I'm off on vacation next week need some reading suggestions. I just finished rereading TEA and LiaGB. I'm pretty open to all genres of fiction except hardcore horror or hardcore sci-fi. Paperback is best so I wont feel bad if i accidently drop it in the lake :)

I highly DaVinci Code. It was a wonderful book.

Katherine Neville's Calculated Rick or The Eight.

I take it you're not in the UK or I'd reccomment Brick Lane by Monica Ali.

Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk is really good as well...

Anything by Terry Pratchett :) (but then I would suggest that, wouldn't I?) Good Omens is a good holiday read, especially if you have seen 'Omen'. If you can get hold of her, Gwyneth Jones is a good holiday read (I read almost my entire collection of her books on holiday a couple of years ago)



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Da vinci was fabulous and The Eight is one of my all time favorites :) Also enjoyed Good Omens :) I'm off to check out the other suggestions. Keep them coming. Thanks!

Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

Shutter Island by Denis Lehane is good too. It's a love it or hate it book though.

Anything by James Patterson.

'The Late Mr Shakespeare' by Robert Nye (IIRC) - a classic unreliable narrator, packed with every rumour and half-truth concerning the bard.



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Oops pressed control by mistake... Try Janet Evanovich - very light funny book about a Jersey girl who's a bounty hunter - truly daft!

Also Michael Marshall Smith - try Straw Men or Only Forward, which might be a bit too sci fi for you but it's really good.

Plus Laurie R King - beautifully written! 'Folly' is great, 'To play the fool' as well... hope you find something you like. They should all be in paperback.

I'll second Janet Evanovich's mystery series as great light summer reading.

The other advantage to the Evanovich 'Stephanie Plum' books is that it's easy to work out what order the books are supposed to go in, because they all have numbers in the title (except for the short one that came out for Christmas).

One for the Money
Two for the Dough
Three to Get Deadly
Four to Score
High Five
Hot Six
Seven Up
Hard Eight
(Visions of Sugar Plums)
To the Nines

All but the last two are our in paperback in the US, and I believe the last one was released yesterday in the UK, but isn't released here until July 15th (in hardback).
Watch for Joe Morelli's scar which moves from book to book (Janet says it started out as a senior moment and became a running gag), and never lend Stephanie your car.

And I should point out to Jon, Stephanie is sort of a reverse John Dortmunder. She doesn't really know what she's doing, or plan very well, but she's extremely lucky. (She also lives in New Jersey rather than Manhatten).

Edit--> She's also tries to catch crooks, rather than being a crook trying to avoid being caught.



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"I've often said that the difference between British and American SF TV series is that the British ones have three-dimensional characters and cardboard spaceships, while the Americans do it the other way around."
--Ross Smith

Harry Kemelman. He wrote a very good series of crime novels featuring detective Rabbi David Small (fairly original - G K who?) which were pretty good as it happens (and very informative about Judaism). They had themed titles;

Sunday the Rabbi Stayed Home
Monday the Rabbi Took Off
Tuesday the Rabbi Saw Red
(Wednesday and Thursday I forget)
Friday the Rabbi Slept Late
Saturday the Rabbi Went Huingry
and
One Day the Rabbi Will Leave (I think)

But guess what? They're out of print. Oy gevalt. Which doesn't help Ann Marie much, but! Have you read the Flashman series by George Macdonald Fraser? fantastic funny historical novels, highly recommended. Oh, and the Jeeves stories by P G Wodehouse. Perfect summer reading. And if you really want to get a handle on the British character, how about Spike Milligan's war memoirs, or ... oh, dang it, just go to [members.aol.com] and read the list there.



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Was the Saturday one really about a rabbit, or is that a typo?



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There's a series of lightish and entertaining crime novels, all starting with the words 'The cat who...". Unfortunately I can't remember the writer's name, although I do know it's double-barreled, so I never know where to find her books on the shelves. I do have some of her books, but my collection is still mostly in piles in the games room, and I can't see any of the 'Cat Who' at the moment. Helpful, huh ?

Found them ! They'd already been shelved, on a different bookcase than before. The author is Lillian Jackson Braun.

Rabbit? I never saw a rabbit. Did you see a rabbit? How could there be a rabbit, why, they're not even kosher, ha ha.


(Be vewy quiet. I'm editing out wabbits.)



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Or if you can't be quiet, paint yourself orange and make a noise like a carrot...



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I LOVE the Evanovich books, they just make me laugh out loud :) They aren't going to win any literary awards, but man they're fun. I'm going to her booksigning on the 21st. She reminds me of Jasper Fforde alot. Both seem to really write for themselves and have great websites. I've meet both at signings and they're both funny, intelligent, and seem to care and appreciate their audience.

I looked for Brick Lane but it doesn't come out in the US until Sept :( There's nothing like finding a great new author.

"A smoking dot in the distance" by Ivor Gould is rather good.

I ran out of books on holiday last week and my husband got to WOLP before I did, so I started reading a Sherlock Holmes omnibus that I found in the hotel. I had forgotten how strange those stories were.

They are weird. Have you read the Laurie R King add ons about S Holmes & his wife? I like them better actually...

Looking at Amazon, I can see several Laurie R King books. Which are the Holmes ones? Any idea what her other books are like?