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28 Sep 2009, 22:36
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What book are you reading now?
I'm just finished with "Mugabe" by David Smith & Colin Simpson (1981).
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28 Sep 2009, 22:52
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Re: What book are you reading now?
I just finished The Forest by Edward Rutherfurd, my next one will be something by Raymond E. Feist.
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Re: What book are you reading now?
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Re: What book are you reading now?
rhino what you did last summer by paul howard
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29 Sep 2009, 01:40
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Re: What book are you reading now?
Reading that new Dan Brown (shite). Reading The Two Towers. Reading Patrick Robinson, USS Seawolf
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Re: What book are you reading now?
The God Delusion by Dawkins and Postwar: a History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt
recently finished A Short history of nearly everything by Bryson, Paris: 1919 by MacMillan and Churchill by Shaffner.
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29 Sep 2009, 20:25
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Re: What book are you reading now?
David Mitchell Ghostwritten, love it
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29 Sep 2009, 21:47
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Re: What book are you reading now?
The Life of Apollonius of Tyana by Philostratus
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Re: What book are you reading now?
The Neutronium Alchemist by Peter F Hamilton, after whatever the hell the first one was called. And looking for more space-opera style suggestions after it, if anyone has any good ones
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Re: What book are you reading now?
I've just finished Winter: A Berlin Family, 1899 - 1945 by Len Deighton.
It doesn't really go in depth into the history as the book mainly concentrates on the (mostly personal) lives of the characters involved. Still a good read though.
I'm about to start Matter by Iain M. Banks. I've heard it's not very good but it's the only Culture novel I haven't read yet so I figured I'd give it a go.
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The Neutronium Alchemist by Peter F Hamilton, after whatever the hell the first one was called. And looking for more space-opera style suggestions after it, if anyone has any good ones
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The Naked God is book 3, in case you didn't know there was a book 3 I'm planning to get around to reading that series eventually. What did you think of the first two books?
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30 Sep 2009, 22:06
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Re: What book are you reading now?
Just finished Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice a day or two ago, unsure what I´ll read next. Got another Anne Rice vampire story here, but feel like I need a change.
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Re: What book are you reading now?
I just finished Trudi Canavans - Age of the Five series.
Just started on Stephen Donaldson - Lord Foul's Bane.
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1 Oct 2009, 07:42
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Re: What book are you reading now?
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I've just finished Winter: A Berlin Family, 1899 - 1945 by Len Deighton.
It doesn't really go in depth into the history as the book mainly concentrates on the (mostly personal) lives of the characters involved. Still a good read though.
I'm about to start Matter by Iain M. Banks. I've heard it's not very good but it's the only Culture novel I haven't read yet so I figured I'd give it a go.
The Naked God is book 3, in case you didn't know there was a book 3 I'm planning to get around to reading that series eventually. What did you think of the first two books?
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Half-way through the second at the minute but I got straight into it. Found the first to be a bit of a slow burner until about half-way through but it certainly picked up pace and I'm glad that the second didn't do the same thing but was a pretty much direct continuation of the story.
Also, Matter isn't the best Culture novel I'd agree, but it does bring the other Involved races into the spotlight a bit which was good. It's also the only Culture book that I've not been disappointed with ending-wise - some of them have annoyed me for teasing a big finale but ultimately ending quite anticlimactically.
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Re: What book are you reading now?
I’m reading two. Battle Cry of Freedom is about the American Civil War, it’s very good and accessible about a period of history I knew nothing about. The first third is devoted to the background and causes, I’d defiantly recommend it if anyone is interested in that period. The second is a bad Sci-Fi book called The Reality Dysfunction, it’s not horrible bad but the main character has slept with about half the galaxy, it's worse than a Mills & Boon book.
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Re: What book are you reading now?
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The second is a bad Sci-Fi book called The Reality Dysfunction, it’s not horrible bad but the main character has slept with about half the galaxy, it's worse than a Mills & Boon book.
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Re: What book are you reading now?
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The Neutronium Alchemist by Peter F Hamilton, after whatever the hell the first one was called. And looking for more space-opera style suggestions after it, if anyone has any good ones
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You could try (in this order)
The Golden Age
The Phoenix Exultant
The Golden Transcendance
by John. C. Wright.
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11 Oct 2009, 00:44
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Re: What book are you reading now?
Winds of Dune by Kevin Anderson and Franks Herbert's son.
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Re: What book are you reading now?
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It gets better.
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And then he seduces the barely legal daughter of his business partner, not to mention Quinn and his massive 'flesh sword', gangbangs and undead homosexual
rape dwarf.
They are really good books though Al Capone, Space Emperor.
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Re: What book are you reading now?
Eminem - Whatever you say I am
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Re: What book are you reading now?
I’m halfway through the book of Genesis & there’s no mention of Phil Collins yet?
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Re: What book are you reading now?
Well I have reading comics most of the times. Currently i have reading superman series.
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Re: What book are you reading now?
I am re-reading the Art of War by Sun Tzu
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Re: What book are you reading now?
Rhetoric by Aristotle
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16 Oct 2009, 21:16
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Re: What book are you reading now?
2010: Odyssey Two - Arthur C Clarke - classic.
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Re: What book are you reading now?
Two books: "The Colditz Myth" and "How to live a low-carbon life"
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Re: What book are you reading now?
Bad Science - Ben Goldacre
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Re: What book are you reading now?
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Two books: "The Colditz Myth" and "How to live a low-carbon life"
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So how do we live a low-carbon life?
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Re: What book are you reading now?
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The Life of Apollonius of Tyana by Philostratus
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Is this a Romantic Novel? Detective fiction? I haven't seen it on the news stand.
However, I like the title. I like apples.
Princeps Fury by Butcher
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Re: What book are you reading now?
Simon Scarrow's Centurion series is tickling me at the moment. Nice light escapism with a knob of history. Nice.
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Re: What book are you reading now?
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Is this a Romantic Novel? Detective fiction? I haven't seen it on the news stand.
However, I like the title. I like apples.
Princeps Fury by Butcher
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sorry i missed this.
the edition i have is published by what is called the loeb classical library which is something to do with a modern university in your country called harvard or somesuch.
I feel as red faced as the last time i had to thank cadiz for preserving aristotle from those pesky fanatical christians.
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Re: What book are you reading now?
"The Complaints" by Ian Rankin
Was given it for christmas but just got round to reading it.
Its slow paced for a Rankin novel , and I sense he needs a Rebus type character in every novel now to focus his storytelling , as the last few novels have kinda left me cold, with unlikeable/unsympathetic main characters and endings which read like a badly written Hollywood movie.
Hopefully it improves over the next few chapters.
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Re: What book are you reading now?
finished 'the constant princess' by philippa gregory
reading 'the book of the dead' by patricia cornwall
next i want to read 'pride and prejudice and zombies' by seth grahame-smith (and jane austen)
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Re: What book are you reading now?
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So how do we live a low-carbon life?
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The most low carbon life is one that ends quickly. Preferably in a low carbon way, like an FSC certified crossbow bolt.
I'm reading '1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow' by Zamoyski, 'Chapterhouse Dune' by Herbert and 'The Physics of Solar Cells' by Nelson. Turns out that being cold and hungry is pretty bad. So is being chased across the galaxy by dominatrices, or eating cadmium telluride.
I take it we've all read A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin? It's brilliant. And handles its idealistic characters with a good dose of realism.
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Re: What book are you reading now?
I'm reading Homicide by David Simon.
It's been a good read but Simon's writing style is a bit heavy at times.
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Re: What book are you reading now?
TV adaption of George R R Martin's A Game of Thrones has been greenlighted by HBO.
Awesome!
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Re: What book are you reading now?
I'm reading Thomas Hardy's Far From The Madding Crowd and a book on the 2008 US Presidential election. (I read the first one when I'm going somewhere as the second one is too big to fit in a pocket or anything comfortably.)
And even I've read a song of ice and fire! Stupid old guy taking 15 years to write 2 books I hope you ****ing die.
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Re: What book are you reading now?
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I'm reading Thomas Hardy's Far From The Madding Crowd and a book on the 2008 US Presidential election. (I read the first one when I'm going somewhere as the second one is too big to fit in a pocket or anything comfortably.)
And even I've read a song of ice and fire! Stupid old guy taking 15 years to write 2 books I hope you ****ing die.
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I've never known anyone who voluntarily read hardy - are you trying to counterbalance an accidental leak of prozac into your drinking water ?
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Re: What book are you reading now?
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I've never known anyone who voluntarily read hardy - are you trying to counterbalance an accidental leak of prozac into your drinking water ?
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As far as could be learnt it appeared that the poor young dog, still under the impression that since he was kept for running after sheep, the more he ran after them the better, had at the end of his meal off the dead lamb, which may have given him additional energy and spirits, collected all the ewes into a corner, driven the timid creatures through the hedge, across the upper field, and by main force of worrying had given them momentum enough to break down a portion of the rotten railing, and so hurled them over the edge.
George's son had done his work so thoroughly that he was considered too good a workman to live, and was, in fact, taken and tragically shot at twelve o'clock that same day -- another instance of the untoward fate which so often attends dogs and other philosophers who follow out a train of reasoning to its logical conclusion, and attempt perfectly consistent conduct in a world made up so largely of compromise.
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Re: What book are you reading now?
I'm reading Dear John by Nicholas Sparks.
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Re: What book are you reading now?
Reading 2 books atm: The greatest show on earth - Richard Dawkins
and History of Philosophy - Hans Joachim Storig
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Re: What book are you reading now?
Farlander by Col Buchanan (review copy). Surprisingly good, it's got me gripped.
Cool it by Bjorn Lomborg. Reasonable approach, tends to concentrate on low end estimates and spends lots of time covering old ground. He's pointing me in the direction of interesting papers though.
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Re: What book are you reading now?
Recently finished Kershaw's Hitler biography, right now I'm busy with The Cambridge History of American foreign relations volume IV - America in the Age of Soviet Power, 1945-1991 by Warren I. Cohen and Inside the Kremlin's Cold War - From Stalin to Krushchev by Vladislav Zubok and Constantine Pleshakov.
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Re: What book are you reading now?
I actually haven't read A song of ice and fire.
I am currently reading Murakami's Kafka on the beach
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Re: What book are you reading now?
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I actually haven't read A song of ice and fire.
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Every geek should.
It's sort of ruined other fantasy for me though. No author author manages half a dozen+ PoV characters with such elan.
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Re: What book are you reading now?
No way I start on such a series before it's been finished by the author. Not doing another Wheel of time mistake.
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Re: What book are you reading now?
I am currently reading The Quick By Lauren Owen.
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Re: What book are you reading now?
I'm reading Jim Butcher's Dresden Files. It's getting tense now, 11 books in (plus all the relevant short stories from "Side Jobs"). NEED MORE.
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Re: What book are you reading now?
I'm working my way through a bunch of Pratchetts. Been a while since I read those, and I need a break from super serious fiction for a bit.
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Re: What book are you reading now?
i am (re)reading David Gemmell's 'The Swords of Night and Day'
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Re: What book are you reading now?
Just purchased The Road By Cormac McCarthy.
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