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

last book i read was 'scattered' a book on ice in australia with accounts from users etc. pretty interesting book and some vivid stories loll. I also read angels and demons and digital fortress both by dan brown, i don't read often but i should definately get more into it. I enjoy books its just the time constraint that puts me off.
 
^Ahh classic trilogy that.

ATM I'm reading: The Satanic Verses-Salman Rushdie, Food of the Gods-Terrance McKenna, Absolution Gap-Alastair Reynolds and Acid Dreams:The Complete Social History of LSD: The cia, the 60s and beyond-Martin A Lee and Bruce Shlain
 
I am reading On Agression by Konrad Lorenz and A Strong Womans Desire for a Strong man, by a psychologist/author whose name escapes me

fascinating shit
 
You book nerds may enjoy this:

BookSeer's webapp answers the question "What should I read next?", using Amazon, LibraryThing, and the last book you read and enjoyed.

Joining the ranks of other book recommendation tools, like previously reviewed BookArmy, WhichBook, BookLamp, and What Should I Read Next?, BookSeer offers a simple interface and answer system.

If you want to do some complex digging into your literary tastes with a variety of metrics, you'll want a site like BookArmy. On the other hand, with BookSeer you can plug in a book you enjoyed reading and it will return the top recommendations from book sources like Amazon.com and LibraryThing to suggest a list of books you might enjoy. Each book in the recommendation list is linked back to information from the source so you can dig down and read more about the books BookSeer is recommending. Have a favorite tool or technique for finding new books? Let's hear about it in the comments below.
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http://lifehacker.com/5299514/bookseer-tells-you-which-book-to-read-next
 
^ I just gave that a go with some of my favourite books and I'd read (and really liked) most of the suggestions. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga though was one I haven't heard of but kept coming up so I might see if I can track that one down next.

That being said, it couldn't give me anything for Captain Corelli's Mandolin which is a bit weird.

LnF: I haven't finished it yet (I keep getting distracted) but I've loved it so far. I'd give it a go. You can pick up really cheap copies in discount book stores at the moment (maybe that's just in Sydney but these things tend to go in cycles.)

I'm currently reading Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go. It's as good as The Remains of the Day in my opinion, and that's saying something because I was really moved by that book. I'm hoping this has the same lasting impact as TRotD. I've been reading a LOT of books that tear at my heart strings lately and I can tell this book isn't going to end that spell.
 
White tigers are actually that colour due to a birth defect, there are no white tigers in nature. Zoos just breed them because people like them. They are often criticised for continuing to breed white tigers, arguing that it is cruel because the defect seems to be occasioned with a lot of other mutations and problems. Many white tigers are stillborn or die soon after birth.

I've been reading "Lilith's Brood" by Octavia Bulter. The story goes: the Earth finally blew itself up with a big nuclear war, a superior alien species saved a few hundred of us and are now helping and creepily semi-forcing interbreeding. Its interesting.
 
I couldnt find tender is the night at any of my local bookshops.

Looking for new material I found something tonight in the abc shop.

Just starting on The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow

Although this will be no kerouacs on the road, nothing can match that masterpiece, I've wanting something close to it for sometime. i'll let you know how it goes, but it's set in the in the 1920s & 30s, one of my favourite eras.
The main character is a drifter with no direction, perfect read for me at the moment by all descritpions.

I think I'm going to like this one.
 
^ That's another one I've been wanting to read for a long time. Have you finished it? What'd you think?

I'm reading The long hard road out of hell by Marilyn Manson (and Neil Strauss.)

Awesome. Any autobiography that starts with a child finding bestiality pics and seeing his grandfather masturbate is going to be an exercise in good taste (and what more do we expect from him?) The fact he references my favourite Jim Morrison bio - Noone Here Gets Out Alive - was another endearing touch.

I also like that there is a disclaimer at the start saying that some 'characters' are composites. To me, it doesn't take away from the story-telling, but it acknowledges that there's been a certain amount of artisitic license taken with the anecdotes.

The only problem with it is that I get oddly embarrassed reading it on public transport because every other page has some really fucked up picture or diagram and it makes me feel like a degenerate whenever someone is sitting next to me. :D

I have a lot of respect for Manson, even though I'm not a fan per se, and the book is a lot of fucked up fun.
 
^Such an awesome book! My brother got it when I was in year 9 and I took it to a school excursion and sat there reading it aloud to my friends. There were some sheltered as fuck girls in the group who ended up complaining to the teacher!

I just finished The Girl Who Played with Fire by Steig Larsson. UAN got me the first in the series (the Millenium series, first being The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) for my birthday and I was bored shitless through the first third of it and riveted for the remainder.

Conversely, The Girl Who Played with Fire I read obsessively for the first 2/3 and was bored shitless through the last part.

Pet Peeve Spoiler:

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I fucking hate when an author kills off the main character only to bring them back later on. It's such a cop out - didn't they learn anything from the backlash when Harold came back to life in Neighbours?
 
UAN, can I ask what it is you respect about him? I've always found him to be a twat, though I'm not completely sure why. The fact that he likes to have sex with groupies never uses condoms with them or the women he has been supposedly in love with is probably part of it. I'm interested to hear some points to the contrary from someone that isn't a fan.
 
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^ That's another one I've been wanting to read for a long time. Have you finished it? What'd you think?
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I've had a lot on lately and haven't got round to finishing this but loving the whole lot so far, the style has me reading slower than usual. I'd like to be able to finish this one off in the hammock under the sun, maybe ill light the fireplace tonight and get it finished.

Either way definitely recommending so far.
 
vanth said:
UAN, can I ask what it is you respect about him? I've always found him to be a twat, though I'm not completely sure why. The fact that he likes to have sex with groupies never uses condoms with them or the women he has been supposedly in love with is probably part of it. I'm interested to hear some points to the contrary from someone that isn't a fan.
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I agree that the way he treats and talks about women is horrible, but then I'm sure the same can be said for a lot of 'rock stars.' It kind of comes with the territory. He's obviously an asshole, and a total narcissist but I don't want to be friends with the guy, I just find him interesting.

I think respect was the wrong word to use. I appreciate his message that everyone has good and evil in them, I agree with most of the things he says about Christianity and its hypocrisy and I like his ideas of pushing the boundaries of society and its morals. I also think he's actually provided comfort, in some really fucked up way, to a lot of desperate and lonely people.

I've also been impressed by the interviews I've seen of him. Once you get past the affected manners and the fact he takes himself way too seriously, he's really articulate and intelligent. He's one of the few people in society that are really outspoken about the darkest parts of life and who questions everything.

That being said, I think a lot of his exploration and examination of life is derived from an innate desire to control and manipulate people, to utilise the mob mentality to his advantage. I think he's done that pretty effectively.

I'm about to start Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs. I ordered it with a voucher online ages ago, totally forgot about it, then picked it up from the post office last week. Score.
 
I've just finished reading Wuthering Heights. Also done with Trainspotting and the sequel Porno by Irvine Welsh. Currently I am reading Adventure by Jack London and Voss by Patrick White. Voss is pretty fucking good, I love white's knack of writing really sarcastic, insightful sentences that speak worlds when describing his characters and the shallow motivations they're cerebrally unaware of.

I'm fucking so sick of internet on my mobile phone! I went $120 over my phone cap this month and I normally never even come close to reaching it. Friday I get internet at home again people, it's an important occasion, mark it in your diaries and buy me something nice.
 
I've been reading some of the 60s Playboys, they're actually pretty interesting and the ladies in them actually look like real, beautiful women that you might have seen walking down the street in the 60s, rather than a surgically altered glowing being without a line or imperfection anywhere. It's very novel. Lots of classically sexist ads though.

If you're interested there's 50 or so Playboys from the 50s to the 00s online for free http://www.playboyarchive.com/
 
Currently I'm nearly finished Ecstasy by Irvine Welsh. See I was thinking that tackling this drug Welsh could finally have some characters that weren't abhorrent reprobates, as in the heroin books. Instead the characters are more reprehensible than ever. So if you like stories of people fucking corpses, beating and glassing people until their teeth fly out, and chicks with no arms cutting off people's arms using their feet with a chainsaw then this is the book for you! Personally I'm enjoying the fuck out of it. Somewhere in all this sickness each of the stories is a love story. Totally deranged, fucked up love stories.
 
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