spinlizard wrote:Accidental Empires (because I have to - Open Uni course work). Good book about the rise of the PC industry.
the cursed T171 ?
The very same. Actually I'm quite enjoying it, though it does tend to eat into your evenings. Especially when you've got yourself 3 weeks behind.
mm did it a couple of years back. just annoyed that it was a compulsory part of the degree then. though the set books are interesting reads, it's the group stuff that gets a bit sucky if you have people who cant get their fingers out of their arses.
I've just finished Stardust by Neil Gaiman (one of his best, IMO).
Currently on the go is The Princess Bride (although I couldn't find the original Morgenstern edition anywhere), and Stephen Donaldson's sci-fi series (the man has a very low opinion of human beings, though), and a bumper load of the better sort of grahic novels ordered from Amazon at the start of the year.
Current series' being read (ie awaiting the authors getting off their backsides and finishing the damned trilogies) include the Engines of Light, George RR Martin's fantasy/WOTR series, Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time (I'm betting he dies before the series finishes), K J Parker's current series and the sublime Guy Gavriel Kay's Sarentium series. Oh, and several other sets of books that are OK, but not great.
If Sci-Fi is your thing, as well as Iain M Banks you should check out Peter F Hamilton's Night's Dawn trilogy, and Ken MacLeod's Engines of Light is shaping up nicely.
Great books read in the last 12 months or so include Mary Gentle's Ash, Carter Beats The Devil and Pressfield's Gates of Fire - you'd be mad to miss any of them.
Its release kind took me by supprise, im a big discworld fan but I didnt know it was comming till I saw it in the shop
Same here. Definately not the time of the year to expect a new Discworld book. I was buying a magazine and spotted it sitting on the shelf. 4 quid off too
Its release kind took me by supprise, im a big discworld fan but I didnt know it was comming till I saw it in the shop
Same here. Definately not the time of the year to expect a new Discworld book. I was buying a magazine and spotted it sitting on the shelf. 4 quid off too
I find amazon to be an amazingly effective way to keep track of release dates for the DW stuff...
You've got to wait until October for the next "proper" discworld book. Let's hope he keeps up the recent standard
Cheers
Chris
the bizzarre ratings of an ignorant, deluded old fool
indeed...Im sure it will be
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What was funny, is when I got home with the book, I suddenly noticed there was a picture from the book on my Discworld Calender! for this month
How dumb am I? I didnt twig till I already had the book...
Just started What Liberal Media? by Eric Alterman. Suggested reading for you Yanks disgusted with the current state of affairs, but not for the FOX News-worshipping dittoheads.
Almost finished (thank goodness) book 10 of the Honor Harrington series "War of Honor" by David Weber. They're enjoyable books, but this one is a bit long winded for my liking. On to another series/book soon. Actually, on reflection, I'll probably pick up book 10 of the Wheel of Time next. I've also got that new Orson Scott Card book waiting for me.
Hmmm. The why part. Well, in the case of this series, I'd have to say, "Entertainment."
"Ask not for whom the bone bones; it bones for thee."
--Bender
