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What are you currently reading? v2

Wow, people who know the Illuminatus! trilogy? The last time that I met some of those was at a Chaos Computer Club meet-up. That isn't a joke. No fnords.
 
David Peace, Red or Dead. I'm not interested in football at all, but Peace is so fucking good I well went out and bought another one of his books portraying a central character in uk fitba history
Steve Sem-sandberg, De fattiga i Lodz (translation titled "The emperor of lies" - http://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jul/08/emperor-lies-steve-sem-sandberg-review ) Extremely disturbing masterpiece
Nataly Kelly, Jost Zetzsche, Found in Translation - How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World. A nice popular introduction to the practical applications of translations (even though it often deals with interpretation instead - the title is a bit misleading)
James Kelman, Mo Said She was Quirky - I love Kelman, think he is the best writer out there, but this one I'm having a hard time with..
Silvia Avallone, Swimming to Elbe - excellent Italian depiction of two young working class girls coming of age in a failing industrial town. Drugs, cats, deceit, survival, etc.
 
Having finished with KLF's money burning and Mike Power's drugs, both of which I highly recommend, I'm now onto "Kidnapped", life as a Somali Pirate Hostage - which surely should be life as a Somali Pirate's hostage - and I can forgive it being written by a Sunday Telegraph journalist as said Sunday Telegraph always has the best Travel section of any newspaper. So they should know.

Thank you! You know who YOU are!
 
Might have to ask the library if they can get the KLF book in for me cos have always fancied it - thanks for the reminded, SHM :)

I also read Mike Powers' book recently (thanks to the EADD book fairy <3) and was quite impressed. Much better than I was expecting and much better than the snippets published here and there suggested too. Glad I was unusually nice to him (being a journo and all) now :D
 
he was the fella wanted to speak with Mugz? I'm reading crime by Irvine Welsh. I just love the way that he does people's thoughts. brutal truths and all that. 3 little words every woman should hear once in a while "get tae fuck"
 
I think he was the one that wanted to speak to Mugz, yes. He wanted to speak to a number of people and indeed did and some of it got used in the book. No names but one person I certainly spotted (and won't name cos it's not fair to).

I'm sure Crime was the last Irvine Welsh book I read actually. Or might've been Glue come to think of it. I know there's a few I've not read and do keep an eye out on the market stall and charity shops now and then. Last one I bought new was Ecstasy and I nearly fainted at being charged a tenner for a paperback 8o

(and i'm sure that's not even that expensive these days given it was years back)
 
Shambles said:
I think he was the one that wanted to speak to Mugz, yes. He wanted to speak to a number of people and indeed did and some of it got used in the book. No names but one person I certainly spotted (and won't name cos it's not fair to).

I'm sure Crime was the last Irvine Welsh book I read actually. Or might've been Glue come to think of it. I know there's a few I've not read and do keep an eye out on the market stall and charity shops now and then. Last one I bought new was Ecstasy and I nearly fainted at being charged a tenner for a paperback 8o

(and i'm sure that's not even that expensive these days given it was years back)
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Much to my surprise Skagboys was an unexpected delight... Highly recommended.
 
Shambles said:
I think he was the one that wanted to speak to Mugz, yes. He wanted to speak to a number of people and indeed did and some of it got used in the book. No names but one person I certainly spotted (and won't name cos it's not fair to).

I'm sure Crime was the last Irvine Welsh book I read actually. Or might've been Glue come to think of it. I know there's a few I've not read and do keep an eye out on the market stall and charity shops now and then. Last one I bought new was Ecstasy and I nearly fainted at being charged a tenner for a paperback 8o

(and i'm sure that's not even that expensive these days given it was years back)
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Weird that many other reportees seemed to get very short shrift here, yet this guy was given the time of day, given he wrote for the Daily Mail and all, is quite the mystery, but by all accounts everyone is impresses with his book. The price of new books was ridiculous around the time you pointed out. I very rarely even look at new books these days as i either get them 2nd hand off ebay/amazon or download the audiobook so dont know if things have improved.
 
I think you'll find he got roasted just as much as any other reporter does here, MDB. Only reason I gave him the time of day was after speaking to him via PM a bit. He put in a lot more time and effort engaging with members than any other reporter has. He actually behaved like a normal member in many ways (albeit one that only posted in his own thread). I made it clear to him that I had my suspicions that it was all gonna end up in the traditional hatchet job but he went out of his way to answer his critics and give his own views on issues and it just so happened that some of what he said - publicly and via PM - convinced me that he was being genuine. Or at least as genuine as any reporter looking for contacts to provide info and opinion to fit their piece can be. But mainly I think it was just the amount of time he spent replying to people - made it apparent he's a person as well as a journalist. Never known another journo who bothered to do any of that stuff. Perhaps they could learn a thing or two...

(and the book really is a decent read)
 
interesting. I'll try and get a copy, though my reading a book from cover to cover rate over the last few years has been 0. I cant remember the last book i completed. I so much prefer audio books these days, especially for listening to in the car, or for walking, they are not quite so good in bed as i tend to fall asleep within about ten minutes, so it takes fucking years to finish even an audio book that way. :\
 
Reading a New Scientist style book on Quantum Theory. Really informative and you don't need a PHD to understand it.
 
'Sea of Poppies' Amitav Gosh. Set against the backdrop of the Chinese opium wars. Brilliant book. Im reading it 2nd time round and would highly recommend it.
 
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