What are these books about?

Is it bad to listen to audiobooks?

Halo3Legend wrote:

Is it bad to listen to audiobooks?

No.

I listen to audiobooks occasionally on my cycle to work instead of music. It's amazing how quickly you can work through a story using otherwise dead time, and it's not quite as weird as doing one of those repeat after me language courses....

I also have mobipocket reader on my phone, so I always have an emergency book handy to help through unexpected inactivity/boredom.

Yeah yeah, double post. I know.

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Anyhoo, The Devil in Amber by Mark Gatiss, of The League of Gentlemen fame.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Triple post. Maybe someone else should read a book?

The Devil in Amber was good, slightly different, and entertaining period spy drama. I just couldn't work out if it was meant to be funny or not. A lot of the characters names were puns. The lead character was Lucifer Box - Lucifer as in a old type of match. His sister was Pandora. I'm sure there are a few I didn't get.

Now reading The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill.
Set in the 1976, it's about a 72 years-old doctor, Siri, who has helped Laos overthrow the French and also it's Monarchy to enjoy the riches of Communism, only to find there aren't any. Instead he has to work as the country's head (and only) coroner.
Siri is a square peg who is both rebellious and disrespectful to the new regime as he get drawn into investigating the deaths of the people passing through his morgue.
It's very funny so far, mostly due to Siri's attitude to his superiors and his sense of humour.

im reading brisingr right now. got it yesterday and now am already on page 200 :D

bobreeda wrote:

im reading brisingr right now. got it yesterday and now am already on page 200 :D

I got it at the mid-night release party and I'm also done!

i am reading the pendragon series

Biography of Ian Fleming (creator of the James Bond series)... fascinating guy... too bad my library doesn't have the book Casino Royale... after reading exerpts I've realized how close the movie got to the story... and now I want to read it... bad!!
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bigman47 wrote:

I recomend after reading the book, watching Godfather 1 and 2.

Bigman, you mentioned you were going to get The Godfather from the library - did you ever read the book? I finally finished it, and watched the film (see my thread on that here).

My previous comments on the book stand, but I'll add that having thought about the whole, Puzo does resort to some fairly sensational (I'm lacking a better word) writing - I think that had a lot to do with its popularity. But that still doesn't touch the story, and it is a good one. Curious to hear your thoughts - and anyone else's.

Now I'll have to watch #2, as you recommended.

GhostMx10 wrote:

Biography of Ian Fleming (creator of the James Bond series)... fascinating guy... too bad my library doesn't have the book Casino Royale... after reading exerpts I've realized how close the movie got to the story... and now I want to read it... bad!!
:shock:

(Sorry about the double post.) If you're interested in Fleming and Bond, you should definitely check out the Imperial War Museum's website. This summer I went their exhibition For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond, and found it fascinating and really well put together. They had some very clever ways of presenting information (interesting just from the aspect of how museums interact with visitors, not to mention for its 'Bond-value'). One section of the site gives you an idea of how some of the exhibition is put together.

i got two great books for christmas the hobbit (we all know what that book is)
and an interesting book in words and pictures not like a little kids book but an awesome novel that wouldnt make any sense without the pictures because they help tell the story some pages are text and the rest are pictures the book is called The Invention of Hugo Cabret its very cool but i finished it al ready because it got addicting over break :mrgreen:

isaac5 wrote:

The Invention of Hugo Cabret its very cool but i finished it al ready because it got addicting over break :mrgreen:

me too

In bed: Alan Moore's Watchmen. Again. This is probably a bad choice, because I just pick it up and read from a random section, so some nights I don't go to sleep until very late.

In the kitchen: Chinese Food Made Easy by Ching-He Huang - recipe book of the TV series. Very good, lots of pictures and lots of recipes that are easy to do. She even manages to make Tofu vaguely interesting.

In the smallest room: Sudoku!

My emergency book is: The Dreaming Void by Peter F Hamilton. Due to it's epic nature, this probably isn't a good choice for a book that I'm not reading regularly.

At work: the Book of Knowledge from the APM.

Now I'm reading The Freedom Writer's Diary.

Very good read...

Ha! No way, JB: I picked up Watchmen on Saturday. I like it so far... trying to savor it while still finishing in time for the premier.

Further es-spooky: someone just gave me The Classic Asian Cookbook (DK). Makes me hungry when I read it, but I haven't tried anything yet. I'm more interested in salsa recipes at the moment.

But all is not parallel: I prefer crosswords to sudoku... natch.

Bus reading: Afloat, by Jennifer McCartney, who is a young Canadian author (also spent time in London and Glasgow). The novel feels like a cross between The Great Gatsby, Dirty Dancing and The Summer of '42. At least so far. Hmm.

I'll cheat a little bit and also mention books I just finished, since I've been meaning to post about them anyway...

Contact, Carl Sagan. Really enjoyed this one. Added some great dimensions to a movie that is already one of my faves. The book and movie are different enough that there are things I like about each that are completely independent of the other.

How to Be Good, Nick Hornby. Recommended by someone on this forum (who can claim credit if they so desire)! I like Hornby's wit and ability to uncover raw human emotion. A little darker than About a Boy, but thought-provoking and funny, too.

Ok, time to read Watchmen until it drops on my chest and wakes me up.

WATCHMEN
Was freakin AWESOME

I probably have my hopes set to high for the movie though...

Jake wrote:

Contact, Carl Sagan. Really enjoyed this one. Added some great dimensions to a movie that is already one of my faves. The book and movie are different enough that there are things I like about each that are completely independent of the other.

I didn't get into Contact the book - it was good mind you, but it wasn't until I was too far in before I got interested. The film totally didn't work for me (saw it after reading). It also came out at the exact same time as the significantly superior Gattaca, which got no press or cinema time as a result.

I can't do a crossword fast enough.....

Er, I'm on the next page of Watchmen now....

Books I am avoiding: A Spot of Bother - by the chap behind the excellent The Curious Incident Of the Dog in the Night. A stack of overzealously jingoistic WW2 Commando comic book collections my brother keeps buying me.

wow you people read alot

Jamesbloke wrote:

The film totally didn't work for me (saw it after reading). It also came out at the exact same time as the significantly superior Gattaca, which got no press or cinema time as a result.

I was just thinking about adding something on Contact today: I enjoyed the screenwriting. There were some settings, themes and dialogue that never appear in the book - pure creativity; whether you liked the content or not is another matter, and I'll respect your opinion on that. I have to say, for once I think I liked the movie better than the book.

Gattaca - SO glad you referred to that one! Loved that film - also one of my favo(u)rites, esp. for discussion. Gotta put that one in Forgotten, etc.

Jamesbloke wrote:

I can't do a crossword fast enough.....

I never said I did them in the same place you do your sudoku... ;)

Jamesbloke wrote:

Er, I'm on the next page of Watchmen now....

Yeah, me too - as mentioned above, these days it usually ends up with me sound asleep underneath it. But not because it's boring.

An addendum to my previous weird combination of titles for Afloat would be Waterworld. I guess I should have seen it coming based on the title, but who knew this summer fling-y fluff would turn out to be dystopian, too? How's that for simultaneously intriguing and bizarre!

Next up: aw, who am I kidding? I have pages and pages of reading for work. :(

I started reading bourne ultimatum, it's amazing how the movie differs from the book but both of them are still great! but i put on the shelf to gather dust as i orded watchmen instead, i going to be reading that harcore in time for the film, i should be getting in though the post within 2 days..hopefully.

WATCHMEN: THE FILM COMPANION
This is a good book for those of you who love picture books.

The mysterius benidict sociotiy-

great end of the world if the team dosent save the world incorprated into a mystery book. (pants and gets breath back) i will post more later, now my mom is fighting tooth and nail to get me to eat lunch be right back

im in the middle of reading the binding of the blade series. its a 5 book series, and just finished the 2nd one. hopefully ill have my internet fixed before i finish them. i tend too get bored easily :lol:

Im finishing Breaking Dawn, I cant see why no boy can read the twighlite seiries. Its a good seires in my opinon and im male. The boys just hate it becuase all the girls love it, and im sure that they are all reading them now that summer brake is starting.

THE EXTRAORDINARY WORKS OF ALAN MOORE: INDISPENSIABLE EDITION

It cost me about $40, and I've only flipped through it so far, but I have to say it looks very amazing.

I just bought a stack for my holiday, not sure I'll take them all.

Three men in a boat by Jerome K Jerome
Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde and Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman, following a recommendation
The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde

I know what you are thinking - 4 books over a hundred years old - they were on special!

Finished the Binding of the Blade series a couple weeks ago it was awesome. Now I'm almost done with WWZ. Anyone know anymore good zombie books.

Rangers Apprentice

The burning bridge (book 2)

i still havent finished the hobbit

Psychology 100