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Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 10:36 pm
by monotonehell
Algernon wrote:...Tell us what you're reading. If you don't read you're a bum :)...
I'm surprised that no one has suggested Flowers for Algernon as yet ;) (squeek!)

I haven't read much this year s far. I've been too busy/stupid/hot/lazy. I recently I read William Gibson's latest Spook Country, and I'm in the middle of Steven Gould's Jumper because the Hollow-wood movie adaption messed with the plot so badly and turned it into a crap action movie that I needed to go back to the text.

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 12:25 am
by Omicron
Shuz wrote:I'm reading the OK! magazine at the moment. :D
I just read that in the staff room whilst enjoying Subway's Chicken and Avocado sub.

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 1:18 am
by Cruise
monotonehell wrote:
Algernon wrote:...Tell us what you're reading. If you don't read you're a bum :)...
I'm surprised that no one has suggested Flowers for Algernon as yet ;) (squeek!)
Speaking of which what ever happened to Algernon? he never posts anymore.

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 1:34 am
by monotonehell
Cruise wrote:
monotonehell wrote:
Algernon wrote:...Tell us what you're reading. If you don't read you're a bum :)...
I'm surprised that no one has suggested Flowers for Algernon as yet ;) (squeek!)
Speaking of which what ever happened to Algernon? he never posts anymore.
I mistook the 2006 for 2008 at the start of this thread! Algernon's been absent for a year now. :(

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 1:48 am
by Omicron
monotonehell wrote:
Cruise wrote:
monotonehell wrote: I'm surprised that no one has suggested Flowers for Algernon as yet ;) (squeek!)
Speaking of which what ever happened to Algernon? he never posts anymore.
I mistook the 2006 for 2008 at the start of this thread! Algernon's been absent for a year now. :(
Incidentally, a production of Flowers for Algernon visited my school a few years back so that I didn't have to bother with reading about it!

All involved did a very good job, too; especially given there were only two people alternating between roles for the whole play.

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 1:50 am
by Omicron
If everyone would like to see what I am reading at the moment, do check this link.

:wink:

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 2:01 am
by monotonehell
Omicron wrote:If everyone would like to see what I am reading at the moment, do check this link.

:wink:
Pfft that trash! :lol:

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 2:02 am
by Omicron
monotonehell wrote:
Omicron wrote:If everyone would like to see what I am reading at the moment, do check this link.

:wink:
Pfft that trash! :lol:
I'm so sorry! It was only a temporary indiscretion!

:cry:

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 4:58 pm
by rhino
Currently reading "Wildfire" by Nelson deMille - one of my favourite authors.

I generally try to read a book a month. Best book I read last year was Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" - first time I'd read it, and it was absolutely fantastic. Many people read it in high school and didn't think much of it, but reading it with a bit of life experience behind you - Wow!

I haven't read "1984" but I have read Orwell's "Animal Farm" and that was pretty good - a satire on Communism.

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 5:28 pm
by Mants
rhino wrote:I haven't read "1984" but I have read Orwell's "Animal Farm" and that was pretty good - a satire on Communism.
love both of them!

Huxley's Brave New World is also excellent.

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 12:56 am
by bobdown
"Hey, Wise Guy, I wanted myrrh drugs"
by Mary M.
A searing insight into the difficulty of an immaculate conception without an epidural.

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 12:57 am
by bobdown
"Famous Five go mad on mescaline" by Enid Blyton.
Makes "the faraway tree" look like a lot of apologist dribble for bad drugs.

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 3:37 am
by Bulldozer
I don't read novels anymore. Used to read a fair bit ten years ago when I was in school. Between 10 and 14 I think I read every Dr Who book known to man before I moved on to reading every Tom Clancy book. Oh yeah, read 1984 as well - should be mandatory reading for all school students. Been meaning to read Animal Farm for years now... one day :)

These days it's all technical documentation and intarwebs news and forums. The last proper books I've read were biographies: LASER - about the development of the Laser and the 30 year patent battle over it; and Masters of Doom - the story of Id Software (In the USA they have drive-through banks! :shock:)

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 1:14 pm
by Will409
Bulldozer wrote:.....and Masters of Doom - the story of Id Software (In the USA they have drive-through banks! :shock:)
I remember hearing somewhere that in America (and I believe here too) have to have brail numbers on the buttons. Being a drive through ATM, can you think of anything wrong with that!