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What Are You Reading V.3 At The Fourth Grade Level

I've been reading the entire poldark series, and i'm really getting fed up of having to explain how the TV show places an emphasis on the love stories where as the books are more about 18th century copper mining, and social injustice. Trust the BBC to pussify a classic.
 
Coastal Regeneration Handbook by the Coastal Communities Alliance (CCA) and edited by John K Walton & Patrick Browne who are bringing the collective collective experience here into this manual. It's fucking superb but Scotland isn't there...my aim is to do something about that.

Their Seaside Manual excites me but is missing so much from the north of the border...fuck we do it so differently..:\

Fucking great reads if you're a saddo...
 
I still haven't made a second attempt at Ulysses but I'm halfway through H.M.S Ulysses by Alistair MacLean. It's his first book and the first of his I've read and I really like his writing style. I often dilly-dally with books but not this one.

This book also contains The Guns of Navarone, Where Eagles Dare, and Force Ten from Navarone so I think I've got a good bit of reading ahead of me :)
 
A few awesome, new reads that I can definitely recommend to folks:

Toy Maker by Liam Pieper

Rules of Backyard Cricket by Jock Serong

Summer That Everything Melted by Tiffany McDaniel

Good People by Nir Baram

I Am Radar by Reif Larsen

And a not-so-new book, which was one of the best crime novels I have read in a long time: Gun Machine by Warren Ellis.
 
Some book called 'grimoire', for fiction, for nonfiction, 'The Genus Claviceps' by vladimir kren and ladislav cvak, as well as two books by the same guy about wrongdoings by Big Pharma.

And translating the german of an MSDS for a product that I bought,
 
Recently (and finally after literally months) finished Dhalgren by Samuel R Delaney. Took me such a long time cos I mostly only read it on bus journeys. That and it's 800 (big and multilayered) pages long. And a mindfuck of epic proportions.

The foreword (by some professor of English) describes it as "wilfully obtuse," whilst the afterword (by William Gibson) describes it as "a literary singularity". Spot on descriptions both but especially the latter.

The structure of it really is like falling through a black hole and out the other side. It opens and closes with a near chaos of fractured sentences and images before gradually coalescing into a meandering, episodic, elliptical tale of life in a fictional US city in the aftermath of some unknown apocalypse in which most people have been evacuated. Left behind are the misfits, drifters, bohemians, unwashed and unwanted.

Beyond that I'd struggle to explain much other than it's by no means an easy read but is well worth it. One of very few books I felt the urge to start over again from the beginning the moment I finished it. Didn't though cos was a week overdrawn at the library by then. I've not sold it well but would say that you can totally see why William Gibson wrote the afterword cos the influence is very apparent. In fact the influence on sci-fi in general is very apparent. Beyond that it's just a blisteringly good piece of work though. Was barely out of his teens (and a mental institution) when he wrote it too. Jammy fukker. More for the former than the latter.

Other than that, recently read Solaris by Stanislaw Lem. Remember enjoying the original Russian film based on this as a teenager and rather resented George Clooney's face being plastered all over the copy of the book I picked up at a charity shop recently. The words inside the book were pleasingly arranged though.

And currently reading The Best Democracy Money Can Buy by Greg Palast. Few years old now but still an outstanding collection of investigative journalism.

PS: This is - by far - the longest post I have ever attempted using my phone. Taken me 40 minutes and one heart-stopping near-miss so fingers crossed it doesn't go bye-bye...

EDIT: Yay!
 
Gahh....either my german is off or that nitroethane isn't as pure as I'ma be happy with.

Mutterficken Scheisse!


Currently reading a warhammer 40k novel, 'the rise of the horned rat', this one mainly featuring skaven, some dwarf action and of course, chaos seem like they are gonna get in on the action.

Got another couple of the same series of warhammer books, and some more in the horus heresy era.

Still reading The Genus Claviceps though, I've been reading it for nearly a year now, I am intending on digesting every last single scrap of info. Even took it with me once into the pig shop cells after being arrested. Asked to bring a book with me, they consented, so took TGC and I forget what, some science-ey book.
 
Oh I know all about being buried in books - and as Sadie will regretfully attest - I just cannot help myself from embiggening the pile at every charity shop I pass :eek:

Haven't read The Futurological Congress but I did really enjoy the recent film version. Lem's writing style is very much of the old school but I've always been rather fond of that. Have only read Solaris so far but will be keeping an eye out for more on the strength of that.
 
Lol sham, your just like me, I'm a book pile hoarder too.

Although with me, there is also a constant swarm of scientific journal publications, article printouts not the entire journals, just the bits of interest, and wiki articles that constantly is getting bigger and bigger and bigger. I brought a random arms-scoopful of article printouts (I keep the entire things stapled together as one article pieces so everything won't turn into a gigantic clusterfuck. But never mind the nuclear physics, the ARTICLES are reaching critical mass now ahahaha.

No spontaneous fusion or fission, yet, but lets just say that armful alone, for an evening's light reading consisted of about a pack and a half of (thankfully my old man's) printer paper=D
 
Hmm... the window on our stairway is now around two-thirds blocked with just the books bought since we moved in. Given the vast majority of my book collection is currently still cluttering up my "spare" room in Welsh Wales this could become a problem :!
 
Hi Bluelighters! :) I haven't logged onto BL in agesssssss. I hope everyone is keeping well.
I love reading, so I decided to login to see what people are reading. There are some great recommendations on this thread.

I like reading horror, especially weird creepy ghost stories. Here's a few books that I read recently, and really enjoyed. I mainly read on my kindle nowadays, so the links I'm posting are for e-books.

"Slade House," by David Mitchell.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Slade-Hous...F8&qid=1480124730&sr=1-1&keywords=slade+house

I really liked this books. There's a really strange, and creepy atmosphere to this book. This is a good one.
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"Dark Matter," by Michelle Paver.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dark-Matter-Ghost-Michelle-Paver-ebook/dp/B0047CPB1K

This is another cracker. It's quite a dark story, that leaves you wondering if the main character is witnessing a haunting, or is he losing his mind...
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"Apartment 16," by Adam Nevill.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Apartment-16-Adam-Nevill-ebook/dp/B003N2QUZ6

This book is really scary. It's a while since I read it, and yet I can still clearly see some of the scenes in my head. Really weird atmosphere to this book too.
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"Life After Death," by Damien Echols.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-After.../ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Damien Echols was one of the 'West Memphis Three.'
He spent 18 years on death row in the US. When he was a teenager himself and his two friends were accused of murdering three young boys. Damien Echols was sentenced to death, even though there was no evidence linking him, or his friends to the crime.
When Damien was a teenager he used to listen to alternative music, he wore a lot of black clothes, and he read Stephen King novels. Bizarrely, these things were used against him in court. They said he was a devil worshiper. This book made me angry to hear how these teenagers lives were destroyed, while the real murderer went free. They were eventually released after 18 years. There's loads of information about the 'West Memphis Three' online.
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"The Night Stalker," by Philip Carlo.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Night-Stal.../ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

This is a true crime book about that horrible b@stard, Richard Ramirez.
I'm finding this one a bit tough going, because his crimes were so horrendous...
I've only read about 30% of the book so far, and it's honestly giving me nightmares.
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So, that's all I can think of for now.
If anyone knows of any good scary books then let me know.

Talk to you all soon.
Later gators! xxx
 
Life - Keith Richards,

Okay, bit of a mundane look at his young life and career. Some good antidotes.

No ghostwriter credited, so apparently Keith is not just able to express himself through music.
 
I used to be a massive bookworm but very busy life and the internet has seen my book consumption dwindle to ridiculous levels. I have bookshelves of old favourites that I read before life got hectic & digital and shelves of 'guilt books', given to me as presents & 'you must read this', untouched & playing on my conscience whenever I walk past.
Since I took fb off my phone though, I've read a whole book and I'm half-way through Moby's memoir 'Porcelain' at the moment, which is a really good read.

He writes with great humour, not just documenting a (really interesting) part of his life, but all those funny thoughts & tangents you have in your head about people & events when they're happening,
It's a 'can't wait to read the next bit' book for me, which is essential for me in these time & brain constricted times
 
Jackal said:
Life - Keith Richards,

Okay, bit of a mundane look at his young life and career. Some good antidotes.

No ghostwriter credited, so apparently Keith is not just able to express himself through music.
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Keith recently made a very good documentary for TV and was an excellent raconteur. I could listen to him for ages.

Oh and I think you meant 'anecdotes' but 'antidotes' was a neat Freudian slip in the context of Keith Richards. =D

I only really read travel books these days. Currently reading Ted Simon's "Jupiter's Travels", four years on one motorbike, which was written in the 1970s (and it shows) but was the inspiration for Charley Boorman and Ewan McGregor's biking the world books.
 
Recently read the first of Ken Macleod's latest trilogy the Corporation Wars: Dissidence

Pretty cool - ken macleod's favourite subjects: revolution and AI, and even AIs revolting. I've just noticed the second one is out so i'm sure it'll develop more too.
 
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