*What book are you reading? (part 2)
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Serving Eargasms....
Enjoy D4!!
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
Those booths were bloody tight to get into though and even worse with a belly full of hash
This is true, but the word 'hash' is a good one in two senses, since there used to be nowhere better in town to go and work off the munchies after an afternoon smoke.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
it's the best he's written imo.
I'm on Intergalactic Empires (asimov presents and contributes a story, along with silverburg etc. eighties stuff)
it's each author on certain themes of empire: governance, defence etc. So far it's pulpy stuff but I'm only a story and a half in
A Spot of Bother, by Mark Haddon
If I really did judge books by their covers, I'd never have bought this.
However, I got over that, and the fact that he wrote Curious Incident... (which got on my fucking nerves BIG time), and I'm glad I did. It's excellent - none too challenging, just a great story, fairly simply told, with some interesting insights into failing mental health
If I really did judge books by their covers, I'd never have bought this.
However, I got over that, and the fact that he wrote Curious Incident... (which got on my fucking nerves BIG time), and I'm glad I did. It's excellent - none too challenging, just a great story, fairly simply told, with some interesting insights into failing mental health
Having seen a fair few posts about Michael Chabon, imagine my surprise when I saw Wonder Boys going for 79p in the local ymca
Bout 3/4 through it - yeh, very funny, well written, very self-aware, although more filler than killer in places (do I really need to know exactly what was in Sara's garden??), and laugh-out-loud in places
Bout 3/4 through it - yeh, very funny, well written, very self-aware, although more filler than killer in places (do I really need to know exactly what was in Sara's garden??), and laugh-out-loud in places
Having seen a fair few posts about Michael Chabon, imagine my surprise when I saw Wonder Boys going for 79p in the local ymca
Bout 3/4 through it - yeh, very funny, well written, very self-aware, although more filler than killer in places (do I really need to know exactly what was in Sara's garden??), and laugh-out-loud in places
It's a good book, but not one of his greats. Go for Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Klay
me: The Road To Wellville by TC Boyle.
once again, feeling a bit listless and failing to get into books I know I really want to read, I've fallen back on a Boyle book. I always seem to have one lying round the house unread
he's obviously my 'comfort read'.
It's a good book, but not one of his greats. Go for Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Klay
If it turns up in the ym, I will
Someone in Rainhill has excellent literary taste - I'm always getting great books in thereIf it turns up in the ym, I will
I always get perversely annoyed if a book I really love shows up in charity shops. I have to convince myself somebody died or has gone to live in the jungle or something to stop me being angry at the donator
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
It's a good book, but not one of his greats. Go for Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Klay
Just bought that - it better be good
PROMISE
honestly, it's ace. the 3rd quarter is the bit people have a problem with, but i didn't mind it and other than that, it's all perfect.
hmmm....do you think maybe...when you've finished it...you could maybe stick it in the post? To me?
Please? 
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
hmmm....do you think maybe...when you've finished it...you could maybe stick it in the post? To me?
Sure!
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I'm reading The Watchmen at work - it's a slow day.
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
oooo can I just say: I love The Wonder Boys. Excellent book.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I quite liked the film - I never imagined I'd find Michael Douglas being likeable on the screen, but he does a fair job here.
Voley
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Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
The graphic novel? I thought i loved that when i read it ~20 years ago if so. What do you think about it now?
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
My mind is still quite full of "Absolution Gap" which I loved, it was like trying to keep pieces of a tissue jigsaw together in your head.
So I have gone for the good, solid dependable but doesn't need a lot of mental agility of Peter Robinson's "Friend of the Devil"
Insp. Banks is an interesting protanganist and Peter Robinson writes a good thriller/police procedural. Plus it was 30p from the hospital charity shop so bargainous too!
So I have gone for the good, solid dependable but doesn't need a lot of mental agility of Peter Robinson's "Friend of the Devil"
Insp. Banks is an interesting protanganist and Peter Robinson writes a good thriller/police procedural. Plus it was 30p from the hospital charity shop so bargainous too!
The Bluegrass Reader (Music in American Life) by Thomas Goldsmith
Any good?
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