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What are you currently reading? v2

I used to love reading, but haven't really read much these past few years until the last week or so. I've just read Lee Child's Gone Tomorrow, which was pretty good, and George Orwell's 1984, which is of course amazing
 
Gone back to re-reading the Discworld series. Starting with

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currently reading this weeks copy of New Scientist. Managed to get a yearly subscription for £85ish - normal yearly cover price is £182, so it'was a bargain.

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just need to find a bargain subscription for sight and sound now
 
^ Good choice of reading material, marmz, and good price!

The editorial pisses me off sometimes for political bias but the letters are good, and I like the inside back cover.
 
been halfway through "and the hippos were boiled in there tanks" by william s burroughs and jack kerouac for a month now ....

Really good book but my attention span only ever allows me to get halfway thru ... Might go back to borstal boy ... Its a nice read about why you shouldnt go to prison for planting IRA bombs
 
Marmalade said:
currently reading this weeks copy of New Scientist. Managed to get a yearly subscription for £85ish - normal yearly cover price is £182, so it'was a bargain.

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just need to find a bargain subscription for sight and sound now
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I get National Geographic, mainly for the pretty pictures but you get the odd decent article too. £15 for the year, meant to be £75.
 
StoneHappyMonday said:
I get National Geographic, mainly for the pretty pictures but you get the odd decent article too. £15 for the year, meant to be £75.
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I get Nat.GEO as well for nowt. One of the Doctors at my surgery gets it & lets me have it after him . I spotted them in the waiting room & soon worked out who was donating them & The Doctor was more than happy to give them straght to me.

£15 is worth it fosho.
 
It's rock-star (auto)biography hour again - finally borrowed this from a friend after listening to snippets on YouTube in the wee hours and finding myself agreeing more often than not:

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Alright, so I know nothing about this man's proficiency (or otherwise) as a rapper; just that loads of kids at school liked him. Oh, and he inflicted Bodycount on us and produced the worst (and last) Black Sabbath record.

In spite of all that, old Ice is a pretty perceptive, sensitive and (ghostwriting aside) articulate individual. Recommended if you have the time to spare.
 
Just finished a book called 'Things we didn't see coming'. I was sold on the fact it's thematically post-apocalyptic (always a bonus for me), but not in a vapid and dull SF way.

It's short and worth the little time you need to invest, despite a couple of chapters which seem a bit incongruous. I'd definitely recommend it to anyone looking for a light, if not life-changing, read.

Finally started on Atomised now - finding it a bit of a chore, TBH.
 
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Thought I'd ask in here, as I'm not sure if it deserves a thread on its own..

I'm old skool, I like to own my books and I just can't get with the idea of an e-reader or kindle... anyone made the switch and what do you think of it?

Have you switched over completely, or do you use the e-reader for, say, when you're out and about, and still buy books?
 
I've got a kindle and dont really like it, I actually buy books. I don't know how anyone could read a novel off a kindle. I like having bookshelves full of books.
 
Buying books is much better IMHO, loads of good ocr scans now of the books I read and no problem with reading them on tabs or pc , but there is nothing like the physical feel of a book

Its like comparing wanking to sex
Wanking= Tablet - E reader
Holding the book = Sexmagictime

( case you guys were wondering)
 
I've got decades worth of books in this house. I've never thrown any out.. They're all holding me beds up as both are broken. I managed to work free a Leaves of Grass + by Walt Whitman the other day though. So I've been giving that another read.

Song of Myself
BY WALT WHITMAN

I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
 
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Great poem Yella, I can barely concentrate on TV so I read a lot more than TV ( Unless its sports)
I think it was Nassim Taleb who quoted Umberto Eco ( In the Intro of The Black Swan) when he said the true measure of a person was not the books that they had read, BUT the unread books they had in their house

Something that always stuck with me, especially as I can be considered to be somewhat of a hoarder
 
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