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The art of detection Laurie R King :stars3: The passage, Justine Cronin :stars4:

For those who haven't seen the adaptation with Colin Firth you absolutely MUST see this!!! It's one of my favourite movies/mini series of all time. And it definitely is mercenary. Austen described the marriage situation during the 19th century perfectly. An additional point is the...

If you want something similar to Feist, try Robert Jordan's eye of the world series.

Jane Austen's books are all of a similar vein. She was very interested in the lives of women - that is, that they didn't have many options, other than marriage. Thus the opening lines in Pride and Prejudice. In Emma the heroine is fairly well off, so she has the means to not ever marry if she...

I love Jane Austen, but I always think of P & P as chick lit for its time.

The lying tongue, Andrew Wilson :stars3:

Now there's a reality tv show in the making!! NCIS for libraries.

Read Hyperion by Dan Simmons that Anamnesis suggested. Definitely was not a genre I would usually read and great suggestion. I'm going to read the other Hyperion titles and others by him. :)

OKaaaaay I can see the literary merits of this book. I can see that it's written well, the plot keeps you going and of course there's a twist at the end. However, the violence was too off-putting for me and I ended up doing my speed-reading, skipping and jumping kind of reading that I reserve...

Hyperion, Dan Simmons :stars4: The wasp factory, Iain Banks :stars2:

King made it a real character of the book, and in the end, appreciated. I liked that touch. I completely agree with you, and she has a finely tuned balance of descriptive prose where her settings do become almost another character of the book, she does this really well in Justice hall...

what sort of genre do you like to read?

What do you think of Laurie R King's Sherlock series? Personally I love them. I find myself immersed and I've found that as the series has gone along each book seems to get better as does her writing.

Oh I feel for you!! Nothing worse when you've left your current read somewhere. Almost like leaving a family member behind.

Promises to keep, Jane Green :stars3:

No haven't read Kraken as yet. So far Perdido street station and King rat. I will definitely be endeavouring to read all his written works thus far in 2011 :)

awaiting it from the library........

The Gabriel hounds, Mary Stewart :stars3:

Great book. Definitely up there as one of the best for 2010! Very different to Perdido street station and I think testament to how good a writer he is because he's not getting boxed in by a genre. I really enjoy detective fiction and this was a procedural one that was also urban fantasy...

The city and the city, China Mieville :stars5: