What Book Are You Currently Reading?

**Cheese** · 01-04-2006, 01:56 PM

Now reading North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell.

Yawn.

**Barbarossa** · 01-04-2006, 02:36 PM

Originally Posted by Cheese

Now reading North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell.

Yawn.

Tis surely a book for girls!

**desihotchick** · 01-04-2006, 03:13 PM

I am reading Gone with the wind right now.

**Biggles** · 02-16-2006, 05:58 PM

The Algebraist by Iain M Banks

No one does alien quite like Banks.

**Snee** · 02-17-2006, 02:04 AM

Yeah, Banks is brilliant, I think my favourite among his novels is Excession, but pretty much everything he's written about the culture is worth a read.

I just finished Richard Morgan's Woken Furies, the third about a character called Takeshi Kovacs, some of you might remember I made a thread referring to his Altered Carbon, the first novel about aforementioned Kovacs, a while back. Morgan is another brilliant author who writes sci-fi in a sort of noir-ish style.

Sex, ultra-violence, and an interesting view on identity.

He's also written yet another novel, Market Forces, which has a dystopian setting reminiscent of that in Vonnegut's Player Piano, but with elements that seem borrowed from the movie Mad Max.

There's apparently a movie in the works, based on Market Forces.

If anyone is interested in something (possibly) different, try something of Morgan's, I especially recommend Altered carbon.

**fatbobsarmy** · 02-17-2006, 08:03 AM

Farewell, my lovely by raymond chandler

**Barbarossa** · 02-17-2006, 10:06 AM

Originally Posted by SnnY

Yeah, Banks is brilliant, I think my favourite among his novels is Excession, but pretty much everything he's written about the culture is worth a read.

Use of Weapons gets my vote as the best book I've ever read.

**Biggles** · 02-17-2006, 07:32 PM

Originally Posted by Barbarossa

Originally Posted by SnnY

Yeah, Banks is brilliant, I think my favourite among his novels is Excession, but pretty much everything he's written about the culture is worth a read.

Use of Weapons gets my vote as the best book I've ever read.

Excession has been my favourite to date. Use of Weapons was brilliant but deeply disturbing.

**Snee** · 02-17-2006, 07:34 PM

Originally Posted by Barbarossa

Originally Posted by SnnY

Yeah, Banks is brilliant, I think my favourite among his novels is Excession, but pretty much everything he's written about the culture is worth a read.

Use of Weapons gets my vote as the best book I've ever read.

I actually got that one for christmas

Brilliant novel.