What are you reading?

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #180 on: August 14, 2010, 03:54:16 PM »
I have just purchased The Dreaming Void by Peter F. Hamilton. I plan to start reading it tonight.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #181 on: August 20, 2010, 06:53:50 AM »
Just finished Awkward Situations for Men by Danny Wallace. A piss-easy but very funny read.

I'm now doing my own book, which takes influence from $cientology, Islam, the Greek word for 'replenish' and the anti-blasphemy law in Ireland. It's fictional, but based around what I think will happen in the UK in the next 10-20 years.

I didn't really answer the question. I need a new book, perhaps.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #182 on: August 20, 2010, 07:39:36 AM »
I have just purchased The Dreaming Void by Peter F. Hamilton. I plan to start reading it tonight.

Love Peter F. Hamilton and met him at a convention once. Did you ever read the Commonwealth series (Pandoras star, Judas Unchained) before The Dreaming Void? You don't need to as it's set a thousand or so years in the future but it's nice to see the references to the earlier books, even bringing some of the best characters back!

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #183 on: August 24, 2010, 12:56:40 AM »
Half way through The Ringworld Engineers

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #184 on: August 31, 2010, 07:41:45 PM »
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #185 on: August 31, 2010, 07:48:38 PM »
I am reading The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #186 on: September 04, 2010, 06:18:17 AM »
My dad got me a book about human evolution called Ape Man. It has lots of pictures. My dad knows me very well 8)
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #187 on: September 04, 2010, 09:36:54 AM »
Half way through The Ringworld Engineers
My brothers reading that. Now I think. He might be done. He reads too fast.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #188 on: September 17, 2010, 10:50:23 AM »
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #189 on: October 07, 2010, 09:06:19 AM »
I'm currently reading The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster, my favourite writer. I'm only about a 1/3 in, and it's already apparent that this is going to be another wonderful story from the man I consider to be the finest American writer of the last 25 years.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #190 on: October 07, 2010, 09:25:34 AM »
Bill Bryson. A Short History of Nearly Everything.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #191 on: October 07, 2010, 09:27:31 AM »
The Evolutionary Void - Peter F. Hamilton

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #192 on: October 07, 2010, 09:42:09 AM »
Let the Right One In, english translation, John Ajbide Lindqvist
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #193 on: October 07, 2010, 03:44:21 PM »
Finally made a start on Foundation - Asimov and holy shit I wish I'd started sooner rather than wading through more Dawkins.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #194 on: October 07, 2010, 03:52:39 PM »
Foundation rules.
"I want truth for truth's sake, not for the applaud or approval of men. I would not reject truth because it is unpopular, nor accept error because it is popular. I should rather be right and stand alone than run with the multitude and be wrong." - C.S. DeFord

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #195 on: October 08, 2010, 05:35:51 AM »
Let the Right One In, english translation, John Ajbide Lindqvist

Ahh ,loved the film of that book

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #196 on: October 08, 2010, 06:20:12 AM »
Let the Right One In, english translation, John Ajbide Lindqvist

Ahh ,loved the film of that book

Yeah I saw the film before reading the book.  For a film based on a book it was quite decent, just a few extra story parallels were cut out.  And the how Elias became Eli.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #197 on: October 08, 2010, 07:38:23 AM »
Candles burning, by Tabitha King and Michael McDowell.

I read everything by Stephen King, also read one of his son's books "the heart-shaped box", and now one of his wife's, not very good though, the style is strange, and slow, and... well, it's taking me a big effort to keep reading it.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #198 on: October 08, 2010, 08:20:02 AM »
The Evolutionary Void - Peter F. Hamilton

I'm reading The Dreaming Void!

Or, I was...

It's the last book I bought, it was good, but I just haven't been in a book reading mood x.x

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #199 on: October 11, 2010, 08:36:25 AM »
I'm now reading Walden by Henry Thoreau.
"I want truth for truth's sake, not for the applaud or approval of men. I would not reject truth because it is unpopular, nor accept error because it is popular. I should rather be right and stand alone than run with the multitude and be wrong." - C.S. DeFord

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #200 on: October 11, 2010, 09:46:54 AM »
The Oxford History of Anglo-Saxon England, by the late Dr. Frank Stenton. Heavy, but very interesting.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #201 on: October 12, 2010, 01:03:20 AM »
The Evolutionary Void - Peter F. Hamilton

I'm reading The Dreaming Void!

Or, I was...

It's the last book I bought, it was good, but I just haven't been in a book reading mood x.x

Did you read the Commonwealth books beforehand? You don't need to but there are lots of in-jokes and references only readers of 'Pandora's Star' and 'Judas Unchained' will get.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #202 on: October 20, 2010, 05:12:51 AM »
I usually have a few going at once. A modern novel, a historic one. Some history or bio & some sci-fi. Right now I'm rereading Jack Kerouac's On The Road, into Piers Anthony's Shade of the Tree-(He's Nora Roberts like). I've got Baldacci's Split Second for next & I LOVE Raymond Chandler. Just found a few I haven't yet read of his.

Great Expectations is a marvelous read. I hated to see it end. &Alcott is a very good writer. Always nice to read something by either.

Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #203 on: November 16, 2010, 01:49:48 AM »
Walking to Hollywood- Will Self

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #204 on: November 16, 2010, 02:19:21 AM »
After I finished "Candles burning" I started reading a friend's self-published book named "Los angeles del fuego fatuo", it has good things, but in general, the last episode is confusing and strange, left me with a weird sensation.
Now I'm starting with "A secret rage", by Charlaine Harris, the author of the books on which the show True blood is based on.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #205 on: November 21, 2010, 04:40:13 PM »
I finally finished Tolstoy's War and Peace. This is noteworthy as it is the only book on my shelves I had not read in entirety. 
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #206 on: November 22, 2010, 10:16:20 AM »
I finally finished Tolstoy's War and Peace. This is noteworthy as it is the only book on my shelves I had not read in entirety. 


The final sections on his philosophy are beyond tedious.
"I want truth for truth's sake, not for the applaud or approval of men. I would not reject truth because it is unpopular, nor accept error because it is popular. I should rather be right and stand alone than run with the multitude and be wrong." - C.S. DeFord

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #207 on: November 22, 2010, 10:18:05 AM »
Reason, Faith, and Revolution.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #208 on: December 26, 2010, 06:12:15 AM »
Chris Kamara's autobiography.

Funny.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #209 on: December 26, 2010, 10:41:52 AM »
DRACULA! by Bram Stoker.
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