Trevor

You have some excellent books in your TBR. I read all Iain M Banks Culture books in order a couple of years ago, I know it's not necessary to read them in publication order but you can see the growth of the whole universe he created much better. Like you I've been promising myself to reread Discworld in publication order too, they are such brilliant books. You also have Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast Trilogy, quite possibly my favourite all time reads. I envy you reading them for the first time Happy Reading

My Girl by Otis Redding (and about a hundred others)

Kentucky Fried Blues by Nazareth

Just read through this thread and it seems everyone is looking forward to the weekend and hoping for a bit of peace. Today I've spent mainly doing laundry. I'm a bit lazy and only tend to do it when I've got no clean underwear left. My laundry is onsite and it has nice big machines so I got everything washed and dried in around three hours. Now I intend to sit back and try to find something to have as background noise (quiet) whilst I settle into my book. Happy Weekend all

Currently watching San Andreas starring Dwayne Johnson. Typical catastrophic world ending thriller where Johnson saves the world (almost). I bet the SFX guys had a lot of fun, they are pretty good. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2126355/?ref_=nv_sr_1

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I heartily recommend Liu Cixin's trilogy, at a smidge over 1500 pages it's not too long but covers so much ground. A really engrossing read. I've had the Peter F Hamilton books on my shelves for quite some time and it is time I started them.

TBR pile! I have over 1600 books listed on a spreadsheet, these are books or ebooks I own. So yes I have a TBR pile

I think that covers everything. Your thoughts (if you have any) are most welcome.

I picked up Terry Pratchet & Stephen Baxter's Long Earth books the other week and would like to get that series at least started I have read the first two in Allen Steele's Coyote Universe which is eight books long. I'd like to get a few more of those read this year. I have both Night's Dawn Trilogy and The Commonwealth saga by Peter F Hamilton on my shelves. Massive tomes that I think deserve my attention this year. Other authors I must read more of are A. E. van Vogt, Arthur C Clarke Books Purchased in January To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip Jose Farmer Children Of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (ebook) The Long Earth The Long War The Long Mars The Long Utopia The Long Cosmos all by Terry Pratchet & Steven Baxter Punishment by Scott J. Holliday (ebook) The Darkness by Ragnar Jonasson (advanced review copy: ebook) Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds

I'm very new here but interested in sharing and receiving views and thoughts on my reading habits. This post will be books read and my post below will be books I would like to read this year. I plan nothing and the only goal I set myself is one book a week. Since I've been setting that goal I've exceeded it by at least ten book in the last five years including one year I doubled my set target (I did read a lot of Robert Howards Conan shorts that year). I keep a reading record on Goodreads but rarely write a review of the books I read. Books Read 2018: Death's End (Remembrance of Earth's Past #3) by Liu Cixin, Translated by Ken Liu A brilliant climax to the series, I read all three over a three week period December 2017 - January 2018 In the Heat of the Night (Virgil Tibbs #1) by John Dudley Ball I belong to an online book group and this was my choice for January. Really interesting and quite gripping. The book group offers a word each month, this word must be included in the title of the book you read. Old Man's War (Old Man's War #1) by John Scalzi 300+ pages but a very quick read. My only thoughts on it are that the main character could easily be a 'Bruce Willis' type character, every one around him dies yet he survives and his heroic life continues. Uncomplicated and reasonably good fun. Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein Rupture (Dark Iceland #4) by Ragnar Jonasson Planet Of Exile (Hainish #2 or #4 depending on where you reasearch lists) by Ursula K. Le Guin Dead Famous by Ben Elton Sea Of Rust by C. Robert Cargill DNF A Sudden Appearance Of Hope by Claire North

Hello vodkafan. Favourites are difficult to name mainly because I like so many but top of a long list would be Iain M Banks and his Culture series. Isaac Asimov for just about everything SF that he penned. Brian Aldiss, especially the Heliconia trilogy. Of course Heinlein and Dick are there along with several dozen others. I've never read anything by Vance that I'm aware of which is no doubt my loss

Hi all, just thought I'd write a quick note. I read mainly SciFi but can be found reading crime fiction and the the odd general fiction book. I mainly read paperbacks but do own a Kindle which I use for the odd purchase from Amazon and the occasional NetGalley request when granted. I also have the Overdrive app for borrowing electronically from my local library. This all means I'm rarely if ever found without reading material of one sort or another. I did once start a review blog but found I wanted to read more than write my thoughts about what I read though I am grateful to those that do blog, I've found some fantastic reads that I would have otherwise missed if I hadn't read certain blogs. Currently reading Old Man's War by John Scalzi