what are you reading?

spinlizard · Post by **spinlizard** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 10:24 pm 0

Valley of Horses by Jean Auel.

I read Clan of the Cave Bear after seeing it on the BBC top 100 books poll and loved it. Great story, vivid, gritty. VoH is the follow up and is, so far (100 pages in) an awful descent into the perfumed gash of Mills n Boon. Shame.

benedictw · Post by **benedictw** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 10:34 pm 0

spinlizard wrote:Valley of Horses by Jean Auel.

I read Clan of the Cave Bear after seeing it on the BBC top 100 books poll and loved it. Great story, vivid, gritty. VoH is the follow up and is, so far (100 pages in) an awful descent into the perfumed gash of Mills n Boon. Shame.

The series gets worse. My dad loved the series but by the times 'plains of passage' came out he was slating it, calling it 'plains of passion'.

spinlizard · Post by **spinlizard** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 11:13 pm 0

benedictw wrote:
spinlizard wrote:Valley of Horses by Jean Auel.

I read Clan of the Cave Bear after seeing it on the BBC top 100 books poll and loved it. Great story, vivid, gritty. VoH is the follow up and is, so far (100 pages in) an awful descent into the perfumed gash of Mills n Boon. Shame.
The series gets worse. My dad loved the series but by the times 'plains of passage' came out he was slating it, calling it 'plains of passion'.

I can believe it mate. The first book was great. The first 100 pages of this have been a proper let down.

Post by **RiK** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 11:42 am 0

Currently reading "The secret history of the world by Jonathan Black
and "The science of getting rich" by Wallace D Wattles

VNVObit · Post by **VNVObit** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 12:21 pm 0

Just finished Terry Pratchett's Making Money
funny and enjoyable but not as good as going postal although loved

Spoiler: show

Currently on book 4 of the Horus Heresy -slow start but now I am over halfway through it and it is picking up a bit

Spoiler: show

SimonB · Post by **SimonB** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 7:39 pm 0

I agree the later Auel books do get a bit slushy at times, but I still enjoyed them.

Current book: Andrew Roden - Flying Scotsman (yes, about the loco).

In the phone: Todd McCaffrey - Dragonsblood.

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 8:28 pm 0

SimonB wrote:In the phone: Todd McCaffrey - Dragonsblood.

I'd leave it there to be honest.

SimonB · Post by **SimonB** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 9:04 pm 0

I'm gritting my teeth and doing the whole series.

F-ZeroOne · Post by **F-ZeroOne** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 9:35 pm 0

A Nuclear Family Vacation, which is about a pair of journalists who decide to visit various nuke-related sites around the world. For their holidays.

Orava · Post by **Orava** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 11:06 pm 0

A handful of Honey by Annie Hawes and The Gallic Wars by Julius Caesar.

And still struggling with the latest Disc World, since Christmas - puts me to sleep after a couple of pages.

techno12 · Post by **techno12** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 11:29 pm 0

Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure...

Read it in 1 day last week when bored in Ibiza! Very funny. Just watched his stage show of the same, they accompany each other very well. Now to find my own Googlewhack

SimonB · Post by **SimonB** » Sun Jul 06, 2008 1:43 pm 0

Now moved on to Ian Fleming - Diamonds Are Forever (Paper) and Anne & Todd McCaffrey - Dragon's Fire (Audio).

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 10:51 pm 0

This week I've read Probability Moon, Probability sun and Probabilty Space by Nancy Kress and now I've moved onto to an anthology of her short stories called Nano Comes To Cifford Falls.

shock combo · Post by **shock combo** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 10:55 pm 0

Welcome to the NHK (manga) vol. 2

benedictw · Post by **benedictw** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 11:07 pm 0

Just finished Reynolds' Revelation Space series (again).

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