Tag Archives: Reading

Charles Stross – Wireless

Posted on Thursday, 26th August 2010, 7:35pm by Les

Woo hoo! More from Charlie Stross! This book, subtitled The Essential Collection, is pretty much that – an excellent selection of the man’s shorter fiction – not a complete collection, but enough to be going on with. After an introduction … Continue reading →

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Charlie Brooker’s Dawn of the Dumb

Posted on Sunday, 15th August 2010, 5:06pm by Les

Subtitled Dispatches from the idiotic frontline, this is pretty much what you’d expect if you’re familiar with Charlie’s work. This volume fits between Screen Burn and the more recent The Hell of it All and contains columns published between late … Continue reading →

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Kindle Mutterings

Posted on Saturday, 7th August 2010, 7:51am by Les

Quite some time ago[1], Amazon launched their Kindle ebook thingy. This looked to be quite a nice thing, apart from the little detail of it only being available in North America, depending on specific phone networks to function, and being … Continue reading →

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Charlie Brooker’s Screen Burn

Posted on Sunday, 1st August 2010, 7:01pm by Les

You know, I had so much fun with Charlie’s latest book, The Hell of it All that I felt compelled to get hold of his previous two books of collected Guardian columns. This is the first of them, which includes … Continue reading →

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Eoin Colfer – And Another Thing

Posted on Monday, 19th July 2010, 8:20pm by Les

When it was announced that a sixth book in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy[1] was to be written, I had severe misgivings. Well, actually, I thought it was the most mind-bogglingly bad idea since, err, the last very … Continue reading →

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Charlie Brooker – The Hell of it All

Posted on Sunday, 11th July 2010, 3:48pm by Les

From one Charlie to another. I’ve been enjoying Charlie Brooker’s TV reviews and other bits in the Guardian for an arbitrarily long period of time, but until now I haven’t read any of his books. Anyway, I was in Waterstone’s … Continue reading →

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Charles Stross – The Fuller Memorandum

Posted on Sunday, 11th July 2010, 3:23pm by Les

Woo hoo! Yes, it’s the long-awaited sequel to The Atrocity Archives and The Jennifer Morgue by the increasingly excellent and ubiquitous Charles Stross. Bob Howard is back, still dealing with the horrors of HR and HP[1], married to fellow agent … Continue reading →

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Masters of Deception

Posted on Saturday, 26th June 2010, 10:05pm by Les

I picked up this book quite some time ago while randomly browsing in Waterstone’s, and it’s just bubbled to the top of my reading pile[1]. Having read it, I have two thoughts: I shouldn’t have left it so long It’s … Continue reading →

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Keeping up with technology

Posted on Monday, 7th June 2010, 7:31am by Les

Some people just don’t get it… Lovely. And don’t forget to hover your mouse to see the extra message…

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Shades of Grey – Jasper Fforde

Posted on Tuesday, 20th April 2010, 11:05pm by Les

Don’t you just hate it when a writer whose work you really love goes off in a completely different direction, moves on from their familiar light tone towards something altogether more serious and darker and which ends up being mind-bogglingly … Continue reading →

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