BOOKS!

[Count Überquart]

I can't be bothered with The Bookseller of Kabul. I might go to bed with a good Famous Five instead.

...It's just so much easier...

[dratsucalex]

thought you read all of 'em?

[Count Überquart]

And?

Yes, I don't even need to look at them to read them...

Hence it's so mcuh easier...

[Goblin King]

Famous Five Books were definitely easier to read the older I got. My editor reckoned the FF were all about food (picnics, midnight feasts, smuggled sweets). I can relate to grumpy Uncle Quentin, who was always telling them to clear off and bother local thieves ... I think he was a drunk. Maybe he was Enid's husband.

[Goblin King]

And George - what's that all about?

[dratsucalex]

clojio said:

And?

Yes, I don't even need to look at them to read them...

Hence it's so mcuh easier...

i had a point...but i lost it...so i dont know...

[Count Überquart]

She really needs to live in our world.

We have sex changes now!

[dratsucalex]

yea with tourrettes and doctors

[Count Überquart]

Gay cross-dressing doctors with tourettes.

Man, imagine surgery...

You'd not feel safe...

[dratsucalex]

[Goblin King]

Ooh I like that.

[lollipop]

What's everyone reading at the moment? I'm a few pages away from finishing LOTR2. (May eventually allow myself to watch the films... on the other hand, maybe not...)

[Tinkerbell]

One of my flat mates lent me Papillon, haven't read much yet but she challenged me not to give up!

[lollipop]

I finished the Two Towers. Now I have to wait til the end of term to read Return of the King!

[Count Überquart]

I am sort of reading a Robert Crais book. I forget the name.

It was in one of those promotions that Waterstones do... 99p for the first one, then you get hooked on the series and keep buying them for £5 each... Hey, Jack's money not mine... So he's making is read them so that they're actually worth what he's ended up paying...

Am also reading Chris Ryan - Flash Flood.

So far, a ship has crashed into the Thames thing, and the river has risen, flooding London... ARGH! And, yeah, DISASTER!!!! Big disaster.

Except, it was quite funny, 'cause I just can't help thinking "London is drowning and... I live by the river!!"

[Goblin King]

There's nothing like disaster scenarios to keep you warm and cosy at night.


Finished reading Iain M Banks's Player of Games and have gone back to his Inversions. I still can't decide if I prefer the ones with the most technology in them.

[lollipop]

If I start a new book tonight, I'll have to take it home with me tomorrow!

[Count Überquart]

I borrowed two Chris Ryan ALPHA Force books today. Because Gemma made me...

And another book about a girl who tries to figure out why her best friend killed himself.

I might read that in installments with ALPHA Force in between... ;D

[Goblin King]

;D ;D Pretend it's all one big post modern book. ;D

[Count Überquart]

The book about the girl who tries to figure out why her friend killed himself was absolute shite.

We bought a book in Norway called, "Trolls and their relatives". We read the first few pages: "In the beginning, there was darkness, and in darkness, trolls are born." and thought it would be good for the monster.

Uh... Could we be more wrong?!

It has "They were there when the very first Norwegian came along with his belongings" accompanied by a picture of a man dragging along a naked woman by her hair.

And the back of a naked woman with the text, "She was well equipped up front to lure any unsuspecting farmboy underground".

It's a laugh, anyway...

[Goblin King]

Fantastic. Sounds like my kind of fiction. I think I remember reading somewhere that the definition of "Troll" is very broad and vague -I have some Icelandic legends with trolls in. So am I right in guessing that in this case they mean "cave-people"? - am also thinking of the word "Troglydyte" (which I clearly can't spell ...)

I'm struggling through the last part of Iain M Bank's Feersum Endginn. The ending better be clever or I'll be very disappointed - lots of interested ideas though, but one character writes fonnetikallee or just misspells for the hell of it, which is fun at first but by chapter 9 your brain starts to hurt.

I'm looking forward to reading Dune: Messiah - which after some asking about, we have finally established is the second book in the series - or it least the next one Mr. Herbert wrote.

[lollipop]

The Trick is to Keep Breathing - Janice Galloway
Bit of a disappointment really. I don't like the narrative style much.

[lollipop]

Damn, I still haven't finished that one. I have some new-style Mr Men books, they look like a happy read!

[Hobgobearhugger]

Hobgobearhugger like Mister Men.

[Count Überquart]

The God Delusion.

Really rather good. Except for that it's really confusing me. The words are too big. I can read about three pages, before I have to read them all over again.

[DAT500]

Sadly the only books I could bring with me are for work and I'm certainly not reading 'The Unified Modeling Language User Guide' for fun!

I'm trying not to buy new books here, because I'd probably have to post them back home. I have pre-ordered the new Peter Sotos book though, which should arrive in England when I get back.

[lollipop]

I went to the library yesterday ;D ;D ;D
Came back with ten new books. Some of them non-fiction too! ;D

[Goblin King]

Non-fiction? shocking!
I must get back to the pile of sci-fi novels which were my comfort zone a few weeks back. Was browsing a book about the location of Troy last night. Sometimes I can browse my shelves like a bookshop because I've I read so few of them (completely). I must do this more and resist buying more from real book shops!

(that sounds like a boast I know, but I don't mean it like that, it doesn't seem right to keep buying books first or second hand and then just leave them around to gather dust. But I like the dust as well ... )

[lollipop]

I refuse to put smething on my shelves til I've read it. This means I have a cupboard and floor full of unread ones. Oh, the piles!
And despite the piles, I keep getting more books. Buying more, librarying more, Amazoning more... ;D

[Goblin King]

Sounds like a logical approach to me!

but ... think of the trees!