tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post3515155855350457596..comments2024-02-13T03:59:13.635+00:00Comments on Eat Electric Death: So, What are you Reading? [vagga]Slimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02020308502156946280noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-5363301624294946242005-02-21T16:30:00.000+00:002005-02-21T16:30:00.000+00:00Just finished Banks's Consider Phlebas. Bit dissap...Just finished Banks's Consider Phlebas. Bit dissapointed really. <br>In a fit of pique & to get in the mood for Rainbow Six 4 I turned 90 degrees & picked up Clancy's Rainbow Six. Wonder if anyone will mind if I read it aloud on the bus in my best Sam The Eagle voice?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-56766485125901820432004-06-11T15:05:00.007+01:002004-06-11T15:05:00.007+01:00On my reading list for after my exams: Master &...On my reading list for after my exams: Master & Commander, by Patrick O'Brian. *pause for obligatory sailor jokes*<br>Also, Cryptonomicon and Snowcrash by Stephenson, Pandora's Star by Hamilton, and The Iliad, The Aeniad, The Odyssey. Bah. Exams suck.<br>(May I also reiterate for Rob's benefit that the Night's Dawn Trilogy is a Must Read. Further procrastination of embarking upon this Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-5045361969934628092004-06-11T15:05:00.006+01:002004-06-11T15:05:00.006+01:00Just finished Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver, which...Just finished Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver, which was magnificent - probably the finest historical novel I've ever read, and an absolutely fascinating education in a whole range of areas I never really knew about before. Any book populated by the likes of Newton, Leibniz, Huygens, Hooke, Wren - and more political figures such as William of Orange, James II and Louis XIV - and written by someone Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-31044384130009398532004-06-11T15:05:00.005+01:002004-06-11T15:05:00.005+01:00Right now I'm reading Northern Lights - first of t...Right now I'm reading Northern Lights - first of the Phillip Pullman 'Lyra' series of books. I'm reading it for two reasons - one because my daughter has now read the whol series, and I quite like to know what she's been reading. and two because someone at work said they thought it could make a good game. I've read about half the book and I think it would be a SHITE game.<br>I've also recently Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-10999441967789487892004-06-11T15:05:00.004+01:002004-06-11T15:05:00.004+01:00latest Wilbur Smith is a cracking read and going c...latest Wilbur Smith is a cracking read and going cheap in supermarkets. River God and follow on books by Smith are even better (set in ancient Egypt).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-36910123868579692132004-06-11T15:05:00.003+01:002004-06-11T15:05:00.003+01:00Hardly classics :)- Professional UML Modelling Usi...Hardly classics :)<br>- Professional UML Modelling Using VS.NET (not a patch on Rational XDE obviously or even Borland Together)- Professional C# (coming soon)- Adobe PhotoShop CS for Photographers (a good follow on from someone like Scott Kelby, v good)- Stalingrad (stalled)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-65172649152057425782004-06-11T15:05:00.002+01:002004-06-11T15:05:00.002+01:00I'm currently reading the feeblest blog ever poste...I'm currently reading the feeblest blog ever posted.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-73746513560385062222004-06-11T15:05:00.001+01:002004-06-11T15:05:00.001+01:00'Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Pel...'Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.'<br>Death to shite Hollywood blockbustersAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961660238450693245.post-49141524725222837992004-06-11T15:05:00.000+01:002004-06-11T15:05:00.000+01:00I'm ploughing my way through the third Alaistair R...I'm ploughing my way through the third Alaistair Reynolds Inhibitor book. I can't remember a single thing about what came before, and the new one confuses me deeply, but there's something about the imagery that I can't put down.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com