*What book are you reading? (part 2)
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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
^^^^
very sad book that
very sad book that
What, the Browne one?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Yes!
Sorry - brain's still foggy
Well it's started off promisingly, but already sadly cos it says right at the beginning that Stuart Browne is dead
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
A film of it has just come out I think
Yeh, I just had a quick nosey at that. Fucking Peter Howitt, that streak of piss that used to be in Bread, directed it!
october_lost
It's not hip any more...
A peoples history of England by AL Morton, been meaning to read it for awhile.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Borrowed Satanic Verses to see what all the fuss is about. Not started it yet.
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
Let me know what you think of this, its something I've returned to a number of times.
I'm just finishing 'The Islamic Movement - Dynamics of Values, Power and Change' - Sayyid Abul A'La Mawdudi
Finished this last night. Interesting book, but I can't find hardly anything out about Stuart Browne. I suspect it may be partly autobiographical (and a Guardian review mentions this briefly), as he died before the book was published, but the book doesn't say why, and I can't find it online.
Anyone know owt?
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
"Illium" by Dan Simmons - really enjoying it, he is a very engaging writer
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Am reading Genderqueer, a collection of essays and stories - it's very interesting and thought-provoking.
obanite
Kroketten
Just finished 'Against a dark background' by Iain M Banks - Not bad
Now I can't make my mind up weather to read 'Feersum Endjinn or Joe Haldeman's 'The Coming'
Also just finished 'Norwegian Wood' by Haruki Murakami on audiobook.
Loved that book!
Feersum Endjinn is really, really hard going.
obanite
Kroketten
I thought his Commonwealth series was the best he's written by quite a bit.
Just started Dreaming Void by him, not really pulling me in like Pandora Star, yet
Structaural
in Chatsubo
isn't it?, but very inventive.
I just had to read the Wikipedia entry to get a better idea of what it was about (I read it difficultly when it came out).
girasol
Addicted to handstands!
Stuart: A life backwards (Alexander Masters)
Been meaning to read this for ages (since I watched the dramatization), finally got around to buying it. Started 2 days ago and, yes, it's a page turner. Even though I know the end, it's well written, full of humour and insights, so knowing the end isn't spoiling it one bit.
Been meaning to read this for ages (since I watched the dramatization), finally got around to buying it. Started 2 days ago and, yes, it's a page turner. Even though I know the end, it's well written, full of humour and insights, so knowing the end isn't spoiling it one bit.
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
I want to read, I just can't get my mind in gear. I've got a couple of books to review for the Waterstone's mag, so that forces me to read (not that I have to if I don't want too – I'd hazard a guess that 90% of the books reviewed in there haven't been read first).
I went to see her speak about it in Manchester a few weeks back – very good stuff, I'd like to read it eventually.
He may be why I'm finding it hard to read. My dissertation was on him (on the notion of the 'Austerian' and why traditional literary studies cannot adequately define it but an interdisciplinary approach, utilising Bourdieu, can). Yeah, so I had every single book he'd every written open at various points scattered across my desk
I've only read East of Eden and the Night's Dawn Trilogy, but I liked them a lot. Mr Paw has read all the others, and rates them. He's just read the most recent one – reckons it's a good 'un.
Structaural
in Chatsubo
I enjoyed Night's Dawn and some of his other books, but I find him quite one-dimensional and formulaic now. I finished Pandora's star but gave up half-way through the second one (and read No Country for Old Men - quite a different style
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I enjoyed Night's Dawn and some of his other books, but I find him quite one-dimensional and formulaic now. I finished Pandora's star but gave up half-way through the second one (and read No Country for Old Men - quite a different style
He writes space opera of the old school. Wildly inventive he isn't but he tells a cracking yarn. In some ways he reminds me of Robert Silverburg, in that the writing feels very masculine.
Dirty Martini
gets what he cant want
Finished this. Might be my favourite Sciascia so far. Brilliant.
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
Nothing at the moment, I've run out of ideas as to where to go next.
Excellent book that - one of those books I think everyone should read
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Nothing at the moment, I've run out of ideas as to where to go next.
Instance of the Fingerpost. Honestly methinks you will like
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
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