2 new names to me - cheers TTM - will check both out :o)                                                                                                                                                                             

...or just checkout anything posted on "this day in history"...should keep u busy/entertained 4 a bit...                                                                                                                                                                             

Um... yeah... right XK                                                                                                                                                                             

Ok guys n gals, have had to trawl through the archives n give this thread a BUMP................................   Getting dangerously close to running out of reading material again.......not good..............noticed we've got some new faces around, so thought i'd give it a shot..................what you got then peeps?:o)                                                                                                                                                                             

Hey Arf,don't know if scottish historical novels are of interest to you but can recommend DK Broster,jacobite rebellion era is his speciality.   Personally love a good horror,anything by james herbert,stephen king or dean r koontz will float my boat.Not blood n guts horror and most have a good twist in the tale.                                                                                                                                                                             

Cheers cassie.............DK Broster duly noted:o)..............                                                                                                                                                                             

If you like historical(ish) try George MacDonald Fraser - The Flashman novels are great fun. The history is accurate apart from the insertion of Flashman into everything from the Schleswig Holstein problem, Charge Of The Light Brigade,Indian Mutiny,Boxer Rebellion, Little Big Horn etc etc. If you hated Tom Brown you will love Flashys career

If horror's your thing Cassie, then have you tried anything by my old classmate at school Clive Barker?
Now there's a seriously disturbed guy...                                                                                                                                                                             

i like stephen king ,bag of bones my favourite,ben elton quite good too especially high society,if you liked the davinci code you will probably like the genesis code by john case,was out long befor the davinci code and if it had had the same publicity it probably would have been more contaversial,was dissapointed it didn`t mention phil collins though lol

Cheers for that Wills,sounds like just my kinda guy!                                                                                                                                                                             

Cheers prof................George Macdonald Fraser duly noted:o).........................keep em coming folks!                                                                                                                                                                             

Just finished a couple of excellent reads:

"The End of Mr Y" by Scarlett Thomas - given the subject content, which skips through quantum physics, religion, self-loathing and love, via philosophy and parallel realities, it's an absolute page-turner! ;o) A very talented and knowledgeable author, who leaves you hungry to explore the subject matter further.

And "The Chinatown Deathcloud Peril" by erm... I forget now... pulp fiction - a real swashbuckler of a story, centred around 2 rival pulp fictioneers, trying to work out what's real and what's pulp... and now I know where L. Ron Hubbard nicked his ideas to make up Scientology... must go get some H.P. Lovecraft to read!

I also enjoyed Nation by Terry Pratchett but as I read it overnight in hospital spaced out of my head on morphine, I probably ought to read it again! Hehehe!

I'm halfway through "The Cairo Diary" by Maxim Chattam, which is pretty disappointing so far... I'll finish it just to see what happens, but I don't rate the author and the codes/puzzles in it are even more simplistic than the Da Vinci Code!

Thanks for the post WB, most informative!........................real good to see you back too:o).........hope yer recovery is going ok:o)...............                                                                                                                                                                             

Well I'm catching up on my reading if nothing else ;o)

Oh... I also read the trilogy of stories... erm... something like Twilight, Eclipse and New Moon (I think?) - one's just been made into a movie... vampire stories... so-so, for light/quick reading purposes... I think they've probably been written with a teenage audience in mind.

I think I'm fine, then I take a stroll down the shops and I'm absolutely wasted. Being looked after does wonders for yer nails though - fully manicured and painted for the first time in at least a decade

And the chain mail jewellery is going great guns. I don't have time for work!
                                                                                                                                                                             

Real good to hear all that stuff:o).......BM def aint the same without you around me dear                                                                                                                                                                             

Would recommend Catch 22 by Joseph Heller.                                                                                                                                                                              

thanks for that tamaz................in what ilk has it been written geez?...................                                                                                                                                                                             

i just read the paper but the long words were a bit much for me so il stick with me comics and read slow using me finger to guide me. im getting better by the day i can spell appel now!                                                                                                                                                                             

Catch 22's a satirical book set in the final years of WW2. It deals with the absurdities of war, the military and bureauracy in general.                                                                                                                                                                             

Catch 22 is one of the best "war time" novels ever written IMO... It'll have you laughing and crying... absurd, insane and ridiculous... and oh so true.   And of course, it's where the phrase "Catch 22" came from, part of everyday language now.   You can also catch up with Yossarian and Milo years later in the follow up story "Closing Time"... just don't do a direct comparison between the 2 books... yes, it's a sequel, but it doesn't have the war time backdrop i.e. the readymade setting for satire at its finest. It's still an enjoyable and bizarre read... don't be put off by the trashing a lot of Catch 22 fans give it. :o)