What are You Reading?

I have "Excessions" "Inversions" and "Look to Windward" awaiting when I finish "Canal Dreams". I haven't read Complicity nor have I seen the film. I have read The Wasp Factory of course and a few of the Culture books which I enjoyed thoroughly. I do intend to get through them all. He's gone unfortunately so there wont be any more.

Excession is brilliant. Probably my favourite after Use Of Weapons.

Canal Dreams was good but I think Iain, himself, said that he thought it was his worst work.

I read stonemouth recently, too, and thought it was excellent - kind of a return to form after a bit of a dip in quality.

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Originally Posted by PigHog

Excession is brilliant. Probably my favourite after Use Of Weapons.

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I look forward to it so, I loved Use Of Weapons

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Originally Posted by diesel

Don't worry pixelfixed that war is well remembered on this side of the Atlantic. And for the next four years we will be commemorating centenary after centenary as each occurs. We have very long memories us Europeans.

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If we had long memories we wouldn't keep repeating ourselves.

I am finishing Eddie Rickenbacker's autobiography. What an interesting character. The war was a small part of his life and I never knew about the rest.

The Bayou Trilogy by Daniel Woodrell

Just finished The Great Gatsby and now onto a Garrison Keilor book called WLT A Radio Romance.

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas. The Kindle has been growing on me for it's portability and massive storage of books.


Mick

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Originally Posted by MickR

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas. The Kindle has been growing on me for it's portability and massive storage of books.


Mick

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Excellent book - read that awhile ago on my Kobo e-reader. Just finished Victor Hugo's, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and have moved on to Romeo Dallaire's, Shake Hands with the Devil.

I read probably 3 books a week, and the e-reader is just awesome for me...I went with the Kobo because it supports the e-pub format, which means I can browse the public and University library's and "take-out" a book on my e-reader for free, and after 3 weeks, unless I renew it, it just disappears from the reader!

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Originally Posted by Phrank

Excellent book - read that awhile ago on my Kobo e-reader. Just finished Victor Hugo's, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and have moved on to Romeo Dallaire's, Shake Hands with the Devil.

I read probably 3 books a week, and the e-reader is just awesome for me...I went with the Kobo because it supports the e-pub format, which means I can browse the public and University library's and "take-out" a book on my e-reader for free, and after 3 weeks, unless I renew it, it just disappears from the reader!

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Make no difference here. We're still in the caves, for the most part, when it comes to that sort of tech.


Mick

Yea, the only reason we have it that library ability is we're all stuck in Igloo's for half the year...just watching another big blast of snow hitting the city along with -10 temps...at least it's not that cold...we'll get the -20, -30 temps in February...now to go saddle up the Polar Bear and head to my volunteer work...cheers!