which should occupy him until tea time with a few hours off in between

It's caca, that book. I read 2 pages & dropped it in disgust. Now reading Memory Keeper's Daughter, which I had my doubts about before I started reading, & am completely hooked.