19-10-2012, 23:09
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Re: What are you reading?
I read Iain M. Banks' Against A Dark Background a while ago. Thanks for the reminder about good Sci-fi MLM  . Need to visit a bookshop soon, although I can get a free E-reader with my reward points. I could get the electronic versions instead, if they're available.
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20-10-2012, 20:02
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#1022
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Re: What are you reading?
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sounds intriguing, how does it end |
badly if drinks is involved 
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24-10-2012, 15:50
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Re: What are you reading?
The Bone Bed 20 - Patrica Cornwell
Hostile Witness - Rebecca Forster
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01-12-2012, 20:17
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Re: What are you reading?
Current book:
Double Dead, by Chuck Wendig
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Coburn’s been dead now for close to a century, but seeing as how he’s a vampire and all, it doesn’t much bother him. Or at least it didn’t, not until he awoke from a forced five-year slumber to discover that most of human civilization was now dead—but not dead like him, oh no.
See, Coburn likes blood. The rest of the walking dead, they like brains. He’s smart. Them, not so much. But they outnumber him by about a million to one. And the clotted blood of the walking dead cannot sustain him. Now he’s starving. And nocturnal. And more ****ed-off than a bee-stung rattlesnake. The vampire not only has to find human survivors (with their sweet, sweet blood), but now he has to transition from predator to protector — after all, a man has to look after his food supply.
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A great read. Recommended.
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02-12-2012, 13:32
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Re: What are you reading?
Following on from that, I then read "Bad Blood" (a "Double Dead" novella), by Chuck Wendig. Half the size of the first one, but still great.
Next up will be Blackbirds and Mockingbird, also by Wendig.
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Miriam Black Knows How You're Going To Die
She’s foreseen hundreds of car crashes, heart attacks, strokes, and suicides. She merely needs to touch you — skin to skin contact — and she knows how and when you’ll die.
But when Miriam hitches a ride with Louis Darling and shakes his hand, she sees that in thirty days Louis will be murdered while he calls her name. Louis will die because he met her, and she will be the next victim.
No matter what she does she can’t save Louis. But if she wants to stay alive, she’ll have to try.
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It was actually a recent io9 review of Wendig's "Mockingbird" (the second Miriam Black novel) that got me into his books.
That lead me to a review of Blackbirds (the first Miriam Black novel).
... and that lead me to "Double Dead".
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02-12-2012, 14:34
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Re: What are you reading?
Now ive finished the Fifty Grey trilogy im now reading a book about the Raspberry Pi. Then i really should finish off reading Lee Evans Autobiography that ive had since last October
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02-12-2012, 14:39
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Re: What are you reading?
Alan Dean Foster - Lost and Found
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03-12-2012, 14:29
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Re: What are you reading?
Robert Rankin - The Sprouts of Wrath.
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03-12-2012, 16:33
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Re: What are you reading?
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Following on from that, I then read "Bad Blood" (a "Double Dead" novella), by Chuck Wendig. Half the size of the first one, but still great.
Next up will be Blackbirds and Mockingbird, also by Wendig.
It was actually a recent io9 review of Wendig's "Mockingbird" (the second Miriam Black novel) that got me into his books.
That lead me to a review of Blackbirds (the first Miriam Black novel).
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Acting on your recommendation, bought both the book and novella - read them over the last two evenings.
Excellent twist on a theme.
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03-12-2012, 17:31
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Re: What are you reading?
Ian Rankin - The Complaints
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03-12-2012, 18:24
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Re: What are you reading?
The Dawkins Delusion.
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03-12-2012, 19:04
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Re: What are you reading?
50 Mathematical Ideas You Really Need To Know by Tony Crilly
http://www.amazon.co.uk/mathematical.../dp/1847240089
Fascinating! 
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08-12-2012, 21:54
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Re: What are you reading?
Bad Monkeys - Matt Ruff
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09-12-2012, 01:08
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Re: What are you reading?
Great North Road by Peter Hamilton
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09-12-2012, 14:11
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Re: What are you reading?
Pete Hautman - The Obsidian Blade
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