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Posted: **Thu Dec 11, 2025 3:28 pm**

..... wrote: Mon Sep 15, 2025 7:46 pm Lone Rider by Elspeth Beard
Swmbo said 'ooh,you'll like this'
She was wrong!

Bought it, gave up on finishing it.

Posted: **Thu Dec 11, 2025 3:29 pm**

Latest book is Over The Fence. US Special Forces in Cambodia/Laos.

Posted: **Tue Dec 30, 2025 12:51 pm**

Think I may have saved the best for last in 2025.

'Bread of Angels' by Patti Smith. Possibly the besterest biography I've ever read.

My word, she can't 'alf write.

(Also recommend 'M-Train' by her too).

Posted: **Thu Jan 01, 2026 10:50 am**

Sunny wrote: Thu Oct 02, 2025 7:59 pm Finished our own Slenver's 'Get Waffle Jones' - funny, light-hearted, well-written, recommended

It's 99p on Kindle for January, for anyone that was interested in reading it but couldn't stretch to the full £1.99

Posted: **Thu Jan 01, 2026 7:51 pm**

A book about not being an unhealthy fat bastard.
Refuel by Dr John LaPuma.

Actually reading this one while using the exercise bike machine (3.21 miles this morning). Only doing the morning fruit smoothie part so far & dropped 5lb since a week ago.
The part about plastics/chemicals in food & every day life is rather revealing.
Starting the main meal deal as of today. Need to create a shopping list. Guy makes a lot of sense & I'm only 50 pages (of almost 300) into it. Three weeks for the first stage. Expecting good results.

Posted: **Sun Jan 11, 2026 7:20 pm**

Sunny wrote: Thu Oct 02, 2025 7:59 pm Finished our own Slenver's 'Get Waffle Jones' - funny, light-hearted, well-written, recommended

Devoured the new Thursday Murder Club 'The Impossible Fortune' - Richard Osman on form as ever with this series, excellent stuff

I'm about 100 pages into Waffle Jones and really enjoying it. The best book I've read for some time (and I'm a slow reader). Highly recommended. I got it in paperback as I struggle with all the e-reader stuff.

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2026 9:06 am**

Just finished this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Artist ... ting_World

Currently on this:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_You ... f_the_Dead

Neither my go-to choice of reads, but the Gremlinette picked them for me as a Christmas presents. Both very well written snd thought provoking.

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2026 5:15 pm**

gremlin wrote: Mon Jan 12, 2026 9:06 am Just finished this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Artist ... ting_World

I read his 'Never Let Me Go' a couple of months back - the title hadn't grabbed me as dystopian, so it took a while for me to have heard of it.
Lots of similarities to Michael Marshall Smith's 'Spares', I thought, while at the same time being quite different in tone. Decent though

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2026 7:05 pm**

Count Steer wrote: Wed Sep 03, 2025 7:48 am
PS I like the sound of one of his other books 'Yoga for people who can't be bothered to do it'.

If I can get bothered enough to start reading books again, that sounds perfect for me !

Count Steer wrote: Sat Sep 27, 2025 7:29 pm Bit late to the party on this one. Just read Stephen King's 'The Gunslinger'. Book 1 in the 'Dark Tower' sequence.

Mysterious gunslinger pursues mysterious man in black across post-apocalyptic landscape. Pretty easy read and it got me sufficiently intrigued as to how it all pans out and what the heck is it all about anyway to order the next 2 from the library.

Anyone seen the film? Is it worth watching?

Are all of his books a bit psycological thriller-ish? I read Rats and The Fog far too young, then started reading all the books under a different name (that was apparently still him) - destroyed my ability to sleep in the dark ever since! And I do have a (not quite, due to the book) irrational fear of fog

So I tend to avoid his books!

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2026 7:32 pm**

Noggin wrote: Mon Jan 12, 2026 7:05 pm
Count Steer wrote: Wed Sep 03, 2025 7:48 am
PS I like the sound of one of his other books 'Yoga for people who can't be bothered to do it'.
If I can get bothered enough to start reading books again, that sounds perfect for me !

Count Steer wrote: Sat Sep 27, 2025 7:29 pm Bit late to the party on this one. Just read Stephen King's 'The Gunslinger'. Book 1 in the 'Dark Tower' sequence.

Mysterious gunslinger pursues mysterious man in black across post-apocalyptic landscape. Pretty easy read and it got me sufficiently intrigued as to how it all pans out and what the heck is it all about anyway to order the next 2 from the library.

Anyone seen the film? Is it worth watching?
Are all of his books a bit psycological thriller-ish? I read Rats and The Fog far too young, then started reading all the books under a different name (that was apparently still him) - destroyed my ability to sleep in the dark ever since! And I do have a (not quite, due to the book) irrational fear of fog

So I tend to avoid his books!

Dunno Nogs, most of the ones I know of are but I haven't read any!

I gave up with The Dark Tower and just read the plot summaries on Wiki. I enjoyed a fair bit of the books but the series could have been condensed into 3 books and, as I suspected, after 7 books the ending was a cop-out.

Posted: **Sat Jan 17, 2026 6:46 pm**

Farenheit 451. Read it this week while travelling.

One of the classics that I've been meaning to read for an age. Dystopian too, so I've no excuse why I haven't read it sooner. It's very good

I feel like I need a comfort re-read of something now.

Posted: **Sat Jan 17, 2026 7:52 pm**

Sunny wrote: Sat Jan 17, 2026 6:46 pm Farenheit 451. Read it this week while travelling.

One of the classics that I've been meaning to read for an age. Dystopian too, so I've no excuse why I haven't read it sooner. It's very good

I feel like I need a comfort re-read of something now.

I like Ray B's works.

He doesn't waste words but creates atmosphere without waffle.

Recommend his Martian Chronicles too - collection of Mars based stories...some of them make Mars a bit like Kansas.

PS I'm currently reading Paolo Bacigalupi's 'Navola' as I've liked all his other books inc. 'The Water Knife', 'The Windup Girl' etc. This one's a different sort of thing but v readable.

Posted: **Sat Jan 17, 2026 8:01 pm**

You'll be reading Brave New World next!

Ford's in his flivver.

I struggled with The Windup Girl, interesting concept, but getting to the end felt like a chore, so didn't read any of his other stuff.

Posted: **Sun Jan 18, 2026 1:50 pm**

KungFooBob wrote: Sat Jan 17, 2026 8:01 pm You'll be reading Brave New World next!

Ford's in his flivver.

I am currently wearing grey

Posted: **Mon Jan 19, 2026 2:29 pm**

Nuclear War, A scenario by Annie Jacobson. Bloody horrible subject but a grimly compelling read.

Posted: **Thu Jan 22, 2026 8:47 am**

Noggin wrote: Mon Jan 12, 2026 7:05 pm Are all of his books a bit psycological thriller-ish? I read Rats and The Fog far too young, then started reading all the books under a different name (that was apparently still him) - destroyed my ability to sleep in the dark ever since! And I do have a (not quite, due to the book) irrational fear of fog

So I tend to avoid his books!

Rats and The Fog was James Herbert, not Mr King. Similar heyday in terms of popularity I'd guess but Herbert definitively won the prize for gore and unnecessary sex scenes, perfect for early teenagers going by my school. I like Stephen King books generally, he's a good writer, but very long winded and can't write an ending to save his life.

Posted: **Thu Jan 22, 2026 1:22 pm**

Just started "A hole in the Sky" by Peter F Hamilton. Set on a failing Arkship, early days yet but so far so good (if a tad formulaic).

Posted: **Thu Jan 22, 2026 1:33 pm**

MingtheMerciless wrote: Thu Jan 22, 2026 1:22 pm Just started "A hole in the Sky" by Peter F Hamilton. Set on a failing Arkship, early days yet but so far so good (if a tad formulaic).

I've read The Dawns Night Trilogy, the Commonwealth saga, The Void trilogy and Fallen Dragon. I started Great North Road, got maybe 20 pages in and put it down. Not read anything by him for ten years, but recently bought the first Exodus book, not got round to read it yet.

Posted: **Thu Jan 22, 2026 6:31 pm**

Supermofo wrote: Thu Jan 22, 2026 8:47 am
Noggin wrote: Mon Jan 12, 2026 7:05 pm Are all of his books a bit psycological thriller-ish? I read Rats and The Fog far too young, then started reading all the books under a different name (that was apparently still him) - destroyed my ability to sleep in the dark ever since! And I do have a (not quite, due to the book) irrational fear of fog

So I tend to avoid his books!
Rats and The Fog was James Herbert, not Mr King. Similar heyday in terms of popularity I'd guess but Herbert definitively won the prize for gore and unnecessary sex scenes, perfect for early teenagers going by my school. I like Stephen King books generally, he's a good writer, but very long winded and can't write an ending to save his life.

Ahh, ok, I'm sure one of them wrote under a pseudonym ? Only cos I read a lot of an author only to find out that it was (I think/possibly) Stephen King ??

I read the Fog and Rats before I was 13 I think, so then didn't read more of his!! (I don't remember Rats as badly as I remember The Fog - and that has definitely triggered some fears in fog ever since

)

Wish I could remember the name of the writer that freaked me out in my late 20's - I really liked the books, but the psyche part was clever and delayed!! LOL

Posted: **Thu Jan 22, 2026 6:43 pm**

Noggin wrote: Thu Jan 22, 2026 6:31 pm
Supermofo wrote: Thu Jan 22, 2026 8:47 am
Noggin wrote: Mon Jan 12, 2026 7:05 pm Are all of his books a bit psycological thriller-ish? I read Rats and The Fog far too young, then started reading all the books under a different name (that was apparently still him) - destroyed my ability to sleep in the dark ever since! And I do have a (not quite, due to the book) irrational fear of fog

So I tend to avoid his books!
Rats and The Fog was James Herbert, not Mr King. Similar heyday in terms of popularity I'd guess but Herbert definitively won the prize for gore and unnecessary sex scenes, perfect for early teenagers going by my school. I like Stephen King books generally, he's a good writer, but very long winded and can't write an ending to save his life.
Ahh, ok, I'm sure one of them wrote under a pseudonym ? Only cos I read a lot of an author only to find out that it was (I think/possibly) Stephen King ??

I read the Fog and Rats before I was 13 I think, so then didn't read more of his!! (I don't remember Rats as badly as I remember The Fog - and that has definitely triggered some fears in fog ever since )

Wish I could remember the name of the writer that freaked me out in my late 20's - I really liked the books, but the psyche part was clever and delayed!! LOL

Stephen King wrote some books as Richard Bachmann

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