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

[koneko]

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Hoovering up books at the moment, so will be looking out for suggestions from you and consumer.


The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood.

I'm finding this amusing, it's certainly not an origonal idea but its very well written, you'll slip through it no bother. :D

NSFW:

Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of economic and social collapse. Living in their car, surviving on tips from Charmaine's job at a dive bar, they're increasingly vulnerable to roving gangs, and in a rather desperate state. So when they see an advertisement for the Positron Project in the town of Consilience - a 'social experiment' offering stable jobs and a home of their own - they sign up immediately. All they have to do in return for this suburban paradise is give up their freedom every second month, swapping their home for a prison cell.

At first, all is well. But slowly, unknown to the other, Stan and Charmaine develop a passionate obsession with their counterparts, the couple that occupy their home when they are in prison. Soon the pressures of conformity, mistrust, guilt and sexual desire take over, and Positron looks less like a prayer answered and more like a chilling prophecy fulfilled.

A sinister, wickedly funny novel about a near-future in which the lawful are locked up and the lawless roam free, The Heart Goes Last is Margaret Atwood at her heart-stopping best.

 

[Bearlove]

That sound like something I would enjoy Koneko (thank you).

The Twelve / The Passage - Justin Cronin
Dust, Wool, Shift, Sand - Hugh Howey

One off that I read in two sittings - Dog blood David Moody

Do the Dust series first

Have you read some of the older Clive Barker stuff? More fantasy than horror but 'Abarat' is simply amazing Great and secret show Just checked his listings and one that often gets missed but is a brilliant read is 'Mister B gone' .

 

[gannetsarewe]

Picked up The Scramble for Africa for a euro , Thomas Pakenham's account of that inglorious episode, reading it brings home to me how much my idea of the period was filtered through the likes of Zulu in cinema, Conrad in literature and especially English travel writers of the era like Richard Burton.

 

[KingOfWessex]

I would appreciate any suggestions/recommendations for good dystopian, futuristic sci-fi books. Its been to long since i read a good book

 

[Bearlove]

I would appreciate any suggestions/recommendations for good dystopian, futuristic sci-fi books. Its been to long since i read a good book

The Twelve / The Passage - Justin Cronin
Dust, Wool, Shift, Sand - Hugh Howey

Read Hugh Howey first .

 

[KingOfWessex]

The Twelve / The Passage - Justin Cronin
Dust, Wool, Shift, Sand - Hugh Howey

Read Hugh Howey first .

Thank you very much for your reply mate

 

[Bearlove]

King if I was local I would have posted them to you but, the cost of a courier would be more expensive than the books.

 

[Mr.Hankey]

6th and 7th books of Moses.

 

[Sprout]

Immunopathogenesis and Tumour Necrosis Factor Antagonists in progressive Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection


It's beautiful....

 

[Don Luigi]

That TB didn't take its BK-2C-B properly.

 

[Sprout]

That TB didn't take its BK-2C-B properly.

Common misconception, this is actually 3,4-MDTB.
Get IUPAC'd, bitch.

 

[Don Luigi]

I'm going to start measuring my drug doses by distance. A couple cum of MDMA and a few cum of LSD.

 

[Sprout]

You big perv, you!

 

[Don Luigi]

How long is a piece of cum?

 

[Sprout]

55um if I remember correctly.

 

[Don Luigi]

What if it congeals in a warm bath for a bit?

To stay on topic, I'm reading, albeit quite sporadically, 'The Chinese: Portrait Of A People' by John Fraser

 

[BlindHelperMonkey]

all russian atm, cossack style. history - bolshevik n napoleonic stuff. dostoyevsky to knock me out at night. s'all good

 

[Sprout]

Didn't know you were a Ruskiphile, BHM?
Their history is absolutely fascinating IMO.

 

[consumer]

Reading Hustler (i am not sure reading is really the right word) at the moment but plan on buying Mr Happy by Howard Marks today.

 

[Vurtual]

Stuart Kauffman - At home in the Universe - fascinating look at self organisation and complexity (slightly old now, but still good) - not technical, fine for the lay reader - argues that evolution shouldn't be thought as only blind chance but that self organisation plays a big role, with natural selection just winnowing down the results; also suggesting that maybe our existence isn't the fantastically improbable event never repeated in the universe that the pure chance model suggests, but in fact is almost an inevitability when you appreciate the self organisation that occurs in nature. Comes mostly from the biologist angle, but lots of other stuff too (like economics in the later chapters i haven't read yet).

Also, can't remember if i mentioned The Global Minotaur by Yannis Varoufakis before - excellent overview of economic history of the post war period and neoliberalism - explained really easily for the lay reader (based on his academic work on the subject) - he really knows his stuff - you can see why the EU ovedrlords hated him.