*What book are you reading? (part 2)
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DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
The Works: Anatomy of a City
not started it yet, but looks quality. What it sais on the tin basically, looks quite new york specific but thats ok
not started it yet, but looks quality. What it sais on the tin basically, looks quite new york specific but thats ok
Just finished 'Sunset Park' by Paul Auster - thought it quite simplistic initially, given it's Auster, but he expertly wrapped it together. Really enjoyed it.
Started and then put down Julian Cope's 'One Three One'. Parts of it had me laughing out loud, and it is quite inventive, however, he veers off into obscurity and complete inaccessibility too often to be able to enjoy it, so I fucked it off. Shame really. The fucking tool.
Started and then put down Julian Cope's 'One Three One'. Parts of it had me laughing out loud, and it is quite inventive, however, he veers off into obscurity and complete inaccessibility too often to be able to enjoy it, so I fucked it off. Shame really. The fucking tool.
maya
timewasting fool (in every universe)
I love that book so much...The Ballad of the Sad Café is also v. good (short story collection). I think there's a film version starring Vanessa Redgrave.Carson McCullers - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
More top quality deep south stuff
(EDIT: Yep- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101404/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 )
yep totally agree, did the same fucking it off myself. love JC but he's 'the' fucking tool
HOWEVER the Hillsborough chapter is worth reading - - an oasis of accessibility in an ocean of confusion . i didn't get that far independently, got the tip off from reading the reviews on amazon and skipped straight to it.
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
The origin, history, breeding, and uses of the apple. Surprisingly interesting.
Buddy Bradley
Pantheistic solipsist
James Joyce's Ulysses. It's a copy that my dad gave to my mum in the 60s, and it's slowly falling apart as I read it...
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
An incredible piece of writing, I sat and read the last 150 pages in one sitting last night. Straight into the short list for best novels I've ever read.
Thanks for the tip, I'll get the short stories and try and find the film.
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
I managed to finish it but yeah, hard work at times, he's totally batshit, but just about worth sticking with to see how it all comes together at the end. Which it sort of does [emoji1]
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
Re-reading Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon in anticipation of the film, which I am very excited about.
After that I am going to also re-read Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon. And maybe Vineland, but that is a while off.
Also read The Seasons: A Celebration of the English Year by Nick Groom. Good but not quite what I wanted.
I am really poor at the moment, so I have been reading e-books. I have been able to download quite a lot of books for free which would have otherwise been relatively expensive. Here are some of the ones I have read recently (and have in epub format if anybody wants them):
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Turning Points in Ancient History) by Eric H. Cline
Watergate: The Hidden History: Nixon, The Mafia, and The CIA by Lamar Waldron
The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan by Rick Perlstein
1848: Year Of Revolution by Mike Rapport
The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists and Secret Agents by Alex Butterworth
The Pike - Gabriele D’Annunzio: Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes Hallet
Roberto Bolano's Fiction: An Expanding Universe by Chris Andrews
How to Read a Poem Paperback by Terry Eagleton
Got loads more ebooks but I don't have a proper e-reader, just a tablet, so it is a bit of a pain to read them.
Erm probably quite a few more that I missed out as well.
After that I am going to also re-read Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon. And maybe Vineland, but that is a while off.
Also read The Seasons: A Celebration of the English Year by Nick Groom. Good but not quite what I wanted.
I am really poor at the moment, so I have been reading e-books. I have been able to download quite a lot of books for free which would have otherwise been relatively expensive. Here are some of the ones I have read recently (and have in epub format if anybody wants them):
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Turning Points in Ancient History) by Eric H. Cline
Watergate: The Hidden History: Nixon, The Mafia, and The CIA by Lamar Waldron
The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan by Rick Perlstein
1848: Year Of Revolution by Mike Rapport
The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists and Secret Agents by Alex Butterworth
The Pike - Gabriele D’Annunzio: Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes Hallet
Roberto Bolano's Fiction: An Expanding Universe by Chris Andrews
How to Read a Poem Paperback by Terry Eagleton
Got loads more ebooks but I don't have a proper e-reader, just a tablet, so it is a bit of a pain to read them.
Erm probably quite a few more that I missed out as well.
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
jeff_leigh
What happened to Dubversion ?
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Karl Marx - Capital Volume 1, accompanied by David Harvey'a Companion.
Finally.
50 pages in to Earnest Mandel's introduction, but I am not floundering just yet. I think I get it.
Finally.
50 pages in to Earnest Mandel's introduction, but I am not floundering just yet. I think I get it.
Just about finished GlücksWeib by Simone Malina. I say "just about" because the language was far less of a problem than what could have been a rattling good read except that it was told boringly. It had an unsatisfying and completely random ending as well - I suspect that the author had become as fed up writing the book as I was reading it.
Edited to add: I was wondering if it was perhaps just me, missing some deeply subtle German nuance, so checked the reviews on amazon.de. The book was slammed just as vehemently by several reviewers there, and so was one of the author's other books.
Edited to add: I was wondering if it was perhaps just me, missing some deeply subtle German nuance, so checked the reviews on amazon.de. The book was slammed just as vehemently by several reviewers there, and so was one of the author's other books.
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DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
jeff_leigh
What happened to Dubversion ?
I know what you mean, Maybe I should've read it in my twenties
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
M John Harrison - Light.
For the first few chapters of this nothing made much sense but the plot slowly reveals itself with little hints and jolts of revelation. A nice balance of whimsical imagery, entertaining sci-fi nonsense, sharp dialogue and solid universe building.
There's definite hints of Iain M Banks in the space battle scenes, but Harrison seems more interested in conceptual grandeur than in the moral depth of Banks' sci fi stuff.
Recommended anyway. It's part of a trilogy and I think I'm gonna have to go straight into book two when this one's finished.
For the first few chapters of this nothing made much sense but the plot slowly reveals itself with little hints and jolts of revelation. A nice balance of whimsical imagery, entertaining sci-fi nonsense, sharp dialogue and solid universe building.
There's definite hints of Iain M Banks in the space battle scenes, but Harrison seems more interested in conceptual grandeur than in the moral depth of Banks' sci fi stuff.
Recommended anyway. It's part of a trilogy and I think I'm gonna have to go straight into book two when this one's finished.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Never finished that. Kept waiting for something interesting to happen, or for Kerouac to get to the point. Eventually I realised that Kerouac felt that not having a point was a point in itself. Perfectly fine to live your life like that if you want to, but why would anyone else want to read about it?
I think Dean Moriarty is supposed to be Neal Cassady, who was a far superior writer to Kerouac. He died young though, and Kerouac lived long enough to disappear even further up his own arse. Typical.
MrSki
Who am I to say you're wrong
Ladybird books are like Asterix books as in they get your book count up big time.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Have you read that book of his about climbers?
N_igma
Epistemic nuisance
Don't worry you'll start floundering when you actually read it. They always do lol.
weltweit
Well-Known Member
Rush of Blood, Mark Billingham
Good as Dead, Mark Billingham
Just read both, my fourth and fifth Billingham books, I should give them a rest for a while and my library hasn't any left anyhow. If you like crime thrillers they are good, I certainly read them pretty quickly and was not for a minute bored.
Good as Dead, Mark Billingham
Just read both, my fourth and fifth Billingham books, I should give them a rest for a while and my library hasn't any left anyhow. If you like crime thrillers they are good, I certainly read them pretty quickly and was not for a minute bored.
After that annoying book which nearly got my kindle thrown across the room a few times, I've started Kirstin Gier's "Ein unmoralisches Sonderangebot".
A wealthy controlfreak of an old man is so fed up with what he thinks is wrong with the marriages of his sons (ie. no grandchildren) that he strikes a bargain with them - swap their wives for 6 months and they'll get a small fortune for playing along.
A wealthy controlfreak of an old man is so fed up with what he thinks is wrong with the marriages of his sons (ie. no grandchildren) that he strikes a bargain with them - swap their wives for 6 months and they'll get a small fortune for playing along.
I may give the Hillsborough chapter a go then, hattie and ringo . No way I'm reading it all though - life's too short.
Currently reading:
Chuck Palahniuk - Snuff. Loving it so far. Grotesque and very clever.
Shaun Ryder's autobiog - which keeps sending me to sleep.
Dara O'Briain - Tickling the English.
Currently reading:
Chuck Palahniuk - Snuff. Loving it so far. Grotesque and very clever.
Shaun Ryder's autobiog - which keeps sending me to sleep.
Dara O'Briain - Tickling the English.
jeff_leigh
What happened to Dubversion ?
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky... Nuff said
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