CUK Book Club: Currently reading...

[sadkingbilly]

rereading* the 'zones of thought' trilogy by Vernor Vinge.
should keep me going for a while

*cos I can't find any decent new Science Fiction. it all seems to be rehashes of old ideas. even the steampunk genre's become a sausage machine

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: Lions donkeys & dinosaurs by Lewis Page: the impressive story of the MOD & their endless wasting of money.

Done. He's really unimpressed with BAE & who can blame him? Equally unimpressed with the MOD.

And quite why the armed forces are so top heavy is a mystery wrapped up in an enigma.

Next: "Things can only get better" by John o'Farrell being a memoir of the glories of the Ditch the Bitch era.

[vetran]

Just started on my Terry Pratchett collection again..... Sadly missed genius.

I have converted them to audiobooks and when I have a long drive I can enjoy them.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "All our Todays": 40 years of the Today programme by Paul Donovan. Really up to the moment stuff. written in 1997. .

Done. It became quite tedious towards the end.

Lots of vaguely remembered names. 1997 being a long time ago, like. . I have no recollection whatever of Anna Ford being a presenter on Today.

Next: "Dirty Words" by Mark Morton. Dunno how this one will go, it being about etymology.

[Lockhouse]

As a huge fan of American Noir I really loved The Contortionist’s Handbook by Craig Clevenger. A cross between Chuch Pahlaniuk and James Ellroy. Top recommended reading list in the appendices too.

Just starting on The Shards by Brett Easton Ellis - been looking forward to this for ages, it's his first book in over ten years.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Things can only get better" by John o'Farrell being a memoir of the glories of the Ditch the Bitch era.

Done. It must be said that "better" needs to be defined betterer. .

Next: "An utterly impartial history of Britain" by John O'Farrell.

Moderately amusing: I've got as far as 1066 and the Norman bastards since I woke at 05:58 and read for an hour before returning to the land of nod.

[The Green View]

George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman. The first book in the series.

Just finished Tom Brown's Schooldays (which actually doesn't have a lot of Flashman & his bullying antics in it) so seemed a logical choice.

[ladymuck]

The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto by Bernard DeVolo

One man's highly opinionated (and tongue-in-cheek) view that there is only one type of cocktail worth having - a martini. It must be made a certain way and drunk at a certain hour. Anything else is an abomination, especially if it contains rum.

[woohoo]

The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto by Bernard DeVolo

One man's highly opinionated (and tongue-in-cheek) view that there is only one type of cocktail worth having - a martini. It must be made a certain way and drunk at a certain hour. Anything else is an abomination, especially if it contains rum.

What's his opinion of whiskey drinkers?

[ladymuck]

What's his opinion of whiskey drinkers?

Mixed!