What are you reading tonight?

[Lost Leopard Spot]

many pages ago I recommended The Cloud Atlas - FANTASTIC book...

well - I didn't realise this - but apparently it's coming out on film. I will be very interested indeed to see how on earth they cram the sheer scope and scale of that book into a film...

if any of you haven't read it yet - it's well worth your time... it's by (not the comedian) David Mitchell..

Read it, thought it was OK. My missus raved about it, and she rarely reads SF.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Oh of course. I know that white has the advantage out of the opening. When white I just generally try try for either a ruy lopez or the italian game, just to get the pieces out and also to try and set up the Legal Trap (which a few people fall for regularly), whereas with black I tend to either go for a sicilian or a kings indian. The Evans gambit is interesting - i dont think it's ever been refuted has it, despite its age? If you ever do fancy a live game monty you could sign up to chess.com and i can give you a game

What's the Noah's Ark trap?

I don't suppose anyone is watching any of the games going on at Wijk Aan Zee atm? [/nichealert] carlsen has started slowly but destroyed his opponent yesterday and wouldn't be too surprised if he does for the World Champ today.

These days I can't get a Soanish (Ruy Lopez) or Italian (Giocci piano) because Black plays the Sicilian.

Noah's Ark is a trap against Ruy Lopez which gets White's white bishop in exchange for a pawn.

Evans gives white quick development and great initiative. Unfortunately you have to play the Italian game and few people do. It has (allegedly) been refuted but this is not entirely clear. It can certainly surprise opponents who play to the clock.

[mrkint]

Fair dos. Everyone does seem to love a sicilian these days, though I still get e5 an awful lot.

Excellent, ta. Just watched it. Nice little nugget know


Incidentally, this game was played yesterday. It will probably go down in history as one of the greatest games of chess ever played

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[TANGODANCER]

Just finished Robert Goddard's Long Time Coming. Goddard always tells a good story, using believable people and plots. Not an ex S.A.S mercenary or an R.K.47 in sight.....
thankfully.

[Lennon'sEleven]

Just read The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson. Superbly entertaining - read it in a couple of days. Simplistic, yes. Captivating? Absolutely.

[TANGODANCER]

Re-reading Anne Bronte's The Tennant of Wildfell Hall online on Project Gutenberg

[Bruce Rioja]

Re-reading Anne Bronte's The Tennant of Wildfell Hall online on Project Gutenberg

See, I don't ever imagine myself ever re-reading a book as there are so many that I'm yet to read.

[William the White]

Just nine poems into Sharon Olds' award-winning latest collection, Stag's Leap. Stunning.

[Hoboh]

Evidence from the Spitzer Telescope suggests that the pillars in M16 may already have been destroyed by a supernova explosion. Hot gas observed by Spitzer in 2007 suggests that the area was disturbed by a supernova that exploded some 8000 to 9000 years ago. Due to the distance of the nebula, the light from the supernova would have reached Earth between 1000 and 2000 years ago. The more slowly moving shock wave from the supernova would have taken a few thousand years to move through the nebula, and would blow away the delicate pillars – but the light showing us the destruction will not reach the Earth for another millennium.

Absolutely fascinating

[bobo the clown]

Evidence from the Spitzer Telescope suggests that the pillars in M16 may already have been destroyed by a supernova explosion. Hot gas observed by Spitzer in 2007 suggests that the area was disturbed by a supernova that exploded some 8000 to 9000 years ago. Due to the distance of the nebula, the light from the supernova would have reached Earth between 1000 and 2000 years ago. The more slowly moving shock wave from the supernova would have taken a few thousand years to move through the nebula, and would blow away the delicate pillars – but the light showing us the destruction will not reach the Earth for another millennium.

Absolutely fascinating

Fck it, I'm spending my savings tomorrow.

[thebish]

Evidence from the Spitzer Telescope suggests that the pillars in M16 may already have been destroyed by a supernova explosion. Hot gas observed by Spitzer in 2007 suggests that the area was disturbed by a supernova that exploded some 8000 to 9000 years ago. Due to the distance of the nebula, the light from the supernova would have reached Earth between 1000 and 2000 years ago. The more slowly moving shock wave from the supernova would have taken a few thousand years to move through the nebula, and would blow away the delicate pillars – but the light showing us the destruction will not reach the Earth for another millennium.

Absolutely fascinating

Fck it, I'm spending my savings tomorrow.

new car??

[CAPSLOCK]

Just read The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson. Superbly entertaining - read it in a couple of days. Simplistic, yes. Captivating? Absolutely.

Just got that for 20p on amazon

Had my eye on it a while

[Bruce Rioja]

And Iain Sinclair's "Ghost Milk" is a must read. Sinclair being, probably, the best writer of English currently living. His critique of the Olympics, and related "Grand Projects" is devastating.

Reading this at the moment - Puskas describes it perfectly. I've never read anything that conveys an anger as brilliantly or as eloquently.

Many thanks for the heads-up, Sir.

[TANGODANCER]

Just finished Graham Greene's The End of the Affair. A rather grim tale of love, deception, jealousy and God. Set in wartime London amidst bedsit land and told from two perspectives; the narrator and a diary (not a totally new idea). You have to wonder if Greene is describing his characters views on it all, or his own? One WTW might like if he hasn't read it.

[Gooner Girl]

worked out how to get the kindle app on my ipad working so i now have a kindle, got a book to go on it too! Its good, and i can see its uses, but its not the same as having a well worn paperback in your hands. (I can't use my ipad to read in the bath)

[ohjimmyjimmy]

Coming soon....the Ibath

[thebish]

read Animal Farm again last night - in one sitting - cos I heard a snippet on t'radio and I realised I'd actually forgotten what happened!!

[Lost Leopard Spot]

read Animal Farm again last night - in one sitting - cos I heard a snippet on t'radio and I realised I'd actually forgotten what happened!!

Four legs good, two legs bad!

How could you forget? and poor old Boxer too! Feckin pigs.

[thebish]

read Animal Farm again last night - in one sitting - cos I heard a snippet on t'radio and I realised I'd actually forgotten what happened!!

Four legs good, two legs bad!

How could you forget? and poor old Boxer too! Feckin pigs.

I think I had somehow persuaded myself that it had some kind of a happier ending!!! it was many many years ago that I read it...

'tis a fairly depressing view of human nature...

[Lost Leopard Spot]

read Animal Farm again last night - in one sitting - cos I heard a snippet on t'radio and I realised I'd actually forgotten what happened!!

Four legs good, two legs bad!

How could you forget? and poor old Boxer too! Feckin pigs.

I think I had somehow persuaded myself that it had some kind of a happier ending!!! it was many many years ago that I read it...

'tis a fairly depressing view of human nature...

but a very true one.