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Old 09-25-2013, 02:38 PM   #2551
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My very clever review on The Eyre Affair on here was, "Let me know your opinion - I loved the pants off it!"
Lloved Fforde for years. He can be outre and sly. And if you can him when he's sly you feel like Brian Cox. But have a sneaky suspicion he's just thrown you a Roy "Chubby" Brown line anyway.

Glad you like him too.
I think I sent some of my old Ffordes to Em in Kenya (still alive at least) but if I have any I'll dig them out. The Thursday Next books are worth reading in order, just to ensure coherence. Funnily enough, time jumps around a little. Characters appear and disappear with dizzying speed because of the ChonoGuard, ditto villains. Better to know where you stand even before he makes your brain explode.

Down with the Cheese Board I say!
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Old 09-25-2013, 02:50 PM   #2552
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Thanks for the recommendation, I only have about 15 minutes left on my current audiobook (Peter F. Hamilton) so I needed a new one. I've just picked up "Shades of Grey," we'll see how it goes.
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Old 09-25-2013, 05:21 PM   #2553
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My very clever review on The Eyre Affair on here was, "Let me know your opinion - I loved the pants off it!"
Lloved Fforde for years. He can be outre and sly. And if you can him when he's sly you feel like Brian Cox. But have a sneaky suspicion he's just thrown you a Roy "Chubby" Brown line anyway.

Glad you like him too.
I think I sent some of my old Ffordes to Em in Kenya (still alive at least) but if I have any I'll dig them out. The Thursday Next books are worth reading in order, just to ensure coherence. Funnily enough, time jumps around a little. Characters appear and disappear with dizzying speed because of the ChonoGuard, ditto villains. Better to know where you stand even before he makes your brain explode.

Down with the Cheese Board I say!

Ha! I thought this seemed like it would be right up your alley, so to speak ;p I must have missed your Eyre Affair review.

Have you read Shades of Grey, too?

I am loving the Eyre Affair.

I suspect I'll be on a Fforde jag for a while now. And I would generally read in order anyway. Even if novels are standalone, if there's any kind of a link between them I'll do them in order. Can't bear the thought that an in-universe joke or reference might be missed otherwise lol

@ Clod: let us know how you get on with it. Also, which Hamilton are you finishing up?
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Old 09-25-2013, 05:34 PM   #2554
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The third in his Greg Mandel series, "The Nano Flower."
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Old 09-25-2013, 05:49 PM   #2555
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Ahh. I haven't read the Greg Mandell series yet. They're on my list for when I hit that mood again
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Old 09-25-2013, 07:21 PM   #2556
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Just finished A Storm of Swords; about to start on A Feast for Crows. My light reading after too much lit searching at work.
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Old 10-02-2013, 08:14 AM   #2557
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My current audiobook is: Infection: Alaskan Undead Apocalypse .

It's excellent. Very well written and narrated, with three dimensional characters and cracking pace.

It actually had me slightly choked up at one point. The first few chapters are heartbreaking. And the horror when it hits is truly horrifying.

So yeah...I'm still all about the Zombies.
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Old 10-02-2013, 11:49 AM   #2558
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FWIW. Lady at the library told me I had checked out 974 books in last 3 years, read most of them. Yeah, I know. I need a life. Now reading Daniel Silva, Portrait of a spy.
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Old 10-02-2013, 12:09 PM   #2559
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That's awesome! These are full length books? That's almost a book a day.
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Old 10-02-2013, 12:48 PM   #2560
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@ Glatt Yes. I don't care for sic-fi or books with a bunch of short stories. I also hate to start a series of books in the middle. But, I take what they give me. New books come in on Wednesday, so today or tomorrow I'll have a look. I get almost, first pick.
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Old 10-02-2013, 02:50 PM   #2561
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When you read that many books, do you remember them a month or two later? Or are they pretty much disposable in your memory?

I've read enough books that were unmemorable, but I don't read nearly as many as you, so it makes me curious.
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Old 10-02-2013, 03:43 PM   #2562
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I can get halfway through a hum-drum murder mystery before I remember I've read it before.
But I still refuse to read the back of them; talk about spoilers!

"Following the sudden death of her husband and daughter [Chapter Three], Jennifer finds out perhaps all was not as she realised. As she gets drawn deeper into the world of diamond trafficing [so her husband's business partner Mr Nan der Kleef may not be all he seems] she has to face yet another personal tragedy [penultimate chapter].
An Inspector Glatt murder."

I don't read as many books as Buster as I am too lazy to source them. But I do read almost constantly.

I've been loaned Stephen King's Doctor Sleep and I'm enjoying it so far.
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Old 10-02-2013, 03:57 PM   #2563
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Ooooh. I'm thinking of getting Doctor Sleep. Not sure whether to get it on kindle or spend an audible credit on the audio book.
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Old 10-02-2013, 08:39 PM   #2564
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FWIW. Lady at the library told me I had checked out 974 books in last 3 years, read most of them. Yeah, I know. I need a life. Now reading Daniel Silva, Portrait of a spy.
Wow!
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Old 10-02-2013, 10:48 PM   #2565
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All my read books are marked with a stick on B. Also on the page number ten, 0 is blacked out.
The part time deadheads look for B and not inside. So if a book comes from another library in our system it won't have the b. I hate to reread a book, but will, like the Wilbur Smith ones
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