What are you reading?

[Fred]

Originally Posted by reac

Based on this have just read both of them, most enjoyable.

Glad ya enjoyed them. There is the third book 'The Last Colony' out and about but I don't think it has reached NZ yet.

[dead goon]

nineteen eight-four by george orwell

on the road by jack kerouac

[Draco T Bastard]

http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Ewtv/powerdown/greer.htm

A short essay on the collapse of complex societies.

[Savage]

A Storm of Swords

[Kryten]

Have recently read a couple more Miles Vorkosigan stories by Lois McMaster Bujold - really enjoyable sci-fi but you've got to be particular about reading order (Wikipedia's page is quite good in this regard).

I've now moved onto The Deadhouse Gates and while enjoying it, I feel like I've been kicked up the side of the head. Erikson really does write some complex prose.

[Ashley]

CBF searching, anyone read Hammonds new book?

[pervy]

Originally Posted by dead goon

nineteen eight-four by george orwell

on the road by jack kerouac

1984, greatest book ever IMHO.

I just finished "The Elegant Universe" by Brian Greene. Started easy but then I found myself reading chapters three times before I understood parts.

Currently reading "The Selfish Gene" by our favourite atheist, Mr Dawkins

[dead goon]

you rekon?
i find it rather depressing so far. it is a good read however.

i hope they can bring down the party! i will find out shortly.

[Ab]

"The Grass Crown", Colleen McCullough's sequel to "The First Man In Rome" which I mentioned on the previous page.

Fucking ownage. And McCullough's depiction of the 11-year-old Julius Caesar is close to how I imagine young Rhaegar Targaryen.

[[WanG] Wandarah]

Originally Posted by dead goon

on the road by jack kerouac

by fuck that is an excellent book.

[chiQ]

Trading In Danger by Elizabeth Moon. Borrowed it off Stain0r. Seems good so far, but it's compulsive reading...yet?

[dead goon]

Originally Posted by dead goon

i hope they can bring down the party! i will find out shortly.

:(

[armourking]

Originally Posted by dead goon

If there is hope, it lies in the proles.

[cryocore]

just finished Confessor - Terry Goodkind.

about to start Bill Bryson - William Shakespeare: The World As a Stage. it seems a bit short so should be only a couple of hours to read.

[Rince]

Watership Down

[dead goon]

Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller

[dead goon]

Originally Posted by armourking

If there is hope, it lies in the proles.

:(

[[WanG] Wandarah]

death in the afternoon, hemmingway

[Draco T Bastard]

Year 501, by Noam Chomsky.

Details the first 500 years of slaughter and conquest by the Europeans, British and the US in the name of capitalism.

[Draco T Bastard]

The Authoritarians
http://members.shaw.ca/jeanaltemeyer...oritarians.pdf

[cyc]

Originally Posted by Draco T Bastard

The Authoritarians
http://members.shaw.ca/jeanaltemeyer...oritarians.pdf

OMG ANOTHER "AMERICA SUX! WE ARE ALL DOOMED!" book read by Draco? It just can't be...

*Yawn*

[Draco T Bastard]

Originally Posted by cyc

OMG ANOTHER "AMERICA SUX! WE ARE ALL DOOMED!" book read by Draco? It just can't be...

*Yawn*

It's more of a psychology text but it has, unfortunately, been Americanised.

[Toksin]

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

[Kryten]

I'm Just Here for More Food: Food x Mixing + Heat = Baking (Alton Brown)

Finally I find an Alton Brown book on a store shelf in New Zealand. This is my early Christmas present to myself Alton rules, if you're interested in any sort of cooking and haven't seen Good Eats, you're really missing out.

[doppelgänger of someone]

Devil in the milk, by Keith Woodford

Woodford reviewed scientific literature on the harmful effects of one kind of dairy milk ('A1 milk'), the specific kind that is being widely consumed in the New Zealand and Australia. He also argued that Fonterra is covering up/disputing these harmful effects because of its commerical interests.

I'm still getting thru the book, but at this point all I can say is this book seriously needs an editor.

[xor]

MS Exchange 2003 oooh yeah those public folder stores are secksy

[StN]

Originally Posted by StN

Don't you just love the gilt edged leather bound biblicalness of it?

So now I'm digging through "The Salmon of Doubt" - bits scavenged from the Macs of Douglas, and assembled in some kind of order that makes sense. There's some Zaphod, and some Dirk Gently - and I'm not sure yet if the two end up tying everything together. No word yet on the stuff this guy found being part of it.

[chiQ]

I'm reading The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman. It's bloody great so far. It's one of three, and has been made into a movie, which is showing in cinemas at the moment. I wouldn't call it a book for children, but it has elements that make it feel like a book for kids. It sounds like they've made it a children's film. I won't watch it until I've read all three.

[ilk]

Cue the "Actually, you are reading Northern Lights" rant.

Reading Ringworld by Larry Niven, present from my Sis for xmas.

[nayru]

Everything's Eventual - Stephen King. Some of the stories are cool, some suck.

[armourking]

Plowing through The Night Watch

[catsrnice]

S King-nightmares and dreamscapes

[cyc]

War of the World by Niall Ferguson. His right wing slants are somewhat annoying (as is his writing style -- the scream screams out for better editing)but this guy is still a great historian.

Third Reich by Michael Burleigh -- probably the definitive book on the Third Reich published in the last twenty years or so. Again, in desperate need of better editing but there's no faulting the content nor the analysis.

[xor]

I read I am legend before I watched the film. The film doesn't do the book any justice!

[chiQ]

Originally Posted by ilk

Cue the "Actually, you are reading Northern Lights" rant.

Unless you're reading the US edition published in 2003, in which case you're reading The Golden Compass

I'm onto The Subtle Knife now. Still brilliant

[dead goon]

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

[StN]

Originally Posted by StN

The making of Star Wars - this is spooge worthy. Big hard covered book filled with production photos, original script scribblings and musings from the seventies. I consider myself a bit of a fanboy, but was completely ignorant to the fact that Camie (You know, Luke's mate from Toshi station where he wastes time with his friends) was played by soft porn star and royal rooter Koo Stark.

And there is an awesome pic of Hamil and Guinness sitting in his hovel with Luke looking straight down the hilt of his fathers light sabre.

I picked up a copy of the Vault at the pre Christmas price (which is about the same as the Amazon price)

It's a bit kitch - a book full of scrap book type inserts - ie an envelope from ILM in the 70's, copies of Sir Alec's typed invite to cocktails at Ellstree, a page on the T-shirts from 1977, including an iron on transfer. That kind of thing. It even has one of those scratch on transfer scenes that I'd forgotten about, but were all the rage in the 70's. Pretty much the stuff that is discussed in the marketing part of the book above.

[SpaceCowboy]

probably said it already in this thread, but im now rereading Terrance Mckenna - Food of the Gods

[nayru]

I've just started reading ""Universe: A journey from the earth to the edge of the cosmos" by Nicolas Cheetham.

Not bad, but it doesn't really have all the information similar books offer, but It's nice to have.

[dylan]

Originally Posted by chiQ all the way back in February re His Dark Materials

Thanks for the heads up. I'll check those out

pfft, slacker

incidentally, I believe Philip Pullman is the only author that's ever won an 'adult' prize for literature (Whitbread) based on a 'children's' book (quotes used because who the hell knows what is what nowadays)