Jim Colyer Posted October 25, 2006 Report Share Posted October 25, 2006 I just read Forrest Gump by Winston Groom. http://jimcolyer.com/papers/entry?id=127 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monomer Posted October 25, 2006 Report Share Posted October 25, 2006 Strong Motion by Jonathan Franzen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boerseun Posted October 25, 2006 Report Share Posted October 25, 2006 I just read Forrest Gump by Winston Groom.Read it a few weeks ago, much better than the movie! Ole' Forrest makes a turn in space, as well, a scene which never made it to the film script.There are plenty other non-movie scenes as well, which made it a pretty good read!(Granted - the movie had a much better soundtrack than the book...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tormod Posted October 25, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2006 Currently reading the final book by Neal Stephenson (not his last, but the only one I haven't read - I think). It's titled The Diamond Age. Stephenson is a fantastic writer. His Baroque trilogy was stunning but far far far too long. I have just completed Interface, Cobweb, and Snow Crash, and they were all quite good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronthepon Posted October 25, 2006 Report Share Posted October 25, 2006 I've just come across Mario Puzo's 'The last Don' Damn, he's a great writer, I have to see the rest of his workings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hannoes Posted December 12, 2006 Report Share Posted December 12, 2006 The Mémoires from Hector Berlioz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michaelangelica Posted January 20, 2007 Report Share Posted January 20, 2007 Just read a most delightful and moving book by David Almond called The Fire Eaters.Got it from the young adult section of the library.He has won the Whitebread and Carnegie medals, for other books, so I thought why not? Wow what a deceptively powerful and simple little bookIt is simply written like a Hemingway with the power of a SteinbeckAmazing, quietly evocative, atmospheric book set on the pebble coal beaches in a poor 1962 N EnglandGood read - now I have to find the ones he did win medals for and who beat him in 2003 when he published this. It must have been some book! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boerseun Posted January 20, 2007 Report Share Posted January 20, 2007 Just finished Asterix and the Mansions of the Gods. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay-qu Posted January 20, 2007 Report Share Posted January 20, 2007 Finished Foundation last week, kinda stuck now, cant find "foundation and empire" in any of the local shops - probably just get it online :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steph_r Posted January 22, 2007 Report Share Posted January 22, 2007 Just finishing "A Child Called It", by Dave Pelzer. Very touching story about child abuse. Good read. Tormod 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Parker Posted January 26, 2007 Report Share Posted January 26, 2007 Just finishing "A Child Called It", by Dave Pelzer. Very touching story about child abuse. Good read.That is a very very brutal book....and its pretty sad. I just hope hes not faking it like the guy that wrote "A Million little pieces" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Parker Posted January 26, 2007 Report Share Posted January 26, 2007 Just started on "The Emperor's New Mind" by Roger Penrose The start of the book is about AI, algorithms and turing machines. Interesting stuff, but I cant wait till a bit further in though, it turns into more of a cosmological book Sounds intersting...Ill have to check that one out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay-qu Posted January 26, 2007 Report Share Posted January 26, 2007 Its a really hefty read, I am still reading it, I pick it up from time to time as im reading other things.. Just finished the Quantum section which has left my mind buzzing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Becca Posted January 26, 2007 Report Share Posted January 26, 2007 im reading catch 22, and have been for more months than id care to mention. i keep getting disracted by actual degree work, selfish. that involves quantum mechanics my I M Rae and my bible physics for scientists and engineers, affectionatly refered to in my department by the auther's name of Tipler. legendary. Tormod 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michaelangelica Posted January 26, 2007 Report Share Posted January 26, 2007 The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery,( annouced, oddly, today as Astralian of the year.)7.30 Report - 25/01/2007: Tim Flannery announced Australian of the YearThe scariest book I have read in along time. Things you thought you knew about Global Warming but were afraid to ask. Some stuff I knew but a lot I didn't- like rising sea temps 4-5miles under. Oddly because we have not signed the Koto Protocol along with Lichtenstein, Monarco and some other tin pot county who's name escapes me:) . Tomorrow it will be 20C in local sea/surf.15C in city of Hobart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay-qu Posted January 27, 2007 Report Share Posted January 27, 2007 I just got "The nature of space and time" by Hawking and Penrose for my birthday :naughty: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarantism Posted February 5, 2007 Report Share Posted February 5, 2007 i am currently reading Villa Incognito by Tom Robbins and In Search of Memory by Eric R. Kendall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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