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What book are you currently reading?

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Aldous Huxley - Brave New World. Can't believe its taken me as many years as it has to get around to reading this, disgraceful.

After that though I'm looking forward to Conciousness Explained by Daniel C. Dennett, legend that he is.
 
Just finished a book (and have already forgot the name) from the couple who started the Lonely Planet guidebooks, I hate their guides and don't use them but this is basically their story and how it all began until now. Pretty good read but when they're saying things such as "when reviewing for a guidebook you don't actually have to eat in a restaurant, just looking in and seeing whether it's busy tells you the food is good and is worthy of a good write up" which makes me hate their guidebooks even more because the reviews in them aren't worth shit. I ate in a restaurant in Sihanoukville just last week that was dead (the menu sounded great) and it was some of the best food I've ever eaten (duck in rasperbbry sauce if you were wondering). Maybe the maps are handy or they would be useful to have an idea in which direction accomodation is when you first get off a bus but they're too big and full of obvious lies for me to be arsed with them.

Read an expose from a former author a few years ago as well who says your given a small budget, small time frame and are expected to cover a whole country or countries staying, eating, drinking and doing all manners of things which is impossible given your budget and time frame so they just sit sunning it up all day, plagerising from other guides or online, make up what they can't plagerise and take bribes in the form of free food, drinks and accomodation to write good reviews. Sounds like my ideal job.
 
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It's really captivating - I can't put it down when I've not got anything else to do!!

Really nice - when I read it, everything is displayed in glowing colours and close-to-smells - evocatively written.
 
The Exorcist- Willliam Peter Blatty
The Omen - David O. Seltzer
The Books of Job, Daniel, Romans, Revelation (who the fuck knows if they are made up or not)
Tintin - Explorers on the moon (Herge)
Colin Wilson - Written in Blood: A History of Forensic Detection
Asterix in Spain (René Goscinny (stories) and Albert Uderzo (illustrations).)
Philip K Dick : Valis, UBIK

And about 20 more. I have an extreme problem with what people deny is ADD. I have been used to reading many books at once since I was about 22.

Its not right, but I'm not right.

I am going to try to read a load of crime books without the intervention of comedy,satan,stupidity,or PKD. SO I might start with re-re eading a Jim Thompson book or 6 since he's my 2nd favourite author (and a damn sight more understandable) after PKD.


Not to hard as I'm cancelling my love film shit, don't watch tv and have issues with everyone I know. Oh yeah and I might be saying good bye to anything more than minimal internet use.
 
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Trabant Trek - Dan Murdoch.

A bunch of loosely connected people crossing the world in a fleet of plastic East German cars that don't work very well for charity.

Cambodia is a long way from Germany --thousands of miles, as it turns out. And in between are some of the world s highest mountains, most inhospitable deserts and least welcoming countries. Trying to make the journey overland was always going to be difficult. But one group of twenty-somethings, bored with the predictable wanderings of the backpacker generation, thought they d spice things up a little. They would go by car. The worst car in the world. The infamous Soviet-era Trabant. This would be no whimsical meander across the globe, but a mission with a cause to raise money for the Cambodian children they had met on previous visits to the country. From their base in Central Europe, east through Turkey and the gateway to Asia, then into the Caucasus, the five men and three women ferried across the Caspian Sea and into the forgotten world of Central Asia, the police state of Turkmenistan, the beautiful Silk Road cities of Uzbekistan, the stunning mountain passes of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan and the endless flat of the Kazakh steppe. They took on Russia s freezing Siberian winter and Mongolia s icy plains, crossed booming China before hitting the sun-speckled hills of Laos and the jungles of Cambodia. This book, based on the explosive blog from award-winning travel writer and journalist Dan Murdoch, tells the inside story of the Trabant Trek, and how a group of near strangers coped with the challenge of their lives. Ten percent of the royalties will be donated to the Trabant Trek charities.
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hahaha that's the journalist who did the "can i get high legally?" shitfest docu on bbc3 isn't it?
 
I have an extreme problem with what people deny is ADD. I have been used to reading many books at once since I was about 22.
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I've done this all my life. I know a lot of people who are the same. I'm reading about five books at the moment, and more from years back that I never finished. I blame my English degree as we always had to have a few books on the go at once.

I don't always want to be reading the same genre. Or get bored easy. I can't watch TV without doing something else at the same time. Never EVER can I sit through a movie in one sitting, unless I'm in the cinema, even then I get up and go for a wander. Brain needs too much stimulation. Must keep feeding it!
 
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just finished The great and secret show by clive barker a fine novel with a very unusual take on conciousness and the realms between dreams and "the other place" which is reached by crossing"quiddity" from what i gather a metaphoric etheareal "sea" where all conciousness merge all in all a great book and one for the mind travellers out there
 
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hahaha that's the journalist who did the "can i get high legally?" shitfest docu on bbc3 isn't it?
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I've no idea but it does say on the book he's now a BBC journalist so quite possibly. The book is good if you like travel literature.

It's strange because I read about half of the book then got to a chapter and after reading a few lines I realised I'd read this particular chapters story before, though I distinctly remember it having a different ending. I read through the rest of the book and it was all new to me. I'm wondering if he's actually written other books and just used the same stories in both but changed them slightly.
 
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I've no idea but it does say on the book he's now a BBC journalist so quite possibly. The book is good if you like travel literature.

It's strange because I read about half of the book then got to a chapter and after reading a few lines I realised I'd read this particular chapters story before, though I distinctly remember it having a different ending. I read through the rest of the book and it was all new to me. I'm wondering if he's actually written other books and just used the same stories in both but changed them slightly.
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Most of the stories in the book had previously been published in short form - in The Other Side Magazine, The Lonely Planet and a number of blog sites. They've also been regurgitated on Radio 4 and 5Live so maybe you 'd already heard/read an abridged version of the story?
 
haha! You can't come back to defend your documentary but as soon as someone mentions your book you're straight back :D. george lamb was a poor choice (quite possibly not yours?) the man is a straight up cunt. Did you hear shpongle used samples of him smoking salvia from the program on their new album?
 
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haha! You can't come back to defend your documentary but as soon as someone mentions your book you're straight back :D. george lamb was a poor choice (quite possibly not yours?) the man is a straight up cunt. Did you hear shpongle used samples of him smoking salvia from the program on their new album?
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Haha, spot on. Less said about that the better, ey? Have you seen Chop Shop? Sweet be'jesus.
Noticed the shpongle post. At work so haven't had a listen - forwarded it to George tho, maybe he'll play it on 6Music?
 
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I've no idea but it does say on the book he's now a BBC journalist so quite possibly. The book is good if you like travel literature.

It's strange because I read about half of the book then got to a chapter and after reading a few lines I realised I'd read this particular chapters story before, though I distinctly remember it having a different ending. I read through the rest of the book and it was all new to me. I'm wondering if he's actually written other books and just used the same stories in both but changed them slightly.
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Hey Spade, I cant respond to PMs, but i can see them. If you PM your email address then i'll reply directly...
 
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