Johnny Canuck3
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You must be rich.
*What book are you reading? (part 2)
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You must be rich.
Johnny Canuck3
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But... you might find yourself agreeing with Dawkins.
I'm really really not and I can safely predict I won't.
I'm probably not his average reader. I was raised an atheist, and have become more spiritual as time goes on.
So far, all I'm getting from him is him setting up what he thinks is religion (whilst pooh poohing everything else - INCLUDING Einstein) and then knocking it down. Straw fucking man from the get go. Wanker.
ringo
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Butcher's Crossing - John Williams
3/4 of the way through and it's MUCH better than Stoner, although as this is smack bang in the middle of my favourite genre it's bound to appeal more. Reviewers have suggested that this novel places Williams amongst the likes of Steinbeck, Flannery O'Connor and Cormac McCarthy. It lacks the critical and incisive social realism of Steinbeck, and doesn't come near McCarthy's human brutality played out against the poetic beauty of nature, but then not many authors do. It's good but it's not that good.
3/4 of the way through and it's MUCH better than Stoner, although as this is smack bang in the middle of my favourite genre it's bound to appeal more. Reviewers have suggested that this novel places Williams amongst the likes of Steinbeck, Flannery O'Connor and Cormac McCarthy. It lacks the critical and incisive social realism of Steinbeck, and doesn't come near McCarthy's human brutality played out against the poetic beauty of nature, but then not many authors do. It's good but it's not that good.
I like a bit of crime and I'd never heard of this guy so I thought I'd give him a go. ATM I'm nose-deep in the 50/50 Killer and I'm liking it. Cheers for putting me onto this guy
weltweit
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So, just finished - The fry chronicles, Stephen Fry - which I enjoyed, turns out he is more of an actor luvvie type than I had really realised, he certainly has a wide and fluent vocabulary and excuses himself saying that he loves words so does not offer an apology for using as many as possible! Sickeningly, soon after he finished at Cambridge he makes the statement which he knows people are going to hate him for but he never had any problems with money after that ..... absolutely sickening
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
So, just finished - The fry chronicles, Stephen Fry - which I enjoyed, turns out he is more of an actor luvvie type than I had really realised, he certainly has a wide and fluent vocabulary and excuses himself saying that he loves words so does not offer an apology for using as many as possible! Sickeningly, soon after he finished at Cambridge he makes the statement which he knows people are going to hate him for but he never had any problems with money after that ..... absolutely sickening
Have you read the first one Moab Is My Washpot?
It gives an unexpected perspective on his life
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
just about to start 'Comrades Come Rally' by Phil Brett, he is an old mate of mrs21 - he was a swappie, not sure if he still is after the recent rapey cover up shenanigans - it's about a socialist private eye who gets dragged into a socialist revolution when asked by the leader of the revolutionary movement to investigate the death of a comrade ...
weltweit
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Yes, I read that first, quite the criminal delinquent wasn't he !!
This one does not take me up to anything like today so I suppose there must be at least another... do you know what it might be called?
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
aah, I was thinking of getting that. I used to know Phil quite well too, fairly sure he left a while back. Be interested to know if its any good.
I am just finishing off Donald Fagen's 'Eminent Hipsters' - a not brilliant but interesting little read, doesnt take long.
Then I can start my newly arrived copy of Julian Cope's One Three One, his debut time-shifting gnostic hooligan road novel.
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imposs1904
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Damn, I'm tempted. I'll have to look out for that. I read Nigel Fountain's Days Like These recently and enjoyed it.
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
Yes, I read that first, quite the criminal delinquent wasn't he !!
This one does not take me up to anything like today so I suppose there must be at least another... do you know what it might be called?
It's not out yet.
But you don't have to settle for reading it when it is - you could go to the presentation
weltweit
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I think he has his list in the wrong order.. sommat is up there ...
I will read it when it is out.
Interesting I see Stephen is one of the first to have a dot uk domain ... I like the idea of one of those.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
I think the last time I saw him was at his wedding, 8/9 years ago? He is whoring himself on Twitter promoting the book! Turns out he lives fairly close by after tweeting him, so we are going to meet up
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I've just been given a copy of George Ingle's Trouble At T'Mill: The 1826 Yorkshire Weavers' Riots.
I wasn't going to read it but it actually looks well written and worth reading!
I wasn't going to read it but it actually looks well written and worth reading!
Ooo that sounds interesting!
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I knew I had to read it when the author said he wrote about it cos he'd read a book about the Lancashire riots. He clearly felt he needed to show that Yorkshire folk are just as good if not better at destroying looms as Lancashire folk.
ringo
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Independence Day - Richard Ford
The sequel to The Sportswriter, this one won both the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner Award upon its publication in 1995. Many of the modern Pulitzer winners I've read have been dense and quite hard going. This one tackles equally difficult aspects of modern American life but it doesn't seem such an effort to get through the mass of closely printed pages because despite the philosophical and existential nature of this everyman's musings, Ford manages an easy style without beating the reader over the head with difficult words, unfathomable concepts or show off references.
To manage that as well as portray interesting characters, explain the cultural, social and financial history and state of mind of modern America and still tell a good story is an incredible achievement.
The sequel to The Sportswriter, this one won both the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner Award upon its publication in 1995. Many of the modern Pulitzer winners I've read have been dense and quite hard going. This one tackles equally difficult aspects of modern American life but it doesn't seem such an effort to get through the mass of closely printed pages because despite the philosophical and existential nature of this everyman's musings, Ford manages an easy style without beating the reader over the head with difficult words, unfathomable concepts or show off references.
To manage that as well as portray interesting characters, explain the cultural, social and financial history and state of mind of modern America and still tell a good story is an incredible achievement.
mentalchik
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit."
Just finished The Ocean At The End Of The Lane - Neil Gaiman........loved it, in fact knackered myself out reading all of it on a work night
The Bicycle Teacher, Campbell Jefferys. A first person account of a young working class Australian man who came to visit his sister in London, was talked into going to Germany (by a rich American tourist), met the love of his life, and chose to move behind the Berlin Wall.
weltweit
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Sounds interesting, I might try to get that from my library.
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