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Just finished James Frey's A Million Little Pieces, which is an amazing book and recommended.

Just started Alexandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

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Phoen1x said:
I have just finished The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz. A story of escape from a siberian gulag, and the walk across Siberia, the Gobi desert, Tibet and finally India to freedom. It is written as a personal account and put across as true, but there has been a lot of discussion and doubt over the last 50 years as to its authenticity. Regardsless, it is a great read and very inspirational.
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This sounds like a book I'd enjoy :) Will take a peek at it next time I'm in Borders or something.
 
Just given up halfway through Beloved by Toni Morrison. It won numerous awards (including the Pulitzer Prize) and was voted the best American book of the past 25 years. And I'm sure it's very worthy. My verdict: really dense, really dull, and highly confusing.
There are many, many better books about slavery that tell you a lot more about the topic than this one, and that don't attempt to tell a ghost story as a subplot. I'm sure there's lots to it that I'm not getting simply because I don't know enough, but I read for entertainment and enlightenment, neither of which I got from this novel.
 
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Free eBook that came with eBook software for my iPod. Quite a good read so far.
 
Currently reading Prayers For Rain by Dennis Lehane, after finishing Gone, Baby, Gone (and then watching the film, which is nowt like the book).
 
Currently finishing up Exegesis of the Matrix by Peter B. Lloyd.

Also rented out Deception Point by Dan Brown today, it's the last of his books I have yet to read and I can't wait! :D
 
Dakotacs said:
Also rented out Deception Point by Dan Brown today, it's the last of his books I have yet to read and I can't wait! :D
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It's not as good as the two Robert Langdon books, but it's better than Digital Fortress.
Wasn't the next Langdon book due out by now, thinking about it?
 
Masterdog said:
It's not as good as the two Robert Langdon books, but it's better than Digital Fortress.
Wasn't the next Langdon book due out by now, thinking about it?
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Yeah I loved the two Langdon books and somehow thought the remaining two books couldn't surpass how great they were. Yet I found Digital Fortress very interesting so Deception Point should be exciting!

As for the third Langdon book (possibly called "The Solomon Key"), I've read that he finished writing the book last month but sadly no release date has been announced yet. Shouldn't be long now!
 
3 Para - True story of the Paras in Afghanistan
Zombie Survival Handbook
Various garden design and gardening books as we move into our newly built house in a month and there's 1/3 of an acre of waste land to sort out ...
 
I've just finished Footfall By Larry Niven and Jerry Pournell which was very good, the last couple of hundred pages ended up being read in a single sitting :)
I would probably have finished it much sooner, but my dad borrowed the ereader to go on holiday.

I think I'm going to read Lucifer's Hammer next, then possibly the newest Honor Harrington book (it's available via Baen books "webscriptions" with 3 others for about a tenner, or on it's own for about a fiver).

As an aside, I am really loving my ereader, it's nice to be able to just pick it up and start reading exactly where I left off, and not worry about bending the spine (i'm a bit fussy about that with paperbacks).
My dad also liked it enough that even before he got back from his holiday he'd had me order another one for him :p
 
Werewolf said:
As an aside, I am really loving my ereader, it's nice to be able to just pick it up and start reading exactly where I left off, and not worry about bending the spine (i'm a bit fussy about that with paperbacks).
My dad also liked it enough that even before he got back from his holiday he'd had me order another one for him :p
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I'm interested in one of these, which model have you got?
 
I've got the Sony PRS-505:)

It sounds like Amazon should be releasing the kindle v2 over here sometime this year though, which is likely to have much better pricing on the normal books for it (the UK pricing for ebooks from waterstones is silly, fortunately I like sci-fi etc a lot and the likes of Baen do ebooks cheap in the US).
 
o I haven't actually. I tend to focus on the Space Marine ones. The Blood Angels, Soul Drinkers and Ultramarines omnibuses are still on my 'to buy' list as well :(
 
Ultramarines Omnibus is well worth a read but you can't go far wrong with either the Gaunts Ghost or HH series - excellent read. Just finished Battle for the Abyss.

Currently reading Apache Dawn by Damien Lewis - Based on a British Army Air Corps Apache squadron in Afghan - absolute stunner of a book so far.
 
I haven't really read any of the marine ones :( (I've got a lot of books i am planning on reading/rereading), but the imperial guard ones he's done are really good :)


Zeroecho, Apache Dawn is a good book, I picked it up on release and loved it (i'm not normally into that sort of book), I think there is another book about the ground forces that covers one of the major actions from their point of view.
 
Just finished 'Hell Island' - Matthew Reilly (short story), can't beat genetically enhanced Gorillas with M4's. :D
 
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