Author Topic: What books are we reading at the moment ? (Read 846901 times)

Steph · « **Reply #4200 on:** 16 December, 2015, 02:24:51 pm »

Try this one, and the previous one about the SW Coastal path
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pennine-Walkies-Boogie-Up-Way/dp/0099661411

As for myself, I have finally found a second-hand copy of John Sladek's 'New Apocrypha', which I am devouring.

tiermat · « **Reply #4201 on:** 28 December, 2015, 08:46:38 am »

I have just worked my way through all the James Oswald books. Not in order, though. I read them like thus: 1,4,5,2,3.

They still made sense, and were not totally spoilt by knowing that Emma survives etc.

Steph · « **Reply #4202 on:** 28 December, 2015, 01:11:11 pm »

'The New Apocrypha' by the late great John Sladek. Halfway through now.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #4203 on:** 28 December, 2015, 01:12:41 pm »

Halfway through "The Year" by Citizenfish otp. It is a Thing of Splendid.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #4204 on:** 28 December, 2015, 01:41:06 pm »

Quote from: tiermat on 28 December, 2015, 08:46:38 am

I have just worked my way through all the James Oswald books. Not in order, though. I read them like thus: 1,4,5,2,3.

They still made sense, and were not totally spoilt by knowing that Emma survives etc.

I binge read them a couple of weeks ago and am now doing the same with the Stuart Mac Macbride ones.

T42 · « **Reply #4205 on:** 28 December, 2015, 01:51:03 pm »

The Three Body Problem, by Cixin Liu. Unusual. Excellent.

nicknack · « **Reply #4206 on:** 28 December, 2015, 04:48:42 pm »

Talking of binge reading - in the last six months or so I've got through this lot (more or less all science fiction/fantasy - some of it pretty trashy):

Jennifer Government – Max Barry
How to Live in a Science Fictional Universe – Charles Yu
Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World – Haruki Murakami
The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
The Ocean at the End of the Lane – Neil Gaiman
The Demolished Man - Alfred Bester
The Dark Side of the Earth - Alfred Bester
Frontera – Lewis Shine
Stealing Light – Gary Gibson
Nova War - Gary Gibson
Empire of Light – Gary Gibson
Jupiter War - Neal Asher
Zero Point - Neal Asher
The Departure - Neal Asher
The Engineer ReConditioned - Neal Asher
Cowl - Neal Asher
The Voyage 0f the Sable Keech - Neal Asher
The Skinner - Neal Asher
Orbus - Neal Asher
The Line War - Neal Asher
The Parasite - Neal Asher
The Gabble and other stories - Neal Asher
Snow in the Desert - Neal Asher
Dark Intelligence - Neal Asher
The Long Earth - Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
The Long War - Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
The Long Mars - Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
The Long Utopia - Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
The Wee Free Men - Terry Pratchett
A Hat Full of Sky - Terry Pratchett
Wintersmith - Terry Pratchett
Going Postal - Terry Pratchett
Making Money - Terry Pratchett
Raising Steam - Terry Pratchett
Monstrous Regiment - Terry Pratchett
Unseen Academicals - Terry Pratchett
I Shall Wear Midnight - Terry Pratchett
Ark - Stephen Baxter
Flood - Stephen Baxter
Titan - Stephen Baxter
Moonseed - Stephen Baxter
Space (Manifold) - Stephen Baxter
Time (Manifold) - Stephen Baxter
Origin (Manifold) - Stephen Baxter
Proxima - Stephen Baxter
Voyage - Stephen Baxter
Landfall – Stephen Baxter
The Second Ship - Richard Phillips
Immune - Richard Phillips
Wormhole - Richard Phillips
Once Dead - Richard Phillips
Dead Wrong - Richard Phillips
Dead Shift - Richard Phillips
The Martian – Andy Weir
Touch - Claire North
The Boy Who Fell From the Sky – Jule Owen
Silverwood – Jule Owen
Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel
The Bone Clocks – David Mitchell

Reading at the moment:
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August – Claire North

mattc · « **Reply #4207 on:** 28 December, 2015, 06:12:35 pm »

Bloody hell - that reads like Strava for bookworms.

nicknack · « **Reply #4208 on:** 28 December, 2015, 06:47:14 pm »

Quote from: mattc on 28 December, 2015, 06:12:35 pm

Bloody hell - that reads like Strava for bookworms.

It's what you do when you don't watch the tele.

rafletcher · « **Reply #4209 on:** 28 December, 2015, 09:14:03 pm »

Jason Websters "The anarchist detective", 3rd in the Max Camara series, set in Spain.

tiermat · « **Reply #4210 on:** 29 December, 2015, 07:44:00 am »

Quote from: rafletcher on 28 December, 2015, 09:14:03 pm

Jason Websters "The anarchist detective", 3rd in the Max Camara series, set in Spain.

Oooo, they look interesting. Shall have to check them out!

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #4211 on:** 29 December, 2015, 12:30:33 pm »

Day After Night by Anita Diamant. It's set just after WWII, in a Palestine camp where European Jews who survived ended up waiting for Israel to be sorted out. They're quite rude about the British.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #4212 on:** 29 December, 2015, 03:20:45 pm »

A hundred pages into A Banquet Of Consequences by Elizabeth George and the only killin' has been a suicide

. Money back plz.

eck · « **Reply #4213 on:** 29 December, 2015, 09:34:58 pm »

Robert Harris' Pompeii I'm on page 257, of about 350, and Vesuvius still hasn't erupted.

It's a bit like they used to say about films about the Titanic: how do you pass the time until they hit the iceberg?

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #4214 on:** 29 December, 2015, 09:37:30 pm »

150 pages and another DETH which looks like natural causes but obviously isn't otherwise there wouldn't be a book at all.

fuzzy · « **Reply #4215 on:** 02 January, 2016, 02:10:19 pm »

Just purchased SA Calverts first offering for the Kindle.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #4216 on:** 02 January, 2016, 04:47:58 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 29 December, 2015, 03:20:45 pm

A hundred pages into A Banquet Of Consequences by Elizabeth George and the only killin' has been a suicide . Money back plz.

Five hundred and fifty pages and only one murder? Also, Ms George, no BRITON talks like that, or ever did. It grates. Stop it.

Quint · « **Reply #4217 on:** 02 January, 2016, 04:51:20 pm »

Hunted by Paul Finch, two chapters and seems very good, bit better than the choice I made as a Christmas book for Barbara, twas one she had just finished reading, oh unobservant oaf

Tim Hall · « **Reply #4218 on:** 02 January, 2016, 05:36:59 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 28 December, 2015, 01:12:41 pm

Halfway through "The Year" by Citizenfish otp. It is a Thing of Splendid.

That's on the pile over there -> awaiting my attention, along with Flesh Wounds by Christopher Brookmyre (although I see he's now Chris). Both books bestowed by loving offspring on their dear Papa following the application of Heavy Hints.

However, they'll have to wait until I've finished rereading Le Carré's The Night Manager.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #4219 on:** 02 January, 2016, 07:16:00 pm »

Mick Wall's Love Becomes A Funeral Pyre, being a biography of The Doors. Early doors yet ha ha but the author seems to have a bit of a downer on Ray Manzarek and I'm only on page 41.

tiermat · « **Reply #4220 on:** 02 January, 2016, 07:39:38 pm »

Currently reading "Sacred Sierra" by Jason Webster, have ordered all 5 of his Max Camara books, which should arrive by the time I have finished this one.

Dibdib · « **Reply #4221 on:** 02 January, 2016, 10:05:40 pm »

I'm a chunk of the way into Tuf Voyaging, a collection of short stories by George RR Martin about a slightly pedantic space captain who flies around the galaxy with his pet cats. He'd probably fit in here.

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #4222 on:** 02 January, 2016, 10:43:52 pm »

Henry James - The Turn of the Screw.

Steph · « **Reply #4223 on:** 03 January, 2016, 09:18:03 am »

Quote from: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on 02 January, 2016, 02:10:19 pm

Just purchased SA Calverts first offering for the Kindle.

Ooh!

rafletcher · « **Reply #4224 on:** 03 January, 2016, 11:57:10 am »

Quote from: tiermat on 02 January, 2016, 07:39:38 pm

Currently reading "Sacred Sierra" by Jason Webster, have ordered all 5 of his Max Camara books, which should arrive by the time I have finished this one.

Glad you're enjoying them

I've no. 4 in the library pipeline.

Just started "The Fifth Floor" by a new-to- me Michael Harvey. Pacy enough, though conventional Chicago PI story. Easy reading.