What book are you reading at the moment?

[TeeDee]

Batavias Graveyard - Mike Dash

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batavia's_Graveyard

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Batavias-Graveyard-Mike-Dash/dp/0575070242


Just getting going.

 

[firecrest]

les miserables

 

[Toddy]

Women's Medicine Ways; Cross cultural rites of passage.

cheers,
Toddy

 

[hiraeth]

The Mabinogion

 

[drewdunnrespect]

two books

julian stockwells quaterdeck

and

richard woodmans second omnibus in the Nathaniel Drinkwater series

 

[mayfly]

1984, always a good read during an election campaign!

 

[Glen]

Just finishing
Blind Spots ( Why Smart People Do Dumb Things ) -Madeleine L. Van Hecke, Phd
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blind-Spots-Smart-People-Things/dp/1591025095/

And about to start
Nee Naw ( Real Life Dispatches From Ambulance Control ) - Suzi Brent
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nee-Naw-Dispatches-Ambulance-Control/dp/0141044373/

I suposed I'd better declare that I know Suzi

 

[DavidJT]

"in Forkbeard's Wake" (guy sails around coast of Scandinavia, linking in lots about the Norse Sagas)

 

[Biker]

im also getting stuck into the long walk by Slavomir Rawicz, pretty good so far!

pete

I've read this book 4 times and still find it an inspiration. There's one bit that does make me doubt it though... nuff said.

Currently working my way through Anthony Beevor's D-day: The Battle For Normandy.

And for the light reading just before sleep one of the Modesty Blaise novels.

Interesting selection fella's thanks for sharing.

 

[maddave]

Bill Bryson... A walk in the woods

 

[ged]

...what book are you reading at the moment?

"NMAP Network Scanning."

Well, you did ask.

 

[leaf man]

the book of woodcraft by ernest thompson seton on pdf. have found very few 1st editions worldwide ranging in price from $50 to $300 for a signed copy.
bit of a tough read but possibly one of the first handbooks for our chosen subject

 

[verloc]

Just finished reading,
The Tiger in the Well - Phillip Pullman, A great little page turner.
the Little Stranger - Sarah Waters, A brilliantly enjoyable book.

Both the above recommended to me by the missus and very good recommendations they were,

Just started the Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson.

 

[bothyman]

Wolf of the Plains - Conn Iggulden.

Chinese Archery- Stephen Selby

 

[wicca]

Sea Wolves of the Mediterranean.....E. Hamilton Currey

1928 edition 3/6d...

 

[JohnC]

Second Stage Lensmen - E.E. "Doc" Smith.....

 

[wanderingblade]

The scripts of 'Yes Minister' The most razor sharp comedy ever writted, and still frighteningly relevant 30 years on!

The Gulag Archipelago - Solzhenitsyn

I like Solzhenitsyn - I'm currently gearing up to tackle 'August 1914'

Second Stage Lensmen - E.E. "Doc" Smith.....

Are the Lensman books any good? I collected a massive vintage Sci-Fi collection some years ago but never got round to reading them (still wading through the 200 odd Asimov books!!

 

[JohnC]

....
Are the Lensman books any good? ....

I'd say it's like marmite, you'll either love or hate them... I like them, great escapist fun, real heroes, real villains, colliding planets, QX...

 

[rik_uk3]

Yesterday I started reading (again) The Golden Bough

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Bough

 

[Tony]

just finished an Ian M Banks (Matter) and now just started a Cussler (easy quick read) Also reading a religious book and memory book and a riddle book