What are you reading?

SCope13 · Post by **SCope13** » Thu Nov 08, 2012 7:17 pm

Yeah, but the author(s) don't make money if I buy them secondhand.

kay · Post by **kay** » Thu Nov 08, 2012 8:11 pm

Pretty decent.

das_raunchy · Post by **das_raunchy** » Fri Nov 09, 2012 9:48 pm

been reading it for a few months now

symmetricalsounds · Post by **symmetricalsounds** » Tue Dec 04, 2012 10:48 am

recently slammed through the song of ice and fire series and now onto this

cloquet · Post by **cloquet** » Tue Dec 04, 2012 12:59 pm

finished Inherent Vice recently which was brilliant. currently reading Three Men In A Boat.

kay · Post by **kay** » Wed Dec 05, 2012 12:10 am

symmetricalsounds wrote:recently slammed through the song of ice and fire series and now onto this

Any good? Gormenghast counts as one of the few books that I could not be bothered to finish.

vishes · Post by **vishes** » Tue Dec 25, 2012 12:08 pm

Picked up The Sicillian because Wub told me it was good a couple of months ago.

magma · Post by **magma** » Thu Jan 03, 2013 3:03 pm

WagaMagma's favourite book as a teenager - I've been reading it for the last week or so... fun story, very well told - I get the impression it's aimed at teenagers really, but it's actually quite difficult to put down. Apparently a film version is coming out in the next year or so.

kay · Post by **kay** » Thu Jan 03, 2013 7:13 pm

magma wrote: WagaMagma's favourite book as a teenager - I've been reading it for the last week or so... fun story, very well told - I get the impression it's aimed at teenagers really, but it's actually quite difficult to put down. Apparently a film version is coming out in the next year or so.

O rly?

What did you think of the other books in the series?

I am currently reading The Rediscovery of Man, a classic series by Cordwainer Smith. Pretty decent, doesn't pull punches with introducing interesting sci fi concepts without explaining them explicitly.

magma · Post by **magma** » Thu Jan 03, 2013 7:29 pm

kay wrote:
magma wrote: WagaMagma's favourite book as a teenager - I've been reading it for the last week or so... fun story, very well told - I get the impression it's aimed at teenagers really, but it's actually quite difficult to put down. Apparently a film version is coming out in the next year or so.
O rly?

What did you think of the other books in the series?

This is my first of his... I'm really bad at getting round to reading fiction. Enjoying the temporary change, but I have a stack of books about physics, poetry and Guy Fawkes for when I finish, so it might take me a while to getting round to the next!

Lucifa · Post by **Lucifa** » Thu Jan 03, 2013 9:30 pm

dont know what i think but its such easy reading

kay · Post by **kay** » Thu Jan 03, 2013 9:40 pm

magma wrote:
kay wrote:
magma wrote: WagaMagma's favourite book as a teenager - I've been reading it for the last week or so... fun story, very well told - I get the impression it's aimed at teenagers really, but it's actually quite difficult to put down. Apparently a film version is coming out in the next year or so.
O rly?

What did you think of the other books in the series?
This is my first of his... I'm really bad at getting round to reading fiction. Enjoying the temporary change, but I have a stack of books about physics, poetry and Guy Fawkes for when I finish, so it might take me a while to getting round to the next!

Oops! I somehow read WagaMagma as Magma

leyenda · Post by **leyenda** » Fri Jan 04, 2013 1:53 am

So far just through the intro and first chapter which has taken me up to 1903. Fascinating to discover the sheer number of people involved in pioneering a lot of those early cinematic techniques. It's easy to oversee that editing, close ups, moving camera etc were all innovations from different people and weren't inherently present from the beginning.

kay · Post by **kay** » Sat Jan 12, 2013 2:04 pm

Final book of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series finally out! I guess I'll be spending most of the next 6 months re-reading the whole series...

skell1ngton777 · Post by **skell1ngton777** » Sat Jan 12, 2013 2:07 pm

I just remembered that i read the first book of the wheel of time series recently and somehow forgot

I enjoyed it too

that leaves 642 more books the series for me to read

gwa · Post by **gwa** » Sat Jan 12, 2013 2:09 pm

Them by Jon Ronson.

top book

wilson · Post by **wilson** » Sat Jan 12, 2013 2:11 pm

I suppose this is the best place to post about this, am loving what they've done for the covers of the new George Orwell reprints:

Sends a timely message I think.

http://creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/201 ... id-pearson

Kochari · Post by **Kochari** » Sat Jan 12, 2013 2:18 pm

^ Yeah that's wicked man.

Mr_Frost · Post by **Mr_Frost** » Sat Jan 12, 2013 10:25 pm

I've been taking my sweet jolly time reading dante's inferno. finally almost finished.

need some recs for my next read. got a couple books of short stories by Herman Neville, Joseph Conrad and Raymond Carver to read in the interim.

vishes · Post by **vishes** » Sat Jan 12, 2013 10:26 pm

Mr_Frost wrote:I've been taking my sweet jolly time reading dante's inferno. finally almost finished.

It's great init? Must be the only book I've read more than once.

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