Burning Chrome - William Gibson
Cyberpunk - Bruce Bethke
Finding a Fit: Options for Flexible Working
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone - JK Rowling
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
Napalm and Silly Putty - George Carlin (Audiobook Version)
A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking (Audiobook Version)
Hegemony or Survival : America’s Quest for Global Dominance - Noam Chomsky
Fatherhood: The Truth by Marcus Berkmann
History of Ancient Egypt (48 lectures) - Dr Bob Brier (It’s taped lectures but I’m claiming it as an audiobook)
The Last Templar - Raymond Khoury
With the Jocks - Peter White
Tripods, The White Mountains - John Christopher
Tripods, The city of Gold and Lead - John Christopher
Tripods, The Pool of Fire - John Christopher
Starship Troopers - Robert A.Heinlein
The Crow Road - Ian Banks
The Wasp Factor - Ian Banks
Strip Jack - Ian Rankin
The Black Book - Ian Rankin
Mortal Causes - Ian Rankin
Operation Barras - William Fowler
Magic Inc - Robert A. Heinlein

the rest when I remember them

Tags: America, Bob Brier, Bruce Bethke, Crow Road, Dan Brown, George Carlin, Ian Banks, Ian Rankin, Jack - Ian Rankin, John Christopher, Magic Inc, Marcus Berkmann, Noam Chomsky, Peter White, Raymond Khoury, Robert A.Heinlein, Stephen Hawking, White Mountains, William Fowler, William Gibson

The journal of Peter White through the last few years of WW2 during his time as an officer in the King’s Own Scottish Borderers. Its an amazing look into the minds of those that went to war as well as a fascinating look at how people from different areas of the country reacted to the world around them.

Reading about how the guy manages to learn how to understand the language of his troops is hilarious with White somehow managing to get the accent just right in his writing. In saying that though it took him almost until the end of the war to understand the guy from The Gorbals but it took me 5 attempts at reading what he’d said to understand it and I live just down the road from there!

Thoroughly good read.

Tags: Peter White

How to be the Da Vinci Code without actually being the Da Vinci code. Very similar in storyline but in a more enjoyable fashion. Theres something about this book that made me want to keep on reading to see what happened unlike the other which made me keep on reading to get it over and done with.

The story is about an archiologist who witnesses a crime (the theft of a templar decoding device) and the FBI agent who chases down the bad guys. They end up tracking down the movements of the templars lost treasure/secret with some really well done twists along the way.

Not exactly in depth stuff but a good read for a sunday afternoon anyway.

Tags: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Raymond Khoury, templar decoding device

So yeah. Doctor Bob or Mr Mummy as he’s known to his friends made a series of lectures for some well known US home learning company a few years ago. And its fascinating. Bob Brier has this knack of being able to explainthings about ancient Egypt in such a way that it all makes sense, possibly because of his background of growing up in The Bronx maybe?

Each lecture is approx 30-40 minutes long and neatly cuts up Egyptian history into digestable sections. In fact I spent an extra week just going back over the lectures I found most interesting. It’s a great ‘read’. Heartily reccommend it to anyone with the slightest interest in the Period. Even if all you want to do is hear about the Greek Egypt era and Rome.

Tags: Bob Brier, Egypt, Mummy, Rome, United States

If you ever want to have kids give this a read. Its hilariously funny whilst showing you exactly how your likely to feel and what your likely to do. It has scared me shitless as well as fill me full of laughter and conidence that I’m hoping it will get me through the coming years unscathed. Beg borrow or steal this if your going that way with your life.

Tags: Marcus Berkmann

A proper book for once!!

This book should have been 5 times as thick as it actually is. Every sentence says something without any padding or background to it so you really have to work hard to follow it. As Vonnie said dont be reading it just before you go to bed. I’m going to have to reread it at some point becuase of this very reason…ive missed have of it.

Nothing I havent read before elsewhere in an easier to read package but its something worth reading.

Tags: America, Noam Chomsky

Again im cheating but I did have a copy of this book once. Think I loaned it to Rab and never got it back though I could be wrong.

Anyway its a good read for anyone even remotely interested in physics and how the world works and the history of it all. Shouldnt take anyone more than a couple of days to go through it though

Tags: Stephen Hawking

OK im cheating a little with this one and I will do so with a few others as well. Audiobooks are really easy for me to ‘read’ when its damn cold outside and I dont have decent gloves that I can turn the pages of a book with.

Its George Carlin…in a book…written down..but its actually George Carlin reading his book for you.

ALot of the material is the same as his stand up routines (obviously) but its still a good read/listen

Tags: George Carlin

About the only thing this book had going for it was the topic seeing as I’ve been reading about the grail mysteries since I was about 10. Dan Brown has always struck me as the kind of writer that writes books that if you read one you’ve read them all. This has been confirmed by many folk I know that have read his other work. Again this was one that I didnt want to read but felt I had to so that I didnt feel like a git for constantly complaining about the thing without even reading it

The book itself is OK, nothing special. In fact if you were to combine The Assassini and The Rule Of Four you would have a far better book than The Da Vinci Code. The twists you could see coming a mile off and the actual code breaking wasnt that hard and unless you knew nothing of the grail stories you’d be hard pressed to say it was very in depth or taxing.

Tags: Dan Brown

It has to be said I wasnt looking forward to this one that much. It was one of the books I’d included that I didnt really want to read.

Now I enjoyed the films for what they were and unlike most folk refuse to moan about them being crap because (up until teh most recent one at least) they are aimed at kids and unlike things like Star Wars or the recent animated films like Madagascar they dont even try and aim for the adults. This means they are simple and you can forgive anything ‘missing’ from the story.

The book however is a dmna good read and you start to see why the adults moan so much about things missing or being changed in the movie. It’s the cool wee things that seem to get missed out.

I’m curious to see if the next book is just like this and if it is I’ll give it a read. I’ll never be one of those fan’s that wear the scarves and specs but it was an enjoyable read.

Tags: Madagascar