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What book are you currently reading?

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Harold Pinter - Collected Plays Volume 3 (the one with 'The Homecoming' in it).

I've read them all dozens of times. I often enjoy reading plays more than seeing them since my scenery, direction and acting is better ;)
 
Archaic Revival-Terence McKenna
Just finished DMT: The Spirit Molecule. It was well done.
 
I read The Sacred Magician - A Ceremonial Diary (by the psuedonymous "Georges Chevalier" - that's William Bloom to his mum) the other night. It's an account of that six-month invocation ritual that supposedly ends up with meeting your guardian angel and the conjuring up of Satan, along with a few of closest pals, and getting them to behave themselves. Well... something like that anyway.

I've long had a fascination for this kind of thing, although I would hardly consider myself a "believer", and what I liked about this particular account is the complete lack of sensationalism. It is just a diary of thoughts and feelings that only hints at what he may, or may not, have experienced. Some may see that as a cop-out, but I rather like it's matter-of-fact mundanity when faced with the ineffable.

Other than that, I feel that Time For Bed (by the mildly irritating David Baddiel) is worth a mention. Not for any great feats of literary splendour (although he's a better writer than I was expecting) but more for the fact that he devotes an entire chapter to the joys of the female anus - both aesthetically and on a more physical, putting-your-todger-in-it, level. An entire chapter. A pretty short chapter, to be fair, but I'm still impressed...
 
I've just started Strangeland by Tracey Emin.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Strangeland...=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207151367&sr=1-2

It's described as being 'the jogged recollections of a beautiful mind', and that's a fairly accurate description really. Rather than being your typically bland autobiography, it's scattered thoughts and memories from her childhood and beyond. But I guess the thing I like most about it is the fact that she writes from the heart. And I've always been drawn to her no nonsense, unapologetic personality. I'm gonna enjoy this one a lot.
 
Conversations with God. By Some American Bloke.

Was given this by a girl. Don't quite know whether to love or hate the narrative style. Have only read it while stoned too.
 
Dubliners - James Joyce.

I just finished it on the train last night - what a writer! I've never read any of his stuff but am aware of his reputation and supposed "difficulty". I suspect this may be one of his easier reads.

It's a collection of short everyday tales of the eponymous city-dwellers: a smorgasbord of vignettes from a bygone era. Apparently, the book was refused publication for many years due to its supposed sexual explicitness. I couldn't find any - apart from the merest hints of some forbidden love - but that probably just goes to show just how much things have changed in the last hundred years.

The writing is beyond good: it is jaw-droppingly, drool-inducingly, achingly good. Every tale drew me into it's little world. Every character is real and solid, clear in my mind. I feel like if I were to be transported to early-Edwardian Dublin, I could find my way around the city and find a good bottle of stout and a blather, to boot. It made me nostalgic for the Auld Country although I have nary a drop of Irish blood in me.

If you have an interest in fin de siecle Irish social history then this is the book for you. Alternatively (and perhaps a little more likely) if you just want to read a bravura display of incisive, rich and intricately detailed, piece of observational writing then this is also the book for you.

I read it from cover to cover in absolute awe.
 
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tribal girl said:
I've just started Strangeland by Tracey Emin.
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I'm annoyed at myself because I lost that book when I was only about 90 pages in. I must have left it on the bus or something. :|

I just started Fight Club instead.
 
Dusk Music - Rob Chapman

An absolutely shameless plug for my brothers first novel which has just been published.

Its not bad. Pop culture fiction mixed with real life.
 
tribal girl said:
I've just started Strangeland by Tracey Emin.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Strangeland...=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207151367&sr=1-2

It's described as being 'the jogged recollections of a beautiful mind', and that's a fairly accurate description really. Rather than being your typically bland autobiography, it's scattered thoughts and memories from her childhood and beyond. But I guess the thing I like most about it is the fact that she writes from the heart. And I've always been drawn to her no nonsense, unapologetic personality. I'm gonna enjoy this one a lot.
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I'm a bit of a fan myself. Tis a shame you lost it, but someone is going to have a lovely find, so not all so bad :).

Hopefully the person that found it, read it on the way here and left it at the charity shop... You never know - it could happen!
 
Hopefully. I'd hate to think of it being discarded without anyone else getting enjoyment from it. What I read of it was bloody good though. I cried a fair amount of the time. She's had it very hard, and I love a good tragedy.

I might wait until the sales and buy it again.
 
^ If it turns up here, I'll be sure to send it back :).

She's certainly a character (and a damn good artist - yes, including that bed :p) and I would love to find out a little more about her in her own words. She made a (semi-) autobiographical film too, I believe, which I'd also love to track down.
 
Reading some beat generation stuff atm

William S. Burroughs - Naked Lunch

Jack Kerouac - The Dharma Bums

I'm enjoying reading Naked Lunch but I'm not really sure that enjoying is the right word, there's some beautifully repulsive language and it flows well in places but I am not used to such unstructured/jumbled writing.
 
Bill Bryson - A Walk in the Woods.

Bill and his friend Katz decide to walk the longest continous footpath in the world, the Appalachian Trail which stretches from East Coast of the US from Georgia to Maine through forests and mountains and all sorts and is approx 2,200 mils long. Neither of them have done anysort of walking or anything like this before.

It's a nice and easy but decent read, humorous in parts as well.

I have about another 6 books to read after this one. :)
 
StoneHappyMonday said:
Dusk Music - Rob Chapman

An absolutely shameless plug for my brothers first novel which has just been published.

Its not bad. Pop culture fiction mixed with real life.
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hey, that looks pretty good!
Synopsis
When teenage guitar prodigy Keith Gear shares a stage with Jimi Hendrix in mid 60s Soho he forms a bond with his hero and embarks on a journey that will take him a long way from his South London roots. Reluctantly thrust into the spotlight with his band Dominion, he plays the fame game briefly and finds it wanting. With Jimi he enjoys acid trips in London, jam sessions in New York and reflective evenings in Morocco. In the decades that follow he experiences cult fame as a solo artist and sees a close friend become an unlikely star on the alternative comedy scene. By the 1990s a psychopathic celebrity killer is on the loose and the ageing and battle-worn Gear is largely forgotten. In the midst of all this a chance encounter at the Avalonia festival opens up unexpected pathways for Gear's future. With dark humour Rob Chapman creates an elaborate mosaic that gradually reveals the outsiders and uncompromising spirits who roam the fringes of popular culture.
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added to basket. :)
 
Sounds cool but just from reading that Synopsis I don't get the link between the psychopathic celebreity killer who's on the loose and the rock star guy Keith becoming forgotten.

Maybe I'm supposed to read it to find out.

Tell us what it's like once you've read it Felixtheoldcunt. :)
 
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