I'm currently reading... Options

[The Ghost of Inept Pig]

(although not at this exact moment in time, because I'm at work - and they tend to want me to do 'work' instead of read)

The Complete Sherlock Holmes (by Arthur Conan Doyle) and 1984 (by George Orwell)

How about you? Read any good books lately?

[Slim Jim]

Book i'm reading at the moment " A million little pieces" about a drug addict in rehab, really good read. Its funny in its bluntness.

[DanMaggot]

In an effort to tone the level down a bit just read two Dean Koontz novels.

Odd Thomas

&

Forever Odd

First was better than second, but both were fun.

Also just finished a book by Carl Hiaasen called Skin Tight which could put you off cosmetic surgery for life (if you were ever thinking of it in the first place).

http://www.carlhiaasen.com/index.html

[Cataclysm=J]

Read Velocity By Dean Koontz, thats good fun.

[The Ghost of Inept Pig]

Reading Velocity now (well, not at this exact minute, but you get the idea).

Wasn't too keen on the Grapes of Wrath, just didn't grab me all that much - interesting in places though.

Read Dark Hollow on Dan's recommedation, which was quite good once I got into it - but did have the odd moment where it's a bit too full of itself (much as Dan suggested).

Oh, and Early One Morning is another good read (by the same guy that did The Blue Noon)

[Cataclysm=J]

At the moment in fiction I'm reading The Wasp Factory which so far is actually pretty good. Weird as its about these two mentally disturbed brothers but pretty good.

[DanMaggot]

I never liked Iain Banks's more serious fiction like The Wasp Factory(though I've got and not yet read The Crow Road by him based purely on the quote

It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony to Bach's Mass in B minor....

but I've loved his science fiction written under Iain M. Banks for some time especially Look to Windward.

I recently read and very much enjoyed John Conolly's newest book - The Book of Lost Things - .

I'm expecting quite a bit of solitude this coming week and so aim to get down to some serious catching up on books. Either Banks's The Algebraist or Koontz's The Taking I reckon.

[Spook Tooth]

So much for reading books - have any of you ever considered writing one yourself?

Seriously or more not so seriously? I mean, some of these authors write for sh^t. So who's to tell?

I urge you all to read 'One flew over the Cuckoo's nest' and 'The Dharma Bums' and 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' etc. Good reads.

[Cataclysm=J]

I think Slim should write a book about something big and yellow since he seems to like such things so much .

[DanMaggot]

Ha. In a fit of retro think today I delved into some golden oldies and re read No Highway by Nevil Shute. A great story teller of the 40's and 50's he wrote some pretty fine books - though maybe not of interest to the youngsters in here.

[wags]

I'm sooooooo dull . I'm currently reading 'A practical approach to Arbitration Law', which I have borrowed and continually renewed for the past 4 months from the County Library I wish I had time to read for recreation, but sadly I don't at present

[Cataclysm=J]

There really arn't enough hours in the day.

[Spook Tooth]

I'm currently reading 'A practical approach to Arbitration Law', which I have borrowed and continually renewed for the past 4 months from the County Library

Shudder... I have a library book phobia - it applies to boringly title books with boring square covers and naff graphical art, particularly with really horrible cover colours - brown, yellow, orarnge and bogey green type thing from the 70s or early 80s. Text books of practically all descriptions give me the heebie-jeebies too. Come to think of it anything highly technical frigtens me and sends me to an anxious numb comatosed state.

Guess I'm not one for studying really, unless it is byte sized with some nice illustrations/pretty pictures! Hee hee. What is arbitration law then Wags? I take it it's something to do with settlement but not in the traditional sense of plaintiff and defendent? Or is it one and the same?

I'm not very good in reading in general but I have started The Long Way Round (which I might have mentioned above somewhere come to think of it). It details more about the journey Ewan McGregor and his best mate, Charley Boorman took by motorcycle from London to New York overland through Siberia and Eastern Europe etc. After watching the DVDs however, I am less enchanted with finishing the book... That's the most difficult thing I guess is actually picking the book up once you've put it down.

[DanMaggot]

I've just finished the new Terry Pratchett book "Wintersmith" and it's another bloody gem

By gum, there are books I'll read to make do with cause there's nothing else of interest around, and sadly these days there are times when I just don't have a book on the go, and then along comes one I've been waiting months for (Wintersmith) and it's read in 6 hours Because it's such a joy and so hard to put down and go do something else.

[Shirley_Crabtree]

I recently read The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy,The restaurant at the end of the Universe and Life,the Universe and Everything...In 3 days..I like short stories

[Cataclysm=J]

After reading the books its worthgetting yourself a copy of the BBCs film version, that was very well done. But seriously, don't bother with the new film, another good book ruined by hollywood.

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