I reccomend The Alchemist, by Paulo Cohelo, very reflexive reading...

Just polished off two books in my recent travels:

Flyboys by James Bradley (no, not that one- it's about a group of USN fliers in the Pacific inWWII... Bradley also wrote Flags of Our Fathers). When I saw the title on the spine, i grabbed it just to laugh at it: "Good lord, not another "novel based on the movie" book..." but once I saw what it was about, I had to buy it.
It's very thoroughly researched, a fitting tribute to some airmen whose fates were kept secret for many years, and he gets into some larger-picture stuff about war and politics in the last 150 years or so that I found very educational. Let's just say that there is plenty in there that should be in American public-school history books, but isn't.
  The only thing wrong with that book is that he uses the word "Flyboys", with the capital "F", way too often for some reason...aside from that, I recommend it highly.


Also read Michael Crichton's  State of Fear, which is a pretty bold and well-supported stab at the current obsession with global warming... cleverly disguised as just another silly action story. Classic Crichton. I enjoy his stuff in general, but this was very though-provoking.

Jasper Carrott - Sweet 'n Sour Labrador
Just about to start Bill Bryson - A Walk In The Woods

"The Lovely Bones" by Alice Siebold...

No, it's NOT a horror book.

beaky wrote on Apr 11^th, 2007 at 11:33pm:


What's that word, skillydo?  Good book!  I didn't appreciate Bradley's moralizing from time to time, but overall, good book, highly recommended!

BTW, I didn't like the movie, Flags of our Fathers, not at all.   

Book I finished last,  Blossoms in the Wind: Human Legacies of the Kamikaze.  Excellent book!  It does the best job I've read yet in getting inside the head of kamikaze pilots and sailors.  It goes very far in understanding, and shall I say, respecting them for what they did.  They don't compare with the current group of suicide bombers, and they don't appreciate being compared to them.

*snickering* i started reading my friend's copy of "Knocked Out By My Nunga-Nungas. typical gossipy book about a girl going out with a sex-god and how when he goes off to london courtesy of a possible record deal, she starts thinking of going off wih an ex etc...methinks im gonna have to buy "Angus, Thongs And Full Frontal Snogging" though. i cant start a book halfway through the series... 

Last read book...

Dunno exactly..

I think The world according to Clarkson.... and then some.

Still busy with 1984 though.. and also got some others waiting to be read