Thread: What are You Reading?

just finished "snuff" by terry pratchett. i forgot how great the discworld series is, strated reading them about 20 odd years ago. might read them all again and buy the missing ones.

Originally Posted by edhewitt

just finished "snuff" by terry pratchett. i forgot how great the discworld series is, strated reading them about 20 odd years ago. might read them all again and buy the missing ones.

For reason i can't understand i've never read anything from Pratchett. Maybe i should get myself corrected and try one. Is there any cronological etc order i should start from or does anything go without me missing anything?

I'm reading the Bible from beginning to end. I just finished The Book of Psalms and I will begin The Book of Proverbs tonight.

I am also reading "The Westminster Confession of Faith For Study Classes" by G.I. Williamson. Highly recommend it.

Originally Posted by Sailor

For reason i can't understand i've never read anything from Pratchett. Maybe i should get myself corrected and try one. Is there any cronological etc order i should start from or does anything go without me missing anything?

Yes and no, each bookin the series stands alone, BUT the characters do tend to flow between books so it is better to read them in order, though saying that i have missed a few of the recent ones, but Sam vimes has been in them for ages so I kind of knew what he was about. Now I am in my thirties I Recon I will get a lot more out of them. A lot of social commentary but very funny.
The first book is called "the colour of magic"

Just finishing, "West with the Night", Beryl Markham. Markham was a female bush pilot and Big Game Scout, Horse Trainer, Aviation Adventurer and one hell of a writer. It is her autobiography and snapshot of Africa and aviation in the early 1900. She was an excellent writer of the smooth flowing style of writers of the early 1900 that paints an ethereal pictorial of another time. It appears to be the only book she wrote but was well received in it’s time.

Ernest Hemmingway said of this book in a letter to a friend.

“Did you read Beryl Markham's book, "West with the Night"? I knew her fairly well in Africa and never would have suspected that she could and would put pen to paper except to write in her flyer's log book. As it is, she has written so well, and marvelously well, that I was completely ashamed of myself as a writer. I felt that I was simply a carpenter with words, picking up whatever was furnished on the job and some times making an okay pig pen. But this girl who is, to my knowledge, very unpleasant,... can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves as writers. The only parts of it that I know about personally, on account of having been there at the time and heard the other people's stories, are absolutely true. So, you have to take as truth the early stuff about when she was a child which is absolutely superb. She omits some very fantastic stuff which I know about which would destroy much of the character of the heroine; but what is that anyhow in writing? I wish you would get it and read it because it is really a bloody, wonderful book.”

Originally Posted by Euclid440

Just finishing, "West with the Night", Beryl Markham. Markham was a female bush pilot and Big Game Scout, Horse Trainer, Aviation Adventured and one hell of a writer. It is her autobiography and snapshot of Africa and aviation in the early 1900. She was an excellent writer of the smooth flowing style of writers of the early 1900 that paints an ethereal pictorial of another time. It appears to be the only book she wrote but was well received in it’s time. ...snip...

An excellent read for sure. thank you for the memory!
~Richard

World War Z. I haven't seen the movie (although I am curious about it now) but when I saw the book in an airport bookshop on the weekend after having listened to three distinct groups of friends/colleagues talking about it over the last couple of months, I figured what the heck. It's actually a very interesting read and not at all what I had expected.

And just before that (I know I'm not reading it "now" but it's too good not to mention!) was Sylvain Tesson's "Consolations of the Forest". Tesson is a French travel writer who spent five months living alone on the shores of Lake Baikal. Highly recommended for anyone who loves the outdoors, dogs, and books.

Woe To Live On by Daniel Woodrell

Just finished The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton. Heard about it, and it exceeded my expectations. I'm going to go through some older classics that I just never read. Next is Animal Farm.

George Orwell's "Coming up for air" is one of my all time favorites.