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  1. BRID

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    Books - What are YOU reading?

    Been a while since we had one of these.

    What are you currently reading, bookwise ("Just 17" or "Revs" doesnt count)

    Me :

    "Bill Bryson - A Short History of Everything"

    About 9/10 of the way through it. Hard bloody work. Starts with the creation of the universe and goes on for about 570 pages taking you through astrology, geology, physics, chemistry, biology, evolution.... Been a while since i had my brain mangled with information but hey :)

    After that ive got:

    Dan Brown - The Davinci Code
    Anne Sebold - The Lovely Bones

    ... waiting to go.



    How about you?
    BRID, Oct 21, 2004
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    The New Politics of Crime and Punishment.

    Also,

    Human Memory: Theory and Practice
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  4. Ruth

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    i'm reading the lonely planet guide to thailand! :D

    i'm also reading harlan coben books atm...i'm addicted! :up:

    just about to start reading 'Back Spin' :D
    Ruth, Oct 21, 2004
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  5. ManofScience

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    might have known !



    i'm currently not reading any - any spare/personal time i manage to get it taken up by catching up on sleep :yawn: Last book i read i can't remember the name of... "the (something) boys" - a true account of a small town in the US that sent all it's young men to Omah beach in WWII and most we're killed in the first day of D-Day
    ManofScience, Oct 21, 2004
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    John Simpson's autobiog still! Been reading it for about a year and a half now. I just dont allocate myself much time to read books anymore. Its a shame really.
    GeordieLee, Oct 21, 2004
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    Aldous Huxley - Brave New World :king:
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  8. Ruth

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    :p

    you gotta research these things you know! ;)

    i'm also into reading martina cole (altho not too many in a row cos they get repetitive) & also karin slaughter! :D
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    Eddie Little - Another Day in Paradise

    A gritty first-person story of Bobbie, an adolescent petty thief whose lonely life among the flotsam of America is a hellish mix of hustle, drug highs, sex, and survivor humor. Bobbie finds himself willingly apprenticed to Mel, a brilliant professional crook and drug addict, in search of the perfect score in an incredible odyssey of high-time burglary and the extremities of violence tht carries them to Chicago, Southern California, and Indianapolis. And all the time he is learning from Mel, Bobbie is sinking deeper into an addict's fiery hell
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    dont really get time to read any books


    the last one i read was Howard Marks - Mr Nice
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  11. BRID

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    I was out on a date with someone a month or so ago and she was asking me what books and stuff i read ... I hit a blank since all i tend to read is 'informative' stuff (politics, autobiographys, reference books!), rather than stuff with a bit of imagination.... So i decided i had to get back into a bit of escapism.

    ... Shame i picked up the Bill Bryson first :lol: The other two are fiction though ... phew.

    Pity like... although i hated school pretty much, im beginning to miss the discussions we had in English literature.
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    that sounds canny interesting....will keep my eyes peeled for that...

    you should read addict by stephen smith..its a true story bout a bloke who had everythin g& lost it cos he was addicted to amphetamine pills...its excellent reading! :up:
    Ruth, Oct 21, 2004
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    Dan Brown - Angels and demons.
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    some good books, that Bill Bryson one is good but canny hard work like you say, Da Vinci code is awesome, Dodgy goes up a notch for reading Brave New World :king:

    I'm reading Blairs Wars
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    Gonna start reading Gazza's Autobiography again soon, i bought it on the way to Ibiza and was gonna read it on the beach some days but it wasnt gonna happen when :spangled: most days !

    Gazza :king:
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  16. Ruth

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    what are his books like?? :)
    Ruth, Oct 21, 2004
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    Just Finished reading "The Lost Boy" and am about to start "A Man Named Dave" both wrote by David Pelzer. Very sad books :(
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    ive read 4 pages of that. :king:
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    Paradise isnt a real story but it is based on the authors experiences.

    Will av a look for addict as ive nearly finished this one
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    there all the same realy! predictable but im a sucker for a book based loosely on fact so i love them!! :love:
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  21. Ruth

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    i've got that but also didn't get past page 3/4...
    Ruth, Oct 21, 2004
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