It was a tough choice for me because of mixed reviews but i went with it because it was cheap. I suspect it is a hatchet job on the left wing. I'm only two chapters in and i could take or leave it. I'm not surprised the first comment about it is bad
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It was a tough choice for me because of mixed reviews but i went with it because it was cheap. I suspect it is a hatchet job on the left wing. I'm only two chapters in and i could take or leave it. I'm not surprised the first comment about it is bad
It was a tough choice for me because of mixed reviews but i went with it because it was cheap. I suspect it is a hatchet job on the left wing. I'm only two chapters in and i could take or leave it. I'm not surprised the first comment about it is bad
Yeah I don't have a problem with a hatchet job on the type of specimen on the book, it's more that it's a accurate portrayal of human stupidity.
I'm reading Red Army General - Leading Britain's Biggest Hooligan Firm by Tony O'Neill. But that doesn't matter, the thing that's pecking my head is that when I got in earlier there was a copy of Brendan Sheerin - My Life - A Coach Trip Adventure on the wicker shelving unit in my front room that wasn't there when I left the flat earlier on. I definitely didn't bring it here & no one else has keys to this place so where it came from I don't know.
BoatieBird
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Sounds like you've had a visit from the book fairy Frances Lengel.
I'm reading Phillip Pullman's Northern Lights. It's a set book for the children's lit module I'm going to be studying in the autumn, but that said I'm really enjoying it.
I'm reading Phillip Pullman's Northern Lights. It's a set book for the children's lit module I'm going to be studying in the autumn, but that said I'm really enjoying it.
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I loved those books BoatieBird 
Must read them again actually.
Must read them again actually.
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Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk I'm not supposed to talk about it 
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
the capitulation to liberalism
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire that Rescued Western Civilization by Lars Brownworth
It's a much easier read than Gibbon.
It's a much easier read than Gibbon.
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
Has to be the most terrifying book I've read in a long while.
If someone tells you there's no inherited aristocracy in the US. Tell them they're misinformed.
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rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
It's based on interviews with people who've fled the country so it's inevitably one-sided. But who knows how accurate it is
Brilliant trilogy - fucking genius in fact
I've just got Energy Flash by Simon Reynolds from the library. Fuck ME - it's MASSIVE! I'm not a one to be put off by the amount of pages, but fuck ME
Anyway, I've just started Big Brother by Lionel Shriver, and finding the narrator to be my complete antithesis. Immensely irritating. Will plough on for a while, see where it goes.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
just picked up 7 sci fi anthologies- themed ones as well, which is always nice. The current one is 'Godlike Machines'. Shorts/novellas from Names written specifically for the collection. Concerned with intelligent machines and vast artefacts.
already had to skip bast stephen baxter. Such a boring hack
already had to skip bast stephen baxter. Such a boring hack
I keep re-reading this, and I still don't get what you mean by it
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I keep re-reading this, and I still don't get what you mean by it
in the end god is not overthrown, love is not victorious and they are trapped in their own earths. Love the writing, love the Subtle Knife particularly, but in the end it felt like...'I woke up and stig was a dream'
Yeh but - god - I sobbed my fucking eyes out at the end. Didn't really feel like much of a capitulation to me, have to say.
I thought the ending was brilliant
It captured the total bleakness of losing your first love perfectly, the total bleakness when you realise the world doesn't revolve around you I don't think he could of ended it better. It defineatly wouldn't have worked if they had lived happily ever after with the wheely creatures or something
I've just read Planesrunner by Ian McDonald while on a alternate Earths tip, great Pullmanesque stuff and only 98p on the Kindle at the mo' so promptly downloaded the sequels as well for reading over the next couple of days.
It has airships, polari, nanotech, ipad powered reality jumping, and it's set around Hackney/Tottenham and other very real parts of London
It has airships, polari, nanotech, ipad powered reality jumping, and it's set around Hackney/Tottenham and other very real parts of London
BoatieBird
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I keep re-reading this, and I still don't get what you mean by it
Thanks for this soj, I didn't understand what he was on about either.
Although between you all you've given the ending away
I'll have to leave it a bit before I read the other 2 books in the hope that I forget
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
apols!
BoatieBird
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No worries Dotty, I won't get round to reading the others for a while anyway
Ahem I did tryThanks for this soj, I didn't understand what he was on about either.
Although between you all you've given the ending away
I'll have to leave it a bit before I read the other 2 books in the hope that I forget
BoatieBird
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But still, there's so much more!Exactly!!
It definitely picked up - almost finished it now. Got a whole lot better.
I'm also reading a selection of Burning Eye books, cos am considering putting in a proposal to them. Currently reading 'The Sustainable Nihilist's Handbook' by Jonny Fluffypunk. It is funny as FUCK - actual laugh out loud stuff. Right up my street. Totally recommended.
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