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What are you reading now? vers. "So I don't end up being a fucking waffle waitress"

The Twlight series by Stephanie Meyer is fantastic.
I've read the 1st three books in three weeks, easy to read and a different story. Im dying to read the 4th but my friend has bought it for a going away persent! I dont leave for 10 days!!!
 
I'm nearly through the first of the Axis of Time series by John Birmingham, Weapons of Choice. I generally don't care much for military action books but this book is pretty darn cool. I know someone mentioned these books a while ago in this thread but basically a multinational carrier group in 2022 (about to go to war against Islamic terrorists that have conquered Indonesia) gets transported straight into the 1942 American fleet about to take on the Japanese in Midway.

So a kind of a what if alternate history series of novels. Violent and sexy fun. Can you imagine what Americans of 1942 would make of naval vessels filled with Americans of all different ethinic backgrounds and sexes? Birmingham can and it's pretty sweet to read.

At the start of Australian author Birmingham's stellar debut novel, a United Nations battle group, clustered around the U.S.S. Hillary Clinton (named after "the most uncompromising wartime president in the history of the United States"), is tasked in the year 2021 with stopping ethnic cleansing by an Islamist regime in Indonesia. When an experiment goes horribly wrong on a special ship doing research on wormholes, most of the battle group is deposited in the middle of the U.S. fleet on its way to Midway in 1942. The WWII carriers and supporting vessels attack a Japanese Self-Defense Force ship, triggering devastating computer-operated defensive fire from the 21st-century fleet. While the action sequences are outstanding, this book really shines in depicting the cultural shock that both navies experience. The Clinton group reflects a multicultural society that finds the racist and sexist attitudes of 1942 America almost as repugnant as those of the Axis powers, while the mere thought of non-whites and women not just serving in uniform but holding command drives many Allied officers and civilian officials apoplectic. The author also subtly shows the ways in which 20-plus years of the War on Terrorism have changed our attitudes.
 
Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey. I know this book is meant to be amazing , but its not a convincing fictional read. The wording seems too jump starty and it feels like he was trying a little too hard to present ye olden days. But meh thats just my opinion (after 10 pages :p)
 
^ Yeah, sometimes I really struggle with Peter Carey's writing style. I don't really like it much at all. I'm still only half way through O&L as well. I found Illywhacker was easier to get through though if you wanted to try another one of his.
 
I've just this minute bought The Household Guide to Dying, which should be a suitably easy read for my unemployment.

Last week read The Book Thief, which was a good read but not as thought provoking as I'd been lead to believe.
 
Guns, Germs and Steel by J. Diamond
THIS BOOK ATTEMPTS TO PROVIDE A SHORT HISTORY OF EVERYbody
for the last 13,000 years. The question motivating the book is: Why
did history unfold differently on different continents?

Pretty frickin interesting, if you ask me.
 
Micheal Bassett - Working with David
It's a book on former New Zealand PM David Lange
Yeah does'nt sound very interesting but it really is

Peace LOve and Mungbeans
 
stipppy said:
Guns, Germs and Steel by J. Diamond
THIS BOOK ATTEMPTS TO PROVIDE A SHORT HISTORY OF EVERYbody
for the last 13,000 years. The question motivating the book is: Why
did history unfold differently on different continents?

Pretty frickin interesting, if you ask me.
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I watched a few documentary's with the same name. VERY interesting. I'm sure the book is too. I'll have to track it down at the library....once I return my overdues anyway...

I hate David Lange. I saw him on the street as a 13 year old and said hi and he stone cold snobbed me. Kunt.
 
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I was reading Stephen King's The Stand for the 5th time when a friend told me about this book a few years ago. They are similar as far as dealing with the end of the world, good & evil. I love The Stand more, but Swan Song is a damn good read. If you love to read Stephen King, then do yourself a favor and get this book.

I've read about 10 other books by Robert McCammon. He is highly underrated as authors go.
 
lots of trip reports both here and on errowid, not exactly a book but could definitly make a books worth outta it:|
great reading so i post it anyways:\
 
I'm reading Shadow Puppets by Orson Scott Card, it's part of the 'Shadow' series which is sort of a different viewpoint of the events in the 'Ender' series. Following? It's fucking awesome!!

Ender's Game started it all - GO OUT AND READ IT NOW!! No seriously though it's a great great book. I don't usually read science fiction and I still loved it. Definitely worth a read.
Do it!
:) Hope youz are all enjoyin' your respective reads.
 
I just finished reading all of Neil Gaiman's Sandman comics. They were fantastic. If anyone has anything similar to recommend I'd appreciate it.
 
^that's the situation I found myself in when the the series ended.

Lucifer by Mike Carey which is a spin-off of Sandman, detailing Lucifer's story after quitting Hell, is almost up to par. Carey is a good writer. You can't beat lines like 'It's raining angels.'

After Lucifer, he is now writing Crossing Midnight which is a mix of Japanese horror and mythology. The series is still young I find.

There's Preacher by Garth Ennis, about a preacher who, on the night of losing his faith, is melded with the progeny of an angel and demon, something outside the Creation, thus empowering the preacher with a Word as powerful as the Creator's. The Preacher is an epic American adventure.

Can't think of anything else right now, but for something contemporary and twisted, check out Grant Morrison. He wrote The Invisibles and Filth and Doom Patrol and is currently re-working Superman.
 
Great, thanks vurt, I certainly find myself at a loss now I've finished it. I will chase those up :)

I may have to venture into a comic store. Does anyone know of any good ones in Melb city? Or online I guess. I know of Minotaur in Elizabeth St.
 
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Minotaur is probably the easiest place. Think there is a comic place on Bourke near Target.

Just found this:

Classic Comics, Shop 7, 50 Bourke St, Melbourne, Comics R Us, Level 1, 220 Bourke St, Melbourne and Minotaur, 121 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne
 
Minotaur is the cheapest and has the biggest range
Classic Comics used to be my favourite until they had a massive price hike.
Comics R Us .... well .... don't bother really.

Trade paperback wise? Just go to Amazon.
 
Aishas Star said:
The Twlight series by Stephanie Meyer is fantastic.
I've read the 1st three books in three weeks, easy to read and a different story. Im dying to read the 4th but my friend has bought it for a going away persent! I dont leave for 10 days!!!
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OMG I working my way through the 3rd book already and I only picked up the first book a few days ago !!!! But then I've time to kill on the public transport

Someone at work recommended them and I admit after reading Ann Rice etc (big fan of vampire books in my late teens! and Ann Rice wasn't the only ones I read) being a bit sceptical for about half of twilight along the lines of "typical vampire book.." but then it got good!
 
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