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

Read The Stranger by Camus because I thought it would make me smarter.

Everyone in the 40s was so depressed and apathetic!
 
Bewks

In the middle of both
"The SAS Survival Handbook"
&
"The Australian Urban Survival Guide",
both by John Wiseman.

Fantastic.
Will help also with course in followin' year.

Nearly throu
"The Dumas Club"
by Arturo Pérez-Reverte.

Polanski kinda screw'd up that interpretation.
(9th Gate)

Also
"No Logo"
by Naomi Klein.
Been meanin' to read it fo' ages...

Oh, an
I finally read
"World War Z: An Oral Tradition Of The Zombie Wars"
by Max Brooks.

I so want to hang out with him & Romero.
I'd like to pick their brains.

PEACE PEEPS
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Also
"No Logo"
by Naomi Klein.
Been meanin' to read it fo' ages...
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I've heard a lot about this book also and am sure it would interest me.


Currently I'm reading a book that I bought at random from a very large, overstocked secondhand bookstore in Newtown on my travels today. It's called "Now you'll Think I'm Awful" and is written by Sue Rhodes. She wrote this book about her life experiences socialising in Australia and laments upon the ocker bloke. She climbs upon a pedestal of matyrdom for womanhood worldwike. She proclaims, "I'm an Australian woman" and then humourously and bitchingly proceeds to tell the reader why. This was written in the 60's so it's very intriguing to read from the viewpoint of a woman whose probably just in the throes of being an equal gender. She cheerfully scandalizes men. She dissects sex and the act of getting it and it's fucking great lol.

I burst out laughing at this passage, which like many in the book afford a rare glimpse into strine that I never knew existed from a time not of my own. The writer is recalling how guys would describe a girl poor in bed.

For this reason the Australian girl has the undeserved reputation of being a "dud bash".

DUD BASH!
 
I'm reading "Black Hole" by Charles Burns. OK - so it's a graphic novel but it has words!! It is fucking awesome too - haven't really checked his work since "Hard Boiled Defective" but he's produced a corker. Very brooding, twisted and yet empathic - about a bunch of teenagers in the 70s, taking lots of drugs and having sex, and spreading a weird infection that causes mutations and disfigurement. Loving it!

And Benefit - reading Camus will make you smarter. Check out "The Rebel" too...
 
This Shit Is Ha'Core. Fuck. Some Of These Peeps.... Fuck... Soprano, Shimano.

A gift from two special peeps.

MAFIA
UNITED STATES TREASURY DEPARTMENT
BUREAU OF NARCOTICS

THE GOVERNMENTS SECRET FILE
ON ORGANIZED CRIME

FORWARD BY SAM GIANCANA
​
Awesome.
A made-quality,
hard-cover copy of,
like,
700 major Playa's Rap Sheets.

Fuckin' Fascinatin'!

Old-print-type-set & all.

Brill.

PEACE
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I'm reading Anna Karenin by Leo Tolstoy. I'm enjoying it but UAN had to go and lend me a bunch of books I've been wanting to read for ages and they're staring at me from across the room. Meanwhile I'm at 230 of 800 or so pages...
 
Just finished reading The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, by Mark Haddon. It's about an autistic boy's investigation into the murder of his neighbour's pet dog. It's interesting for its view into autism, but as a story I found that it kind of ran out of steam and didn't know where to go past "hey autistic kid!" and "hey, dead dog!" :\
 
I'm trying to work my way through the entire Discworld series at the moment. I'm averaging about 3 every two weeks, but uni is about to go back and I will have to study.

Anyway, Discworld is awesome. Pratchett writes in a non-stop witty way. Its fantastic.
 
Raz said:
Just finished reading The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, by Mark Haddon. It's about an autistic boy's investigation into the murder of his neighbour's pet dog. It's interesting for its view into autism, but as a story I found that it kind of ran out of steam and didn't know where to go past "hey autistic kid!" and "hey, dead dog!" :\
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I agree. Really overrated.

I'm reading Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres. I've been reading it for a while because my attention span has markedly decreased of late. I do love de Bernieres though. He has this beautifully epic style and his books are always set in places I want to be. I'm also rereading Vice's book of Dos and Don'ts. My flatmates gave it to me for Christmas and even though I've read every entry at least twice it still makes me laugh. Ahhh crude, crass, arrogant humour, how I love thee.
 
I've been steadily reading Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's by John Elder Robison up until the middle section where I remarked to a fellow BLer he starts to behave like a real Aspergian, and carry on about menial detail so much that it tires me to read about it. I get that he loves making custom guitars, and the fact that he did it for Kiss is freaking awesomely amazing - but do I have to read tens of pages about every mechanical manoeuvre? :|
 
Has anyone read any Christopher Brookmyer novels? Seems like they would be the sort a lot here would like. I read the short stories on his website last night and really liked them. I will try and track down a whole book

What do people think of the practice of writing dialogue in the accent its meant to be heard in? Like this, Trainspotting etc? I think it adds something but I know some people that it scares off.

edited to add: yes discworld is awesome.
 
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