what are you reading?

grue · Post by **grue** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 9:51 pm 0

The cold six thousand - James Elroy
It follows right after the events of American Tabloid and it's -once more- hard hitting and cruel. Excellent, although in my opinion it drags just a bit more than needed.

VNVObit · Post by **VNVObit** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 10:08 pm 0

over the last 6 or so weeks have read

Halting States - Charles Stross
first 2 books in His Dark Materials trilogy
Horus Rising -Dan Abnett (Warhammer 40000)
The Road -Cormac McCarthy
tried the Jake White Biography but really didn't enjoy it
now to read the final book in Phillip Pullman's trilogy

F-ZeroOne · Post by **F-ZeroOne** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 10:43 pm 0

I pick up the odd Dan Abnett Warhammer 40,000 book form the library when I'm stuck for things to read. Its been ages since I played - is it right they make Space Marines from plastic now?!

- but the books are nice brain fun. Not food, fun. Horrific, Chaos-infected, staring into the Warp on the edge of madness brain fun, but brain fun nonetheless.

F-ZeroOne · Post by **F-ZeroOne** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 10:44 pm 0

HGFB wrote:I've finished Line War and The Engineer Reconditioned by Neal Asher and House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds. House of Suns is very, very good indeed.

Mr. Reynolds has a new book out? Why did no-one tell me?!

RageMatrix · Post by **RageMatrix** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 12:37 am 0

"Lewis Carroll - A Biography" by Morton N Cohen and "Wicked" by Gregory Maguire.

Whats "Halting States" like? Been thinking about picking it up.

benedictw · Post by **benedictw** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 8:38 am 0

'Fatal Revenant' - Stephen Donaldson

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 12:36 pm 0

Dave Gormans "America Unchained"

If anyones looking for a (very) quick read, "Danny Wallace & The Center of the Universe" is quite fun.

VNVObit · Post by **VNVObit** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 8:40 pm 0

RageMatrix wrote:
Whats "Halting States" like? Been thinking about picking it up.

Very enjoyable read LOL funny in places, characters speak with accents (which I like), nice line in MMO enterprises
Would highly recommend it as I found it difficult to put down

F-ZeroOne wrote:I pick up the odd Dan Abnett Warhammer 40,000 book form the library when I'm stuck for things to read. Its been ages since I played - is it right they make Space Marines from plastic now?! - but the books are nice brain fun. Not food, fun. Horrific, Chaos-infected, staring into the Warp on the edge of madness brain fun, but brain fun nonetheless.

Don't know if they are plastic or not as I have never played. I have always liked the artwork and thought I would give one of the books a try (picked it up cheap on Amazon). Would agree it was more brain fun than food type book - would love to see an animated series of it

will probably pick up the rest of that series, although I think not all are written by Dan Abnett

Orava · Post by **Orava** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 8:50 pm 0

Scandinavia by Tony Griffits.

The Nordic Council expected to wipe out the view that Finns were quarrelsome and unintelligible knife-fighters, Swedes were swaggering boastful, introspective materialists, Norwegians were a scatterred group of puritan and bovine alcoholics and Danes were bicycling pornography enthusiasts."

All very entertaining and all.

Mr Dom · Post by **Mr Dom** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 9:29 pm 0

Just finished the new Iain Banks book, 'Matter'
Umm... Its ok. Not great tho. Starts slow, middle is slow, last 1/5th is good, but its kind of too little too late.
Not even close to his last one (The Algebraist) which starts slow but by the middle is absolutely fantastic - an entire race of gas dwelling aliens who are basically like an entire race of Boris Johnsons

everklear · Post by **everklear** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 12:08 am 0

"The Two Faces of Tomorrow" by James Hogan.
Enjoying it in a kind of "been there, done that" sort of way. I can't be bothered to figure out if he's been derivative of others, or if others were derivative of him. Both, probably.

limb_clock · Post by **limb_clock** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 6:20 am 0

Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol book 3. Can't remember the title of it, but it's the one with Danny The Street and Men From N.O.W.H.E.R.E.

benedictw · Post by **benedictw** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 8:29 am 0

VNVObit wrote: will probably pick up the rest of that series, although I think not all are written by Dan Abnett

I havent read these - but about 10 years ago there was another series of 40k books following an Inquisitor - Inquisitor\Harlequin\Chaos Child - Ian Watson. Very good.

justinhj · Post by **justinhj** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 5:28 pm 0

I'm reading Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. I'm loving it (after a slow start) and it's one of those "why haven't I read this before" kind of moments. The characters feel extremely real, and I will miss them when I end the book.

SimonB · Post by **SimonB** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 7:48 pm 0

Since last posting on here I have read:

Ian Fleming - Live & Let Die
The Encyclopedia Of Classic Saturday Night Telly
William Gibson - Mona Lisa Overdrive
The QI Book Of General Ingnorance
Neil Gaiman - Odd & The Frost Giants

and now

Donald Slayton and Michael Cassult - Deke! (for which huge thanks to Zoot). Lovin' it.

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