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My latest non-fiction buys are Roanoke, about the (claimed) solving of the disappearance of the colony of the first American settlers, and The Stabbing of George Harry Storrs, a reconstruction of the events surrounding the murder of wealthy Cheshire tycoon. Both in my TBR pile, though.

Maybe Gerald Browne - 19 Purchase Street. Stone 588 has a heist in it as well, but it's not the focus of the story. Judging by the reviews, 11Harrowhouse and West 47th also seem to involve big jewellery robberies. There's also Lawrence Block's The Thief who Couldn't Sleep, and Cancelled Chech.

The gospel @ccording to Cole by Rhonda Bartle. I had no idea what this was about prior to buying it. I bought it because 1, she is a local author and 2, I'm hoping to get her to autograph it. Turns out it's the story of an email romance - well, thats what it looks like 1/5th of the way...

I've recently read A Spell for Chameleon (I felt I needed a bit of light relief after a particularly gruesome horror story), and if I were to compare it with any particular theatre foodstuff, I would pick peanuts. Theres now a little literary Arachis hypogeae skin stuck in the reading portion...

I'm (very) briefly between books, having just finished Ngaio Marsh's Spinsters in Jeopardy and about to start Barry Reed's The Choice.

I haven't read a library book for ages. I do have one in my TBR pile, but I have no idea when I'll get around to it. At present the local library has a temporary home in an old office block while the new library/museum is being built. I would guess that not all of the books are on display...

Occasionally, when I'm bored, I try to have a conversation with an ICQ spam-bot. :-)

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Or Sylvester Stallone in 'Cobra' or 'Demolition Man'.

I have a pile of unread NZ PC Worlds and NetGuides that need reading. I also read my wife's Woman's Day (for the short stories, and to laugh at the psychic pages). If I can get at them, the latest Time and Listener magazines as well. (Generally only when I'm off-shore for these two.)

"It's unpleasantly like being drunk." "What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "You ask a glass of water." Ford Prefect and Arthur Dent.

I am partial to Colin Dexter's 'Inspector Morse' novels, and Ruth Rendell's 'Wexford' mysteries. Both of these have been televised.

ROFL - rolling on floor laughing I saw someone who had adapted this for an IRC nickname. rofl harris. Thought that was funny. I use CTFS as an apology for bulk typos when it's late at night and I can't type for s....

That essay took some reading. The first impression I got was that Sterling doesn't think science fiction is what it used to be. His attempt to create a new genre, though, was a bit hard to grasp. I don't quite see how he defines 'Slipstream'. Out of that list I have read Theraux's O-Zone and...

At present I'm halfway through Shrike by Joe Donnelly. I don't usually read horror stories, because in my imagination all the gory scenes end up Pythonised and just make me laugh. I am, surprisingly, enjoying this book. The characters are well crafted and the descriptive passages scalpel...

When I can tear myself away from my books I do home distilling, a lot of web surfing, a bit of genealogy research, a bit of gardening, competitive Scrabble, and a huge amount of hanging around on bulletin boards (under various names.) I am a cricket fan, I don't pay any attention to any sport...

Under Siege. OK, so there wasn't a woman or child being kidnapped, but Erica Eleniak was there sort of against her will. And Seagal had a really big ship, how cool is that?

Noting that this is the SF & F section, I am going to restrict my selections to: The Great and Powerful Turtle - From George R R Martin's Wild Cards mosaic novels. Flies an armour plated VW Beetle using his mind. Tabitha Jute - From Colin Greenland's Take Back Plenty Star freighter captain...

I also read and enjoy Gibson. I would add Burning Chrome to the list. Its a book of short stories, but the title story is a sort of prelude to the Neuromancer trilogy, and Johnny Mnemonic is the introduction of Molly/Sally. His style is still choppy though, and sometimes it's hard to tell...

I am presently reading Day of the Cheetah by Dale Brown. It's a style similar to Tom Clancy, but without Clancy's extra ( and in my opinion, often unneccessary) details. I'm finding the descriptions of the aerial dog-fights gripping, but as for the characters, with the exception of the main...