The Book thread

Postby **Twaddlefish** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 10:16 pm

Rickles_the_Mighty wrote:I'm currently reading Stephen King's Dark Tower series. Gotta go out and get the 5th one.

I well reccomend these books.

I'm still on the second! I want a pet lobstrositie!

Last.fm · Postby **jackcake** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 1:20 am

Stuart MacBride and CJ Sansom are my top tips for crime novels, which I enjoy a lot. Dying Light, Cold Granite and Sovereign are great books.

I made good inroads into Biff Byford's autobiography at Wacken. I read mostly during breaks at work so that will take me a couple of weeks to get through before I start raiding Ebay for more stuff.

Postby **Sherry** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 8:22 am

Twaddlefish wrote:
Rickles_the_Mighty wrote:I'm currently reading Stephen King's Dark Tower series. Gotta go out and get the 5th one.

I well reccomend these books.

I'm still on the second! I want a pet lobstrositie!

i had to stop reading Stephen King quite a few years ago

It messed with my mind too much !!

Postby ***red*** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 9:17 am

Hi work as a volunteer in Oxfam bookshop and it's dangerous since I want nearly all the books that get donated.
My section is the fantasy/ sci fi and lately I have noticed Asmoiv and Pratchett becoming more popular.

I'm curremtly reading wyrd sisters, harry potter and confessions of a working girl.

All good books.

So if you want books pop into a charity shop, you'll be surprised at what you will find.

Postby **Twaddlefish** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 11:33 pm

If you don't mind kind of younger reading, Robin Jarvis is absolutely cracking...early teens kinda stuff, but very dark; Deptford Mice and Wyrd Museum trilogies are brill!

Postby **PaulMaiden** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 11:46 pm

Tony Benn's diaries. Cracking stuff.

Postby **Xzar** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 11:55 am

I love looking in charity shops for books, can often find some real surprises.

I've halfway through Issac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy at the moment, because I stopped to read that 'Masters of Doom' history of ID software book. Which incidently was a great read!

Postby **Jonoleth** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 12:39 pm

My Dad's reading the copy of Masters Of Doom which I bought, he's loving it, I'm reet looking forward to reading it.

I'm reading Lost Voices Of The Royal Navy at the moment though, and theres a few others in the queue ahead of Masters Of Doom.

Postby **carly** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 6:55 pm

im currently obsessed with reading james patterson books. ive read about 15 in the last few months or so.

he's an amazing author and although a few of the books are a little difficult to get into, once you do they're hard to put down!

Postby **Big D** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 8:45 pm

Xzar wrote:I love looking in charity shops for books, can often find some real surprises.

Seconded. There's a charity shop just round the corner from me that has been providing me with new material for months.

Postby **Tet** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 9:52 pm

Xzar wrote:I love looking in charity shops for books, can often find some real surprises.

Try porn shops (yes, seriously). I used to make some amazing finds trawling through the shops in Soho. I don't know if it's still the case, but due to some strange licensing laws, many of them were only allowed to sell adult related material in a certain percentage of the available floor space, so they took up the rest with books that they'd bought in bulk from somewhere. Since it wasn't really what they were interested in selling, they used to let them go for 10p or 20p each.

I've halfway through Issac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy at the moment

Don't stop when you get to the end of the trilogy. IMHO, the follow on books, "Foundation's edge" and "Foundation and Earth" are excellent, indeed probably better than the original trilogy, particularly if you've also read his Robot and Galactic Empire series.. Also "Prelude to foundation" and "Forward the foundation" are worth a read, although arguably they could be considered milking things a bit.

Postby **Big D** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 4:33 pm

Clive Cussler - Sacred Stone.

Postby **mikeslaughter** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 5:31 pm

Having to read North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell for my english course next year, and MY GOD is it boring.

Postby **Big D** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 8:11 am

Currently have two on the go. One at work, one at home.

Raymond Feist : Into a Dark Realm
Quite respectable. Suffers from the same problem as other long-running fantaty series - you spend the first third of the book trying to remember who the hell all these people are and why some of them are miffed at each other.
Cass Pennantt - Congratulations, You have just met the ICF.
Basically just "Great Rucks We Have Known". with a sideways look at Oi Punk. What lovely people.

Postby **Big D** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 8:30 am

Just started: The Oxford Book Of Military Anecdotes.