Read a good book lately?

[Posh Tourer :P]

Just been of to the library and got out
Jack Higgins : A Season in Hell
Raymond E Feist : Krondor The Assasins
Douglas Adams : Resturant at the end of the Universe (read it many times)
Claudia Orange : An Illustrated history of the Treaty of Waitangi
David Wragg :Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory (military blunders)

Claudia Orange is certainly quite readable

[Kickaha]

Claudia Orange is certainly quite readable

Well I'm really reading it just so I can have more informed debate with a certain student who inhabits this forum.

[MikeL]

And to MikeL, I have already written one book - but it was non fiction, now I have to work on the fiction {I have a screen play in progress at the moment, but it is a killer trying to do it}.

Trying to write while earning a living elsewhere (not to mention fitting in the very occasional bike ride) will always be a challenge.
To do the research properly for my next book (historical novel) would take months of full-time reading. At the rate I'm going I should get there sometime before my seventieth birthday. Whereupon with the Alzheimer's I will no doubt have lost the plot in more ways than one. To think that all those acute observations of society, politics and religion, and the wry musings on the tragi-comedy of life, as well as the heart-felt empathy with the pathos of the human condition - the noble Virgilian theme of the lacrimae rerum, the "tears of things" - that such a literary treasure may never see the light of day because of the sheer grind of tedious labour necessary to earn a crust and keep the wolf from the day (please note that my fictional writings are by no means as cliche-ridden as this!) is a prospect that can scarcely be contemplated with equanimity...
Offers of sponsorship or patronage, or information about lucrative sinecures, can be communicated by private message...

[jrandom]

To think that ... such a literary treasure may never see the light of day because of the sheer grind of tedious crust necessary to earn a labour and keep the wolf from the writings (please note that my cliche-ridden days are by no means as fictional as this!) is a prospect that can privately be patronised with contemplation...
Offers of sponsorship or equanimity, or information about lucrative messages, can scarcely be communicated by sinecures.

At this point, I'd just like to register a sincere recommendation for Mac's Copperhop Ale.

As you were...

[MikeL]

At this point, I'd just like to register a sincere recommendation for Mac's Copperhop Ale.

A man of taste and discernment, I see.

I only recently discovered Copperhop and I suspect it will rapidly supplant my previous favourites...

[LB]

Well I'm really reading it just so I can have more informed debate with a certain student who inhabits this forum.

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Now let me think.....I wonder who that could be? :sly:
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[moko]

Just started "The De Vinci Code" (sp) - 4 Chapters in and I'm hooked.

I enjoyed that but kept thinking back to the old "Broken Sword" pc game,if you enjoy that you`ll also enjoy "The Templer Revelation",one of several books it uses ideas from.

[Dr Bob]

Name them (please) as I am trying to rebuild mine and am missing a few book in different series.

You have got to be kidding, this is just not possible. Rather an ecclectic collection, probably something that you would like.

[jrandom]

You have got to be kidding, this is just not possible. Rather an ecclectic collection, probably something that you would like.

Ooooh! Ooooh! Um... what would it take to bribe you for a wee pop-round-the-corner and book borrowing session? I'm *right* out of reading material at the moment. Sniff.

I'll PM you.

[Skyryder]

Can some one tell me the nest book in line from the magician byb Raymond Fiest. Read the Mag. sometime ago and neet to read next book.

Incedently anyone read the "Marshes of Mount Liang" by Shi Nai'an and Luo Guanzhong (The Marshes of Mount Liang)


Skyryder

[Slim]

Raymond E. Feist wrote The Magician, Silverthorn & Darkness at Sethanon in the Riftwar Series. I think he then wrote the Empire Trilogy with Janny Wurts which is the other end of the War going on in the Magician novel. There's Daughter, Servant & Mistress of the Empire in that series. Finally, there's Prince of the Blood and The King's Buccaneer to complete the story.

[MrMelon]

I used to read any book I could get my hands on, but then the internet came along, and online gaming took over for 8 years or so...

But I've just finished reading my first book in ages.. It's The Life of Pi. It's a pretty cool story, and reading some interesting books is definately better than sitting on the computer doing nothing productive. So I'm going to make an effort to read some more cool books now.

[boris]

bill the calactic hero, Harry harrison.


Preacher (graphic novels) by Garth Ennis.I think there are nine books in total.Lots of blood and gore.I think they are funny, my mate thinks they are sick.

[NordieBoy]

Most of my library is online - (MySQL back end with the Apache Rivet module decoding the TCL pages)

Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat series...

Go Slippery Jim

[jrandom]

I just finished reading The Gun Seller, by Hugh Laurie (yes, as in Bertie Wooster).

Great book. Very British in its narratory diversions to, for example, explain that when a female character engaged in the hackneyed action of "turning a pair of grey eyes in his direction" they were, of course, her own eyes, since there weren't exactly boxes of spare eyes on the table, ready for picking up and turning in people's directions, you know.

Also, the protagonist rides a ZZR1100, and no inaccurate statements regarding firearms were made throughout the book, with the exception of the inclusion of a magical telescopic sight that could be disguised as an SLR lens, carried in one's pocket, affixed to a stockless rifle and used for a single-shot assassination without any intermediate boresighting or zeroing whatsoever.

In any case, well recommended.