October Reading Thread

[Elentarri]

Elephantoms: Tracking the Elephant by Lyall Watson.
Mostly a memoir with elephant facts. Interesting.

 

[Dave Vicks]

SHANE ,by Jack Schaefer, 1946.

Movie was good .

 

[Elentarri]

Elephantoms: Tracking the Elephant by Lyall Watson.
Mostly a memoir with elephant facts. Interesting.

 

[Danny McG]

Tonight I'm starting Simple Simon by Ryne Douglas Pearson - this is the book that became the Bruce Willis film "Mercury Rising", where the FBI man protects an autistic boy.

DNF - it was so dull!

 

[Dave Vicks]

BEHAVE: by Robert Sapolsky, 2017.
PSYCHOLOGY.

 

[Elentarri]

BEHAVE: by Robert Sapolsky, 2017.
PSYCHOLOGY.

I've got that book. Didn't realise I've had it sitting, unread, on the shelf for 5+ years!

 

[Dave Vicks]

@Elentarri His new book is out soon.

 

[Danny McG]

I'm now on Tramp in armour by Colin Forbes.
A 'derring do' tank adventure set in WW2, written in 1969

 

[Ian Fortytwo]

I'm currently reading Unfinished Tales of Numenor & Middle-Earth, by J. R. R. Tolkien. Edited by Christopher Tolkien.

 

[Elentarri]

I'm currently reading Unfinished Tales of Numenor & Middle-Earth, by J. R. R. Tolkien. Edited by Christopher Tolkien.

Enjoy!

 

[Artonys]

Currently reading A Lonely Broadcast: Book One by Kel Byron.

Got it recommended in a Halloween FB group I’m in and I’m really enjoying it so far. There’s no sequel out yet, so that will be a bummer when I finish it. It’s a really interesting horror story centered around a lonely broadcast station in the middle of a freaky forest filled with monstrous things.

 

[Hugh]

Larry Niven "The Draco Tavern"
Twenty seven collected stories of the Draco Tavern written in two bursts 1977 - 1984 and 2000 - 2006. I got this because I'd read some of the earlier ones and had enjoyed the change of pace. However, sadly, on this read I got rather bored and it's taken me far too long to finish. On the whole I much prefer the earlier stories.

 

[Dave Vicks]

Agatha Christie MISS MARPLE COMPLETE STORIES.

 

[Danny McG]

 

[Bick]

I finished The X Factor, by Andre Norton. Some good aspects, some less good. I'm in two minds about Norton. Good intentions, reasonable albeit hokey plots, but comes across as Heinlein-lite.

Mini-reviews of both The Sioux Spaceman and The X Factor are now up on my website.

 

[Bick]

Now reading Soul Music by Pratchett.

 

[Dave]

I've finished Revival by Stephen King and have begun Misery. I'll do a extended review of Revival when I have some time.

Misery is a much better written book. I've seen the film of Misery before, but being inside Paul's head, Annie Wilkes is much more menacing and crazy as written in the book. I can't remember the ending but I guess his legs feature in the punchline. I do remember that much.

 

[Danny McG]

This morning I'm starting a brand new SF book, Generation Ship by Michael Mammay

 

[Rodders]

I just finished listening to the Audiobook of Iain M. Bank's Surface Detail. Brilliantly read by Peter Kenny, who seemed to be having a whale of a time reading this one.

I'll listen to a couple of short Judge Dredd Crime Chronicles for the cycle home



1:1 - Stranger Thank Truth by David Bishop.
1:2 - Blood Will Tell by James Swallow

 

[Stephen Palmer]

Mini-reviews of both The Sioux Spaceman and The X Factor are now up on my website.

I bought a s/h copy of this thanks to you! Will get to reading it soon...