I polished this off in less than a week so it must have been good! Very heartfelt story of a guy who “accidentaly” joins the US marines, his boredom, friends, loss of friends and general stupid-ness of war.

Re-reading this again 🙂

Yeah, yet another Crichton. I just need something easy to read at the moment. I really can’t face getting back into QuickSilver. Typical stuff so far, very entertaining and easy to read.

Update: Finished it. It has adjusted my view of some environmental issues a lot.

This is great so far. I got this as a proof about two years ago when I was still working at Waterstones. It’s a translation of the original russian and is set in 19th Century Moscow. “Erast Fandorin” a criminal investigator for the Moscow police is the hero and when he sets out to investigate a simple suicide all is not what it first seems…

Update: Finished it already, that was quite fast for me. The ending is quite a shock and leave me wanting to read more of Erast’s investigations.

I got this from the library a couple of weeks ago and have been engrossed by it since. Now that we have an actual bedroom without tv and computer I have much more time to read before bed, which is nice.

I’m ploughing through this at the moment at about 200 pages a night. It is just ridiculously easy to read, typical Crichton style.

You can almost see the film script in the back of his mind as he was writing it. Not to say it is a bad book, its a terrific thriller so far. He throws in plenty of quasi-geek references and science to stop you getting bored with the relentless pace.

Started reading this monster.

Update: I’ve picked this up again, after a gap of about 8 months!