What's Everyone Reading?
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I'm about half way through "Darwin's Radio" by Greg Bear. It's a twisty
turning novel about hidden potential (& horror) hidden in our DNA that
is being released due to the stress placed on the Human animal by
overcrowding. I'm half way through it, & I've no idea where it's going
to go, or how it'll end.
I'm about half way through "Darwin's Radio" by Greg Bear. It's a twisty
turning novel about hidden potential (& horror) hidden in our DNA that
is being released due to the stress placed on the Human animal by
overcrowding. I'm half way through it, & I've no idea where it's going
to go, or how it'll end.
The Turner Trilogy by James Sallis. I finished "Cypress Grove" a couple of days ago and "Cripple Creek" today, so I'm moving straight on to "Salt River". I wish Sallis would release novels more often.
Right now my major reading is Phil Edmonston's Lemon Aid books for new and used vehicles for 2010, because I'm looking to buy a new (or lightly used) car some time this month to replace my fine old 1993 Toyota Camry. It was written off by the insurer after a minor collision with a car driven by a moron who didn't seem to understand how stop signs work, which rendered my car undrivable. Nobody was hurt, but he smashed the McPherson strut, the CV joint, the wheel bearing, the tie rods, drove the axle into the transmission, $4000 damage on a car worth $3300. Turned out the dickwad had expired licenses too, both as a driver and on the vehicle, which certainly explains why he drove away so quickly after we'd exchanged license and registration information. He's in a lot of trouble and I hope they hang him, he ruined my favourite car. But I digress.
I also read the local rag, the Regina Leader Post, and the Toronto Globe&Mail every day (except Sunday, when they don't publish), and I usually have half a dozen or so books on the go at any time too. In addition to Phil Edmonston's two, I'm working on a lovely little book called The Great Equations by Robert Crease, and I'm re-reading for about the third time all of Douglas Adams' wonderful stuff. There's always something new to be found there, the man was a genius.
I also read the local rag, the Regina Leader Post, and the Toronto Globe&Mail every day (except Sunday, when they don't publish), and I usually have half a dozen or so books on the go at any time too. In addition to Phil Edmonston's two, I'm working on a lovely little book called The Great Equations by Robert Crease, and I'm re-reading for about the third time all of Douglas Adams' wonderful stuff. There's always something new to be found there, the man was a genius.
Just finished What They Wanted by Donna Morrisey, a story about Newfoundlanders working in the Alberta oil patch. Just started a tome by Stephen King called Under The Dome. Not sure how far I'll get on this one. It was a Christmas gift. I'm thinking re-gift here.
Another decent book I read recently was The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. It's a whodunnit novel. Interesting side story about the Freemasons and their part in building Washington, D.C.
Keep on reading everybody.
Another decent book I read recently was The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. It's a whodunnit novel. Interesting side story about the Freemasons and their part in building Washington, D.C.
Keep on reading everybody.
The Great Transformation Karl Polanyi, economic history and social theory and Political Ponerology (a science on the nature of evil adjusted for political purposes) for the second time. Andrew M Lobaczewski.
I understand completely. One of my cars is an 1998 Toyota Corrolla. This car has over two hundred and fifty thousand kilometers on it and it still runs like it was new. Still gets forty miles to the gallon. The book value of the Corolla is in the area of $4000.00 but it wouldn't take much real damage to write the car off.
I am reading The Atlantis Code by Charles Brokaw right now. Great read if you like novels along the lines of the Dan Brown books. Fast-paced chase across several countries in search of five instruments that we said to have brought about the end of the world by flood.
I just finished The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown.
It's okay, a page turner, but like most Dan Brown stuff, it has presumptions of, but is light on truth and substance. He's probably on safer ground taking on the Freemasons than the Catholic Church. :smile:
It's okay, a page turner, but like most Dan Brown stuff, it has presumptions of, but is light on truth and substance. He's probably on safer ground taking on the Freemasons than the Catholic Church. :smile:
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"A Soldier First" is one of the books I got for Christmas. It is an interesting read. Hillier was a good soldier and an excellent politician, something that made politicians nervous.
I've read most of the "Enough Rope" stories in Lawrence Block's 1999 UK anthology "The Collected Mystery Stories".
"When This Man Dies" and the Keller stories were amongst my favourites.
"Going Through The Motions" was the only short I thought was a waste of ink.
On the back of the collection I started reading more of Lawrence Block's books, I must be up to about 40 by now, including all those with Keller and most of the Scudder and Rhodenbarr novels. "Small Town" is the only Block novel that I didn't like. It started fine, but just lost its way.