I agree - for moving pictures. However, I find Clive Merrison's Holmes, which he played in the entire canon of stories dramatised for BBC Radio, is very hard to beat.

It`s very good Though I`m a sucker for these sort of books, Rebecca, Wuthering Heights, Jane Ayre etc.

Can't abide Hardy, or as you put it, those sorts of books.
I got all the way through my English Higher section on Wuthering Heights having not got past the first few chapters because it irritated me so much. So I didn't read it, then winged it through the rest of the unit. Almost got away with it too until the last class, when my teacher asked where Kathy spent most of her time in the novel.
I got it wrong, but went onto answer the questions on it for the exam and came away with a B.

I find the women blush a little too frequently to be credible but apart from that it`s very well written - with lots of very cleverly obscure ways of describing `naughty stuff`

Just finished 'iWoz', Steve Wozniak's autobiography and 'Best SF Vol 17.'

Just about to start 'Under The Dome' by Stephen King.

Punisher: The Ghosts of Innocents and Year One, both very good

I've read up to MAX 11 IIRC, haven't remembered to try and get the newer ones cheap (I just wouldn't pay the Amazon prices) - every one of them is at least good

I have the first three IIRC around Marvel's Civil War to read still...

I've just hit page 400 on the 2nd Millenium book - The Girl Who Played with Fire. Its a very very good series.

Didn't read Under The Dome, instead I read Stephen King's earlier book 'Cell.' At first it seemed it was going to simply be King's version of Dawn Of The Dead but as the story progressed it became something a bit different. The premise of the story is simply that at 3:30pm on a typical day, a coded message is sent simultaneously to every mobile/cell phone worldwide. Anyone answering their phone becomes psychotic and immediately begins to attack anyone nearby. This effectively brings the modern world to an end within a day. The story then follows a group of survivors as they leave the city of Boston on foot and head North where the main protagonist hopes to find his family alive.

It's a fast-moving story, well-told in King's usual manner. Gruesome, tense and funny it is well worth a read.

Take your pick from the amount of books I've started, but I at least read the first whole Battle Pope book yesterday:



It was pretty rubbish but shows promise, and has a cracking bunch of throwaway comments

Next stop, the latest The Boys graphic novel, just as soon as Amazon deliver it

I've just read Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

'Tipping Point' by Malcolm Gladwell. Just finished 'The Wisdom of Crowds' by James Surowiecki (yes I had to look that up). Two books that really should be read consecutively.

As mentioned before, I've just finished the Demon War saga from Raymond E Feist.

I'm rereading "Magician", but just taken delivery of the Conclave of Shadows trilogy. Should I stop "Magician" and start the new series now? Decisions, decisions.

I'm also dipping into my copy of Hugh Sebag-Montefiore's "Dunkirk - fight to the last man". If you're into your war history, it's a powerful narrative of what happened during the fall of France in 1940.

I've just picked up Persuasion by Jane Austen, continuing my theme of classics of world literature.

Currently reading "Gone Tomorrow" by Lee Child.

Very good book about an ex military guy investigating the cause of a suicide that he witnesses.

Read and finished The Boys Volume 6 last night - they're back on top form again as far as the GNs go

I may get reading Crime and Punisher ( ) if it turns up today