what are you reading?

grue · Post by **grue** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 10:58 am 0

DTB wrote:is the Iliad a springfield land mark

I don't know what the above means but the way they teach us Homer here in Greece takes away every aspiration to read them again.

DTB · Post by **DTB** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 11:12 am 0

Homer (simpson=springfield)

grue · Post by **grue** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:03 am 0

R. Scott Baker - The darkness that comes before

I started it yesterday and I loved it from the first page. It's exactly the style that I want from a fantasy book. No wonder that Steven Erikson comments on the cover "Something remarkable has begun."

Orava · Post by **Orava** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:15 am 0

The Prester Quest by Nicholas Jubber. So far one of the best travel books I have read, funny too.

limb_clock · Post by **limb_clock** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:35 am 0

Now Wait For Last Year by Philip K. Dick, fool.

Mele · Post by **Mele** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:38 am 0

Going to read a book about Gandhi , to much hate in the world at the moment I need to peace loving inspiration.

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:38 am 0

I read the Hacker Crackdown at the weekend (interesting, but quaint) and now I'm reading some Uploader hypothesis novel I dwonloaded from manybooks.

grue · Post by **grue** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:40 am 0

Yak wrote:I read the Hacker Crackdown at the weekend (interesting, but quaint)

I found it quite interesting too. Especialy the beginning of the freakers with the telephone boys.

SimonB · Post by **SimonB** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:41 am 0

After Chaz Brenchley (see a few pages back) I've read David Lee Roth's autobiography Crazy From The Heat which was pretty funny in places.

Started Tim Severin - Viking: Odinn's Child on the bus this morning and the first 8 pages have got me wishing I had a longer bus trip. Got parts 2 & 3 of the trilogy waiting for me as well (although I always alternate fiction/fact so part three is another two books distant than it might have been).

gilesgoat · Post by **gilesgoat** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:41 am 0

This thread.

Anders · Post by **Anders** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:44 am 0

Been reading loads of comics lately, mainly Hellboy and B.P.R.D. Good stuff too.

grue · Post by **grue** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:55 am 0

Anders wrote:Been reading loads of comics lately, mainly Hellboy and B.P.R.D. Good stuff too.

If you like a great story in comics you can't go wrong with Hugo Pratt.
The ballad of the salt sea is his best IMHO and a close second is Ernie Pike which are real stories from the WW2 as witnessed by a war reporter (Ernie Pike).

It's not fantasy but Pratt is unique in style and imagination.

Orava · Post by **Orava** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 11:01 am 0

There seems to be two completely different 'what are you reading threads' with different people in them...

See:

http://www.yakyak.org/viewtopic.php?t=7410

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 11:03 am 0

Yeah, one of them seems to have been dredged up from 3 years ago...

gilesgoat · Post by **gilesgoat** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 11:06 am 0

grue wrote:
Anders wrote:Been reading loads of comics lately, mainly Hellboy and B.P.R.D. Good stuff too.
If you like a great story in comics you can't go wrong with Hugo Pratt.
The ballad of the salt sea is his best IMHO and a close second is Ernie Pike which are real stories from the WW2 as witnessed by a war reporter (Ernie Pike).

It's not fantasy but Pratt is unique in style and imagination.

LOT OF QDOS for someone knowing and appreciating HUGO PRATT !

My favourite was "Red Lanterns", I grew up dreaming a bit about
Corto Maltese .. I think that "pushed" me a bit to choose for the Navy

Pratt had a graphic style and all that was really unique