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What book is everyone reading at the moment?

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Adventures on the High Teas: In Search of Middle England by Stuart Maconie.

By turns amusing, educational and infuriating.

Must look out for a copy of his Pies and Prejudice: In Search of the North. Oh, and his Cider with Roadies is a good read too.
 
Just finished The City & The City by China Miehville; excellent job as usual. Clever premise; two distinct cities occupying the same space...Each "unseen" (by cultural convention) by the other...

Just started reading the Second Chronicles Of Amber again after many years. I've read through the first series several times, but it occurred to me I hadn't read the sequel for many years. Forgot a bunch....
 
The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr. Even though I grew up during the detente period of the cold war, I'm still amazed at how dickish and downright immoral the FBI under Hoover was allowed to be in the name of "national security".
 
The Terror by Dan Simmons. Started reading it in the summer but it was too warm to get in the mood. Picked it up again when it got colder and it's great now.
 
I'm just finishing up Emissaries from the Dead by Adam Troy-Castro. An smart, intense sci-fi murder mystery with AIs, engineered lifeforms, and transhumanist politics. Pretty good.
 
a3sigma said:
Stephenson is right there with Umberto Eco among my favorite living authors. I'm presently reading his Baroque Cycle.

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That should keep you quiet for a couple of weeks. I was a tad concerned that Enoch Root might appear in "Anathem", but no. It's a very different story from the Baroque novels- a parallel / multiple universe based story of first contact- except that the aliens are humans. As is everyone else.

I enjoyed it.
 
Just finished Huxley's Brave New World

Now re-reading Daniel Suarez's excellent book Daemon as a refresher before starting the sequel Freedom.
 
Soapy Sam said:
That should keep you quiet for a couple of weeks. I was a tad concerned that Enoch Root might appear in "Anathem", but no. It's a very different story from the Baroque novels- a parallel / multiple universe based story of first contact- except that the aliens are humans. As is everyone else.

I enjoyed it.
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Have you read Crytonomicon? That's his best, IMO.

DC
 
I'm reading the Dexter books by Jeff Lindsay. I haven't seen the TV show that was apparently based on the first book. They're not bad, pretty quick reading.
 
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I'm reading the Dexter books by Jeff Lindsay. I haven't seen the TV show that was apparently based on the first book. They're not bad, pretty quick reading.
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I read the first one. Haven't got to any of the others yet.

The series does diverge from the book, so there are still some suprises if you choose to watch it.
 
hcmom said:
I'm reading the Dexter books by Jeff Lindsay. I haven't seen the TV show that was apparently based on the first book. They're not bad, pretty quick reading.
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I've just started those too. I have seen the TV show, so the first book is familiar. I'm looking forward to what happens in the later books compared to how in goes in the TV show.

Also reading The Year of the Flood - Margaret Atwood.
 
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"Don't sleep, there are snakes" by Daniel Everett. It's been mentioned a few times on these forums so I bought it last week. It's an interesting read although some of the later chapters on linguistics have made me very sleepy!
 
"The Amazing Mr. Fox". It's taking me a couple of weeks to slug through it, but that's okay. It says on the cover 6-8 Years!
 
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