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Finished The Good Husband of Zebra Drive very quickly, they are thin books. Now starting Cold Fire - Dean Koontz
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At the moment I am going through some of the Tom Sharpe books again. I've re-read Blot on the Landscape and now I am on The Throwback. I don't know how he thinks these plots up and I lay in bed reading and laughing.
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18-01-2012, 01:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Aerolor ->
At the moment I am going through some of the Tom Sharpe books again. I've re-read Blot on the Landscape and now I am on The Throwback. I don't know how he thinks these plots up and I lay in bed reading and laughing.
I will look for Tom Sharpe as I do like a good laugh and I can never think of a funny clever author.

Read Steven Fry's Diary of Mrs Fry and was very disappointed tell the truth it was rubbish.
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18-01-2012, 02:21 PM
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Almost finished reading "Meet Me Under The Ombu Tree" by Santa Montefiore. Nearly gave up on it, but glad I perservered as it is enjoyable. A story about forbidden love and gives a good description of life in Argentina.
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I will look for Tom Sharpe as I do like a good laugh and I can never think of a funny clever author.

Read Steven Fry's Diary of Mrs Fry and was very disappointed tell the truth it was rubbish.
Some of Tom Sharpe's stuff can be a bit rude, Cookiecate, but I think he is very funny if you like a bit of anarchic comedy.
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Just finished reading, The Barbed-Wire University: The Real Lives of Prisoners of War in the Second World War by Midge Gillies.

A lengthy tome by any standards but at last a truly accurate book on historical events that have been the subject of comics, books, films and TV. Most of the time these have all been glamourised so much that the actual facts vanished.

The meticulous research Ms Gillies has obviously undertaken stands her in good stead and I would guess she drew great inspiration from her father who was a POW.
I found the accounts relating to the Far East POW's particularly moving and also the stories of many people who later made their way in the world of entertainment like Clive Dunn and Denholm Elliott were fascinating, truly resourceful and remarkable people but John Wayne, they were not.
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Some of Tom Sharpe's stuff can be a bit rude, Cookiecate, but I think he is very funny if you like a bit of anarchic comedy.
Ann Archy is my middle name and I do love a bit of rude now and again.
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28-01-2012, 09:30 AM
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Just started reading 'Perfect People' by Peter James - good so far.
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28-01-2012, 12:59 PM
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Just started Fifth Witness by Michael Connelly seems like a good read.

Have put in a requst at the library for a Tom Sharpe book.
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I am an avid reader but I can't bear parting with books, I think I have more than a library ! I've just finished reading The Flying Carpet to Baghdad by Hala Jaber, excellent book but quite heart rending. Love all books by Christian Jacq, Clive Custler, Colin Deaver, basically I'll read anything. Only gave up on one, The Long Walk to Freedom..Nelson Mandella biography, it was the most boring book I have ever come across.
 
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