DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I'll give it ago when I've finished Sweeney Todd then
*What book are you reading? (part 2)
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The Bloody Ground - Bernard Cornwell - 4th in the Starbuck Chronicles. and the last, even though they are only mid way through the civil warhe needs to finish the series
enjoying it though
They were very good, great battle scenes.
Great series of books, got Free Fall to take with me on holiday on Sunday - working my way through them in order.
really got to say, Jimi Hendrix was such a top cat! (im now talkin like de 60's
) But a real gentleman as well as genius.
Thimble Queen
Called away to another place
Charlotte Street. New Danny Wallace stupid boy project/love story type thing. It's made me laugh out loud a few times on public transport, which is always a good sign.
Also The Dispossessed by Ursula K le Guin. Slow progress but interested to see how the story develops.
Also The Dispossessed by Ursula K le Guin. Slow progress but interested to see how the story develops.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
yep, an excellent series - he needs to return to it - he got distracted by the Sharpe stuff - tv demanded more stories - I haven't actually read any of the Sharpe stuff.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
oh the sharpe books are great- much like the TV adapts they run to a formula but it is a good formula and always coloured with new takes on the essential theme. The theme of course being that Richard Sharpe defeats both napolean and his own classist officers to save the day and also gets a shag or three.
Jimi Hendrix had a huge passion for sci-fi and had more sci-fi books than he had clothes. Ray Bradbury was his favourite author.
thedockerslad
Never do what you are told
I got a copy of The Diving-Bell & the Butterfly for 25p. We'll see eh...
Really enjoying How Late I Was, How Late. Sucks you right in to the mind of the protagonist: Blindness, paranoia, just that gasping feeling for a fag/drink. That stream of conscientious all us pissheads do when we've had a few days really at it and you're stumbling round like everything's a dream.
Was so engrossed on the train I almost ended up in Manchester
Was so engrossed on the train I almost ended up in Manchester
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
prepare to be disappoint
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
quite enjoyed it actually, ripped through it in a day. bit of fun, massive deus x, literally.
Now onto a doctor who novel. I don't normally bother with Who novels nowadays cos lifes too short but this one is penned by Michael Moorcock so I thought 'why not'
On holiday I read; Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar. by Paul Theroux.
I read the Great Railway Bazaar thirty years ago so was interested to see what has/hasn't changed over the years.
It is sometimes best to remember things as they were, the original journey went through Iran and Afghanistan obviously that route could not be followed.
I found the journey through Burma and Cambodia very interesting especially Cambodia as Theroux last visited here before the rise of Pol Pot.
Also there have been a lot of the criminal events the U.S carried on during the Vietnam years exposed since the seventies. I found the chapters about the journey through Vietnam made me feel a little humble regarding the survivors of the war's viewpoints.
Enjoyable, but we inhabit a much less mysterious planet than when the first book came out.
I am now going to re visit; As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee.
I read the Great Railway Bazaar thirty years ago so was interested to see what has/hasn't changed over the years.
It is sometimes best to remember things as they were, the original journey went through Iran and Afghanistan obviously that route could not be followed.
I found the journey through Burma and Cambodia very interesting especially Cambodia as Theroux last visited here before the rise of Pol Pot.
Also there have been a lot of the criminal events the U.S carried on during the Vietnam years exposed since the seventies. I found the chapters about the journey through Vietnam made me feel a little humble regarding the survivors of the war's viewpoints.
Enjoyable, but we inhabit a much less mysterious planet than when the first book came out.
I am now going to re visit; As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee.
Dillinger4
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TBF I am going to say almost everything is disappointing. Because I am a knob.
Michael Moorcock is good though.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Just did 'Redshirts' by Scalzi
appart from one point where a joke was lifted VERTABIM from the film Galaxy Quest it was very funny and original
appart from one point where a joke was lifted VERTABIM from the film Galaxy Quest it was very funny and original
Still slowly plodding my way through Dominion (alternate history, nazis win the war and shit) - it has been about 2 months now and although I read less in the summer... I really want to abandon it altogether and crack on with 2666 (supposed to be amazeballs and shit).
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
quite enjoyed Dominion -
Dillinger4
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I'm only a 100 pages or so into it and have only just been introduced to Gunther the Jew hunter
jeff_leigh
What happened to Dubversion ?
The Great Gatsby - Can't believe I didn't read this years ago
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