What are you reading?

King Rat by China Mieville.

[Druchii]

Hopefully i will be reading "Unweaving the rainbow" by Richard Dawkins soon enough, anyone here read it?

[dilli-theclaw]

IT - Stephen king...
37 cassettes apparently. Should take a while

[tick]

Stephen king
Heart in Atlantis.
Have liked all his books so far

[concepttwenty20]

breaking open the head - daniel pinchbeck

[dilli-theclaw]

My personal best is the unabridged 'The Stand'

Not got it on talking book yet though.

[tick]

Have just re read that .
Was as good this time as the last

[dilli-theclaw]

Originally Posted by tick

Have just re read that .
Was as good this time as the last

Yup I'd love to 'read' it again, the trouble is that with something the length of that (and lets be honest most of his books it becomes prohibitive to record onto tape. As it's so expensive to sell it.

Ah well - they did 'IT' maybe they'll do that.

[Womble]

Just finished "Grass". Very well written, and well worth a read

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Grass-Mainst.../dp/1840188928

I'm currently reading:



It was to be one of the most ambitious operations since 617 Squadron bounced their revolutionary bombs into the dams of the Ruhr Valley in 1943 . . .

When Argentine forces invaded the Falklands in the early hours of 2 April 1982, Britain’s military chiefs were faced with a real-life Mission Impossible.Its opening shot, they decided, would be Operation BLACK BUCK: to strike a body blow at the occupying army, and make them realize that nothing was safe – not even Buenos Aires . . .

[dragondottie]

Hope you don't mind me joining in, really enjoyed reading this thread, also to see some of my favourite authors being mentioned.....I'm an avid Sci-Fi and Fantasy fan...but have read over the years all sorts of books........anybody ever read Stranger in a Strange Land, think that was Heinlein, not so sure now, how about The Synthetic Man by Theodore Sturgeon...I loved that, it was also published under the title of The Dreaming Jewels...it was a really good story...the jewels were little alien creatures who liked to dream and when they did, they created something beautiful, if they dreamed near a tree, they copied the tree, that was fine, then a rather nasty character found out about these little creatures and caught some and started torturing them........and the story starts to get more complicated, loads of twist and turns, lots of strange characters in it, as it takes place in a carnival traveling around America, one of my favourite authors now is Robin Hobb....The Farseer Trilogy, The Tawny Man all six books follow on...The Madship Traders is set in the same land, but a different story, but all these three trilogies I can really recommend....The first..The Farseer Trilogy is about a little boy called Fitz with an ability to communicate with animals, which is looked on as evil, and if found out he will be executed, he is of royal blood of the house of Farseer, and is taken in by them and brought up by one of them and trained to be an assassin.....and so on...all sorts happen in it, dragons, war, a lovely character called Nighteyes who's a wolf, and Fitz's companionship with this animal and also loads of royal intrigue, these books are well worth reading....The Madship Traders, is brilliant......a very unusual story that will never bore you, right through the three books, I didn't want it to come to an end, so I read all of them again, and I won't part with them

Originally Posted by dragondottie

Hope you don't mind me joining in, really enjoyed reading this thread, also to see some of my favourite authors being mentioned.....I'm an avid Sci-Fi and Fantasy fan...but have read over the years all sorts of books........anybody ever read Stranger in a Strange Land, think that was Heinlein, not so sure now, how about The Synthetic Man by Theodore Sturgeon...I loved that, it was also published under the title of The Dreaming Jewels...it was a really good story...the jewels were little alien creatures who liked to dream and when they did, they created something beautiful, if they dreamed near a tree, they copied the tree, that was fine, then a rather nasty character found out about these little creatures and caught some and started torturing them........and the story starts to get more complicated, loads of twist and turns, lots of strange characters in it, as it takes place in a carnival traveling around America, one of my favourite authors now is Robin Hobb....The Farseer Trilogy, The Tawny Man all six books follow on...The Madship Traders is set in the same land, but a different story, but all these three trilogies I can really recommend....The first..The Farseer Trilogy is about a little boy called Fitz with an ability to communicate with animals, which is looked on as evil, and if found out he will be executed, he is of royal blood of the house of Farseer, and is taken in by them and brought up by one of them and trained to be an assassin.....and so on...all sorts happen in it, dragons, war, a lovely character called Nighteyes who's a wolf, and Fitz's companionship with this animal and also loads of royal intrigue, these books are well worth reading....The Madship Traders, is brilliant......a very unusual story that will never bore you, right through the three books, I didn't want it to come to an end, so I read all of them again, and I won't part with them

'mind' you joining in, any forum wouldn't survive if people didn't - so thanks

Stranger in a Strange Land is Heinlein, yes, but while he had many good ideas, I was never quite happy with the portrayal of women in his books - not as blatant as John Norman, but still there, in my opinion???

I'm more a sci-fi fan, than 'fantasy', for want of a better word, although I loved the Julian May 'Saga of the Exiles'

- which brings me to my final point, which isn't aimed at you in any way, but I got seriously put off by the proliferation of trilogies and more in Sci-Fi /Fantasy writing, so don't read as much as I used to

[Angua]

Originally Posted by homealone

'mind' you joining in, any forum wouldn't survive if people didn't - so thanks

Stranger in a Strange Land is Heinlein, yes, but while he had many good ideas, I was never quite happy with the portrayal of women in his books - not as blatant as John Norman, but still there, in my opinion???

I'm more a sci-fi fan, than 'fantasy', for want of a better word, although I loved the Julian May 'Saga of the Exiles'

- which brings me to my final point, which isn't aimed at you in any way, but I got seriously put off by the proliferation of trilogies and more in Sci-Fi /Fantasy writing, so don't read as much as I used to

Know what you mean Gaz. Just finished reading Maelstrom by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (book 2 of the Petabey series) wonderfully written but got to the end only to find the story far from finished.

[Delta Whiskey]

David Hall biography of Fred Dibnah
Dipping in:
Clive Aslet - Landmarks of Britain
Nigel Rees - 6000 curious and everyday phrases explained

and Micro Mart.


DW

[Fingy]

Marian Keyes - Angels