I am currently reading

[mattx]

....some Mitch Albom books - rather good. Someone mentioned him to me in passing so ordered a few last week and they arrived today - almost half way through one of them already which I started a few hours ago whilst supposed to be doing some work !! ' Tuesday's With Morrie '

[DAZZD88]

I've recently started reading the Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell. Instead of goin in release/published order I'm goin in order of when they're set. They're an excellent read and Bernard Cornwell is quite a descriptive writer and does well to keep the reader's interest.

[tmcd35]

Finished reading the Andy McNab 'Nick Stone' series earlier in the year and am currently waiding my way through DUNE. Currently on the second book of the Butlerian Jehad Trilogy, so got quiet some way to go with this series yet.

 

I've got some Bernard Cornwell books set during the 100 year war and I agree he is a very good a discriptive historical writer. Apparantly he has some books set around ancient Egypt that I want to track down at some point.

[webman]

Interesting.

 

...Tuesdays with Morrie began as a modest labor of love to help pay some of Schwartz’s medical bulls.

 

Mitch Albom.com - Tuesdays With Morrie

 

 

I'm currently on with Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

[DAZZD88]

I've got some Bernard Cornwell books set during the 100 year war and I agree he is a very good a discriptive historical writer. Apparantly he has some books set around ancient Egypt that I want to track down at some point.

 

Apparently Azincourt is a good read but I've got too many Sharpe books to work through first.

[skunk]

Just finished the Sharpe books, all read in chronological order and have Azincourt sat waiting to be opened

[Sarconia]

I'm currently smashing my way through The Servant of the Empire by Raymond E Feist & Janny Wurts, it's an epic trilogy which has everything I want from a book. Political intriegue, different cultures, war/battles/fighting as well as a bit of romance and the occasional bout of hot steamy passion, no details are spared either.

[tudorcrisp]

i am currently reading The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield, i am rather enjoying it. My girlfriend is an English Teacher and has a closet full of books she has recommended to me. Have recently read No Time For Goodbye by Linwood Barclay and it was excellent. Have a couple more of his books in the pile which i am looking forward to getting to read

[LeMarchand]

Just finished "A Web of Air" by the criminally under-rated YA author Philip Reeve. Probably go with China Mieville's "The City The City" next.

[sted]

currently reading terry Pratchett's eric on my way through the discworld books (after a detour through some michael palin books 80 days etc that were cheap) and probably got the new bill bryson to read when i get home

[mattx]

I'm glad to see there are still a load of us who do read - plus once I have finished my latest batch I can go back to this thread and pick up some ideas on what to move onto next !!

[Vegas]

I'm currently smashing my way through The Servant of the Empire by Raymond E Feist & Janny Wurts, it's an epic trilogy which has everything I want from a book. Political intriegue, different cultures, war/battles/fighting as well as a bit of romance and the occasional bout of hot steamy passion, no details are spared either.

 

Read the trilogy 3 or 4 times over the last 10+ years, absolutely awesome.

Currently having a bit of a Bond fetish, just reading Goldfinger.

[CESIL]

I have just read Aberystwyth Mon Amour and Don't Cry for Me Aberystwyth by Malcolm Pryce.

 

The author has a fantastic imagination and has created a wonderful fantasy world set around Aberystwyth.

 

The style is very Raymond Chandler but very Welsh...brilliant!

[skunk]

Also read this very good book; Rupture by Simon Lelic which was penned by a mate of mine. About a shooting in a high school...........

[pete]

Maelstrom by Peter Watts

 

S'free Rifters.com: Peter Watts' Backlist

[DAZZD88]

Just finished the Sharpe books, all read in chronological order and have Azincourt sat waiting to be opened

 

Have you read the later published ones like Sharpe's Tiger and Sharpe's Triumph? I'm on reading Sharpe's Triuph now, I'm just over halfway through.

 

I'm glad to see there are still a load of us who do read - plus once I have finished my latest batch I can go back to this thread and pick up some ideas on what to move onto next !!

 

I've only recently started reading again. I asked one of our english teachers how to decide what to read and she said that if there's a film or TV series that I like then I should start there. Sharpe was the first thing that popped into my head and I just remember watching the episodes of Sharpe with Sean Bean playing the tough but fair Richard Sharpe. Good stuff.

[skunk]

Yep, read all 20 odd. Just found out there are some collections of short stories as well, so plenty to look forward to.

[SYNACK]

Just reading Arctic Drift by Clive Cussler at the moment, pure mind candy but escapisum wise the whole series is quite good.

[Rydra]

Since it comes out at the weekend, I am re-reading for god knows which Nth time Terry Pratchett's Going Postal.

 

I have the complete works of Discworld, and 2 of them are hand signed by Terry himself.

 

Terry Pratchett's Going Postal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For those who missed the news, it airs on sky starting this weekend!

[sted]

Since it comes out at the weekend, I am re-reading for god knows which Nth time Terry Pratchett's Going Postal.

 

I have the complete works of Discworld, and 2 of them are hand signed by Terry himself.

 

Terry Pratchett's Going Postal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For those who missed the news, it airs on sky starting this weekend!

 

wonder when it will be out on dvd as i wont pay for $ky and adverts

[TwoZeroAlpha]

Just finished Enders Game and now getting into Speaker for the Dead both by Orson Scott Card. Also read Little Brother by Cory Doctorowas a free PDF recently, must buy it as a proper book it was superbe.

[tmcd35]

I'm glad to see there are still a load of us who do read - plus once I have finished my latest batch I can go back to this thread and pick up some ideas on what to move onto next !!

 

I have a large-ish (100 or so books) personal library. Takes me a few years to go through them once. When I get to the end of the last book on the last shelf I go back to the start and read them all again. By which time a few of the series's (Discworld, Nick Stone, John Grisham, Dune) tend to have two or three new books each to add to the collection when I get up to them.

 

Reading Dune series at the moment, John Grisham's next (probably early next year) and then Hyperion/Endymon series which I bought a few years back and actually never got round to reading.

[JJonas]

The Book Thief: Amazon.co.uk: Markus Zusak: Books

 

on my Sony e-Reader (PRS-505)

[Andrew_C]

Being a fan of the first "Dune" book, I read many of te others in random order from the library. Realising that I was getting confused, I bought al of the books from Amazon traders. I then settled down to read the lot; basically, I don't think it was worth the effort. Individually OK, but repetitive and FAR too long.

[PiqueABoo]

Ender's Game is excellent , Speaker for the Dead is pretty good... not thrilled by some of the stuff since but do you know about the relatively recent, bit more on form, Ender in Exile which sits in the gap between the two?

 

And talking of.. have just finished Drood by Dan Simmons who I suspect may be a bit of an acquired taste i.e. they're usually grounded in, so it probably helps if you've read quite a few classics. For Drood it's Dickens and Wilkie Collins (<= I liked his most famous novels), for Ilium (not fabulous, more one for fans) it was Homer, the Hyperion "Cantos" was Keats (<=you easily get by without that).

 

In recent years I've struggled to find much from this genre that I've wanted to read, well besides the fairly obvious anything by Iain M Banks and Alistair Reynolds.