digitalrob70
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Hi,
My name's Rob, and I joined on August 10th, but I must have been too busy reading, cycling and doing graphicky things to post ;0)
I've just finished my first Richard Sharpe book - "Sharpe's Tiger", on my PDA. I enjoyed it a lot, but were no surprises in its pages. Other Palm PDA books I'm reading are, "O Pioneers!", by Willa Cather, "Adam Bede" by George Eliot and I'm just starting William Gibson's "Count Zero".
I read quite a bit of science fiction, so outside of those virtual books I'm also dipping into "Green Mars" by Kim Stanley Robinson. If that wasn't enough, I'm also trying to make progress with "The Good Soldier Svejk" by Jaroslav Hasek and Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything".
I also read "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula Le Guin, recently. I'm not a fan of Wands and Wizards, or Swords and Sorcery, but I'll force myself to read a couple more in this series because she's a wonderful writer.
Phew!
Probably the five books that I found most immersive, evocative, life-changing, and /or interesting/disturbing were Orwell's "1984", "A Scanner Darkly", by Philip K Dick, "The Dispossessed" by Ursula Le Guin, "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller and Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich." Ask me tomorrow, though, and I might come up with a different list ;0)
I read them all in my youth, btw.
Thanks for having me. I'll be back soon, I promise.
p.s. I'll read pretty-much anything, really. As a 19 year old lad I read quite a few of my Auntie's Mills & Boon romance stories. I'm definitely not a snob - especially not when choosing a book to read :¬)
My name's Rob, and I joined on August 10th, but I must have been too busy reading, cycling and doing graphicky things to post ;0)
I've just finished my first Richard Sharpe book - "Sharpe's Tiger", on my PDA. I enjoyed it a lot, but were no surprises in its pages. Other Palm PDA books I'm reading are, "O Pioneers!", by Willa Cather, "Adam Bede" by George Eliot and I'm just starting William Gibson's "Count Zero".
I read quite a bit of science fiction, so outside of those virtual books I'm also dipping into "Green Mars" by Kim Stanley Robinson. If that wasn't enough, I'm also trying to make progress with "The Good Soldier Svejk" by Jaroslav Hasek and Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything".
I also read "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula Le Guin, recently. I'm not a fan of Wands and Wizards, or Swords and Sorcery, but I'll force myself to read a couple more in this series because she's a wonderful writer.
Phew!
Probably the five books that I found most immersive, evocative, life-changing, and /or interesting/disturbing were Orwell's "1984", "A Scanner Darkly", by Philip K Dick, "The Dispossessed" by Ursula Le Guin, "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller and Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich." Ask me tomorrow, though, and I might come up with a different list ;0)
I read them all in my youth, btw.
Thanks for having me. I'll be back soon, I promise.
p.s. I'll read pretty-much anything, really. As a 19 year old lad I read quite a few of my Auntie's Mills & Boon romance stories. I'm definitely not a snob - especially not when choosing a book to read :¬)
