Absolutely Unputdownable Books Part 2

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Hope nobody minds me setting up a new thread - other one very long.

Come on ladies - give me your ideas

i liked the latest maggie o'farrell. not as much as after you'd gone, but much better than her second one.

madame bovary - flaubert
tender is the night - f.scott fitzgerald
bitch - elizabeth wurtzel
story of my life - jay mcinerney
fear of flying - erica jong
experience - martin amis
lucky jim - kingsley amis
anything by graham greene, nabokov, saul bellow...

These all sound very sensible books so i am probably completely out of place, but i love anything by Sophie Kinsella. If you want a light hearted, funny read then i think she is fantastic!

Got quite a few that I like - currently re-reading "The Magic Cottage" by James Herbert - for about the eighth time. Not sure why, but I really love it. Also by james Herbert "ONCE" (do we notice a recurring theme here?)

Also like Dean Koontz's - "False Memory" - but that's probably because I did my degree dissertation on the False Memory movement

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Me too - not too sure about his early stuff though (Rats, etc - too gory for me)

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mmmmm - that is definatelt a nice idea!!!

marina, only 50 pages in, so i'll let you know. it does seem a little dry atm, but don't know much about american history, so feel i am educating myself at least

Oooh Perfume!! I'd forgotten that... Great book, a little twisted, but great!!!

I like Jame Sherbert too! Good reads, scary, not too taxing on the old brain...

exactly sansouci!!!!

Hi joash... different thread but loved your comment about sniffing dh. Clean shirts but slightly scented with dh's smell and a bit of office mixed in when he comes home from work. Heaven!

Re good books: I'm slightly concerned about people who enjoy War & Peace... I'm sure it's a fantastic book but my brain is mostly dead these days. It wants to be distracted & entertained. I want well-written rubbish, I guess. Maybe an old Stephen King like The Shining or Susan Howatch or Rosie Thomas or Sue Gee or Robert Ludlum, etc.

I know exactly what you mean by well-written rubbish sansouci. I also like good thrillers, preferably about serial killers (perhaps I need my head looking at) and I do generally prefer female authors - not sure why, but the do seem to be better writers in this particular genre.

Lol @ well written rubbish!!!

I think that most parents NEED those a lot of the time!!! They are much easier to get into, so in the short space of time we have to read, we can enjoy it.

They normally don't stick in your head (most Tess Gerritsen ones I loved, but couldn't begin to tell you the titles, or even who dunnit, after about a week of reading it!!!).

I've just been able to put down "Love" by Toni Morrison, but only because I had finished it.

And I 've recently discovered Edna O'brien, her novels and short stories are compelling yet mundane, I love her

Couldn't get past the first few pages of Cormac Macarthy's "All the Pretty Horses" just felt the style was too contrived

Looking forward to getting in to Ishgiru's latest one "Never let me go", have been unable to put down all his others

Probably the best book I have ever read was

Dean Koontz - False Memory.

It's a huge book but I read it in about 3 days, I literally could not put it down...Fantastic!!!

Absolutely anything by Minette Walters. Initially thought it looked like quite tame/easy holiday reading, but she is gripping...

I read anything by Martina Cole, very gripping and entertaining. Bit samey but if you want an easy, hard to put down read, these are your books!

for non fiction, A Million Little Pieces by James Frey i thought was excellent. About how he went into rehab at the age of 23 and near death, addicted to virually everything, and how he fought to get sober. Not jolly but a v good read.

The Promise of Happiness, also Pride & Prejudice still does it for me every few years.

Revenge by Stephen Fry

he is so "crisp"