What are you reading now?

[Dirko]

Makes you concentrate and so is much slower to read

Unless you do what I did and read it aloud, in a Scottish accent.

My Missus wasn't impressed when she walked into the bedroom and I was reading Trainspotting out loud.

It was ******* obvious that ******* **** was gonna **** some ****.

[brod]

Makes you concentrate and so is much slower to read

Unless you do what I did and read it aloud, in a Scottish accent.

My Missus wasn't impressed when she walked into the bedroom and I was reading Trainspotting out loud.

It was f****** obvious that f****** c*** was gonna f*** some c***.

[Dirko]

ATM I've interrupted my current book and am reading this one;

[whufc]

ATM I've interrupted my current book and am reading this one;

The doco Foxtel is showing on this blokes undercover work is brilliant i imagine the book would be no different.

[Magpiespower]

Might wanna check out The Good Doctor's expose...

[Dogwatcher]

Read it. Just a little embellished according to many involved and also friends of his at the time.

[Dogwatcher]

Just finished:



Now reading:

[brod]

Money Players - Days and Nights Inside the New NBA (Armen Keteyian, Harvey Araton & Martin F Dardis)

[JAS]

Magnus Magnusson's translation of the story of Eirik the Red's colonisation of Greenland and Leif the Lucky's exploration of the North American continent in the 10th century.

Not exactly a heavyweight of the literary world but an interesting little book about some amazingly brave explorers considering their lack of the technology and materials we all take for granted.

Regards
JAS

[godoubleblues]

Magnus Magnusson's translation of the story of Eirik the Red's colonisation of Greenland and Leif the Lucky's exploration of the North American continent in the 10th century.

Not exactly a heavyweight of the literary world but an interesting little book about some amazingly brave explorers considering their lack of the technology and materials we all take for granted.

Regards
JAS

one can assume that Erik had red hair but what was Leif lucky at

[JAS]

one can assume that Erik had red hair but what was Leif lucky at

haven't got that far yet but I'll let you know although I have my doubts as to it being totty based

Regards
JAS

*edit* Just done a tiny bit of cheating thanks to Wiki...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Ericson

On the return voyage, Leif rescued an Icelandic castaway named Þórir and his crew – an incident that earned Leif the nickname Leif the Lucky (Old Norse: Leifr hinn heppni).

[godoubleblues]

one can assume that Erik had red hair but what was Leif lucky at

haven't got that far yet but I'll let you know although I have my doubts as to it being totty based

Regards
JAS

*edit* Just done a tiny bit of cheating thanks to Wiki...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Ericson

On the return voyage, Leif rescued an Icelandic castaway named Þórir and his crew – an incident that earned Leif the nickname Leif the Lucky (Old Norse: Leifr hinn heppni).

cheers for that

[Ingall]

Just finished Theft by Peter Carey. As with most of the things he does, I really enjoyed it. Piss funny in parts too.




Currently halfway through...

[brod]

Just finshed



And about to start

[HH3]

Took me forever to find this but turns out its like number 20 on Angus & Robertsons Top 100.

Finished it about 4 weeks ago. Looking for something similar. Have been looking for the Tripod series because I remember my yr 6 teacher reading it to us, but cant remember much about them...looked for about an hour in Borders and couldnt find em...

[Mr66]

Matthew Reilly - 'The Five Greatest Warriors'

[Pseudo]

Took me forever to find this but turns out its like number 20 on Angus & Robertsons Top 100.

Finished it about 4 weeks ago. Looking for something similar. Have been looking for the Tripod series because I remember my yr 6 teacher reading it to us, but cant remember much about them...looked for about an hour in Borders and couldnt find em...

You know 1984 is in the public domain in Australia? Look it up on the Australian project Gutenberg website and you can download it for free.

I loved the Tripods trilogy (The White Mountains, The City Of Gold And Lead, The Pool Of Fire). John Christopher was the author IIRC.

For stuff similar to 1984, Yevgeny Zamyatin's "We" is often compared to it, but I've never read it myself.

Try some of these:
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
Kurt Vonnegut - Player Piano

[JK]

Owned it for years, but never read more than a page here or there, hopefully better than the Traci Lords Bio.

[Ingall]

Australian project Gutenberg website

Thanks for this. Hadn't heard of it before, great site!

[HH3]

Took me forever to find this but turns out its like number 20 on Angus & Robertsons Top 100.

Finished it about 4 weeks ago. Looking for something similar. Have been looking for the Tripod series because I remember my yr 6 teacher reading it to us, but cant remember much about them...looked for about an hour in Borders and couldnt find em...

You know 1984 is in the public domain in Australia? Look it up on the Australian project Gutenberg website and you can download it for free.

I loved the Tripods trilogy (The White Mountains, The City Of Gold And Lead, The Pool Of Fire). John Christopher was the author IIRC.

For stuff similar to 1984, Yevgeny Zamyatin's "We" is often compared to it, but I've never read it myself.

Try some of these:
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
Kurt Vonnegut - Player Piano

Ive heard of Fahrenheit 451, and actually nearly bought it at Borders...but left it...and when i went back recently to buy it they didnt have it anymore.

Thanks for the recommendations. Ill have a look around for them. And on the site thingo too.