Really?
So dense, aren't they? I can't put them down cos there's SO MUCH fucking information that I have to keep up in the air in order to try and make sense of it all God, the way he just drops little bombs all over the place 
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So dense, aren't they? I can't put them down cos there's SO MUCH fucking information that I have to keep up in the air in order to try and make sense of it all God, the way he just drops little bombs all over the place 
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
I couldn't put them down either, and the wait between them coming out was a struggle, but they're too harrowing to be favourites.
flypanam
Sausage to fortune
Finished Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City can't say I loved it but then again can't say it was shit.
Just started October 1970 by Louis Hamelin about the FLQ crisis. My mother in law got it for the family book club. Interesting read so far. I'm really enjoying the descriptions of Montreal.
Just started October 1970 by Louis Hamelin about the FLQ crisis. My mother in law got it for the family book club. Interesting read so far. I'm really enjoying the descriptions of Montreal.
I feel really lucky to have them all at once ringo . My memory is chronically shit, and getting worse, so if I had to wait to read another one, I would totally lose the bajillion threads I need to keep alive in my head, and the experience would be so much poorer for it.
Finished the second one last night (oh Peace you absolute fucker, leaving me like that!!
), started the third. Harrowing is the word alright. There should be fucking counselling available after reading these!
Voley
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I think you're right. Some of the more bonkers Biblical passages seem a little toned down in the version I'm reading, even if it is more intelligible.
Deuteronomy 23:1 being a case in point:
King James:
"He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD."
New International:
"No one who has been emasculated by crushing or cutting may enter the assembly of the LORD."
Not as funny, biblical scholars. You're missing the obvious point here: THE LORD IS THE MASTER OF SURREAL ONE-LINERS.
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Ooh, I like the sound of them. I may have OD'd on mindboggling densely-plotted crime stuff by the time I've finished James Ellroy's latest mind.The fella got me all 4 of the David Peace Red Riding books for crimbo so I started and finished the first one, and have now almost finished the second.
Fuck ME. That first one left me feeling breathless, shit-scared, dirty, physically tired and emotionally overwhelmed. That's some powerful writing. Incredibly well-written actually - I'd say poetic in many places. I didn't know quite what to do with myself when I finished it. All out of sorts. Immense writing.
Having recently re-watched the tv adaptation, I was aware of certain things going on, but the books have so much more to them, so many more characters, and stuff in a different time order etc.
I have not been able to put them down. Totally recommended
Deffo give them a go mate. Astonishingly good
N_igma
Epistemic nuisance
William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury
This is one of those books where you need to persevere through the first 50 or so pages to get a grip of what's actually happening.
It begins immediately with no character exposition or explanation as to what is going on, numerous characters and alternate timelines with a stream of consciousness style of writing in parts. I nearly gave up until I realised what he was doing by going back and re-reading previous pages to piece it all together.
Anyway thoroughly enjoyable book so far it's basically a look at a dis functional Southern family through the eyes of four of its members. I'll get back when I'm finished for a conclusion.
This is one of those books where you need to persevere through the first 50 or so pages to get a grip of what's actually happening.
It begins immediately with no character exposition or explanation as to what is going on, numerous characters and alternate timelines with a stream of consciousness style of writing in parts. I nearly gave up until I realised what he was doing by going back and re-reading previous pages to piece it all together.
Anyway thoroughly enjoyable book so far it's basically a look at a dis functional Southern family through the eyes of four of its members. I'll get back when I'm finished for a conclusion.
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
All my favourite authors based their style on him, but the one time many years ago I tried to read this I gave up after 50 odd pages. Its been niggling ever since, now I've read your post it's definitely time to give it another go
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Cass Pennant - Congratulations You'e Just Met the ICF.
About time I read it really.
About time I read it really.
I'm really enjoying The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton.
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
This follows on from My Brilliant Friend, and it is the second book of four. It is some of the best writing I have read for years and years.
If you are wondering what to read next, read these. You won't be disappointed. I can't recommend them enough. She has become one of my favourite writers.
Also reading at the same time, The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters by Adam Nicholson.
This follows on from My Brilliant Friend, and it is the second book of four. It is some of the best writing I have read for years and years.
If you are wondering what to read next, read these. You won't be disappointed. I can't recommend them enough. She has become one of my favourite writers.
Also reading at the same time, The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters by Adam Nicholson.
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sovietwave
Soviet Cinema: Politics and Persuasion under Stalin - Jamie Miller
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
Fly Fishing. J R Hartley.
those of a certain age will remember the Yellow Pages adverts...
its not an instruction book, nor is is it the most devastating social commentary every written, but it is beautifully written (not, sadly, by JR Hartley, but by Michael Russell..) its funny, and it casts a Summers' evening glow over cold, dark January.
those of a certain age will remember the Yellow Pages adverts...
its not an instruction book, nor is is it the most devastating social commentary every written, but it is beautifully written (not, sadly, by JR Hartley, but by Michael Russell..) its funny, and it casts a Summers' evening glow over cold, dark January.
onenameshelley
is Major Morgan's bitch
Over Christmas I read: Chew omnivore edition Volume 4, Transmetropolitan 3 and 4, Alan Cummings autobiography and I am half way through How to build a girl by Caitlyn Moran
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
"Lamentation" by C.J. Sansom, the latest in his Shardlake series
MrSki
Who am I to say you're wrong
Puts that on my list to read. I wasn't aware that he had written this. In fact I thought he was dead.
Glad he is not & look forward to reading it. Have enjoyed all his previous & especially the Shardlake series.
Vampire Academy (audible) - Its a bit too 'Young Adult' fiction and not particularly interesting.. I will finish it though..
Half Of A Yellow Sun (audible) - Struggling to get into this too.. but I will..
Hunger Games (Kindle) - Reading this mainly on the train, its really good..
Half Of A Yellow Sun (audible) - Struggling to get into this too.. but I will..
Hunger Games (Kindle) - Reading this mainly on the train, its really good..
I put her name into the library search box and the inevitable occurred:
This search returned no results.
Dillinger4 - do you buy your books or get them from the library or what? I really fancy reading these on your recommendation, so if you do happen to possess them, could I borrow them please?
neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
The Lords of the North - Bernard Cornwell
I started this series ages ago, but am only just getting back into it.
I started this series ages ago, but am only just getting back into it.
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