What are you reading

[DCBassman]

I now have four Iain M. Banks books to re-read: Against A Dark Background (1993), Feesum Endjinn (1994), Inversions (1998), and The Algebraist (2004).

Have menaged two of those, some light Kindle crap, and currently enjoying Maggs's Railway Curiosities. After that, All Out War by Tim Shipman. Then back to Banks.

 

[matticus]

Currently reading this

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Interesting dip into the minds of the mile eater racers

I hope they checked with the lawyers before using that ZZ-Top picture :-/

 

[DCBassman]

Have finished the railway one, currently on the humanist one. Then politics, then future. Somewhere, there's a Tom Clancy spin-off, too.

 

[wiggydiggy]

Just finished 4 books on holiday:

• Thunder City - Phillip Reeve
  • Remember the rather woeful Mortal Engines film? This is the next book released in that world and its much better than the film. Alledgedly a childrens/YA book its much more sophisticated than that and if you have an interest in steam punk/post apocalyptic themes its worth exploring
• Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
  • The book that inspired the film, has a lot more detail that I understand why the film simplified (or Hollywood-fied) but whilst the film is seemingly set over a few days (and has a puzzle no decent video gamer would have failed to solve for 5 years!) the book is much expanded and all the better for it
• Titandeath - Guy Haley
  • If your not into Games Workshop Warhammer 40k then skip over this, but this is fine book of marvellous giant walking titan fighting and has one of the grimmest fates for a character in 40k even by its own grimdank standards
• The Top Gear Story
  • Unauthorised behind the scenes book. Unauthorised just means it collects variosu bits of public domain information, its a nice trip down memory lane but "And On That Bombshell" by Richard Porter is much better.

 

[Reynard]

Picked up some lovely books on the history of art from the community bookshelf in Tesco last night. One is a volume that accompanied the Sister Wendy series on the BBC, so shall enjoy poking through that.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I put a pound coin in a local charity's collection bucket for this today. As you can see it's quite old, but it's in very good condition.

 

[oldwheels]

The local library gave me a book they thought I would like about cycle touring.
Slow Road to Tehran by Rebecca Lowe who is a freelance journalist not I think the same one who worked for the BBC.
Does have a bit of cycling in it but a lot is about the history both recent and ancient of the Middle East. A lot about human rights [or rather lack of] and is very critical of British imperial behaviour.
I do know a bit about the area as my son has worked in most ME countries and spent 6 months in Iran. The only country where he had problems was Libya where they were followed everywhere by police and eventually abandoned the contract. The university he was working for refused to pay the unofficial release fee to the customs who refused to allow them access to any equipment in sealed containers unless paid.

 

[Reynard]

I've started reading this epic-length AU Harry Potter fanfiction titled "No Thing Not Earned"

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14358234/1/No-Thing-Not-Earned

Eight chapters in, and I'm really rather enjoying it. I think anyone who appreciates fantasy and magic lore would like it. However, it remains to be seen whether the quality of the writing and the plot stay consistent throughout. And it hasn't been beta'd as there are some typos / inconsistencies / rogue punctuation marks, but don't let that detract you from the story.