*What book are you reading? (part 2)
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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I'm nearly at the end of Kavalier & Clay - it's so so so so good!
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
My mum wants to read it after me, sorry!
baldrick
hmmmmm
i found his style of writing took a bit of getting used to, but once that was out of the way it was very very good.
might have to seek out The Emperor, i know sod all about Haile Selassie tbh.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I asked first! She's only your mum! I'm a person you've never met before!!
My mum trumps you, sorry. I gave my Dad The Yiddish Policemen's Union for his birthday and they loved it, so when mum saw me reading K&C, she told me to hurry up and finish it before I leave.
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
Kavalier and Clay is in a 3for2 offer in Borders I noticed yesterday (altho i didn't buy a copy).
*waves*
I'll bring it to Wales
K&C is so much better than Yiddish Policemen's Union it's untrue. i'm having a severe case of 'second book i read by an author not as good as the first-itis'. if that makes sense?
I did enjoy Yiddish Policemen's Union a great deal, but K&C is infinitely better. But then it's infinitely better than almost anything I've ever read so..
like Joseph Heller said when it was suggested he'd never written anything as good as Catch 22
"neither has anyone else"
like Joseph Heller said when it was suggested he'd never written anything as good as Catch 22
"neither has anyone else"
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out on the kocker
Zugszwang by Ronan Bennett. I stocked up on thrillers and crime fiction over Christmas. 
ChrisC
Well-Known Member
So it arrived already. Hope you're enjoying it.
Tokyo Year Zero by David Peace for me. All good stuff.
Yeah it's brilliant.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
"A More Beautiful City: Robert Hooke and the Rebuilding of London after the Great Fire" by Michael Cooper.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I finished The Amazing Adventure Of Kavalier & Clay - I had a pesky bit of grit in my eye whilst reading this on a crowded coach.
What a story and what beautiful writing. Such a nourishing book.
What a story and what beautiful writing. Such a nourishing book.
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
About to start 'Will' by Christopher Rush
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire by Iain Sinclair. Fantastic so far, its spooky reading something that feels like its coming straight out of your consciousness. I wouldn't even begin to try and describe it. But i was pleased to read the acknowledgements and see my pal Mark's name there as someone he's interviewed. There's a map of the borough of Hackney as a dust sheet which is nifty. And he's coming to speak at Stoke Newington Bookshop in March so that's another reason to be cheerful
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
I rather think it is
but you'd be wrong! Foir the first twenty pages I was thinking 'oh god, I may have to hide this so its never read again' - but once I'd got past the stupid names and talk of bloody fairies, it's actually great. He is a really good writer, amusing, thoughtful, fairly rounded characters, sex, drugs and rock n roll.
Not bad.
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
The Kingdom of the Wicked - Anthony Burgess
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
'Breaking the Disney spell' a Jack Zipes essay. It's interesting.
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
I have picked up Soul Mountain again, by Gao Xingjian. It is great.
picked this up cheap and it's excellent
http://www.bibleroadbook.com/
fantastic collection of photos taken across the US featuring religious slogans and phrases, often incorporated into commercial signs or ads.
http://www.bibleroadbook.com/
fantastic collection of photos taken across the US featuring religious slogans and phrases, often incorporated into commercial signs or ads.
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