What books and mags do you read

[echnidna]

I've always been a voracious reader.
Anything from techo to classics.
I inherited the old mans collection of Parade magazines and I'm re-reading them. (Good job in front of a nice warm fire)

[ss_11000]

harry potter books are good.

zoo magazine is cool

other short books with interesting title

[Driver]

My dear wife reckons I would read anything that has print on it. She may be right. As a consequence of being forced - as a child - not to read at the table during mealtimes, I used to be able to recite by heart the French wording on the back of the old HP sauce bottle. Still can actually:

"Cette sauce de haute qualité est une mélange d’épices, des fruites orientaux et du vinaigre de malte...."

I'm rapidly running out of storage space for the better books in the collection. That gives me the perfect excuse, of course, to build some more bookcases.

Currently reading: John Mortimer's Quite Honestly. Just finished Alexander McCall Smith's 44 Scotland Street and The Sunday Philosophy Club (and I've got his latest Botswanan novel: Blue Shoes and Happiness in the wings). His work really appeals to me.

Sitting on the shelf, waiting to be read are a couple of Arturo Perez-Reverte novels and a Patricia Cornwell. I've still not got past the second chapter of Brother Fish by Bryce Courtenay (don't know what it is with that book - maybe it's the thought that if you dropped it on your foot you'd never walk again).

Magazines these days tend to be woodworking by nature: FWW and Popular Woodworking from the US and AWR from Oz (still an excellent publication). I read The Bulletin intermittently as with The Spectator, The Economist and The London Review of Books (bit too narrow, that last one).

Col

[Driver]

harry potter books are good.

zoo magazine is cool

other short books with interesting title


Good stuff, Stirlo! Read as much as you can. It expands your mind and keeps you entertained for life. Harry Potter books are good.

[ozwinner]

My fave read is.
Woodwork Monthly
.
Pawn Monthly.
More .
Old magazines from work.
.
Goat Monthly.
.
Wine Monthly.
.

I tell my wife Im married not dead. :p


And I am a Pawn Broker too.....

Al :D

[ss_11000]

Good stuff, Stirlo! Read as much as you can. It expands your mind and keeps you entertained for life. Harry Potter books are good.

i'm starting to think i'm reading too much about ww

ps post numba 600 for me

[Driver]

My fave read is.
Woodwork Monthly
.
Pawn Monthly.
More .
Old magazines from work.
.
Goat Monthly.
.
Wine Monthly.
.

I tell my wife Im married not dead. :p


And I am a Pawn Broker too.....

Al :D

So, Al. If you have such an abiding interest in pornography, you may be able to answer a question that has been bothering me for some time, to whit (try to stifle the urge to respond with: to whoo :rolleyes: ):-

How do you build a pornograph and where on the web would you find a free plan for one? Eh, eh? Answer me that. Go on!

[echnidna]

So, Al. If you have such an abiding interest in pornography, you may be able to answer a question that has been bothering me for some time, to whit (try to stifle the urge to respond with: to whoo :rolleyes: ):-

How do you build a pornograph and where on the web would you find a free plan for one? Eh, eh? Answer me that. Go on!


You could ask this fella, his is broken but ....
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=114329 :D

[ozwinner]

So, Al. If you have such an abiding interest in pornography, you may be able to answer a question that has been bothering me for some time, to whit (try to stifle the urge to respond with: to whoo :rolleyes: ):-

How do you build a pornograph and where on the web would you find a free plan for one? Eh, eh? Answer me that. Go on!

Goto.
www.pornograph.com (http://www.pornograph.com)

Al :)

[ozwinner]

So, Al. If you have such an abiding interest in pornography,

Its research Col, research.
I only read them for the articles anyway.

Al :p

[Driver]

Its research Col, research.
I only read them for the articles anyway.

Al :p

Is that the definite articles, the indefinite articles or the articles of women's clothing:rolleyes:, you smut peddler? :eek:

[ozwinner]

Well.............

Al :rolleyes:

[ele__13]

Boooks mmmmmmmmmm love em ....will read most things but cant come at soppy mush it does nothing for me love anything by Frank Mc Court ( he wrote angelas ashes i love bryce courtenay's books have read them all
love autobiography's and im reading about ruth crackenell atm
if i find something that grabs my attention ill just keep reading much to the kids dismay ....
looking forward to seeing wat i can find next to read .....

cheers all jules

[vsquizz]

The Da Vinci Code - best book I ever read. I studied PYI in engineering but didn't know all the religious and history stuff.

[mic-d]

I like to read a bit of anything, lately it has been fantasy (yeah I could fantasize about her, and her and oh definitly her;) )
but seriously I just reread Tolkein and now I'm reading Nelson Mandela's autobiography - pretty good. For a seriously disgusting funny read Irvine Walsh's "Filth" is well worth a look. Also like books like Jarred Diamond's "Guns Germs and Steel" and "1421". Quite like Jean Auels "clan of the cave bear" too.
I'm over Tom Clancy, hate Clive Cussler and also that dude who writes popular legal type stuff thats so predictable - can't remember his name...

Cheers
Michael

[graemet]

I'm about 2/3 through Peter Fitzsimons Kokoda. There's been some criticism by the reviewers but I think it's one of the most readable WW2 books since Popski's Private Army.
Cheers
Graeme

[glock40sw]

Anything by Clive Cussler
Also Matthew Riley

Shooters Journal
Guns Australia
American Handgunner
Timber Trader
Forest & Logger
Timber Trade Journal
Australian Photography

Just finished reading Thunder Run by David Zucchino.
Great read about the run into Baghdad.

[RufflyRustic]

yep another Matthew Reilly fan here too. Dick Francis

Stirlo, try S.E. Hinton and see what you think, eg, "That was then, this is now"


I've been through the fantasy, murder mysteries, science fiction - love the Chaos worlds and RingWorlds, and am now doing the romance thing, might move on to vampires next, just for something different. I go through so many books so quickly, that I may soon have to start at the "A" shelf and take the first 15 books of the shelf and keep going that way:rolleyes:

cheers
Wendy

[JDarvall]

The complete idiot's guide to wanking(:rolleyes: long story...don't ask).

One of those little 'Home Reakoner' books...

'Use the right word' by readers Digest. 1st edition too ! how lucky am I.

Macquarie dictionary....I'm up to the 'F' s.

[scooter]

Wendy, concur with SE Hinton, thought they were great when I was younger, The Outsiders, and Tex were a couple of other titles I think.

Went through a James Patterson phase, Dick Francis, Peter Corris, Arthur Hailey, Carl Hiassen.

Waiting to read The Da Vinci Code, sounds interesting.


Cheers..........Sean

[ss_11000]

Stirlo, try S.E. Hinton and see what you think, eg, "That was then, this is now"



cheers
Wendy

write good books does he?
what type/genre

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

I'll read almost anything. I draw the line at letterbox flyers though.

My fave genre'd have to be SciFi... but with the emphasis on the Sci and not so much Fi. Can't stand SF based on thinly concealed "magic." :p Grew up on Asimov & Clarke, they make the popular STrek muck look like the pulp it is.

Also love the old '50s WWII novels; "Sink the Scarnhorst," "Battle of the Bismark" and the African Campaign tank novels. "Reach for the sky" (Douglas Bader's story) and the escapes from POW camps. Good stuff. Of course, they were written by people who'd actually been there and survived... :) (Or are these tabu subjects 'cos they're about war & guns and wars kill people? :rolleyes: )

Terry Pratchett's _Discworld_ series is a good laugh, just for a change. I'm slowly collecting the set.

Sadly, most of my reading lately has been reference books & manuals. Mind you, I'm damned sure some of them are as big a work of fiction as Tolkien! :D:D

[ozwinner]

I'll read almost anything. I draw the line at letterbox flyers though.

My fave genre'd have to be SciFi... but with the emphasis on the Sci and not so much Fi. Can't stand SF based on thinly concealed "magic." :p Grew up on Asimov & Clarke, they make the popular STrek muck look like the pulp it is.

Also love the old '50s WWII novels; "Sink the Scarnhorst," "Battle of the Bismark" and the African Campaign tank novels. "Reach for the sky" (Douglas Bader's story) and the escapes from POW camps. Good stuff. Of course, they were written by people who'd actually been there and survived... :) (Or are these tabu subjects 'cos they're about war & guns and wars kill people? :rolleyes: )

Terry Pratchett's _Discworld_ series is a good laugh, just for a change. I'm slowly collecting the set.

Sadly, most of my reading lately has been reference books & manuals. Mind you, I'm damned sure some of them are as big a work of fiction as Tolkien! :D:D

Unfortunatly Andy, I couldnt read your post as you avatar is too busy and distracting.

I just scrolled past it.

Al :(

[Wood Butcher]

I've just read "Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown. Even better than the Da Vinci Code IMHO. I've also read a book called "The Duppy Conquerer". It's about a Jamaican boy that has to battle his families curse during his travels through the world. It is a really wierd plot with unexpected twists but I couldn't put it down. It's not a spook black magic book and worth a read.

[RufflyRustic]

write good books does he?
what type/genre

Actually, S E Hinton is a She and very good She writer too :)

Her first few books, another was Rumble Fish I think, should be right up your alley, because she wrote them about teenagers purely for teenagers, not kids and not adults, just someone like you Stirlo.

Anyway, I went back and re-read all her books recently, was a great trip down memory lane.

cheers
Wendy

[namtrak]

This is one of those annual questions.

Read everything. Woodworking magazines, gardening books, landscaping books, newspapers, websites etc.

Fav books.
Dice man
Grapes of Wrath
Da Vinci
Light on the Hill
Corellis Mandolin
Tolkien
Stephen Donaldson
Stranger in strange land
Rustle in the grass

etc etc

[ss_11000]

artemis fowl -cant remember who wrote it but it is a good series ( i've only read one of the books though)

[ss_11000]

Actually, S E Hinton is a She and very good She writer too :)

Her first few books, another was Rumble Fish I think, should be right up your alley, because she wrote them about teenagers purely for teenagers, not kids and not adults, just someone like you Stirlo.

Anyway, I went back and re-read all her books recently, was a great trip down memory lane.

cheers
Wendy

y r female writers using initials instead of thier names ( like jk rowling )?

i'll go to the library when i get back to school and have a flick thru a SE hinton book and see what they're like

[vsquizz]

I wondered how the more religious types found Brown's books, especially the Da Vinci Code...but I suppose that would be discussing religion:eek:

I got the trial subscriptions to a few work related mags the other week and they were 85% advertising:(

[Andy Mac]

I spend as much time reading as I do in the shed, and fairly eclectic with it. At present I'm going through a bit of a Sci-Fi phase, well into Peter Hamilton's 'The Reality Dysfunction' which is pretty heavy going. If you like the da Vinci code, try Umberto Eco's 'Foucault's Pendulum', a far better read, and better depth of knowledge too...I've read it 3 times. Same authr as 'Name of the Rose'.
I read lots of history stuff, recently went through a period of Islamic history, esp. the Ottomans; but also prehistory, paleo-botany and formation of landscape etc. Love stuff about the history of technology, and part of my thesis was on how artists have depicted machines, and used them.
Working at a uni means accss to a huge range of books.
Mags...I usually stick to woodwork, Grass Roots, and gardening, but have been known to poke my nose into women's trash gossip rags!:D :eek:

Cheers

[Wood Butcher]

I wondered how the more religious types found Brown's books, especially the Da Vinci Code...but I suppose that would be discussing religion:eek:
I'll make this short so this thread doesn't dissappear. My brother is a full-on bible-basher and he reckons that it may well be possible. There is a lot of stuff that goes on in this world that the average population will never know about cause either governments or churches hide it really well. He loves the book and has already booked tickets at the gala opening of the movie (cost him a couple hundred each!!:eek: )

Oh I also love Robert Ludlum's books. I was really disappointed with the Bourne movies. Nothing like the books at all:mad:

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

Unfortunatly Andy, I couldnt read your post as you avatar is too busy and distracting.

I just scrolled past it.

:D

Actually, I just put that on to test it. I'd have sworn I'd switched it back, don't know why it was still there when I logged on today... :confused:

[vsquizz]

Picked up Dan Brown's "Angels & Demons" last night...just finished it...Better than the Da Vinci code..excellent stuff....I just need to work out how to drive a Bobcat and read a book at the same time:eek:

[bsrlee]

Le'see - currently reading John Ringo's "Ghost" - which won an award as 'Best Romance" (these Yanks are crazy) - a good shoot 'em up & nuke 'em till they glow fantasy - he writes excellent SF too.

Other current authors - David Webber, Elizabeth Moon, Ryk Spoor, S.M. Stirling.

Just read Kylie Kwong's new book 'Simple Chinese' - yum.

Working myself up to reading 'Before the Mast - the Material Culture of the Mary Rose' - every thing from sock darners to what cuts of meat went into the salt pork. Is thick & very heavy, probably would have made 3 or 4 ordinary books. Plenty of wooden articles.

Mags - I read, in no particular order, Garden Railways, FWW, Military Illustrated, Shop Notes, Woodsmith, American Bungalow, Lee Valley catalogs, Lindsay Books catalogs ;) Australian Table. My Australian Women's Weeklys are personally delivered by Lyndey Milan

[ss_11000]

Other current authors - David Webber, Elizabeth Moon, Ryk Spoor, S.M. Stirling.



its people like that who make people who ask me my name ask me what my first name is. ( did that make sense?)(explanation: my first name is stirling and ppl think its my last name)

[ozwinner]

my first name is stirling and ppl think its my last name)

Is your last name Silver?
If so, you are Stirling Silver, or .925 ( the international code for Stirling Silver )..

I shall call you 925 from here on in.

Arise .925

Al :D

[ss_11000]

Is your last name Silver?
If so, you are Stirling Silver, or .925 ( the international code for Stirling Silver )..

I shall call you 925 from here on in.

Arise .925

Al :D
no al...its not..............

925........what about ag the chemical symbol thingy

anyway, we're getting http://www.ubeaut.biz/offtopic.gif ( for those thta dont no, the smilie page has been updated http://www.ubeaut.biz/woohoo.gif.)

[vsquizz]

Is your last name Silver?

Al :D

No way..you can't be named after a Horse!:rolleyes: :p

[echnidna]

But Cliffy (alias ROY) needs a horse.

If'n he can't find Trigger , Silver'll hafta do :D

[Schtoo]

Robert Heinlein (all of them), Jerry Pournell/Larry Niven (all I can find), Tom Clancy (all the fiction), Stephen King (all but Carrie, I think), Mathew Riley (all I know of) and a smattering of others. Harry Potter too (all of them again, see a pattern forming?).


When I get out of here, I usually load up a sizeable bag of books. A nice sized grey bag that when filled can be carried and doesn't stray over 32kg usually, and was purchased when I needed to cart a heap of books back to the hotel room.

Just wish there was a second hand bookshop around here that had English books...


(I don't watch TV, and have lots of dead time away from the puter. What else can I do?)

[MurrayD99]

Currently re-reading Ziegler's biography 'Mountbatten"; I think I own everything writen by Hunter S Thompson. Yes.... Harry Potter. Got all the Tom Clancy books and enjoy the earlier lot. Lots of biographies - many US political - JFK, LBJ, Eisenhower etc... stack of FWW and the bound annuals of The Woodworker from about 1981 - 84. Weekly: The Economist and The Independent. Monthly: Wooden Boat, Cycle World, The Garden, Literary Review. When I can get them - New Statesman. FT, WSJ.

This is a good source: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/chapters/index.html

[namtrak]

my first name is stirling and ppl think its my last name)


MORTLOCK!!!!!!!!!

[Shannon]

Maybe we could go with Peter (for the NRLfans;) )

Stirlo I agree with RR, I inherited 3 or 4 of SE Hintons books and I still like them, very easy to read and aimed at teenagers. They were written in the early 70's though so may seem a little dated. I read them in the 80's abd found them OK.
There have been a couple of movies made of her novels also - Rumblefish, The outsiders and a couple of others they have a very young Matt Dillon and a heap of others that those growing up in the 80's will LOVE remenissing about (the acting on the other hand is pretty tragic)

Anyhoo, for me, I have just started Lord of the Rings again. Just finished Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Like anything Matthew Reilly - how fast paced is he!!!
My wife and I can read Harry Potter till the cows come home - although I think LOTR has been ripped off quite a bit.
I wish I could get into non fiction as much as I can fiction though. I keep trying, sooner or later it will stick.
Another Aussie fantasy writer I like is Traci Harding quite a good read.
As far as mags go, modified car and hot rod mags, AWR when I can afford it.
The list would go on, but my lunch break will not ;) :rolleyes:

[Zed]

my first name is stirling and ppl think its my last name

with a name like stirling you're either walking down pouf'e street, in the SAS or an aenemic british blue blood that is wont to climb everest....

[silentC]

Too many to mention.
Everything by Iain Banks (or Iain M Banks).
Currently reading latest one by Ben Elton. Hasn't grabbed me yet.
I read the local paper for the letters and the classifieds, SMH for the news and Column 8. FWW and AWR for woodworking but find I don't read them cover to cover like I used to.

[ss_11000]

with a name like stirling you're either walking down pouf'e street, in the SAS or an aenemic british blue blood that is wont to climb everest....

too many difficult words to understand :confused:

[Zed]

aahhh.. Stirlo old cock, a penchant to misunderstand the queens english eh wot ? Evelyn Waugh would be so upset.

I'll try to "teen it down for you"

pouf'e - faggot

stirling - name suitable for british mountain climbers, faggots or world war 2 commando's

aeneimc - lack of iron in the blood thereby causing the lack of clotting and "the bleeders disease" suffered by Queen Victoria of England and her decendants (hence the pommy joke)

dont worry a few years under your belt and you'll remember how funny I was...

ha ha old chap! tally ho!!!

[ss_11000]

ah, i get it..............but thats not very nicehttp://www.ubeaut.biz/FIREdevil.gif and i thought u were meant to be funny....dissapointed ol chap.;)

[silentC]

i thought u were meant to be funny
Whatever gave you that idea? :rolleyes: :p

[ss_11000]

Whatever gave you that idea? :rolleyes: :p

just a few things here and there;)

[silentC]

BTW Zed, anaemia is a lack of red blood cells or haemoglobin in the blood and results in a reduced ability to carry oxygen. The disease you refer to is haemophilia. :p

[havenoideaatall]

I'll read almost anything. I draw the line at letterbox flyers though.

My fave genre'd have to be SciFi... but with the emphasis on the Sci and not so much Fi. Can't stand SF based on thinly concealed "magic." :p Grew up on Asimov & Clarke, they make the popular STrek muck look like the pulp it is.

Also love the old '50s WWII novels; "Sink the Scarnhorst," "Battle of the Bismark" and the African Campaign tank novels. "Reach for the sky" (Douglas Bader's story) and the escapes from POW camps. Good stuff. Of course, they were written by people who'd actually been there and survived... :) (Or are these tabu subjects 'cos they're about war & guns and wars kill people? :rolleyes: )

Terry Pratchett's _Discworld_ series is a good laugh, just for a change. I'm slowly collecting the set.

Sadly, most of my reading lately has been reference books & manuals. Mind you, I'm damned sure some of them are as big a work of fiction as Tolkien! :D:D
I'm with you, could never stand much in the way of sci-fi as magic doesn't cut it for me. When I was a kid, I liked the old fashioned Arthur C Clarke stuff, and a book called Farmer in the Sky by Heinlein(?)

Also love Paul Brickhall's work, as well as Reach for the Sky, he did Colditz. Also liked The Great Escape, A Bridge Too Far.

Good to see some good works being read here, on forums you often get people reading the same old trashy crime fiction which I personally think is the worst genre out there at the moment.

I like Tom Wolfe too, eg Bonfire of the Vanities, The Right Stuff.

Am also over Tom Clancy, he's got worse. Liked Debt of Honour and Executive Orders (10 years ago) and the Bear and the Dragon (5 years ago) was passable, but everything else is dire.