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What are you currently reading? v2
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desaparecidos
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getting a lot of great suggestions and glad to see people reading the same books i love. im currently reading the new one by chuck palahniuk (fight club author) called Damned. its really well done, written from the perspective of a 13 year old girl that dies (supposedly) of a marijuana overdose and goes to hell, hilarity ensues.
next on my to-read list is Flowers of Evil by Baudelaire. a far stretch from palahniuk but i love a wide variety of books.
great thread!
next on my to-read list is Flowers of Evil by Baudelaire. a far stretch from palahniuk but i love a wide variety of books.
great thread!
Finally got round to reading Turn of the Screw for my English classes, it's not bad like but the sentence structure took me a while to get used to. Doesn't help that I've got shit all attention span like but now I've got into it it's tanking along alright and actually kinda funny. Looking forward to the exam.
As far as non-enforced reading goes, I'm reading something on the narrative structure of Borges. Pretty interesting stuff given that a lot of stuff I've read on him mostly focuses on the themes in his work. I wrote my entrance essay to uni on the dude and find him and his writing fascinating and if I ever get to do my MA it's something I'd like to look at in depth.
edit: fucking hell i've turned into a right fucking student
As far as non-enforced reading goes, I'm reading something on the narrative structure of Borges. Pretty interesting stuff given that a lot of stuff I've read on him mostly focuses on the themes in his work. I wrote my entrance essay to uni on the dude and find him and his writing fascinating and if I ever get to do my MA it's something I'd like to look at in depth.
edit: fucking hell i've turned into a right fucking student
Cornishman
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Picked this up in Tescos the other week.
Coogan does a superb job of acting like a complete t*sser. :D
A worthy read with lulz aplenty.
Coogan does a superb job of acting like a complete t*sser. :D
A worthy read with lulz aplenty.
third eye squeegee
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Nice to see this thread back - read a ton since I last posted in it - couple I really enjoyed
Amazing insight into Vietnam / SE Asia conflicts... Not a history book, more like what Hunter S Thompson would have written if he was on the frontlines... Great writer who gets to the heart of darkness of the sex, drugs and rock & roll war...
Great account of the 60's and LSD - similar material to the also excellent Acid Dreams, but I love reading about the 60's and the hippies
Amazing insight into Vietnam / SE Asia conflicts... Not a history book, more like what Hunter S Thompson would have written if he was on the frontlines... Great writer who gets to the heart of darkness of the sex, drugs and rock & roll war...
Great account of the 60's and LSD - similar material to the also excellent Acid Dreams, but I love reading about the 60's and the hippies
StoneHappyMonday
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I've recommended Storming Heaven on here several times. Great book. (Though you appear to have a new edition with a shit cover)
I am currently reading...a small library.
You know who you are.
I am currently reading...a small library.
You know who you are.
I haven't read a physical book for a very long time, I just don;t seem to have the time or patience but have been a big user of audio books for a number of years.
My brother has always been a massive reader and has 1000's of books, with me being laid up at the moment he came down to see me and gave me a present of a couple of books based on what he knows I'm interested in and what I've really enjoyed on audio. I have:-
Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
Physics of the future - Michio Kaku
Not sure which one to start on, probably Kaku as Hawkins and Dawkins are the only things I've read as a physical book in some years
My brother has always been a massive reader and has 1000's of books, with me being laid up at the moment he came down to see me and gave me a present of a couple of books based on what he knows I'm interested in and what I've really enjoyed on audio. I have:-
Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
Physics of the future - Michio Kaku
Not sure which one to start on, probably Kaku as Hawkins and Dawkins are the only things I've read as a physical book in some years
Am currently reading 'Face to face with serial killers' by Christopher Berry Dee.
It never ceases to amaze and horrify me just how evil some people can be.
Some of these men committed crimes of such brutality you wouldn't believe a person was capable of such evil.
The scarey part is that friends, family etc had no idea what they were up to.
That guy down your street who seems like a nice bloke, works hard and is good to his family etc could very well be one of these monsters.
Its amazing how they can commit such crimes and yet also carry on a normal life.
It never ceases to amaze and horrify me just how evil some people can be.
Some of these men committed crimes of such brutality you wouldn't believe a person was capable of such evil.
The scarey part is that friends, family etc had no idea what they were up to.
That guy down your street who seems like a nice bloke, works hard and is good to his family etc could very well be one of these monsters.
Its amazing how they can commit such crimes and yet also carry on a normal life.
Picked this up in Tescos the other week.
Coogan does a superb job of acting like a complete t*sser. :D
A worthy read with lulz aplenty.
Ooh I got this a few weeks ago but only had a quick flick through it, need to get back to it, fucking love Alan Partridge. Reading Skag Boys at the moment though, preordered it yonks ago and only got a few pages in (seeing a pattern here?) but spent an hour or so on it last night
RLP
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Nicely bumped guys, I love this thread %)
Fun one to read in public with that title, little do people realise I am actually reading about the evolution of cells and other science-geeky things
not very far in but it's really good, explains things beautifully so you don't need a degree in biology to understand it but doesn't dumb it down too much either. I love books like this.
Fun one to read in public with that title, little do people realise I am actually reading about the evolution of cells and other science-geeky things
not very far in but it's really good, explains things beautifully so you don't need a degree in biology to understand it but doesn't dumb it down too much either. I love books like this.
SpecialK_
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Not long after reading To Live Outside the Law - Leaf Fielding a book about Operation Julie. Planning to start Aldous Huxley - Brave New World soon going to try reading it as an eBook though to save ordering it. If it is shit reading this way just gonah buy the book itself.
This rain is fucking insane. My shit to do list has been parked as a result, which isn't a bad thing since I've actually picked up a book. Wonders will never cease, etc.
Anyway, I've had this on my shelf for ages, but only just started reading it yesterday. I only noticed it because it was in a different position on the shelf than it was last week. When I pulled it out from its new home, I noticed the cover had been almost ripped off. HRMN.
Anyone read it? It's romp easy to read as you'd expect from Drummond, but I know before I'm 20 pages in that the end project will be totally lost on me. I'm pretty much stuck in 1992 when it comes to music, so appreciation of anything new (or remotely conceptual) music-wise isn't really within my capabilities. I know I'll thoroughly enjoy reading about the process regardless tho. I heard about the project a while ago and before I knew what the book was about.
It's been ace reading thus far, anyhoo.
Also, I *heart* CakeCircles
Anyway, I've had this on my shelf for ages, but only just started reading it yesterday. I only noticed it because it was in a different position on the shelf than it was last week. When I pulled it out from its new home, I noticed the cover had been almost ripped off. HRMN.
Anyone read it? It's romp easy to read as you'd expect from Drummond, but I know before I'm 20 pages in that the end project will be totally lost on me. I'm pretty much stuck in 1992 when it comes to music, so appreciation of anything new (or remotely conceptual) music-wise isn't really within my capabilities. I know I'll thoroughly enjoy reading about the process regardless tho. I heard about the project a while ago and before I knew what the book was about.
It's been ace reading thus far, anyhoo.
Also, I *heart* CakeCircles
I keep meaning to. My mate has his latest one where he answers interview questions and I was browsing that recently. I like Drummond's writing a lot, especially with Mark Manning.
Just finished Venus In Furs. Astonishingly good.
Just finished Venus In Furs. Astonishingly good.
Odowakka
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Also soon to read brave new world by huxley. Presuming a few people on here have read the doors of perception? How did you find it? A few friends who have read it said it puts some of the mind bending parts of psychedelic experiences into really digestable prose...would be interested to see for myself
third eye squeegee
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Got into reading about Vietnam & SE Asia conflicts recently, and I took into reading this
Absolute whopper of a book at 850 odd pages - a real bastard to read in bed - only time I've ever wanted a kindle/e-reader...
Also re-reading Flann O Brien at the minute - fabulously funny writer, though I think, like with Joyce, it helps to be Irish to understand the fuck what's going on...
Absolute whopper of a book at 850 odd pages - a real bastard to read in bed - only time I've ever wanted a kindle/e-reader...
Also re-reading Flann O Brien at the minute - fabulously funny writer, though I think, like with Joyce, it helps to be Irish to understand the fuck what's going on...
Kronos
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Finished asoiaf (books that game of thrones tv series were based on) and already on a re-read Theres so much you miss first time you read it, they are amazing books
Also i read the hunger games a few months back and re-read it several times since, really liked them nice and easy read and i found a fan fiction which is as good as the books (imo), through finnicks eyes, for all those interested; http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6272948/1/Life_Through_Sea_Green_Eyes
Gonna try read some more peter robinsons inspectoer banks books if i can find em, love those stories
, then maybe onto some stuff i'm less familiar with..i dont like change usually though!
Theres so much you miss first time you read it, they are amazing booksAlso i read the hunger games a few months back and re-read it several times since, really liked them nice and easy read and i found a fan fiction which is as good as the books (imo), through finnicks eyes, for all those interested; http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6272948/1/Life_Through_Sea_Green_Eyes
Gonna try read some more peter robinsons inspectoer banks books if i can find em, love those stories
, then maybe onto some stuff i'm less familiar with..i dont like change usually though!