 | | | Subject: (The Return of) What book are you reading at this time?
Posted May 25, 2001 by Ek* this space intentionally left blank *ki
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  | | As per most of the people here, I too have three on the go at the same time ...
HHGttG due to obvious events and also cos I've only read it once - got the omnibus with the first four books - started on monday and am just about to finish The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (have to say it contains one of my favourite lines of all time: "He's spending a year dead for tax reasons" - absolutely superb!)
Karl Marx - biography of the feller rather than a Marxist rant - very interesting although hardly what you'd call light reading!
Crime and Punishment - old Fyodor doing his stuff - splendid!
I always have The Complete Works of Saki somewhere nearby ... have four copies scattered in various places including a copy in the car ... it's got to be done.
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| | | Subject: (The Return of) What book are you reading at this time?
Posted May 28, 2001 by  Willem
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| | How weird is this? I keep running into Dax today!
Okay, I also read lotsa books all at once.
At the moment:
"Finn en sy mense" by Karel Schoeman (Fionn and the Fianna, Afrikaans translation)
"A Guide to Mathematics for the Intelligent Nonmathematician" by Edmund C. Berkeley
"Lewis Carrol, and Illustrated Biography" by Derek Hudson
"The Mind Map Book" by Tony and Barry Buzan
I'm not only reading many books at the moment, I'm also writing one!
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| | | Subject: (The Return of) What book are you reading at this time?
Posted May 29, 2001 by Indefatigable
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| | Right now I'm reading "Hornblower and the Hotspur" by C. S. Forester. Last month I saw two made-for-TV movies based on "Lieutenant Hornblower" and starring Ioan Gruffudd and Paul McGann. I had been meaning to read Hornblower for a long time, and had forgotten, but the movies reminded me. I started with "Mr. Midshipman Hornblower" and I was hooked. What impressed me the most was that these are not just straight-up sea adventures of the kind that might be found in a collection of stories for Boy Scouts. In the background are stories of battles and wars and ships; but the focus is on the story of one person, and his thoughts and feelings about war, military life, honour, punishment, love, etc. They are very human stories, and at the same time provide suspenseful and breathtaking adventure. It's been a long time since I have found a book that I genuinely didn't want to put down. During exams this year I was getting about five hours of sleep a night, and a couple of those nights were short due to the fact that I was trying to allow myself regular, brief periods of relaxation, and my method of choice was reading Hornblower... bad idea. Once I finished the second book, I made myself hold off on reading "Hotspur" until exams were over, since I knew I wouldn't get any sleep with Hornblower in my dorm room.
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