What Are You Reading, Again?

[Ian Beale]

I only read non-fiction as i have an appalling imagination and stuggle to follow whats going on. Did enjoy The Go-Between though, L.P Hartley.

 

[Serutan]

Originally posted by YNCS
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes, on the colonization of Australia. Incidently, Hughes seems ashamed and self-pitying that he has convicts in his ancestry. This is the one part of the book that I find annoying.

It's been a while since I've read that, but I don't remember that.
I do remember his talking a lot about how Australians in general seemed to want to forget that period. Reinforced by the reaction
of an Australian I met to whom I mentioned I was reading the book.

The last book I read is Blood Music by Greg Bear. Sort of a nanotech version of Childhood's End. And I recommend it.

 

[floppa21]

Originally posted by ravensfire


Just to warn you, if you do like it and get hooked, you just keep buying, and buying, and buying, and ....

I bought my first discworld novels due to people posting about them here at CFC... Small Gods, Mort, Carpe Jugulum... Quite enjoyable reading. Also have Colour of Magic but have not read it yet. Yall said the first two sucked compared to the rest... And yes, there are plenty of books in the series.

 

[ravensfire]

floppa21,

I really, really like the books about Carrot. A bluntly honest man who knows ALL the laws, in Anhk-Morpork. I highly recommend those (Men at Arms and Guards! Guards! )

-- Ravensfire

 

[floppa21]

I do have Guards! Guards! (forgot to list it) It was definitely a good one. That and Small Gods were my favorite of the four I have read thus far.

 

[Johann MacLeod]

im reading "Ragtime" for a summer reading project, i like it its pretty good.

 

[YNCS]

Some other Discworld books about The Watch (more about Sam Vimes than Carrot) are Feet of Clay, Jingo and The Fifth Elephant.

Carrot and Angua's relationship is further explored in The Fifth Elephant, Nobby Nobbes discovers his "inner self" in Jingo, and there's quite a good murder mystery in Feet of Clay (plus Sgt. Colon literally finds himself up the well-known creek without a paddle but with a golem trying to killing him). The latest Watch book is Night Watch, which takes two or three readings to fully understand. I recommend all of them.

 

[IceBlaZe]

I'm reading 'Montedidio' by Erri De Luca and it is written wonderfully.

 

[Nixnutz]

Second volume of Ian Kershaw's Hitler biography "1936-1945 - Nemesis".

Just finished William Shirer's "Collapse of the Third Republic"

 

[Cimbri]

"The Persian Army 560-330BC" - by Nicholas Sekunda

 

[wildWolverine]

Encyclopedia of 20th Century Air Warfare

This past weekend, I saw two B-24s, one B-26, two B-29s, and an Air Raider (forget the designation -- A-1 something) flying overhead. There were no airshows anywhere near me. It was pretty weird...

 

[Stile]

I'm starting today: The Conquest of Gaul by Julius Caesar.

Is it any good? I'm sure it's been read by almost everyone here, if it is as good of a historical account as I suspect.

 

[wildWolverine]

All of the Commentaries are excellent.

 

[jack merchant]

Originally posted by Johann MacLeod
im reading "Ragtime" for a summer reading project, i like it its pretty good.

That's by E.L. Doctorow, right ? Great novel Waterworks is also a great one.

 

[Cimbri]

Originally posted by Stile
I'm starting today: The Conquest of Gaul by Julius Caesar.

Is it any good? I'm sure it's been read by almost everyone here, if it is as good of a historical account as I suspect.

If you can stand Julius' self-righteousness and his 'minor' exaggerations

 

[WildFire]

James Patterson: The Midnight Club

Very very good book.

 

[Free Enterprise]

Atlas Shrugged.

Very interesting, if you have not read it that status had best change soon......

 

[Thadlerian]

idoru (yes, it's spelled without capital letter) was good, now I'm moving to factual prose. If that is what you can call Bill Bryson's Notes From a Big Country.

 

[addiv]

I'm reading 'Quo Vadis?' and 'Bored of the rings' right now (no, not simultaneously )

 

[Suppersalmon]

Roy Hattersley - Who goes home (biography)