markg wrote:
What are you doing wasting your lunchtimes reading books? You should be off buying more plastic model aeroplanes or paints for your fairies or something, like a normal person.
If I read them at night time I shit the bed.
Now going through Charles Stross's Laundry Books (Harry Palmer meets Delta Green on the set of Yes Minister sort of thingy)...excellent. On now to the Jennifer Morgue, why have I never heard of this before?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Necropolis_Railway
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Necropolis_Railway
YOG wrote:
Snap! I've been revisiting an M.R. James collection myself. "Oh, Whistle" in particular is quite splendid.
Yeah, it was looking for an M.R. James collection that put me onto the other Wordsworth Press collections I bought* but I've saved this till last.
*Tales of Unease - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Gothic Short Stories (with the awesome Yellow Wallpaper).
Morte wrote:
Wow.
Wow.
Is that a return?
That's amazing. Brilliant and amazing.
Nearly done with AGOT now. I'll be damned if this isn't the best fantasy novel I've ever read.
Tried the first of the Newbury & Hobbes books by George Mann. Gave up around a third of the way through. Utterly tedious steampunk by the numbers with awful unrealistic dialogue. I may have spoiled it by re-reading From Hell before hand.
Loving this M.R. James collection so far. He's rather good at the spooky spooky.
Really enjoyed 'Pickman's Model' - H.P. Lovecraft, last night. Loved the arty farty aspects to the tale, have to dig out some of the less familiar works he makes reference to.
Edit: Well Sidney Sime is excellent, new to me, has similarities with Aubrey Beardsley and Theodor Kittelsen.
Really enjoyed 'Pickman's Model' - H.P. Lovecraft, last night. Loved the arty farty aspects to the tale, have to dig out some of the less familiar works he makes reference to.
Edit: Well Sidney Sime is excellent, new to me, has similarities with Aubrey Beardsley and Theodor Kittelsen.
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Just reading The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, borrowed it from Mr Dom on the weekend. It is one of the best fantasy books i have read in a long time, all the characters feel solid and the story drags you in and enthrals you, i like the fact the main character, Kvothe, is telling the story and it wanders away from the main plot-line to give you nice little camp-fire stories throughout the whole book, am three quarters of the way through and i only started it yesterday. Think i may be off to the bookshop in a min to get the second one.
I'll look into that, thanks.
Aye, tis great. The second one is good, but not quite as good.
Has the third come out yet?
Has the third come out yet?
Trooper wrote:
Aye, tis great. The second one is good, but not quite as good.
Has the third come out yet?
Has the third come out yet?
nope....
Currently halfway through 'Shipbreaker' by Paolo Bacigalupi. It is excellent. Set a short way into the future following environmental catastrophe, and is about people who scavenge through the wrecks of beached ships, pulling out copper wire, etc, to sell on. Really well written and well realised world.
"Salmon Fishing in the Yemen" is a delightful book. I recommend it.
Nearly done with AGOT now. God it's good.
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DavPaz wrote:
HOLY SHIT! *preorders*
Didn't I talk about that already?
I did somewhere. If it wasn't here, where the Hell was it?
I did somewhere. If it wasn't here, where the Hell was it?
I think there's a Dark Tower thread. Where people who like shit books go.
Yeah, but I mean recently. Like, in the past week.
Also:
Also:
I think you may have mentioned it. I mentioned it better
Casino Royale done. Was alright. I'd never bothered with the Bond books before. The whole thing got a bit redundant after the baccarat bit. Meh. Also, it was a dodgy ebook from some website, and was full of typos and weird characters where accented French letters should've been. Another argument for paying money for your electronic reading material I suppose.
Not sure what to read now. Don't want to start the next Ice and Fire book just yet. Hmm.
Not sure what to read now. Don't want to start the next Ice and Fire book just yet. Hmm.
Decided on Catcher in the Rye...
WTB wrote:
Decided on Catcher in the Rye...
Unlucky. It's shit.
Grim... wrote:
Didn't I talk about that already?
I did somewhere. If it wasn't here, where the Hell was it?
I did somewhere. If it wasn't here, where the Hell was it?
I IMd you about it. Belm.
WTB wrote:
Another argument for paying money for your electronic reading material I suppose.
I wish. I've had several Kindle books full of typos. I've even had refunds on a couple.
Skagboys is out today. The first book I've looked forward to release date for ages. Even pre-ordered it on Kindle, which I picked up as I left the house as it will have been autodelivered overnight, so I could read on the train to work. I never do that.
Forgot to update my credit card on Amazon. No autodelivery overnight, Wifi only Kindle. Arse.
Forgot to update my credit card on Amazon. No autodelivery overnight, Wifi only Kindle. Arse.
Bit late now, but can't you do a wireless hotspot with the iPhone 4?
Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
WTB wrote:
Another argument for paying money for your electronic reading material I suppose.
I wish. I've had several Kindle books full of typos. I've even had refunds on a couple.
Bah! But at least then I'd have a valid avenue of complaint!
Just finished Cormac McCarthy "outer dark". He's very much in my favorite writers category now, even though i only read 3 of his books. "Blood Meridian" is mindblowing by the way. Now for the weak of stomach though.
I've started reading Machine of Death again now that I have a magic reading box. I started reading the free pdf when it came out, but I cannae be arsed reading books off a monitor. The stories are a bit morbid, but they make me laugh loads 
Also, they've recorded the stories as podcasts so that you can enjoy them even if you're a spacker or a blindo on your commute or something.
Also, they've recorded the stories as podcasts so that you can enjoy them even if you're a spacker or a blindo on your commute or something.
Grim... wrote:
Bit late now, but can't you do a wireless hotspot with the iPhone 4?
Yes, yes you can.
So much so, that you can watch streaming TV on your laptop/ipad whatever.
Malc
I've started Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. It's beautifully written so far (about 30 pages in).
EDIT: As MrsA did English or soemthing at Uni, she's constantly amazed at how little I've actually read compared to her, so she's been recommending books to me. it's most useful.
EDIT: As MrsA did English or soemthing at Uni, she's constantly amazed at how little I've actually read compared to her, so she's been recommending books to me. it's most useful.
the art of fielding... great coming of age story
http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Fielding- ... 0316126691
http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Fielding- ... 0316126691
Zone One by Colson Whitehead is a top-notch zombocalypse book. It's not the storyline which sets it apart (although that is interesting) nor the motifs (consumer-culture-as-lifeless-as-zombies goes back to the Dawn of the Dead). No, it's the prose. Whitehead is a Serious Literary Writer who happens to be slumming in genre fiction and it shows. The guy can write, and many, many times the book had a turn of phrase or clever metaphor that had me chuckling darkly.
Highly recommended. I read it in a day, almost in one sitting.
Highly recommended. I read it in a day, almost in one sitting.
Ooh, haven't heard of that one. I'll pick that up.
Listening to the Partridge audiobook. mazin. Simply mazin.
Listening to the Partridge audiobook. mazin. Simply mazin.
Dimrill wrote:
Ooh, haven't heard of that one. I'll pick that up..
I'll be interested in your thoughts. It's worlds away from most zombie novels.
MaliA wrote:
I've started Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. It's beautifully written so far (about 30 pages in).
EDIT: As MrsA did English or soemthing at Uni, she's constantly amazed at how little I've actually read compared to her, so she's been recommending books to me. it's most useful.
EDIT: As MrsA did English or soemthing at Uni, she's constantly amazed at how little I've actually read compared to her, so she's been recommending books to me. it's most useful.
Man, that book turned sad real quick.
Currently reading 'Hull Zero Three' by agreg Bear for some science fiction craving. Will let you know howit goes.
Massive recommendation for Paulo Bacigalupi's "Shipbreaker". The man has Hugo, Nebula and other such awards coming out of his ass. The book is ostensiblyYoung Adult fiction, but it is absolutely superb. He writes near future fiction hitch tends to be based around the world after ongoing ecological disaster changes a few things. But not as preachy as that sounds.
Top writer; I'm devouring everything he's written. Also, great name!
Massive recommendation for Paulo Bacigalupi's "Shipbreaker". The man has Hugo, Nebula and other such awards coming out of his ass. The book is ostensiblyYoung Adult fiction, but it is absolutely superb. He writes near future fiction hitch tends to be based around the world after ongoing ecological disaster changes a few things. But not as preachy as that sounds.
Top writer; I'm devouring everything he's written. Also, great name!
So Catcher in the Rye.
Caulfield asks a lot of people where the ducks go in the winter. But then he describes going to the museum and a display of birds flying south for the winter. So he knows where the ducks go. What's the deal with that? Anyone?
Caulfield asks a lot of people where the ducks go in the winter. But then he describes going to the museum and a display of birds flying south for the winter. So he knows where the ducks go. What's the deal with that? Anyone?
I'm starting Ex-Patriots soon. A chum has said that once it gets going it's really good.
MrsA's 'somehow' bought has almost finished "50 shades of Gray". The S&M erotic novel developed from Twilight Fan fiction. It's 'not great'. I'm most amused.
She should really tell people that she was looking for an S&M book and accidentally got Twighlight fan fiction. It's less embarrassing that way round.
Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Zone One by Colson Whitehead
Dimrill wrote:
Partridge
I'll be getting those, ta.
MaliA wrote:
MrsA's 'somehow' bought has almost finished "50 shades of Gray". The S&M erotic novel about Caveys pubes.