What are you currently reading?

[TeeDee]

Tracks by Robyn Davidson. True story about a woman’s journey across the Australian desert with four camels and a dog. Fed up with all the rain so this isn’t a bad escape from reality.

Cor , Thats a long way - I bet she had a right hump at the end of it.

 

[bearbait]

I really enjoyed the book. She's some girl: mid-20s she was when she did it, back in the 70s. Well impressed, I am...

 

[Kepis]

Down but not Out - Canadian Armed Forces, one of Mors favourites iirc.

 

[TeeDee]

Down but not Out - Canadian Armed Forces, one of Mors favourites iirc.

Where did you source that from ?

 

[Kepis]

Where did you source that from ?

Abe Books a couple of years ago

 

[MikeLA]

I nice light story Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

 

[Kadushu]

Currently reading A Canticle For Leibowitz which was one of the sources of inspiration for the Fallout franchise. The book opens with a monk scavenging from an underground bunker in a desert in post nuclear apocalypse USA with the looming threat of mutant creatures.

 

[Pattree]

Now that’s a blast from the past. We still have a copy somewhere tucked among the Azimovs.

 

[Megatramp]

This

 

[Mesquite]

This

Is it a mystery book?

 

[grainweevil]

Perhaps it's The Invisible Man?

 

[Pattree]

@Megatramp
It’s good to know that the thread is being carefully read!

 

[Paul_B]

Storyyland: A New Mythology of Britain by Amy Jeff's is a secondhand book I've just bought to read. Over the years I've read a lot of ancient Greek mythology, a bit of roman, a bit of Norse, very little old English basically beowulf, a bit of Aztec but very little from our own lands. I've even read Egyptian mythology but found Neil Gaimen's British mythology book uninteresting to read. I thought he was supposed to be good writer.

Other than that I've got an old book, a gazette of industrial archeology of the lake counties. That's three counties. Looks a good book. Part of a series of the UK industrial archeology.

 

[Kadushu]

Rounding off my triad of bunkerpunk I finished Wool by Hugh Howey last week. It's a slow burn at first but builds up intrigue and pace.

 

[Tengu]

Been in Hospital so my library was limited.

Richard Osmans Thursday Murder Club. (Good fun says she who hates whodunnits)

The Novelisation of The Dark Crystal (Oddly Timley as now a new documentary on Henderson; This is what he wanted to be remembered for rather than the Muppets).

Redknaps Llangorse Crannog.

 

[Pattree]

Absolutely loved the video of Dark Crystal.
Besides all the wonderful detail as we explored their world there was the ultimate chimera of apparent good and apparent evil. Quite a lot to digest.

 

[Broch]

Absolutely loved the video of Dark Crystal.
Besides all the wonderful detail as we explored their world there was the ultimate chimera of apparent good and apparent evil. Quite a lot to digest.

The original or the recent; I've not watched the sequel but loved the original.

 

[Pattree]

I’ve only seen the version that I still have on VHS. I shall not watch any sequel or re-do, I find them almost invariably disappointing.
I will mention an exception - Rowan Atkinson’s Maigret is better than that of Rupert Davies.

The Dark Crystal ecology was literally fabulous. The whole thing was shot in a muted pallet.

 

[Tengu]

The prequel is worth a punt (if only for the skeksis; The Gelfling are wonderfully visualized but ultimately they are skeksis fodder and unmournable).

Wasted on a modern generation; has been accused of being Computer Magic.

(Cgi used to mostly remove puppeteers, and the like)

Also I bet Henderson would have a puppet climb or descend a rope ladder. (A scene obviously fudged).

 

[Kadushu]

I watched the prequel and loved it then I watched it again and loved it again. The 'making of' documentary was as good as the series too.