06-11-2008, 01:33
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Re: What are you reading?
I loved the film of No Country........Never read the book though.
The Wine of Angels - Phil Rickman
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06-11-2008, 10:23
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Re: What are you reading?
just started reading Vixen 03 by Clive Cussler one of the Dirk Pitt adventure books and very good so far.
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06-11-2008, 10:42
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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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the bourne sanction brilliant.
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09-11-2008, 17:54
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Re: What are you reading?
Nation - Terry Pratchett
The Temporal Void - Peter F Hamilton
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09-11-2008, 20:12
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Re: What are you reading?
Reading Sharpe's Escape by Bernard Cornwell.
It's the third time of trying because I keep 'losing' it because when I put it down mid read and it has a tendency to 'disappear'. 
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09-11-2008, 20:33
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Re: What are you reading?
The last Human - Doug Naylor (Red Dwarf book)
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09-11-2008, 21:13
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Re: What are you reading?
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Reading Sharpe's Escape by Bernard Cornwell.
It's the third time of trying because I keep 'losing' it because when I put it down mid read and it has a tendency to 'disappear'. |
So Sharpe's Escape is true to the title then?
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09-11-2008, 21:15
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Re: What are you reading?
The Stone Cold Truth by wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin - should finish that by tonight then I'm moving on to The Ghost by Robert Harris.
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28-11-2008, 11:24
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Re: What are you reading?
Woohoo - I just got the novelisations of all three of the original series of Star Trek on 3 Daisy cd's from the RNIB 
over 60 hours of trek
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28-11-2008, 11:26
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Re: What are you reading?
Almost finished John Grisham's The Verdict.
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28-11-2008, 11:49
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Re: What are you reading?
currently reading The Idiot by Dostoyevsky. Very good so far but only just started it.
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28-11-2008, 14:00
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Re: What are you reading?
Shadow Isle by Katherine Kerr 14th Deverry based book. 
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28-11-2008, 20:34
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Re: What are you reading?
The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi.
2nd in the 4 book Old Mans War SF series.
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28-11-2008, 21:43
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Re: What are you reading?
Ragamuffin (sequel to Crystal Rain) - Tobias Bucknell
Worlds - Joe Haldeman
The Moat around Murcheson's Eye - Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
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19-12-2008, 00:14
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Re: What are you reading?
Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy.
(complete set in one volume)
Currently on "Northern Lights".
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