What book(s) are you reading currently?

[73north]

Just finished reading this ( I got the special numbered limited edition bookplate - with autograph from Dave Kendall the artist )
anyway - although I have read it before , I really enjoying reading it without any gaps or weekly pauses - it really is very enjoyable .

Deadworld is the realm of the Dark Judges.
It started out as being recognisable as a future Earth, but - while having advanced technology - still more similar to late 20th/early 21st century than contemporary Mega-City One.
There are various differences to the main reality, including the Judges and the names of American states (the existence of Tuscarora), but the crucial difference is that the world already viewed life more cheaply than Dredd's own.

Dear Wendigo - you are recommended to try abebooks - a far superior source for out of print books

[ellias]

"Lincoln" by David Herbert Donald. The definitive biography of Abraham Lincoln.

I had DVR'd the movie "Lincoln" from a free weekend preview of HBO a number of months ago. Somewhere in the middle of its presentation I had tuned in and caught a few minutes but the AL as portrayed by Daniel Day Lewis did not look familiar at all. I had preconceived notions of Lincoln that were entirely false. I felt like getting to know the character through a book would be the logical precursor to viewing the movie. I'm 100 pages in and the real Lincoln is markedly different than my assumptions were.

[Sir Honkers]

Beyond The Aquila Rift. A collection of scifi short stories by Alastair Reynolds. Most of them I've already read, but his tales never get old. After that, his new book Revenger.

[Leprechaun]

Püstow, Schachner: Jack the Ripper - Anatomie einer Legende
(Jack the Ripper - Anatomy of a Legend)



Definitively the best German book on the subject of this case.

[jesegr]

Originally Posted by Wendigo

A book about books

Paperbacks from Hell: A History of Horror Fiction from the '70s and '80s



I got through the 1970's and 1980's avidly reading at least one horror paperback a week and this brings back great memories.
What can you say about a book that has the sheer audacity to start off with a book on Nazi Leprechauns and then to try to get even more bizarre.

The only problem here is I know I will want to get hold of some of these old books again so ebay may be my next port of call.

I've got this one as well. I loved it, brought back so many memories of growing up in the early 80's and browsing the horror section in my local bookstores.

[sledge]

The Shining at WIKIPEDIA

[MrLinc]

Just started The Caves of Steel, by Isaac Asimov.

[MaxJoker]

[movieman88]

Originally Posted by MaxJoker

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Probably a result of the popularity of The Man in the high Castle I have been seeing a lot of alternate post WW2 history products lately, novels & otherwise.

Gonna try and read this in the coming year.

Decades ago, Japan won the Second World War. Americans worship their infallible Emperor, and nobody believes that Japan's conduct in the war was anything but exemplary. Nobody, that is, except the George Washingtons - a shadowy group of rebels fighting for freedom. Their latest subversive tactic is to distribute an illegal video game that asks players to imagine what the world might be like if the United States had won the war instead.*
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Captain Beniko Ishimura's job is to censor video games, and he's working with Agent Akiko Tsukino of the secret police to get to the bottom of this disturbing new development. But Ishimura's hiding something... He's slowly been discovering that the case of the George Washingtons is more complicated than it seems, and the subversive videogame's origins are even more controversial and dangerous than either of them originally suspected.

[longjon73]

So if you know your Ian Fleming, you know that he loved Jamaica, spent every winter there after the war, and wrote all the Bond novels and stories there. And in fact some of the best moments in the books are when Bond goes to the West Indies.

There are plenty of biographies of Fleming out there, but this has a different angle, concentrating on his links to Jamaica in that end of empire period, how the island was changing, and how that fed into the creation of James Bond.