What are you reading at the moment?

Hexaphim · Post by **Hexaphim** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 8:52 pm

legspin wrote:I've had A Feast for Crows for two years now

That's an outright lie.

Both dates are in 2005.

legspin wrote:I am assuming you have read David Gemmell and the Eddings' offerings

I have not. Should I?

legspin · Post by **legspin** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 12:04 am

Hexaphim wrote:
legspin wrote:I've had A Feast for Crows for two years now
That's an outright lie.

legspin wrote:I am assuming you have read David Gemmell and the Eddings' offerings

Mea culpa, a thousand apologies and don't I feel like a bloody fool. Counting second part of A Storm of Swords as book four. A feast of crow for me

The Legend series by David Gemmell was the first fantasy outside of Tolkien I read, and still one of the best I have read. Wasn't so enamoured with the Jerusalem Man but it was okay

David and Leigh Eddings' series (2 five parters with 3 prequels and I think 3 trilogies) are good fun. Reasonable stories, if a bit repetative as there are only so many quests you can go on, but they have quite a bit of gentle humour that helps speed them along. Also the charicters are well written and engaging enough to make up for the slightly weaker plots in the later books

Have you read the GRR Martin's short story/graphic novel The Hedge Knight?

Orbitalhound · Post by **Orbitalhound** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 4:02 am

I am a cynic and question most established religion. In particular I am having a hard time with Mormonism. Right now I am reading a book called "The Power and Promise: Mormon America" by Richard Ostling and Joan K. Ostling. (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... 2?v=glance) So far it has given an accurate and relatively neutral view of Mormonisms historical roots.

Hexaphim · Post by **Hexaphim** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 5:52 pm

legspin wrote:Have you read the GRR Martin's short story/graphic novel The Hedge Knight?

I've read both of the Hedge Knight short stories, and I have the graphic novel as well. Good stuff.

Timbob · Post by **Timbob** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 9:07 pm

Are you experienced? by william sutcliffe (but in dutch)
like the picture says, very very funny.

i got stomach aches from laughing in the train when i was reading a part about how the main character was sick in a hotel room and described his diarrhea

memly · Post by **memly** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 11:47 am

Just finishing The Time Travellers Wife by audrey niffenegger, which by the way is very good (for a romantic(ish) novel) then I'm gonna start The Vesuvius Club by Mark Gattis... Then Foundations of Soil Geology- second edition...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

hippy dave · Post by **hippy dave** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 1:45 pm

memly wrote:The Time Travellers Wife by audrey niffenegger

i thought it was great.
my girlfriend's got me reading "sexing the cherry" by jeanette winterson. it's not doing it for me, i doubt i'd finish it except it's really short & i'm halfway already. apparently the genre is called 'magical reality'. hm.
flatmate just brought a bunch of books from home including the hitchhiker's trilogy, so i might re-read that soon

knufjuf · Post by **knufjuf** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 4:17 pm

Until I find you by John Irving

tcb2000 · Post by **tcb2000** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 10:30 pm

Currently reading 'Is It Just Me Or is Everything Shit?'.

Hilarious.

Rich

Funky Dung · Post by **Funky Dung** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 6:15 pm

Alain De Botton - 'Essays In Love: A Novel'

Wonderfully worded philosophical ramblings about the minutae of falling in love.

legspin · Post by **legspin** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 8:39 pm

Have just finished ' Raw Spirit' by Iain Banks

Am currently reading 'Does anything eat wasps', a compendium of reader questions and answers form NewScientist magazine.

Kansler · Post by **Kansler** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 10:10 am

Not too fond of Alain De Botton, although I consent that he writes very movingly.

Currently reading: Hawkes, Jaquetta: "The First Great Civilizations" (for a course)

davemacfrombath · Post by **davemacfrombath** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 1:33 pm

just finished Margrave of the marshes - John Peel and Sheila Ravenscroft. A good read and quite poignant.

Am in the middle of Last Tango in Abergavenny which is very surreal and funny.

Also recently read Vernon God Little, again, very funny.

Dog · Post by **Dog** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 1:52 pm

Currently reading: John Peel - A Life In Music

hippy dave · Post by **hippy dave** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 2:17 pm

tcb2000 wrote:

got this for christmas - have only dipped into it so far but looks good.
i did re-read the hitchhiker's trilogy, and actually enjoyed it even more than i expected to

currently reading "anita and me" by meera syal, is good.

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