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[Harmsway]

Poems of William Blake

[Kilroy6644]

About halfway through Moonraker.

[Double-Oh-Zero]

If You Liked School, You'll Love Work - Irvine Welsh

[minder125]

The Tango Briefing - Adam Hall

Quiller series 'nuff said

[Tiin007]

Titan's Goldfinger comic strip collection.

[sharpshooter]

Media and Politics - An Introduction, by Errington and Miragliotta.

It is riveting, believe me.

[Kilroy6644]

I took a break from rereading Bond to finish off Lone Wolf & Cub, and boy was it worth it! If you like comics, and especially manga, it's a must. If you're familiar with the movie Road To Perdition (or even better, with Max Allan Collins' original graphic novel that spawned the movie), LW&C was the inspiration for it.

Now I'm back into Bond, just starting Diamonds Are Forever.

[mrsbonds_ppk]

I Finished reading my first Philip K. Dick novel A Scanner Darkly.

[minder125]

I Finished reading my first Philip K. Dick novel A Scanner Darkly.

So what did you think not the easiest of his to start with. I'm more a fan of his short stories.

The Devastators - Donald Hamilton

[Byron]

I Finished reading my first Philip K. Dick novel A Scanner Darkly.

So what did you think not the easiest of his to start with. I'm more a fan of his short stories.

The Devastators - Donald Hamilton

What a wonderful author. I remember reading the "Second Variety" omnibus as a young lad and thinking it was amazing.

[Red Barchetta]

Just started reading "An Inconvenient Book" by Glenn Beck- good stuff!

[mrsbonds_ppk]

I Finished reading my first Philip K. Dick novel A Scanner Darkly.

So what did you think not the easiest of his to start with. I'm more a fan of his short stories.

The Devastators - Donald Hamilton

I thought it was very good. I didn't find it hard to get into and once I started to get into the Bob Arctor character it was easy to just keep reading and reading. I admit I did see the Film before reading this book and that's what sparked my interest and hearing about his writing but, after seeing the movie it left a lot of questions I had unanswered. Like did Arctor really have a family at one time but.. even in the book that is still not clear especially when Bob says he has two little girls and then his superior Hank says 'Your not supposed to' during Arctor's withdrawal/breakdown. So, I will just think that he did at one time have a family. What do you think?

I liked PKD's writing style and this novel in particular was something I could tell was something straight from the heart. People he knew and experiences. It was really trippy too lol. I want to read more of his work. Any recommendations?

[minder125]

I thought it was very good. I didn't find it hard to get into and once I started to get into the Bob Arctor character it was easy to just keep reading and reading. I admit I did see the Film before reading this book and that's what sparked my interest and hearing about his writing but, after seeing the movie it left a lot of questions I had unanswered. Like did Arctor really have a family at one time but.. even in the book that is still not clear especially when Bob says he has two little girls and then his superior Hank says 'Your not supposed to' during Arctor's withdrawal/breakdown. So, I will just think that he did at one time have a family. What do you think?

I liked PKD's writing style and this novel in particular was something I could tell was something straight from the heart. People he knew and experiences. It was really trippy too lol. I want to read more of his work. Any recommendations?

Well the thing about Scanner is its some what autobiographical. Since at the time of writing Dick was living on some type of commune with young people doing massive amounts of drugs.

Again check out his short story collections and see how bad some of them were made into movies (Paycheck, Total Recall, Screamers) Actually they are all in one of the collections together.

[Number 6]

BATMAN: Year 100 by Paul Pope

[Professor Dent]

Vince Flynn's Protect And Defend. Plus, I'm still only halfway through Blood Fever. I'll finish it someday.

[minder125]

The Amateur Spy - Dan Fesperman

[DamnCoffee]

I'm about to start Hurricaine Gold.

[Monkeyfoahead]

In December I read The Grapes Of Wrath for English. I know it's supposed to be classic and everything, but it was terrible.

Edited by Monkeyfoahead, 02 March 2008 - 05:29 AM.

[Santa]

I've just finished Murder on the Orient Express, and it was excellent. The best Christie I've read so far.

[Blofeld's Cat]

The Accident Man by Tom Cain

Buy, beg, borrow, or bag it! Then experience it!

[Kilroy6644]

From Russia With Love

[Double-0-Seven]

After a long hiatus from reading the Bond novels (haven't had much time to get around to them since school started back in September), I have finally started reading On Her Majesty's Secret Service. I've got about a hundred or so pages left to read. It's a really great book, the best Fleming novel I've read so far.

[mrsbonds_ppk]

I thought it was very good. I didn't find it hard to get into and once I started to get into the Bob Arctor character it was easy to just keep reading and reading. I admit I did see the Film before reading this book and that's what sparked my interest and hearing about his writing but, after seeing the movie it left a lot of questions I had unanswered. Like did Arctor really have a family at one time but.. even in the book that is still not clear especially when Bob says he has two little girls and then his superior Hank says 'Your not supposed to' during Arctor's withdrawal/breakdown. So, I will just think that he did at one time have a family. What do you think?

I liked PKD's writing style and this novel in particular was something I could tell was something straight from the heart. People he knew and experiences. It was really trippy too lol. I want to read more of his work. Any recommendations?

Well the thing about Scanner is its some what autobiographical. Since at the time of writing Dick was living on some type of commune with young people doing massive amounts of drugs.

Again check out his short story collections and see how bad some of them were made into movies (Paycheck, Total Recall, Screamers) Actually they are all in one of the collections together.

OK, thanks.

[mccartney007]

I'm in the middle of reading a number of things...

• RIGGED by Ben Mezrich
• THE MAN WHO SAVED BRITAIN by Simon Winder
• THE INTELLECTUAL DEVOTIONAL: AMERICAN HISTORY by David S. Kidder & Noah D. Oppenheim
• HOLLYWOOD: THE MOVIE LOVER'S GUIDE by Richard Alleman
• THE BATTLE FOR BOND by Robert Sellers
• RAYMOND CHANDLER'S LOS ANGELES by Elizabeth Ward and Alain Silver

[Number 6]

Re-reading SUMMER OF NIGHT by Dan Simmons


It's just that good.

[Roebuck]

The Dark River by John Twelve Hawkes. It's the second novel in his Forth Realm trilogy and is sort of the 'Matrix Reloaded' of the series, being largely action and set-up for the finale. The bad guys are the Tabula (the usual group of military/industrial types) whose goal is the creation of a surveillance society where a bar-coded population are ruled by a self proclaimed elite. Opposing them are the Harlequins; superbly trained fighters who never learned not to take a sword to a gunfight (probably why there's only a few of them left). The Harlequins are there to seek out and protect hippy-mystics called Travellers, who are supposed to be the only ones with power to ultimately defeat the Tabula. It's a lot like the brilliantly bonkers stuff Eric Van Lustbader used to turn out.

[Kilroy6644]

Just starting Watchmen, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons.

[Number 6]

Just starting Watchmen, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons.

[Kilroy6644]

Just starting Watchmen, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons.

I'd heard a lot of good things about it, I really liked V For Vendetta, and I saw that they're working on a Watchmen movie, so I figured I'd better read it beforehand, so I can be properly disappointed.

[minder125]

Just starting Watchmen, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons.

I'd heard a lot of good things about it, I really liked V For Vendetta, and I saw that they're working on a Watchmen movie, so I figured I'd better read it beforehand, so I can be properly disappointed.

As some who read Watchmen back in the day, I can't wait for the film. After seeing stills from the film which look exactly like the book itself. Sure there is a bit of fan boy complaining about the costumes. But I just can't wait to see Jackie Earl Haley as Rorschach - one of the most ed up 'heroes' ever.

Plus I heard all the Black Freighter stuff will be on the DVD as animation.