"What are you Reading?" Thread

[RobFilth]

Okay, bit of a duplicate of the thread on ArcHive, but here is a thread where you can bore other posters by waffling about what textual matter you are currently consuming and rattle off the titles of all the books no one else is likely to be remotely interested in.

I'll start:

I'm currently ploughing my way through the Virgin Judge Dredd prose book novella range from the mid-90's. I'm on Book 3 so far, "Dreddlocked" by Stephen Marley. It's a 300 page book and I've never read anything by the author before.

It's not bad, sort of reminds me a bit of that Season 2 Torchwood episode where people were trapped in black and white cellular film and could walk out into the contemporary world. It's taken me a long time to plough through it though because I've been distracted wasting my time on this forum instead, but I'm hoping to finally finish it in the next day or two because I've a VC's graphic novel and Greysuit graphic Novel to read next on the pile.

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A fun book that looks at what people of the past though about bones of these ancient creatures. Very informative and very funny in places.

[zarius]

Amazing Spider-Man by Nick Spencer
Doctor Who: Time's Champion by Chris McKenon

[RobFilth]

I'm currently reading this and hoping to have it finished today.

First two stories are good, one involving a conspiracy with the SJS and the second being an interesting seeder for early Dredd serial Robot War. The third and last story involving an experimentation facility in the Cursed Earth is not as good. It's serviceable but not as well written as the first two.

All in all. 8/10

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Survival by Rona Munro. A good if somewhat straight forward novelization of a great story. Nice reference to one of my favourite singers Gloria Estefan in there!

[RobFilth]

I'm back on the Virgin Dredd range and now onto the 4th book, "Cursed Earth Asylum" by David Bishop.

I'm only 70 pages in so far and it's a bit of a Megazine continuity fanwank with lots of side characters all making an appearance, but I'll allow the indulgence because Bishop has gone to great efforts to tie Anderson continuity with Dredds as seamlessly as possible and there is a kind of Doctor Who-ish shadowy figure in the background conspiracy vibe to it a la "The Five Doctors", so it's not just wank for wanks sake.

Final judgement will come when I finish it, but Bishop seems to be the best writer for this range so far.

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Revelation of the Daleks.

Pretty decent read so far. The writing style is less awkward here than in the Resurrection novel and the back stories given to some of the characters remind me of Saward's earlier target novels.

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The Vinyl Detective by Andrew Cartmel.

A man simply known as the vinyl detective is employed to find the rarest jazz record of them all. Others want the record too and they are prepared to kill in order to get it...

[Bernard Marx]

Over the last month, I've read George Orwell's "Down and Out in Paris and London" and Chris Mullin's "A Very British Coup". Both brilliantly pertinent pieces of work.

The former is pertinent in its valuable documentation of the different forms of degradation that occur in two impoverished yet distinct social settings and circumstances, and the latter in its portrayal of the establishment's tenacity (and that of the internal Labour Party) in crushing any threat to the neoliberal status quo, presciently reflected by the sorry state of the Labour Party today and the treatment of Jeremy Corbyn by the inner workings of the party.

Both Dune and Catch-22 will be up soon, as will Spike Milligan's "Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall". I'm usually crap at reading several books at once, but it's a habit I've recently undertaken when reading for pleasure and study simultaneously. Been perusing through both Balzac's "A Harlot High and Low" recently, and have also started Huxley's "The Doors of Perception" today.

[Monster X]

'The Rise And Fall Of The Trigan Empire' Volume 2.
Vintage Space-opera comic strip collection, with beautiful artwork.  Gloriously nostalgic.

[RobFilth]

Aug 8, 2021 9:52:04 GMT Monster X said:

'The Rise And Fall Of The Trigan Empire' Volume 2.
Vintage Space-opera comic strip collection, with beautiful artwork.  Gloriously nostalgic.

They look fantastic those rescanned compilation volumes coming out from Rebellion at the moment.