Carry wrote: » It's on my bedside pile, really looking forward to it As much as I enjoy (and need) my "away with the fairies" thrillers, but a "thinking about" book in between is a must to keep life in perspective. I enjoyed "Astrophysics for people in a hurry" a lot, though sometimes the author was a little bit too flippant and simplicistic for my taste. But then, it was for people in a hurry after all ...
kfrp wrote: » Finished 11/22/63 By Stephen King last week. Great read which combined fiction with non fiction. Would really recommend if you like a bit of history with conspiracy theory and time travel. Hard to put down once you get into it. Starting Congo by Michael Crichton, so far so good. Crichton always provides such a great background to each story.
Sephiroth_dude wrote: » Michael Crichton Lost World, Love it so far, finished Jurassic Park last Monday and loved that too, they left soooo much out of the movies.
Ipso wrote: » I was just thinking that I should read Jurassic park in the future. I have a Jo Nesbo book ordered from the library (I liked The Bat and Cockroaches, although they can take their time) and another in the Sharpe series, so after that I'll have a go at Jurassic Park.
Un1corn wrote: » Reading "Men without Women" by Murakami Huruki. Good so far. It's a collection of short stories which I like.
joe40 wrote: » I'm reading Artemis at the moment by Andy Reid. It is his follow up book to "The Martian". A crime caper set on a moon colony. If you like your books with plenty of fairly realistic science and engineering thrown in, he's your man.
GLaDOS wrote: » I really enjoyed The Martian, how would you rate Artemis compared to it?
Birneybau wrote: » Finished 'The Blade Artist' by Irvine Welsh, about where Francis Begbie ended up and, well, it was ok. Required some of the largest leaps of your own imagination to keep going with it.
Thargor wrote: » Birneybau wrote: » Finished 'The Blade Artist' by Irvine Welsh, about where Francis Begbie ended up and, well, it was ok. Required some of the largest leaps of your own imagination to keep going with it. I hated that book, it completely destroyed one of my favourite characters in fiction, and the whole Edinburgh environment he'd created in Skagboys/Trainspotting/Porno. It was just so pointless, why would you do that to Begbie? The character makes no sense now, even the picture of him on the cover made me wary and 10 pages in I was thinking WTF am I reading?
Noel Some Cornbread wrote: » Turned back the clock twenty plus years and reading Frederick Forsyth's 'The Odessa File' and can hardly put it down, reading almost 200 pages yesterday. Fantastic stuff. I haven't enjoyed a book this much in a very long time.