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

[tanotshaun]

I am reading Twelfth Night right now A very good book, I would advise you, but still, it is better to familiarize yourself with the plot on the site https://freebooksummary.com/category/twelfth-night-essays first to be sure that you like this genre. Enjoy reading everyone and thank you for your recommendations too.

[blurredman]

Just about to finish Stephen King's IT (original '86 release book).

Yes indeed Beverley has sex with her 6 male friends in the sewers when they were 12, yes indeed.
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[Ayrton]

Reading Elric of Melniboné series, think I'm on the last book now. Good old fashioned sword and sorcery type stuff

[Hetzer]

Nelson Mandela, 'Dare not Linger'.
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[chickenstrip]

Been rereading some climbing stuff, mostly Pete Boardman, Joe Tasker and Andy Cave.
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[Islander]

[chickenstrip]

[hellkat]

[Ribenapigeon]

Christopher Hitchens, No one left to lie to.

All about what a twunt Bill Clinton is.

[Easy-X]

Still reading The Denial of Death, Ernest Becker.

I'm starting to see more what I would call "psychologically valid" things in contemporary entertainment. Star Trek: Next Gen would be a classic but even Enderal: Forgotten Stories that I recently finished was chuck full of weighty themes I probably wouldn't have appreciated a decade or so ago
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[MarJay]

Just finished Guy Martin's "Worms to catch". Eh, the Tour Divide stuff is great, the rest was a slog. So I went back to "Live and Let Die" by Ian Fleming. This part of the book is marginally less racist so it's easier to read. If he just stuck with the bad guys speaking English instead of a White British person's idea of what a Black criminal from Harlem would say (including the phonetic spelling - yikes) then it would be a hundred times better, and easier to read.
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[chickenstrip]

[Easy-X]

[MarJay]

[chickenstrip]

Gotta say, I've never been much of a fan of the whole Bond schtick either. But then, I'm no great reader of fiction full stop, although there are a couple of classics I still enjoy.

But it's easy to think most people thought the same as we do back then. I don't think that's necessarily the case. Maybe they weren't outright racist, but much more than we accept today would have been shrugged over at most, or even barely noticed, and quite common in culture. It wasn't the same 'global' world back then that it is today, what with international social media etc.
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[ThunderGuts]

Re-reading "The Art of Coarse Sailing". It's about 60 years old now, but somehow timeless. An amusing overview of a sailing holiday on the rivers of Norfolk. There are others in the series I have yet to read . . .
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[Guttend]

I started reading The Positronic Man by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg, a fantastic book. What struck me more was how artificial intelligence goes beyond its program and becomes what it has always been - a person. I'm even thinking of writing an essay about this book, just maybe trying to uncover why the world treated him with contempt.
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[Blah blah]

Re-reading "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" at the moment.

I bought it 20 odd years ago as one of those 'classics' that you should read in your lifetime (along with The Catcher in the Rye, Catch 22 and so on) and devoured it back then.

Hard going in places but enjoying it again, but I'm older now and I get something different from it each time I read it (and I've read it a few times !)

It's one of the few books I kept when I moved and got rid of loads, Catcher in the Rye and Catch 22 being 2 of the others!

[blurredman]

[to v or not to v]

Myths and legends of the Celtic people.
it helps pass the time on the loo.
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[to v or not to v]

Peter Temples Jack Irish series.

Australian crime drama. once you get used to the lingo these are very enjoyable books.
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current bike Yamaha Thunderace.
its old and fat, but its a damned good ride. the bikes not bad either.

[hellkat]

I''m reading The 48 Laws of Power. Picked it up by mistake on Amazon.
Fascinating.
I'm only up to about law number 13, but its the first book in years that I have underlined phrases to remind myself about things I've read
I almost never desecrate books any more, but I had to!
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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[hellkat]

[chickenstrip]

The life of Julius Caesar...again.
Wish I could afford some new books!
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