I guess it's always good to spend quality time away from your Mac and I'm not the only avid reader here I know, so how about some excellent recommendations from loungers, and why.
If anyone here want's to just switch off their machine and go read a book instead:
Matter - Iain M Banks
A great return to Culture based form by "M" that builds steadily to a great climax. Great characters that develop nicely, less literary pyrotechnics than sometimes and an affecting ending. I do wish he'd leave the stupid ship names though, I never really bough into that as funny.
Bil Bryson - The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Typical Bryson sentimentality (one of the only authors that strangely gets more readable the more sentimental he gets) and dry wit. A great example of how to turn a perfectly ordinary childhood into something profoundly interestling.
Ryan Malan - My Traitors Heart
South African journo and grandson of the architect of apartheid explores what it means to be South African and white while the country around you changes. Explores the past and present of a country the author loves to try to divine the future, while stripping away layers of self deceit and guilt. Probably the best way to explain South Africans to non South Africans ever written.
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