Just started "The Whole Hog: Exploring the Extraordinary Potential of Pigs" by Lyall Watson. I'm only on the 2nd chapter so far, but by golly it's interesting!

I am also currently reading David Essex' Autobiography, but although I began it expecting to be enthralled on every page, I have found my mind wondering back to the pigs, so keep putting it down. Sorry David, your life is very interesting really I am sure, but the pigs.........

I just finished "Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and it was really good!

Now I'm switching to "Mr Darcy Takes a Wife" by Linda Berdoll. I absolutely love Jane Austen and her novels, especially Pride & Prejudice. I really can't expect a sequel from her so I have to resort to the copycats.. I hope its good though!

Just started 'Ghosts of Yesterday', a novel written as a prequel to the Transformers movie from last year. Its written by Alan Dean Foster, who also wrote the novelisation of the movie itself, and has done several other movie/movie tie-in books.

After that, I'm hoping to pick up a copy of David Peace's 'The Damned United', which looks at Brian Cloughs ill-fated short tenure as Leeds United manager.
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Can't Touch This...

How's that going Chet? funny,i've never had a yen for them books, or the films...

I just finished Lottery by Patricia Woods. I enjoyed it, a nice light read as I dont usually 'do' fiction, but it only took me a couple of hours and I just couldn't help but think "someone's nicked an idea off Forrest Gump".
Simple man, boats, lots of money.....hhhhmmmm.

Oh well, it got me distracted from The History of Bosnia which quite frankly bores the pants off me.

I gave up on the history of bosnia while i was helping my son to move etc. Will start again after the summer i think. Defo something for a cold winters night when theres sod all else to do.
I got sent two random free books with an order, dean koontz the darkest evening of the year, which was meaningless and boring and i am sorry i bothered to read it.
Now I am struggling with james grippando's "lying with strangers".....now i remember why i dont bother reading fiction these days. Where's the meaty novels?

Well I'd hope he's finished it by now.

Read Michael Morley's Spider, Michael Connelly's The Overlook and Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist last week.

Spider was turgid, and tedious. "Spider captures the harsh realities of a deteriorated mind" said Lynda La Plante. Pity his knowledge didn't make for a less boring read with more depth to the other characters and a less ridiculous ending. Probably be made into a crap film before the decade is out.

I usually like Connelly but there was just something off about this short one even before an ending that was fairly clichéd. Just didn't flow as well as usual, and seemed like he was really struggling through it at times.

Spoiler. select rest of paragraph with mouse to read. Oh wow another inside job by an agent of the FBI, sigh. Maybe they should lock up all the agents just in case.

I had hopes for the reluctant fundamentalist but despite quite liking the style at first found it grew wearisome long before the end of what was a fairly short book. Not that it really had an end.

Get the feeling it's one of those books that get popular despite most of those buying it not reading it. In the way that Brief History of Time did, but on a much more basic level.

On the plus side it was less predictable than the previous two, but I did fall asleep reading it three nights running.
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Hi guys,

ever heard about Rimbaud?
Ok I can easily guess why...

Try Robert Jordan for a change. First tome of the Wheel of Time
You know what, when I heard he died was the first time I cried because a writer died... I never thought that would happen since Dickens and Victor Hugo died... Bless their memories

Really, get the first to,e of the Wheel Of Time, you won't get off the hook

He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone

Heuy guys, looks like I am alone at that time...

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose in the Mountains of Mist. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning

Wish you all a good night

A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
The account of one young man's journey on foot to Constantinople across pre-war Europe.

He and I have the same birthday.

Barrow's Boys - Fergus Fleming

All about Victorian explorers trying to find the North West Passage. Very good.

As Long As You Don't Kiss Me : 20 Years With Brian Clough.

Although the authors name escapes me at the minute.
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