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What book are you currently reading?

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Pffft i'm just kidding you big fanboy!! :p

Yeh, I will some time, but i have too much other crap I've had sitting around for ages. "Crash" and "Island" i just gotta attempt, n decided to give up on "One Hundred Years of Solitude" cos after 15 pages I wasn't impressed and I could see myself having to "will" my way through it. Fuck that. Reading is about fun, and I don't care how much Salman Rushdie wanks off over it :D
 
^ I loved One Hundred Years of Solitude myself - damn fine book, but I can see how it would irritate some.

On the Iain (M) Banks debate - I've only read a book of his short stories, The State of The Art and I can absolutely see how people get so into him. Such imagination, humour and outright weirdness - great stuff :D.

The book I've just finished is Chicken by David Henry Sterry. It's a sort of memoir, I suppose you'd call it, from a retired Hollywood gigolo. It's very intriguingly written - Mr Sterry has a rather unique writing style inventing new words ("wangdandoodlehammer" =D) and portmantaus ("Bondcoolcalm" :D) as and when needed. He is also very funny (describing his grandfather as "A professional athlete and amateur pedophile" tickled me :D). It's described on the front as being like a cross between Boogie Nights and Midnight Cowboy and that's really rather accurate. Sex, drugs and sleaze in 70s Hollywood. Funny, revealing and rather tragic in places. Another recommendation :).

PinholeStar said:
I'll hunt down that Umberto Eco book you spoke of too entheogenius. You are a master book salesman, I must say. :)
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Then I sincerely hope you enjoy it or I shall feel a fool :D. Maybe I should go for a job as a blurb-writer...

I am currrently reading the rather wonderful One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and it really is as good as it's reputation suggests :).
 
felix said:
^ iain banks does that in a couple of books too. :)
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In fact, he jumps to the second person! I love that, makes you feel like you're the killer =D
 
Fear & Trembling - Soren Kirkegaard

I'm doing existensialism backwards. Houelbeque ->Camus/Sartre/Rimbaud -> Kirkeguaard.

I was already interested, but talking to MTGG got me really into my studies.

Tom, I miss you...
 
The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939. Anthony Beevor

Brilliant - never really knew much about this - start of the 2nd world war!?!!!
 
I can recommend to anyone 'Songs They Never Play On The Radio' about Nico in the 1980s when she lived in Manchester.
 
Cityboy

I've just finished Geraint Anderson's book "Cityboy". I found it quite a good read, and all you anti-capitalist types will love some of it. As someone who works in the sharp end of finance, I can relate to quite a lot of it, although some if it is complete bobbins.

The synopsis from Amazon is below.

'Who is Cityboy? He’s every brash, suited, FT-carrying idiot who ever pushed past you on the tube. He’s the egotistical buffoon who loudly brags about how much cash he’s made on the market at otherwise pleasant dinner parties. He’s the greedy, ruthless wanker whose actions are helping turn this world into the shit-hole it’s rapidly becoming. For one period in my life, he was me.' In this no-holds-barred, warts-and-all account of life in London’s financial heartland, Cityboy breaks the Square Mile’s code of silence in his own inimitable style, revealing explosive secrets, tricks of the trade and the corrupt, murky underbelly at the heart of life in the City. Drawing on his experience as a young analyst in a major investment bank, the six-figure bonuses, monstrous egos, and the everyday culture of verbal and substance abuse that fuels the world’s money markets is brutally exposed as Cityboy describes his ascent up the hierarchy of this intensely competitive and morally dubious industry, and how it almost cost him his sanity.
 
Just finished reading Bill Bryson - The Forgotten Continent.

About to order from Amazon for 1p each 'Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China' by Paul Theroux and 'Michael Palins Hemingway Adventure' by Michael Palin of course. Total of £5.52 with postage. Gotta love Amazons 'new and used' section. :)
 
The electric Kool Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe.

Currently just a bit shocked that they just dumped kathy casano (stark naked) when she went nuts, and about sandy lehmann-haupt and their care of him when he flipped.

Just finished, Understanding our mind, thich nhat hanh. Excellent.
100 years of solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Lovely writer, but got a bit bored by the end, preferred Love in the time of Cholera.
 
Shambles said:
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Hey, look at me being all cool and moddy :D ;).

Or something like that...
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Oi Oi, i was trying to stoke some "political debate" on that one!
 
i am reaaaaaading:

anna karenina and a patricia cornwell novel because my mother got me addicted to them when i was in hospital.
 
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/last book i read, quality read.
 
Karaboudjan said:
I saw some news article about when that guy first released his book and tbh I wouldn't mind reading it but I cbf to actually buy it and give him some credit for spilling the beans on his wanker lifestyle. I'll wait until there's a film about it and I watch it in a drugged up haze.
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I doubt they'll make a film out of it. It's not that good. Some of his lifestyle was actually quite appealing...stacks of powder!!! :)

I saw the film 21 last week, based on the book Bringing Down The House. Ok film, but brilliant book. (Kate Bosworth very fit though).

Just finished reading Not Dead Enough by Peter James. Average.
Also recently finished The Darker Side by Cody McFadyen. Fucking dark, and a bit twisted.
 
Rereading Phantoms in the Brain by V.S. Ramachandran (started to see if there were any ideas for how to cope with phantom limb pain as the fucker is getting worse recently. All I can think is it's all the damp weather doing it). Much more disturbing than any horror novel because he's describing conditions that occur when parts of the brain cease functioning through stroke etc. Capgras syndrome is a real headfuck as you tend to think those closest to you have been replaced by imposters (there are others where you think you're dead & decomposing - can't remember the name of that one - or ignore everything on your left hand side, including your own body which you tend to think doesn't belong to you.

As I said, makes Stephen King seem like kiddies bedtime stories because it's real and could conceivably also happen to you...
 
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