What are you reading

[AndyRM]

It's a fanfic writer's term for those little annoying ideas that pop up in your head, usually when in the middle of doing something else. Like trying to get to sleep LOL!

Totally different from a prompt, which is an idea generated by some external entity.

Nice to have a little phrase for it which is fun, rather that based on vaguely grumpy frustration!

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Tuesday 2nd


At work, before starting/on meal-break

 

[ColinJ]

I was walking back from Aldi this afternoon and I spotted a load of books chucked in a roadside skip. Some were in a very poor condition but I picked up 3 that looked ok and worth reading, though I haven't started yet...

The skip is still there and I rescued another book from it today. It looks interesting...

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I visited his hideout a few years back: https://www.nsw.gov.au/visiting-and-exploring-nsw/locations-and-attractions/thunderbolts-hideout

Sorry, not this 'kid'

My book is Brysons autobiography

 

[gbb]

A book i borrowed from the Library many years ago...Stalingrad by Anthony Beevor.
I just saw it in a charity shop , 50p
The original selling price in the cover is at £49.99 I think

 

[lazybloke]

Never enjoyed Pratchett's discworld books but on a recommendation am trying his Long Earth story. The setting is conceptually amazing, but the narrative feels like nothing more than a series of mosy unconnected events; there's little exploration or development of characters; no story!

I was given Secret of Secrets (Dan Brown) for Christmas, and find that much more interesting. Well researched, as ever, and a fast paced story.

 

[Reynard]

Oh yeah, before I forget, happy World Book Day!

 

[All uphill]

I've just finished John Banville's Venetian Vespers, our latest book club choice. I thought it was terrible - over wordy and rambling. The characters are uniformly unlikeable. It was a slog.

What makes it doubly disappointing are the reviews, and Banville, who compare it to the beautiful writing of Henry James.

 

[Drago]

Prog magazine.

 

[classic33]

Wankernomics.

 

[C R]

Never enjoyed Pratchett's discworld books but on a recommendation am trying his Long Earth story. The setting is conceptually amazing, but the narrative feels like nothing more than a series of mosy unconnected events; there's little exploration or development of characters; no story!

I was given Secret of Secrets (Dan Brown) for Christmas, and find that much more interesting. Well researched, as ever, and a fast paced story.

Dan Brown better than Pratchett? I need a lie down.

 

[stephec]

I've just finished the introduction in this, very academic text book in style, I think it's going to be a challenging read.

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That wasn't actually too bad, as it was written by a commie it obviously says that commies are brilliant. 🤣

Just started this now, the front cover is a famous Cecil Beaton photo taken during the battle of Britain, he doesn't look a day over sixteen there but has already been risking his life and watching his friends being killed in action, absolutely crazy that a few nutcases caused all that madness.

 

[Animo]

That wasn't actually too bad, as it was written by a commie it obviously says that commies are brilliant. 🤣

Just started this now, the front cover is a famous Cecil Beaton photo taken during the battle of Britain, he doesn't look a day over sixteen there but has already been risking his life and watching his friends being killed in action, absolutely crazy that a few nutcases caused all that madness.

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On the same theme I can also recommend a book called First Light

 

[stephec]

On the same theme I can also recommend a book called First Light

By Geoffrey Wellum?

If it is I did that one a few years ago.

 

[postman]

Shawn Inmon,Middle Falls Time Travel.Kindle Unlimited.I love them.Most of my reading is about time travel or mysteries R W Wallace,Elyse Douglas,John Connolly,Morgan Rice,Ernest Dempsey,Gary McAvoy,David Leadbeater,Christopher Cartwright. I love a good tale.