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Just rereading "For Richer for Poorer" by Victory Coren.

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I have a great passion for 50s and 60s American comic books. I'm amassing a collection of hardback "archive editions" I'm currently reading "weird science" early 50s science fiction tales. Wonderful stuff. The artwork in particular is amazing!

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How I wished I'd saved some of those magazines: Amazing, Astounding, Weird Tales ..... they''d be real collectors items now; as would my Batman comics have been!

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I'm 1800 pages into Isaac Azimov's Foundation classic. There are 3332 pages and I'm getting bored with it. The writer jumps around huge gaps in time, giving the reader little meat to savor.

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Currently reading "Human Punk" by John King. I found the book (written in 2002) in a charity shop and was attracted to it for two reasons. Firstly, the main character had been born, grown up and ended up in Slough - my home town. Secondly, the title was also the title of a song by the punk band The Ruts, and I knew the Ruts personally as I used to drink in the same pub as them when they were living in a squat in Hayes.
Although my own youth was about 15 years earlier than the kids portrayed in the book, we shared a lot of similar experiences and I still recalled many of the places mentioned in the book. For example, the main character in the book was thrown into the canal (the Slough arm of the Grand Union) by older youths at the age of 15 - so was I and I remember it well.
The book is a very realistic and authentic view of young people growing up in Thatcher's Britain struggling for some meaning and definition to their lives.

Mick

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Foundation is what I think of as "hard" sci-fi. I prefer the lighter sorts, like Anne McCaffrey's Pern series, or Marian Bradley Zimmer's Darkover novels. Or some of Heinlein .....

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Right now I have started reading the book “The book of tomorrow” by Cecelia Ahern.

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People of the Mist .... a novel by H. Rider Haggard, he of She, and King Solomon's Mines fame ... not as good as the above so not surprised it's not too well known; but a good adventure in darkest Africa story.

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I've moved onto a very good book called "I Am Number Four".
A movie of the same name based on the book was just in the movie house. I haven't seen the movie yet but I'm enjoying the book.

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I've just started an Ian Rankin novel "Bleeding Hearts", which has started well. I enjoy crime thrillers and have just finished the first Lynda La Plante book with Anna Travis as heroine, "Above Suspicion", which I enjoyed thoroughly.