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What book are you currently reading?

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Karaboudjan said:
Pahaha! How very...StoneHappyMonday...a statement that was!

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I think you'll find that's a generally accepted view from the books critics. It deals with an American m/c kid having head fucks about....nothing.

Compare with Crime and Punishment and its treatment of the mental anguish of the human condition (illustrated through a murder). No comparison.
 
zophen said:
^ Brilliant read ~ collected essays and journalism is where it's really at with Orwell and Homage to Catalonia! Over and out!
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Yeah, read 'The Lion and the Unicorn - Socialism and the English Genius'. One of his best essays and really rousing if you're a leftie like me. It's here:

http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/essays/lion-and-unicorn1.htm

You can find all of Orwell's books transcribed on the net, by the way.
 
Having gone on a complete binge of The Wire in recent weeks, I picked up creator David Simon's account of a year spent following the Baltimore homicide unit:

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It's the first book of this type that I've read & I'm really enjoying it in a morbidly fascinating way. It's an incredibly evocative chronicle of the fucked-up beyond compare dark underbelly of a modern American city, & the unending, grinding bleakness of the police work that follows it. It's given me a new-found respect for homicide detectives that's for sure.

I'm also just about to start Alex Garland's "The Beach", which is one of those books that I really should've read about 10 years ago, when I expect I would've got a lot more out of it. Still, I'll probably blitz through it in a couple of days & I'm going travelling soon, so hopefully it will get me in the mood a little.

Come to think of it, has anyone got any recommendations for good travel writing? Something with a sense of adventure to it.
 
zophen said:
^ Brilliant read ~ collected essays and journalism is where it's really at with Orwell and Homage to Catalonia! Over and out!
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Orwell rocks, Catalonia particularly...remember the bit where the doctors telling him he's lucky to get shot in the neck and live, and he thinks to himself 'if I was lucky I wouldn't have been shot at all.' And, the bit with the Fascist guy who was taking a dump, and Orwell's got him in his sights, but can't bear to shoot some guy who's running away pulling his pants up...that was priceless.

Down and Out...Road to Wigan Pier...good stuff.
 
^ Yeah 'shooting an elephant' is a brilliant short story/long essay ~ true story as well. Worth looking up, it'll be as valid tomorrow as it was 70 years ago!

Also 'You and the Atom Bomb' is a good read, might particularly appeal to you fasteddie that one ;)
 
Just got done reading "My Friend Leonard" which I read directly after finishing "A Million Little Pieces"; loved them both. As "My Friend Leonard" came to a close, I was a bit shocked in how it ended, yet wished their was a part 3 of sorts to pick up and keep reading. I've read iffy reports that James Frey is working on a third book, however it is unclear if it is another sequel or a stand alone book.

I'm waiting for my copy of "Candy" to arrive - can't wait to start that one! In the mean time, the only other book I have that I have not read is "A Brief History Of Time" by Stephen Hawking, though I don't really know if I'm in the mood for it.

Finally - has anyone read "Junky" by William S. Burroughs?
 
Mainly cos i've sod all else to read for now i plan on rereading "Kingdom of Fear" Hunter S Thompsons memoirs (well of some sort). Very good!
 
Hoss said:
Finally - has anyone read "Junky" by William S. Burroughs?
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Yep, every word, understood none of it.

Road to Wigan Pier...good stuff
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I love me Orwell...but Wigan Pier is simply a litany of poverty.

Great if you want to know the RPI in 1926, otherwise dull.
 
down and out in paris and london is a better tale of poverty. I like his description of teh 'plongeur'...basically it appears jobs as kitchen porters havent changed much!
 
^^ Agreed Wigan pier could have been the raw info for basing a policy document on , that's how thrilling it was. As a work of social history however, it is pretty much unparalleled.


MTGG Paris & London is excellent. ParticularlyParis!
 
zophen said:
^^ Agreed Wigan pier could have been the raw info for basing a policy document on , that's how thrilling it was. As a work of social history however, it is pretty much unparalleled.
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Totally agree that it is a valuable bit of social history, but you kind of get the impression he's disgusted with the working class at some points. You can argue that he's disgusted with the conditions they're living in, but I'm not so sure you can make that distinction.

I prefer Down and Out..., in fact it's one of my favourite books - especially the french half, but it's still got that human zoo element to it. Everyone hates a tourist.
 
^No place to hide drugs... everyone who visits you picks up that book!
 
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