I just finished Stephanie Meyer's Host.... 6/10

Starts at a very fast, exciting pace but then grinds to a halt two thirds of the way through and doesn't pick up again. Until that point, you would'nt guess she's she'd written Twilight. Afterwards, well, she might as well've written a 5th book [&:]

Dune - Frank Herbert - 8/10 - Once you fall into it it was anamazing book, but it doesn't lead you in at all, it just belts you round the face making it difficult to get through the start.

The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss - 8.5/10 - Loved it, nice piece of fantasy work can't wait for Days 2 and 3.

Wheel of Time - Book 7 - The Crown of Swords - 6/10 - starting to slip with these but hell i'm 7 books into this saga i'm not going to stop now.

ORIGINAL: Largi

Dune - Frank Herbert - 8/10 - Once you fall into it it was anamazing book, but it doesn't lead you in at all, it just belts you round the face making it difficult to get through the start.

 
If you can find a copy, try National Lampoon's Doon. It's a very enjoyable parody.
 

Miles to go, yes the Miley cirus Biogrophy. T'was alright, for kids though.... 6/10

Also just finished Seamus Heaney's collection The Spirit Level. Brilliant, 9/10.

Dan Brown The lost symbol... meh... the last 60 odd pages were very good... the reat was just Langdon running...

Just finished Dark places by Gillian Flynn, not an author I'd heard of before but it was ok, probably about 7/10 as I'd worked it out far too early in the book for me, I like a twist in the tale

just started 206 bones by Kathy Reichs

and glad there is finally a book area on it's own, could never find any before, although I may not have looked properly[&o]

I`ve just started My **** life so far by Frankie Boyle, If you like him you`ll love it but I wouldn't bother with it if you don't like him. I f**king love him!!

Cody McFadyen - Abandoned.
4th in the Smokey Barrett series from him and I must admit I enjoyed it just as much as the first.
Problem is he writes too slowly and I find it hard to get his books on the high street but I guess till he is better
known I will just have to buy online.
9/10 (no such thing as the perfect book)

Currently reading The Scarpetta Factor by Patricia Cornwell and can't wait to finish it if I am honest.
I get her book every year for Christmas and they have become steadily worse over the years but this one has hit a new low.
I have heard though that screenwriter Kerry Williamson is currently working with the Kay Scarpetta character and we might get a movie soon - not sure if this is a good thing or not..........

ORIGINAL: Web Witch

Cody McFadyen - Abandoned.
4th in the Smokey Barrett series from him and I must admit I enjoyed it just as much as the first.
Problem is he writes too slowly and I find it hard to get his books on the high street but I guess till he is better
known I will just have to buy online.
9/10 (no such thing as the perfect book)

Currently reading The Scarpetta Factor by Patricia Cornwell and can't wait to finish it if I am honest.
I get her book every year for Christmas and they have become steadily worse over the years but this one has hit a new low.
I have heard though that screenwriter Kerry Williamson is currently working with the Kay Scarpetta character and we might get a movie soon - not sure if this is a good thing or not..........

I got the Kay Scarpetta book for xmas as well and will be reading it after my current book. Not looking too good from your current review.
Ah well at least it'll make the bus journey home from work a bit more bearable

The Boys by Ethan Coen.
Christ I love this man's output. The story only ran 7 or 9 pages, but I felt do depressed while reading it. I developed this king-sized anger induced headache. The attention to tiny details and silly little character traits is astounding.
A Morty Story was also rather amusing. Reminded me of A Serious Man.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gates-Eden-Ethan-Coen/dp/0552999792/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263776716&sr=8-1

Ignore the utterly retarded reviewers. Anyone who complains about the stories not going anywhere has clearly never seen a Coen Brothers film.[8D]

Just finished House Of Leaves and I get the feeling I've just read something amazing, but I'll be damned if I understand it.

Justin Lee Collins - Good Times (biography)

Decent but then again i love biographies, he comes across as a nice, friendly, down to earth guy as he does on TV.

6/10

ORIGINAL: ***kay***

I just finished Stephanie Meyer's Host.... 6/10

Starts at a very fast, exciting pace but then grinds to a halt two thirds of the way through and doesn't pick up again. Until that point, you would'nt guess she's she'd written Twilight. Afterwards, well, she might as well've written a 5th book [&:]

I've got agree with this i thought it was a bit slow and quite hard to get into in my opinion, but after a while it came together and all in all wasn't a bad read.

Aristotle's Poetics for screenwriters, an old uni book I decided to re-read. 7/10 - pretty good stuff, stimulates as it informs and isn't too "boggy"
 
on to The Perfect Fool by Stewart Lee.

Thought I'd catch up on the classics.

Catcher In The Rye (J.D Salinger) - 10/10
Perfectly written.

Moving on to On The Road by Jack Kerouac. I've heard good things.

Patricia Cornwell - agree with everyone else. I've given up, you lot have more staying power than me.
Murakami - will pick that up, sounds good.

Currently on Vicious Circle by Mike Carey cos I loved The Devil You Know but I'm not quite feeling it at the moment. Which is odd cos his first book is just genius - about an exorcist detective type.

10.

I am about to start Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure, and if it is as good as this one was, I will be very happy indeed

ORIGINAL: dwbls

Moving on to On The Road by Jack Kerouac. I've heard good things.

 
I read this a long time ago. I think I was maybe expecting too much of it, or expecting it to be something other than what it was, but I found it incredibly boring and pointless. Maybe that is the point of it. If so, I missed it completely. I should go back and try it again in the light of an extra 20 years' experience.
 

ORIGINAL: Jez

ORIGINAL: dwbls

Moving on to On The Road by Jack Kerouac. I've heard good things.

I read this a long time ago. I think I was maybe expecting too much of it, or expecting it to be something other than what it was, but I found it incredibly boring and pointless. Maybe that is the point of it. If so, I missed it completely. I should go back and try it again in the light of an extra 20 years' experience.

I read that a while ago, really enjoyed it. It is what it is, a beat-poet's novel. Eliptical and adventurous, free and aimless, irreverent and sentimental at the same time, all while trying to maintain a sense of cool which it sometimes struggles to convince (and which feels anachronistic anyway) but by failing at points it only adds to its charm. The Cassidy character didn't live up to what I'd heard but as I was reading mainly during my lunch breaks at work I think I failed to really get into the guy, although he reminded me of enough friends to enjoy it. There was one moment towards the end though that really got me, a throwaway passage which just reverberated through lost memories of childhood. 9/10

I'd recommend reading "and the hippos were boiled in their tanks" as well, it's a joint-effort between Kerouac and Burroughs which is based on real events. The prose is a little shaky and Burrough's is much more focussed than Kerouac (as you'd expect). But it's a good light read. 8/10