Thread: What are you reading now... II!
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12th Apr 2011, 1:55 PM #101
I very much enjoyed the Paul Magrs and have now moved on to Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller.
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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12th Apr 2011, 2:06 PM #102
Slan by AE Van Vogt. It's sci-fi.
Pity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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17th Apr 2011, 1:07 PM #103
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Northern Lights by Philip Pullman. Or The Golden Compass if you prefer.
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17th Apr 2011, 3:11 PM #104
Slan was OK, but let down a bit because Van Vogt isn't a brilliant writer. He's great at the sci-fi concepts and the basic stories, but the dialogue and plotting is somewhat off-kilter.
Fans are Slans!
I'm now reading The Fourth Hand by John Irving.Pity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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17th Apr 2011, 5:11 PM #105
Having a bit of a fantasy resurgence - just ordered a load of Forgotten Realms novels from Amazion and some online secondhand dealers, and have started re-reading the Riftwar books of Raymond E Feist (with the odd Pratchett thrown in here and there).
As an the Radio 4 Afternoon Play on Friday 29th is currently scheduled as a radio adaptation of The State of the Art (Ian M Banks), adapted by a certain Paul Cornell.......Bazinga !
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17th Apr 2011, 5:13 PM #106
I'm reading The Rainbow by DH Lawrence.
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18th Apr 2011, 12:44 PM #107
The novelisation of Dark Season by Russell T Davies and Death of A Gossip(the first in the Hamish Macbeth series) by M C Beaton
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24th Apr 2011, 2:28 PM #108
Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet
The first of the Crossroads novels by Malcolm Hulke A New Beginning,it's essential in that it fills in many of the gaps as so much of the early years is missing from the archives
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26th Apr 2011, 6:04 PM #109
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Persevering with His Dark Materials; now onto The Subtle Knife.
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26th Apr 2011, 6:17 PM #110
I've recently finished Making Money by Terry Pratchett and have moved on to Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood.
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27th Apr 2011, 5:27 PM #111
I keep dipping into Running Through Corridors Vol 1,which is fascinating reading!
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28th Apr 2011, 8:59 AM #112
Running Through Corridors might be on my reading list too, soon.
Pulp SF time - Philip K Dick - Vulcan's Hammer and JG Ballard - The Drought this week. The Drought was later renamed 'The Burned World'.
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28th Apr 2011, 3:26 PM #113
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29th Apr 2011, 9:15 PM #114
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3rd May 2011, 12:37 PM #115
Yesterday I read Doctor Who- Hunter's Moon (thought it was pretty decent) and today I'm starting Doctor Who- Coming of the Terraphiles.
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3rd May 2011, 9:04 PM #116
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3rd May 2011, 9:05 PM #117
I remember studying his Three Novellas for a-level English Lit and finding them a little odd. Not difficult, just rather strange really. I've never gone back and read anything else by him which may be an oversight on my part.
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3rd May 2011, 9:13 PM #118
He had very strange ideas about relationships and sexual power within relationships with couples often trying to dominate each other on emotional & physical levels.
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5th May 2011, 2:01 PM #119
Accidentally I've started reading Black Butterfly by Mark Gatiss (at long last)
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5th May 2011, 11:30 PM #120
I know I'm in the minority, obviously, but all that flowery imagery goes on for far too long in Sons and Lovers. I know it represents his views on sex, love, etc, but I found it a slog to get through. And I don't normally have a problem with 19th / early 20th Century authors.
I've just finished A History of the World In 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes, it wasn't quite what I was expecting, and I prefer his novels to this collection of short stories, but some of it is great stuff.
Now I'm on Jonathan Coe's latest novel The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim, which I picked up for a quid in a charity shop today, and really enjoying it (far more than the previous owner, I'm guessing). But then I've always had a soft spot for Coe."RIP Henchman No.24."
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6th May 2011, 8:24 AM #121
I really enjoyed The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim, Alex. Lovely novel.
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6th May 2011, 6:21 PM #122
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Now got round to The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman.
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10th May 2011, 7:35 PM #123
i've just finished The Rainbow and am moving on to rereading Game of Thrones by George R R Martin.
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11th May 2011, 9:14 AM #124
I am reading the RedHat Enterperise Liux System Administration course notes
But I am taking that course this week so I have a good excuseAssume you're going to Win
Always have an Edge
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13th May 2011, 8:10 PM #125
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