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What are you reading now? vers. "So I don't end up being a fucking waffle waitress"

Piles

^
He does mean,
mean things to characters ,
that man.

O.K.
*lights nag, champs*

My attention span is still flexin' this way
&
dat,
I am uberfail at multi-taxin' atm,
but tryin'...

I was readin'
'Shantaram'
by Gregory David Roberts,
after years of people thrustin' it in my face,
but I'm stuck in the middle.
It's not that I'm bored with it.
I think it's really good readin'.

But then I bought a bunch of other stuff,
an' a friend came over to my cell an'
gave me more.

The pile grows bigger & bigger.
An' I'm readin' slower & slower.

So I'm also in the middle of
'I Am Legend'
by Richard Matheson,
which is actually not about
zombies or Will Smith at all,
although he fronts the cover.

It was written in '57,
set in '76,
an' our protagonist is white,
smokes,
drinks whiskey,
has no dog,
an' whittles his days away
on stakes
fo' huntin' down a world infested with vampires.

Filmconvertwise,
the guy also wrote
'What Dreams May Come',
'Duel',
'The Incredible Shrinking Man',
&
'Stir Of Echos'.

Not what I expect'd.

Stephen King exclaims
from the back cover
"Books like 'I Am Legend' were an inspiration to me."

I'm also readin'
poetry by Em Claire,
(Neil Donald Walsh's Wife)
'Forgetting',
'Naked',
'Remembering'
&
a selection of her newer stuff.

By now Capt'n LP is throwin' up,
so I'll harden up.

Amblin' through
'The Guinness Book Of Records 2009'.

Randomly selectin' sections from
'Your Own Resources:
A Practical Guide For Self-Sufficient Living In Australia'
compiled by
Micheal Richardson.

Also collect'd H.P. Lovecraft works.

An'
'The Conan Chronicles'
by
Robert E. Howard.

Waitin' in stack
are
'Marching Powder'
by
Rusty Young,
'Mr Nice & Mrs Marks'
by
Judy Marks,
an'
'The Wolf Of Wall Street'
by
Jordan Bolcroft.
Plus I gotsta reread
'The Zombie Survival Guide'
&
'World War Z'
by Max Brooks,
as I read them as ripp'd off E-Books,
which were mash'd up a bit,
but now I've forked out.

Wherever my focus is,
please come back.

PEACE
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lostpunk5545 said:
Currently I'm nearly finished Ecstasy by Irvine Welsh. See I was thinking that tackling this drug Welsh could finally have some characters that weren't abhorrent reprobates, as in the heroin books. Instead the characters are more reprehensible than ever. So if you like stories of people fucking corpses, beating and glassing people until their teeth fly out, and chicks with no arms cutting off people's arms using their feet with a chainsaw then this is the book for you! Personally I'm enjoying the fuck out of it. Somewhere in all this sickness each of the stories is a love story. Totally deranged, fucked up love stories.
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Hah! Have you read Filth? Welsh is one of the modern masters of moral ambiguity.

Just about to finish A Brain for All Seasons by William Calvin. E-book/seminar about early hominid evolution and the effects of climate shifts on the process throughout the ages. http://williamcalvin.com/BrainForAllSeasons/

Also a quarter into the way of D.H Lawrence's Lady Chatterly's Lover, which has nice prose but I'm struggling with the characters.

Just started Milan Kundera's The Incredible Lightness of Being and its fucking fantastic.
 
I just finished Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and have just started Brideshead Revisited. Can I just say how much I am loving these $9.95 Penguin Classics?
 
Reading Baudolino by Umberto Eco. Fun book about a guy who just can't stop lying. Great but it does drag in a few bits so far.

Oh I'm also reading The Cruise of the Snark by Jack London on my phone. For those work hour and PT travel times.
 
Im reading Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

I picked it up for $10 in newtown 2nd hand... was over the moon...

Im reading it very slowly... i like that the chapters are small, so i can easily read at least one chapter a morning when on the train

But reading it is very hard as its written in cockney irish language... but its fun trying to get your lips around it!
 
Welsh is fun to read. I find it heaps easier and funnier if I adopt a Scottish accent to my internal "reading" voice. By the end of a book of his all I'm thinking is "doss wee" this and "daft coont" that.
 
Thank-you reading thread, you've once again pointed me in the right direction for my next reading adventure!!

I am now downloading the following audiobooks:

On the Road (Unabridged)
by Jack Kerouac

I've never read any Kerouac and thought this would be a good place to start based on a few people's reviews.

Glue
by Irvine Welsh

It's no secret that I LOVED Porno. This one's based on the main characters youths and how they grew up. Should be filthy and awesome, I'm looking forward to it muchly - especially with someone else pronouncing the slang. ;)

Essential Anais Nin
by Anais Nin

This is excerpts from her diaries and is read by the lady herself. Again, I've never read any of her works, so I thought this would be a nice place to get to know her style and approach.
 
I had books on cassette when I was a kid, it's hardly new technology :)

But why one would want to outsource their enjoyment I don't comprehend.
 
I think it's just that some books, no matter the narrators voice sound shit on audio. Internal dialogue,,,,,,,, can't go wrong. That said, life is getting faster; convenience is key.
 
Oh and I just finished Syrup by Max Barry. I'd read it years ago but it's a short fun book good for a laugh.
 
Reading isn't a badge of honour. It's just another thing to pass the time. I hate the Reader Elitism. It's such bullshit.

At the end of the day, why do you read books? To learn something? Escapism? Enjoyment? Or to make you feel like you're better than other people? If it's the latter you're not doing it right.

The story itself is the same whether you're reading the words or listening to someone tell the story.
 
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