19-08-2007, 22:39
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Re: What are you reading?
..about to start 'The Witches of Chiswick' by Robert Rankin
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19-08-2007, 22:43
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Re: What are you reading?
Black Man, by Richard Morgan
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19-08-2007, 22:46
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Re: What are you reading?
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Black Man, by Richard Morgan
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Market Forces is next after Chiswick...
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31-08-2007, 14:36
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Re: What are you reading?
Just got all the foundation books in audio book. Not read them before so I hope they are good. May well take a few days to listen to them all 
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31-08-2007, 17:21
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Re: What are you reading?
Hunter Davies' Biography
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01-09-2007, 07:57
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Re: What are you reading?
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Just got all the foundation books in audio book. Not read them before so I hope they are good. May well take a few days to listen to them all |
You are in for a treat  
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01-09-2007, 14:17
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Re: What are you reading?
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Have you read the Takeshi Kovacs series of books (Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, & Woken Furies)? - cracking books, imho.
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01-09-2007, 14:52
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Re: What are you reading?
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Have you read the Takeshi Kovacs series of books (Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, & Woken Furies)? - cracking books, imho.
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yeah read them - Altered Carbon was brilliant, woken furies was good - thought broken angels was a bit of a let down
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01-09-2007, 15:11
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Re: What are you reading?
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yeah read them - Altered Carbon was brilliant, woken furies was good - thought broken angels was a bit of a let down
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Presently reading his latest The Black Man.Trying not to finish it too soon.I hope this new character reappears in any future novels.
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02-09-2007, 00:06
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Re: What are you reading?
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Just thought i would recommend this book to you folks out there in internet land. I read quite a few books and usually take my time over them, but I've just read this one in a week in a marathon session simply because i couldn't put it down.
You can get it / read about it here:-
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Book-Lost-Th.../dp/0340899468
But i ask that you try not to be put off right away by the childish nature of the content (fairy tales etc) because if you read it your quickly realise this isn't really a children's book and its really quite dark...
Anyone else read it? What did you think?
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I saw this book on sale for £3.99 and remembered that it had been recommended. Just finished it and thought it was really good. I will be looking out for more books by John Connolly in the future.
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02-09-2007, 23:53
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Re: What are you reading?
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Ok, in the hope of something slightly more cerebral than "what are you using to destroy your braincells", here's a thread for discussing what you're using to *inspire* them instead! 
So what are you reading at the moment? And what's good/ bad/ worth recommending/ worth avoiding about it?
For me it's currently "The Truth" by Terry Pratchett.
A story from the Discworld, Pratchett takes another of his hilarious satirical side-swipes at the lunacies of this world (helped, no doubt, by his experiences of working as a journalist before he started writing fiction).
As usual his plots and characterisations are spot on, the writing is excellent, humorous without being forced, touching without being sentimental and his observations are sharp and witty without being laboured.
If you've ever read Discworld and enjoyed it, you'll love this one, if you haven't, it's a good place to start because you don't really need to have read the earlier stories to understand the background.
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kiss the girls,much better than the film its easy to get into and hard to put down
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03-09-2007, 10:30
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Re: What are you reading?
Venus Equilateral - George O. Smith
Classic sci-fi from the '40s
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11-09-2007, 00:30
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11-09-2007, 08:54
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Re: What are you reading?
Just finished Idlewild - Nick Sagan.
Now reading Man-Kzin Wars XI - Larry Niven and others
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21-09-2007, 08:57
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Re: What are you reading?
Just read
Hilldiggers - Neil Asher
Blue Screen - Robert B. Parker
Freakonomics - Steven D Levitt & Stephen J Dubner (recommended)
The Foresight War - Anthony G Williams
Reading
Tipping Point -Malcolm Gladwell
Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks - Christopher Brookmyre
Reading next
The Dreaming Void - Peter F Hamilton
Rainbows End - Vernor Vinge
The Jennifer Morgue - Charles Stross (I read (and loved) the previous book (The Atrocity Archives)with the same premise, which is about a UK Intelligence Agency using hackers/technology/mathematics to combat demons and terrorist - think of it as HP Lovecraft meets Len Deighton).
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