What Are You Reading 2

[Dotsie]

Speedy!

 

[meerkat]

Doesn't take me long to go through a book. I read Bill Bryson's latest in two evenings.

I cant read a book slowly, I've tried.

 

[Ragdoll]

Hm... I got a problem... I usually cannot stick to one book at a time. Usually it's some 2-3 books + a bunch I get stuck in >.<
For some odd reason TP's books usually gets finished within reasonable time... XD

Atm. I'm on reread of Guards! Guards!
The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (no, not the movie, this one is about statistics - extremely entertaining and fun writing)
Kabuki (comic), still short of a voume 5 >.<

 

[meerkat]

Deathly Hallows (HP)

 

[Willem]

Just finished A Dance With Dragons by George R.R. Martin, which was awesome.

I got some new books from my sister yesterday, late birthday presents:
Dave Gorman vs the rest of the world by Dave Gorman, the two Stephen Fry biographies, and the latest Thursday Next book by Jasper Fforde.

 

[Willem]

The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (no, not the movie, this one is about statistics

Black Swan - the movie was about statistics too. The ballet was just a metafor.

 

[Ragdoll]

Never got around to watch the movie

 

[chris.ph]

just started a book called wereworld- rage of the lion by curtis jopling, its supposed to be a kids book but i enjoyed the first one so i wont let that stop me

 

[Antiq]

Just finished New York by Edward Rutherfurd, started re-reading The Algebraist by Iaian M Banks.

 

[ChristianBecker]

Just finished Interesting Times by Terry; now reading Spektrum der Wissenschaft. After that probably The Light Fantastic.

Also "C von A bis Z"
Openbook available here http://openbook.galileocomputing.de/c_von_a_bis_z/

 

[Tonyblack]

I'm reading 'Spider Bones' by Kathy Reichs. I love her books and would recommend them.

 

[DaveC]

I'm reading 'Spider Bones' by Kathy Reichs. I love her books and would recommend them.

I love the TV show but never read her books, might do sometime.

 

[Selkie]

As usual - the books are far better!

 

[Tonyblack]

I've never seen the TV show. Reichs is a consultant on the show, but she doesn't usually write the episodes. The charcters, apart from Temperence Brennen are not in the books, and Tempe herself (in the show) is much younger.

So basically, the TV show is very different.

Terry Pratchett gets a mention in one of the books.

 

[Quatermass]

I'm about to try reading Isaac Asimov's The Caves of Steel.

 

[The Mad Collector]

Interesting to see how you get on Q, I haven't read that since I was about 10. Did you know it was adapted for the BBC by Terry Nation and Peter Cushing played Elijah Baley. The BBC of course wiped it apart from tiny fragments that still exist

 

[Quatermass]

Interesting to see how you get on Q, I haven't read that since I was about 10. Did you know it was adapted for the BBC by Terry Nation and Peter Cushing played Elijah Baley. The BBC of course wiped it apart from tiny fragments that still exist

I learnt that recently, and the surviving clips are on YouTube. The adaptor was Terry Nation, the creator of the Daleks, Survivors, and Blake's 7.

Peter Cushing did quite a bit of acting on TV in those days. I've seen some of his performance as Winston Smith in the BBC adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four.

 

[michelanCello]

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Listening to Hard Magic, it's a Mickey Spilane tec type story, it's not bad.

 

[The Mad Collector]

The (55 page) heads of Agreement for buying Bears on the Square
The (46 page) lease for the shop
The equally long lease for the living accomodation
A long list of suppliers contracts and agreements
The P&L and balance sheets

If I never read another heretofor or herinafter it will be too soon