Whats on peoples bedside table? (I meant books for gods sake!)

DeVore

What are people currently reading?
I'm trying to think of the name of the book I'm engrossed in at the moment but its pretty much pap fiction.
Just finished Inversions, planning on reading Cryptonomicon next.

Tom.

Von

Lo Dev!

The Best Of Myles by Flann O'Brien
and My Idea Of Fun by Will Self

Manach

Beside me night reading
- The ultimate dinosaur, Robert Silverberg
- Mask of Command, John Keegan
- Asterix in Belgium (class)

whitetrash

The Homesick Garden

for school - damn its crap

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Paladin

Been reading Far Side's. Am 200 or so pages through reading Lord of dem ringys - havent read it since I was about 10 or 12 and I can hardly remember a thing. Gees its great

MiCr0

atm i'm reading the new tom clancy book, and next is the complete notes and 2 other bill bryson books.
and tbh i can't wait to read them again.

MiCr0

SHADOW

yeah I'm abit hooked on Tom Clancy's - Rainbox Six. Its quite cool atm....

Course not really reading that much at the moment, usually bleery eyed after starin at a puter screen for WAAAAYYY to long...!

N

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Slosh

Re-reading all my Gemmell books... folks if you havent read Lion of Macedon get it... if you don't like it I'll gladly re-imburse you...


Sloshed...

Very.

ButcherOfNog

Just finishing Robert Rankin, Snuff Fiction. Only 1 mention of mini-guns in it ....

Shinji

Iain M. Banks' Consider Phlebas. Can't believe I hadn't read any of Banks' stuff before Dr Teeth slapped some sense into me in a book shop a while back

TwoShedsJackson

Denying History by Michael Shermer. After that it'll be Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear.

Shinji

Darwins Radio is damn good, and the genetic theory stuff in it is pretty accurate too... Must reread it sometime soon actually.

Shiminay

Just finished reading Wyrd Sisters (Prachett) and Xtinction Agenda (X-Men, X_Factor, New Mutants colleceted comics).
Thinking about Chronicles of Thomas Convenant, but it seems too big
I'm in a real lazy reading mood atm - hence Prachett and comics

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All the best,

Dav
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My page of stuff

Bard

ditto here about the lazy mood- hence Hitch-hikers Guide and comedy CD's...

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LoLth

Just finished Veronika decides to die by Paulo Coelho,

Just about to start Royal Assassain by Robin Hobb (again...)

Canaboid

OK 2 mentioned earlier in the post but they're both excellent. Cryptonomicon is quite simply one of the best books I've read in a long while. Beg borrow or steal a copy.
Darwins' Radio is.. well what Shinji said.

_CreeD_

Paper:
"Tales of a Dying Earth" - Jack Vance. Easy reading fairy tale stuff, not as hard to get used to as Lyonesse.

"The Ufo Engima" - Sturrock (factual)

"The Ecolitan Enigma" - Modesitt

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Excelsior

abolition of man by cs lewis.
all about the idea of teaching and its effects on people and about how language reflects reality.
and how we under-estimate the importance of emotion in our lives. it is great.
and a college ethics book which is just super.

metalchicken

Well, on my bedside table is "which lie did I tell" by William Goldman which I got for my birthday (THANKS DAVID ), but on the bus I'm reading T.H. White's "Once and future king".
It's really good so far, made up of five books about the Arthurian legend. The first book is sword in the stone, but its really different from the disney cartoon (no madam mim anywhere!!!). It's a GROWN UP book though, honestly. Very witty. I think.

Blitzkrieger

Fear and Loating in Las Vegas - not worth reading really. I imagine it's supposed to have shock value but we've seen it all before. The only reason I'm finishing it is cos I hate leaving books unfinished.

plastic membrane

Take Back Plenty by Colin Greenland. Really good SF.

Speaking of Robert Rankin, does anybody haveone of those amazing rotary machine guns, like the one Blaine had in Predator ?

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Im going to the bear fights tomorrow, want to come with ??

Shinji

Mhmm, for good Arthurian legend stuff, try The Crystal Cave and The Hollow Hills - can't remember what order these come in. Fascinating look at the legend through the eyes of Merlin; presents him as a young man with an unnatural power, as opposed to a wise dude with a big beard. Great stuff.

WhiteWashMan

Originally posted by ButcherOfNog:
Just finishing Robert Rankin, Snuff Fiction. Only 1 mention of mini-guns in it ....

its an old charter, or tadition, or something....

darthmise

High Fidelity _Nick Hornby
Howard Marks autobiography (amazing read!)
Pocket book of Tai Chi

Canaboid

Didn't think much of High Fidelity.
Mr. Nice was excellent. I defy anyone not to choke up a little when he talks about his son at the end.

Lucutus

Anne Rice's "The Queen of the Damned".

Kharn, read the Chronicles of The Unbeleiver Covenent! You won't regret it!

Luc

tHE vAGGABOND

The first 3 Harry Potter books

1 down, and 2 to go

Well worth anyones time!

Canaboid

American Psycho. It's erm... a bit.. erm..
I'll let yis know.

Paladin

There is a melted speaker on my bedside now.

I pushed my lamp up against it to stop the glare while I was reading. Forgot about it.
Smelt something funny. Was my speaker case on fire. Well damn

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tobi

C++ Plus Data Structures ShudderI know I know i'm sad

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I warned you! But did you listen to me? Oh no, you knew it all, didn't you? Oh, its just a harmless little bunny, isn't it?

WhiteWashMan

2000/2001 night courses book, wheel of time book 4:the shadow rising, citrix metaframe server manual, deus ex manual (cant find the case to put in)

Hannah

i'm readin lord of the rings and i stand by my opinion that it is highly overrated, k so i haven't actually finished it yet but i mean first Gandalf dies, then Boromir turns bad, what can i say is there no end to the bad luck that one hobbit must endure?,
disillusioned,
H

Kegser

I'm reading book one of the Wheel of Time at the moment... it's about the fourth time I've read it... and after that I shall go onto book two.. then book three... etc.

Last week I finished reading A Line in the Sand by Gerald Seymour... a pretty average book.. nothing spectacular at all.

tobi

Hannah I suggest you keep reading.

Lots of surprises ahead

Paladin

Like I know!
ROFL @ Hannah.
Actually, coming from the manic depressive pessimist that she is, Id say that TLOTR stands in pretty good stead with a mere "overrated " put down.

Nice to see u posting btw Hannah

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Steven

Hannah registered? Hey, whadda ya mean Pal? She calls me a manic-depressive, so just how bad am I?

stu_69

just finished "white city blue" by tim lott
very good book but takes a while to get going.
also just finished a book called "ralphs party" by god knows who. it was stuck to the front of some womens magazine my mother bought - actuaqly turned out to be not a bad book considering i started reading it on the toilet.
i'm about to start reading sean hughes new book

DaBounca

i in the middle of tom clancy's rainbow six and jrr tolkien's book of lost tales part 1.

El_Presidente

I picked up a copy of Lord of the Rings a few weeks back and am slowly making my way through it.

Illkillya

omg. another lepper

Greenbean

Zen and the Art of Motor Cycle Maintenance by Robert M Pirsig. Very important book.

Kegser

I saw a fella in the canteen the other day reading that book.

I laughed.

But seriously, is it any good? And what's it about?

MiCr0

god i read that book years ago
its not too bad at all

better that the world according to garp

Hannah

i've just finished lord of the flies.
a most excellent book, if u haven't read it go get a copy, NOW!
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Cloud

Invader by C.J. Cherryh.

The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson.

Ackermanthology by Forest J. Ackerman.

Kali

anything by Dean Koontz is generally a damn good read..
which is why im currently reading "Strangers" for the fourth time.. bloody excellent story.

Shiminay

Originally posted by Hannah:
i've just finished lord of the flies.
a most excellent book, if u haven't read it go get a copy, NOW!
H

Read that for my Junior Cert (7 years ago - OMFG!). T'was a good book, but like anything you have to read for school, tended to be over analysed by the teachers which takes a lot of enjoyment out of it.
Definitely a good read though...

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All the best,

Zapper

just finished "Adverntures in the Screen Trade" by William Goldman...good read...

Hannah

have to agree with you kharn, teachers definitely pick a good book to death, answer; study a really bad book!, at least that seems to be our teacher's solution!, the drivel they make us read would put anyone off literature for life.
k, i've finished ranting now , it's just really bugs me,
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Skorzeny

Anyone read Hannibal yet, a truely terrifying book.Harris has 1 sick mind but ppl die in such cool ways

MiCr0

Originally posted by Skorzeny:
Anyone read Hannibal yet, a truely terrifying book.Harris has 1 sick mind but ppl die in such cool ways

you haven't finished this book yet have you?