*What book are you reading? (part 2)
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TruXta
tired
Binding?
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
I read that a while ago, it is pretty good. I'd really like to walk the Ridgeway.
Dillinger4
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Fore edge.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
lol
I once found a rambling unsent love letter, handwritten, in a charity shop book. It was fair tragic.
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
I found a postcard sent from Kerala to someone called Robert in a second hand copy of The Birth of Tragedy by Nietzsche
No. When you close all the pages together. The opposite side of the binding/spine.
Yes this! Cheers Dilly
TruXta
tired
errrrrrr...
One advantage of books over kindles is that, should you be picking your nose whilst reading a particularly engrossing passage, you can wipe your crows onto the pages rather than interrupt your reading by having to get a tissue.
coley
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Practical,as ever
geminisnake
a complex mass of conflicting ideas
Just finished Rivers of London and started Moon Over Soho, both Ben Aaronovitch.
SikhWarrioR
And the Worms ate into his brain
This Singh has several books on the go
1-Stphen Hawking The universe in a nutshell
2-Nick Mason Inside out a history of Pink Floyd
3-Max Hastings Catastrophe A single volume history of WW1
1-Stphen Hawking The universe in a nutshell
2-Nick Mason Inside out a history of Pink Floyd
3-Max Hastings Catastrophe A single volume history of WW1
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
me too!
Murakami - Dance Dance Dance
Only 50 pages in but it seems like classic Murakami
Only 50 pages in but it seems like classic Murakami
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Have you read The Wild Sheep Chase too? Can't remember which comes first. Both are great.
I can't remember what I said as I read too many books at once, but I am reading Morrissey's Autobiography (not sure why it already a Penguin Classic, but it is very enjoyable. I like how he expresses his disgust at life and humanity, but he is a bellend), The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, another excellent wordsmith, Lone Wolf & Cub Vol 1 (an attempt at classic manga after being tainted unfavourably towards it by Ultimo) and Philip Pullman's Grimm Tales For Young And Old. I should get off the internet.
I can't remember what I said as I read too many books at once, but I am reading Morrissey's Autobiography (not sure why it already a Penguin Classic, but it is very enjoyable. I like how he expresses his disgust at life and humanity, but he is a bellend), The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, another excellent wordsmith, Lone Wolf & Cub Vol 1 (an attempt at classic manga after being tainted unfavourably towards it by Ultimo) and Philip Pullman's Grimm Tales For Young And Old. I should get off the internet.
mentalchik
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit."
Re-reading Master of Paxwax - Phillip Mann as i haven't read it in an age.....and have Dr Sleep- Stephen King lined up(do hope it's good)
Johnny Canuck3
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Reading the Sharpe series. It's a break from all the WW2 and Holocaust history.
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
Humboldt's Gift - Saul Bellow.
Been meaning to read something of his for years and finally got round to it. Great writer, plenty of concentration required to cope with the deluge of ideas and literary and philosophical references he throws about. Only 50 pages in it already feels as if he wrote this with half an eye on the Pulitzer Prize it went on to win, but it's also very readable.
Been meaning to read something of his for years and finally got round to it. Great writer, plenty of concentration required to cope with the deluge of ideas and literary and philosophical references he throws about. Only 50 pages in it already feels as if he wrote this with half an eye on the Pulitzer Prize it went on to win, but it's also very readable.
barney_pig
Po-cha-na-quar-hip
I have just Finished reading Dominion by cj sansom. A really good read, well researched but with a somewhat rushed feel to the end.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
I read a couple of his other books, one in his series about late Dark Ages England and the other about Agincourt, and they were both very good indeed. Is the Sharpe series worth getting into, then?
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
yes. If you ask me, which you didn't but I'm chipping in anyway. The more recent ones set in india when wellington was wellsley of the East India Company, the 'sepoy general' are particularly good.
They follow much the same format as Sharpe the program over all. Honest northern lad from englands vilest rookeries combats bonies men and his own class ridden army hierarchy to save the day while having plenty of el bonky bonky.
Sharpes Sword is probably my fave.
McDonalds books. Satisfying and good but no lasting richness to them
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
You mean the Flashman books?
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
less knowing than Flashman. Played with a straighter face iyswim.
Flashmans a cad and a coward, Dickie boys a rough hewn hero
Flashmans a cad and a coward, Dickie boys a rough hewn hero
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
my alliteration game is strong today
heinous seamus
Perfect in an empty room
Picked up 'Libete: A Haiti Anthology' from the uni library last night. Looking forward to reading about a very fascinating country 
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
yes. You know how it is, satisfying and yet not something one treasures. Other authors in the maccy d's category include Grisham, Stephen King and Terry Prattchet.
should be recognised as a valid lit crit term imo
Steven King described his ouw output as the literary equivalent of a big mac and fries. Apparently.
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/103501-i-am-the-literary-equivalent-of-a-big-mac-and
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
I'd also really quite like to do a proper pilgrimage, like the Camino de Santiago.
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