What are you reading now?

[Interceptor]

Set in future Thailand where bio-engineered products dominate business and ultimately the lives of the inhabitants.
Hugo and Nebula award winning, impressive for imagining a fairly plausible nightmare-ish future, but the story hasn't been too enthralling so far.


Previously read:



Good parts: The initial establishment of the site, with plenty on the development of the U2 and A-12 (SR-71) planes, as well as behind the scenes political maneuvering. Details on the extensive nuclear testing in surrounding Areas. Well researched, but with factual errors.
The part that people rip the book to shreds about: an unsubstantiated 'theory' about the Roswell craft that starts with it being Soviet in origin and goes downhill from there.
Bottom line: the type of book to read reviews about before buying.

[Mr66]

'Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - Updated edition' - Joel McIver
'Divinity of Doubt - The God Question' - Vincent Bugliosi

[brod]

[brod]

Am going to finish it this time

[Magpiespower]

Crying with laughter...

[Pseudo]

Yesterday I completed "The Sense Of An Ending" by Julian Barnes, a novella which won the most recent Man Booker Prize. I then spent an hour or so digging up discussions about the book on various book websites.

Today I picked up the book again and re-read the entire text.

I have never done that with a book before (i.e. re-read it immediately); take this as a sign that, good or bad, the book has something going for it. Much recommended.

[Hefty]

"To the Point" - Herschelle Gibbs Autobiography

Half way through and a pretty interesting read.....he certainly hit the piss hard!

[Rik E Boy]

A Clockwork Orange
A Postwar History of Europe
The latest Lee Child

regards,

REB

[Dogwatcher]

[Strawb]

Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Lost Years
by Mark Winegardner

[HH3]

About to read this. Its written by a guy who knew Hitler when he was in college. So this follows the rise of Hitler through the 20's, all the way to his death.

[Pseudo]

Currently attempting Moby Dick.

Am about 15% of the way through it.

And I gotta say, I never thought it would be so full of homoerotic suggestions. Seriously, what's the deal between Ishmael and this Queequeg bloke?

[Dirko]

So far the movie is better then the book....

[Magpiespower]

Had Jaws sitting on my shelf for years.

Right next to a couple of M*A*S*H books.

Never got around to reading them.

All went in the great moving purge...

[Magpiespower]

The Star Wars
by George Lucas
First Draft, 1974.

Very good reason why this horrible mess was rejected by every studio in Hollywood.

Side-splittingly bad, the highlights include...

- Han Solo is a "huge green skinned monster with no nose and large gills."
- "May the force of others be with you".
- Luke "makes eyes" and flirts with a pretty young thing. "The young warrior pinches her ass" before taking her into a computer closet for a quickie.
- Luke punches Leia "square on the jaw and knocks her out cold".

[Dirko]

A very sombre read, but well worthwhile....

[Yardy Lard]

sa footy forums

[Dirko]

[auto]

A very sombre read, but well worthwhile....

Why did he break in?

[Dirko]

Why did he break in?

He couldn't comprehend or believe the stories that he heard, so he swapped places with a Jew prisoner to find out first hand...