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I've recently finished Deliver Us From Evil, by David Yallop. It is the story of Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper. I found Yallop to be a very thorough researcher and the story was exceedingly chilling.

and if you use SOWPODS there is also: AB - abdominal muscle AG - agricultural AL - an East Indian tree DE - from, used in names ED - education ET - past tense of eat HM - express consideration MM - expressing assent PE - a Hebrew letter UH - expressing hesitation YA - you I...

Something like Edgar Rice Burroughs' Mars books maybe? Or the Perry Rhodan series?

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I'm going to put in a plug for Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith. Unless you have an aversion to foul language. It has lots of that, some of it even gratuitous.

Asimov wrote some incredibly cheesy stuff as well, though. Has anyone ever read his 'Lucky' Starr stories? I'd like to give The Gods Themselves an honourable mention though.

I've just finished reading The Legacy of Heorot. Got to admit I found it quite gripping. I've never read Beowulf though, so the references to Grendel meant nothing to me. My top 5 would be: Time is the Simplest Thing - Clifford Simak Take Back Plenty - Colin Greenland Needle - Hal...

R A MacEvoy wrote a story called Tea With the Black Dragon. Chinese mythology, Irish folk music and computer programming. An interesting blend.

I want a hoverbike. I see the bidding has closed with no takers. A shame I can't afford it myself. :(

If you are interested in the actual history behind the fictional character, try The Discovery of King Arthur by Geoffrey Ashe.

Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett Temps, EuroTemps (both shared world anthologies)- Neil Gaiman, Alex Stewart and others

If you like CSI you may like Kathy Reichs' books. The main character, Temperance Brennan, is a forensic anthropologist. The two novels that I have read so far have very detailed forensic scenes, plus some rather gruesome descriptions of bodies but that doesn't detract from the build-up of tension.

Ehhh. Neh. Nope. Uh-uh. Shan't.

For me, the best to date would have to be Kathy Reichs' Deja Dead followed closely by Michael Marshall Smith's Only Forward. I found both gripping, interesting and well-written with nicely constructed characters and good use of language. None of which could be said about the worst book I've...

If a book hasn't interested me the first time I try to read it, it is extremely unlikely it will have rewritten itself enough to engage my interest the second time around. I might give the author a second chance though.

Just finished Agatha Christie's They Came to Baghdad. A rather charming spy story, I thought. Definitely a departure from her Poirot / Marple / Tommy & Tuppence mysteries. The heroine is a Cockney less-than-able typist with a penchant for telling large lies.

Here's my list: Shall We Tell the President - Jeffrey Archer The Day They Came to Arrest the Book - Nat Hentoff Grinny - Nicholas Fisk The Caves of Steel - Isaac Asimov Clarence Takes A Vacation - Patricia Lauber The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Attwood Black Coffee - Agatha Christie...

My current read is P D James Death of an Expert Witness. While I enjoy the Dalgliesh tv series with Patrick Malahide (I think), the book is very dry. I'm getting annoyed with the pointless descriptions of every room each character goes into. Much more of that and I'll tag and bag it. Next...

This sounds familiar. Does it have a boy taking a test, solving multiple questions at once, early on in the story? End with one child throwing his computer out of the window, and another becoming a computer program across the internet? I know I've read that, just trying to think..... Could...

I put mine in plastic bags and tape them to lamp posts.