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Charity by Lesley pearse. It's my wife's book & she has all her books & i had nothing to read so i thought i'd give one a go. Very good read!!

In the constellation of cygnus,There lurks a mysterious force...The black hole

StarsongAgeless wrote:

Recently read all of the Song of Ice and Fire series (that's out so far)... I thought it was excellent, and probably the most well-written fantasy series I have read to date. The characters really come alive, and the plot is very realistic-feeling even though it is a fantasy book.

My fiance tried to get me to read the Magic the Gathering books... hahahaha.

A chapter of one of those was enough to amuse me for the next six years, it was written so poorly.

I agree with you on both counts - I was already familiar with George RR Martin and so I've been following Ice and Fire since it started. Like you, I have an extremely intelligent who loves fantasy, which as a genre contains some remarkably bad writing (though little top compare with Dan Brown for sheer mind boggling awfulness). George RR Martin is a pleasing exception to the rule and Ice and Fire works partly by subverting most of fantasy's conventions and partly by presenting some extremely well realised and generally quite venomous characters.

At the moment I'm reading the excellent Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami, a brilliant piece of magic realism that's like a Japanese version of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I've also read the enjoyable but rather more straightforward Norwegian Wood and some of his short fiction.

'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'

Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom

Syzygy wrote:

At the moment I'm reading the excellent Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami, a brilliant piece of magic realism that's like a Japanese version of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I've also read the enjoyable but rather more straightforward Norwegian Wood and some of his short fiction.

You should try 'The windup bird chronicles' by Murakami - absolutely nothing happens, but in a beautifully written way

Jon Lord 1941 - 2012

Not too long ago I finished reading Sophie's World

Now reading An Alchemy of Mind

I'm reading Henry Miller too: Tropic of Cancer.

just reread The Sickness Unto Death by Soren Kierkegaard
its a great read, but I don't really understand how he can say that despair comes about as a result of not willing to believe in God and yet he praises existential individualism

not as bad as Nietzsche though

I am but a servant of the mighty Fripp, the sound of whose loins shall forever be upon the tongues of his followers.

well, yes, but he blindly followed god and promoted him as the only source of final rest... just not objective enough for my tastes, especially after reading Sartre's interpretations of Kierkegaard

I am but a servant of the mighty Fripp, the sound of whose loins shall forever be upon the tongues of his followers.

I've just finished "The Goldilocks Enigma" by Paul Davies - and would recommended to all fans of astro-physics and quantuum mechanics alike

I just started on "Bang!" by Brian May (yes, he of the dodgy girly hairdo and penchant for guitar-building), Patrick Moore and Chris Lintott.

It's got some really great pictures in

The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Have you read Sophie's World, Rooster? I think you would enjoy it. It gives an overview of the history of philosophy, quite comprehensive in a general sense without getting bogged down in any one philosopher.

Not one I read recently......but I would heartily Recommend
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

An amazing piece of work and easily the funniest book about the war ever written.
Works on so many levels that it is literally breathtaking with the blackest humor i've ever come across.

Certainly 'One to read before you die'