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Going through a bit of a reading frenzy at the minute(well as much as I do.)
But recently finished:
Life of Pi (decent enough)
Shogun(cracking I thought, though could have been a bit longer I thought.!)
just started:
Winter in Madrid
Anyhow what's new on your bookshelf/kindle?
Child 44 and Secret Speech now reading Agent 6, the first two were cracking books!
Sorry to hijack but it would be interesting also if people could indicate if they're reading the book on a kindle type device or old skool paper.
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Currently reading a paper copy of Somme Mud by EPF Lynch. Really enjoying it.
Danny Baker autobiography in hard back.
An excellent read. Looking forward to part 2.
traditional hard copy of Pratchett's latest offering - Dodger
very nice little book, the same sort of thing that we've come to expect of him but set in Dickensian London instead of Ankh Morpork
currently Cloud Atlas on kindle
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frankenstein
Complete Sherlock Holmes
Soon i will but the 3 rd of the Lewis trilogy (Not jordey copper Island of Scotland)
The Black House
Lewis Man
these were brilliant
really looking forward to
The Chessmen. Just waiting for the price to fall abit
On The Primarchs from The Black Library just now. Since November i have read Pariah, Eisenhorn Omnibus and the Ravenor Omnibus by Dan Abnett, Consider Phlebas by Banks, just about to finish number 3 of the Battle For The Solar System (not that great a trilogy to be honest) on the Kindle
Plus
The Phoenix Conspiracy, 101 Contrarian Ideas About Advertising
Embedded by Dan Abnett too both on Kindle
and in the non fiction:
Hidden In Plain Sight: The simple link between relativity and quantum mechanics
Got some belters coming up in my pile to start so quite excited.
Bring Up The Bodies, every bit as good as Wolf Hall which is some achievement.
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Seven Deadly Sins by David Walsh.
I only read 'proper books' cos I'm cool. 🙂
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On Kindle.
Not worked out how to use the 'Bookmark' function yet, so much skipping backward and forward.
Very impressed with the book, lots about the replacement of Shipton as expedition leader that I was unaware of and very well written.
Love the Kindle (Paperwhite) too.
HitchHikers again next, then the Father Brown mysteries to tie in with the new TV series.
The Confusion by Neal Stephenson, sequel to Quicksilver. Actual books, I don't have a Kindle.
First Game of Thrones in bestest dead tree format.
Prior to that Ben Aaronovitch's Moon over Soho and Whispers Under Ground.
Allthepies, fair suggestion. Those three are all on the kindle app, haven't got myself a kindle yet but having the app on your phone, tablet, home pc and work pc, and all syncing together, is quite revolutionary imo. Certainly upping my reading. Think ill be buying a kindle shortly.
Currently reading Gun Machine by Warren Ellis.
I've just finished Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay, and next up I plan to re-read Hitchhikers Guide... and the next in the Dexter books.
The Redbreast by Jo Nesbo. Been reading it for probably over a year now. I'm most of the way through it but have never really warmed to it. Not exactly a page turner but I'm stubbornly not giving up for some daft reason
The Eagle of Toledo- Alasdair Fotheringham, it's not bad
****y academic music books, in dead tree format. (Currently: "Spaces speak, are you listening" - Blesser and Salter)
All paper, just finishing off the Christmas haul
David Walsh - From Lance to Landis
Not as good a read as Tyler H, but interesting nonetheless
Mark Beaumont - Man who cycled Americas
Love a good travel book, but he can seem a bit whiney sometimes, he does get about though
Stephen Lord - Adventure Cycle Touring Handbook
Seems full of info and inspiration, but trying to fit a whole planet in one book doesn't really go
Britain by Bike - Clare Balding series spin-off
Nice book, lovely cover, heavy paper, pictures, content a bit rubbish, badly informed narrative about multi day rides, then the route guides are for 15-25 mile circulars!!
Just read "Iron Coffins" an account of a Uboat commanders war.Excellent read,paper copy.
Mc Cleods Clinical Examination and Investigation Techniques.
The Escape Artist: Life from the saddle (paper)
Pedalare! Pedalare! (paper)
The Emperor of All Maladies (kindle and paper)
Statistical Methods for Dose Finding Experiments (paper)
Jared Diamond - The World Until Yesterday. Hardback.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, on nexus 4.
books i have (but yet to read) no kindle rubbish btw 😉
rotten autobiography john lydon
wiggos my time autobiography (hardback)
lord of the rings (compendium)
life keith richards autobiography (hardback)
a life in music john peel biography (hardback)
jingo terry pratchett (will be my first terry pratchett novel)
have read recently :-
the secret diary adrian mole age 13 3/4
the growing pains adrian mole
slash slash autobiography
World War Z: ok but not outstanding
not long finished Wiggo's tome.
just started the latest Tom Clancy - Threat Vector
Both old fashioned hardback.
Found a site with hundreds of old SF novels and short stories recently, so downloaded lots of books by favourite authors like Roger Zelazney and Larry Niven. Happily reading Niven's [i]Juggler Of Worlds[/i] on the Pad, in iBooks, and [i]Building Harlequin's Moon[/i], on the phone, also in iBooks. Found others recently which I've got in Bluefire, as they have Adobe DRM on them.
I love the fact that bookmarks sync across devices in Kindle and iBooks. Very handy. 😀
Dracula.
Frankenstein is next.
Count Zero, can you buy something on iBooks and read it on a kindle?
Recently read The Book Thief by Markus Zusac which was not my type of book but an intruiging read. Also smiled at The Snow Child, first novel by Eowyn Ivey, characters full of life and a vivid and beautiful landscape in her retelling of Snegurochka, the russian fairytale.
Now reading At the Mountains of Madness by H.P.Lovecraft (I like his stories rather much, good psych horror)
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edit: all paper. i like a book I can hold and put on a shelf.
"The Passage" by Justin Kronin. In book form.
Read some good cycling books last year, Alistair Humphries two are superb.
'When The Devil Drives' by Chris Brookmyre - in the car as an audiobook
'Silence Of The Grave' by Arnaldur Indridason - on the Kindle
Got a few good books for xmas, all paperbacks/hardbacks. Kindle schmindle....Pffft! - i want to hold and smell a book and like i did last night, you can't drop a kindle in the bath.
Halfway through David Millar - Racing Through The Dark at the moment, very good read indeed!.
Also got the following for xmas :
David Byrne - Bicycle Diaries, i've got this on audiobook and it's fantastic so wanted it in book format.
Bradley Wiggans - In Pursuit Of Glory.
Bradley Wiggans - My Time.
Grant Peterson (of Rivendell cycle fame) - Just Ride : A Radical Practical Guide To Bikes, Equipment, Health, safety and Attitude.
BikeSnobNYC - The Enlightened Cyclist : Finding The Path To Two-Wheeled Transcendence.
Ben Irvine - Einstein & The Art Of Mindful Cycling
And finally a book to treasure :
Lanark - Alasdair Gray in a limited signed box set of four books with a lithograph print of the cover.
I love this book and this was a totally unexpected gift, needless to say i was well chuffed.
Just finished 'Reeling in the Years' Mark Radcliffe (even if you don't like his chatter, give his books a go).
Just into 'Obsessive Compulsive Cycling Disorder' Uncomfortable reading it and recognising elements of yourself! Great read!
Just reading the Bourne Ultimatum - got it free from some newspaper offer a few years ago and only recently got round to reading it - and finding it a bit of a struggle to pick up.
Got my first Lee Childs novel next on the reading list.
Both on proper paper.
'The Hydrogen Sonata' Iain [b]M[/b] Banks in hardback
His latest Culture novel. Full of interesting ideas and cool spaceships. Maybe not quite as involving as his earlier works.
Recently read:
Tyler Hamilton: The Secret Race
Mark Cavendish: Boy racer
Victoria Pendleton: Between the Lines
Tim Moore: French Revolutions
Ned Boulting: How I Won the Yellow Jumper
David Millar: Racing Through the Dark
All thoroughly recommended.
Cheers, Rich
May I recommend [url= http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dividing-the-Great-ebook/dp/B005U0OHTA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1339757458&sr=8-1 ] Dividing the Great[/url] on kindle
My Time - Brad on a real book, that's my current bog book.
Next bog book will be Dune which I've read before but I fancy another read of it.
On the kindle
The Keep by a recommendation on here, thanks for that. it's a good book.
The second science fiction megapack 25, these are really good. Very cheap, lots of short sci-fi stories. Some real gems in there.
The Game: Undercover in the Secret Society of Pickup Artists - funny book, interesting.
Queued up on the kindle are
Cornbread
UnLunDun
Slabscape: reset
Just read all of the Berlin Noir books by Philip Kerr. As the name suggests, film noir style detective novels set in 1930s Berlin. Got about another 20-30 books queued up on the Kindle but quite fancy finishing The Stranger by Camus next.
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Currently reading A Blink of the Screen - a collection of Terry Pratchett's earlier writing, which I'm struggling to get through.
Before that was A Young Atheist's Handbook by Alom Shaha, which I enjoyed. Not particularly in-depth but nice to read from a 'Muslim' perspective.
I picked up For The Win by Cory Doctorow for 25p and thoroughly enjoyed that.
Prior to that I reread Pratchett's Tiffany Aching books (The Wee Free Men, etc.) which were as excellent as I remember, and look like Mint Sauce cartoons in my head.