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What Are You Reading V.3 At The Fourth Grade Level

I always enjoy a blindhelpermonkey book, he comes up with the most interesting introspective material. whether you like it or not is neither here nor their...

I'm enjoying some Viennese porn of sorts//Waiting for Sunshrise by William Boyde. Racey...
 
Just finished J.G. Ballard's Crash and I'm about to start Robert Anton Wilson's Schrodinger's Cat trilogy- should be a headfuck if the Illuminatus is anything to go by.
 
Waiting for Sunrise by William Boyd. Still ploughing my way way through this and its proving to be worth it.

NSFW:
Vienna. 1913. It is a fine day in August when Lysander Rief, a young English actor, walks through the city to his first appointment with the eminent psychiatrist, Dr. Bensimon. Sitting in the waiting room he is anxiously pondering the nature of his problem when an extraordinary woman enters. She is clearly in distress, but Lysander is immediately drawn to her strange, hazel eyes and her unusual, intense beauty.

Later the same day they meet again, and a more composed Hettie Bull introduces herself as an artist and sculptor, and invites Lysander to a party hosted by her lover, the famous painter Udo Hoff. Compelled to attend and unable to resist her electric charm, they begin a passionate love affair. Life in Vienna becomes tinged with the frisson of excitement for Lysander. He meets Sigmund Freud in a café, begins to write a journal, enjoys secret trysts with Hettie and appears to have been cured.

London, 1914. War is stirring, and events in Vienna have caught up with Lysander. Unable to live an ordinary life, he is plunged into the dangerous theatre of wartime intelligence – a world of sex, scandal and spies, where lines of truth and deception blur with every waking day. Lysander must now discover the key to a secret code which is threatening Britain’s safety, and use all his skills to keep the murky world of suspicion and betrayal from invading every corner of his life.

Moving from Vienna to London’s west end, the battlefields of France and hotel rooms in Geneva, Waiting for Sunrise is a feverish and mesmerising journey into the human psyche, a beautifully observed portrait of wartime Europe, a plot-twisting thriller and a literary tour de force from the bestselling author..


I've also indulged myself again with Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell. I've read this book so often now I'm starting to pick up the inconsistencies, but will forever love it for what it brings to my life and thinking. And lack of understanding because of time and context.


Finally Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter is always worth a dabble. If not just for the pictures alone ;)
 
BlindHelperMonkey said:
so youre doing the ploughing of down and outs now. refreshing change
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Toyed with the idea of re-reading them all again, but can't stomach 1984... The Road to Wigan Pier maybe first. What do you recommend?

I usually read 2-3 books at once and like a classic in there. Besties to date have been Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Anna Karenina. I'll soon be bookless so less chit from you and more suggestions sir ;)

<3
 
BlindHelperMonkey said:
i always assumed you had two or three on the go at once tbh

i share the classics thing tho
idk, have you more tolstoy?
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Shitebag :p But aye, I reckon you are right.

I've put war and peace off for a long time. Time to get on with it.

I have a library next door so anything's available for my taxes. Use em' or lose em. Anything you think I should tackle first?
 
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