What are you reading at the moment?

Took advantage of some collections in the Kindle store this week Edgar Rice Burroughs, H.G.Wells and Alexander Dumas 49p each. Only problem with them is the rather random order of the books and the lousy table of contents which lists the books with all their chapters! They are by PergamonMedia and worth a punt.
So far I've read Tarzan of the Apes and The Return of Tarzan and I'm launching into The Time Machine.

Tarzan was remarkably enjoyable considering the rather dated attitudes to women and race. The Return whilst still good fun shows up more of Burroughs' weaknesses, cardboard characters, remarkable coincidences and Deus ex Machina escapes. Still worth a read though.

The Time Machine sucked me in straight away, strange how so much of my 'memory' of the tale comes from films rather than the actual story.
 
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Just reread The Martian by Andy Weir - great book - what's nice is the story doesn't hold back on the science or resource management at all - it's practically all dumped for the movie though as numbers obviously scare people (or so the film makers thought!)

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Another Bill Bryson - his latest 'Road to little dribbling' - he is maybe the only author who makes me laugh out loud whilst lying in bed.

I've been on a Gabriel Garcia Marquez splurge for a few months so Bill is a complete change.
 
I am looking forward to reading the Martian. (It is in another's hands just now)
Will wait to see the film on video..... errrrr DVD...... errrr online ....... errrr streamed........
Actually, I will probably see it on channel five one christmas.

Have just read Pinnochio which I realised that I have never read.
Then Children of the New Forest. Thoroughly enjoyed.
Then Porridge (after the TV programme) and you can hear Ronnie Barker talking to you.
Just started Hardy's Under the Greenwood Tree.
 
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