What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)
I haven't been able to read much for a while due to various mental ailments. Just started reading To Kill A Mockingbird. Loving it. I hope I can get around to finishing it. It could be the first book I've finished reading in years.
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Just got round to reading The Woman In White by Wilkie Collins. Was surprised at how modern it is. Great characters and it even made me chuckle at points.
Just ploughing through Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities by Bettany Hughes. Engaging, but I have to skim read some of the stuff about the endless theological hullabaloos with which the Byzantine Empire was so beset.
Jim Crace has a new one out today, The Meloday, which I'll have to get hold of. May pick up Ready Player One for something lighter.
Just ploughing through Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities by Bettany Hughes. Engaging, but I have to skim read some of the stuff about the endless theological hullabaloos with which the Byzantine Empire was so beset.
Jim Crace has a new one out today, The Meloday, which I'll have to get hold of. May pick up Ready Player One for something lighter.
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I just finished reading Ready Player One. It's not particularly well written, but it is a great story. It's like Black Mirror meets D&D in the 80s.
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Not well written in a Dan Brown or Fifty Shades of Gray or just not as bad as that?Pappa wrote:I just finished reading Ready Player One. It's not particularly well written, but it is a great story. It's like Black Mirror meets D&D in the 80s.
Want to pick it up as I'm in the mood for something light.
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I've downloaded the Kindle app for my tab. Don't hate me.
Currently catching up on the final instalment of Alastair Reynolds' Poseidon's Children trilogy, Poseidon's Wake, after completing Slow Bullets in 4 hours (they called it a novella, but it's really just a long short story) and with Elysium Fire for pudding. With Revenger on the bedside table in dead-tree format that'll be me up-to-date with Mr Reynolds' oeuvre.
Currently catching up on the final instalment of Alastair Reynolds' Poseidon's Children trilogy, Poseidon's Wake, after completing Slow Bullets in 4 hours (they called it a novella, but it's really just a long short story) and with Elysium Fire for pudding. With Revenger on the bedside table in dead-tree format that'll be me up-to-date with Mr Reynolds' oeuvre.
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Not as bad as that. It's fun and interesting.Clinton Huxley wrote:Not well written in a Dan Brown or Fifty Shades of Gray or just not as bad as that?Pappa wrote:I just finished reading Ready Player One. It's not particularly well written, but it is a great story. It's like Black Mirror meets D&D in the 80s.
Want to pick it up as I'm in the mood for something light.
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I'm reading classic crime fiction by John Harvey, the Resnick series, set in Nottingham.
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Your soundtrack Sir...JimC wrote:I'm reading classic crime fiction by John Harvey, the Resnick series, set in Nottingham.
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Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)
I finally got around to reading Foundation, it's not what I thought it would be (in a good way) Also been listening to an audiobook version of Moby Dick while i'm at work. The reader is bad but the story has been entertaining enough.
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)
I'm reading The Gathering Storm by Winston Churchill. Quite an in depth perspective of the period between the World wars.
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)
Monorails of the World. A History of Passenger Monorails.
Stuff Churchill, he sank the french fleet...and starved half of india to death.
Stuff Churchill, he sank the french fleet...and starved half of india to death.
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Pushed for gassing Iraqi's too. Did you have a point beyond ad hominem wankery?cronus wrote:Monorails of the World. A History of Passenger Monorails.
Stuff Churchill, he sank the french fleet...and starved half of india to death.
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