what are you reading?

grue · Post by **grue** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 5:33 pm 0

Ressurection Men by Ian Rankin

After that I have a full shelf of Andre Norton's books that my uncle sent me.

rowan · Post by **rowan** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 5:49 pm 0

War and Peace at the moment. Finding it very easy reading actually,
almost immediately interesting and with plenty of convenient places to
put down with a chapter every 2-5 pages.

benedictw · Post by **benedictw** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 5:50 pm 0

Just read Glasshouse(Charles Stross), which was dead good if you liked Accelerando type stuff and followed up by Times Eye(Clarke/Benford) which was good but was v slow to get going.

F-ZeroOne · Post by **F-ZeroOne** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 6:24 pm 0

Just at the moment, a Warhammer 40,000 novel. I picked it up on a whim. I used to dabble, and wondered if the universe is still as dark as I remember it.

Well, let me put it this way, someones just killed eight people, inflicting upon them various wounds with a repeating eight-theme, and then sat down for coffee and cakes and claimed that hes not a pyschopath.

So no change there then.

pogo · Post by **pogo** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 6:36 pm 0

Just finished this:

And, yes, I did read it, not just look at the dirty pictures (which, though dirty, are nothing compared to the text). A rare book indeed that takes sixteen years to read, as this did.

Portland · Post by **Portland** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 7:20 pm 0

I'm reading "Big cocks quarterly"

I mean "Aggers' special delivery" by the man himself.

F-ZeroOne · Post by **F-ZeroOne** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 8:12 pm 0

pogo wrote:Just finished this:

And, yes, I did read it, not just look at the dirty pictures (which, though dirty, are nothing compared to the text). A rare book indeed that takes sixteen years to read, as this did.

Wait. Is that the Alan Moore I think it is?!

pogo · Post by **pogo** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 8:19 pm 0

F-ZeroOne wrote:
pogo wrote:Just finished this:

And, yes, I did read it, not just look at the dirty pictures (which, though dirty, are nothing compared to the text). A rare book indeed that takes sixteen years to read, as this did.
Wait. Is that the Alan Moore I think it is?!

Yes, and it's probably the best thing he's done. It's also a graphic novel, and has some of the most beautiful art ever seen in this form. And the subject matter and treatment is probably unique, at least in modern times.

everklear · Post by **everklear** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 1:40 am 0

Just started book five of Stephen R Donaldson's "Gap" books. Uhm.."The Gap Into Somehing-or-other". I seriously considered retiring the series after about book two. It's grown on me a bit, and I plan to finish. I'm hopeful that one of the characters will have something good happen to them before the end.

noodles · Post by **noodles** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 2:36 am 0

Halfway through Babylon Babies by Dantec.

Making a movie out of it I hear.

SimonB · Post by **SimonB** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 1:06 pm 0

Istar wrote:Just finished 'Beyond Uhura', by Nichelle Nichols (of course). Very interesting, and in some places something of an eye-opener.

Will have to dig that out again sometime. I read it 11 or 12 years ago and it must be due a re-visit.

Just finished the authorised biog of Neil Armstrong and now re-reading Mr Pratchett's Strata (again, first time in about 11 or 12 years). Next will be either the Cloudspotters Guide or Great British Journeys by Bus. Also got Dava Sobel's Longitude in my walkphone.

Nintendodragon · Post by **Nintendodragon** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 1:55 pm 0

moby dick still!! its taking me ages! I dont have much time to read these days!

toxibunny · Post by **toxibunny** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 2:01 pm 0

SimonB wrote:...re-reading Mr Pratchett's Strata (again, first time in about 11 or 12 years). Next will be either the Cloudspotters Guide <snip>

ooh, I just read 'dark side of the sun' again, after about 11 or 12 years... pretty good, apart from the rather limp ending... It reminded me a lot of a less-sophisticated Iain banks, and I thought he might have been 'inspired by' until I noticed the date of publication - 1976! pretty good stuff for 1976, I thought...

and 'the cloudspotter's guide is (from the few chapters I've read) pretty ace

there's a story in it of the only man ever to fall right through the centre of a huge thundercloud (stratocumulous?) - mental. I won't spoil it, let's just say raging thunderclouds with strong central updrafts aren't kind to guys wearing parachutes

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Mat · Post by **Mat** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 6:11 pm 0

everklear wrote:Just started book five of Stephen R Donaldson's "Gap" books. Uhm.."The Gap Into Somehing-or-other". I seriously considered retiring the series after about book two. It's grown on me a bit, and I plan to finish. I'm hopeful that one of the characters will have something good happen to them before the end.

"This Day All Gods Die".
Best of the series by far. Ties everything up and turns Angus into one of the best anti-heroes ever.
Mind you, it's been a few years since I've read it.

F-ZeroOne · Post by **F-ZeroOne** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 7:06 pm 0

pogo wrote:
F-ZeroOne wrote:
pogo wrote:Just finished this:

And, yes, I did read it, not just look at the dirty pictures (which, though dirty, are nothing compared to the text). A rare book indeed that takes sixteen years to read, as this did.
Wait. Is that the Alan Moore I think it is?!
Yes, and it's probably the best thing he's done. It's also a graphic novel, and has some of the most beautiful art ever seen in this form. And the subject matter and treatment is probably unique, at least in modern times.

Well, perhaps only Alan Moore could annoy Great Ormond Street Hospital in the way he did by releasing that (I've been doing some... er... "research"... )