*What book are you reading? (part 2)
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Bob_the_lost
Elsewhere
It's good but a lot of it is already up on his site in one way or another. It's like reading a book after seeing a well made film based on it.
lighterthief
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Oh you definitely should, that was far from his best.
Medusa.
The story of the tragedy on the Raft of the Medusa and political situation in France that inspired Gericault's painting, which is my favourite in the world. I hardly ever read stuff like this because I'm a fiction-whore but fucking hell it's good and is making me want to read more historical biographical stuff where their lives are as mental and interesting as any fictional character's. I'm completely loving it.
Cracking opening chapter too, involving a decapited head and a studio full of bits of dead people.
The story of the tragedy on the Raft of the Medusa and political situation in France that inspired Gericault's painting, which is my favourite in the world. I hardly ever read stuff like this because I'm a fiction-whore but fucking hell it's good and is making me want to read more historical biographical stuff where their lives are as mental and interesting as any fictional character's. I'm completely loving it.
Cracking opening chapter too, involving a decapited head and a studio full of bits of dead people.
Julian Barnes' History of the World in 10.5 Chapters has a chapter on that painting, ennit.Medusa.
The story of the tragedy on the Raft of the Medusa and political situation in France that inspired Gericault's painting, which is my favourite in the world. I hardly ever read stuff like this because I'm a fiction-whore but fucking hell it's good and is making me want to read more historical biographical stuff where their lives are as mental and interesting as any fictional character's. I'm completely loving it.
Cracking opening chapter too, involving a decapited head and a studio full of bits of dead people.
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
I have not read anything for a few days now. I am just not in the mood.
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
I've heard lots of people rate this book - not just fans of King (which I used to be when I was younger but can't imagine reading something of his at the moment), but also proper writer types (not that the 2 are mutually exclusive, you understand). I might bag myself a copy.
I'm reading this. Been eyeing it up on the shelf at work for a while but finally bought it a couple of weeks ago. Haven't read any for a while, must get back to it.
I'm currently a couple of eps into season 5 of Homicide at the moment, on my mammoth Homicide-athon. I fucking love that show
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
Beowulf - translated by Seamus Heaney
Which will be followed by The Woman in White
Which will be followed by The Woman in White
Just finished Halfway Heaven - Diary of a Harvard Murder by Melanie Thurnstrom about a murder/suicide in 1995 at Harvard. Ethiopian 20 yr old killed her Vietnamese room mate and then hanged herself. Really good. Harvard come across as a right bunch of horrible people.
Am moving on to Heart of Darkness as I have not read it for a while and want to feel its closeness again.
Am moving on to Heart of Darkness as I have not read it for a while and want to feel its closeness again.
cliche guevara
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Ben Goldacre's Bad Science. Very interesting, even if a little untidy at times.
5t3IIa
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Isn't it wonderful? I don't read much of the type of stuff but I thought it was amazing
I'm currently on the Introduction by Patrick Wright of Journey through a small planet by Emanuel Litvinoff. The Introduction is bloody awful so I hope the text is better
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
bout to start Ben Bova 'Mars'. Am a bit as to wether it'll be any good.
as to wether it'll be any good.
100% masahiko
i is a professor and is magical like totoro
A real boring book on financial spread betting.
A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis - David M. Friedman
(thanks the lovely urbanite pseudonarcissus who sent me this book a few years ago, ive read it sooo many times, its really ace..
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(thanks the lovely urbanite pseudonarcissus who sent me this book a few years ago, ive read it sooo many times, its really ace..
)Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
Isn't it wonderful? I don't read much of the type of stuff but I thought it was amazing
I'm currently on the Introduction by Patrick Wright of Journey through a small planet by Emanuel Litvinoff. The Introduction is bloody awful so I hope the text is better
I am finding it very enjoyable - although the apparent fusion of Christianity with pagan elements is quite troubling. I particularly liked:
"Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere".
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
It's really, really excellent. And makes you realise how very skilled he is. Also reminded me of having a row with some snotty teen in my very first BA seminar about whether King was 'real literature' or not
At the moment, as well as the King and a load of baby-themed books, I am reading something my lovely MIL gave me for Christmas: Under A Blood Red Sky, by Kate Furnivall. It is so badly written. Reading it alongside the King is providing a brilliant object lesson in all the things he advises not to do
mentalchik
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit."
Fallen Dragon -Peter F Hamilton
finished that and it's lovely.
Still putting off a number of serious, potentially depressing books
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
Just finished Beowulf, and I found the poem very curious. The intermeshing of Christianity and pagan elements is odd, in some instances it appears forced - possibly a later addition - and it certainly reads as the work of more than one author (but this is probably disputed).
cement garden = eeky but
ms lessing = ohgodiloveher.
Early Ian McEwan seems to be obsessed with incest!!
Doris is a fucking god among writers
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