anybody raed the book

I think I started reading the 'Tales Of...' series in the very early nineties when I first started going into pubs. I bought a copy of Babycakes because I read the blurb and it was a must have, but when I was in the pub a fella came up to me and asked if I had enjoyed the previous books. When I said I didn't know of any others he took the book off me and wouldn't return it until I promised to buy the first one and read them in sequence. I was then hooked.

A friend and I read them together and used to talk about the characters on the bus to college and all the other students around us used to hang on our every word about the Barbary Lane residents.

Indya, if you're only on the first one you have a lot of good times ahead.


"Go ahead and take what you want. I ain't doin' any beauty pageants today."

The books are fab i loved them all, it was just a shame they way it all turned out in Sure Of You (not going to say but you will have to read it to find out)

But it is an excellent series to read and just wish Armistead would write one more set in today so see what all the characters are up to!!

Stephen

I loved the whole series. My favorite being the first book. I laughed out loud. How I would love to have lived at 28 Barbary Lane!

I read all of them in the early 90s (except the last one, obviously). Though none of them lived up to the first two, you love the characters so much you just want to know what happens to them. There were some odd stories, like Mona leaving Seattle and ending up in ... well, I won't spoil it for those of you who haven't gotten there yet but that story seemed really uninteresting.

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I am old enough to remember reading the columns the books are based on. How do you think it was to have to wait until the next day to get the next installment of the story? The wait was unbearable for a high schooler, I can tell you that. Having the books weren't better, I think the wait enhanced the enjoyment of the stories...


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