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Must have read this decades ago, then stumbled across a very cheaply made copy in a street library a few months ago and picked it up. Rubbish paper, binding is falling apart, on re-reading it I'm wondering if I ever did read this, the first of the series? Enjoyable enough, I think too much of my memories of the series and characters are from later books that I've read more than once over the years

Must have read this decades ago, then stumbled across a very cheaply made copy in a street library a few months ago and picked it up. Rubbish paper, binding is falling apart, on re-reading it I'm wondering if I ever did read this, the first of the series? Enjoyable enough, I think too much of my memories of the series and characters are from later books that I've read more than once over the years

Re-reading an old paperback copy for some quick enjoyment. Still laugh-out-loud material and any number of bits of innuendo and humour, I wonder if I noticed them all the first time through, years ago? I wonder if I noticed them all this time?

Thank god that's over. Not quite, but i came fairly close to giving up a few times and ditching it, seemed to me that the author was just padding it out to give a thin story a thick word count. Not helped by me taking almost three months to read through it a little a night every few days

Memories of reading and enjoying this sometime in school, high school English I think. I've been meaning to hunt up a copy and re-read it for years to see if its still as enjoyable. Yes it is, yes it was. I do wonder how the view presented of Roman Britain holds up to a further fifty years of archaeology

Seeing that the author died recently I thought maybe its time to read some of his work, this and The Road are the only ones I've heard of. Picked up for $3 in an op-shop, quickly readable, if gruesome and graphic as was the movie. He does capture the place and the people so well

Hunting around for something for the kid to read and found the Pratchett's that I own. Time to revisit for a thoroughly enjoyable lighthearted romp

Here we go again, once into what is turning into a bit of a chore to plow through the series

Durrell in the Cameroons in the 1950s, with 1950s British attitudes, despite his love for the people, the place and the wildlife

Revisiting my early teens where I discovered Gerald Durrell and devoured them all, filling in a collection as I come across the books in markets and second-hand stores. Love his enthusiasm and passion for the wildlife, although very much aware now of how much the British colonial attitudes are present

A Durrell that I read long ago, in my early teens. Found a $2 copy yesterday in an op-shop and added it to the shelf

Not entirely sure why I've let this languish in the "currently reading" list. I started it, read about half, then lost track of it and have zero recollection. Time to be truthful and admit that I am not reading it

I promised myself I'd read the series and so I shall, although I'm finding them a real slog as it goes on... and on ... and on. Endless numbers and acronyms, if you enjoy huge made up space battles then go for it, its all yours