What books and mags do you read

[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 nice 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?

[ss_11000]

Whatever gave you that idea?

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.

[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." 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? )

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!

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.