Relax girls, it's just time to pick a new book for the club :lol:

I would like to suggest a non genre book this time. :fear: :fear:

I've been reading reviews of Nick Hornby's new book "Long Way Down", it seems it's a little dark, but a lot funny.

Here's a synopsis from Amazon (yeah like they don't rip it off from the blurb on the sleeve :lol: )

Any other suggestions?

:thumbsup: sounds quite good, I'll have a think :)

I've certainly enjoyed his other books - apart from one which I never got around to reading which was Fever Pitch funnily enough given my interests - I'd be okay with that one.

That Nick Hornby book is only just out in Hardback ....Is there anything less expensive you`d care to suggest ? Not that I`m cheap, or anything. :whistling: ;)

Why don't you suggest something pixie. You suggested a book last month that was a bit neglected, pick one and we'll run another poll, or just go with your idea as my plastic is a bit stretched right now (and it's not even the middle of the month :fear: :rolleyes: )

I really enjoyed the Jasper Ffforde book ` The Eyre Affair `, although it is a genre book and I thought it took a while to get going - though when it did pick up, whoo-hoo ! :lol: I think it`s like Discworld; you either love it or think ` Huh ? ` :huh:


The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next)
Jasper Fforde

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Amazon.co.uk Review
Pirouetting on the boundaries between sci-fi, the crime thriller and intertextual whimsy, Jasper Fforde's outrageous The Eyre Affairputs you on the wrong footing even on its dedication page, which proudly announces that the book conforms to Crimean War economy standard.
Fforde's heroine, Thursday Next, lives in a world where time and reality are endlessly mutable--someone has ensured that the Crimean War never ended for example--a world policed by men like her disgraced father, whose name has been edited out of existence. She herself polices text--against men like the Moriarty-like Acheron Styx, whose current scam is to hold the minor characters of Dickens' novels to ransom, entering the manuscript and abducting them for execution and extinction one by one. When that caper goes sour, Styx moves on to the nation's most beloved novel--an oddly truncated version of Jane Eyre--and kidnaps its heroine. The phlegmatic and resourceful Thursday pursues Acheron across the border into a Leninist Wales and further to Mr Rochester's Thornfield Hall, where both books find their climax on the roof amid flames.

Fforde is endlessly inventive: his heroine's utter unconcern about the strangeness of the world she inhabits keeps the reader perpetually double-taking as minor certainties of history, literature and cuisine go soggy in the corner of our eye. The audacity of the premise and its w**king out provides sudden leaps of understanding, many of them accompanied by wild fits of the giggles. This is a peculiarly promising first novel.

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Erm, the book is much better than the blurb, which I thought was a bit off-putting - it was the customer reviews which sold me on the book, plus the first chapter was posted on Amazon.com.

Just ordered The Time Traveller`s Wife ` from Amazon for £3.99 - anyone have any thoughts on it for Book Club ? :)

:thumbsup: I liked the sound of that one last time, looks fun :)

I bought it last month on the strength of the description but haven't read it yet. :)

Whoo-hoo, converts ! :lmao:

Could you bear to re-read it so soon Pixie? If it was named as the next book for the club to read?

Yes :shifty: I`ll re-read it .

It`s a quick read, not too many big wordies, and since I`m further into the series, I wouldn`t mind going back and seeing how the first book fits in. :)

I really fancied it too :D

:thumbsup: got mine on order :D

I hope to see everyone in the Reading Room on Monday ;) :)

:lol: I'll be reading it on holiday hopefully, I'm off to Eurodisney next week :thumbsup:

Ooooh ooooh take me with you. Pweassssssssssssseeeeeeeeeeeee :innocent:

:lol: Ok meet us at Waterloo and I'll tell my husband to catch the wrong train :shifty:

wooohoooooo. :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo:


Honestly though. Have a great time. We all expect lots of pictures of you and your kids laying into Goofy, asking him, "Just what the hell are you anyway?"

:lol: :lol:

Have a great time :)

:lmao: Exactly - what is he :lol: questions will be asked :devil:

thanks Jamie and Little pixie I can't wait :yahoo:

Lucky you Alex :D

I wish I was going on holiday this year. So far I've only made it as far as Manchester :ermm:

Ok, I thought it might be time to start nominating books for the next book club choice, but I couldn't be bothered to start a new thread so I'm highjacking this one :p

Any one want to pimp their fav?

Fancing trying a new genre this time? :blink:
Maybe something from crime, or even non fiction? I think Bruce Campbells autobiography is a hoot! :lol:

Anyone?

Jamie went for a Nick Hornby book last time, but it was in hardback; not read any of his books, anyone want to recommend one of his paperbacks ? :)

About A Boy :thumbsup: They changed it slightly for the film but I recommend reading his version. I wouldn't bother with Fever Pitch unless you're a football fan, LOL.

Yeah, I'd be up for a Nick Hornby book next. I've not read his latest one yet (it's at the bottom of an ever growing pile :rolleyes: ) But About a boy is sitting on my bookshelf just urging me to pick it up. :thumbsup:

I liked the film so I'm guessing I'll like the book too. It gets my vote :thumbsup:

The book is so much better than the film :) (but that's generally the case anyway :lol: )

Well duh - the book doesn't have Hugh Grant in it do its a given in this case.

LOL@Neil :lol:

I'm a big fan of Nick Hornby's stuff - one of his lesser known books, How To Be Good is brilliant. That was the first one I read and I was amazed how well he can write from a woman's perspective.

Margot

Now exams are over ( :yahoo:), I think I'll join in. I've enjoyed Nick Hornby's books before so I'd be happy to re-read one of those.

So. Is it decided then? About a Boy is the new book club choice?

Count me out of this one, I've got way to much to read at the moment :)

I might have caught up a little by the time the next book comes round. :)

Pop in and out anytime Alex :D

Sounds good - shall order it ( any excuse for a new book or two, three.....) :)

Is it time for a new book?

Any suggestions?

How about something from the crime/supernatural(ish) genre, such as the first of the Charlie Parker series, Every Dead Thing by John Connolly :D

From John Connolly's Official site

I suppose this one isn't really for the faint of heart, but it is a bloody good read :thumbsup:

That sounds great Karen.

I had been planning to ask for something obscure this time around. You know, something that few of us would have read before. (Yeah, I know, on a site full of bookworms that's asking a lot :lol: )

But since I've never heard of this book or the author, I guess that kind of qualifies :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:

:D

Shall we give it till next Wednesday for people to make other suggestions?

I don't want to seem like the book choice nazi :lol:

Hey, I'm more than happy to go with the consensus.

Whatever the rest of the club members want.

:lmao: :lmao:

That book seems a bit icky for me, but I`ll have a look at Amazon :wub: to see if there are any excerpts, etc. :) Probably won`t join in this month anyway, due to a serious backlog of SFXs and Cult Times to go through, now that I can no longer get spoiled. :rolleyes:

:thumbsup: that book sounds fantastic :thumbsup: