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Personally, I am on page 17 of Asterix And The Golden Sickle. Pretty damn good. You?
redwhiteandblue
12-04-06, 06:42 PM
PHP and MySQL Web Development by Welling and Thomson - it's a classic, I can't put it down. Don't tell me the ending, ok?
I have just finshed Vanity Fair, and started on Love And Freindship.
I'm on a classics kick at the moment. I've downloaded about 50 or so of the classic English lit books like Pride And Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, and Dracula, etc from http://www.gutenberg.org/ to my PDA, and am making my way through them all.
Personally, I am on page 17 of Asterix And The Golden Sickle. Pretty damn good. You?
:D i love Asterix, he was so much cooler than Tintin!
i think the last book i read was war of the worlds but i do enjoy Iain Banks stuff like the wasp factory and the crow road
In seriousness, anyone a fan of Lee Child/Jack Reacher novels?
mellenig
12-04-06, 07:14 PM
Just finishing In the shadow of man by Jane Goodhall which was a interesting read. Then got Statecraft to read next which also should be good.
ciggiez
12-04-06, 07:40 PM
"Multiple Streams of Internet Income" by Robert C. Allen
January is always "start a new business because I'm getting bored of the old one" month, so I'm looking for ideas.
Sven Hassel at the moment.
mellenig
12-04-06, 08:05 PM
Sven Hassel at the moment.
Good series of books they had some great characters in read them about 25 years ago, probally wrote some new ones since last I read them :)
Good series of books they had some great characters in read them about 25 years ago, probally wrote some new ones since last I read them :)
Mrs SGS came across them packed away in an old trunk of mine and threatened to throw them out and I just picked one up and started re-reading them all. :)
A series on the origins of the Ptolemies of Egypt. It's dirty :)
Sharpe's Sword by Bernard Cornwell.
My 6th Sharpe book this year - real swashbuckling tales from the Napolionic wars of the early 19th century.
Actually the books are better than the TV series as there's more historic background.
Just finished Single & Single by John Le Carre.
Now onto Tokyo Station by Martin Cruz Smith. Read his Wolves Eat Dogs earlier this year - a great read.
fredicus
12-04-06, 09:59 PM
Finished reading Greg Bears "Anvil of Stars" again last night, I've two others that I've been trying to read for the last six months that I can't seem to get into, so I suspect I'll find something different to read tonight
;)
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heidi84
12-04-06, 10:44 PM
just about to finish 'my best friends guide to pregnacy' hey girlys if any of you have sprogs for the first time read, this woman tells the truth, if its second or more still read cos its so funny how true it is!
Before the hormones lol i used to read all sorts usually depressing stuff that most people wouldnt read about weirdos or crazy people lol. I read the odd girly slushy novel now and again.
[QUOTE]Iain Banks stuff like the wasp factory[QUOTE]
i read that in 6th form good read.
Gordon Brown's biography by Tom Bower ...because it was £1.99 in the local bookshop!
Gordon Brown's biography by Tom Bower ...because it was £1.99 in the local bookshop!
Have you run out of Andrex there or something?
Just finished Single & Single by John Le Carre.
Now onto Tokyo Station by Martin Cruz Smith. Read his Wolves Eat Dogs earlier this year - a great read.
Love John Le Carre.
onlytease
12-04-06, 10:55 PM
i love reading, always spend at least an hour a night in bed reading before going to sleep. just finished reading A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka (and it is not about what it's titled, it is quite a funny book). next read is The London Pigeon Wars by Patrick Neate.
Have you run out of Andrex there or something?
haha!! I thought i'd give it a whirl.. He didn't write it himself. It sells for 20 quid in Waterstones...balls to that.
I'm still trying to finish "Madison & Vine : Why the Entertainment and Advertising Industries Must Converge to Survive" by Scott Donaton. But it's slow going, one of those heavy word style books if you know what I mean.
-N
Jock Strap
12-05-06, 01:05 AM
I'm reading a book about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
A friend of mine is urging me to read Mars And Venus: On A Date next cos it says it's made him more successful with women.
I'm reading the Marvel civil war at the moment.
Peter Kay, The Sound Of Laughter , funny as fuck ;)
Pandemos
12-05-06, 02:23 PM
At the moment I'm reading Die Trying by Lee Child. Got a bit of a backlog to work through as well:
Tom Clancy - The Teeth Of The Tiger
Sir Lawrence Freedman - The Official History Of The Falklands Campaign: Volume 1
Carl Hiaasen - Native Tongue
Lee Child - Tripwire
Carl Hiaasen - Stormy Weather
Lee Child - The Visitor
Carl Hiaasen - Basket Case
Lee Child - Echo Burning
Jeff Connor - Pointless
John Peel - Margrave Of The Marshes
strictlybroadband
12-05-06, 02:26 PM
Asterix... good choice!
I just read The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. Very good read.
At the moment I'm reading Die Trying by Lee Child. Got a bit of a backlog to work through as well:
That's his best one IMO, though I haven't read his latest yet 'The Hard Way', waiting for that to come out in paperback (haven't checked lately to see if it has).
Pandemos
12-05-06, 03:34 PM
I'm actually finding it a bit dull. I thought the first one, Killing Floor, was much better.
WordsforHire
12-05-06, 06:58 PM
Red hot and rude positions - Ann Summers
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