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Not a true story but could just as well have been. Definately written as though it's the childhood autobiography of Charlie Fox (the narrator) whose father decides it's a fine idea to leave civilisation for the Honduran jungle. Paul Theroux's an excellent writer. Grisham's good too, though for legal thrillers I prefer Scott Turow.

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I'm reading the Palladin of Shadows series from John Ringo, it's pretty good, though can be a little graphic as can all military scifi. Basically I enjoy reading most of the works that come from baen books, not to mention that in MS Reader format they are quite portable (especially with an 8Gb card in my PDA phone) not to mention free (The fifth imperium site has permission from baen to host the CDs, plus baen books make some titles available for free in the baen free library)

As soon as I sort out the last of the paperwork to get to the US permanently I am going to try to buy most of those books, as I do like the feel of paper in my hands when reading, but for sheer portability, ebooks work for me.

David Drake is another good author, 'The Far Side of the Stars' is a good read, available in audio book format here (34 chapters to download as mp3 unfortunately) and here in MS Reader, HTML, MobiPocket reader formats. (again, free)

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Damn, this was hard to find.

I've just finished reading Dearly Devoted Dexter. A very good book, a lot of humour. Just as good as the first, may be better. I recommend it to anyone who has read the first.

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Re-reading The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder.

It's the story of the development of the Data General Eclipse MV/8000 32 bit minicomputer.

Despite appearances, a fascinating human story which won the Pulitzer prize...

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Ah, the age old story - boy meets girl, boy builds machine, boy leaves girl to spend more time with machine.

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Hey, in my life I read only one book in English, it was Sidney Sheldon, mm, "Tell me your dreams". For me, there are about 15 unknown words on one page, but I understand whole idea :) And I happy :)

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Iron Sunrise, by Charles Stross (sequel to Singularity Sky).

Just re-read Old Man's War, then Ghost Brigades, by John Scalzi.

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"Fingerprints of the Gods" (revised edition) by Graham Hancock.


Spectacular yet legitimate ideas challenging the rigid orthodoxy of Egyptologists & ancient historians?

Or a load of nonsense, no better than tales of Atlantis, ancient astronauts, reptoid conspiracies, etc.?



I dunno, but it's very interesting, nonetheless. And I think he makes some good points.

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Yeah, he does - and I do enjoy reading those sorts of books - but their reasoning is sometimes just a house of cards, usually based on what they 'proved' in a previous book - 'Because I proved x in my last book, that means y is also correct'
It's like all non fiction books, you just show the results that prove your argument...

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Saturn's Children - Charles Stross

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Long Walk To Freedom--Nelson Mandela.

Never got round to it before even though I love biographies. Reading it as part of my research for one of two books I'm working on at the moment but am involved in the story more than I expected. Well written in an easy style and very enjoyable. Will need to reread it to glean the required information as now I'm too immersed in the story as entertainment and I don't want to spoil it by having a clinical/academic approach to the man's life.

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Nation by Terry Pratchett

An interesting discworld departure, looking at culture differences and how people handle disasters amongst other things. Also very funny in the usual Pratchett way.

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I've just received Charles Stross' "The Atrocity Archives" & "The Jennifer Morgue" from Amazon :)

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MARS - Ben Bova. But it looks like it'll take ages to listen to.

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The Web Application Hackers Handbook:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Web-Applicat...0852919&sr=8-1

Then I'm going to read Nation by Terry Pratchett.