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Okay I've read 5 books in 2 months now. :D

 

Patricia Cornwell - The Front (2011)

 

John Grisham - The Appeal (2008)

 

John Grisham - The Pelican Brief (1992)

 

John Grisham - The Client (1993)

 

Sofi Oksanen - Purge (2008)

 

And now started to read:

 

Sebastian Faulks - Devil May Care (2008) <--- which is a Bond-book made by the style of Ian Fleming. :)

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I like reading science books, last ones were:

 

*The Mystery of Prime Numbers, on prime numbers obviously.

 

*Catching The Light, on quantum physics and its links to history, arts and religion. A MUST, imo.

 

But it's not easy to "read" math or understand Eistein and Bohr, it gives one wonder and headaches,

 

So, I read light romances or crime books to relax my poor brain:

 

* All Michael Connely's books, the best crime writer.

* I read all Patricia Cornwell books until she made the mistake of changing the narration from the 1st person singular, past tense, to the 3rd person singular, present tense. It's unnatural, no wonder she lost millions of readers in the last five years.

*The Skull Mantra, a wonderful book about China, Tibet, and a crime.

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Just finished Haruki Murakami's What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. Discusses in a philosophical way various subjects such as coming of age, athleticism, and how a focused long-term activity such as running has been necessary for his creative output, all blended with a travelogue and memoirs. You don't have to be a runner to enjoy this book thoroughly as there's so much more to it. Recommended.

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I'm reading Solid State Physics by Ashcroft & Mermin ;) And I'm trying to squeeze in PKD's The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch but it's not really happening =\

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Good book.

Yeah, I didn't fully appreciate k-space till I read it. It's much better than Kittel, I feel that Solid State Physics is too great a subject for one book though, so unfortunately you have to patch together info from a bunch of sources to get the entire picture. Every source seems to take a different tack/approach.
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Rereading The Dreaming Void by Peter F. Hamilton.

 

Been wanting to read that series, but I seem to be to slow to get to that point yet...

 

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Almost sounds like Peter F. Hamilton!!! What was it!?

 

 

atm I am reading Alastair Reynolds - Redemption Ark

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Been wanting to read that series, but I seem to be to slow to get to that point yet...

 

 

 

Almost sounds like Peter F. Hamilton!!! What was it!?

 

 

Horus Heresy Series ;)

 

now reading Heretics of Dune. I love all the ideas in Dune but i am not a huge fan of the writing sometimes.

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Horus Heresy Series ;)

 

now reading Heretics of Dune. I love all the ideas in Dune but i am not a huge fan of the writing sometimes.

 

Ahhh the warhammer books :P

 

I haven't actually come around to reading Dune, I have had on my shelf for years and years though, someday maybe?!

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Currently I am reading:

 

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An interesting, albeit not very challenging read. Very fun though. I kinda fell into some seventies mood lately, rewatching old classics by Martin Scorsese, Claude Chabrol, and been intensively listening to a lot of Tangerine Dream and Led Zeppelin...

 

So this seemed like the appropriate pick for the occasion.

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Just finished reading the first part of the Culture series, Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks. Space opera at its best.

 

Good stuff!!

 

Have you read some of Alastair Reynold's books?! I can recommend his "Inhibitor trilogy" (Revelation Space, Redemption Ark and Absolution Gap). I have am almost finished with the second book and it is awesome :D Epic space opera!

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Reading Chapterhouse Dune at the moment. As in all these works it is starting off slow and doesn't really encourage me to pick it up and read. I know it'll get better about halfway in though so I won't change to another book so I end up in a reading slump :(

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Haven't had the motivation to keep reading that book so I am on to Deliverance Lost: the latest in the Horus Heresy series. It might not be high brow literature but it keeps me enthralled which is what I want from a book :)

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Just finished re-reading one of the best novellas ever written, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. A thought-provoking take on colonial atrocities in the Congo Free State. I was first introduced to this novella during my studies in English literature and re-reading it now a few years later, it gets even better.

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Good stuff!!

 

Have you read some of Alastair Reynold's books?! I can recommend his "Inhibitor trilogy" (Revelation Space, Redemption Ark and Absolution Gap). I have am almost finished with the second book and it is awesome :D Epic space opera!

 

No, I haven't read any of Reynold's books yet but I'm quite sure I will after I've finished the Humanity's Fire series by Michael Cobley. Moreover, it just so happens that two days ago Cobley's publisher announced that there'll be a fourth book in the series, which is currently scheduled for release in autumn 2013.

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Finished the second part in the Humanity's Fire trilogy, The Orphaned Worlds by Michael Cobley. Like many other trilogies, this second part feels like some sort of means of transport with which to connect the first book with the third without too much action happening. There is a bit of swing from time to time and it isn't really dull, just not as consistently exciting as the first book with the exception of the last 200 pages. There are a lot of loose threads that need be tied up and I've already started reading the third (and last) book in the trilogy. I just hope that it's more similar to the first book in terms of tension.

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