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Dirty Davey wrote:I like to read anything by Bernard Cornwell, the Sharpe books are great as are all his others. I'm also reading the Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan (RIP sadly) and waiting for the last in that series to come out.

Someone after my own heart!!!!!!! If you like the Sharpe books you should try the Aubrey-Maturin books by Patrick O'Brian if you haven't already. They're set at sea during the same period and are excellent!

I read pretty much everything! I love to read fantasy, sci-fi and sh*te like Andy McNab to relax on a beach or in bed when it's freezing! Other than that I read a load of semi-popular science and psychology books!

I mostly read non-fiction, in so many different categories I hesitate to name them. Medical, writing, occult, and languages/linguistics are heavily represented.

As far as fiction, I stick mainly to Golden Age (roughly 1930-1950) detective stories and "hard" sci-fi. Favourite mystery authors are Ellery Queen, Edmund Crispin, Ngaio Marsh, and Freeman Wills Crofts. I don't really have any favourite SF authors, but Isaac Asimov is always high on my list.

I've just finished Degrees of the Zodiac Symbolised and The Mystery of the Sleeping Car Express, and my current bedside reading is Game Writing: Narrative Skills for Videogames. I've also been listening to an audiobook of I, Robot while I work.

Dirty Davey wrote:I like to read anything by Bernard Cornwell, the Sharpe books are great as are all his others. I'm also reading the Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan (RIP sadly) and waiting for the last in that series to come out.

The last in the Wheel of Time series is due out in October. In the mean time you could do worse than check out books by Brandon Sanderson (sp?) - Elantris or the Mistborn trilogy. He's the guy who has been chosen to write the last one and his own books give me hope that he can do the Wheel of Time justice.

Richard

Anything by Terry Pratchett.

i try not to read fiction - it's too made-up

read the novel, the magician, a few year's back

the idea of disc world makes me despair

becoming an academic book on becoming a criminal

This book may be of interest to some people. I haven't read it but it sounds very good (21 five star reviews on Amazon US).

So many books, not enough hours in the day.

I just realized I didnt list any of my pref.
Anything By RA Salvatore
and Any Forgotten Realms done by Lisa Smedman

I'm a big fan of the D&D based books as long as Ed Greenwood doesnt write them

Replicant wrote:The next book I'll be reading will probably be The Trachtenberg Speed System of Basic Mathematics. Although I haven't started it yet, I have a funny feeling it will be a revelation and utterly fascinating.

You wont be disappointed - it is a fascinating book and one that could easily be taught in schools. It could be we are too hung up on learning times tables parrot fashion.

The other book you recommended looks interesting too.

On a non related subject, For anyone intersted, I have just finished "the end of mr y" a novel - and actually a lot better than I thought at first it would be. It had some fascinating ideas - and was I thought well written. Recommended.

Bunny Suicides.

http://www.jimmyr.com/blog/Bunny_Suicid ... 6_2007.php

I'm going through the first few Sherlock Holmes. Also taking the odd break to refresh my knowledge of Greek mythology.