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RW Book Group August 2004
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I've just lent it to my sister who has a daughter about the same age as the girl in the story. She sobbed throught the first chapter!!
We both enjoyed the book, although it's more to my sisters taste than mine (I prefer more blood and gore!!).
Will be back to discuss.
Have just started Straw Dogs by John Gray. Bit heavy going so wouldn't necessarily rush to recommend for Sept - however, it might be nice to do a non-fiction for a change?
Failing that, I'm temporarily banned from going into Waterstones and Ottakar's as I've got so many books still to read!
no bright ideas for a book for Sept.
Did wonder if we should do a category instead of a particular book. eg sporting/adventure biog.
Have read Touching the void(excellent), not about the bike (Excellent), Zatopek (definitely not excellent)in the last year or so - would be intersested to hear what people think of these or other books.
Might be bit hard for this type of thread, also there are occasional threads on these type of book.
Any views?
Straw Dogs is not to my taste.
If you enjoyed those you might also like Jon Krakauer Into the Wild.
Lindi
But, as I don't have anything to suggest, I can hardly complain!
"A murder was the start of his obsession. It was after that first crime that he knew he was a genius, that he understood his destiny. He, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, the fishmonger's bastard, was to be the greatest perfumier of all time. " - from Amazon.
It was in the BBC top 100 books.
I'm trying to read all 100 books - only 32 to go, but they include War and Peace and A Suitable Boy. Both far too long for my small brain. It has some excellent books in the list that I'd never have read otherwise.
I am a very slow reader (so I usually find typo errors) but finished it in a couple of days
I got totally engrossed in it & really thought it was a wonderful book - mustn't say anymore
Would Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaman be a possibility for next month's book? I know Terry Pratchett isn't everyone's thing but this isn't a Discworld novel and I think is a lot of fun.
Wolfy I work for a Libray Service and we require at least one peice of ID showing an address.
am happy to go with Terry P. Would make a nice change of pace