What book are you reading at the moment

[leadhillsonline]

I'm reading Echoes of the Great Song by David Gemmell. Not one of my favourite authors but I'm fast running out of reading matter until Christmas.

[bykimbo]

aaaaw.....Kim...that must be so cool, to be reading a book with your name in it.
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Cute, huh? I expect if one's called Laura or something one gets used to it, but Kim's unusual enough to rarely apply unless one's reading Kipling.

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I must dig out my John Windham stuff...haven't read anything of his for a bit

Wyndham (not a spelling flame, just for anybody who's looking to search for him!) was a first rate writer. His Midwich Cuckoos was one of the books I read in my teens that really stayed with me.

[paintinglemonjane]

Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol. Author of the Da vinci Code and Angels and Demons.

Another good book.

[moonwitch]

Wyndham (not a spelling flame, just for anybody who's looking to search for him!) was a first rate writer. His Midwich Cuckoos was one of the books I read in my teens that really stayed with me.

No worries...I should have spelt that correctly...I must have read every book he has had published and many of them several times.

Midwich Cuckoos was a hell of a lot creepier than the sanitised movie versions I have seen...much prefer the original movie version to the daft later one...neither can match up to the standard of the book though in my view.

[bykimbo]

I'm not sure if I saw the original MC, certainly haven't seen a recent version. I tend to avoid films of books I really love - it never turns out well!

Currently reading Envious Casca by Georgette Heyer. Since she usually wrote romances, which are totally not my cup of tea, it was years before I realised that she also wrote cracking whodunnits. They're few and far between to pick up cheap reading copies though, so a new one to start is a real treat.

[meebo1]

I remember that one! I won't say any more

[bykimbo]

i remember that one! I won't say any more

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[madelaine]

Canal Dreams by Iain Banks

[Gothicina]

No worries...I should have spelt that correctly...I must have read every book he has had published and many of them several times.

Midwich Cuckoos was a hell of a lot creepier than the sanitised movie versions I have seen...much prefer the original movie version to the daft later one...neither can match up to the standard of the book though in my view.

The only one of his I don't think I've read is Web, its been on my wishlist for a couple of years or so. Most of his others need replacing as they're well read now, I've already picked up Day of the Triffids, & Honehe bought me a new Midwich Cuckoo's last year, in fact I sold my old copy on here a couple of days back.


I know I saw the 1960's British Film Village of the Damned, which wasn't too bad, certainly much better, & more faithful to the book than the film version of Day of the Triffids was, (I prefered the 1980's TV series of DotT).

I haven't seen the John Carpenter Village of the Damned from 1995, I think they set it in America.
It seems the BBC are redoing the Day of the Triffids as a two parter, to be broadcast the end of this month.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/02_february/11/triffids.shtml
Wiki gives the dates as December 28 and 29 2009

[ArtisanUK]

Hmm... wonder who you sold that old copy to? ;-)

I'm reading October Skies by Alex Scarrow. Great read - one of those you resent having to put down and go do something else!