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Sorry I thought she met Dante and sliced his willy of well before the last 100 pages. Aw well, there are lots more surprises in store for you, including the bit about the aliens abducting her for experiments with creme eggs.

Oh I read that bit

I'm reading a crime book, its a bit pish

I'm dead good at this book reviewing/intelligent discourse mulllarkey aren't I?

well I'm delighted you've moved on from colouring in so well done you

Is it a dot to dot crime book rincey?

A for arrest
B for burg..err...lerr
C for crime

and so on?

Hey, Sue Grafton books are good actually, google it

not one of your better chat up lines Rince

Just finished the book. awwww unbelieveable it was written by a man! I may have said that already.

on to the next one....

Come on Boopy, you can do better than that. Thats hardly a book review. :

ok but I want you to know I'm putting off going to the gym for this...

It's about a woman who has a very unhappy life for a number of reasons and believes it is all her fault. She spends most of her life in her room eating until she is about 256lb and very unhappy. Then as she comepletely breaks down she finds the strength she needs to pull herself through. Beautifully written and like I say it is written by am man but from a womans point of view. Sad, funny and heartwarming.

Can I go now?

Well You can go and get sweaty for now (then I can call you sweaty betty), but when you come back I expect a 3000 word post on the significance of water (and the whales) in the book, on how Dolores's life reflected her mothers, on whether or not Jack's (the lodger)
actions sent Dolores spiralling into her self-loathing, over-eating behaviour, on why all Dolores's relationships with men were dysfunctional and on the significance of the flying leg painting.

And that is just for starters.

Oh, I've read a book about whales. Well, actually THE book about whales.

Moby Dick.

No, seriously! I am not being smutty for once.

Incredible book! Melville was either a wonderful one-off genius or an absolute madman. Perhaps both!

One of the most complex, multi-layered, allusion-laden baffling reads of my life. I felt like I was bloody ON The Pequod. A trial and a journey to get through that book, and you are lucky if your mind doesn't succumb at the end into a whirlpool of madness.

Mad, mad book, with one of the best portraits of madness and obsession ever committed to print. I am going to (try to) read it again in thirty years (it almost takes that long to read) to see if I can understand the 85% of it I didn't understand the first time around.

Thar she blows! Well, I have to have one piece of smut per post.

I have now finished 'In Cold Blood' by Truman Capote. This was a truly chilling book telling the story of the cold-blooded killing of four member of the Clutter Family by two young men. The author really draws you into the Clutter's life and it was riveting but horrible, to get to know and like them, whilst being aware of their fate. The book also takes you into the mindset of the perpetrators and I felt I was balancing disdain for their actions and twisted logic with sympathy for them because of the environments in which they were brought up in. I would really recommend reading this, there are many layers to it, which I think could only be discovered by several readings.

I'm reading The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini It has had very good reviews and been popular recently. Enjoyable so far.