*What book are you reading? (part 2)
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You are very cruel Soj, very cruel!!!
eh, no one's forcing ya mate!
if it was me, i'd have chucked it by now actually, i never DID get to the end...
Fictionist
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eh, no one's forcing ya mate!
actually, i never DID get to the end...
Once I start a book I have to finish it - no matter the pain or frustration.
Bloody hero I am.
Once I start a book I have to finish it - no matter the pain or frustration.
Bloody hero I am.
mug, more like
i used to think like that, then i realised life's too fucking short
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
mug, more like
i used to think like that, then i realised life's too fucking short
I know, I know, I know.
I might have to start thinking about what I'm going to read once I've finished with 'Moby Dick'. Any suggestions?
I might have to start thinking about what I'm going to read once I've finished with 'Moby Dick'. Any suggestions?
what have you got lined up?
i tend to buy about 5 books at a time from 2nd hand shops rather than buy something on purpose
Threshers_Flail
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I'm reading Grapes of Wrath. Well I was before I got a Wire boxset through the door. 
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
At the moment I don't have anything lined up, usually the book I am reading will suggest the direction in which I will go next, but after reading 'The Last Cavalier' and 'Moby Dick' it might be a good idea to try something less substantial (at least physically).
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Currently re-reading Gene Wolfs severian books. And they do stand a re-read. Here's the great unreliable narrator.
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
I will be starting 'The Eternal Quest' by Julian Branston tonight.
(Having decided to give the whale some space)
(Having decided to give the whale some space)
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Geoff Dyer's The Ongoing Moment - an intriguing, rather wacky and askew look at American photography. I like Dyer's style - he obviously has a huge brain but he's not above a few daft jokes either. He has the skill to mix quite personal observations with history and analysis without irritating you.
Anyone read any of his other books? He seems to be quite the renaissance man, with book about all sorts of things.
Anyone read any of his other books? He seems to be quite the renaissance man, with book about all sorts of things.
Nearly finished Marching Powder by Rusty Young
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Marching-Powder-Rusty-Young/dp/0330419587
Pretty good read all in all, easy enough despite the subject matter.
Some good characters and the crazy concept of life in a Bolivian prison is really interesting.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Marching-Powder-Rusty-Young/dp/0330419587
Pretty good read all in all, easy enough despite the subject matter.
Some good characters and the crazy concept of life in a Bolivian prison is really interesting.
I really liked Anglo-English Attitudes - collected essays. And you're right, he wears his obvious intellect really lightly. In this one he writes on jazz, photography, literature and some more anecdotal stuff. He's wonderful and I need to read more.
I'm reading The Wind In The Willows - it's all I can cope with at the moment
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Just finished Perdido Street Station, much more impressed with it than I thought I would be at the start. It takes a while to catch fire; not till around the midway mark did I start to really give a shit about the characters and feel like they were more than two dimensional figures. This is also the point at which the action starts to seem real and the creatures become genuinely scary IMO - before then I felt a bit like he was trying too hard with everything.
His writing often lacks subtlety and tends towards the overcooked - a judicious editor could have lost at least 200 pages of repetitive description and the book would have been much the better for it - but overall, once I grasped that I was reading a ripping yarn and not a gloomy Gormenghast-style introspective, I thoroughly enjoyed the imaginative reach and many excellent action sequences of this novel.
Boyfriend has been reading King Rat and says it's "very first novel-y" He's having trouble taking the junglist stylings seriously.
His writing often lacks subtlety and tends towards the overcooked - a judicious editor could have lost at least 200 pages of repetitive description and the book would have been much the better for it - but overall, once I grasped that I was reading a ripping yarn and not a gloomy Gormenghast-style introspective, I thoroughly enjoyed the imaginative reach and many excellent action sequences of this novel.
Boyfriend has been reading King Rat and says it's "very first novel-y"
He's having trouble taking the junglist stylings seriously.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Glad you liked it - it's the only fantasy novel I've really enjoyed TBH
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Just finished Perdido Street Station, much more impressed with it than I thought I would be at the start. It takes a while to catch fire; not till around the midway mark did I start to really give a shit about the characters and feel like they were more than two dimensional figures. This is also the point at which the action starts to seem real and the creatures become genuinely scary IMO - before then I felt a bit like he was trying too hard with everything.
His writing often lacks subtlety and tends towards the overcooked - a judicious editor could have lost at least 200 pages of repetitive description and the book would have been much the better for it - but overall, once I grasped that I was reading a ripping yarn and not a gloomy Gormenghast-style introspective, I thoroughly enjoyed the imaginative reach and many excellent action sequences of this novel.
Boyfriend has been reading King Rat and says it's "very first novel-y"
that was my assesment of it too. Still quite good though
DeadManWalking
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Just got the new Mark Steel book, 'What's going on?', seems pretty good, I loved 'Reasons to be cheerful' a few years back so have hopes for this.
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