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

ayjay said:
And started The Hidden Brain - non-fiction about the influence of our subconscious on our actions - good so far
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sounds similiar to a book i'm currently reading
A Mind of Its Own: How your brain distorts and deceives by Cordelia Fine
 
^ooh cool - I'll have to look out for it. Ive also got "The crucible of consciousness" sitting on my bedside table - but I've decided to read a novel in between. Sarted a Denis La Hane book last night - can't remember what it's called but first chapter was about Babe Ruth....

From Hidden Brain I followed up a link to an ongoing international research project on unconscious bias - Project Implicit. You can do some funn tests...
 
Supposed to be reading The Invisible Landscape by Terence McKenna and Gurdjieff's Meetings with Remarkable Men but I haven't opened either of them in a while. Fucking internet!
 
I'm reading the Fables comics at the moment. I tried reading them right after I'd read the Sandman comics by Neil Gaimen and didn't think much of them, but now I'm quite enjoying them.
 
I'm reading (in fact nearly finished) The Twyborn Affair by Patrick White. It's awesome to see a turn of the century set Australian novel that actually tackles the reality of sexuality instead of blah, blah, blah this country sucks, blah, blah, life on the land is hard, blah, blah, all my sheep died, blah, blah, blah my wife has never said an interesting word in her life.
 
^
sounds riveting


almost finished The Thought Gang by Tibor Fischer
about an alcoholic philosophy lecturer who absconds to france, crashes his rental car and then becomes a bank robber using philosophy to outwit the police.
 
Imperial Bedrooms, which, when completed, will mean that I've read all of Bret Easton Ellis' books minus American Psycho. Because I'm so fucking non-conformist it hurts.

Also prepping to see the great man himself in August. Bring. it. on.
 
Last week I finished a book my Mum lent me, which I refuse to name because it was so fucking bad. It was even in the Oprah bookclub. Anyway, I sent her a carefully worded email questioning why she had recommended it to me and she said, 'Because I thought it was really sad.' wtf? It's about a foster child who gets shot, raped, mauled by a dog, enslaved by a crazy lady and then becomes a poor artist in Berlin who makes dioramas. What are you trying to tell me, mother?

In other news, I'm reading Simon Gray's memoirs because I picked up The Smoking Diaries for a couple of dollars based solely on the recommendations on the back cover and front pages. It has no right to be so interesting, as it's basically just the ruminations of an elderly man about death, memories, tourists in Barbados and being an unrepentant smoker, but I connected so strongly with it. After I finished The Smoking Diaries I looked him up on wiki and found out he died in 2008. It felt weird to have read the journal of someone who didn't know he would be dead in four years. I'm reading the second book now, Year of the Jouncer. He dies two years after he wrote it. I'm currently reading his thoughts on his recently deceased friend and I wish he knew what was coming.
 
I'm re-reading To Kill A Mockingbird for the years on assessment in a non-have-to-read-this-for-High-School kinda frame of mind. I enjoyed it then and I'm enjoying it now.

I actually am at the end of my book pile again besides a collection of Keats poetry which I've tried reading but just seems to be poems aimed at his male poetry friends and how much he admires them and wants to make love to them. What a fag. Was ye olde school poetry just a bunch of guys circle jerking or what?

Anyway, with that completely non-homophobic review out of the way I'll probably give it another crack and avoid the tribute poems about his friends which are boring as shit.

Then... Well I've avoided buying a bunch of books I want to read because I knew Uni semester was just around the corner but seeing as my Animal Structure and Function lecturer recommended everyone read The Selfish Gene by Dawkins, and I love Dawkins passionately promulgating biology truths so much more than him bagging religion to everyone that already agrees with him, as much as someone needs to do that, I'll grab that next. In fact, seeing as I can justify it as being relevant I think I'm going to read all the Dawkins books I haven't read. Education and entertainment. Fantastic!

Oh and by end of my book pile, I mean except for the book I haven't read, yet kindly leant to the above poster for a long train trip about 14 years ago.
 
lostpunk5545 said:
Oh and by end of my book pile, I mean except for the book I haven't read, yet kindly leant to the above poster for a long train trip about 14 years ago.
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I AM A BAD PERSON. The book will be back in your possession soon. Let's go eat African and get drunk again.
 
That sounds perfect. I'll let you know when I get a break from Uni. After this weekend my month sucks.
 
I guess they are love poems, which are extremely common.

I was reading "Handjobs by James Joyce" the other day. That actually sounds like the title of something, but I was really reading something he wrote about his wife-to-be giving him a handjob.
 
Can you really write an entire book about someone giving you a handjob? That must have been one intense happy ending :D
 
It was just a paragraph from a letter actually.

"Joyce's first date with his future wife, Nora Barnacle, a chambermaid he picked up on the street.

As he recounted later in a letter to her, the couple took a walk, and at Ringsend, a small park near the harbor, she "slid your hand down inside my trousers and pulled my shirt softly aside and touched my price with your long tickling fingers and gradually took it all, fat and stiff as it was, into your hand and frigged me slowly until I came off through your fingers, all the time bending over and gazing at me out of your quiet saintlike eyes.""

http://www.planetpeschel.com/index?/site/comments/joyce_gets_a_literary_handjob_1904/
 
NickyJ said:
Can you really write an entire book about someone giving you a handjob? That must have been one intense happy ending :D
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nahh the climax comes too early, and the end is a little boring. ;)

I found another Irvine Welsh book in the second hand store the other day: Glue. I'm being real careful reading it as pages are starting to crack away from the spine even though it appears unread. I wonder why that is - perhaps its been stuck on a shelf in a very dry place or in the sun...
 
Must have used some sub standard Glue in the binding process.

Build quality of your paperback aside, I enjoyed most of Irvine Welsh's books.
I always got right into character in my head while reading them.

Mostly I'm reading textbooks at the moment, but I am slowly getting through Collapse by Jared Diamond. 'How societies choose to fail or succeed'.

Enjoying it so far, but not far enough in to give a decent review yet.
 
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