TwistedScrote wrote:Try The Dark Tower series.... By Stephen King.
It's not like his other books (altho it does pay homage to them)
But the series is very very special. It's easily the finest work he has ever done and spans pretty much all his writing career.
Thanks for the headsup but I don't think I will. There are tons of books I'd rather read and there is not enough time (or money) to read them in a lifetime.
Within the last week, "Tokyo", a thriller by Mo Halder. Not bad, but the way the plots going becomes kind of obvious once you realise what the main characters hang-up is and if you know anything about Japanese war crimes in China in 1937.
"Japanamerica", a look at how anime conquered the World in the past decade. Pretty good and some interesting snippets (such as how the much derided Sandy Frank, who gave us Battle of the Planets, actually wanted to keep the violence in... ), but I'm not entirely sure about the authors premise that animes explosion in popularity is partly or mostly down to 9/11.
And, er, one of those identi-kit Dale Browns "Dreamland" books. I'm not proud.
Story of the use of Vulcan Bombers for the first raid on Port Stanley in the Falklands War.
Very good story, and all true.
Its amazing that a book thats 75% about aerial refuelling and the ways in Which It Can Go Wrong can be so engrossing. Although I've recently read a book by a Sea Harrier pilot who is rather... er... critical about the whole thing...
Just inished reading Riding Rockets, and am feeling entirely choked up. Hearily recommended reading for anyone who ever looked up and thought "Want!" - Mike Mullane's biography, and pretty much diametrically opposite of what NASA press releases are like. Actually, it's got a lot of parallels with Yeager's bio... *chuckle* Both utter loonies
Heartrending, honest, powerful. Great stuff.
Just starting on Vulcan 607 in between the Maya 8 Visual Quickstart Guide (and hoping hard that there aren't too many divergences between 8 and the PLE of 7, the lastest free versh available).
Re reading the full run of Sherlock Holmes, including the better stories written by talented members of the Baker Street Irregulars. Elementary.
I'm trying to get my hands on a couple of volumes of scholarly works on the subject of Mr Conan Doyle's most troublesome detective.
"Shouting lager, lager, lager, lager. Shouting lager, lager, lager, lager. Is just one of the reasons you're not welcome at Claridges any more". -Psychic Bob
I'm reading Alan Dean Foster's Pip and Flynx series in the wrong order because they're such a bugger to get hold of. I've just bid on another 4 books in the series on ebay
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