what are you reading?

George_Bray · Post by **George_Bray** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 12:00 am 0

From Dusk 'til Dawn by Keith Mann.

The Caffeine Kid · Post by **The Caffeine Kid** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 12:32 am 0

I've just finished reading His Dark Materials trilogy which I've been meaning to do for sooooo long but was finally prodded into by the release of the movie of (most of) the first book.

merman · Post by **merman** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 12:51 am 0

Science of Star Trek by Lawrence Krauss

sponge · Post by **sponge** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 1:38 am 0

Again.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 4:26 am 0

Einstein, by Walter Isaacson.

It's a biography of his life and accomplishments. Really quite interesting.

toxibunny · Post by **toxibunny** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 6:17 am 0

just finished the last harry potter. feckin' loved it. perfect end to the series.

failrate · Post by **failrate** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 6:20 am 0

Grammatical Man. Information Theory was never so much fun

sdetoni · Post by **sdetoni** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 8:30 am 0

failrate wrote:Grammatical Man. Information Theory was never so much fun

I can't seem to get into books these days. Kids just wear you down so that if you even try to read a book, you are asleep in 2 pages.

I really recommend "Watership Down", one of the better books I've read. If you have not read it..... shame on you.

Or a Clive Cussler noval, if you don't want to think very hard while you read, always a good adventure.

S.

SimonB · Post by **SimonB** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 1:22 pm 0

Richard Hammond: On The Edge

merman · Post by **merman** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 1:46 pm 0

merman wrote:Science of Star Trek by Lawrence Krauss

Now reading the follow-up, Beyond Star Trek - Physics from alien invasion to the end of time

In the first chapter, he proves that the large flying saucers in Independence Day would have wrecked the Earth with quakes and huge air pressures just because of their size, then a bit later he disproves that Mulder's flying discs could move so agilely in The X-Files. It's a good book, based on a lot of solid science.

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 8:57 pm 0

I finished Flashman and I'm halfway through Royal Flash. I'm really enjoying these a lot. I wasn't too sure when I first started reading Flashman but once he arrived in India it became a real page turner. Royal Flash is a load of fun so far with Flashman blackmailed by Otto Bismark into pretending to be a Danish Prince

Flash is such a tosser but you can't help feeling sorry for the poor sod as he gets into these scrapes.

I've got the third book in the series to read next but I may have to start reading them out of order soon. I'm guessing with the death of the author lots of people have started buying them.

Does anyone have a definitive order? Wikiepedia lists Flashman at the Charge as book 4 but Amazon has it as book 7? Does it really matter what order I read once I'm finished Royal Flash?

kalmar · Post by **kalmar** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 9:20 pm 0

The Dogcatcher, Alexi Sayle. Bloody brilliant, especially "The Mau-Mau hat"

Orava · Post by **Orava** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 12:48 am 0

Just finished Merde Happens by Stephen Clarke and now reading Making Money by Mr. Pratchett.

zip accident · Post by **zip accident** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 1:16 am 0

HGFB wrote: wrote:

I may have to start reading them out of order soon.

Not a problem, IMHO.

Does anyone have a definitive order? Wikiepedia lists Flashman at the Charge as book 4 but Amazon has it as book 7?

I'm with Wikipedia on that one in terms of publication order, but if GMF has been writing prequels, the theoretical sequence may not follow that.

Does it really matter what order I read once I'm finished Royal Flash?

Not much.

I did find it aggravating that later on there was a fictional niece or some such relative who censored some of the later books, so you had f*** or some such instead of the obvious. It may be that that resulted in more "censored" swearing than actually occurred in the earlier books.

Istar · Post by **Istar** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 9:23 am 0

"Look to Windward", by Iain M. Banks. Discovered The Culture last year, and have burned through The Player of Games, Consider Phlebas, and Excession in the last couple of months as I've found copies in bookshops.

Oddly, a lot of my reading time at the moment is being consumed with LibraryThing.