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Last - The Road, really liked it, finished it in 2 days, I hardly read tbh
Now - Wolf Hall, heavy going at times.
Next - Mountains of the mind - b'day present.
I've never been a big reader, not sure if its turning 30 or something but at the moment I want to read anything and everything, spent most of today just walking round charity shops and picking up anything that looks interesting.
The 13th Valley by John Del Vecchio. Fantastic book
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
brilliant
Also read The Road. Excellent.
Now reading Child of God by the same author.
Just finished Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami - great book, really brought home the value of literature.
Now on Whoops! by John Lanchester - I think most of it has already been trailed in the LRB over the last year or, but even if so it'll easily bear re-reading.
Decoding Reality, by Vlatko Vedral who coincidentally also happens to be my old physics tutor.
The Condition of Postmodernity by David Harvey
The Greatest Show on Earth - Richard Dawkins. Excellent.
Just started:
Hanging by a Thread - Emmanuel Caunchy
The Cornish Trilogy - Robertson Davies.
Almost done.
Re-reading 'A short walk in the Hindu Kush' by Eric Newby. A gentleman adventurer of his time.
Panzer Commander, Biography of Col Hans von Luck.
Last - The Death of Grass - John Christopher
Now - Fear Nothing - Dean Koontz (My first Koontz book)
Next - Last Light - Alex Scarrow
I'm quite into morbid, apocalyptic type stuff at the moment.
the new edition of singletrack magazine..!
The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov,I'll be sad when I've finished reading it. Superb.
SaxonRider I bought What's Bred in the Bone many years ago purely on the fact that I liked the cover. One of the best decisions I've ever made as far as buying books go. I'd never heard of Robertson Davies before and I didn't really think after reading the blurb that it would interest me but i bought it anyway and then went out and bought everything else I could find by him.
"Can you tell me the time of the last complete show?"
"You have the wrong number"
"Eh? Isn't that the Odeon?"
I decide to give a Burtonian answer.
"No this is the Great Theatre of Life. Admission is free but the taxation is mortal.You come when you can, and leave when you must. The show is continuous. good-night."
The last words of his last book. I read it just before he died and when I heard the news I thought about them again and realised that he must have known just how close the end was as he wrote them.
And to answer the question I'm currently reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and re reading Dava Sobel's The Planets.
Now, World without End. Ken Follett
Next, Hanging by a Thread. Emmanuell Cauchy
the man who cycled the world - Mark Beaumont
after seeing his presentation the other night, can't put it down!
Last: Afterglow of Creation - Markus Chown
Current: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintaininace - Robert Pirsig
Next: Maybe GEB, Maybe Zen and the art of archery, Maybe Critique of Pure Reason.
Big Bang - Simon Singh. I like the way he makes hard science stuff digestible. I try to get my head around big ideas, think I need a bigger head.
why does E-mc^2? (and why should we care?)
Kevevs - Marcus Chown manages much the same sort of thing.
Give "Quantum Theory Cannot hurt you" a go
This thread?
Last: The making of the atomic bomb - Richard Rhodes (superb history book)
Now: Surely you're joking Mr Feynman! - Richard Feynman
Next: Who knows...?
Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
Last: American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
Now: Grits - Niall Griffiths
Next: The Human Stain - Phillip Roth
Lance Armstrong - Not About the Bike
Truly inspiring read for anyone that hasn't done so yet.
just read; unseen academicals
now: world war z
birds without wings - Louis De Bernieres
yunki - great book. i bought it in hardback when it came out years ago.
currently reading the three musketeers by alexander dumas. just finished under the eagle by simon scarrow. next i quite fancy getting my hands on another flashman novel.
Last book - Mark Beaumont - The cyclist who rode round the world.
Now - Seven Pillars of Wisdom - T.E. Lawrence
Just bought Stephen Fry's Moab is my Washpot.
Re-reading 'A short walk in the Hindu Kush' by Eric Newby. A gentleman adventurer of his time.
Excellent book, a favourite of mine.
Last - Dougal Haston; The Philosophy of Risk.
Current - 9/10 Climbers make the same mistakes, Dave Mcleod.
Next - Was looking for a cycling non-friction so looks like Mark Beaumont - The cyclist who rode round the world.
Now: French Revolutions: Cycling the Tour De France
Next: might try A Short History of Nearly Everything again by Bill Bryson. Or something else space/physicsy as I've been inspired by Brian Cox's Wonders of the Solar System
Was looking for a cycling non-friction so looks like Mark Beaumont - The cyclist who rode round the world
Is that any good? I watched a bit of one of the TV programs and decided that, if those were anything to go by, the book most be very tedious.
I enjoy Josie Dew's books - she does set out to experience the areas she visits, not just get through them as quickly as possible.
Reading East of Eden by John Steinbeck because people recommended it on here.
Sublime.
Last - The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
Now - The Cloudspotter's Guide (but if it doesn't grab me I'll go back to re-reading Walking on Glass by Iain Banks)
Also several books on Objective-C and C# but they don't count.
Crete - The Battle and the Resistance (Antony Beevor)
The Great War for Civilisation (Robert Fisk)
The Rash Adventurer (Imogen Grundon - biography of John Pendlebury, archaeologist, resistance fighter, athlete and much much more)
I just wish I could finish one book before starting another!
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Also several books on Objective-C and C# but they don't count.
Do you find those books in the history section of the bookshop now?
The name of the wind by Patrick Rothfuss- most original fantasy book since LOTR, except maybe Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers
Just rest assured that I'm reading something so incredibly niche and utterly brilliant that none of you proles will have heard of it, nor ever will.
Superb.
Just rest assured that I'm reading something so incredibly niche and utterly brilliant that none of you proles will have heard of it, nor ever will.
iPad user manual.
Just finishing the Jacques Anquetil book, then i'm gonna start the latest James Ellroy that i got for xmas.
Do you find those books in the history section of the bookshop now?
So I should be reading what to be uber current?