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What book is everyone reading at the moment?

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Just finished By Heresies Distressed (David Weber) due to leaving it in a different country while travelling on business, and starting Hitler's War (Harry Turtledove).

Heresies is an excellent mix of good characters, good plot, action and some interesting musings on religion and gender (the principal character is female, in a male body, and the last human who remembers Earth).

Hitler's War is another Turtledove alternate history; what if WW2 started a year early?
 
I'm reading José Saramago's book Blindness, about a case of blindness that becomes inexplicably contagious, spreading as an epidemic around an unnamed city.

It's simply tremendous, showing that it is still the simplest ideas that turn out to be the most brilliant.

Anyone else read this?
 
African Creeks I have Been Up by Sue Spencer

Life in Africa for rutile miner's wife and three sons in the mid-late 50s.
 
Undesired Walrus said:
I'm reading José Saramago's book Blindness, about a case of blindness that becomes inexplicably contagious, spreading as an epidemic around an unnamed city.

It's simply tremendous, showing that it is still the simplest ideas that turn out to be the most brilliant.

Anyone else read this?
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My wife read it and loved it, but her copy was in Spanish, and I only recently dug up a copy in English which I haven't yet read. Looking forward to it, though.

right now, I'm reading Augusten Burroughs's Sellavision, a very funny if somewhat wacky soap operatic take on TV shopping networks.
 
Undesired Walrus said:
I'm reading José Saramago's book Blindness, about a case of blindness that becomes inexplicably contagious, spreading as an epidemic around an unnamed city.

It's simply tremendous, showing that it is still the simplest ideas that turn out to be the most brilliant.

Anyone else read this?
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Certainly, excellent read indeed. I found very creative the fact that it is a "luminous" white blindness, not a dark one.
 
Chris Brookmyre "Attack of the unsinkable rubber ducks" with a dedication to Randi and Dawson. At a thinly disguised Glasgow University a psychic is working to establish a dept of woo in the faculty of science. I think one of his best and very funny.
 
Bikewer said:
I just got a copy of China Miehville's new one, The City & The City.

Very good so far. Miehville is very good at constructing interesting places, and this one is fascinating. Two cities in middle Europe that just happen to occupy the same place. Residents of one, by mutual consensus, "unsee" the other, and do not react at all to residents, buildings, or whatever of the other.
Causes some interesting problems....
I'm only about 100 pages in so far.
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Ya I really appreciated the originality of his premise - and his execution avoided the pitfalls I was bracing for.

I still think I'm going to have to re-read it one day but definitely well worth the effort!
 
tomwaits said:
Hahaha...I couldn't agree more. I did end up finishing God Emperor and started on Heretics...but I eventually thought "why am I doing this?" and I switched to something else.
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Ok - so I havent read ANY of the Dune books or seen the movie. I know - weird eh?

So I want to read the first book - should I stop there or are the 2nd and 3rd ones worth it too?
 
Praktik said:
Ok - so I havent read ANY of the Dune books or seen the movie. I know - weird eh?

So I want to read the first book - should I stop there or are the 2nd and 3rd ones worth it too?
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The first is awesome. The next two aren't bad as such, they're okay books bt I don't re-read them nor could I find myself able to read more than a couple of chapters of later books.
 
Ok I will go one through three then!

It really looks like just my kind of world: dark, grim, ruthless, lots of political intrigue - and a fantastic setting.
 
Praktik said:
Ok - so I havent read ANY of the Dune books or seen the movie. I know - weird eh?

So I want to read the first book - should I stop there or are the 2nd and 3rd ones worth it too?
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The first is one of the two best sci-fi novels ever. The second is okay, worth reading but nothing special. The third... well... I got 10 pages in, set it aside and never picked it up again.
On that note, the second of the two best sci-fi novels ever is what I'm reading now: Dan Simmons' Hyperion.
 
Yes - after a recent wedding we gathered afterwards to keep the party going and I was regaled by pretty much the entire plot of the first book by a very enthusiastic lover of the book.

Luckily I was hammered so I dont remember all the details except that it sounded cool.

Same dude revealed the entire plot of Moon to the party as well, but I had already seen it so no biggie.
 
Wudang said:
Chris Brookmyre "Attack of the unsinkable rubber ducks" with a dedication to Randi and Dawson. At a thinly disguised Glasgow University a psychic is working to establish a dept of woo in the faculty of science. I think one of his best and very funny.
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I've got to stop reading this thread. Every time I do, my pile of books to read grows.
 
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