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*What book are you reading? (part 2)

Started No Logo by Naomi Klein. Never read it and it was going dirt cheap in the local YM so...yeh. Not much new

Actually they were new ideas when she first published them, the stuff about brands becoming more valuable than things hadn't really been done from a Leftist, critical perspective before.
 
American Gods - Neil Gaiman.

Not loving it as much as I thought I would. And the main character's name is getting on my wick really badly.
 
Schoolgirl Milky Crisis by Jonathan Clements...
(Basically it's a collection of his columns, written for various anime mags, over the years... Mind you, I'd love for "Warriors of The Test Card" to be made, as I think it could be quite Samurai Pizza Cats-esque, IMO...).
 
I finished What I Loved.

I feel like I am still absorbing it, so I don't know what to say about it.

I don't know what to start reading next, either!
 
Enjoying American Gods a bit more now. I probably shouldn't have read that and Perdido St so close together. I'm all fantasied out.

He held the character back because of something in the plot so now that it's all coming tumbling down I can care about him now. I don't always need to care about protagonists but for Neil Gaiman it's rare that he doesn't write someone sympathetic so it felt odd to me.

The whole story feels kind of hollow up until the point I'm at and it's supposed to be I think. I'm quite excited about the next few chapters. I feel big things coming....:hmm:
 
just finished reasons to be cheerful by mark steel. one lol per chapter, and a genuinely funny line every other paragraph. exceedingly enjoyable.
 
ryuzard kapucinski (sp?) - Imperium

been sat on my bookshelf for ages and it deserves re-reading...

Good then eh? I've only read The Emperor, about the horrors of life under the rule of Haille Selassie. An interesting alternative view to that positited by your average Rasta.
 
Lots of false starts in the last few months, but I managed to get The Reluctant Fundamentalist down, just about. It's a terrible piece of crap. Pies and Prejudice, which was fun enough. Wide Boys Never Work by Robert Westerby, which was rubbish, despite the claims that Iain Sinclair, that berk, makes for it, and another reissued London lowlife novel from the 30s, The Gilt Kid by James Curtis, which I'm halfway through and enjoying a lot.
 
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