Children of teh Atom

strung out · Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:25 am Post subject: What book you reading?

I'm reading Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks at the moment. Pretty good so far.

sparky lightbourne · Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:56 am Post subject: Re: What book you reading?

strung out · Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:05 am Post subject:

My dad's reccomended reading some Aasimov but I'm not sure whether to start. Is it just Caves of Steel you don't rate or or are you not too keen on any of it?

I really like my Sci-Fi, had to read The Player of Games for uni and loved it so I just went to waterstones and bought the whole culture series. Going to move onto all of Orwell's stuff after that, then Huxley.

It's stupid, when I was at uni, I was doing an English degree, but the only things i ever read were books for my course. Now I'm done, I'm getting well into reading loads of cool stuff instead.

I read the fourth protocol in a day the other week which was pretty cool stuff on Soviet Russia.

The Doctor · Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:13 am Post subject:

Just finished a million little pieces by James Fray.

Quite good although the soppy luv bit in the middle spoils it some what.

sparky lightbourne · Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:21 am Post subject:

strung out · Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:30 am Post subject:

strung out · Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:31 am Post subject:

cheers for the other reccomendations as well, will check them out after i've worked my way through banks

hiccup · Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:37 am Post subject:

strung out · Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:39 am Post subject:

Good old dylan

hiccup · Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:41 am Post subject:

At one point, someone tells him his hair is a mess, so he dips his comb in his pint and then runs it through his hair. lol.

strung out · Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:44 am Post subject:

That's my boy

hiccup · Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:46 am Post subject:

strung out · Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:48 am Post subject:

i should go to bed and read some of my book really

Red Jezza · Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 2:00 pm Post subject:

The infinite plan by Isabel Allende, of which i'd say 'pretty damn good if you like that sort of thing', which I do

Ninjadmin · Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 2:17 pm Post subject:

just read 'the joke' by milan kundera, was pretty good. he gets a bit carried away with stuff tho

Red Jezza · Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 6:14 pm Post subject:

bristle-krs · Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 6:33 pm Post subject:

reading through 'manchester, england' again, for ideas & shit

Ninjadmin · Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 7:23 pm Post subject:

Red Jezza · Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:09 pm Post subject:

yup - vintage kundera!
i find havel can be alright too - in small doses. the prison diaries/letters home are his best stuff

Barney Bee · Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:15 pm Post subject:

Ninjadmin · Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:28 pm Post subject:

Isambard · Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 12:04 am Post subject:

J · Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 9:44 am Post subject:

Im reading The Unnumbered by Sam North. About an illegal immigrant and a gypsy in london who fall in love

old sop me

sparky lightbourne · Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 1:49 pm Post subject:

froggy · red belt Joined: 24 Sep 2006 Posts: 66

I just finished reading the mask of sanity by hervey cleckley - its about psychopaths and the way they behave

just so i could get tips and stuff you know

sparky lightbourne · Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 2:40 pm Post subject:

sounds useful

Red Jezza · Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 2:54 pm Post subject:

Ninjadmin · Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 2:55 pm Post subject:

sparky lightbourne · Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 3:17 pm Post subject:

Red Jezza · Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 2:17 pm Post subject:

just finishing a fabbo biog of castro, written by a bloke who was in the carter administration

Red Jezza · Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 8:06 pm Post subject:

now finished the biog and reading Michael burleighs History of the Third Reich
Huge, dense, hard work but awesome.

hiccup · Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 9:08 pm Post subject:

Just got an Elmore LEonard book out the library, but saving it for train journey at the weekend.

Libraries are cool. They let you borrow books and don't ask for money or anything. I don't know why the idea hasn't caught on really.

J · Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 11:48 pm Post subject:

Janury edition of F1 Racing

Red Jezza · Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 4:35 pm Post subject:

now reading an excellent collection of alice Walker pieces, but she don't half talk shite when it comes to french art.

J · Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 7:41 pm Post subject:

Febury edition of F1 Racing

DrCarnage · fantastic Joined: 05 Feb 2007 Posts: 2941

Now reading Mao: The Unknown Story (picked up in England obviously). I'm only 100 or so pages in and it's pretty good, but the writers' bias is pissing me off a little.

wraeth · Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 3:18 pm Post subject:

Elizabeth George - With No One As Witness

I quite like crime and thriller type writings

hiccup · Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 11:05 am Post subject:

What Should I do With My Life by Po Bronson.

Not finding it as inspiring as I hoped. Also, got a nasty feeling the author is going to start talking about God at some point.

not-I · Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 1:29 pm Post subject:

Finished See No Evil a couple weeks ago. It's a spy's autobiography. Now my girlfriend's eating it up.

Now i'm on Fiasco - it blows the mind how fuckin' happy-go-lucky-stupid they were about a post-war plan. :-/