What's everyone reading?

[Whosthedaddy]

When it comes to book suggestions I haven't the foggiest. I have no idea on what genre I would want so really open to what's hot or different.

Thanks in advance.
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[Hetzer]

Penguin Classics; if you haven't had the joy of all the golden oldies that huge set will do you a treat. All libraries will have some, bookshops will have loads. Both can order.
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I'd quite like to be reading the follow on to this book, but I'm broke, so not buying more books at the mo:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Principles-Angels-Jaine-Fenn/dp/0575083298/
(Sci fi with an element of fantasy.)

If I hadn't read most of them, I'd probably be reading something by Charles Stross:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Charles+Stross
His book 'Accelerando' is available as an officially free ebook here:
https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelerando/accelerando-intro.html
Quite 'hard' modern sci-fi, dealing with singularities in a technological society.

[pinkyfloyd]

would all depend on what kind of books you think you will like.

i read mostly fantasy books because i find the escapism to a world that doesnt exist much better about reading about things in the world we live in. i like the idea of magic and dragons etc so them books suit me.

some people like crime books and thats all they read. some like horror, some romance.

it all depends on what your interests are. if your not interested in scary stories then you wont find horror books appealing.

a good start would be find out what interests you and then browsing the relevent section in the book shop. or better yet, library because its free.
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[pinkyfloyd]

i've read outside my chosen genre many times but always find myself heading back to the fantasy section.

at the moment im reading anthony kiedis autobiography scar tissue, which so far is great, sex and drugs all the way through it.
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[Deckx]

I just finished "Porno" by Irvine Welsh... sequel to "Trainspotting" 10 years on with some characters from 'Glue".... He is my favorite author by far its a pity he doesn't do more books... planning to read 'Glue" again as its been 6 years and going get my hands on another copy of 'Trainspotting' as it must be 14 years ago when i last read that

Was living over a coffee shop in Holland at the time and was snorting and smoking all kinds of good stuff ... them were the days.. could smoke Super-skunk all day long and then go on a session that night....with the help of copious amount of charlie

[mistergixer]

Relentless by Dean Koontz.

Not the sort of book i'd usually read (it's MrsGixer's), but i'm finding it incredibly gripping and difficult to put down.


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[Dr. DaveJPS]

just finished "do androids dream of electric sheep"
t'was good
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[chris-red]

I am actively reading




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I have a few more William Gibson books, To kill a mocking bird, the rest of the Hitchikers 'Trilogy' and a few more StarCraft Books. Not to mention my back log of Patrica Cornwall, Chris Ryan and Andy Mc Nabb, (if there cheap I buy them for when I have nothing else to read.
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Be interested to hear how you found the firefly book. Got 'finding serenity' think it was, but not too impressed (and the two official graphic novels, which were ok.)

More Sci Fi suggestions - pretty much anything by John Scalzi.

[GhostRider]

I think I'm going to get hold of this:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mysterious-Stranger-Dover-Thrift/dp/0486270696/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1281525171&sr=8-1

I was inspired after learning that this was based on "The Mysterious Stranger":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALO95kDh9m8&feature=player_embedded

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[Dr. DaveJPS]

fairly close on the overall storyline. details are different and there is a sub story about a "chickenhead" and deckard suffers more moral quandarys
(admittedly it has been a few years since i watched bladerunner, i really must remedy that)

Edit: this is the version i have that really couldn't be more subtle if it tried
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blade-Runner-Philip-K-Dick/dp/1857988124/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1281526470&sr=1-2
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Cheers for the thoughts Chris - I do have Serenity found too, but again wasn't overly impressed.
Otherwise am a fairly big firefly/serenity fan, though maybe not quite as much as you! I'd love a new series, but also suspect that's partly why it's kept it's charm - like the original 'The Prisoner', it never had a chance to be spoilt.

I was never that great a fan of 'Do androids dream of electric sheep' - but I am a big fan Philip K Dick generally.
A Scanner Darkly (read it before watching the film... which I thought was a really good adaptation) and The Man in the High castle are both well worth a read.

Also a big fan of Alfred Bester - I'd say the 'granddaddy' of cyberpunk, if William Gibson is the dad.

[Slacker24seve...]

Something by this bloke:

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Ah, I didn't know there were official ones too. For me the most interesting bits were the sections written by the actors etc - it's nice to see they were really in to the whole thing to and saw it as more than just a job - or of course, maybe they just want to keep the momentum going so they keep getting royalties .

Don't mind lending you the two unauthorised books.

Alfred Bester is a generation behind William Gibson - definitely 'classic' Sci Fi, but for me has that timeless quality.
He doesn't deal a massive amount with computers (bar 'The Computer Connection') but it has that 'feel' - there's various cyber augmentation etc too.

[The999Kid]

Im waiting for the next book of the Wheel of Time series to come out...

Written By Robert Jordan who died in 2008, the series has been taken over and completed (with help from extensive notes made before Robert's death) by Brandon Sanderson.

Tis a really good series

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Just finished book 12 of 14
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[The Shaggy D.A.]

I've a ton of books sitting on my shelf that I still haven't read. I'm currently halfway through Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat, and to be honest it's not got enough in it for me to want to finish it. Next on the pile is Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged", although I'll have to be in a certain frame of mind to get into that one.

For recommendations...

Humour : Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Fantasy : The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Unbeliever (1st and 2nd, 6 books in all) by Stephen Donaldson
Science Fiction : The Foundation series by Isaac Asimov
Bloke stuff (shag the bird, blow up the baddie, save the world) : Any of the Dirk Pitt novels by Clive Cussler
Non Fiction : Bad Science, by Ben Goldacre
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