docs bookworm corner

Sorry Doc!

shouldnt this just be in the cinema and music section just with an added “books” or would that hurt the feeble brained ones who think “wow” thats a cool name for a film” only to be let down when they waste their clicking talents and find it’s a book.
Anyway just finishing “Margrave of the Marshes” by John Peel which flows really nicely then ends abruptly as he died halfway through and his wife had to finish the book off

Legend is indeed a great book, as are most of David Gemmell’s novels. I don’t think I’m alone in recommending his Jon Shannow books, which are part of the Last Sword of Power series.

However, I do think David Gemmell’s books are popular due to their accessibility, but that does mean that they’re a bit too much of an easy read sometimes.

However Legend was his first published novel, so check out some of his others.

I’ve just finished reading a book Cowboy lent to me called ‘The Naked Soldier’ (I wonder why he chose it?) a biography of a young lad who joins the French Foreign Legion, and starts to go a bit crazy. Good read. A bit like Bravo 2 Zero, but without the war, capture or Andy McNabb killing 500 Iraqis by himself.

Just about to start reading ‘If Chins Could Kill’, which are a collection of industry related stories of Bruce Campbell of Evil Dead fame.

Groovy.

I think this is a great idea Doc. I read more books that I make cinema trips and I’m always on the lookout for recommendations.

I currently have two books on the go.
One is the companion book to the television series ‘The World at War’, which I got recently due to the Daily Mail *spit* giving it away an episode a day. The book is a nice potted history of the war, documenting all the events, battles and theatres of note. There’s not a great amount of detail, but with so much that happened it’s not too surprising.
I give ‘The World at War’ a score of Bismark/10.

The other one I’m reading is called ‘Journal of The Flood Year’ by David Ely. It was given to me as a present but it’s rather engaging despite some things that would normally put me off. Set in the future, sometime, the basic premise being that the US has managed to extend its usable land by building an enormous wall to hold back the Pacific Ocean so that enormous tracts of the continental shelf can be built-on, farmed and the like. The main character is a bloke responsible for maintaining the wall at a certain point, and he starts to notice that seawater is beginning to seep up from under the ground. Naturally his superiors fob him off and just assume he’s causing trouble. I have yet to get to it but, judging from the title of the book, it’s all going to go tits-up rather spectacularly. That all sounds great, but then it starts throwing in made-up words to describe things that don’t exist yet which get’s a little annoying, and it’s written in a diary form, although the entries themselves just read like pages of a novel, so it’s easy to gloss over.
A fun story despite the obvious problems for a book of this type. I’ll give it Jetpack/10, worth a read.

If you want to talk about books have a word with Sharon. Shes got enough books to start her own library. Granted most of then are Fantasy… David Gemmal, Terry Goodkind, David Eddings, Robert Jorden, Terry Brooks, Chris Bunch…. to name just a few. But if its Sci-Fi you want my collection is slowly growing. but then again 90% of them are Star Wars books!!!! 😀 😀 😀 😀
The rest of them are Terry Pratchet 😀 😀 😀