CUK Book Club: Currently reading...

[DoctorStrangelove]

"The Second Sleep" by Robert Harris, being an alternate future epic along the lines of the first part of "A Canticle for Liebowitz" by Walter Miller.

Pretty good though the ending is a bit underwhelming.
<spoiler>
Apparently we've got until 2025 before we're all doomed, doomed I tell ye, doomed!

It's them artifacts with the bitten apple wot dun it.

[AtW]

Survival Manual

[BR14]

Survival Manual

you need an automatic, mate.

[DoctorStrangelove]

you need an automatic, mate.

Doesn't matter what it is if you can't hit what you're shooting at.

[cojak]

Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed The World.

[shaunbhoy]

Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie

[ladymuck]

Snake Oil and Other Preoccupations by John Diamond

[Lockhouse]

Coming Up For Air - George Orwell. Nostalgia writ large.

[DoctorStrangelove]

"The British Car Industry: Our part in its downfall" by James Ruppert.

The British Car Industry: Our Part in Its Downfall: Amazon.co.uk: James Ruppert: 9780955952906: Books

Describes in painful detail the tulipe cars we used to make in this country and few rather good ones. (Rover P4 and P5/P5B, P6/P6B).

[woohoo]

I'm reading the The Mortal Word (The Invisible Library series Book 5). I've liked all of the books in this series and same for this one, easy read.

I'm desperate to find some great sci-fi or fantasy books. I think I've gone through most of them.