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Post by tigerlily on Jan 6, 2008 21:40:39 GMT
Ooooh...do I fancy re-reading all the Pern books again, or not?
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Post by hoofhearted on Jan 6, 2008 21:51:51 GMT
i'm reading william fox pitt autobiography. just done the hammond one (see another thread)
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Post by Neil Beformee on Jan 10, 2008 22:30:53 GMT
Just starting Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know by Rannulph Fiennes here.
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Post by tigerlily on Jan 11, 2008 8:04:14 GMT
About a third of the way through Raymond E Feist's 'Talon of the Silver Hawk' here.
It seems pretty good so far. I was getting very fed up with the Krondor books (the follow ons from Magician, Silverthorn and Darkness at Sethanon). I really disliked his new characters, but this book seems to be a return to form.
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Post by faeryboots on Jan 11, 2008 9:07:24 GMT
Oooo, Jack has just bought Tyg two Magician etc. Think I may re-read in a quiet moment.
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Post by shemlock on Jan 11, 2008 9:22:57 GMT
On the recommendation of my daughter, who is doing Philosophy, I am reading The End of Faith by Sam Harris. It is a very thought provoking book. It is fascinating, the logical ideas, about faith and terrorism, that Sam Harris, brings to the fore. I am only half way through so have not yet come to any conclusions, but my ideas are all over the place now.
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Post by tigerlily on Jan 11, 2008 14:58:45 GMT
Oooo, Jack has just bought Tyg two Magician etc. Think I may re-read in a quiet moment. Oh, he should love them! They'll be right up his street, I reckon. Did Jack buy him the revised edition of Magician, or the originally-published version? Feist reissued it as the book he'd wanted it to be, with some of the edited-out material and a bit of rewriting here and there. I have both!
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Post by Scrab on Jan 11, 2008 16:07:50 GMT
I keep dipping into Hammond's book (have read it thro' more than twice) as it's currently living in the bathroom. Have just started "Mrs. P's Journey" - about the woman who singlehandedly walked all 23000 streets of London and drew up the very first London A-Z in 1936. (I suppose thats one advantage of not having the cable/tele not working - I can catch up on reading
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Post by faeryboots on Jan 11, 2008 16:33:32 GMT
Oooo, Jack has just bought Tyg two Magician etc. Think I may re-read in a quiet moment. Oh, he should love them! They'll be right up his street, I reckon. Did Jack buy him the revised edition of Magician, or the originally-published version? Feist reissued it as the book he'd wanted it to be, with some of the edited-out material and a bit of rewriting here and there. I have both! We have both, although I'm sure that's no great surprise. ;D
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Post by tigerlily on Jan 11, 2008 16:56:02 GMT
Oh, he should love them! They'll be right up his street, I reckon. Did Jack buy him the revised edition of Magician, or the originally-published version? Feist reissued it as the book he'd wanted it to be, with some of the edited-out material and a bit of rewriting here and there. I have both! We have both, although I'm sure that's no great surprise. ;D I should have known! Have you read any Robert Asprin yet?
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Post by faeryboots on Jan 11, 2008 17:14:21 GMT
We have both, although I'm sure that's no great surprise. ;D I should have known! Have you read any Robert Asprin yet? Don't recall reporting a headache! No, never heard of him.
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Post by tigerlily on Jan 11, 2008 17:30:56 GMT
I should have known! Have you read any Robert Asprin yet? Don't recall reporting a headache! No, never heard of him. I'll lend you Little Myth Marker if you like. Short but very funny! Not as good as Spider Robinson though, who in turn is not so good as Terry Pratchett.
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Post by EmmaNemms on Jan 31, 2008 0:14:45 GMT
Just finished the Timewaster Diaries by Robin Cooper.
Utterly mad stuff about the poor soul whose wife's ankles are terminally weak, who doesn't have a clue what his employer's line of business is, whose best friend constantly drinks strong ale and leaves the cans in the shed, and whose mother does the foxtrot during Songs of Praise. He also has a brother in law, Ian, who always contrives to show his bottom during dinner parties.
He doesn't let it get him down though and is constantly thinking of new ideas and inventions that will make him his fortune.
Not many things make me laugh out loud but this did. My 15 year old son loved it too.
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Post by tigerlily on Jan 31, 2008 17:22:47 GMT
Having finished re-reading the revised edition of Magician (hot on the heels of Talon...), I have now progressed onto Silverthorn.
I spent quite a long time hanging my nose over books in W H SMiths yesterday, but eventually came out with only two GCSE German revision guides. Hopefully close enough to the textbooks I used in school to get me back up to that sort of standard.
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Post by Jim Possible on Jun 15, 2008 22:41:13 GMT
I've just finished Charlie Owens Foxtrot Oscar. Just about the funniest book I've read since Trainspotting.
It's set in a 70's police station but is not in any way an attempt at copying the Life On Mars genre.
Unfortunately when I bought it I did not realise that it's a sequel to a book called Horses botty which I will now have to read.
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Post by Mahatt Micoat on Jun 16, 2008 20:02:53 GMT
I am reading "The Physics Of Startrek", a physics book (oddly enough) explaining much of the technology in Startrek and how it is or isn't possible and how if it IS possible what we would need in hardware / power to achieve it.
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Post by Jim Possible on Jun 16, 2008 21:32:35 GMT
So is it possible to make Transparent Aluminium?
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Post by Mahatt Micoat on Jun 17, 2008 16:11:13 GMT
So is it possible to make Transparent Aluminium? Yes...... Sort of. "We" would need to align the the molicules of the Aluminium. Unfortunately we cannot yet work at such a level yet without so much power input as to make it far too expensive to be worthwhile.
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Post by slinkychic on Jun 29, 2008 17:43:09 GMT
i'm a huge Oscar Wilde fan.. And am reading (again) The Picture of Doran Gray.. His one and only Novel..
It's still relivant today... His social commentry is out standing. And the language that he uses almost leaves me breathless sometimes..
He can make me laugh and cry within the same parrograph..
I cant recommend this highly enough.. The filum isn't a patch on the book.
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Post by smiffy on Jul 1, 2008 7:01:42 GMT
I have just finished an Elizabeth Chadwick novel ( I like that historical fiction stuff) and I am now reading The Hindi Bindi Club! (Not HF!)
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