Need to get a new book, would like to know if you can recommend any that are worth going out to get.
As a filler and never having read a Dickens novel before, I pulled 'Great Expectations' out of our bookshelf thinking it was going to be a laborious exercise but from page one I couldn't put the thing down.
'The Trouble With Physics' by Lee Smolin was a bit of a mission, but puts an interesting perspective on the more well known Stephen Hawking books, and media hype. Not to mention the place of string theory in modern theoretical physics. I found myself wanting to know what's changed in that space in the six years since he wrote it.
Title: "Dicks and Dickheads I have known"
Author: Leo Laden
Publisher: Hesperian Press
memoirs of a pox doctor.
based in W.A. and kicked out of the health department for not towing the P.C. line.
Leo is a real character, and a top bloke with a great story.
stephen
"What's it like? Schozophrenia I mean," Caine said awkwardly realizing he had never asked his brother the question before. "What's it feel like?"
Jasper shrugged his shoulders. "It doesn't feel like anything. The delusions seem real. Natural, even obvious. Like it's the most ordinary thing in the world that the government is spying on your thoughts or that your best friend is trying to kill you." He didn't say anything for awhile. "That's why is so f** scary."
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The Mawson book, written by Peter Fitzsimmins is good, it's thick but easy to read.
The girl with the dragon tattoo and the follow ons are pretty good if you haven't already read them.
Hotel Kerobokan
About the goings on inside Bali's jail.
Absolutely nuts what goes on in there.
oh come on, 13 posts and no one mentioned 50 shades.
Sure to be a future classic.....
I got through the first 2/3 of book one, and went back to reading the outboard manual.
1421, about china discovering the world. best book ive ever read, will make you think
The wolf of wall street - true rags to riches story of a drug addicted, womanising, party animal and would rip off anybody of their life savings only to blow the money on the most fun things, ever...
Almost sounds made up and pisses on any rock stars face.
The follow up - catching the wolf of wall street is s.hit so don't waste your money. He ended up imprison and lost it all. There, saved you 30 bucks.
not a great deal happens? how far into it did you get? it can't have been more than a chapter...while we're on the ruskies, dostoyevsky's crime and punishment is well worth a read, still as relevant today as when it was written.
I've been browsing thru the Mrs book of '50 Shades of Grey'. Not reading just picking up key words like anal fisting,etc.
best site on the" interweb "
never be stuck for something to read
books that are now in the public domain
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/ 40 000 odd "FREE" reads
Oz site
gutenberg.net.au/
One of my favourites when pirates really were pirates
A Voyage to New Holland, Etc. in the Year 1699 by William Dampier
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15675
the is also the online archive
archive.org
I like SF and my all time favorit is Stranger in a Strange Land a 1961 science fiction novel by American author Robert. Classic read it a few times!
I keep my fists to myself
I have not read it lately but if you have not read Dune then do it. It's an amazing book. Timeless too as although it's science fiction it in a setting where technology takes a completely different path to what it has done in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Other than that I've been reading Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer. It's a bit of an eye opener on how Hitler and the Nazis operated.
