Davinci code

Cathie · Davinci code

THis book is wonderful.

I can't believe I havn't picked it up sooner, lent it of my mum a year or so ago.

I have enjoyied every page so far, it has all the things I like in a book. Just getting very near the end now, and I don't really want to finish it either.

Anyone one read any other Dan brown books, not sure which one to pick for my next read.

Cathie

Farmgirl

Angels and Demons is another one - I think it is better than the Da Vinci Code. Digital Fortress is another good read.

pictish

I bought this and then Mr Pictish got there first and said he didn't like it and it put me off Evil or Very Mad

But Terri was just saying it was good - think I'll dig it out cos it sounds my sort of thing. Somebody told me Angels and Demons is his best one Cathie Cool

cazzie

I havent read it - but DH raves about it ....

loobyj

I thought it was a really good adventure story. Close your ears to all the cynics and knockers (and there are plenty) and just enjoy the ride!

lj

jacquie

I enjoyed it a lot, but then it is my kind of book. I really would like to think that the theories behind it are true - you never know! I know a lot of people felt threatened by it, but it is fiction of the "what if it were true?" kind and needn't be taken any more seriously than that.

Angels and Demons is the one that introduced me to ambigrams, though I have noticed that the latest editions don't have the one on the cover - that is such a shame.

That is another page turner where you really want to know how it ends, but don't want to finish it because you are enjoying it so much.

I haven't got around to reading any of his others yet.

Jobo

Oh sorry

I absolutely hated this book. I tried 3 times to read it and failed. Really not my thing, but in a way I wish it was because lots of people say how good it is. Very Happy

I am struggling with Cross Stitch at the moment as well and everyone says how good that is too - I must have very peculiar taste Rolling Eyes

loobyj

Oh - I loved Cross Stitch and all the subsequent books too. Are you very far through?

lj

Jobo

pictish

Hmmm

well. I think you should be enjoying it by now Jo cos the bit of romance has just started has it not????? Laughing

Try a wee bit more but it's maybe just not for you. I couldn't get into the sequel for some reason tho I loved this one.

Jobo

No the romance hasnt actually started yet Ali - but I am going to plod on through a few more chapters I think before I give up Very Happy

terri

I liked the da vinci code, angels and demons was better I think, and I read digital fortress too which even my dh who reads very little enjoyed. I didn't like his fourth book, can't remember the name at the moment Confused

pictish

Catknit

Seahorse

Jo - I slogged all the way through 'Cross Stitch' *and* part of the next one, because almost everyone I knew said it was a wonderful series but I just didn't like it really! At least I know I'm not entirely alone now Smile

I didn't like 'The Da Vinci Code' either. I LOVE the ideas behind it, exactly my kind of thing but a) I'd read it all 20 years before in 'The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail' and b) I really didn't think the book was very well written at all (sorry if that sounds snobby!).

Claire

pictish

I think Claire that was what Mr Pictish said about it Confused

Jobo

Well I know I am not enjoying cross stitch too much because I took it with me today to read in the car when I was waiting for the girls to come out of school.

I left it in the car by mistake, and this afternoon I couldn't actually be bothered to go out there and get it, so I started reading The Virgins Lover instead.

So that's not a good sign huh?

pictish

I would just leave it Confused

- I loved The Virgin's Lover Cool

Aknita

Whatever else The Da Vinci Code was, it was a page turner! Sadly the other books felt like more of the same Sad

Give me John Grisham and Ian Rankin any day ( says she who also enjoys Kathy Kelly Embarassed

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I'll read anything tbh if it's well written and grabs me. I love Ellis Peters for example Ali - and they are all set not far from where I come from which helps. i also adore Derek Jacobi Wink

Jobo

Joy - I like Cathy Kelly as well - I have got them all sitting on my bookshelf. Smile

Have you tried Sheila O'Flanagan? If you like CK you will like her Very Happy

Aknita

Ooh no I haven't Jo - thank you!
I think reading is like knitting in lots of ways, sometimes you need a challenge and sometimes you just need something comforting and familiar.

Jobo

Absolutely Joy Confused

I used to read my Enid Blyton books until I was about 16 when I was off school ill - they were like chicken soup Smile

Aknita

I still have all my Enid blyton books! I had five shillings a week pocket money and would spend 2 shillings and sixpence in WHS every week on an Armarda paperback.

I then progressed to Ruby Fergusson and Pat Smythe ( ponies ) and then on to Agatha Christie!

Auntie Noo

Wished I still had all my Enid Blyton's!!! I loved reading them in the summer hols.... and I had the whole set of Nancy Drew - I could read the lot in one good holiday session!!!!..... then the Agatha Christie's .. both me and my sis were well into hers, and still are.... you can't beat a good Agatha Christie!!!!

Binty

This house is hooked on Enid Blyton! We are reading the wishing chair at the moment and it really holds my DD and DS attention. They totally loved the faraway tree too.

Aknita

Oh PC Goon and Sid and Fatty ( Frederick Algernon Trotville ) and the Five Find Outers ( I always thought of them as Fine Doubters Rolling Eyes

) and Secret Seven and Famous Five and Mallory Towers - for a small child in rural Mid Wales it was all so wonderful.

Binty, my children loved Saucepan Man and Moonface!

pictish

Jobo

I think I will have to try a Cadfael book - I thought the TV series was brilliant Very Happy

And as for Enid Blyton - those stories about girls at boarding school, I used to be desperate to go to boarding school and have midnight feasts - they were all so Hooray Henrietta weren't they?

Cathie - sorry - seem to have completely hijacked your Da Vinci Code thread here Wink

pictish

I know - sorry Cathie Embarassed

I loved Enid Blyton too - Mallory Towers and The Famous Five Rolling Eyes

What were we like Laughing

But then like Joy and Noo progressed to pony books then Agatha Christie who I still like then Daphne Du Maurier - think I read all of hers - then things like Victoria Holt and Jean Plaidy and Anya Seton. But also all the Brontes and Jane Austen. Later I had a Dennis Wheatley phase Shocked

round about the time I was reading John Wyndham and Lord of the Rings Wink

Auntie Noo

My first "grown up" book was Victoria Holt.... can't remember the name now, but about an opal that flashed green at sunset... or summink??? Laughing

Sorry Cathie!!!! Embarassed

ETA: Pride of the Peacock, that was it..... darn good book!

cazzie

Sorry cathie but...

I used to love reading (still do time permitting) - loved Enid Blyton - want to get my kids started on her soon Laughing

. I also read all the Nancy Drew ones, used to be able to buy a horsey related series as well.

I also loved a series of books my Mum had when she was young - Sue Barton (i think) - all Nurse related....

and did anyone read the books by Joyce Stranger - the animal ones?

gilraen

Aknita

I'm sorry, we have hijacked it haven't we? I remember the Sue Barton books Cazzie. I also used to like Malcolm Saville ( set around Church Stretton and The Stiperstones ) but as I said before will read just about anything. Except Terry Pratchett!

eta I have read ALL the Cadfael books Ali and loved them. There used to be a Cadfael Visitor Centre in Shrewsbury, but it has closed.

pictish

I know Joy - I was really disappointed when we got there Confused

It's a wildlife place or something but you could still see the replica of the cloisters and Cadfael's hut from the outside Cool

It was funny being in Shrewsbury tho as it all seemed more real in the books Sad

Cathie

Oh don't worry about the Hijack. I also loved enid blyton books, it was always like falling into another world.

I didn't have that many of them and certainly don't remember reading many, the only one that sticks in my mind is called the queer adventure, I found it in a old book shop years ago, and it is one of my favourite books and something I still pick up to read now.

Does anyone remember this book? When ever I've mentioned it before people have had no recolection of it, and internet searches bring up nothing it's really strange. I wonder if maybe it has been renamed somewhere along the line

I had all my aunts enid blyton books and on a clear out I decided that I would charity shop them, the lady said I should keep them, but at the time they where just taking up space, and I had picked my favourites out, I think most of them where secret 7's and I could'nt get into them the same as the other series's.

Cathie

Piglottie

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jacquie

I used to spend my pocket money on Enid Blyton paperbacks too, 2/6 or half a crown they were. My absolute favourite and the only one I have now - though only because I bought it again in a fit of nostalgia was The Secret Island where four children whose parents are presumed dead and who are badly treated by their wicked Aunt and Uncle run away and live on an island in the middle of a lake. There were another couple of Secret books - one The Secret Mountain was so scary in one place I had to stop reading it - about the same children. Also loved Mallory Towers with the fab Daphne and the horrid Gwendoline, and St claires, and the famous Five and the Secret Seven and all the others.

My stepping stone to more grown up books was Noel Streatfeild, Ballet Shoes, White Boots, and the Gemma series - wonderful. Then I liked John Wyndham Triffids etc and then Agatha Christie.

Another childrens' author I loved was E Nesbit. My favourites of hers were two that kind of fit together in a time travelling kind of way - "The House of Arden" and "Hardings Luck" - I still have copies of those - not as widely known perhaps as The Railway Children and The Treasure Seekers" but just as good if not better IMHO.

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