what are you reading?

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 11:46 pm 0

You are the place of my birth.

Purple Grapefruit · Fri Jul 07, 2006 12:15 am 0

this thread encouraged me to dig out some old books of mine.....

I came across john molyneux's "what is the real marxist tradition", with my own notes in the margins.I wrote them about 20 years ago.

I shall read it again.It's the nearest thing i have to a diary/dialogue with my
younger self.Interesting.

SpookyElectric1 · Post by **SpookyElectric1** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 12:28 am 0

The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul

merman · Post by **merman** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 12:38 am 0

Reading/looking through "The Fantasy Art of Oli Frey" by Thalamus Publishing...

everklear · Post by **everklear** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 12:56 am 0

The Shadow of Saganami - David Weber

betamax · Post by **betamax** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 1:34 am 0

One of the Flashman papers. Flash For Freedom to be exact. Snigger and lose teeth.

namor7 · Post by **namor7** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 2:42 am 0

Tokyo Sucker Punch

SimonB · Post by **SimonB** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 11:35 am 0

Currently Chaz Brenchley - Hand Of The Kings' Evil (part 3 of trilogy).

limb_clock · Post by **limb_clock** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 11:36 am 0

A Scanner Darkly and Tom CLancy's Net Force.

Kemper_Boyd · Post by **Kemper_Boyd** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 1:05 pm 0

grue wrote:American Tabloid - James Elroyd

Great reading. And Kember Boyd is in it

Yes it's a great book. I re-read The Black Dahlia last weekend,
and will read the rest of the LA Quartet over the summer, as
I wanted to read it again before the film comes out. Brian De
Palma directing, Scarlett Johansson, Hilary Swank, Aaron Eckhart
(Thank You for Smoking) and it's from Focus Features who've
made loads of good films in recent years. I'm looking forward
to seeing it.

Right now I'm reading The Devil In The White City by Erik Larson
which is very interesting so far, Larson wrote the excellent Issac's
Storm which is about the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 and I'd
recommend that as well.

Post by **Jedburgh** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 1:36 pm 0

Istar · Post by **Istar** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 7:13 pm 0

Just finished 'Orcs' by Stan Nicholls (the trilogy all in one volume). Not my usual brain-candy style, but a rattling good read nonetheless. Orcs aren't all bad, after all.

Before that it was 'The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer' by D. Leavitt. It makes slightly more than I thought necessary of his homosexuality (i.e. weaving conjectural emotional/sexual motivations into some of his work) but still a good overview of his life and work. And there were one or two things I didn't know, or had misinterpreted, in there.

Right now I'm finishing 'The Science of Doctor Who' by Paul Parsons, which isn't bad but not wonderful.

And next on the list is either 'C# for Programmers' by Paul J. Deitel & Harvey M. Deitel, or possibly 'What Just Happened: A Chronicle from the Information Frontier' by James Gleick. Depending on how 'techy' I'm feeling.

offyoutoddle · Post by **offyoutoddle** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 7:30 pm 0

Loop by Koji Suzuki, final part of the 'Ring' Trilogy.

F-ZeroOne · Post by **F-ZeroOne** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 7:54 pm 0

Vulcan 607, the story of the long-range RAF bombing missions over the Falklands. It reads a bit like Flight of the Old Dog, but with ultra-high technology being replaced by super-glue [1] and stiff upper lips.

Oh, and it was done for real, too.

[1] Literally.

Viscount Charles · Post by **Viscount Charles** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 8:43 pm 0

Re-reading A Song of Ice and Fire - up to book 3.5 right now.