World Book Day 2015

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World Book Day 2015

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Today is World Book Day.
What are your reading habits?
If you are currently (OK not at this precise moment) reading a book, what is it's title and author, and what are your thoughts on it?


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HEPZIBAH wrote:Today is World Book Day.
What are your reading habits?
If you are currently (OK not at this precise moment) reading a book, what is it's title and author, and what are your thoughts on it?
I've just finished Harper Smith's "The Seventh Scroll". Some of the Egyptology seems far-fetched, and there is a lot of gratuitous violence. I prefer Christian Jacq's approach to novels based on Ancient Egypt.
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I just ordered a book on Omm Sety just to show some appreciation to Ohm, I can't wait to get it.
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I usually read three books at once, usually because I misplace them but I do tend to read rather alot.
May I recommend my desert island book ( besides the bible ) one The Tros of Samothrace by Talbot Mundy,
an excellent fellow with a dubious history and well worth the read I've read it more times than the Bible, much better advice…. :cool:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talbot_Mundy
http://www.goodreads.com/series/44419-t ... samothrace
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Just finishing the third book of Ken Follets Century trilogy, spanning the period from the early 20th century to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Excellent!
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Brian Yare wrote:
HEPZIBAH wrote:Today is World Book Day.
What are your reading habits?
If you are currently (OK not at this precise moment) reading a book, what is it's title and author, and what are your thoughts on it?
I've just finished Harper Smith's "The Seventh Scroll". Some of the Egyptology seems far-fetched, and there is a lot of gratuitous violence. I prefer Christian Jacq's approach to novels based on Ancient Egypt.

Brian Yare, do you mean 'Wilbur Smith' by any chance?
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Difficult I know, but Wilbur Smiths' name is usually on the top of the left hand page roughly 600 times..la whaala!…. :cool:
D.H. Lawrence — 'What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.' ...
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Ruby Slippers wrote:
Brian Yare, do you mean 'Wilbur Smith' by any chance?
Possibly, but I don't have the book in front of me. Sorrt.
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Currently reading (again) "Witches Abroad"by Terry Pratchett!

A bit of light relief in this dull world of boring novels!!

God,all this pseudo-intellectual stuff that you're all reading is my idea of "hell!"

Who the hell are you gonna discuss it with?
Don't you have a sense of humour?

Boring trilogies?Om Seti..a nutty old woman who would've been dispensed to an asylum,had she not moved to Egypt?

Yeah...know I'm insulting a lot of you..but frankly my dears..I don't give a damn!!

Be happy,be positive..and start reading literature that actually makes you laugh!!
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Michael Crichton, NEXT - Paul Johnston, THE BLOOD TREE - John Farris, MINOTAUR . Picked up yesterday from the charity shop, all pristine, 50 cents each. Halfway thro a Carl Haasen.
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