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rumblecat wrote:Just started reading Casino Royale, realised I had never actually read any Bond. It's pretty good, quite cold hearted and brutal in places.

...where he gets his nuts beaten in the nuts

I'm reading 'Quicksilver' by Neal Stephenson. It's so much better than I thought it possibly could be! It's all about the Natural Philosphers of 16th century London, and it's an intelligent thriller set around the movement of empiric thought in a very religious time. It surprisingly gripping, and even quite educating! I really had no idea Isaac Newton was such nutter!

I finished reading Journey of Crazy Horse: a Lakota History. I have two new books to read Listening for the Heartbeat of God: A Celtic Spirituality by J.Philip Newell and The Assassins: Radical Sect of Islam by Bernard Lewis. I’m not sure which one I will read first.

Don't read both at the same time, that'll really mess with your head. Damned radical Celt assassins!

Can't remember the last book I read. Anyone read Oryx and Crake? Might get that

Just finished reading "Modern Ranch Living" by Mark Poirier. Highly recommend it, really easy going writing style and some great characters in there. It's about a 16 year old girl in Arizona who's obsessed with body building, and a 30 year old neighbour who works at the local water park- they never really meet in the book but their stories are still connected.

Les Enfants Terribles by Jean Coctau...

I think I've got a bad translation. It's full of waffle. Am I missing something apart from the obvious incest plot. Francoise Sagan is better.

The fight to survive in the world trade centre

is what i am reading

It's eye witness accounts of people in the world trade centre from before the plane hit and after and how they escaped from above floors and some of where the plane directly hit, you get the idea.

it also says how the police and fire service refused to work together and other things that went wrong

The House of Cthulu by Brian Lumley. Lovecraftian style horror.

Is it any good?

Its quite good, but a bit different to Brian Lumleys Necroscope series. Its the first in the series of books about the Primal Lands,but rather than it being an actual saga its more of a collection of short stories.

Curently reading Dune and The Count of Monte Cristo. Always wanted to give Cthulu a try. Is there a good book to start with in the series?

Depends there are many different books about the Cthulu mythos, so its probably best to start with H.P. Lovecraft as Lovecraft invented the Cthulu mythos.

Just finished For Whom The Bells Tolls which was very, very good. But I think it helped that I'd spent some time in central Spain and knew the area. The way Hemmingway writes the speach is pretty cool, basically he does an almost literal translation from Spanish to English with all the various tenses, so it sounds like they're speaking old English in a way.

I also recently read Colony by one of the Grant Naylor pair (I forget which). Thought it was a bit shit really.

Maybe this should be in the confessions thread but I've been reading Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, and it's actually surprisingly well written, a bit of a convoluted plot but I'm really enjoying it, and it makes me want to play through the games again.

Just started 'The Black Book' by Orhan Pamuk - meant to be like Italo Calvino but set in Istanbul. Should be good - I hope.