Anita Shreve - I know she's a bestseller 'n' all but I just don't get it.

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Just raed a couple - ran out of books on holiday and had to borrow. And what's the point of them? The research sticks out a mile and the storylines just seemed to peter out.

How about Labyrinth by Kate Mosse for another really mediocre book that everyone seems to have read? My mum recommended it to me. I took it on a 700-mile round trip and felt like I was wading through treacle. But then struggling with these top selling rubbish books is always made up for finding a gem of a book by chance such as Angela Carter the Magic Toyshop which I've just read. Wow!!!!

BBL - Wise children by Angela Carter as also fab, v different to the magic toyshop but just fabulous, one of my favourite books

Angela Carter rarely disappoints. My current reccomendation for a mammoth summer read is I am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe.

I'll have to look out for that one. I'd never read anything by her before and picked up Magic Toybox by chance in Waterstones and thought 'hmmm, give it a go'. There are soooo many books out there I want to read. DH thinks I have too many books already.

Another good Angela Carter is Nights at the Circus.

BBL - i'm with you on the Labyrinth. although it was lying around here after i'd given up on it and my mum picked it up and took it home. she claimed she'd enjoyed it
bet you've all read 'the time traveller's wife'
i liked that though

I loved the time traveller's wife! I read it just after I had my DS2 and it was just the thing I needed: pure escapism.

Totally agree, all that writing in the present tense made me so annoyed. You couldn't get in to the story, because you were just super aware of the writer's style the whole time.

I have only read one though tbh. THat was enough. It was about an 18 yr old who had a baby with a man of about 36 and she was made give the baby away. It was tortuous