2012 reading challenge
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Sweet FA
✪ Three rounds Lord, in my .44 ✪
I read that just before Christmas and totally loved it. What did you think? (I'm waiting for the Coen Bros to make a film of it
)What did you think?
starfish
No dialogue. Just plot.
I read that just before Christmas and totally loved it. What did you think? (I'm waiting for the Coen Bros to make a film of it
Really enjoyed it.
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
1. "The Impossible Dead" - Ian Rankin - enjoyed it a lot
imposs1904
Thread Killa'
I thought it was better than The Complaints.
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
Me too - I did like "The Complaints" but felt the characters were much more 'at ease' and embedded in this. I also really enjoyed the relationship between Fox, Kaye and Naismith, their joshing etc...
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
Okay I'm taking the plunge - I'll put my target at an unambitious 50 because I go through bouts of reading heavily followed by droughts where I can't seem to get into anything! But I should realistically be able to meet that number, and hopefully exceed it. Although I haven't yet finished a book this year which is not a good start!
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
4/100 - Looking At London by Ronald Searle & Kaye Webb.
I love this book more than I can say.
I love this book more than I can say.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
I think you should include them. Just because a book is for children doesn't mean that it's a non-book. We all started out on them and some of them are works of art, they are part of a long and fine tradition and fully deserve to be recorded.Umming and arring a bit here. Been meaning to join in this for the last few years but always forgot to start in January or got waylaid from reading by family/vinyl duties.
I see childrens books are allowed, but I reckon I'll have to draw the line at some of the shorter ones, my youngest gets three books each night but only a few hundred words a piece
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
5/100 - My Cat Likes To Hide In Boxes by Eve Sutton & Lynley Dodd
Great little book and mentioned on this thread, and a second-hand copy arrived this morning with the post. http://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/great-books-for-small-children.215945/
Good books like this make for lifelong readers.
Great little book and mentioned on this thread, and a second-hand copy arrived this morning with the post. http://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/great-books-for-small-children.215945/
Good books like this make for lifelong readers.
Agreed, as long as most of the 100 pages were print, not pictures.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
1/30 iron sunrise- charles stross
2/30 The restoration game- Ken Macloed
2/30 The restoration game- Ken Macloed
Me76
Not very good lurker
Glad I just saw this relatively early in january as I always have meant to join just to actually see how much I do actually read.
I am going to say 35. The majority of these will be pure pulp fiction. I read a lot of the free stuff in kindle and iBooks which is normally pap.
I am getting £90 of amazon vouchers soon which I am going to spend on ebooks only so that may help the cause.
I am going to say 35. The majority of these will be pure pulp fiction. I read a lot of the free stuff in kindle and iBooks which is normally pap.
I am getting £90 of amazon vouchers soon which I am going to spend on ebooks only so that may help the cause.
imposs1904
Thread Killa'
I meant to write at that time that I looked out for the book only after you mentioned it on the thread.
It may sound weird but I actually thought it was really funny in places. Not in a, 'let's laugh at these right wing wankers' sense, but simply that O'Mahoney and McGovern can spin a good yarn. Obviously it was also grim in places - especially O'Mahoney recounting his time in South Africa and his brutal family upbringing - but there was humour in there too. I realised at one point in the book that I had previously been aware of the book because there was that passage where he recalls the confrontation with 'Red Army Fraction'
at Kings Cross that's reproduced in Sean Birchall's 'Beating The Fascists'.I thought the least interesting chapters in the book were the ones dealing with his correspondence with David Copeland, where he adopted a fake persona to gain Copeland's confidence. My eyes were glazing over after reading the fifth or sixth letter from Copeland.
I'm not going to go out of my way to read any of his other books but if they turn up on a bit torrent site or in a local secondhand bookshop (unlikely in Brooklyn), I might check them out.
I meant to write at that time that I looked out for the book only after you mentioned it on the thread.
It may sound weird but I actually thought it was really funny in places. Not in a, 'let's laugh at these right wing wankers' sense, but simply that O'Mahoney and McGovern can spin a good yarn. Obviously it was also grim in places - especially O'Mahoney recounting his time in South Africa and his brutal family upbringing - but there was humour in there too. I realised at one point in the book that I had previously been aware of the book because there was that passage where he recalls the confrontation with 'Red Army Fraction'
I thought the least interesting chapters in the book were the ones dealing with his correspondence with David Copeland, where he adopted a fake persona to gain Copeland's confidence. My eyes were glazing over after reading the fifth or sixth letter from Copeland.
I'm not going to go out of my way to read any of his other books but if they turn up on a bit torrent site or in a local secondhand bookshop (unlikely in Brooklyn), I might check them out.
Couldn't have said it better myself. I laughed at parts to, forgetting at times that the people he wrote about were fash (not for long though).
The Copeland letters were a staple in the advertisement for the book yet when i read it i thought they were out of place and pretty pointless without his letters being included to. I was left slightly confused to the point of the book after i finished it but it was interesting to read parts of his life story.
Im curious to read his one about being a soldier in the BA and may seek that one out if i can get a free download.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Pickman's says any book read from cover to cover counts. He instigated and has done these threads for four years now iirc, and a book is a book.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Pickman's model said:
So, them's the rules.
imposs1904
Thread Killa'
I'm digging out my old Shoot annuals.
jakethesnake
In bed for Britain
2/50 The Periodic Table by Primo Levi.
I started this one last year and have been reading it in on the bog or in the bath. Finished it today.
I started this one last year and have been reading it in on the bog or in the bath. Finished it today.
The above post is actually a good example of the neurotic dithering which extends to my book reading. I'm going for 20, which feels a bit sad, but with the hope that I can exceed that. I won't exceed the next category and just meeting it isn't a good enough challenge.
purenarcotic
Conveniently Pocket Sized
I am the same about starting books and never finishing them, maybe we can spur each other on to actually finish some books.
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