Book Club..

[Guest]

I like certain fantasy/sci-fi authors along with action thriller writers, essentially anything that offers escapism to an extent. From fantasyland...Raymond E Feist, Janny Wurts, Brandon Sanderson, Robert Jordan...and action thrillers, can't go past Vince Flynn. I also like Matthew Betley and Matthew Reilly.

 

[TheDaBoss]

Switch between fiction and non fiction often

no preferance,

 

[cochise]

I like certain fantasy/sci-fi authors along with action thriller writers, essentially anything that offers escapism to an extent. From fantasyland...Raymond E Feist, Janny Wurts, Brandon Sanderson, Robert Jordan...and action thrillers, can't go past Vince Flynn. I also like Matthew Betley and Matthew Reilly.

I love Feist, Wurts and Jordan from that list.

 

[mike]

It is funny what memories this thread has brought up. When I was at high school, many decades ago now, I hated reading. I always thought it was me. I couldn’t stand the books. We had to read things like Jane Eyre, Catcher in the Rye, Wuthering Heights just to name a few. It wasn’t until I left school and discovered Science Fiction that a actually started to enjoy reading. Then I made up for it. Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Frank Herbert, Doctor Who Target series books. Most of the hard copies are gone now replaced by the Kindle App versions. I now basically carry a library with me wherever I go. Who would have thought.

 

[tigger]

I have a copy of the complete works of Franz Kafka. It's quite a hefty tome. I have to admit that it's currently being used to raise the level of my computer screen to help improve my posture.
Sorry Franz.

Is "**Letter to my father"** included in the complete works?

I think you mean "Letter to his father". Yes it is

 

[tigger]

It is funny what memories this thread has brought up. When I was at high school, many decades ago now, I hated reading. I always thought it was me. I couldn’t stand the books. We had to read things like Jane Eyre, Catcher in the Rye, Wuthering Heights just to name a few. It wasn’t until I left school and discovered Science Fiction that a actually started to enjoy reading. Then I made up for it. Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Frank Herbert, Doctor Who Target series books. Most of the hard copies are gone now replaced by the Kindle App versions. I now basically carry a library with me wherever I go. Who would have thought.

Kindle is great, particularly if you're travelling overseas (not likely in the immediate future). It's also been great during this isolation period, to be able to download a book whenever I want something to read.
Fortunately my brother introduced me to Biggles books when I was about eight. I've been hooked on reading ever since.

 

[Guest]

It is funny what memories this thread has brought up. When I was at high school, many decades ago now, I hated reading. I always thought it was me. I couldn’t stand the books. We had to read things like Jane Eyre, Catcher in the Rye, Wuthering Heights just to name a few. It wasn’t until I left school and discovered Science Fiction that a actually started to enjoy reading. Then I made up for it. Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Frank Herbert, Doctor Who Target series books. Most of the hard copies are gone now replaced by the Kindle App versions. I now basically carry a library with me wherever I go. Who would have thought.

Kindle is great, particularly if you're travelling overseas (not likely in the immediate future). It's also been great during this isolation period, to be able to download a book whenever I want something to read.
Fortunately my brother introduced me to Biggles books when I was about eight. I've been hooked on reading ever since.

Yeah I'm a fan of Kindle, so easy to read a new book plus it's a hell of a lot cheaper.

 

[tigger]

It is funny what memories this thread has brought up. When I was at high school, many decades ago now, I hated reading. I always thought it was me. I couldn’t stand the books. We had to read things like Jane Eyre, Catcher in the Rye, Wuthering Heights just to name a few. It wasn’t until I left school and discovered Science Fiction that a actually started to enjoy reading. Then I made up for it. Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Frank Herbert, Doctor Who Target series books. Most of the hard copies are gone now replaced by the Kindle App versions. I now basically carry a library with me wherever I go. Who would have thought.

Kindle is great, particularly if you're travelling overseas (not likely in the immediate future). It's also been great during this isolation period, to be able to download a book whenever I want something to read.
Fortunately my brother introduced me to Biggles books when I was about eight. I've been hooked on reading ever since.

Yeah I'm a fan of Kindle, so easy to read a new book plus it's a hell of a lot cheaper.

Haha. Sometimes it's cheaper.
I bought my wife a kindle for her birthday and attached it to my account. That way we can share our books. But every time she buys a book it debits my credit card.
Truly the gift that keeps on giving.

 

[bacon]

Haven't read a book right through for many years now lol.....I used to read a lot when I was younger...not as much these days.

 

[TillLindemann]

Great to see all these people liking Kafka. He was brilliant.

 

[TillLindemann]

I think Dostoyevsky would have to be the all time best author.

 

[TillLindemann]

Another good one, reading at the moment - The Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett. I can't put it down.

 

[TillLindemann]

Don't really read fiction, but I do read a bit of non-fiction and biographical stuff.

I'll read anything by Stephen Hawking. There's a few books I've got to get my hands on by Brian Cox and Neil deGrasse Tyson. The Cosmos book by Carl Sagan was brilliant. If anyone is into spaceflight, Failure is not an Option by Gene Kranz is a great read into one of the men who was instrumental in the early and peak period of US spaceflight when it was still exciting for the public.

Philip Carlo's books on the Richard Kuklinski and Tommy Pitera were good reads.

I've enjoyed Steve Waugh's and Tim Ross' biographies especially as well.

Would also like to read the personal accounts of Paul Keating, JWH, Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull as well when I have a spare few months.

Cosmos is great! and the old Carl Sagan tv series of the same name as well. Have you read Fabric of the Cosmos, by Brian Greene?

 

[trentrunciman]

I think Dostoyevsky would have to be the all time best author.

after reading crime and punishment, i'm of the belief he's killed someone before

 

[TillLindemann]

I think Dostoyevsky would have to be the all time best author.

after reading crime and punishment, i'm of the belief he's killed someone before

Haha. well, he at least would have met plenty of killers in the prison camp he was sent to.

And he stared death in the face when he was put before a firing squad, and given a reprieve at the last second.

 

[tiger_scott]

@Geo Matthew Riley is a great author. If you like his books you should check out "I am Pilgrim" by Terry Hayes and the "Orphan X" series by Gregg Hurwitz; I'm currently reading book 5.
I can also highly recommend "Ready Player One", the book that the recent movie was based upon.
Scifi fans shoud check out "Neuromancer" by William Gibson. It's quite old now, but still a fantastic read.

 

[trentrunciman]

I think Dostoyevsky would have to be the all time best author.

after reading crime and punishment, i'm of the belief he's killed someone before

Haha. well, he at least would have met plenty of killers in the prison camp he was sent to.

And he stared death in the face when he was put before a firing squad, and given a reprieve at the last second.

that's a good point! Even Raskolnikov was exiled at the end of the book

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

Don't really read fiction, but I do read a bit of non-fiction and biographical stuff.

I'll read anything by Stephen Hawking. There's a few books I've got to get my hands on by Brian Cox and Neil deGrasse Tyson. The Cosmos book by Carl Sagan was brilliant. If anyone is into spaceflight, Failure is not an Option by Gene Kranz is a great read into one of the men who was instrumental in the early and peak period of US spaceflight when it was still exciting for the public.

Philip Carlo's books on the Richard Kuklinski and Tommy Pitera were good reads.

I've enjoyed Steve Waugh's and Tim Ross' biographies especially as well.

Would also like to read the personal accounts of Paul Keating, JWH, Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull as well when I have a spare few months.

Cosmos is great! and the old Carl Sagan tv series of the same name as well. Have you read Fabric of the Cosmos, by Brian Greene?

No I haven't, what vein is it in? Is it like Cosmos, or a bit more involved?

Have you watched the Cosmos reboot that NdT did?

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

I think Dostoyevsky would have to be the all time best author.

after reading crime and punishment, i'm of the belief he's killed someone before

“You know we were talking earlier about Dostoevsky? – Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky... Born 1821... Died 1881...”

 

[trentrunciman]

I think Dostoyevsky would have to be the all time best author.

after reading crime and punishment, i'm of the belief he's killed someone before

“You know we were talking earlier about Dostoevsky? – Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky... Born 1821... Died 1881...”

what do you mean CB? You guys were talking about dosteovsky in another thread?