what are you reading?

merman · Post by **merman** » Mon May 07, 2007 6:25 pm 0

F-ZeroOne wrote:And, er, one of those identi-kit Dale Browns "Dreamland" books. I'm not proud.

I quite enjoy Dale's books, particularly "The Tin Man" (hi-tech suit of adaptive armour + jet boots = fun!)

F-ZeroOne · Post by **F-ZeroOne** » Mon May 07, 2007 7:55 pm 0

I enjoyed the early books - "Day of the Cheetah" is so much like Macross Plus its unreal (and a quite incredible coincidence) - but found things got a bit silly as they went on. Apparently theres been some naughty tax issues as well, which is why he tends to write with other authors names on the cover now...

...and while I think of it, "J.C." is the greatest.

XOR · Post by **XOR** » Mon May 07, 2007 8:16 pm 0

Currently reading 'Against The World, Against Life' by Michel Houellebecq.

It's an essay on H.P. Lovecraft (which incidently has an introduction by Stephen King which is the most interesting thing of his I've read) and also includes two of Lovecraft's stories.

All good...

grue · Post by **grue** » Mon May 07, 2007 8:51 pm 0

XOR wrote:Currently reading 'Against The World, Against Life' by Michel Houellebecq.

It's an essay on H.P. Lovecraft (which incidently has an introduction by Stephen King which is the most interesting thing of his I've read) and also includes two of Lovecraft's stories.

All good...

I'll look for that. Thanks.

Wanderer · Post by **Wanderer** » Tue May 08, 2007 12:34 am 0

right now Game Programming Gems 6 + the SDK for Live Arcade; just finished - yet again -- lord of the rings and the hobbit. in that order. Silly, I know

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Tue May 08, 2007 1:46 am 0

Freakonomics. Just finished it actually, and quite enjoyed it. It applied economic statistic techniques to a number of offbeat area's, and was quite entertaining and easy to read.

Probably the most interesting thing to note was their theory that legalizing abortion reduced the crime rate in the U.S.:

Legalized abortion and crime effect

Kronos · Post by **Kronos** » Tue May 08, 2007 3:01 pm 0

Waiting for a new copy of "The Watchmen" need a book and this is my all time favourite but can't find my copy since I moved

XOR · Post by **XOR** » Tue May 08, 2007 3:14 pm 0

silent_unicorn wrote:Waiting for a new copy of "The Watchmen" need a book and this is my all time favourite but can't find my copy since I moved

Is that The Watchmen as in Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons? Great graphic novel. Did they ever get round to making a film of it? There was talk of it.

F-ZeroOne · Post by **F-ZeroOne** » Tue May 08, 2007 5:08 pm 0

The film is in pre-production. A test shot of a certain masked vigilante appeared on the web a few weeks ago.

GoatFoam · Post by **GoatFoam** » Tue May 08, 2007 5:14 pm 0

"The end of the world - the science and ethics of human extinction"
by John Leslie (Not that one!)

swith · Post by **swith** » Tue May 08, 2007 5:18 pm 0

Currently reading Confessions of a Chatroom Freak by Mr.Biffo, then I'm going on to read that one about a Dog in the Night. CoaCF is funny, with the highest lulz-per-page ratio I've yet to encounter in a book. You can't read more than 5 chat sessions in one sitting though without starting to think too much about nasty stuff.

Kamineko · Post by **Kamineko** » Tue May 08, 2007 7:15 pm 0

Kamineko wrote:Not like these.

Not entirely suprisingly, the exam, written by the same guy, was just as incoherent. (And mostly based off stuff we weren't taught. YAY)

DTB · Post by **DTB** » Tue May 08, 2007 8:46 pm 0

I've just started re-reading the compiled definitive collected hitch hikers guide to the galaxy trilogy (in five parts)

I have a towel as well

GoatFoam · Post by **GoatFoam** » Tue May 08, 2007 8:56 pm 0

DTB wrote:I have a towel as well :roll:

But do you know where it is?

SimonB · Post by **SimonB** » Wed May 09, 2007 12:50 pm 0

Currently The Book Of Lost Books by Stuart Kelly which is not as interesting to me as I had hoped, but then maybe I should have read more of the "classics" first.

Also got Robin Cooper's The Return Of The Timewaster Letters on the go for five minute giggles while waiting for other things to happen around the house (e.g. the iron warming up or the microwave to go ping).

Vulcan 607 is sat on the shelf waiting for me along with lots of other stuff.

Audio-wise I've just finished Douglas Adams reading The Long Dark Tea-Time Of The Soul and the walkphone is now full of Neil Gaiman interviews and John Farnahm's A Very Bloody History of England (without The Boring Bits).