EM Posted August 13, 2011 Report Share Posted August 13, 2011 Because I like to own things!Fair enough, though in a sense you do partially own the libraries too.I dont think I have been to the library since primary school....It may be worthwhile giving it a try. I can't praise the public library system enough. In terms of civilisation they are right up there with free education and health care. Just imagine if they hadn't been introduced when they were and someone tried to introduce them now. Not a chance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oncomm Posted August 13, 2011 Report Share Posted August 13, 2011 reading the shetland bus, very good book and incredibly interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khitajrah Posted August 13, 2011 Report Share Posted August 13, 2011 I am sifting through a pile of scientific papers as research for a report I am writing. Currently reading: Change in Coreceptor Use Correlates with Disease Progression in HIV-1-Infected Individuals and looking forward to the day when I will have the time to read some brain candy again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ng7627 Posted August 13, 2011 Report Share Posted August 13, 2011 Have just finished 5th book by Jo Nesbo (The Redeemer) - Norwegian author akin to Stieg Laarson. Can't wait to get my hands on the 2 I haven't read - Nemesis and The Redbreast. Couldn't p[ut them down once I started to read them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherlock Posted August 13, 2011 Report Share Posted August 13, 2011 John Locke's "Donovan Creed" novels, on Kindle. Delightfully dark and slightly perverse and apparently amoral, however all is not as it seems. A recommended set of reads, particularly "Saving Rachel", and all are a snip at under a pound each!! Your humble servant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twamoons Posted August 17, 2011 Report Share Posted August 17, 2011 Hi, I'm reading The Valley of the Horses by Jean M Auel, a follow on from The Clan of the Cave Bears, quite different from what I usually read, and after a slow start I now want to know what happens next, there are a few pages you might like to speed through, but it is interesting to imagine what life was like back in the mists of time and the hardships they had to endure, no Clipper lighters then, lol, rubbing stones together, I can relate to that, we all have to learn things even now, too much technology is my problem, but a winter of nightclasses is at hand, I can pass them on when I'm finished, got to order the rest now, let me no if you're interested... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unlinkedstudent Posted August 21, 2011 Report Share Posted August 21, 2011 This web page. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shetlandpeat Posted August 21, 2011 Report Share Posted August 21, 2011 If This is a Man by Primo Levi A moving tale of survival. How low a human can go in society. It makes you thankful of the liberties we have now. There is also a play on DVD taken from this book. Read it or watch it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OP8S Posted August 21, 2011 Report Share Posted August 21, 2011 " Londonistan - How Britian has created a terror state within " by Melanie Phillips, certainly an interesting read, who's author is a recipient of the George Orwell Prize for journalism. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ally Posted September 8, 2011 Report Share Posted September 8, 2011 Just finished Dawn of The Dumb, which is basically just the collected Charlie Brooker articles from his old Guardian column. Hilarious, but dates pretty badly as most of them are on that week's TV, dating back to 2006. About to read The Roost by Shetland's Neil Butler, which looks a bit "Irvine Welshy", which I suppose can only be a good thing... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wullie m. Posted September 8, 2011 Report Share Posted September 8, 2011 Andy Wightman's, "The Poor Had No Lawyers", very scholarly work on land, lairds, factors, crofters, lawyers & their laws. Should be taught in the schools. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherlock Posted September 8, 2011 Report Share Posted September 8, 2011 "The Burning Soul", John Connolly. He writes elegiac prose, similar to my other favorite author, James Lee Burke. I simply cannot get enough and Watson and I have waited and waited for this novel (yes, Watson, I shall continue reading aloud in just one moment! Honestly, dear friends, he can be such a child sometimes! ). I remain, Your thoroughly engrossed and humble servant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DizzyKipper Posted September 8, 2011 Report Share Posted September 8, 2011 Soul of the fire by Terry Goodkind, half way through the Sword of Truth Series. Have the next one out of the library also... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzanna Posted October 21, 2011 Report Share Posted October 21, 2011 I've been listening to the autobiography called White Slave, by Marco Pierre White, 'Celebrity Chef' has anyone read or listened to it or read it, if so what thoughts? It totally changed my views on the guy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wullie m. Posted October 22, 2011 Report Share Posted October 22, 2011 Sherlock, just read a back number, Spring '82, of The Countryman, in which there's an article on Sherlock's origins. A countryman who spent a third of his life in London, he retired to West Cornwall at the end of the century. "The lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside!" he states. Holmes never mentions his parents, he author speculates that one of them murdered the other. Regards, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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