Books - What are you reading?

A heads up for SF fans: a bunch of Science Fiction readings/talks coming up at the British Library, including China Mieville this Friday, and William Gibson next week.
http://www.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions/outof/events/event121792.html

Blooms day!!!!

We were young and carefree.

i'm reading 20,000 leagues under the sea at the moment. the early 1960s paperback edition i have has my uncle's name scrawled inside the cover in his childish hand. quite cute really.

haven't read much lately to be honest. been distracted by sport, music, magazines and scrabble. got a holiday coming up though, looking forward to catching up on some catching up on reading. probably just dig out some bits and bobs from the shelves rather than buying a load of new stuff. still got a lot of dickens to look forward to. oliver twist next i think.

i never did finish anna karenina. not to my taste at all i'm afraid.

why not skip to the fun stuff with Nicholas nickleby?

i may well do. i'm a bit over familiar with oliver twist to be honest and i think it's putting me off starting.

started at the start with the pickwick papers last year and it immediately became one of my all time favourites.

This is at the top of my Amazon wish list.

Always wanted to read that..

Fight you for it.

outflank and pincer

Scuttle around and Wedgie

you sunk my battleship

Yahtzee!

This is at the top of my Amazon wish list.

We're not getting that for you. God knows what you'd be whipping the Tweed Run into next year.

Terracotta Army Run?

My outfit is ready...

Just finished The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh.

What an amazing writer and story. I was enraptured from cover to cover and the book has made me fall for SE Asia even more than before. One of those books that leaves you thinking for some days afterwards and maybe even changes how you live your life.*

I am moving to Malaysia asap.

*Does anyone else ever get this, or am I just weird?

Terracotta Army Run?

My outfit is ready...

UCI banned that

Completed the first trilogy of Horus Heresy books, can't wait to crack on with the other 16 (and counting).

You do realise there's Korean sweat shops knocking out those books by the million, don't you? It's all Nike Trainers and Warhammer literature, sixteen hours a day and they have to sleep over their typewriters.

You should read more ecological, sustainable writing about giant robots, Orks and Space Marines.

*starts writing any old shit about giant robots, Orks and Space Marines...

It's Orc, maufucker.

;)

Go back to wanking over Eldar porn. :)

i'm reading 20,000 leagues under the sea at the moment. the early 1960s paperback edition i have has my uncle's name scrawled inside the cover in his childish hand. quite cute really.

haven't read much lately to be honest. been distracted by sport, music, magazines and scrabble. got a holiday coming up though, looking forward to catching up on some catching up on reading. probably just dig out some bits and bobs from the shelves rather than buying a load of new stuff. still got a lot of dickens to look forward to. oliver twist next i think.

i never did finish anna karenina. not to my taste at all i'm afraid.

I thought Anna Karenina was brilliant, but you need no distractions.

I've just got this

http://caughtbytheriver.net/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2&products_id=145/

Bill Drummond from the KLF waxing lyrical about damsons is a highlight so far.

It's Orc, maufucker.

;)

Actually, both spellings are fine. ;)

;)

;)

Needed some light reading to lull me into a much needed nap earlier and read The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom. Made a nice change and the type was perfect (I really suffer from mental block when the type is too small/horrible).

Halfway through this at the moment. FANTASTIC so far. Lots of similarities to The Prodigy, in terms of setting and that they are both stories based around exceptional students at a monastery.