BOOKS!

[Count Überquart]

Spies, by Michael Frayn. So, so very boring... I've now read it twice... And - shockingly - it just gets more boring...

[Goblin King]

Jack Karouac's On The Road has made it's way into the bathroom. It's well suited for quick random chapter reading.

[Darkness]

Been looking at book called "Boys and Girls: A Ladybird Book of Childhood" - big full-colour hardback celebration of Ladybird books, many of which I had as a kid. Wouldn't ordinarily have bothered but it was on the freebie pile at work today and I came over all nostalgic so brought it home. Ah, the memories.

[Goblin King]

We used to get taken around the factory as school kids. It was a myth shattering experience (I dunno, maybe I expected a chocolate factory of something.) And it smelled of bananas!

Met a guy in tears in a pub a few years ago - the Loughborough factory was closing and the printing, binding and cropping machines were being sent away (one went to Italy I believe).
This person believed that they had had a job for life. Have you seen a Ladybirds eat aphids? - they suck their insides out ...
Okay, okay, I'll be quiet now...


I used to have a dressing grown with ladybird buttons. Bought from Woolworths I think.

[lollipop]

I've downloaded a widget on Yahoo! Widgets that is a ladybird that wanders around my screen.
It's very strange.

[Count Überquart]

A Short History of Nearly Everything...

Apparently, a palaentologist drove a rival palaentologist to suicide, and then wrote a VERY scathing obituary for him, stole all the credit for his discoveries, and made him out to be a terrible scientist.

Weren't people lovely?

[Goblin King]

Wow. That's fairly impressive - and I thought pally-thingy people liked buried things.

I've brought one of my Dune books with me to my mum's, I don't seem to have read much of that one for ages.

[Thrin]

I find the Dune books a very good sleep aid.

Still reading East of Eden, it's rather good! Makes the commute to and from work bearable anyway.

[Goblin King]

Yup, they're terrible books to read if your concentration isn't too good like late at night.

You were waiting for it to get good. I'm glad is has.

[Darkness]

Am looking forward to film version of Northern Lights coming out soon-ish. Only they've called it The Golden Compass, cos that's what they published the book as in America. I want to read all 3 Dark Materials books again, at some point, so much happens in them, LOADS to take in.

[Count Überquart]

^ I found Northern Lights to be the kind of book you could finish, and then start again from the beginning without even putting it down.

I never got through The Amber Spyglass.

[Darkness]

I loved Northern Lights and also loved The Subtle Knife, but did find The Amber Spyglass a bit slower... I got a bit lost in all that stuff about the woman living with the weird plant/tree/creatures (sorry, can't quite remember exactly what they were, lol). Anyway, I thought it all went a bit adrift around there. I got back into it though when Lyra was in the place of the dead, and then I remember the end few chapters were really good, but so much happened and it's all a confused mess in my head now, lol.

[lollipop]

I want to read them again.

It's weird how they change book titles in America, isn't it? (Thinking too of the Sorceror's Stone)

[someone]

I'm reading 'A Kiss Of Shadows' by Laurell K Hamilton. Kiri let me borrow it... i now have to read the whole series.

[Count Überquart]

I've given up on A Short History of Nearly Everything (too taxing) and instead am re-reading Series of Unfortunate Events.

Not as good as I remember (I was 12 when I last looked at them...)

[Darkness]

I liked the Lemony Snicketts I read - although I only read the first 4 then gave them a break and never went back to them. I did find them a bit repetitive, but I like the kind of twisted fairy-tale like thing they have going on. I also like the weirdness and darkness of the illustrations and the dedications to dead "Beatrice", lol. I haven't watched the film, cos I was worried it wouldn't be as dark or twisted as the books themselves and that it would spoil my memories of the books...

[lollipop]

I got up to about number 11 or 12, never finished them. Should get round to it sometime.

I also have "Letters to Beatrice" which I haven't read yet, but I think I left it back home.

[Count Überquart]

Lolli, I read up to 11 and then ran out of money, and I only just found out that there are only 13!

I loved the references to Beatrice, and the occasional letters he would write in the middle of chapters. I love the style, but once you've read it, I think you've read it...

And 13 was a bit of a disappointment...

[lollipop]

Yeah, I did get a bit fed up with the "[phrase] usually means ___ but here it means ___ " kind of thing - the humour wore a bit thin. I think my brother or sister probably has the twelfth/thirteenth ones - maybe I should go home and steal them!

Oh my God, that's just reminded me, I never read the last Artemis Fowl either! And they were awesome! GOT to read that. No spoilers!

[Count Überquart]

Eep!

I only ever read the first. I really want to read the rest of them!

[Goblin King]

History of the Pelopenesian War - I can't spell the author. Greek guy, from ages ago, probably dead.
(just reading bits at random really)

[someone]

A Caress of Twilight.

[Darkness]

Hey Squiggle, if you're into Laurel K Hamilton, she has a new one out in November - think it's called "A Lick of Frost".

I am now coveting a book due out next week - "The Journal of Dora Damage" by Belinda Starling -

www.amazon.co.uk/Journal-Dora-Damage-Belinda-Starling/dp/0747585229/ref=sr_1_1/203-6303227-2659927?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193779464&sr=1-1

[someone]

i saw a book the other day that i want... but now cant remember the title of... but i have to wait til its out in paperback... gr.

[Count Überquart]

A Caress of Twilight? A Lick of Frost?

Both of those things sound like they're either an uncomfortable illness, or something you'd inly do with someone you know very well...

[Darkness]

LOL. I agree, the titles sound a bit dodgey. I haven't read any of them but they sell incredibly well. *has bookseller's hat on*. She certainly has her fans. Her fans also tend to like Kelley Armstrong. Vampire/horror/adventure/saga type things.

[Goblin King]

clojio said:

A Caress of Twilight? A Lick of Frost?

Both of those things sound like they're either an uncomfortable illness, or something you'd inly do with someone you know very well...

very good!

[someone]

erm... go along the lines of 'something you'd only do with someone you knew very well' and you're on the right track...

so did not realise the new anthony horrowitz came out today (or was it just this week?) and now to wait for the paperback...

[Darkness]

"Snakehead" (new Anthony Horowitz) was out today. As was new Kate Mosse (NOT the model) - "Sepulchre" (she of "Labyrinth" fame, from a couple of years ago).

[♥ Love Stoned ♥]

Oooh has any one read the secret history by Donna Tartt?? I want to marry henry. He is so gorgeous! I wish he hadn't said he loved Camilla I have to ignore that bit- i don't like seeing the softer side of his character

And a series of unfortunate events were amazing at first... then i read them as they came out and they got worse... that may be the repetitiveness or the fact i was older lol