What to read?

[QuietAlien]

So I am after some new book's to read and wondered if the very nice people of CUK had any recommendations?

What are you reading at the moment?

[Lucy]

The History of Hong Kong and Perfume

[xoggoth]

Every book I read recently seems to be a "masterpiece" about the parallel lives of two people who have never met and have nothing in common from which one is supposed to draw some deep meaning (I think). I just get to the end and think, well those stories were ok, rather more detail and you could have made two reasonable books.

I intend to write a deep meaningful book about three hundred people who have nothing in common and have never met, saves me having to think of a decent story line for any one thread that fills more than a page.

[thunderlizard]

Xog,
That's been done, almost.
253, by Geoff Ryman.
I know he was 47 short of your exacting standards.


Just bought myself some of the "The 20 British Prime Ministers of the 20th Century" series.They look quite interesting.

Also The Koran, because people are always arguing over the radio about what is and isn't in it, but they are always suspiciously unwilling to quote from it.

[Jawz .]

for whom the bell tolls - a classic

[Sockpuppet]

The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam

Cracking book. If this was applied to todays conflicts the terrorists would win.

[PRC1964]

Just read anything by Redmond O'Hanlon. He's been off and done the stupid things you'd (well OK, I'd) like to have done without you (me) needing to encounter too many nasty insects. I'd particularly recomend "In Trouble Again".

If that's not your thing, then pretty much anything by Salman Rushdie is good. You get bonus points for reading The Satanic Verses on a tube train while muttering and wearing a rucksack.

[BOBJ]

Carter Beats the Devil - Glen David Gold

The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

Beyond the Great Outdoors - Inguar Ambjornson

[Jawz .]

The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam

Cracking book. If this was applied to todays conflicts the terrorists would win.

Sounds interesting, I've just read The Quiet American, have u read that.

[threaded]

Lady Coddington's Pressed Fairy Book