Books - What are you reading?

Just started reading The Most Amazing Man Who Ever Lived by Robert Rankin, finding it pretty damn funny already and the bloke who wrote it is a fantastic fellow. Great singer/banjo player too.....

Also started reading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon which I'm finding rather splendid too!

My sister-in-law has just got me
The Quantum Universe: Everything that can happen does happen: Amazon.co.uk: Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw: Books
for my birthday. Once I've put together the robot arm I was also given, I shall be reading it, whilst watching my robot arm set off my marble run.

Wait, you were given a robot arm for your birthday?!

^Yup. One of these:

[ame="http://www.amazon.co.uk/ROBOTIC-ARM-KIT-INTERFACE-CONSTRUCT/dp/B005ERFUXG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1348960852&sr=8-1"]ROBOTIC ARM KIT - USB PC INTERFACE CONSTRUCT PRECISION: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics[/ame]

It can sadly only lift 100g, and I've been told I have to make it work with my Raspberry Pi

Finished Burroughs - Junkie which I had bought and been meaning to read for ages.
Starting on Ray Kurzweil - The Singularity is Near. Good so far.

The Handmaid's Tale then The Year of the Flood (both Margaret Atwood) and for a bit of respite from work I'm now rereading The Hobbit, and it's lovely

Finally got round to reading some more John Wyndham books other than Day of the Triffids and The Chrysalids.

In the past week I've read:

Stowaway to Mars
The Kraken Wakes
The Midwich Cuckoos
Chocky
The Secret People

All brilliant but I enjoyed The Kraken Wakes the most.

For ebook readers, Humble Bundle is now doing a DRM free collection!

http://www.humblebundle.com/

Ffinished Pratchett's Dodger,

Started Matin Amis' Yellow Bird

^^ Wyndham is great, big fan.

Rushdie memoir Joseph Anton.

Each time I pick him up I forget what a great writer he is and the memoir of the Satanic Verses affair is not a let down. Told in the third person with great humour and detail.

He fucking hates his second wife though..

Ffinished Pratchett's Dodger,

Started Matin Amis' Yellow Bird

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Yellow Dog? inspiration for clintsmoker on here

Cocaine Nights is simply incredible. A must read for anyone going to Spain on their hols!

The Cote d' Azur is in France. You posted on my birthday, hence I oversaw.

My mistake - been quite a while since I read it.

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Cold War: Building for Nuclear Confrontation 1946-89**

Really rather interesting and a bargain at 50p from a Church book sale!

The Cote d' Azur is in France. You posted on my birthday, hence I oversaw.

Cocaine nights takes place on the Costa del Sol.

I think there is confusion between Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes.

I think there is confusion between Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes.

This should clear it up:
Super Cannes:

I think there is confusion between Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes.

As always, sigh, you are right; still not going to give you any of my two of this.

Blimey you have 2?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/THE-ATROCITY-EXHIBITION-by-Ballard-Doubleday-Edition-/300120333236

^ Not this one. UK First Edition. Charity shop.

Ludwig, I think you should start to read this:
[ame="http://www.amazon.com/My-Countdown-Popular-Astronomy-Space/dp/1926837096"]My Countdown (Popular Astronomy Space): Lena De Winne: 9781926837093: Amazon.com: Books[/ame]

A new book about cycling, which I hope to add to my long (and ever growing) reading list/Christmas wish list:

Ben Irvine's **Einstein and the Art of Mindful Cycling: Achieving Balance in the Modern World **(Leaping Hare Press).

It’s about how inspiring cycling can be, revealed through stories of the life and character of Albert Einstein, who famously thought up his theory of relativity while on a bicycle.

Copies purchased from cyclelifestyle.co.uk will help support the magazine.

Irvine will be signing copies of the book in **Heffers bookshop, 20 Trinity Lane, Cambridge, Saturday 27 October, 2 to 5pm. **For further info, contact info@oldspeak.co.uk.

[ame="http://www.amazon.co.uk/My-Struggle-Book-Death-Family/dp/1846554675/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1350243806&sr=8-1"]My Struggle Book 1: A Death in the Family: Amazon.co.uk: Karl Ove Knausgaard, Don Bartlett: Books[/ame]

Planning on starting this, probably next weekend. Chatted to a friend who works in publishing about it over the weekend and it sounds great. This article should get you going..

Wow, the author wrote a "six book mega-novel, based on his own life".

That makes those 3-autobiographies-before-they're-25 celebs look like shrinking violets.

Blimey you have 2?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/THE-ATROCITY-EXHIBITION-by-Ballard-Doubleday-Edition-/300120333236

What's the story behind the price? Controversial so they scrapped it or something?

Reading Hidden Empire by by Kevin J. Anderson, first volume of The Saga of Seven Suns.

Enjoying it so far, looks like it's gonna be an epic space opera series :)