CUK Book Club: Currently reading...

[NotAllThere]

Is this really the most recent Currently Reading thread?

Three Body Problem, by Liu Cixin - seriously hard science fiction, set in China.

[Lance]

“Stories of the Law and How It's Broken”

By The Secret Barrister....
Not quite a legal text book, but it’s made of text (and paper), and about the law....

[sasguru]

The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes. For the second time. Possibly the finest non-fiction book of recent times.

[Gibbon]

For books that I really like though I always want my own copy, either for re-reading, referring back to etc. A wood-pannelled library with wall to wall books, leather loungers, a snooker table and some good quality port are what is required...one day.

You're missing the Swedish au pair, otherwise perfecto.

[Old Greg]

“Stories of the Law and How It's Broken”

By The Secret Barrister....
Not quite a legal text book, but it’s made of text (and paper), and about the law....

That was a really good book.

I have the flu so have been reading post apocalyptic trash:

The Last by Hanna Jameson - set in a Swiss Hotel immediately after nuclear war

Last ones left alive by Sarah Davis-Goff - set in Ireland a generation or so after a zombie apocalypse.

[DoctorStrangelove]

The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes. For the second time. Possibly the finest non-fiction book of recent times.

To be followed by "Dark Sun" by Richard Rhodes, being a tale of how the super got made when Teller's ideas didn't work.

"The Mitrokhin Archive", being a tale of KGB naughtiness. Off to Oxfam it went.*

"Hitler's Spy Chief" (i.e. Admiral Canaris). Off to Oxfam it went.

"A Bright Shining Lie" being a history of the Vietnam War and how the Septics fecked it up. Off to Oxfam it went.

"The Mighty Micro" being a future history of the present as predicted by a chap in 1978 (also a tv series of the same name which might be found on youtube). I think that one is still here somewhere.

"Silicon Civilisation" being a 1980 book about the early years of semiconductors and the microprocessor, it seems like a very very very long time ago now, being pre IBM PC & XT.

Not forgetting "Lady Death: the memoirs of Stalin's Sniper". Like it says. She was at the siege of Stalingrad. Still haven't actually read that, it's now on a different shelf.


Oh, how this thread brings back memories of a different, happier time, when the forum was infested with Daleks and assorted other aliens and no one had heard of the B word.

Long long ago, and far far away, they did things differently then.



Inneresting factoid: two of the three who "liked" this post are now banned. .

*There's another copy (ex library) of the The Mitrokhin Archive: the one I disposed of was a paperback. I don't think I'll bother reading the 2nd copy: the first time through was tedious enough.

[BrilloPad]

CJ Sansom - Shardlake series

[BR14]

I'm currently plowing my way through REAMDE <again> to refresh my memory before i tackle FALL.
I do like Neal Stephenson's books.

[Zigenare]

BYTE : Programmer's Cookbook - DOS

Rescued from a lab clearout. Mode X.... Mmmmmmmm

[Halo Jones]

Currently redoing the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan on book 5 of 13