Books!

[Mike Fishcake]

Wooo! A book thread!

After reading and enjoying Dave Gorman, Danny Wallace and two of Tony Hawks' books, I'm currently ebay bidding on Hawks' "Beating the Moldovans at tennis". Any new amusing non-fiction books I should be perusing?

[KBeee]

Since this recurring theme has popped up during a moment of me being highbrow I'll join it - I'm reading Crime and Punishment at the moment.

I have a Japanese DVD starring Nao Oikawa called Crime and Punishment. I wonder if they're the same.

But I'm reading Conrads Lord Jim at the moment.

[5cupa]

Hacker Cracker - Ejovi Nuwere

''A journey from the mean streets of Brooklyn to the frontiers of cyberspace''

arrived today from the US will let you know what its like in the next 24 hours

[menthel]

Return of the King (Lord of the Rings book 3)
Have Perfume ready to read next. It's about a serial killer before you think I've gone girly on you all!
I'm also re reading my own book to see if I've made any mistakes. So far so good

Perfume is a great book. Really bizarre and well told. LotR ain't to bad either!

[5cupa]

on a lazy note are there any really good sites to buy/download audiobooks mp3 style

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[El Gordo]

OH MY GOD you guys....you guys HAVE TO read 'ILLIUM' by Dan Simmons
the sequels allright but not as good, im tellin everyone about it (- wicked idea for a string!)

if you've heard of the Illiad by homer and you like your king Auther type Zeus robotic time travelling type book this is for you RRREEEAAAADDD ITTT!!

I've just finished Olympos today and it was great. But I'd have to agree that Illium is the better of the two as I spent most of the time wondering how one of the characters got to be in two places at once. But it all got sorted out in the end.

[Matt1eD]

Currently:- Dracula, Stoker & The Historian, Kostonova

[rox0r]

Currently on with Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton. Quite an engaging read but as always Hamilton's excessive descriptives can somewhat detract from the real narrative. I often get a bit distracted with good portions of his books but the end result is more often than not worth the effort.

[Steve B]

working my way through stephen kings dark tower 7-book-ilogy (?)
its quite good, but weeird

[DavidM]

I gave up after the 3rd book... i'll give them another go another time

[Steve B]

im half way through the drawing of the three (book 2) its quite a good book, i like Stephen King

[nimbu]

Currently rereading 1st and 2nd Chronicles of Thomas Covenant in anticipation of the new book.

[DavidM]

New book? I'll have to re-read it as well then

[IBM]

OH MY GOD you guys....you guys HAVE TO read 'ILLIUM' by Dan Simmons
the sequels allright but not as good, im tellin everyone about it

I've got it sitting in box upstairs but never got round to reading it...maybe I should dig it out now.

[Sinizter]

Ive just started wading through the 9th book in the never ending Robert Jordan series. Had read the rest about 6 years ago and was halfway through the 9th when I had given up. Saw the book on sale recently and thought I should give it a 2nd go ...

[nimbu]

DavidM, I mean Fatal Reverant 2nd book from The Last Chronicles of TC, i'm sure its out next year sometime.