Read any good books?

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Reading Killing Hope by Keith Houghton and in the first few chapters there's a character vaping!  A few chapters on and there's someone adding nic to lemonade - the mind boggles.

[Phoenix .]

I am always up for reading a new author of crime novels. Never read him, will get it from my library.
At the moment I am reading Linwood Barclay 'A tap on the Window' very good so far.

[Super-Shiny]

Yep, always the last page

[Perpetua]

The Chronicles of Super-Shiny ( Vaping Legend in his own lifetime ) . . . I find an absorbing read SS.

[dickyg]

Anything by Simon Kernick is a winner. Although yet to have any vaping in them.

[barrynorton]

Not usually my genre, but I did read yesterday Robert Harris' 'The Fear Index', swapped for Pychon's 'Bleeding Edge' with a colleague, and it was excellent. No vaping though.

Just (re-)read Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake trilogy as MadAddam came out. Currently reading more SciFi in form of Madeline Ashby's 'iD' as the one before was pretty good, even though it was just an impulse purchase at Saint Pancras (together with Chuck Wendig's 'Mockingbirds' and 'Blackbird' which were... ok, and Ken McLeod's 'Intrusion', which was amazing).

Also reading Alice Albinia's 'Leela's Book', since I got it for free with John Lanchester's 'The Debt to Pleasure' and Sue Pebbles 'The Death of Lionel Friel' at this awesome place in Tufnell Park where you can just go in and pick up three books for free.

I also just started another John Lanchester that I got last weekend, together with Don DeLillo's awesome 'Cosmopolis' (which I read on the spot), at the Oxfam bookstore in Sheffield because I found a fiver on the street outside (should I admit that? I gave it to charity!)

At the fantastic Oxfam bookstore in Bloomsbury I got that fat Ryu Murakami novel (what's it called?) that I've been meaning to read for ages, but it's on my desk at work... together with (just read) the new Malcolm Gladwell, which is ok, a couple of Will Self's (always great) and, I think, a couple of Jeanette Wintersons...

Hmmm, I read a lot.

[Super-Shiny]

Nov 6, 2013 18:47:50 GMT Perpetua said:

The Chronicles of Super-Shiny ( Vaping Legend in his own lifetime ) . . . I find an absorbing read SS.

Good read, you must of read Fifty shades of Grey if you liked that book

[toots]

Just finished reading Martina Cole's 'The Take' and about to start another called 'The Bone Yard' by Paul Johnston (never heard of him before)


I've got about 100 or more second-hand books which I've collected over a period of time from different complexes, now stored on my bookcase.

Never know which book to choose next to read thinkingsmileyjust can't resist collecting them up, a bit like vaping gear, can't resist getting more and more gear suppose that must mean I've got an addictive nature

[barrynorton]

Second-hand books are so great. And there's no perceived value in them any more - except for signed first editions, of which I've a few - as everyone just buys stuff on Kindle now.

[glentoran]

oh stop it will you - now trawling kindle and local library for books which will mean reading till early hours

I've got a Ba to finish this year - I come on my laptop for research and open these forums and I'm gone

[toots]

Nov 6, 2013 19:09:27 GMT barrynorton said:

Second-hand books are so great. And there's no perceived value in them any more - except for signed first editions, of which I've a few - as everyone just buys stuff on Kindle now.

Kindles - yeah, I know and it is sooooo annoying for me. I rely on people coming over here with their English books and leaving them behind for me to collect and read, but with the kindles they don't do it anymore.  I'm missing out on all the newer titles coz of these damned kindles

[barrynorton]

Anyone else vote in this?

www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-books-2013

[barrynorton]

Nov 6, 2013 19:22:20 GMT toots said:

Nov 6, 2013 19:09:27 GMT barrynorton said:

Second-hand books are so great. And there's no perceived value in them any more - except for signed first editions, of which I've a few - as everyone just buys stuff on Kindle now.

Kindles - yeah, I know and it is sooooo annoying for me. I rely on people coming over here with their English books and leaving them behind for me to collect and read, but with the kindles they don't do it anymore.  I'm missing out on all the newer titles coz of these damned kindles

Pretty sure I left the last Pynchon on Tenerife somewhere. It's on BookCrossing.

[Edit: oops, no, Thailand! www.bookcrossing.com/journal/add/561-7689861 ]

[toots]

Nov 6, 2013 19:32:06 GMT barrynorton said:

Nov 6, 2013 19:22:20 GMT toots said:

Kindles - yeah, I know and it is sooooo annoying for me. I rely on people coming over here with their English books and leaving them behind for me to collect and read, but with the kindles they don't do it anymore.  I'm missing out on all the newer titles coz of these damned kindles

Pretty sure I left the last Pynchon on Tenerife somewhere. It's on BookCrossing.

[Edit: oops, no, Thailand! www.bookcrossing.com/journal/add/561-7689861 ]

Huh, bit of a difference from Thailand to Tenerife even though the 2 places do start with a T Saw your review on bookcrossing, only ok for a beach read then

[barrynorton]

Sorry, I just remembered I was 'working' near a beach. We used to get some decent conference locations.