Recommendations again

[papayahed]

It's been months since I asked so here goes:

Recommendations please? I want to read something easy, something engrossing and maybe even fun. Maybe even chick lit.

(Please nothing with a message or symbolism and definately no classics)

[Scheherazade]

Atonement? - I didn't like it to be honest but would like to hear your view too since I am in minority in my dislike of this book.

Birdsong - Has its shortcomings but it is mostly a good book (posted a review if you would like to check it out).

Behind the Scene at the Museum - A book for girls but not chick lit (again there is a review somewhere).

I will be reading The Secret History, The Historian, The Other Boleyn Girl and/or Chocolat during next month. If you are interested in any of those, we can read them together as well! :)

Actually, let me check my *list* and see what I will be reading these days as well as the books I have already read this year!

:D :banana: :D :banana: :D

I am reading The Shell Seekers at the moment but it is a little Jackie Collinsesque.

[johann cruyff]

I hear this book called Ulysses isn't too much :D

[Niamh]

Try a book called Utterly Monkey by Nick Laird. Its an amusing read. nothing serious. Or maybe No.1 Ladies Detective Agency books by Alexander MacCall Smith. very like enjoyable series.
would you read some kids books?

[Nossa]

Erm...the first thing that comes to mind is Isabel Wolff. Her books are fun to read and they don't have anything complicated. I suggest Rescuing Rose, it's my favorite :D

[Virgil]

I think last year I offered The Maltese Falcon. Not sure if you took me up on it. It's really a great read by a writer who is a fine craftsman, Dashiell Hammett. It's not literary in any way, other than good writing. I wish I could write like Hammett. Perhaps if I get trhough some of my reading list I'll take up something else by Hammett this summer.

[patrickbeverley]

They're a bit blokish perhaps, but Christopher Brookmyre's thrillers are a good, light read without patronising the reader. The Sacred Art of Stealing is probably his best.

[papayahed]

Atonement? - I didn't like it to be honest but would like to hear your view too since I am in minority in my dislike of this book.

Birdsong - Has its shortcomings but it is mostly a good book (posted a review if you would like to check it out).

Behind the Scene at the Museum - A book for girls but not chick lit (again there is a review somewhere).

I will be reading The Secret History, The Historian, The Other Boleyn Girl and/or Chocolat during next month. If you are interested in any of those, we can read them together as well! :)

Actually, let me check my *list* and see what I will be reading these days as well as the books I have already read this year!

:D :banana: :D :banana: :D

I am reading The Shell Seekers at the moment but it is a little Jackie Collinsesque.

Atonement???? That doesn't look very fun, it looks the opposite of fun!!!

Birdsong - Same thing!! doesn't look fun.

The museum one looks good.


Try a book called Utterly Monkey by Nick Laird. Its an amusing read. nothing serious. Or maybe No.1 Ladies Detective Agency books by Alexander MacCall Smith. very like enjoyable series.
would you read some kids books?

Both those look pretty good, I always see those No. 1 Ladies Detective agency books. I would read childrens books.


Erm...the first thing that comes to mind is Isabel Wolff. Her books are fun to read and they don't have anything complicated. I suggest Rescuing Rose, it's my favorite :D

That looks good too.


I think last year I offered The Maltese Falcon. Not sure if you took me up on it. It's really a great read by a writer who is a fine craftsman, Dashiell Hammett. It's not literary in any way, other than good writing. I wish I could write like Hammett. Perhaps if I get trhough some of my reading list I'll take up something else by Hammett this summer.

I liked The thin Man by Hammet so I started The Maltese Falcon but it didn't grab me.


They're a bit blokish perhaps, but Christopher Brookmyre's thrillers are a good, light read without patronising the reader. The Sacred Art of Stealing is probably his best.


Looks interesting but I'm not crazy about the accent thing. I couldn't read Trainspotting becaue of it.

I'll see what they have at the library tomorrow.

[Niamh]

Utterly monkey is a bit of a laugh. :nod:
kids books recommendations;
Faerie Wars (and the other faeries Wars books) by Herbie Brennan. They are really funny. :D
The Fourth Horseman by Kate Thompson is real good too.
And then there is Sabriel, Lirael, and Abhorsen by Garth Nix. :)

might go reread Faerie Wars myself now......

[Scheherazade]

Recommendations please? I want to read something easy, something engrossing and maybe even fun. Hey, you said "...maybe even fun"; I was aiming for the other part of the "maybe".

Museum is a little on the depressing side too, in that case.

Hmmm... How about The Boy in Striped Pyjamas then?

:p

Have you read The Diary of a Nobody? It is very similar to Three Men.

[Niamh]

Museum is a little on the depressing side too, in that case.

Hmmm... How about The Boy in Striped Pyjamas then?

:p


And thats not depressing?;) great book all the same. I'd also recommend it. :nod:

[kilted exile]

Lunar Park

[Kafka's Crow]

Try this: My recommendation. Loads of fun, giggles, laughter and absolutely no symbolism, honest! (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Cat-Hat-Seuss-Birthday/dp/0007247885/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1216602588&sr=8-2)

[Niamh]

Try this: My recommendation. Loads of fun, giggles, laughter and absolutely no symbolism, honest! (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Cat-Hat-Seuss-Birthday/dp/0007247885/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1216602588&sr=8-2)

:lol: sweeeeet!!!

[papayahed]

Lunar Park


It does look engrossing...


Try this: My recommendation. Loads of fun, giggles, laughter and absolutely no symbolism, honest! (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Cat-Hat-Seuss-Birthday/dp/0007247885/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1216602588&sr=8-2)

Looks like fun!!

[Scheherazade]

Papaya> Please do read Chocolat if you have the time. Just finished it and it is a fun page turner.

[PabloQ]

Absolute mind candy, but fun. Sick Puppy by Carl Hiasson. Not literature by any stretch of the imagination. Bit of an anti-littering, environmental message, but an absoute scream. Laugh out loud funny.

[downing]

jerome k. jerome - three in a boat/three on a bummel (there are 2 books); i laughed till i cried :lol:

[thelastmelon]

It's been months since I asked so here goes:

Recommendations please? I want to read something easy, something engrossing and maybe even fun. Maybe even chick lit.

(Please nothing with a message or symbolism and definately no classics)

Most books by Alexander McCall Smith (No.1 Ladies Detective Agency) and Joanne Harris (Chocolat, Coastliners, Holy Fools) might be what you are looking for. :) And if you want chick lit then go for Fourplay by Jane Moore, or maybe One Hit Wonder by Lisa Jewell.