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atwood read handmaids tale to see what all the fuss was about. Enjoyed it - fits interestingly into the modern climate. scared off reading Alias grace due to fellow book sellers and resultant book group comments. Don't recall any particular literary style worth mentioning from handmaids...

dog A bedraggled street dog is about to perish in the cold winter night, after having been scalded by boiling water earlier in the day. Suddenly, an elegant man feeds him and takes him home. The dog's savior is a famous and wealthy medical professor who rejuvenates people by hormonal...

the Girl the girl is my fiance, we both worked at a book store together so are always chucking books at each other to read. She accuses me of not reading as many of hers as she's read of mine! her brothers nicknamed her "the girl". kskyhappy

retracts statement carefully he he sorry martin, as i said i've never read Robbins. He was in my section and sold well though. i should get one though. might fill a basket this weekend! ksky

hm i got the american first edition imported of the Wind up bird chronicles, i have to say it is one of the nicest book editions i have ever owned. Wind up bird chronicles was great, i also really enjoyed wild sheep chase. ksky

great you've just reminded me of someone else i was meant to read! i recall such comparisons, although all i can do is pass on an old colleaugues opinion which was that Robbins wasn't quite as good, though he was a fan of Joyce and therefore not to be trusted :-P. ksky

Mcvities? lol, they make them round the corner, not a bad dunker imho, however for dunking the ginger snap is king. ksky

How on earth could Brautigan have been missed. Often credited as one of the most influential writers of the beat generation, he faded into relative obscurity. so how could he have been missed, all too easily i'm afraid, a lot of his books are hard to come by in the uk, Vintage published...

master and.. should have, would have, could have. It's high on the list, i read "heart of a dog" which was great though, and fuelled me to want to read more. ksky

arthur i read lawheads, i thought they were good though the atlantis thing was a bit off the beaten track but made sense. they caught the feel of the arthurian legend so i liked that. would recommend them. i thought the cyrstal cave was very good too. Will be reading the once and future king...

uh - oh the girl really loved these books so i agreed to read them, i was interested cos i'd heard so much about them anyway. I liked the first one the best, i grew into the second one but didn't like the way Lyra's character changed. If i say anything about the third one i'd give the game...

you guys are lucky i used to work at my favourite book shop and now i can't browse anymore! The staff know me and come to talk to me, which is nice, but sometimes you just want to browse incognito. Mind you they've run the shop into the ground, grr head office, might as well be a wh smiths now...

liked it i liked this one, you caught an emotion allright as long as that was all you caught! funny thing was i read it first without reading the title so it was a lot more ethereal the first time i read it, more evocative, then i read the responses and thought i must have missed something -...

illustrations i noticed that they have replaced the excellent black and white covers with less inpiring book shop wall paper, i hope they have kept the internal illustrations - such as they were. big mistake. ksky

excellent coolness, i hoped joining this forum would help me get back up to date! i shall be searching for that title believe you me! ksky

iain banks definately - read the crow road, i thought it was great, one of his best. I think i know your local waterstones! the one on the corner? started an iain banks thread in author discussion not much meat i'm afraid! ksky

martin asked me about iain banks crow road so i thought it might be worth starting a new thread here. Crow road was the first Iain banks book i read and it still one of my favourites (i've not read any of his sci fi stuff) of the ones i've read this is what i thought: Wasp factory - great...

i read secret history everybody kept going on at me about this book. I found it brilliant and intelligent but i thought the ingredients of the book might have lead to a better pudding! the girl read her new book and was completely underwhelmed by it. ksky

Eco hmm this thread makes interesting reading. I've read island of the day before, Foucaults pendulum and Baudolino, of the three i'd say Foucaults was the best (very similar to Dumas club i thought), Baudolino was great but petered out (i hate that), i didn't take to Island much - i liked...

books read i've read choke and lullaby, choke was excellent really enjoyed it but did the stlye remind anyone of Douglas Coupland? i forgot that i'd read lullaby untill i read igkuk's reply - i thought it started bravely and just petered out - read like a deadline casualty. ksky