This week, I are mostly reading....

Shiminay

sorry, wanted to start a new thread

Anyway...
I are reading Magician by Feist

Cloud

OOooh.

Is that the revised version?

/me is reading Book 3 in the Gap Series (Stephen Donaldson) and the not-too-taxing Dragonflight (Anne McCaffrey).

J.
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DeViant

This week.....
The first book in the Han Solo Trilogy
The Paradise snare

Shiminay

Ya, the revised version.

I'd have started it properly but I started it pretty much straight after finishing Jingo and it was just too hard going after all that Pratchett! Tore a good chunk out of it last night (insomnia is great) and so far, it rox!

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All the best,

Dav

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WhiteWashMan

its great the first 20 timesyou red it

gets ****e after darkenss at sethanon though

all the rest are crap
still have em though

mewso

Hehe. Yeah Magician is an all timer. The trilogy he did with Janny Wurts is excellent.

M

Trojan

Magician rocks but I got lost 14 books into the trilogy.

Reading David Brins "Uplift" series, now on bk 2, "Infinity's Shore".

Kind of a strange style to get the hang of, but quite enthralling (doh, I'm supposed to be doing my C++ proj.)

Al.

OSiriS

well finally finished Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep, without startin yet another book...though i was tempted...now to finish Dune

Does anyone know if the full stories of the Starwars Trilogy are in print, and I don't mean the books of the films. There is sooo much going on that the films don't show, such as:
When Chubaca is picking up the pieces if C3P0 from the incinerator room in The Empire Strikes Back, you can see in the background lying up against a wall another android. This Android was seen earlier when Vader was briefing the Bounty Hunters. This Android Bounty Hunter also found Solo n co, and had a confrontation with Boba Fett, from which he obviously came out the worse.
And there are alot more besides this, so I want to get the FULL story

joe.

just finished a star called henry by roddy doyle.
currently reading east of eden by john steinbeck

ThenComesDudley

Most of the way through LIQUOR by Poppy Z Brite, tis really entertaining, to the point that ive started reading on the bus. I usually feel sick when i do this.

Micro1

This week Stephen Ericklson 'gardens of the moon' , and next week 100 years of solitude.

Chinafoot

this week........

huck finn, always meant to read it but never got round to it.

Art_Wolf

Finished Lord of the Isles earlier during the week and am curently reading David Weber's On Basilisk Station - first of the Honour Harringtion books. LOTI was simply something to waste time with - kept me interested but wasnt great :dunno:

So far On Baslisk Station has proved very enjoyable though it reminds me alot of David Feintuch's Seafort saga

byte

Currently reading Tim Allen's "Don't stand too close to a naked man"

It's not great. Thankfully it's short and only cost me 50c at a car boot sale!

AndrewWK

Am reading A Darkness at Sethanon, third in Riftwar series. What do you think of Magician Kharn? I read it about a month ago.

edit: ffs I just noticed the date!

simu

Recently started A Brief History of Time.

Trojan

Yeah, Kharn (probably) aint online at the moment

I've just finished "It's not about the bike" by Lance Armstrong. Good read, recommended to just about anybody.

LoLth

re-rereading the Song of ice and fire trilogy.... still a great story, just wish he'd hurry up with the next book!!!

Manach

"The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire 1st-3rd century" by Edward Luttwak. Enjoying so much I've ordered his "Coup d'etat, a practical handbook".

ThenComesDudley

Sophocles

The Theban Plays

eclectichoney

just on the last third of tc boyle's the tortilla curtain

Krusty_Clown

David Gemmel's White Wolf... Enjoyable read. 75% of the way through..

Micro1

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini.
Really quite a fantastic book. Very well written. Highly recomended. Itll bring a tear to your eye.

Typedef

The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F Hamilton.

kano476

im re-reading "into thin air" by jon krakaur, damn good read.

LoneGunM@n

I just started The Bear & The Dragon by Tom Clancy

RE*AC*TOR

Jack Kerouac - On The Road

Not bad - very "american"

echomadman

Read David Gemmell's: Ravenheart last night,
started the sequel Stormrider this morning

TheWolf

Orson Scott Card - The ender saga. Finished Enders game, halfway through "Speaker for the dead". Very enjoyable

Typedef

Overtaken - Alexi Sayle

Buck Owens

Just finished I am Legend:D
about to start Porno-Irving Welsh.

Trojan

Good call Typie. I'm a PFH junkie.

Currently some Robin Hobb, though I'm not enjoying it too much, just want to finish the trilogy (Liveships) at this stage.

Beatrix

The Witches - Roald Dahl

After having read a book on Freud... The Witches is brilliant for relaxation purposes
Also... the children's books are the best to pick up writing tips from!!!

Just finished Who On Earth is Tom Baker?.

Plan to start The Narrows by Michael Connelly tomorrow. Bought it a month ago, just waiting till Id finished the Leaving Cert, which is tomorrow at 12:50.

Envy

The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy.

Well, trying to read it -- the Leaving Cert. doesn't leave much free time. I'll get properly into the book when the LC finishes next Wednesday.

secret_squirrel

Originally posted by Typedef
The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F Hamilton.

Strongly recommend Fallen Dragon (his best imo) and Pandora's star after you have finished that trilogy typie.

Just finished Gridlinked by Neal Asher. Starting Song of ice and fire again. (hurry up No4).

Just before that was Curious incident of the Dog in the nighttime - excellent.

Book of the year so far: Market Forces - Richard Morgan.

byte

Peter And Mary Have A Row - Damien Owens

Krusty_Clown

Stephen Hawkings: A Life in Science
Michael White, John Gribbin

pork99

"Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life" by Daniel Dennett.

It's tough going but fascinating.

I think this book (plus "The Blind Watchmaker" and "The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins and "How the Mind Works" and "The Blank Slate" by Stephen Pinker) should be mandatory reading for those people posting on the Paranormal board - might explain a thing or two to them and stop them making such complete tools of themselves

CuLT

Originally posted by secret_squirrel
Strongly recommend Fallen Dragon (his best imo) and Pandora's star after you have finished that trilogy typie.

Oh god no, Fallen dragon is a watery, watery book compared to the trilogy.

For the Night's Dawn trilogy though, he is my favourite author, I even bought the federation handbook . And of course that lurvely short story collection, of which Escape Route was my favourite.


I are mostly reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy atm.

echomadman

this week i are mostly reading J.G. Ballard, read Empire of the Sun and The Drowned World in the last few days. Starting Cocaine nights tonight.

joe_chicken

this week i are mostly reading Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre : ih's okay... nothin special

secret_squirrel

Originally posted by CuLT
Oh god no, Fallen dragon is a watery, watery book compared to the trilogy.

How can you dis fallen dragon?...its got a proper ending unlike Nights Dawn and the rest of Peter H's books!

LoneGunM@n

Originally posted by Beatrix
The Witches - Roald Dahl

After having read a book on Freud... The Witches is brilliant for relaxation purposes
Also... the children's books are the best to pick up writing tips from!!!

I took your lead & picked up an old Enid Blyton book [ok so I bought a few Enid Blyton books] last week & I keep reading them 1 after another ... they're the mystery series by the way ... The 5 find-outers & dog rock

Actually, kid's books rock

plastic membrane

Originally posted by Trojan


Reading David Brins "Uplift" series, now on bk 2, "Infinity's Shore".

Kind of a strange style to get the hang of, but quite enthralling
Al.

They are quite brilliant, arent they.

This week i am reading "Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow" by Peter Hoeg. Which is so strange i cant help feeling the English translation made it a lot odder than it actually is. Very good so far, though..

Tusky

Originally posted by Buck Owens
Just finished I am Legend:D
about to start Porno-Irving Welsh.

Porno is class . The book and the industry

Bibliofemme

Originally posted by bmarley
just finished a star called henry by roddy doyle.
currently reading east of eden by john steinbeck

I'm also reading East of Eden - it's quite a tome (I'm usually faint-hearted with big books) but it just sucks you in. No one does characterisation as well as he does.

Bibliofemme

Haven't poked my head in here in while but recent reads include:

Fillums by Hugh Leonard (entertaining, more like a collection of colloquial Irish short stories)
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith (I hated it - totally unoriginal and forgettable)
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto (excellent book, deals with death and existence through food and cross-dressing!)
MJ Hyland's How the Light Gets In - great read, the teen heroine and much of this book reminded me of The Outsiders or The Catcher in the Rye

Kolodny

Distress - Greg Egan. Mindboggling good.

callmescratch

this week i are been mostly reading Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
just started this, it's about hollywood in the 70s. seems good so far tho

simu

Originally posted by plastic membrane
They are quite brilliant, arent they.

This week i am reading "Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow" by Peter Hoeg. Which is so strange i cant help feeling the English translation made it a lot odder than it actually is. Very good so far, though..

Smilla's a great character - just when you think you understand her, she surprises you completely. I really enjoyed that book!