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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby Dexter St. Clair » Tue Sep 23, 2014 10:11 pm

As Long as you don't refer to the fortyfivers as The Losers.
"I before E, except after C" works in most cases but there are exceptions.
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby Lucky Poet » Wed Sep 24, 2014 1:22 am

We don't need to be all coy now, Dex - the party's finished. Your Party's finished as well, mind.

Currently reading 'How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.' The Irving Tressler one, naturally.
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Wed Sep 24, 2014 9:19 am

"Moon Over Soho" by Ben Aaronovitch.
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby Dexter St. Clair » Wed Sep 24, 2014 12:31 pm

The ‘Neverendum’? A History of Referendums and Independence: Matt Qvortrup
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Wed Sep 24, 2014 12:41 pm

"Whispers Under Ground" by Ben Aaronovitch.
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby Lucky Poet » Wed Oct 01, 2014 9:02 pm

Lucky Poet wrote:On the Natural History of Destruction by W G Sebald. Being an essay about Germany's and especially German literature's failure to speak of the utter destruction of its cities during the Second World War, apparently. Cheerful. I'll tell you how it goes.

Beautifully written and very disturbing, is my clumsy verdict. It's a translation into English, but my goodness what a way with words he had (trusting the translator of course, as it was written in German). Long, multi-clause sentences like you don't usually read in books written after the 1920s; outrage that only slowly reveals itself and is all the more powerful for it; a probably deliberate mix of bare scientific description and poetics; conclusions that are truly un-nerving. It's braw. And awful, and informative, and thought-provoking. Well worth a read, to say the least.
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Thu Oct 02, 2014 9:16 am

Working my way through a re-read of The Flashman Papers, by the late great George MacDonald Fraser.

Just about to start book three "Flash for Freedom".
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby dimairt » Mon Nov 24, 2014 8:05 pm

The National.

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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby banjo » Fri Dec 05, 2014 12:14 pm

grumpy old Christmas...the official handbook. :twisted:
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Fri Dec 05, 2014 12:30 pm

Re-reading some of my old Star Trek novels, specifically the "New Earth" series.

Admiral Kirk and the USS Enterprise lead a rag-tag fleet of some 60,000 pioneers hoping to settle and colonise a newly discovered planet at the fringes of Federation space.

"Wagon Train to the Stars" by Diane Carey.
"Belle Terre" by Dean Wesley Smith, with Diane Carey".
"Rough Trails" by L.A. Graf.
"The Flaming Arrow" by Kathy and Jerry Oltion.
"Thin Air" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
"Challenger" by Diane Carey.
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby dimairt » Fri Dec 05, 2014 9:19 pm

"Pilgrim Soul" by Gordon Ferris, the fourth in the Brodie series. A cracking good read.

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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Sun Dec 21, 2014 2:18 pm

"Vespasian: Rome's Executioner" by Robert Fabbri.

I seem to be on a bit of a Roman fiction kick of late, what with a couple of Anthony Riches' superb "Empire" novels, Conn Iggulden's "Blood of the Gods" (which was bloody good BTW), and now this.
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby banjo » Wed Dec 31, 2014 3:24 pm

war baby.sidney mcechnie Gallagher..............this man has a stand alone protest in Clydebank shopping centre every Saturday and has been a near neighbour of mine for most of my life so I thought I ought to read his life story.free online.interesting chap to say the least.
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby The Creeping Spleen » Wed Dec 31, 2014 3:58 pm

"Zero Point" by Clive Cussler and Graham Brown.

Tenth in the NUMA FIles series of techno-thrillers, featuring Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala.
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Re: What Are You Currently Reading

Postby mercury » Sun Jan 11, 2015 4:15 pm

Not actually reading it yet, but I have just manage to buy "From Glasgow's Treasure Chest" on Ebay. :)
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