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I prefer classical literature.
Galsworthy "The Forsyte Saga"

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Just started "Under the Dome" by Stephen King.

Off to a good start :tu: also listening to the audio book as well :erm:

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Bought that at the airport on the way out - easy to read, and very enjoyable.

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Just finished "Foul" and the corruption and dirty tricks within FIFA

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just finishing "wolf hall" by hilary mantel, quite enjoyable albiet a bit cryptic in it's prose:)

just read the first 5? Simon scarrow centurian books

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Pies & Prejudice - Stuart Maconie

Hilarious! :D

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It's very good - I would recommend his other books as well (Cider with Roadies, Adventures on the High Teas).

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It's remaindered at £3 in HMV at the moment (the Manchester Arndale one at least), bargain!

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Nothing To Envy by Barbara Demick

Excellent Book! :tu:

She interviewed a heap of defectors and selected six particular individuals; Two who conducted a teenage romance in secret (due to Korean attitude towards young couples, and a class divide which meant the relationship put one of their careers at risk), a woman seriously invested in the regime until she defected and her daughter who disliked the regime from an early age, a doctor who again was serious about the communist ideals until the defection and a young boy abandoned by his father, because he couldn't feed his sons, who stole food to stay alive.

She follows these stories by switching back and forth in a liner time line of North Korean history to which they all, or some, are witness too. Occasionally drawing quite quotes from numerous other defectors to give some background to an event.

I like the way she does switch between the individuals rather than concerting on one at a time. It allows the book to be followed quite easy because every event or issue in North Korea is dealt with at once but from each of their perspectives. The famine, the death of Kim Il-sung, and their defections.

Most of all it's very easy to read. Keeps your interest from start to finish leaving you wishing it was larger (it is a short book).

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The sequel to Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol.

Only halfway through it but this is one hell of a book!

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Bought that on holiday, yet to read the 880 odd pages.

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Bout half way through, its a cracking story, just one word "barbie" :D

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OT (apologies): What click-thru?

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I believe he means this one:

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/67/

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Just ordered my post-holiday leisure reading from Amazon (CF click-thru, see post above).

The Technician - Neal Asher
The Reapers are the Angels - Alden Bell
Roads Not Taken: Tales of Alternate History - Gardner Dozois
Without Warning - John Birmingham
The Passage - Justin Cronin
The Evolutionary Void - Peter F. Hamilton
Play Dead - Harlan Coben
All You Need Is Kill - Hiroshi Sakurazaka

(and £160 worth of History books for my son, for his 1st Year reading list....:shocked:).