CUK Book Club: Currently reading...

[NotAllThere]

Notre Dame de Paris (English translation). I may be some time!

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "The Revolt in 2100" by R. A. Heinlein. I think this is the last of the Future History short stories in my collection since I don't have "Universe".

Done! At long last! Off to Oxfam with it!.

Next: "Methuselah's Children (1958)" by R. A. Heinlein. Let's hope this one progresses more quickly than the last.

It hasn't: still stalled 4/10/25.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "The Stainless Steel Rat" by Harry Harrison (1961).

The birth of the .75 recoilless. .

Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge" by H. Harrison (1970).

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "The Complete (or Compleat) Robot" by I. Asimov.

As it transpires a fair few of these stories appeared in "Nightfall I&II" so can be skipped as being much too familiar to bother with again.

The Susan Calvin stories seem to have stuck for the moment.

Interested to see a mention of her in "Robbie" which was written in 1940.

Then again "Liar" was written in 1941.

Done: off to Oxfam with it!

Next: "The Bicentennial Man" by I. Asimov. As it transpires, a fair few of these stories appeared in "The Complete Robot" and thusly may be skipped as being too familiar to bother with again*.

*Aside from that I probably have to look up which ones appeared where & when & any back references cause the positronic pathways to fuse a bit.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "The Bicentennial Man" by I. Asimov. As it transpires, a fair few of these stories appeared in "The Complete Robot" and thusly may be skipped as being too familiar to bother with again*.

*Aside from that I probably have to look up which ones appeared where & when & any back references cause the positronic pathways to fuse a bit.

Done: off to Oxfam with it. Not a stunningly inneresting collection it must be said. "Waterclap" was a bit prescient.

Next: "Neutron Star" by L. Niven.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge" by H. Harrison (1970).

Done: off to Oxfam with it.

Next: "The Stainless Steel Rat wants you" by H. Harrison (1978).

Stalled.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Next: "Neutron Star" by L. Niven.

Done: off to Oxfam with it. Bye bye Beowulf Shaeffer. It's a looooong time since first we met. .

Next: "Limits" by L. Niven. More short stories, some fantasy, some SF. The Draco Tavern ones are good: in particular "The Green Marauder"* where a billion year old alien remembers the Terran civilisation before the green scum poisoned the atmosphere with oxygen killing the natives.


*This, of course, is the one I remember: the rest had vanished from memory as if they had never been. Remarkably like The Postman from Hiroshima who featured, as it transpired, in an Alfred Bester short story.

[Stevep42]

I’m reading The Night Circus at the moment, and I’m really enjoying it. The way Morgenstern describes the circus and the characters is so vivid that I find myself lingering on the pages, even when I only meant to read a little before bed. It’s one of those books that’s hard to put down once you get into it, but I like that, it’s a nice escape after a long day.

[ladymuck]

I've got a lot of books I've read and kept for nostalgic reasons but I'm thinking maybe I should reread and then donate them. However there's stories like Clive Barker's Weaveworld and Raymond E Feist's Magician that I'm not sure I could part with.

I'm also having a hankering for a big Terry Pratchett reread but there's a lot of them, and I donated my collection many years ago, so maybe I'd be better off getting them as ebooks.

[DoctorStrangelove]

I've got a lot of books I've read and kept for nostalgic reasons

This way madness lies: for some reason I've been looking at abandoned houses on FB and seeing so many mouldering books is upsetting.

Plus there're far too many books (and dvds) in here, not to mention all the obsolete electronic crap.

Anyone want two Racal RA17 receivers and a Murphy B40?

No?

Thought not.

Can't even get someone to take the 55kg of circuit diagrams & manuals. Ho hum.