What are you reading and book reviews

[Kitten]

verbs?? Predictive text sucks

[BBx]

I thought it was my new name!

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[Glaucus]

Vulcan 607 (Paperback)- by Rowland White (Author)

It was to be one of the most ambitious operations since 617 Squadron bounced their revolutionary bombs into the dams of the Ruhr Valley in 1943...When Argentine forces invaded the Falklands in the early hours of 2 April 1982, Britain's military chiefs were faced with a real-life Mission Impossible. Its opening shot, they decided, would be Operation Black Buck: to strike a body blow at the occupying army, and make them realize that nothing was safe - not even Buenos Aires...The idea was simple: to destroy the vital landing strip at Port Stanley. The reality was more complicated. The only aircraft that could possibly do the job was three months from being scrapped, and the distance it had to travel was four thousand miles beyond its maximum range. It would take fifteen Victor tankers and seventeen separate in-flight refuellings to get one Avro Vulcan B2 over the target, and give its crew any chance of coming back alive. Yet less than a month later, a formation of elderly British jets was launched from a remote island aribase to carry out the longest-range air attack in history. At the tip of the spear was a single aircraft, six men, and twenty-one thousand-pound bombs, facing a hornet's nest of modern weaponry: the radar-guided guns and missiles of the Argentine defences. There would be no second chances...It was the end of an era - the last time the RAF flew heavy bombers into combat before they were replaced by their digital, fly-by-wire, laser-guided successors. There were many who believed it couldn't be done. Drawing on extensive interviews with the combatants, Falklands residents and British High Command, and with unprecedented access to comtemporary military records, Rowland White takes us, for the first time, to the beating heart of the legendary raid. "Vulcan 607" is a story of ingenuity, courage and sheer bloody-mindedness that's destined to become a classic.

8/10
A really interesting story and what a feat of determination. Got a little bored around the middle of the book, but it soon picked up again.

[BBx]

Originally Posted by BBx

I'm 100 pages into 'Betrayed' by Lyndsey Harris and nothing in particular has happened so far :/

Whenever I read a book I need it to grab me from the first page/chapter otherwise there is no point. Really poorly written, every chapter so far ends with a cliffhanger type sentence encouraging you that something interesting is going to happen, but it hasn't so far :/

There really isn't a point to completing this, other than finishing what I have started.

Am just waiting for it to get better... but for how long?

BB x

Finished it today. It was WORSE! than Jordan's book - at least that was readable!!!!!!

I'll be saying so on Amazon reviews too!

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[Knipples]

I've lost my passion for reading, I have to force myself to read at the moment, and I hate that because usually you cant get my head out of a book. Ive got my next 4 or 5 books all lined up on the shelf waiting, but am still not even half way through the book I started at the beginning of August.

I don't know why it is, and I wish I knew.

[Fayshun]

Originally Posted by Fayshun

I've just ordered "If Chins Could Kill" the Bruce Campbell autobiography off Amazon, awaiting delivery.....

Where's my book?

[BBx]

Originally Posted by Fayshun

Where's my book?

Ur a victim of the postal strikes Sir.

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[Fayshun]

Originally Posted by BBx

Ur a victim of the postal strikes Sir.

BB x

Err, actually, I'm a victim of my own idiocy, it's been a while since I ordered from Amazon and my old bank details were registered...

I have now updated them.

[Stan_Lite]

I'm currently wading my way through The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny

Here's the publisher's bumph:

A gripping fantasy packed with wizardry, swordfights, battle, romance and politics Chronicles of Amber is a fantasy masterpiece.

Amber is the one real world, casting infinite reflections of itself -- Shadow worlds, that can be manipulated by those of royal Amberite blood. But the royal family is torn apart by jealousies and suspicion; the disappearance of the Patriach Oberon has intensified the internal conflict by leaving the throne apparently up for grabs.

In a hospital on the Shadow Earth, a young man is recovering from a freak car accident; amnesia has robbed him of all his memory, even the fact that he is Corwin, Crown Prince of Amber, rightful heir to the throne -- and he is in deadly peril . . .

I think "fantasy masterpiece" is slightly optimistic. The plot is fairly good as is the style of writing. What really lets this series down (I bought the omnibus version) is the shocking number of typographical errors - including poor spelling and poor grammar. It's not just the odd error here and there, there are 2 or 3 on every page. If this work was proof read, I sincerely hope the proof readers have found alternative employment.

I picked this up on my way up to Shetland. I needed a book so I just picked one up from the fantasy section in Waterstones in Aberdeen. I think I would enjoy it, were it not for the terrible mistakes in it. I find myself picking fault with the grammar and spelling, rather than enjoying the story.

Pity really

[Flibster]

Just started Douglas Adams' entire back catalogue.
Starting with the HHGTTG trilogy, then moving on from there.

Belgium!