What are you reading?

unwind · Post by **unwind** » Thu Apr 21, 2011 5:04 pm

Started reading this a few days ago. Definitely a MUST if you are into science and its' origins. It's very serious compared to bryson's other books, but, as it says on the front, it's hard to imagine a better rough guide to science.

tuckerlinen · Post by **tuckerlinen** » Thu May 12, 2011 3:16 pm

Anyone else pick up a copy of The Pale King?

wub · Post by **wub** » Thu May 12, 2011 3:23 pm

ed teach · Post by **ed teach** » Thu May 12, 2011 6:11 pm

tuckerlinen · Post by **tuckerlinen** » Sun Jun 12, 2011 1:05 am

The Handmaid's Tale

Lolita

Grim week...

finji · Post by **finji** » Sun Jun 12, 2011 1:54 am

meanmrcustard · Post by **meanmrcustard** » Sun Jun 12, 2011 2:10 am

Just started Ravelstein by Saul Bellow. My first Saul Bellow novel, seems I'm going backwards. :/

firky · Post by **firky** » Sun Jun 12, 2011 3:22 am

It's a slow burner but very much a good read. I've restricted myself to a couple of chapters a night otherwise I'd burn through it in a weekend!

Shum · Post by **Shum** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 4:00 am

Borrowed this from a friend and I've been at it for a good while now.

Phyalow · Post by **Phyalow** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 5:18 am

Due to ghey exams Im stuck reading these bad boys.

Filthzilla · Post by **Filthzilla** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 11:39 am

I'm reading a book on driving theory and the bible.

wub · Post by **wub** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 11:49 am

WhosZena · Post by **WhosZena** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 11:51 am

'The holographic universe' - Mike talbot, a few months ago read..

will do it again some time, really well written, the kind of book that empties the mind more than it fills. Which is good.

Now:
'The radiance of the king' - Camara Laye

Pretty sure its the first book ive read from another culture!.. so far im loving the format.

d-T-r · Post by **d-T-r** » Sat Jun 25, 2011 8:03 am

The Emerald Tablets of Thoth

The history of the tablets translated in the following pages is strange and beyond the
belief of modern scientists. Their antiquity is stupendous, dating back some 36,000 years
B.C. The writer is Thoth, an Atlantean Priest-King, who founded a colony in ancient Egypt
after the sinking of the mother country. He was the builder of the Great Pyramid of Giza,
erroneously attributed to Cheops. (See The Great Pyramid by Doreal.) In it he incorpo-
rated his knowledge of the ancient wisdom and also securely secreted records and in-
struments of ancient Atlantis.

For some 16,000 years, he ruled the ancient race of Egypt, from approximately
50,000 B.C. to 36.000 B.C. At that time, the ancient barbarous race among which he and
his followers had settled had been raised to a high degree of civilization. Thoth was an
immortal, that is, he had conquered death, passing only when he willed and even then
not through death. His vast wisdom made him ruler over the various Atlantean colonies,
including the ones in South and Central America.

quite an interesting read so far. investigation mode on.

pdf if anyone's interested -isn't too hard to find an online version either

http://www.horuscentre.org/library/Herm ... _Thoth.pdf

AllNightDayDream · Post by **AllNightDayDream** » Sat Jun 25, 2011 11:41 pm

Obnoxiously long title is obnoxious

the acid never lies · Post by **the acid never lies** » Sun Jun 26, 2011 10:58 pm

I know a bunch of you guys are into fantasy / science fiction / have left wing sensibilities (I'm thinking of you Firky)

Check out China Miéville, his fiction is the bomb.

firky · Post by **firky** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 11:47 am

A toilet book / airport book with some very American humour that you can see coming from a mile off. It's not a bad book it's just rather "pop", sort of thing you'd read in a magazine such is the style.

Kills time on my night shift and only cost me 20p so I'm not complaining

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the acid never lies wrote:I know a bunch of you guys are into fantasy / science fiction / have left wing sensibilities (I'm thinking of you Firky)

Check out China Miéville, his fiction is the bomb.

I think he's a swappy!

I've never read anything by him but amazon keeps recommending him to me. Now you have too maybe it's time checked him out. I don't think I bothered last time because I read somewhere he's weird for weirdnesses sake and contrived pretentiousness gets up my nose! I will check him out next week when I do my weekly visit to Barter Books

Reading this along side Bad Chili at the moment, it's pretty good! Set in Istanbul a few years after they join the EU with near future technologies colliding with djinns and old religions.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dervish-House-G ... 0575080523

Electric_Head · Post by **Electric_Head** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 11:51 am

For those that need their views reinforced.

pikeymobile · Post by **pikeymobile** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 9:04 pm

I've read PiHKaL, Entangled and The Princess Bride in the past 2 weeks. The Princess Bride is one of the best novels I've ever read.

isiahfire · Post by **isiahfire** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 9:50 pm

I'm reading a Junot Diaz book, 'The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao'

Dude can write.

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