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RE: What book are you reading?
July 29, 2011 at 11:31 pm
Just started a book a friend gave me a few months ago; "Weavers" Stephen Baxter (Time's Tapestry Book Four) Seems OK.
Quote:In this timeline, Hitler decided to launch Operation Sea Lion (a projected Nazi invasion of Great Britain) in 1940, shortly after a more devastating version of Dunkirk resulted in a shortage of British Army soldiers. However, due to Winston Churchill's lobbying of President Franklin Roosevelt and his Congress, there is some US military assistance provided. As with France during the First World War, there is only partial occupation of South-Eastern England, and a Nazi "Protectorate of Albion" (analogous to Vichy France in "our" timeline) is established. The Nazis occupy a band of territory that stretches from Portsmouth in the southwest, including communities like Tunbridge Wells, Horsham, Hastings, Pevensey, Dover, Folkestone and Gravesend. They establish a puppet regime in Canterbury led by renegade English Nazi collaborator Lord Haw Haw, and while London remains unoccupied, the adjacent occupation results in the evacuation of senior governmental personnel, politicians, George VI and his royal family to elsewhere in Northern England.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaver_%28S..._Baxter%29
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RE: What book are you reading?
July 30, 2011 at 6:46 pm
(July 10, 2011 at 9:11 pm)Epimethean Wrote: (July 10, 2011 at 5:29 pm)bozo Wrote: (July 10, 2011 at 10:09 am)Epimethean Wrote: Bozo, you might enjoy Mieville, even politically.
Can you please suggest which to start with?
I'd suggest starting with Perdido Street Station. Many of the books are connected in a way, but each is in a different genre (sort of). He is pretty unique, and his vocabulary has to be the best I've read.
Work in progress, I've just started Perdido.
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RE: What book are you reading?
July 31, 2011 at 7:58 am
'The truth' by terry pratchett.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_(novel)
I've recently started re-reading all his books. They just getter better every read. so sad he has dementia and is slowing down.
oh look theres a new one out in october.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Snuff-Discworld-...424&sr=8-1
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RE: What book are you reading?
July 31, 2011 at 10:12 am
Anybody have any good suggestions for books? I just got a gift certificate to Barnes and Nobles which I planned to spend entirely on Phillip K. Dick ebooks. Wouldn't you know it they don't have one damn book by him for download.
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RE: What book are you reading?
July 31, 2011 at 10:28 am
Have you read The Somnambulist and The Domino Men by Johnathan Barnes?
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RE: What book are you reading?
July 31, 2011 at 10:31 am
(July 31, 2011 at 10:28 am)Epimethean Wrote: Have you read The Somnambulist and The Domino Men by Johnathan Barnes?
Never even heard of them. Are they sci-fi?
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RE: What book are you reading?
July 31, 2011 at 10:36 am
They are sort of a sci-fi-steampunk fusion with a bit of social theory tossed in.
I assume that you have read Gibson's Neuromancer series.
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RE: What book are you reading?
July 31, 2011 at 10:41 am
(July 31, 2011 at 10:36 am)Epimethean Wrote: I assume that you have read Gibson's Neuromancer series.
Actually no. I started it at one point but didn't get very far for some reason or another, but I liked it. My dad's always telling me how awesome Gibson is so I ought to give it another go. Good suggestion.
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RE: What book are you reading?
July 31, 2011 at 11:22 am
(July 28, 2011 at 8:41 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: Er...just started it, but I adored his other book "A history of the world in six glasses," which was an interesting look at history hinging on six different drinks: beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and cola.
Now I have seen that one, I didn't even realize they were the same Author, I may read it after all.
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RE: What book are you reading?
August 1, 2011 at 4:26 am
'The Believing Brain' by Michael Shermer then 'Neuromancer' by William Gibson.
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