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?

they had The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets a while back I found that in a holiday cottage and couldn't read past the 3rd page

The Testament of Gideon Mack is good tho

I have another book to read The meaning of Night by Michael Cox hopefully that will be better...it looks better anywya it doesn't have a sticker on from richard and judy

I got "the girls" , from the Richard & Judy stable, out of the library during my post-partum dementia. Even with the reduction in braincells caused by extreme sleep deprivation, it was still rather duff indeed. Think that was the only R&J one I've tried.

yes well I picked this upm in the immediate days of dp leaving me and have just got to grips now with reading..clearly my judgement was awry completely

I can send you a damn good reading list I work for a literature festival

And I look nothing like Judy Finnegan

additional problem..I am wrapped in a towel and my clothes are in the utility room in the tumble drier which is through the kitchen which is in full sight of the builders next door on the scaffold...do I dash through or do i have to find some other clothes to put on to go and get the clothes i need to wear to the gym

oh yes please cappuccino

I found it pants. Glad I'm not the only one!

expat did you make yourself read it? i hate starting and not finishing books..though in the case I think the query might just be academic as i probably couldn't read this even drinking a bottle of wine and

No. I effing hate titles and all that Edwardian load of tosh. So whilst I started giving it an honest read, about half way through I sort of gave up and skipped about till I muddled through it.

Joseph O'Connor's 'Star of the Sea' much better.

most books recommended by these 'clubs' I stay away from!!

Can I just second 'Star of the Sea'. I bought it and actually put it to one side for 18 months, because I couldn't believe it would actually be any good (don't know why I bought it really). But it was truly engrossing and that cliche of unputdownable.

I quite enjoyed William Boyd's 'Restless' but I would buy his stuff anyway.

I thought the R&J book club was a noble and great idea when it first started but, from what I've read and read about, the choice of books is now less far-reaching and too must-appeal-to-the-mass-market as opposed to just being a good read.

I bought someone star of the sea as a present i think it is in the house somewhere unread..maybe I shall look for it

I thought the R&J thing was bringing proper books to those who wouldn't normally read them..but it does seem airport fodder then

I should have guessed that edwardian twaddle would be just that

Don't be so hard on yourself, zippi, I got suckered in, too.

That entire 'era' is best left alone to become the disgraceful and disgusting relic of the past it is.

I'm ashamed to admit it, but I purchased this book in . . . Tesco

exactly I bought it in tesco too..was probably the only which wasn't about an abusive chidlhood remembered in a creative writing class and pushed to the top of the best seller list

and I bought it as a treat because dp left me...talk about the balance of my mind being disturbed

expat when are you moving out of reach of tescos?

I bought it because I really wanted a magazine, but then felt guilty because a whole book was only about 50p more.

At least the mag would have been fun to look at.

27 September, zippi.

Thankfully, the one good thing about it is that I won't be tempted to impulse buy shite books .

how exciting

I gave the book to Bernardo's.

Although I feel sorry for the sucker who buys it.

At least, hopefully some good will come to Bernardo's out of it.

Tis crud and no mistake. Grace's interpretation of what the other characters are thinking/doing/saying is priceless, given that she is supposed to be a village oik.

This is what comes of taking ds to the library and expecting him to wait for more than 5 seconds while "mummy chooses a book for mummy to read"....

no one has rushed to defend said book