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

I'm in the middle of The Language of God, basically I read it while I'm on the can. It's an interesting take theology and science. I'm thinking of picking up a copy of the Bhagavadgita (if I can find an illustrated copy), I just finished an Indian art history course and find the artwork fascinating.

I'm also looking to pick up a copy of Howard Marks and Nikki Sixx's autobiographies. Though with summer coming up I'll be lucky if I can get through one of those, good reading for the lake.
 
Hi everyone.

Pennywise has started a thread in Second Opinion in regards to starting a Bluelight Book Club. I'd post a direct link but I'm currently at work and browsing/posting on bluelight through a proxy. Just trying to generate some interest through this thread as I think it's a great idea.
 
I am currently reading God's Callgirl by Carla Van Raay....it's a true story about how she went from being a nun to a prostitute, and while the writing is a bit too flowery for my liking every now and then, the stuff that she's been through is pretty hardcore....and unfortunately really common (not the nun becoming a hooker thing obviously, but just stuff in her life that led her up to that point).

I have only just started it, am just reading about the dehumanising treatment she's exposed to just after she's joined the convent....I think SLM mentioned reading this book ages ago?

Very interesting anyway...
 
What's All That Below What I Wrote

A Compilation By X X. X'er

Instant Fact: How To Get The Truth Out Of Anyone!

Never Be Lied To Again

St. Martin's Press, NY 1998
ISBN: 0-312-18634-7
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Yeah, I dunno why I center-play.
I like alignments....;)

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'The Quite American'
by Graham Greene.
Prop'early...

Imean it needs CARE readin'....

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I love Graham Greene.

The Quiet American is a lot less dense than his heavily Catholic oriented novels like The Power and the Glory, but in everything he writes the language is so clean and easy to read. He had a special talent for taking very complex moral and political issues and making them easy for someone on the outside to penetrate. The Quiet American reads a lot like a journalist's account of the spiraling political quagmire in Indochina, and the criticisms of American foreign policy in the 1950s was spot on. The novel was written in the 50s, more than a decade before the US sent its first military advisors into Vietnam. It's like something George Orwell would have written if he had been better at writing novels and hadn't died of TB.

Not only that but, like Thomas Fowler, it has always been my goal to go to Asia and prey on impressionable, poverty stricken Asian women who will worship me for being Anglo-Saxon and owning a kayak.
 
A friend bought me for my birthday

"The other Boleyn Girl"

And I cant put it down... ive read about half of 500 and something pages in about 5 which is more than I have read in a year... the language is very basic but the writing has you absolutely gripped... its a true story full of lust and greed and deceit ect, something I wouldnt normally read, but its a real page turner.
 


I am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe. Only just started reading it. General idea is a young woman from a redneck town going to a prestigious university, expecting to find likeminded individuals keen on studying and learning. Instead she finds people more interested in sex and drugs.

I really like Tom Wolfes writing style. An absolute pleasure to read so far. Looking forward to reading his earlier works, such as the kool-aid acid test.
 
Im reading Blind faith by ben elton.

Its fucking epic.

As Trafford Sewell struggles to work through the usual crowds of commuters, he is confronted by the intimidating figure of his Parish Confessor. Why has Trafford not been streaming his every moment of sexual intimacy onto the community website like everybody else? Does he think he's different or special in some way? Better than his fellow man and woman? Does he have something to hide?Imagine a world where everyone knows everything about everybody. Where what a person 'feels' and 'truly believes' is protected under the law, while what is rational, even provable is condemned as heresy. A world where to question ignorance and intolerance is to commit a Crime against Faith. Ben Elton's dark, savagely comic novel imagines a post-apocalyptic society where religious intolerance combines with a confessional sex obsessed, self-centric culture to create a world where nakedness is modesty, ignorance is wisdom and privacy is a dangerous perversion. It offers a chilling vision of what's to come? Or something rather closer to what we call reality?
 
I have never read a book by Ben Elton. He seems to write about subjects relevant to my interests, so perhaps I should. Thinking about picking up a copy of High Society and Blind Faith.
 
Picked up a copy of The Confessions of an English Opium Eater.

Also finished Mark Haddon-A Spot of Bother which was hilarious, some laugh out loud moments. Very quirky novel.

Also finally finished the English Patient. Wow. A stunning novel.
 
The Romantics by Pankaj Mishra, but it's not really my type of book, I can't seem to get past the first few pages.

Going to start on Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence soon.
Finished The Bell Jar awhile ago, it was quite good.
 
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I have never read a book by Ben Elton. He seems to write about subjects relevant to my interests, so perhaps I should. Thinking about picking up a copy of High Society and Blind Faith.
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You won't regret it. All of his books are brilliant. He has a cool way of making archetype characters more than one dimensional and likeable.
 
Ben Elton is a comedic genius

"Nosin around... nosin around!
Nosin around... nosin around!"
 
Finally finished War and Peace and enjoyed it a lot in the sense of a book that doesn't vary much in theme and is 4 gazillion tiny printed pages long. Well 1351 anyways. The copy I have is over twice my age and just holding it felt kind of cool for that reason.

It actually surprised me (I wasn't expecting it) that the major point of the book was a discussion of free will and whether it exists. I once read about Scientific Determinism (for a light hearted and still informative look at the quandary read this: http://www.cracked.com/article_15746_embrace-horror.html) in New Scientist and remain to be convinced since that free will actually exists. It's funny to think that Tolstoy was thinking the same shit in the 1800s and pretty much came to the same conclusion I did. But he was a lot more succinct in his argument and the final epilogue of War and Peace was brilliant to read and absorb.

I also think, and kind of fondly, that the book could have been subtitled Marriage and Proposal because that's what over half of the fucking book dealt with.

I'm now readingThe Loved One by Evelyn Waugh and let me tell you, a book I can hold one handedly without giving me an aching wrist is a fucking relief.
 
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Just finished The Book Thief, by Marcus Zusak. It's set in Germany during WW2.

It's extremely well-written, gripping and powerful. I could hardly bare to put it down, it's been a while (well, only a few weeks...since I read MacCarthy's The Road anyway) since such a book has compelled me to keep reading long after my eyes begin to droop. Read it!
 
Haha the ending to The Loved One was so brutal and unexpected. I get the sense Waugh really didn't like California. Such a funny novel, its main brilliance being that the author obviously doesn't like any of the characters he featured and thus wasn't swayed by sentiment into a romantic ending. So fucking funny (but shocking funny, like a Misfits song).

Just about to start reading Sixty Days and Counting by Kim Stanley Robinson. It's the third and final of his novels in the Science in the Capital Series. The trilogy deals with a what if scenario for climate change in Washinton D.C. Robinson is one of my favourite authors because he is able to take factual science and extend upon it into the future, whilst making it interesting with a large number of interesting characters (using different characters to explore different belief systems etc.). If I had to choose a favourite author, Robinson would be it. Really looking forward to this book!
 
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