DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
about to start Wolf Hall
*What book are you reading? (part 2)
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QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
"NOS 4R2" - Joe Hill. Bit nervous about its length as my concentration levels seem to be a bit limited at the moment but am enjoying it so far
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Just finished The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. Stunningly, ridiculously good, the kind of good that makes you burn with the desire to write your own masterpiece and also burn with the knowledge that you never will produce anything quite like that.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
I think that is the only book in, at least, ten years that has made me actually cry.
Oh good, that is on my to read list. Let us know what you think when you are done with it.
How to be both-Ali Smith. Got it out the library last year and loved it, ordered my own copy the other week. It's two stories, and the order of them depends on which copy you happen to pick up. The one i've bought is the opposite to the one i borrowed, and it's not sitting right 
ShiftyBagLady
Thinks she is a flower to be looked at
I'm about to go and buy this as I need to read it for Uni. Fingers crossed that I pick up the one with the best orderHow to be both-Ali Smith. Got it out the library last year and loved it, ordered my own copy the other week. It's two stories, and the order of them depends on which copy you happen to pick up. The one i've bought is the opposite to the one i borrowed, and it's not sitting right
I'm about to go and buy this as I need to read it for Uni. Fingers crossed that I pick up the one with the best order
Hold fire til tomorrow - if the post office haven't returned my parcel to sender, i've got a spare (free) copy which you're more than welcome to.
murphy1970
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I'm about halfway through Perfidia which is the opening book in a new prequel trilogy by Ellroy. It is set in LA, and contains a few familiar characters from the later LA noir novels, Dudley Smith, Sid Hudgens, Ward Littell etc. It starts with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour and the subsequent internment of Japanese Americans.
Ellroy is a marmite writer. You either seem to love his sparse, staccato style or think it's a load of gubbins. I'm firmly in the first camp and I've been very impressed by what I've read thus far.
Ellroy is a marmite writer. You either seem to love his sparse, staccato style or think it's a load of gubbins. I'm firmly in the first camp and I've been very impressed by what I've read thus far.
ShiftyBagLady
Thinks she is a flower to be looked at
That's amazing, thanks
oneunder
Mind The Gap !
cheers..id forgotten that was out just finishing off ubik by philip k dick..
It was still thereThat's amazing, thanks
pm me an address to send it to, and i'll wang it in the post tomorrow 
ShiftyBagLady
Thinks she is a flower to be looked at
Huzzah!It was still there
I fucking loved Beowulf when I read it. Have you heard the Seamus Heaney reading of it? That's fucking excellent!!
I have heard a bit about this book and really think I will now give it a read.
Anyway, I am currently reading 1356 by Bernard Cornwell.
miss direct
misfungled
The Girl on the Train. Really liked it and a nice long book that kept me occupied for a long time.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Impossible Girl
Time traveller and Companion
Submission by Michel Houellebecq. About a near future in France, and an islamic party taking the country over. Utterly interesting reading
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
The Prison House - John King
I'd read everything he'd done up to this and bought it when it came out, but had reached my limit of his grimness and it's sat on the shelf for 10 years. The Football Factory etc were very violent, enjoyed the punk and social commentary of Human Punk & White Trash, ready for a bit more now. This one is about someone languishing in a violent foreign jail, it doesn't look too cheerful
I'd read everything he'd done up to this and bought it when it came out, but had reached my limit of his grimness and it's sat on the shelf for 10 years. The Football Factory etc were very violent, enjoyed the punk and social commentary of Human Punk & White Trash, ready for a bit more now. This one is about someone languishing in a violent foreign jail, it doesn't look too cheerful
Hard Times - Charles Dickens.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
You have liked this post, miss direct , but you still haven't informed us who wrote it!BY WHO?
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miss direct
misfungled
Sorry on my phone. Checked now and it's by Paula Hawkins.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
you had to check?
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Buddy Bradley
Pantheistic solipsist
Re-reading Lord Of The Flies. I bought it for my daughter, but she's more interested in re-reading Harry Potter for the seventeenth time... 
miss direct
misfungled
It's a kindle issue - never see the book cover or have it lying around so rarely remember an author's name.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
i'd be more likely to forget the title than the author!
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