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[killkenny kid]

Just pick up Quantum of Solace again.

[Double-0 Seven]

Just pick up Quantum of Solace again.

+1

[bond_girl_double07]

Just pick up Quantum of Solace again.

+1

One of the perks of working in a library.. heading out to the stacks to pick this one up again as well

[marklindsay]

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. Waiting with baited breath for Devil May Care.

[Tiin007]

Recently read Pirate by Ted Bell and The Summons by John Grisham. Both were pretty good.

Just started a Star Wars novel, Yoda: Dark Rendezvous by Sean Stewart.

[Kilroy6644]

Just finished Alistair MacLean's The Guns of Navarone and just started Force 10 From Navarone.

[00Twelve]

Nice, Kilroy. Would love to know how those are as books.


As for myself, just reread OHMSS and in honor of the new film, QOS. Man, I had forgotten just how bad Masters stuck it to Rhoda! Ruthless.

[Kilroy6644]

Nice, Kilroy. Would love to know how those are as books.

I'm not very far into Force 10 yet, but I've heard that it's very different from the movie. Guns was very good, but it's a bit different from the movie. The movie did some character shuffling, and added a subplot or two that wasn't in the book. I'd suggest you talk to DLibrasnow; as far as MacLean goes, I take suggestions from him.

[DamnCoffee]

Antigone. For my Theatre Studies.

[Harry Fawkes]

MharkinOO7 stop reading that bloody rubish and get yourself down to the fanfic section and read something more intriguing Read my novel.

Believe me it'll give you more insite into theatrics than any other book

Besides mine is full of gratuitous sex and violence; oh yeah, and Bond's in it too

Come on lad get moving! I shan't tell you so politely next time

[Qwerty]

Just pick up Quantum of Solace again.

Good choice.

[Agent 76]

The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill by Dominique Enright


great book about a great person.

[Johnboy007]

"Oryx and Crake" - Margaret Atwood

Bizarre stuff.

[Skudor]

Lords of the Bow, by Conn Iggulden (or however that's spelt). Good light read, and about something non-European for once. As far as it is historically accurate it's a fun introduction to the Mongolia and China of the dark ages.

[DamnCoffee]

MharkinOO7 stop reading that bloody rubish and get yourself down to the fanfic section and read something more intriguing Read my novel.

Believe me it'll give you more insite into theatrics than any other book

Besides mine is full of gratuitous sex and violence; oh yeah, and Bond's in it too

Come on lad get moving! I shan't tell you so politely next time

Sorry, No can do . I know Antigone is rubbish but as Daltons Bond says "If it has to be done.... I'd rather do it!"

[Jim]

Sorry, No can do . I know Antigone is rubbish

What?
What?

[DamnCoffee]

Well in my defence. I have just started it. Plus I'm autistic which makes it difficult for me to understand the deeper meaning of the language used.

[Santa]

Well in my defence. I have just started it. Plus I'm autistic which makes it difficult for me to understand the deeper meaning of the language used.

It's not rubbish.
I think schools are missing a trick by presenting it to teenagers as ancient rubbish - all the old Greek stuff is full of sex and death. There's usually more drama in one short play than a whole year of Eastenders or Corrie. Haven't you noticed?

[killkenny kid]

Liberal Fascism: The Secret History - Jonah Goldberg.

[minder125]

Well in my defence. I have just started it. Plus I'm autistic which makes it difficult for me to understand the deeper meaning of the language used.

It's not rubbish.
I think schools are missing a trick by presenting it to teenagers as ancient rubbish - all the old Greek stuff is full of sex and death. There's usually more drama in one short play than a whole year of Eastenders or Corrie. Haven't you noticed?

I read in it HS and enjoyed it we also read the complete play cycle not just Antigone.

Edited by minder125, 29 January 2008 - 07:26 PM.

[minder125]

Just read the following three books over the last three days

The Crazy School - Cornelia Read
A Devil For O'Shaugnesey/Three Way Split - Gil Brewer
Neptune Noir (a book about the sorely missed Veronica Mars) - Edited by Rob Thomas

About to start a Ross MacDonald book that was recently reissued. Either The Doomsters or The Barbarous Coast

[Mr. Blofeld]

Well in my defence. I have just started it. Plus I'm autistic which makes it difficult for me to understand the deeper meaning of the language used.

Really?

You really don't sound it...

[Roebuck]

''Winning is not Enough'' by Sir Jackie Stewart. Though it's billed as his autobiography it's less about the three times Formula 1 champion's own achievements than the many outstanding people he's been fortunate to meet in his career. While naturally enough there's mention of famous mates like Sean Connery (who, despite his on screen licence to kill, apparently never fired a real gun until Jackie invited him to a charity clay pigeon shoot in the Eighties) there's also guys like engineer Derek Gardner, who designed a world beating Grand Prix car from his spare bed room. Great stuff. There's also a DVD of race footage packed with the book that's definitely worth having.

[Kilroy6644]

Just finished Force 10 a few days ago, and am now reading Where Eagles Dare.

[Number 6]

ODD THOMAS
by Dean Koontz


So far so good...

[Licence_007]

The Castle by Franz Kafka

[Matt_13]

1984 by George Orwell

[Qwerty]

Just starting The Prestige by Christopher Priest.

[Skudor]

Lords of the Bow by Conn Iggulden.

Iggulden is pretty good at popularising history, and this is no exception. Genghis Khan and the Mongol invasion of China really come alive, even if it's a little one dimensional and simplistic. Some critic raved about the book and predicted it would be a Hollywood blockbuster. Somehow I'm not sure how herding 20,000 innocent Chinese peasants or slaughtering 30,000 capitulated, unarmed Chinese soldiers would translate onto the screen (with the "hero" of the movie doing the herding).

[Santa]

Scorpius
Gardner Bond is Brozza Bond.