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I' currently reading: Comm Check...: The Final Flight of Shuttle Columbia

...and then after I have: Space Race

...got both for Christmas!

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Velocity by Dean Koontz - prolly the best thriller I've ever read.

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Last 5 books I read:-

1) Life and time of Oscar Wilde
2) Uncle Toms Cabin
3) Catcher in the Rye
4) Playboy Annual
5) The Shankill Butchers

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The Chronicles of Narnia - Voyage of the Dawn Treader

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Bit of a bump:

I am reading "The Golden Compass", part of Phillip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy.

TBH, I don't know if I can be bothered to finish it. Seems pointless so far.

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Schon, D.A. 1987 Educating the reflective practitioner :disturbd:

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Thud... Terry Pratchett

As the last (so far) of the Guards series of Discworld books, having read the previous ones in order one after the other.

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Well theorectically you are reading a children's book...so you can't be blamed for not enjoying it.;)

By the way folks if anyone suggests you read Historian don't bother..All you are getting is a mishmash remake of Bram Stokes Dracula in the typically stodgy way that Stoker wrote.I had to force myself to finish it because it was a present.

Now the present giver is rising to the challenge of reading it all the way through..with any luck he'll never buy me a book again.When I say I want perfume I mean it...:mad:

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Excellent, if a little confusing towards the end....:)

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The reason I am reading it is several adult friends did, and said it was very enjoyable..

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I am just getting near the end and will try to clarify (if my understanding will cope) :D

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good book that

:tu:

and it directly influenced the sociological thinking of the labour government's manifest in the post world war two period which is a far cry from the bunch of sheisters that are using that banner at this present time

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I am going over head first java, to get my head round java again.
and a body language book.

ik

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C# Complete
by Sybex ;)

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To keep with the holidays :D

The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse by Robert Rankin.

A strange tale of Toy City where all the Nursery Rhyme Characters are being murdered in bizarre and appropriate ways and at every crime scene a hollow chocolate bunny is left behind. [img]Download Failed (1)[/img]

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"Experience as the source of learning and development" ........spare a thought for me as you all read your interesting& entertaining fiction:cry:

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this thread :disturbd:

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Shall I tell you who did it???? :)

Thought that book was good.

Most recently I have read (amongst others) 3 books by Richard Morgan, Altered Carbon, Broken Angels and Woken Furies - 3 good books - though not so keen on the last one - set in the future where the human mind can be downloaded and loaded back into a new body - known as re-sleeving.

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Flirty text messages.

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'Bio-Strike'

a 'Tom Clancy's Powerplays' series novel, from Oxfam for £1.99

- a superbug is spread, but waits to be 'triggered', cause, cure or highest bidder, type drama.....

at this price, who cares who wins ;)

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Just read "The Not Knowing" by Cathy Unsworth. A little predictable, but wellwritten and a nice and easy holiday read. Also "A Few Kind Words And A Loaded Gun", the autobiography of Razor Smith, an armed robber. Actually a very good read.

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The Rock Says...

WWF Autobiography of The Rock, with Joe Layden.

Then I plan to read the Kurt Angle autobiography again.

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I am half through The next accident.... a great book by Lisa Gardner

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I just bought The Dark Tower 1 - The Gunslinger... About to make a start on that.

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am abit further than Dilly am ready The Dark Tower IV : Wizards and Glass a great series

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just finished reading a certain well known book about a search for some sort of religious cup type object

after all the rave reviews and stuff i didn't think it was very well written although the story itself is

i won't be getting any of his other books and as the film is meant to be a direct word for word copy of the book i don't think i will be watching that either

am now reading Tour De Force about the 2004 Tour De France

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Currently reading Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy (A Trilogy in 4 parts) :D

4 Great books :D

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Have you got the last part seperately then? My copy has all five books in it :)

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yeah the fifth is Mostly Harmless although as this was a while after the others

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Havent got Mostly Harmless, possibly may buy it in the future however as ive enjoyed everything ive read so far and want more!

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I am reading a series of books by Karin Slaughter, fantastic author and there are 5 in this series, I am on book 2 at the moment. If you like a good crime story these are for you :)

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No promises and all that but I will see if I still have my paperback copy about - which you are more than welcome to.

As I said I've got in my all in one thingy.

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You did better than me.I read half of the first chapter and then threw the book in the bin.:erm:

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I'm reading 'Judas Unchained' - the second part in the Commonwealth Saga, by Peter Hamilton - it's a weighty read with each book 1200+ pages, much on a par with his previous 'Nights Dawn Trilogy' - good read so far, good Sci Fi

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Bad Twin by Gary Troup (or is it Steven King or is it???)

The manuscript found on the Beach in "Lost".

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I haven't read a novel for a long time, but want to find one.... I like John Grisham, and a bit of Chris Ryan (although it all tends to be fairly samey)

anyone got any recommendations??

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Lee Child's Jack Reacher novels?

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I love that.I'm saving up the sequel to Pandora's Star for the summer hols.

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It's just a shame some of his other books are such pants - the Greg Mandel series, in my opinion was rubbish, misspent youth, boring. Fallen dragon was good though...

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HAve just been reading the novelization of Superman Returns. A really fantastic story. Can't wait to see the movie.

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My bills! They always have a sad ending :bigcry:

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I just got both 'Pandora's Star' & 'Judas Unchained' with the Amazon voucher Cable Forum kindly sent me when they said I had won the sweep, when I, actually, didn't - thanks to both of you :tu:

The books are, each, nearly 5cm thick :Yikes:

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If you like them, try the nights dawn trilogy (Reality Dysfunction, Neutronium Alchemist, The Naked God) - excellent read, let down a little by the ending - but well worth the effort - again 5cm thick, if not more...)

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I would second Coggy with jack reacher

Just finishing an old michael moorcocks Von bek myself

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Yep Moorcocks albino hero Elric is well worth a read..

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:dozey: Do you like moorcock then.? :D



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:bsmack:

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Any of William Gibson, a bit of sci-fi that has some future possibillities

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My fave sf authors are
John Scalzi - Old Man's War
S.M. Stirling - "Dies The Fire" trilogy
John Varley (especially the Titan trilogy)
Robert Heinlein (except some of his later self-indulgent stuff)
Larry Niven (especially "The Mote in God's Eye" and "Lucifer's Hammer")
Joe Haldeman (especially the Forever War series)
Peter Hamilton (space opera, but done well in imho)
Ken McLeod (communist anarchist science fiction - unusual)
Spider Robinson
Allen Steele
Neil Asher
Richard Morgan

For non-SF, I read
Lee Child (Jack Reacher)
Tom Clancy
Harlan Coben
Jonathan Coe
David Baldacci
Robert Crais
Matthew Reilly
John Sandford
Bill Bryson
Al Franken
Stephen Ambrose

and anything by Terry Pratchett :D

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What am I reading ...... tv guide ;)

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I read the prequel and the sequel - very much the same :D

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Haven't got time..busy working and doing stuff for Christmas(like cleaning the house).Anyway can't find anything I want to read at the moment.:erm:

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Robert Harris, especially Archangel & Fatherland...

Fantastic atmospheric thrillers, Archangel set in post cold war Russia & Fatherland in 1960's Germany after their victory in WW II...

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My latest talking book is Night of the Triffids... Which I've read before, bit was well worth a revisit.

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Reading Hogfather before it's showing on Sky One so I can see how well they've ported it to the screen. :)

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just finished andy mcnab recoil, :tu:

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Good point, well made, Shaun - prompted me to do the same :tu:

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After years of wanting to pick up the books but not actually doing, I finally achieved my goal of doing just that and I am half way through!

I'm talking about the Terry Pratchett Discworld novels, of which, I have begun reading the first novel - the Colour of Magic.

Hilariously funny :D I'm told they get better too.

For anyone thats interested, Waterstones are doing a 3 for 2 on his books. And secondly, my tip top Christmas gift for the serious readers out there:

http://www.lightwedge.com/

Which can be bought in two sizes - hardback and paperback. I bought the paperback version from:

http://www.seriousreaders.com/

Its extremely handy for reading in bed while the missus is trying to get some sleep! And it seconds as a bookmark.

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The Sky 1 version is approved by Terry so should be good especially as it nearly 4 hours long they should get the story in properly.

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If you enjoyed that one, i'm sure you will enjoy the whole lot of them :D

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I've no doubts :D

Anyone else see the interview with Terry Pratchett that was on a week or so ago? Was interesting. The Colour of Magic is his least favourite book and admits himself that as he has improved in his writing skills, its reflected in the books. They get better as you get through the novels. Which is great! Because the first one is superb!! :D

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Am about to start reading 'Marley and Me; Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog' by John Grogan. Have been told not to read the last few chapters in public... :bigcry:

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Just finnished reading Pratchetts monstrous regiment.

And before that I was reading assorted Stephen king short stories.

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I just got all the Harry Potter books unabridged so that's going to be a while listening to them all :)

To be followed by all the Dune books in audio as well :)

Rounded off by a briefer history of time...

p.s. I did get the Dresden files - but not too sure about them yet.

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I'm reading "The Last Man" by Mary Shelley - I wanted to read it before the film comes out.

Before that, I read her more famous book "Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus". Both were written more than 170 years ago, so some of the language is a bit hard-going, but its well worth persevering.

Oh, and both are available as free downloads from Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page).

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Apart from this thread :disturbd:

The Day After Roswell (A Former Pentagon Official Reveals the U.S. Government's Shocking UFO Cover-Up) by Colonel Philip Corso

http://www.amazon.com/Day-After-Rosw.../dp/067101756X

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You Don't Have to be Evil to Work Here, But if you are it Helps! Tom Holt.

The latest saga featuring J W Wells & Co. :D

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Robert B. Parker books - working my way through his "Jesse Stone" and "Spenser" series.

Just finished Wildfire by Nelson DeMille.

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Jurassic Park and The Lost World, Panic, Peter Kay Autobiography, World According to Clarkson 1&2

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I want to get Courtney Love's book Dirty Blonde, but I think it's cooler talking to her online, heehee! hence inspired by her and the other guys and gals on moonwashedrose.com I am reading Live Better - Meditation. :)

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I'm just reading Fatherland now (well, not right now, but you know what I mean). Fascinating book, although the matter of fact way that life under Nazi rule is described is rather disturbing (intentionally so, I think).

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King Rat by China Mieville.

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Hopefully i will be reading "Unweaving the rainbow" by Richard Dawkins soon enough, anyone here read it?

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IT - Stephen king...
37 cassettes apparently. Should take a while ;)

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Stephen king
Heart in Atlantis.
Have liked all his books so far

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breaking open the head - daniel pinchbeck

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My personal best is the unabridged 'The Stand'

Not got it on talking book yet though.

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Have just re read that .
Was as good this time as the last

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Yup I'd love to 'read' it again, the trouble is that with something the length of that (and lets be honest most of his books ;) it becomes prohibitive to record onto tape. As it's so expensive to sell it.

Ah well - they did 'IT' maybe they'll do that.

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Just finished "Grass". Very well written, and well worth a read

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Grass-Mainst.../dp/1840188928

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I'm currently reading:

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2007/03/39.jpg

It was to be one of the most ambitious operations since 617 Squadron bounced their revolutionary bombs into the dams of the Ruhr Valley in 1943 . . .

When Argentine forces invaded the Falklands in the early hours of 2 April 1982, Britain’s military chiefs were faced with a real-life Mission Impossible.Its opening shot, they decided, would be Operation BLACK BUCK: to strike a body blow at the occupying army, and make them realize that nothing was safe – not even Buenos Aires . . .

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Hope you don't mind me joining in, really enjoyed reading this thread, also to see some of my favourite authors being mentioned.....I'm an avid Sci-Fi and Fantasy fan...but have read over the years all sorts of books........anybody ever read Stranger in a Strange Land, think that was Heinlein, not so sure now, how about The Synthetic Man by Theodore Sturgeon...I loved that, it was also published under the title of The Dreaming Jewels...it was a really good story...the jewels were little alien creatures who liked to dream and when they did, they created something beautiful, if they dreamed near a tree, they copied the tree, that was fine, then a rather nasty character found out about these little creatures and caught some and started torturing them........and the story starts to get more complicated, loads of twist and turns, lots of strange characters in it, as it takes place in a carnival traveling around America, one of my favourite authors now is Robin Hobb....The Farseer Trilogy, The Tawny Man all six books follow on...The Madship Traders is set in the same land, but a different story, but all these three trilogies I can really recommend....The first..The Farseer Trilogy is about a little boy called Fitz with an ability to communicate with animals, which is looked on as evil, and if found out he will be executed, he is of royal blood of the house of Farseer, and is taken in by them and brought up by one of them and trained to be an assassin.....and so on...all sorts happen in it, dragons, war, a lovely character called Nighteyes who's a wolf, and Fitz's companionship with this animal and also loads of royal intrigue, these books are well worth reading....The Madship Traders, is brilliant......a very unusual story that will never bore you, right through the three books, I didn't want it to come to an end, so I read all of them again, and I won't part with them :)

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'mind' you joining in, any forum wouldn't survive if people didn't - so thanks :tu:

Stranger in a Strange Land is Heinlein, yes, but while he had many good ideas, I was never quite happy with the portrayal of women in his books - not as blatant as John Norman, but still there, in my opinion???

I'm more a sci-fi fan, than 'fantasy', for want of a better word, although I loved the Julian May 'Saga of the Exiles'

- which brings me to my final point, which isn't aimed at you in any way, but I got seriously put off by the proliferation of trilogies and more in Sci-Fi /Fantasy writing, so don't read as much as I used to :)

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Know what you mean Gaz. :mad: Just finished reading Maelstrom by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (book 2 of the Petabey series) wonderfully written but got to the end only to find the story far from finished. :grind:

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David Hall biography of Fred Dibnah
Dipping in:
Clive Aslet - Landmarks of Britain
Nigel Rees - 6000 curious and everyday phrases explained

and Micro Mart. :)


DW

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Marian Keyes - Angels

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Because my dad was in the RAF we got based at Mildenhall - which allowed me access to the USAF library - anything in a yellow jacket was Sci-Fi & there was loads of yellow jackets (Gollanz?)

I'm sure it was there I read stuff like Hal Clement 'Mission of Gravity', which was intense, but only took about ½ an hour to read ;)

My current book, giving the lie to my hate of more than a single volume, is Pierre Hamilton's 'Judas Unchained' - which is part 2 :D

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I enjoyed The Tripods trilogy (i'm going to try and ignore the 'preguel')....

I've only read Dune 1 - but have just got all of the on talking book so will no doubt make a start on that soon.

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pentapods pentology

hexapods hexology

- no, no not 'that' decology ;)

and next will be Dan Brown 'Angels and Demons' :)

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I read five Michael Connelly "Harry Bosch" crime thrillers last week (nothing else to do while in France lol).

Top stuff :tu:

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Tom Holt - The portable door.

very funny and a little odd.

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Yes, your both right..Gaz and Angua, about the trilogies, I'm up to my eyes in them, I've bought the Twins of Petaybee books but not started them yet, I've also got Tad Williams "Otherland" I've tried the first one "City of Golden Shadow" but given up at the moment, I found it a bit hard going, but I will go back to it, I enjoyed his "War of the Flowers" and I've just read Tery Goodkinds "Wizards First Rule" and debating whether to start the next one "Stone of Tears" I'm surrounded by books, loads I've read and loads I haven't, I'm going to have to get rid of some, or there will be no room for me, I've got a lot of Stephen King, anybody ever read "The Talisman" and the follow up "Black House" with Peter Straub, very good, very strange, The Talisman reminds me a little bit of the "Dark Tower Series"..I've got a few of Clive Barker.."Weaveworld" and "Imagica" and "Arabat"..How about Dean Koontz, I've got some of his.....but one of my real favourites was a short novella by Ray Bradbury called "The April Witch" he is a fantastic story teller, I read that in the Galaxy Magazine years and years ago, I bet the mags no longer in print, anybody read any of Greg Bear...the one I've read I think was called Eon..about a meteor...that wasn't a meteor and it opened a portal to another world filled with non-corporeal beings...it was a very clever story. If anyone is interested, I'll list a few of the others I've got a bit at a time, I'll probably bore you all to tears...I just love my books.....cheers Dottie

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dottie, I could never get into 'Weaveworld' Clive Barker, etc, but loved Theodore Sturgeon 'More than Human', and all the gestalt stuff - however check out Brian Aldiss' 'Hothouse' , one of my favourites :)

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The Talisman is a gret a book but I thought the follow up was very weak as it just seemed to merge into the Dark Tower series and be a plug for that.

I loved the Dark Tower series until I got to the end and then thought it was a total waste of 7 books and all that money

won't mention what happens in case others are still reading

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Now reading Silver Screen by Justina Robson...Will let you know more when I've finished it.Interesting so far...but completely differeant from the first book I read by her.which was an enchanting little story about demons.elves,fairies,humans and ghosts but set in a futuristic world of voids and nuclear bombs.Sizzled with sexual tension and had a great sex scene...not many SF writers do good sex...including Anne McCaffery.;)

What's that?The title? Keeping it Real.

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The Rapture - by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B Jenkins, the final prequel in the Left Behind series.

A bit disappointing as it doesn't explain one or two things which are taken for granted in the rest of the series, such as how the antichrist came about his hypnotic power. It gives an interesting description of heaven and gives a greater insight in to some of the supporting characters so it's not all bad. For a series which has sold more than 60 million and repeatedly topped the New York Times bestseller list, it's not the best in the series.

6/10.

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Loved "More than Human"...one of my favourites, I read that in serial form in the Galaxy Magazine, the waiting for each episode was nail biting......and I've read "Hothouse" I always think of that book when they talk about the greenhouse effect, quite fancied riding on a giant (can't remember if it was a dragonfly or spider but it was something very strange) remind me Gaz, I might try and get hold of that book again, I was in my twenties when I read that....I'll look for "The Rapture".....and I'll also look for "Keeping it Real" and that reminds me a bit of "The War of the Flowers " by Tad Williams and "The Autumn Castle" by Kim
Wilkins, anybody read any of Anne Rice....the Vampire Storys....and I'm just looking at Philip P Dick at the moment trying to decide to try and have a go..."A Scanner Darkly" and "Ubik"...How about the Mythago Novels by Robert Holstock.....the first is Mythago Wood....very creepy, I wouldn't won't to walk in those woods, it's deftinitely not a teddy bears tea party....and James Herbert "Once"...not at all nice those fairies in that, I'm doing it again..rabbiting on

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am reading Dirty Blonde by Courtney Love. :D a little easier to read than her posts on the internet!.. loads of pictures, doodles & ramblings. very ambitious from an early age. bless her. :tu:

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If you like Peter Hamilton (and I assume you've read the "Night's Dawn" trilogy), I can recommend Richard Morgan books, especially the Takeshi Kovacs series (they are linked, but not a trilogy) -Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, and Woken Furies.


I am more into "hard" SF, so my favourite authors are -
Larry Niven
Allen Steele
John Varley
Charlie Stross
Ken McLeod
Joe Haldeman
and a few others, but I have gone one for long enough now....:)

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Give a Scanner Darkly a go..it's worth it.Dick is the one of the very best of SF writers and his work just doesn't date.It's a tragedy that he died in his prime and before his genius was recognised.In fact after HG Wells I can't think of another SF author who has had more of his books turned into films ( badly done in some cases).

I've just been persuaded to give the Mythago Woods books away to a good home by my husband...Thinking I should be giving him away to a good home instead now.;)

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No I haven't read 'Night's Dawn' - Peter Hamilton is a fairly recent discovery for me - the Pandora's Star/Judas Unchained books I bought from Amazon as a result of winning the 'guess the sum of the lottery balls' competition, that was run on here :)

- I'll keep an eye out, though, thanks :tu:

- couple I'm not familiar with in your list of authors, as well, but I definitely agree with Larry Niven & can in my turn recommend Robert L. Forward (Dragons Egg & The Flight of the Dragonfly, especially) - and also Fred Pohl :)