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I'm currently near the end of the The Postman by David Brin and then I'm going to start on The Elder Scrolls: The Infernal City by Greg Keyes.

Non fiction: A History of Modern Indonesia by Merle Ricklefs. Got 3 more books on the same subject on my shelf.

Re-reading The 5 People You Meet in Heaven

I'm about 300 pages into it and that is the case so far - the pace is picking up a bit now after a long introduction to the inconveniently numerous Vanger family. Sexual violence was mainly absent from the first part of the book, which surprised me given the original title, but is shaping to be the theme of the rest of it.

HP and the PS was fun. *grins* Will have to read through the rest of the series once I get this depressing stuff outta the way.

Reading an autographed copy of Pat Conroy's "My Reading Life"

Also Reading "A Comprehensive Treatise to Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry Vol. 1"

send in the idiots by kamran nazeer

I've seen someone reading that before at school.

Cigarettes by Harry Mathews.

Techniques of High Magic by Francis King

[i]Frankenstein[i] by Mary Shelley. For the umpteenth time. Going to see a stage version tomorrow night, so I've been getting in the mood.

Reading Chaos: Making a New Science, with Lolita and Anna Karenina on the side.

I'm reading Crime by Irvine Welsh the guy who wrote trainspotting I've read most of his books hapahazardly over the years. I don't really rate him as being a high brow writer but as a fellow Scot I understand where he is coming from and I love his tales of urban deprivation and pain as I've wore that t-shirt myself.

I find him very funny too, like in the book I'm reading just now it's about a Scottish cop trying to take a little girl to an Uncle's house to get her away from her mothers friends i.e a group of despicable nonces one of whom just happens to be a Miami cop.

What made me laugh last night though was when he made the point that Elvis when he was in the Army had a cushy time of it in Germany were he used to meet up with a fourteen year old Priscilla the CO's daughter in his army apartments.

Basically he called Elvis a Nonce but went on to say that the Army etc allowed this to go on because Elvis was a gentleman they said.

A "gentleman nonce" only Irvine welsh could come out with that one and get away with it in print Lol. I was laughing my ass off for about five minutes after I read that ridiculous statement about the King.

Spike Milligan next he's very good at making me laugh also.

I've read a few books by Tolstoy and Orwell and other guys like that but I must say none of them provide me with the entertainment I get form reading Welsh !

Orwell bores the shirt off me he's so thouroughly dour and depressing.

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He died a mysterious death didn't he hence the hype surrounding his writing - more famous now he's dead sort of thing.

I agree his book is a hard read but it's easier to listen to I'm listening to it on audio book. I'm not blind I just enjoy listening to books sometimes.

If you want a decent read that is not boring at all I reccomend true grit that's a book amongst books that never loses it's appeal and is never dull or boring to read.

I've read a couple of books since posting last, but I am now reading a book by Daniel Tammet, Born on A Blue Day.

Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

and

Of Mice & Men by John Steinbeck