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For the third time.

Philip Jose Farmers Riverworld Series (To Your Scattered Bodies Go/The Fabulous Riverboat/The Dark Design/The Magic Labyrinth)

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I read (and re-read) those years ago - I loved the first two, but thought the third and fourth got a bit rambling and self-indulgent (imho).

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"American Psycho" by Brett Easton Ellis - disturbing & funny at the same time!

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Just about finished Lord of the Rings - Looking for a cheap audio copy of The Hobbit.

But in the mean time my next book is - 'ss-gb'

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Started it last night... and finished it last night (well, this morning).

Read the whole thing in one sitting, & ended up going to bed at 5am (despite having to get up for work at 8am today :erm:).

Great read.

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I prefer classical literature.
Galsworthy "The Forsyte Saga"

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Just started "Under the Dome" by Stephen King.

Off to a good start :tu: also listening to the audio book as well :erm:

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Bought that at the airport on the way out - easy to read, and very enjoyable.

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Just finished "Foul" and the corruption and dirty tricks within FIFA

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just finishing "wolf hall" by hilary mantel, quite enjoyable albiet a bit cryptic in it's prose:)

just read the first 5? Simon scarrow centurian books

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Pies & Prejudice - Stuart Maconie

Hilarious! :D

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It's very good - I would recommend his other books as well (Cider with Roadies, Adventures on the High Teas).

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It's remaindered at £3 in HMV at the moment (the Manchester Arndale one at least), bargain!

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Nothing To Envy by Barbara Demick

Excellent Book! :tu:

She interviewed a heap of defectors and selected six particular individuals; Two who conducted a teenage romance in secret (due to Korean attitude towards young couples, and a class divide which meant the relationship put one of their careers at risk), a woman seriously invested in the regime until she defected and her daughter who disliked the regime from an early age, a doctor who again was serious about the communist ideals until the defection and a young boy abandoned by his father, because he couldn't feed his sons, who stole food to stay alive.

She follows these stories by switching back and forth in a liner time line of North Korean history to which they all, or some, are witness too. Occasionally drawing quite quotes from numerous other defectors to give some background to an event.

I like the way she does switch between the individuals rather than concerting on one at a time. It allows the book to be followed quite easy because every event or issue in North Korea is dealt with at once but from each of their perspectives. The famine, the death of Kim Il-sung, and their defections.

Most of all it's very easy to read. Keeps your interest from start to finish leaving you wishing it was larger (it is a short book).

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The sequel to Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol.

Only halfway through it but this is one hell of a book!

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Bought that on holiday, yet to read the 880 odd pages.

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Bout half way through, its a cracking story, just one word "barbie" :D

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OT (apologies): What click-thru?

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I believe he means this one:

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/67/

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Just ordered my post-holiday leisure reading from Amazon (CF click-thru, see post above).

The Technician - Neal Asher
The Reapers are the Angels - Alden Bell
Roads Not Taken: Tales of Alternate History - Gardner Dozois
Without Warning - John Birmingham
The Passage - Justin Cronin
The Evolutionary Void - Peter F. Hamilton
Play Dead - Harlan Coben
All You Need Is Kill - Hiroshi Sakurazaka

(and £160 worth of History books for my son, for his 1st Year reading list....:shocked:).

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Just one book :D

Daphne Du Maurier's 'Frenchman's Creek'
and I just don't want it to end.

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The Prow Beast by Robert Low

part of a series about the Oathsworn.

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I recently read Earth Abides by George R. Stewart.

It deals with the aftermath of a plague that wipes out most of humanity.

Nothing very original there although it might have been in 1949 when it was written.

However it is a great example of the story tellers/writer's art. I have not been so fortunate to enjoy a book so much for ages.

Highly recommended. :)

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Your description reminds me of Nevil Shute's 'On the Beach'.
I have a sneaky feeling that 'Earth Abides' may be a more sophisticated read :D and will get hold of a copy once i have stopped wallowing in DDM :)

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Trying to work out if I can wait for the paperback of that...
Though I have ordered a kindle, so as soon as that arrives, I may give in and get it

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It's only £9 odd for the hardback on Amazon - go on, you know you want to.

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but then I have to explain to the wife that I've got yet another book...

ebook it may be.... hoping my kindle comes soon

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Century Rain by Alastair Reynolds.

It's SciFi but it's also the most unusual who dunnit I've ever read. :)

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I agree - an excellent book.

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the Grand design - Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow

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this tread

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LZR-1143:Infection

A zombie story - trying it out on kindle for the iphone.

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I'm using this thread to make a list of books I can get when my kindle comes...to take on holiday..so keep it coming :D

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I've just read "Blood, Sweat and Tea" on Kindle for Mac (it was free on the kindle store) and I'm now reading the second book "More Blood, Sweat, and Another cup of Tea" (also free on the kindle store)

My Tom Reynolds (pseudonym): Basically a blog of the daily life of a London Ambulance EMT. Quite amusing, and witty, with some bits that brought a tear to my eye

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I've also just read "State of Emergency" by Sam Fisher (paperback)

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I've read the original as well - Brian Kellett is the guys real name. I also follow his blog.

I've just purchased "The Grand Design" by Stephen Hawking - part funded by my CF Christmas Compo 2009 £5 voucher which I hadn't used yet! :)

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Just starting The Evolutionary Void by Peter F Hamilton.

This is the long awaited Book 3 of the Void Trilogy. :)

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Yup - I had my copy delivered last week, but reading "The Mechanic" by Neil Asher first (it was a difficult choice).

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Soon to be reading The Fry Chronicles, just waiting for Moab to arrive so I can get through that one first.

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is that the 'alternate' earth one - I thought it was ok, but nothing great

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I'm still holding off buying it. I think I'll read it when I go on holiday in October, but will wait to see if the price comes down before then :)

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I'm reading 'The girl with the dragon tatoo' at the moment.

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[/COLOR]I'm reading 'The girl with the dragon tatoo' at the moment.[/QUOTE]

what is that like?..i am getting kindle..was thinking of getting that one

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Me too - no doubt influenced by it becoming available relatively cheaply for my Kindle.

Very different genre to the sci-fi / tech adventure type stuff I usually read , but I'm enjoying it :)

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Currently about a third of the way through 'The Passage' by Justin Cronin, and then have 'The Technician' by Neal Asher lined up :)

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So, now that I have my Kindle how about some suggestions for something different to read?

I'm into Stephen King - Heinlein and old SF.

Mind, I'll try anything once and all that.

I like a good 'end of the world' type book.

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I'm back into an oldie of Daphne du Maurier 'House On the Strand' which is fairly escapist but there is never a certain ending to her work and... I don't think you'd like it - girlie stuff :D

I'm no use am I :D

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I am listening to william gibson "neuromancer" I think there is a set of three in the series.
but iain m banks is a good old fashioned type of author:)

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How about Mars series by edgar rice borroughs...just got it myself..going nostalgic in my sci-fi..heinlein maybe later

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Thank you for some good suggestions :tu: - I shall look them up :)

In the mean time I am off to read 'After worlds collide'.

Now there's some retro SF for you ;)

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Larry Niven (The Mote in God's Eye, Ringworld Series, Lucifer's Hammer (end of the world type story)).

John Varley

S.M. Stirling, especially the Emberverse series starting with "Dies The Fire"

Neil Asher Polity Series

Richard Morgan, especially the Takeshi Kovacs series starting with "Altered Carbon"

John Scalzi "Old Man's War" series, very reminiscent of Heinlein.

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Under the Dome, and I think it's giving me RSI.

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Just finished All You Need Is Kill - Hiroshi Sakurazaka (Starship Troopers meets Groundhog Day), and Roads Not Taken (Alternate History Anthology).

Still reading The Reapers Are The Angels by Alden Bell, and The Technician by Neil Asher

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wow The Mote in God's Eye. Haven't read that in years. Think I was probably about 11 when I last read that...

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Did you read the sequel The Mote Around Murcheson's Eye?

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No I didn't. I shall check that out at some point (I had to go and look to make sure it was a real book, and not some subtle joke that I was missing :) )

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Regarding Larry Niven I would also recommend 'Legacy of Heorot' & the sequel 'Beowulf's Children'

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Lucky I didn't use the US title of the book - The Gripping Hand.....:D

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I Shall Wear Midnight ,...Terry Pratchet , just got this today for my birthday ,it's part of the TiffanyAching/nacmac feebles series .Looking forward to reading this :D

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Rereading HP7 over the weekend as the HP7 part #1 film's due out soon

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Finished 'The girl...' books (millienium trilogy) - and am now working through 'The Last Symbol'

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David Weber - Out Of The Dark

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Bad Science - Ben Goldacre

Excellent critique/exposé. All the perpetrators get a good kicking... :)

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Crikey - you lot get through books at a knot of rates :)

I'm still... on the last one :D
I... savour evey word and thought and have a bit of a wallow - I think :D

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The Gone Away World - Nick Harkaway
The Passage - Justin Cronin
The Evolutionary Void - Peter F Hamilton

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Mortal Engines Quartet aka Hungry City Chronicles by Philip Reeve.

From Wikimedia:
"The Quartet is set in the distant future, in an age known as the Traction Era. Earth has been reduced to wasteland by a devastating conflict, known as the Sixty Minute War. Nations no longer exist, except in the lands of the Anti-Traction League; Traction Cities - entire cities mounted on caterpillar tracks for mobility - are fiercely independent city-states, using giant jaws to devour one another for resources. Trade is mostly accomplished by airship, though sometimes cities of roughly equal size (unable to devour each other) will stop to trade. Old-Tech (technology from before the Traction Era, some of which is from the 21st century) is the most sought-after commodity.

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the football scores

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Thanks Cobby, just ordered it for my Kindle :)

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I finished that the other week - was a good book/series but felt it suffered the same as all of his books - lots and lots of build up, and then the big finalie takes 20 pages...

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I'm still on Daphne Du M's 'My Cousin Rachel' and soaking up every word :D

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I just read 'Space Cadet' - a Heinlein book.

About to embark on The Mammoth Book of Apocalyptic SF

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tv guide

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I just finished 'The snowman' by Jo Nesbo - pretty good

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Strewth! How much time do the lot of you get to settle and read a book???

OK -I'm STILL on D Du M and savouring every word.

I'm on my own here .... :(

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Just finished

Nerd Do Well - Simon Pegg
Dead or Alive - Tom Clancy
The Noise Within - Ian Whates

Just starting
The Fry Chronicles - Stephen Fry
The Lion - Nelson De Mille

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Recently finished 'Ian Dury' by Will Birch - insightful look into the life of the man - not sycophantic, but poignant none the less..

Part way through 'Bad Science' by Ben Goldacre - lots of good stuff in there.

Enjoying my subscription (via Kindle) to Analog Science Fiction Magazine ..

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Imager's Intrigue - Third book in the Imager series by L. E. Modesitt Jr.

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Ummmm, the only real answer should be "the most recent forum posts"

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Not necessarily - I have the Times open next to me, as I am doing the crossword as well are reading the forum....:D

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this site

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Been selectively browsing through through "Domesday Book - a Complete Translation" (Penguin Classics)

"Uthræd held Little Crosby and Kirkdale as 1 hide, and it was quit of every custom except these 6: breach of the peace, highway robbery, housebreaking and fighting which continued after the oath was made, and payment of debt to anyone bound by the reeve's judgement, and non-observance of the due date given by the reeve; for these he paid a fine of 40S. But he paid the king's geld like the men of the country."

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Still drinking in a lot of Daphne Du M's stuff - I'm female and I'm allowed :)

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Currently reading the Covert One series by Robert Ludlum.

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The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart
Excellent, grim book :D

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I was tempted to give it a try, but then discovered the kindle version is more expensive than the paper version :

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sad-Tale-Bro.../dp/1841497835

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sad-Tale-Bro...A3TVV12T0I6NSM


I'm starting to get somewhat tired of this...

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reading 'Nova war' right now : http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nova-War-Sho...5592024&sr=1-3

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Just finished "The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 23".

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Just finished:

ATTILA by William Napier

first book of the trilogy

one of the best writers of fact-based fiction - nearly up to Bernard Cornwell standard

:spin:

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Ghost Road Blues, first book in a horror trilogy by Jonathan Mayberry.

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Working my way through the zombie survival guide again.

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The Genesis Secret - Tom Knox

A tale of human sacrifice, archaeology and good old fashioned detectives and reporters. :D

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Was reading 'the straw men' again... But now onto baby and parenting magazines (see the happy thought thread)

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Harry Turtledove - In The Balance.

The second volume in Turtledove's 5 volume 'WorldWar' alternate history series.

Incorporates elements of both science fiction and alternate history. In Worldwar, aliens invade in the middle of the second World War.

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Crickey. I'm still sinking into Daphne Du Maurier :erm:
I'll tiptoe away :D

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As are many people, blame the publishers...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/tag/kindle/f...TxDO7PSRZ3YTZD

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Lee Child - Worth Dying For

(the latest "Jack Reacher" book)

I love that series! Haven't read "World War" or "Colonization" for years.

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Just finished "The Lion" by Nelson De Millle.

Re-reading "Weapons of Choice:World War 2.1" by John Birmingham

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Just finished Seven Ancient Wonders by Matthew Reilly - A very fast paced Indiana Jones type thriller.

About to start Third Secret by Steve Berry - A similar genre but with the main character solving more mental rather than physical puzzles.

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You do know that it is only part one of a trilogy and each book carries straight on from the previous one.

I have read all 3 books link HERE.

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They do stand alone though. So you are not lost if you read them as and when the library may have a copy available :D

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You must read them in order though.;)

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kindling my way through the "stieg Larsson " trilogy, half way through the second one. Can't decide whether to watch the film after a book or read all the books then watch all the films.
Or go for dubbed or subtitles??:confused:

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I'd give up and not bother with the books :)

I thought the first one was quite good - though not a lot really happened until the last 50 pages, and I don't think the book could really decide what it wanted to be - thriller/mystery/political commentay - and because of that it did all 3 not as well as it could have done...

However the 2nd and 3rd books just seemed to have no idea what it was supposed to be, and the stories were weak, didn't really go anywhere, and quite frankly I lost interest. it was only stubborness that made me finish them (that and the fact I'd paid for them :) )

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OOOH I can't do that........oh no! gotta keep going:D
I think I can count on one hand the books I have give up on even if they have been bad.
I will read all the books then watch the original dubbed films...hmmm or should I wait for the hollywood version?? nah! I'll watch that as well:)