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blind buying!!

i'd buy anything from Guy Gavriel Kay. i just read his newest (picked it up spur of the moment) and it was fantastic. i've been looking for an author just like him.
 
Porthos said:
it got to the point that his newer ones are just a re-hash of others he'd written. It's the same with Barbara Taylor Bradford & Danielle Steele. In my opinion, they are flogging a dead horse.
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Hee... I admit that Danielle Steel's books are rather similar to one another, but I keep reading them because I'm a sucker for happy endings! (And romance!
:eek: )
 
water faerie said:
Hee... I admit that Danielle Steel's books are rather similar to one another, but I keep reading them because I'm a sucker for happy endings! (And romance!
:eek: )
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Fair do's :) although the last one I read the characters were so weak that I felt that I didn't care about what happened to them in the end.... the last one I read (about 8 years ago!) was about the wife of a politician & I think they were living in Paris & she has an affair & I seem to remember thinking 'why would you have an affair with this guy? He's really 2-dimensional'.

I've read Kaleidoscope which I thought was good & Messages From Nam; I liked it however I thought the end of the movie was more plausible than the book in as much that she goes to the orphanage & he finds her there in the movie but in the book they randomly find each other outside the Embassy :eek: Odds against tbh

If you like happy endings, have you tried any Mills & Boon at all? Some good stories.
 
Porthos--
Was the last one you read called The Kiss? It sounds like it. I read it a year or two ago and liked it a lot. Or.. I think it might be Summer's End. Anyway, I've read Kaleidoscope, and I liked it. Another one I really liked was Zoya. If you've never read it, I recommend it.

Mills & Boon??? What's that? Do tell!
 
water faerie said:
Porthos--
Was the last one you read called The Kiss? It sounds like it. I read it a year or two ago and liked it a lot. Or.. I think it might be Summer's End. Anyway, I've read Kaleidoscope, and I liked it. Another one I really liked was Zoya. If you've never read it, I recommend it.

Mills & Boon??? What's that? Do tell!
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Just checked & it was Five Days In Paris.

I've not read Zoya tbh but I saw a bit of the TV movie when it was on TV today (coincidence!) & it looked good. There’s an early roll for Jennifer Gardner in it too. I'll check it out, thanks. :)

Dogtanian said:
Slushy romance novels.....usually involving a hunky Doctor and a pretty nurse :D My Nan used to read them. Mills and Boon were the publisher. Here we go;
http://www.millsandboon.co.uk/
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Not quite as slushy as they used to be!

The Intrigue & Sensation series' offer the more interesting storylines IMO.... serial killers / secret agents etc. It's only in the medical romances you get pretty doctors & hunky nurses :p :rolleyes:

There's a new series out too if you enjoy your books a bit more racy; Blaze it's borderline porn with no pictures :eek:
 
Oh. Ok, thank you! I have several of the Blaze books. I read one and was like :eek: but now that I've read one, I might as well read the others I have. The one I've already read (I think it was called "Sensual Secrets") wasn't all that bad.
 
Terry Pratchett for instant purchase of hardcovers.

For other blind buying, I have no issue with it whatsoever, provided the price isn't obscene. I buy more books than I know what to do with, and 90% of them aren't on any kind of "to buy" list.
 
Stephen King
Clive Barker
Isaac Asimov

any story collection with Alfred Hitchcock's name on it.(He's also my favorite movie director) :cool: :)
 
water faerie said:
Oh. Ok, thank you! I have several of the Blaze books. I read one and was like :eek: but now that I've read one, I might as well read the others I have. The one I've already read (I think it was called "Sensual Secrets") wasn't all that bad.
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Some of them are good but like with all books, some are a bit rubbish too. Enjoy! :)
 
Lets see... a few of the authors I'd buy anything of theirs would be...

Douglas Adams
Anne Rice
Garth Nix
Terry Pratchett
Nina Bawden

Plus I'll usually buy any book that has a Japanese author. :rolleyes:
 
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