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

DeVore · 06-10-2000 07:44PM #1

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 · 06-10-2000 08:26PM

Lo Dev!

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

Manach · 07-10-2000 12:13AM

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

whitetrash · 07-10-2000 11:58AM

The Homesick Garden

for school

- damn its crap

Yossarian Lives
PD Rank - 8

Paladin · 07-10-2000 01:08PM

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 · 07-10-2000 08:29PM

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 · 08-10-2000 12:31AM

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

If the bottom falls out of your world, drink Andrews and the world will fall out of your bottom!!
nethousegames

Slosh · 08-10-2000 01:35AM

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 · 08-10-2000 10:49AM

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

Shinji · 08-10-2000 07:14PM

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 · 08-10-2000 07:24PM

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

Shinji · 09-10-2000 11:45AM

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

Shiminay · 09-10-2000 01:22PM

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

All the best,

Dav
@B^)
My page of stuff

Bard · 09-10-2000 01:40PM

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

Bard
_____
-me-

LoLth · 09-10-2000 03:09PM

Just finished Veronika decides to die by Paulo Coelho,

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

Canaboid · 09-10-2000 04:18PM

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_ · 10-10-2000 07:09AM

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

Clan ReaveR Hompage

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Excelsior · 10-10-2000 02:28PM

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 · 10-10-2000 09:33PM

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 · 11-10-2000 12:46AM

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 · 11-10-2000 12:49AM

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 ?

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

Shinji · 11-10-2000 10:07AM

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 · 11-10-2000 01:31PM

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 · 12-10-2000 07:28PM

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

Canaboid · 13-10-2000 10:38AM

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 · 13-10-2000 10:51AM

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

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

Luc

tHE vAGGABOND · 13-10-2000 04:14PM

The first 3 Harry Potter books

1 down, and 2 to go

Well worth anyones time!

Canaboid · 13-10-2000 04:32PM

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

Paladin · 13-10-2000 10:38PM

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 · 14-10-2000 02:16AM

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

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 · 14-10-2000 08:48AM

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)

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

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