What book are you reading atm??

Fann Linn

The Book Thief.

juneg

The mountain between us. Bought it on Kindle daily deal for 99p and I really enjoyed it

juneg

Carry wrote: »

It's on my bedside pile, really looking forward to it

As much as I enjoy (and need) my "away with the fairies" thrillers, but a "thinking about" book in between is a must to keep life in perspective.

I enjoyed "Astrophysics for people in a hurry" a lot, though sometimes the author was a little bit too flippant and simplicistic for my taste. But then, it was for people in a hurry after all ...

Me too. I'd buy audible with the tougher reads though and play them in the car or doing the house work

Soulsun

Roddy Doyle ''Smile''

Neames

He by John Connolly. A book about the life of Stan Laurel. Enjoying it but it's quite a departure from his Charlie Parker books.

Bored of Canada

Cured - Lol Tolhurst

kfrp

Finished 11/22/63 By Stephen King last week.
Great read which combined fiction with non fiction. Would really recommend if you like a bit of history with conspiracy theory and time travel.
Hard to put down once you get into it.

Starting Congo by Michael Crichton, so far so good. Crichton always provides such a great background to each story.

SummerHaze

Brave (A Wicked Saga) by Jennifer L. Armentrout

PeterParker957

kfrp wrote: »

Finished 11/22/63 By Stephen King last week.
Great read which combined fiction with non fiction. Would really recommend if you like a bit of history with conspiracy theory and time travel.
Hard to put down once you get into it.

Starting Congo by Michael Crichton, so far so good. Crichton always provides such a great background to each story.

It's brilliant, the TV series made from it wasn't as good but still awesome!

I'm currently reading David Baldacci's "The Fix". Really good!

Ipso

Michael Connellys' Blood Work, I remember seeing the film ages ago but it seems to have been loosely based on it.
Really enjoying it, it seems a bit more realistic than other crime fiction I've read.

Sephiroth_dude

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Michael Crichton Lost World, Love it so far, finished Jurassic Park last Monday and loved that too, they left soooo much out of the movies.

Finished this, absolutely loved it! Don't know what too read now.

Ipso

I was just thinking that I should read Jurassic park in the future. I have a Jo Nesbo book ordered from the library (I liked The Bat and Cockroaches, although they can take their time) and another in the Sharpe series, so after that I'll have a go at Jurassic Park.

Sephiroth_dude

Ipso wrote: »

I was just thinking that I should read Jurassic park in the future. I have a Jo Nesbo book ordered from the library (I liked The Bat and Cockroaches, although they can take their time) and another in the Sharpe series, so after that I'll have a go at Jurassic Park.

Both books are brilliant, I envy you!

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

Un1corn wrote: »

Reading "Men without Women" by Murakami Huruki. Good so far. It's a collection of short stories which I like.

I was sent a copy of this but the postal service failed to deliver it and it was returned to sender.

It was actually released in Spanish long before English so I could easily get a copy here but I would rather read it in English.

Other world by Jason Segel and Kirsten Miller

Mr.Wemmick

I have just finished reading The Seeker and The Black Friar by S.G.MacLean. The books are well-written crime thrillers set in Oliver Cromwell's London 1654.

Enjoyable, solid good reads set in politically interesting times. MacLean, like C. J. Sansom, is an Historian and brings to life those difficult, turbulent years with the royalists constantly plotting against Cromwell's government.

If you enjoyed Sansom's and Mantel's work, guessing you will like MacLean too.

optogirl

Just started The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy - enjoying so far

valoren

A Force for Justice - by Michael Clifford

Detailing the Garda Whistle Blower Maurice McCabe. Almost there.

joe40

I'm reading Artemis at the moment by Andy Reid. It is his follow up book to "The Martian". A crime caper set on a moon colony. If you like your books with plenty of fairly realistic science and engineering thrown in, he's your man.

GLaDOS

joe40 wrote: »

I'm reading Artemis at the moment by Andy Reid. It is his follow up book to "The Martian". A crime caper set on a moon colony. If you like your books with plenty of fairly realistic science and engineering thrown in, he's your man.

I really enjoyed The Martian, how would you rate Artemis compared to it?

gutenberg

Started The Black Jacobins, about the Haitian revolution, by CLR James.

Birneybau

Finished 'The Blade Artist' by Irvine Welsh, about where Francis Begbie ended up and, well, it was ok. Required some of the largest leaps of your own imagination to keep going with it.

Rowley Birkin QC

Robert Harris - Imperium.

Really hope it bucks the trend of the last few books of his that I read and that he has figured out how to write an ending.

joe40

GLaDOS wrote: »

I really enjoyed The Martian, how would you rate Artemis compared to it?

I'm about half way through and so far very good. I really enjoyed the martian and this book has a similar feel but totally different story. It is set in the not too distant future, on a moon colony. Same sort of likeable main character, female this time, but trying to escape criminals as opposed to stranded. Great imagining of a moon colony and how it could function.

Thargor

Birneybau wrote: »

Finished 'The Blade Artist' by Irvine Welsh, about where Francis Begbie ended up and, well, it was ok. Required some of the largest leaps of your own imagination to keep going with it.

I hated that book, it completely destroyed one of my favourite characters in fiction, and the whole Edinburgh environment he'd created in Skagboys/Trainspotting/Porno. It was just so pointless, why would you do that to Begbie? The character makes no sense now, even the picture of him on the cover made me wary and 10 pages in I was thinking WTF am I reading?

Birneybau

Thargor wrote: »

Birneybau wrote: »

Finished 'The Blade Artist' by Irvine Welsh, about where Francis Begbie ended up and, well, it was ok. Required some of the largest leaps of your own imagination to keep going with it.

I hated that book, it completely destroyed one of my favourite characters in fiction, and the whole Edinburgh environment he'd created in Skagboys/Trainspotting/Porno. It was just so pointless, why would you do that to Begbie? The character makes no sense now, even the picture of him on the cover made me wary and 10 pages in I was thinking WTF am I reading?

The over elaborate torture contraption scene was beyond a joke.

arybvtcw0eolkf

Turned back the clock twenty plus years and reading Frederick Forsyth's 'The Odessa File' and can hardly put it down, reading almost 200 pages yesterday.

Fantastic stuff. I haven't enjoyed a book this much in a very long time.

Canis Lupus

Noel Some Cornbread wrote: »

Turned back the clock twenty plus years and reading Frederick Forsyth's 'The Odessa File' and can hardly put it down, reading almost 200 pages yesterday.

Fantastic stuff. I haven't enjoyed a book this much in a very long time.

He's got some great books. Read all his stuff years ago, definitely something I should revisit.

bnt

Turning back the clock about 40 years, I just started Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle. The death of the latter a couple of months ago reminded me that I'd read very little of his work. Lucifer's Hammer was nominated for a Hugo Award aan is probably the book that did the most to kickstart the comet-hitting-the-Earth genre. The justifiably-forgotten movie Meteor, starring Sean Connery, came out about 2 years later. I've only just started, but it's using a structure I've seen from these authors before: the need to explain things to the scientifically-illiterate media of the story conveniently justifies chunks of exposition. :P

leinsterdude

The next 100 years by George Friedman, excellent.