butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Remembered something else nauseating about the alt-america book - the smug author unashamedly uses the word 'boffo'.
it's the all-singing all-dancing 2018 reading challenge thread
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DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
its also in wolffs fire&fury book. Had to google it last night. also: hondling
10. Pierce Penniless his Supplication to the Devil - Thomas Nashe
11. The Surgeon's Mate - Patrick O'Brian
11. The Surgeon's Mate - Patrick O'Brian
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
9 - Russia and the Western Far Right - Anton Shekhovtsov
10 - Nietzsche and Jewish Culture - Jacob Golomb
10 - Nietzsche and Jewish Culture - Jacob Golomb
Fozzie Bear
Well-Known Member
2/30 Cyrus Bozorgmehr - Once Upon a Time in Shaolin: The Untold Story of Wu-Tang Clan's Million Dollar Secret Album, the Devaluation of Music, and America's New Public Enemy No. 1
Pretty great high octane stuff from the old Etonian who ended up working on the Wu's mad project to release an album in a limited edition of one.
pennimania
still dre and drooling
1. Lady Susan - Jane Austen
2. Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom - Nik Cohn
3. Little Women/Good Wives - Louisa May Alcott (possibly the 20th reread always a joy)
2. Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom - Nik Cohn
3. Little Women/Good Wives - Louisa May Alcott (possibly the 20th reread always a joy)
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
1. Mark Greif - Against Everything
2. Richard Morgan - Altered Carbon
3. Michele Wallace - Invisibility Blues
2. Richard Morgan - Altered Carbon
3. Michele Wallace - Invisibility Blues
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12. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
13. Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race - Reni-Eddo Lodge
13. Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race - Reni-Eddo Lodge
PursuedByBears
Go stick your head in a pig
1/30 Stieg Larsson - The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
2/30 China Miéville - October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
3/30 Michael Wolff - Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
4/30 Philip Reeve - Mortal Engines
2/30 China Miéville - October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
3/30 Michael Wolff - Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
4/30 Philip Reeve - Mortal Engines
14. Pamela; Or Virtue Rewarded - Samuel Richardson
BoatieBird
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1/65 - Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
2/65 - Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
3/65 - Ruth Rendell - An Unkindness of Ravens
4/65 - Stephen King - Firestarter (1/10*)
* I've set myself a sub-target of 10 books over 500 pages, this is the first of them.
2/65 - Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
3/65 - Ruth Rendell - An Unkindness of Ravens
4/65 - Stephen King - Firestarter (1/10*)
* I've set myself a sub-target of 10 books over 500 pages, this is the first of them.
strung out
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1/25 The Ritual – Adam Nevill
2/25 Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries - Jon Ronson
Listened to this one as an audiobook to make the most of my daily drive to/from work. This should help me hit my target a little easier, although I've found some audiobooks really difficult to get into, depending on the narrator and type of book.
2/25 Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries - Jon Ronson
Listened to this one as an audiobook to make the most of my daily drive to/from work. This should help me hit my target a little easier, although I've found some audiobooks really difficult to get into, depending on the narrator and type of book.
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
3/39: Gest, Justin - The new minority: White working class poliics in an age of immigration and inequality
By the way, does anyone else find Fredric Jameson's cultural marxism a pain in the arse?
Voley
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1/30 The Bottom Corner - Nige Tassell
2/30 Long Road From Jarrow - Stuart Maconie
Ace book. Part contemporary social comment, part history lesson, a good dose of fine travel writing and, crucially, what makes the perfect pork pie. There's as much on modern Britain as there is on the Jarrow March and it has the best bit of genuinely balanced writing I've yet read on Brexit. Really recommend this.
Sample quote: ''The people who sneer about the nanny state are the people most likely to have had nannies.''
ETA to tag sojourner. I know she was interested in this.
2/30 Long Road From Jarrow - Stuart Maconie
Ace book. Part contemporary social comment, part history lesson, a good dose of fine travel writing and, crucially, what makes the perfect pork pie. There's as much on modern Britain as there is on the Jarrow March and it has the best bit of genuinely balanced writing I've yet read on Brexit. Really recommend this.
Sample quote: ''The people who sneer about the nanny state are the people most likely to have had nannies.''
ETA to tag sojourner. I know she was interested in this.
15. The Ionian Mission - Patrick O'Brian
1. The Book of Lost Things - John Connolly
2. The Fifth Season - N. K. Jemisin
3. The Brothers Ashkenazi - I. J. Singer
4. Chronicle of a Death Foretold- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
5. The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View- Ellen Meiksins Wood
6. Burial Rights- Hannah Kent
7. Strike! - Jeremy Brecher
2. The Fifth Season - N. K. Jemisin
3. The Brothers Ashkenazi - I. J. Singer
4. Chronicle of a Death Foretold- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
5. The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View- Ellen Meiksins Wood
6. Burial Rights- Hannah Kent
7. Strike! - Jeremy Brecher
Threshers_Flail
Well-Known Member
1. Radclyffe Hall - The Well of Loneliness
2. Carson McCullers - The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
3. Olivia Laing - The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
2. Carson McCullers - The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
3. Olivia Laing - The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
PursuedByBears
Go stick your head in a pig
1/30 Stieg Larsson - The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
2/30 China Miéville - October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
3/30 Michael Wolff - Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
4/30 Philip Reeve - Mortal Engines
5/30 David Peace - Red Riding 1974 - claustrophobic, nasty and compelling. Liked that.
2/30 China Miéville - October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
3/30 Michael Wolff - Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
4/30 Philip Reeve - Mortal Engines
5/30 David Peace - Red Riding 1974 - claustrophobic, nasty and compelling. Liked that.
imposs1904
Thread Killa'
1/25 Blood Sympathy by Reginald Hill (Reread)
2/25 Men in White Suits: Liverpool FC in the 1990s - The Players' Stories by Simon Hughes
2/25 Men in White Suits: Liverpool FC in the 1990s - The Players' Stories by Simon Hughes
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
I've spent a long time (almost two years) not reading. Mainly because my eyes started to go (and it really bothered me), my attention span reduced massively and I've found concentrating on small words in long books a real struggle, and I wasn't enjoying it. I was frustrated that I wasn't enjoying it and that I couldn't concentrate so I just stopped reading. I subscribe to 3 music and 2 film mags and read them cover to cover every month, so it's not like I am not engaging with the written word at all.
Just before xmas I picked up Grayson Perry's The Descent of Man and read it in a week and it kick started me back in. So I am go to challenge myself into to getting back into reading, I'll start by setting myself a 10 - 19 goal and see how I go.
I have two under my belt already (dry Jan innit)
1/19 - Mark Kermode - The Good, The Bad and the Multiplex
2/19 - Mark Kermode - It's Only a Movie
Just before xmas I picked up Grayson Perry's The Descent of Man and read it in a week and it kick started me back in. So I am go to challenge myself into to getting back into reading, I'll start by setting myself a 10 - 19 goal and see how I go.
I have two under my belt already (dry Jan innit)
1/19 - Mark Kermode - The Good, The Bad and the Multiplex
2/19 - Mark Kermode - It's Only a Movie
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
3/25 The Delirium Brief by Charles Stross
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