An Attempt to Actually Stay on Topic

[4ofUs]

Anyone have any suggestions of cheesy romance novels that aren't too cheesy to lounge around & read this summer? Or just good summer reads in general?


(btw, I just saw Jerry Seinfeld)

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WAIT, you saw him? In person? Did you ask for a loan?

[grassshoppah]

Is he tiny?

[grassshoppah]

Cheesy romance novels.....Marian Keyes....

Lucy Sullivan is getting married
Watermelon
Last Chance Saloon
Rachels Holiday

funny and easy on the brain....

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Did he try to hit on you? http://www.p45.net/rant/wink.gif

[4ofUs]

red, you should know better than to think a man would try to hit on me!
AND he looks exactly the same IRL as on tv, only less attractive....if you can imagine that.

keep the summer read suggestions rolling in! http://www.p45.net/rant/smile.gif

[Spider Jerusalem]

Catherine Cookson always good for a laugh - yer granny should have a load.

BTW the Harry Potter stuff (kids but good fun) is real old style fun stuff

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NO, no nonnonono!

My boss MADE ME read Watermelon by Marianne Kayes. It was nightmarishly bad. She practically stood over me and threatened to fire me if I didn't like it and so I had to lie every day about how much I was enjoying it. It made me want to kill myeslf. Don't do it 4!!

[grassshoppah]

Ach Red...her stuff is great sit by the pool fluff....better than Catherine Cookson and the dreaded Maeve anyway....wait a sec...that's not saying much at all.....

[murph2]

Originally posted by grassshoppah:
Ach Red...her stuff is great sit by the pool fluff....better than Catherine Cookson and the dreaded Maeve anyway....wait a sec...that's not saying much at all.....


I used to enjoy Maeve until she started writing the same story over and over again. Kind of like the Grisham curse.

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Just cos you're sitting by the pool doesn't mean you should have to read crap! Is it like a punishment thing? You're so lucky to be on hols you must be made to read shite?

[Spider Jerusalem]

Actually....

The DIRT Enquiry report. Available for £40 on 6 CDs from government publications Molesworth St. D2.

A racy read .
"Kept Me turning the Pages" - The Star
"I was riveted" - Irish Times

[murph2]

Red - Read: A Confederacy of Dunces.

I think you would really enjoy it. Ponyboy probably would too.

[4ofUs]

Originally posted by red:
Just cos you're sitting by the pool doesn't mean you should have to read crap! Is it like a punishment thing? You're so lucky to be on hols you must be made to read shite?

not at all, I usually use the summer to catch up on the classics.....BUT lately I've been too tired stressed. I need something mindless to occupy my thoughts with happy-dappy-sappy shit like cheesy romance novels.

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I read it a few years back murph. I wasn't that convinced of it's amazingness. I think it's one of those books that has just become legendary because of the story behind it. I think Simon and Schuster might have had a point back in the day http://www.p45.net/rant/wink.gif

[murph2]

Originally posted by red:
I read it a few years back murph. I wasn't that convinced of it's amazingness. I think it's one of those books that has just become legendary because of the story behind it. I think Simon and Schuster might have had a point back in the day http://www.p45.net/rant/wink.gif

I thought it was hysterical. The characters cracked me up. Certainly not a literary masterpiece, but it made me laugh out loud on the El. I didn't know the story behind it when I read it actually.

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Confederacy of Dunces was more annoying to me than funny. But each to their own. http://www.p45.net/rant/smile.gif

[grassshoppah]

I found Marian Keyes to be amusing in a similar lighthearted way to the Bridget Jones books...nothing I take seriously but turn off the brain and chill stuff....