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

[Clanger]

I just checked back and it was September 2018 since anyone wrote in the old thread...wow, what happened? Did all the readers suddenly stop reading?

Anyhow, I went looking for the thread because I just wanted to share the last book I read: Echo Park by Michael Connelly. It's an old book, granted, but thanks to the charity shops I've managed to find a lot of Michael Connelly books...I do find him an extremely good author.

This series of books is with the character Detective Bosch who has now made an appearance on Prime videos. Anyway, I have to say Echo Park what a superb read.
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[hedgehugger]

I'm slowly reading my way through the Witcher series again. Times of Contempt is the current book.

My reading time has really gone downhill recently, though I did manage an hour or so straight in the garden the other day. I tend to read either first thing in the morning, or last thing at night. Read for longer in the morning, fall asleep with my nose on the Kindle @ night

I spotted that Stephen King has a book of short stories coming out in a day or so, so that is my next read.

[pepperami]

I’m not a great book reader, much to my shame.
However, now that I/we have more time on my hands, I’m finishing a book I’ve been flitting with for a while.

It’s ‘ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep’ by Philip K Dick .
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[Fisty]

The story of the Bristish Isles in 100 places by Neil Oliver.

Good read so far.
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[panrider_uk]

Carrying the fire by Michael Collins (Apollo 11 astronaut)

The Singularity Trap by Dennis E. Taylor, author of the absolutely brilliant Bobiverse trilogy
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[stinkwheel]

Reading the last Terry Pratchett book. "The Shepherds Crown".

Kind of sad, a lot about death and legacy in it when you know it was written during the descent into and agressive form of altzeihmers. Not wanting to put any spoilers but he kills off a MAJOR discworld character in it early doors.

Just finished the Phillip Pullman Book of Dust. I like it because it has a canoe in but I also think he's not really a very good writer. His prose is, frankly, a bit on the wooden side.

Iffy fantasy writing is all too common and while I like the genre, I think a lot of the popular authors are a bit crap. Espeicially when it comes to believable dialogue and characterisation. I think hands-down the best in terms of quality of writing is Robin Hobb, with an honourable mention to Raymond Feist... I'm not sure which wins the prize for most unbelievably extended plot. Both also deserve a gold star for tying up all their plot threads in the final book (after 16 books in Hobbs saga and an astounding 32 in Feists series).
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[MarJay]

I managed to get hold of a bunch of books for my Kobo ereader. One set of which is all of the Battletech novels. So I'm kind of working my way through those. Don't judge, I like giant fighting robots OK?
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[BigTim]

Fate is the Hunter by Ernest K Gann

about the early days of commercial airline pilots in USA, from just before WW2 onwards.

about half way through at moment and they been roped into delivering stuff to Greenland , Iceland and UK during war.

all risky seat of you pants trailblazing.

charity shop find so cant complain £1.75

[yen_powell]

Recently been read by me:-

The Man on the Street by Trevor Wood, a 'who done it' murder mystery, but from the perspective of a homeless man with PTSD and if that isn't bad enough for the poor sod, he is living on the street in Newcastle.

A Wrinkle in the Skin by John Christopher, about a gigantic seismic event that leaves most people dead in the Channel islands and also makes the sea vanish. The main character walks to southern England on the old seabed.

Who Sent Clement by Keith A Pearson, the first of a trilogy about a 1970s dead man who returns to help someone in trouble and who knows nothing about life in the 21st century. Very funny in places, especially if you grew up in the 70s and I had to get the sequels afterwards as it was quite gripping. Hoping there is a fourth book.

If you get a chance, read The Silver Spitfire, a true story (or so the author says) about an RAF pilot who ends up as an (abandoned by the RAF) liaison officer with the recently arrived US Air Force in England and who later acquires a hookey Spitfire left by an angry Polish pilot who gets on the bus and never comes back. He gets it stripped back to bare metal, manages to get it new wings and an engine without going through official channels and eventually even gets a teardrop canopy conversion with bribes and then does whatever he wants for a while until the ending months of the war when he realises he will get into trouble and has to try and work out a way of getting rid of it which proves more trouble than you'd expect.
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[Lord Percy]

I chose a book at random from Morrisons a few weeks ago: The Stationary Shop of Tehran.

Going by the blurb, I expected something about the Iranian revolution. Instead I got a terrible romance written by someone who lived in Iran for two years after the revolution, and now has clearly decided to do a "getting back to my roots" effort of some kind... by attempting to write with authority on something she didn't even live through. It was like reading the work of a high school student. A chore to finish.

[kgm]

Just finished the with Witcher series.

Now reading "First Light" by Geoffrey Wellum. Basically his memoirs from joining the air force and flying spitfires during the war. Excellent read.

I second Raymond Feist if you like fantasy. I read the first two of his books and I'm going back to the rest after first light.

[stinkwheel]

[blurredman]

In recent weeks I have read:

Into the Wild,
Lila: An enquiry into Morals,

Currently I am reading Stephen King's The Dark Half.
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[pepperami]

[Polarbear]

Went back and reread 'Red Storm Rising' after it turned up with wifie doing a spring clean.

An early Tom Clancy book if anyone hasn't heard of it. WW3 and still a good book even despite the Americans are great and bound to win attitude. It's obviously out of date because of the fall of the USSR but still worth picking up if you are into that sort of book.
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[bhinso]

Reading the Last Kingdom series by Bernard Cornwell (he of 'Sharpe' fame). It's about Wessex and Alfred the Great. Currently on book 3.

The books are far better than the TV series.

[yen_powell]

[LiMoON]

1984
George Orwell

[chickenstrip]

Just got "Hollywood Godfather" by Gianni Russo, having watched another podcast interview. Don't know if he's making any of it up, but should be a good read anyway
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[MCN]

Just finished reading Hitchens
Mother Theresa, The Missionary Position.
(Auld cunt.)
Getting through....
Richard Rhodes
The Making of the Atomic Bomb.
The connective history surrounding it is fascinating.
And Richard Dawkins
The God Delusion.

Plus everything - posts. 👍
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[blurredman]

[Bubbs]

Discovered the author Blake Crouch.

I read "Dark Matter" first and found it very hard to put down. Then decided to have a look through his other books and found his "Wayward Pines" series... Loved them. They had a Stephen King feel to them but I think they were much better written.

Great SciFi!
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