What are you reading at the moment?

I'm reading A Child In Time by Ian McEwan for English Course work and I have to say it's very hard going! I'm also reading Random Acts of Heroic Love which is surprisingly good ( for my creative writing course) the war scenes I think are on a par with Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks (sp)
 
AmateurJimmy said:
The forums.

Zefan, ive been told to get that book commando, i think its the one anyway, is it about the ex military fella talking about his experiences and life ect ?

Is it a good read ?
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No. A 55 year old film maker (Chris Terrill) made a documentary on the Royal Marines training and action out in Afghanistan. The book covers his experiences and thoughts throughout his training and what happened out on ops. Most of the book covers the training, which he fully participated in. It really pushes home how hard the training is.
 
Just finished Archangel by Robert Harris - entertaining fiction but with some historical strands interwoven to add to the realism.

Will soon be starting Bill Bryson's autobiography - The Thunderbolt Kid. a) because I normally enjoy his books and b) because I try to mix in a non-fiction book every so often into my reading lists.
 
Read quite a few books in the last 12 months, some good some bad.

Blood Crazy by Simon Clark, superb book, Zombie plague affair set in England

Earth Abides by George R Stewart, another exellent book, a virus wipes out almost the whole planet, post apocalypse type thing

Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell, I hated this book, comes so highly rated, some nonsense story based around reincarnation.

Kane and Abel, Jeffrey Archer, Great book, couldnt put it down, incredible story.

The People of Sparks, Jeanne DuPrau , Enjoyed this one also, slightly leaning towards childrens type book but good fun to read, its about an underground city built to house people after a nuclear war.

The Road by Cormac McCarthy, Exellent

Left for Dead: The Untold Story of the Tragic 1979 Fastnet Disaster by Nick Ward, Another one of those books you cant put down, exellent.

Currently reading World War Z, pretty good so far.
 
im reading a fantasy called name of the wind i just randomly bought it from a place in wakefield near where i go windsurfing ,that sell slightly damaged in transit books for £1 to £1.65 mostly hardbacks including simmons eddings king ect ect usually a dustcover tear :)


THE POWERFUL DEBUT NOVEL FROM FANTASY'S NEXT SUPERSTAR
Told in Kvothe's own voice, this is the tale of the magically gifted young man who grows to be the most notorious wizard his world has ever seen.The intimate narrative of his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, his years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-ridden city, his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a legendary school of magic, and his life as a fugitive after the murder of a king form a gripping coming-of-age story unrivaled in recent literature. A high-action story written with a poet's hand, The Name of the Wind is a masterpiece that will transport readers into the body and mind of a wizard.
 
Inquisitor said:
Richard Feynman's QED, Iain M. Banks's The Algebraist (been reading this for ages now :o), and James Gleick's Chaos.
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I've read qed and chaos (james glieck is very good) so maybe I should try out the algebraist...

Currently I'm just finishing Weaving the Web by (you guessed it) Tim Berners-Lee. With hindsight it's crazy how many intelligent people didn't listen to him and weren't interested in the web in the first few years.

Recommened fiction books are (in no particular order):

the magician - raymond e feist
the farseer trilogy and tawny man trilogy - robin hobb - probably the best books I have ever read
the remains of the day - kazuo ishiguru
atonement - ian mcewan
the count of monte cristo - alexandre dumas
 
Inquisitor said:
Richard Feynman's QED, Iain M. Banks's The Algebraist (been reading this for ages now :o), and James Gleick's Chaos.
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You sir have excellent taste.

Read QED a few years ago, actually sat in the draw of my desk at work and I go back and reread bits of it now and again.

If you like QED and the way it is written, give Schrodinger's Kittens (by John Gribbin) a read, you'll enjoy it :)

I've read all of Iain M. Bank's books (appart from the new book Matter which I havn't got round to yet).
 
Just finished reading all the Diskworld novels (in order!). Before that I read all the currently released Wheel of Time books, now I'm reading through a load of Black Library books.

- Pea0n
 
Just finished Judas Unchained by Peter F Hamilton

Now reading The Silmarilion by J R R Tolkien. Heavy going, feels like a job atm. Intending on re-reading the Lord of the Rings so thought I'd best do them in order with Silmarilion first which I skipped the first time. First read The Hobbit & LoR in 1985.
 
http://www.amazon.co.uk/complete-chronicles-Conan-Centenary/dp/0575077662

Is my current read. Although it's beautifully bound and has some rather nice b&w drawings it's it's not like some of the original stand alone novels - one of the 'first editions' had a beautiful 3 page fold out colour print inside the front cover. Sadly when my parents divorced my dad chucked all of my books out to a second hand store, with no idea as to their worth.

Thoth-Amon in Conan the Destroyer

A similarly named wizard, Toth-Amon, appears in the film Conan the Destroyer. However, the name is the only link to the original character. Toth-Amon does not appear, in terms of character, clothing or setting, to be Stygian/Egyptian nor do his actions resemble anything in Howards stories. The monster Conan faces in the Toth-Amon scenes, an ape-like creature in a red cloak, resembles Thak from the short story Rogues in the House (which does not include Thoth-Amon).
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The illustration was of Conan fighting with the creature described in bold.

EDIT1:
example of the fold out art from another work 'Red Nails':

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found the image of the 'ape creature':
 
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