What are you reading?

[Lady Vetinari]

im reading 500 bloody pages of project management crap that is 95%common bloody sense and rosanna has banned me from amazon until ive memorized it

I did a civil service project management once upon a time - and had a nervous breakdown a few weeks after I'd finished the last component.

I know where you're coming from Chris

Huggles Chris - nasty Rosanna!

Ouch that sounds more potent than my sleeping tablets!

What am I reading?

This site!

 

[Penfold]

im reading 500 bloody pages of project management crap that is 95%common bloody sense and rosanna has banned me from amazon until ive memorized it

I sort of know what you're going through and sympathise wholeheartedly! A few years ago I had to try to memorize sections of the Gaming Act, which was mandatory in order to try and get a promotion where I worked. The problem was that gaming in the UK was going through a massive overhaul and modernisation. This meant that the laws, regulations, and guidelines that I was learning kept changing from month to month.

As to what I'm reading now; its The Dancers at the End of Time by Michael Moorcock.

 

[mystmoon]

I'm reading the QI Book of the Dead, worrying people on the bus who can't see the QI bit of the title

 

[theoldlibrarian]

As you like it by William Shakespeare

 

[chris.ph]

I'm reading the QI Book of the Dead, worrying people on the bus who can't see the QI bit of the title

i read that a couple of weeks ago and really enjoyed it

 

[Phoenix]

I'm currently reading Dark Side of the Sun I'm enjoying it, but it definitely reads differently to other books by Terry

 

[Lady Vetinari]

Still this site!

I think I'll be reading some HyddenWorld by William Horwood tonight.

 

[The_Discworldaholic]

well im still trying to read unseen accidenicals for the first time, i originally got it when it first came out but i just dont like it, but as its a PTerry book i will finnish it....... one day

 

[Tonyblack]

I'm reading Sharpe's Story, a short, 100 page, book by Bernard Cornwell about how Sharpe came about and about the books in general.

One bit made me laugh out loud. In Sharpe's Gold a young midshipman man get killed during the siege of Almeida. Bernard describes in some detail the horrible way the kid gets killed.

A young woman who worked for my publisher protested at that passage, saying it was too sad for such a promising young lad to die, and so, ever since, I have made a point of introducing such clean-cut youngsters into Sharpe's stories only to kill them off before the book's end. This went on until Sharpe's Trafalgar, where a nice young lad named Collier died at Trafalgar, and when Judy, my wife, first encountered him (she reads every manuscript) she said she could not read on because she knew Collier would die. So, just to prove her wrong, I changed the ending and Collier lived, the only boy to survive a Sharpe story so far.

 

[The rat]

Right now on my nook Stephen King's The Stand, but by the end of the day I will have gotten Christopher Moore's new vampire book: Bite Me!

He will be in the Boston Area on April 4th, and I and a few people from work are going to see him.

 

[Tonyblack]

Right now on my nook Stephen King's The Stand, but by the end of the day I will have gotten Christopher Moore's new vampire book: Bite Me!

He will be in the Boston Area on April 4th, and I and a few people from work are going to see him.

Shame you can't get him to sign your eBook copy. Maybe he could sign the actual Nook.

 

[Dotsie]

I've finished reading The Antipope (s'alright, not bad, will read the next one), now I'm reading Nella Last's War for reading group. She was a housewife in Barrow who kept a war-time diary for the Mass Observation project. She was a brilliant writer, no doubt about that, but some of her opinions were so it's like listening to your nan

I loved this quote from it:

She [Mrs Helm] says she prays God to strike Hitler dead. Cannot help thinking if God wanted to do that he would not have waited till Mrs Helm asked him to do so.

 

[Bouncy Castle]

A Fatal Thaw - Dana Stabenow.

The first one was a bit slow, what with introducing all the main characters, and describing (or so it seemed) every blessed snowflake and tree in Alaska!

This one is off to a cracking start, though.

 

[chris.ph]

the good the bad the uncanny by simon r green

ive sneaked in a novel coz that project management drivel is doing my head in

 

[WannabeAngua]

Started on The lovers by John Connolly today. It's the only one by him I haven't read yet. Almost don't want to start reading it, then I wont have any unread books by him to look forward to.... Oh well, I can read them all again of course

 

[The rat]

Right now on my nook Stephen King's The Stand, but by the end of the day I will have gotten Christopher Moore's new vampire book: Bite Me!

He will be in the Boston Area on April 4th, and I and a few people from work are going to see him.

Shame you can't get him to sign your eBook copy. Maybe he could sign the actual Nook.

Don't think that I haven't thought about that!

 

[wicked woman]

A Deeper Sleep, Dana Stabenow. Like it, but I've started a series in the middle and I think it's going to matter. Lot's of looking back in it.

 

[Tonyblack]

I'll have to let Sharlene know about you guys reading the Stabenow books.

 

[Bouncy Castle]

Willl start on Dead in the Water this weekend.

Still a little hacked off with all the descriptions, but am loving Mutt, and want a Mutt for myself!!!

 

[Sjoerd3000]

Started with Caesar by Colleen McCullough