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Just finished Tyler Hamilton's book. Wow. Brutally honest, open and sad. I thought it might read as a dull rehash of old news superceeded by the usada report but it doesn't. It gives a very good insight into the characters and issues steering the top level of.pro cycling in the Armstrong years. Highly recommended.
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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 :)
Read that a while ago, not followed it up but it was a fantastic book, IIRC, starts off a bit slow but really picks up pace. The laser duelling was a favourite of mine.
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Read this the other week, quite funny, and a good if implausible yarn...
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^ Ha, this is still on my shelf unread.
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I am reading this
[ame="http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Srampagmano-Tales-ebook/dp/B009SKO6MG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1350819097&sr=8-1"]The Srampagmano Tales eBook: Scarlett Parker, Faith Buck: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store[/ame]
Extremely good so far.
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reading iain m banks' matter, and wish i wasn't; but there's a bit of relief when Culture action gets a look in between and medieval shenanigans and space opera
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'Matter' was the first Culture novel that I read. I really rather enjoyed it.
Anyone read the new one?
I'm currently reading the second book of Peter Hamiltons 'The Night's Dawn' trilogy. It's fucking massive. I love the scale of these works, once you get to understand the world/universe it's set in then you can lose yourself in the books for weeks.
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You really should read Feet In The Clouds if you have any interest in running. Even if you don't, you will have by the end.
Just finished Room by Emma Donohue, never thought I'd be so taken with a child-narrated tale of maternal love inspired by Jose Fritzl, but it was a magical read. Now treading Half of a Yellow Sun, and am amazed by the the power of the storytelling from a writer was wrote this in her twenties. Aren't we lucky to surrounded by so much great literature?
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For the Moby Dick fans on here: Moby-Dick in Pictures: One Drawing for Every Page
"Since 2009, former high school English teacher and self-taught artist Matt Kish has been drawing every page of the 552-page Signet Classics paperback edition of Herman Melville’s iconic Moby-Dick, methodically producing one gorgeous, obsessive drawing per day for 552 days using pages from discarded books and a variety of drawing tools, from ballpoint pen to crayon to ink and watercolor."
Review here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/10/11/matt-kish-moby-dick-illustrated/
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^ groovy, my sisters had posters like that back in the day
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Read The Drowned World by Ballard last weekend. It was good. Totally did not expect anything that happened in that book.
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pretty niche but good
The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories: Amazon.co.uk: Alisa Surkis, Monica Nolan: Books
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I'm really getting into the Culture Series books by Ian M Banks.
I used to love Sci-Fi when I was younger, devouring Greg Bear and Asimov Books etc, but then turned to Koontz, King and Deaver, amongst others for my reading fixes, but now I have returned to Sci-Fi and I'm loving it. -
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In between revisits to The Hobbit and all my Austen, I've just read Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones. It's quite good, an easy read (I finished it in a matter of hours) and an interesting snapshot of life a very long way away fro the UK. Not great literature and the Dickens gets a wee bit forced.
About to start *Herzog *(Saul Bellow). Has anyone read it?
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Just finished the third of The RIvers' of London series by Ben Aaronavitch. Urban Fantasy cross Police Procedural. All three very good.
Previous to these I OD'd on Le Carre, all the Smiley books plus the rest of his Intelligence Service novels.
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