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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sat Aug 22, 2009 1:46 pm

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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sat Aug 22, 2009 1:47 pm

Lozzer wrote:Why does Gawdzilla always look like a drunk wizard? :D
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Post by Dasein » Sat Aug 22, 2009 3:58 pm

He certainly does shine with some sort of inner light. a bit like Manson, or a drunk wizard, I guess. :hehe:

I'm reading Atonement and it is much better than I was expecting.
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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by JimC » Sun Aug 23, 2009 4:47 am

I'm reading "Animals make us human" by Temple Grandin.

Very interesting, and the section on cats certainly rings true from my experience...
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Post by Existentialist1844 » Sun Aug 23, 2009 4:54 am

Currently, I'm not reading anything. But these are some books I will be reading by next week for school.

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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by Twoflower » Sun Aug 30, 2009 5:48 am

The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov by Peter Pringle
I'm wild just like a rock, a stone, a tree
And I'm free, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I flow, just like a brook, a stream, the rain
And I fly, just like a bird up in the sky
And I'll surely die, just like a flower plucked
And dragged away and thrown away
And then one day it turns to clay
It blows away, it finds a ray, it finds its way
And there it lays until the rain and sun
Then I breathe, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I grow, just like a baby breastfeeding
And it's beautiful, that's life

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Post by Cormac » Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:20 pm

Stainless Steel Rat Omnibus - Harry Harrison (for old time's sake)
The World According to Clarkson Volume 3 - Jeremy Clarkson (cos I like the way he thinks and rants)
Moab is my Washpot - Stephen Fry (Just finished this, and I now like Stephen Fry a hell of a lot more)
World War 2 Behind Closed Doors - Laurence Reece

Oh, and a book about the cultural barriers inherent in setting up virtual teams with some based in the "West" comprised of "Western" staff and some based in India, comprised of Indian staff members.
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Post by owtth » Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:27 pm

Dasein wrote:He certainly does shine with some sort of inner light. a bit like Manson, or a drunk wizard, I guess. :hehe:

I'm reading Atonement and it is much better than I was expecting.
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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by Feck » Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:30 pm

Just finished The player of Games ,Ian M banks ........again
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Post by owtth » Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:49 pm

Feck wrote:Just finished The player of Games ,Ian M banks ........again

Now that book I fucking adore. one of the least "action packed" of his books but still one of the most nail biting. I've bought it about three or four times but have always given it to others never to be seen again. Banks is my favourite living writer and such a fucking gamer, there was one book (non sci-fi) where he described a game so well I could have sworn I played it. Something about using a nuclear blast to fly above an otherwise insurmountable mountain range, I really wanted a go at that.
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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:52 pm

A manual on how to work on something that doesn't exist. No problem, actually, the manual doesn't exist either.
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Post by owtth » Thu Sep 03, 2009 11:02 pm

Well then I can never be wrong, therefore I am perfect. It's all going swimmingly.
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Re: What are you reading now?

Post by Feck » Thu Sep 03, 2009 11:08 pm

owtth wrote:
Feck wrote:Just finished The player of Games ,Ian M banks ........again

Now that book I fucking adore. one of the least "action packed" of his books but still one of the most nail biting. I've bought it about three or four times but have always given it to others never to be seen again. Banks is my favourite living writer and such a fucking gamer, there was one book (non sci-fi) where he described a game so well I could have sworn I played it. Something about using a nuclear blast to fly above an otherwise insurmountable mountain range, I really wanted a go at that.
Damn the nuclear blast one was in...............of hell memory fail :oops:
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Post by owtth » Thu Sep 03, 2009 11:20 pm

Feck wrote:I read the wasp factory in a mental ward ,my shrink didn't seem very happy about that :hehe:
I very nearly pissed myself.
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