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Would love to do what you guys do; curled up in bed or outside in a hammock sounds bliss but I've got eyesight problems so have to stay at my desk with a CCtv camera, got a real comfy chair so lounge back and put my feet up on an open drawer.

Bought another one today :rolleyes: Raymond Chandler again, this time ... The Big Sleep

My three latest buys: Wind-up Bird Chronicles - Haruki Murakami Ill Met by Moonlight - W. Stanley Moss Under Milk Wood - Dylan Thomas

1 Bernard Cornwall - Gallows Thief 2 Jack Kerley - The Hundredth Man 3 Frederick Forsyth - Avenger 4 Jill Mansell - Falling for You 5 Carl Hiaasen - Skinny Dip 6 Ted Hughes - Tales from Ovid 7 Garcia Marquez - Love and Other Demons 8 Jack Higgins - Pay The...

finished eading "Farewell, My Lovely" by Raymond Chandler and "One Shot" by Lee Child Chandler was a first for me picked up from the Thriller Thread and really glad I tried it. Has all the twists and turns, solid, tangible characters and atmosphere; you can almost...

I'd like to add James Herbert Nobody True Once Others If you liked Koontz and King you'll like him also Ken Follett - The Third Twin and one of my faves Jack Higgins - Solo

I would add Walter Scott's Rob Roy to teh list and for the true collector of memorable historical events you must add *1066 And All That* by Walter Carruthers Sellar and Robert Julian Yeatman Line from Introduction: "William I was crowned at the Abbey National" Sir Anthony Eden was...

Thanks to this thread I've just finished reading "Farewell, My Lovely" by Chandler and thought it was really great, pressed all the right buttons; loved the dialogue, his dry humour.. the quote on the back sums it up : "You're so marvellous", she said. "So brave, so determined and you...

Though The Blue Nowhere was a great read too, I just couldn't put it down, loved the pace and his hacker character Wyatt Gillette. I've only read two of the Lincoln Rhyme books: The Bone Collector and The Coffin Dancer, enjoyed both of them, fascinating forensics.

You say your friend ann has lost confidence, self esteem after divorce. The thing that strikes me is if she has been living with her partner for 5 years and he is everything you say he is, divorce or no, if she has to ask herself, *do I love him?* or *is he right for me* then I think any...

My recent buys: Lee Child's latest - 'One Shot' Raymond Chandler - 'Farewell My Lovely' Anne Bishop - 'The Black Jewels Trilogy'

I haven't seen it but I loved the live performance with Michael Crawford, I was just wondering if, like Evita, once you have seen the original performance the film never seems the same because you tend to compare and not really give the film a proper chance, well first time around anyway. Cats...

Well, it was the least you could have done! :p

That's the thanks I get for pulling you out of the mud? :rolleyes: Good mind to push you back in and leave you for the ravenous armchair :eek: Goes away muttering to oneself... ungrateful lump!!!!! Wabbit would have at least suggested mud wrestling! :p

N Narcissus and Echo from Tales of Ovid

Whose side? :confused: Why the righteous of course, the underdog, under privileged smilies, a helpless green giant stuck in the mud... helpless? :D Be right back... gotta find my wellies :p

Nope! Was definately not thinking about that at all. I just smile a lot. :p

As an ex-smoker I have to agree that smoking is addictive, why else would there be such a demand for patches, hypnosis, acupuncture, if it was that easy to give it up. I tried several times before I finally stopped.

Mmmmmm! She is definately being bribed! ;) :D

Just won Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury on eBay for 99p :D