The "What are you currently reading?" thread

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Re: The "What are you currently reading?" thread

Post by Loric » Sat Jul 09, 2011 1:37 am

I'm currently reading the 2nd book in the Newsflesh trilogy my Mira Grant. Deadline. In a world where zombies broke out in 2014, and its now 20 years later, its and interesting look at what safety precautions are in place. More importantly when the original outbreak occurred the *mainline* news covered for as long as they could. It took one scientist hijacking his 9 year old daughters online blog to get the real story and *killing* methods out there. George Romero's films suddenly become educational in zombie killing. It shows the rise of the blogger and how even in a presidential campaign having someone recording full time can help or hinder depending and their bias. When the blogging team picked to shadow a presidential favorite (a first even then) are continually plagued by bad luck and outbreaks it seems that finding out the truth can be deadly game of cat and mouse. By the second book you find out revelations which rocks the foundation of what you thought you knew from book 1. They're must reads and I must say I'm looking forward to the third installment next year.
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Post by Gracey » Sat Jul 09, 2011 9:56 am

I am reading the autobiographical Fry Chronicles by Stephen Fry.

I dislike bios as a general rule, but Stephen Fry is one of my favourite personalities and also a very good writer. He has a poetic turn of phrase that makes rich descriptions of ordinary scenarios. And he is a very interesting man.
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Re: The "What are you currently reading?" thread

Post by Kaminoke » Tue Jul 12, 2011 11:27 pm

I've just finished reading The Resurrectionist by James Bradley - dreadful book, don't waste your money. :x In fact, if you DO want to read it, you can have my copy for free.

I don't give up my babies for love nor money, so that's saying something!

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Post by _my_purple_skys_ » Wed Jul 13, 2011 11:29 am

i am just staring the heroin diaries by Nikki Sixx. Highly reccomended by a friend and so far so good!

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Re: The "What are you currently reading?" thread

Post by Monique_marion_may » Wed Jul 13, 2011 11:31 am

I've just started reading 'The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks' the story behind the HeLa ceels, cells which made is possible for medicine to have major advances. Its really good.

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Re: The "What are you currently reading?" thread

Post by Lady J » Thu Jul 14, 2011 2:15 pm

The Hogfather from Terry Pratchett. Poor Terry, hope he's alright.
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