*What book are you reading? (part 2)
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Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
I'm about to re-read Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury. I don't remember liking it the last time around, but it's for class, so there you go.
After that I need to read Wright's Native Son along with Baldwin's 'Notes of a Native Son'. Then I need to crack on and read Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist.
After that I need to read Wright's Native Son along with Baldwin's 'Notes of a Native Son'. Then I need to crack on and read Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist.
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
Oh! I bought that just last week. I have not read it before. I will read it at the same time as you.
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
Excellent. I'm going to start it tonight. We will compare notes.
There are 3 of us being supervised by Tim. Instead of planning out 3 separate modules for us he's lumped us in together and we take it in turns to read stuff that's relevant to our dissertations. This is the guy in our class's week. He's doing his dissertation on Faulkner and the idea of recognition re: Hegel. So that's the sort of stuff I'll be looking for in it I suppose.
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
That is interesting, I can see how Hegel/recognition would work from a story like that, from what I have read so far, and know about it.
I will start reading it properly tonight then.
Voley
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A fairly shitty thing happened to me when I went abroad recently. I left all my books round at a relative's house and the fucker sold them! 
One of them was a signed copy of 'Ecstasy' by Irvine Welsh, too. 
Anyhow, Ebay and Amazon are good places for cheap paperbacks so I've been on a spending spree that has replaced most of the replaceable stuff and I've bought loads of Hemingway, Steinbeck and stuff I've wanted to read for ages.
Right now I've just started 'The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test' by Tom Wolfe.
One of them was a signed copy of 'Ecstasy' by Irvine Welsh, too. Anyhow, Ebay and Amazon are good places for cheap paperbacks so I've been on a spending spree that has replaced most of the replaceable stuff and I've bought loads of Hemingway, Steinbeck and stuff I've wanted to read for ages.
Right now I've just started 'The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test' by Tom Wolfe.
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
I think of the text as opening up a sociological window on early Islam, which I find fascinating.
mentalchik
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit."
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
A fairly shitty thing happened to me when I went abroad recently. I left all my books round at a relative's house and the fucker sold them!
Anyhow, Ebay and Amazon are good places for cheap paperbacks so I've been on a spending spree that has replaced most of the replaceable stuff and I've bought loads of Hemingway, Steinbeck and stuff I've wanted to read for ages.
Right now I've just started 'The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test' by Tom Wolfe.
ALL of your books? I would have removed the sellers teeth with a pair of pliers.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
David Peace - 1977 - grim as fuck, even darker than Ellroy and that's saying something
Voley
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Nope. He has bi-polar disorder, though, so I've been told that I'm not allowed to flay him limb from limb. Personally I don't think his medical problem had anything to do with it and he's just a cunt of the first order but it's done, no use crying over spilt milk etc.
I've nearly replaced all the books now anyhow.
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
i've just purchased the unabridged version of the ragged trousered philanthropists and am looking forward to reading it.
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
It does get a little tiresome in its unexpurgated form.
mentalchik
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit."
Finished it last week and although i did enjoy it i wouldn't say i was blown away like !
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Finished it last week and although i did enjoy it i wouldn't say i was blown away like !
It's no dune- a tad shallow. But still a good read
Voley
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I've quite enjoyed replacing them if I'm honest. Ebay / Amazon tend to give me what I want at about 3 or 4 quid maximum. The signed Irvine Welsh one irks me, though. 'Ecstasy's not even a very good book but I met him and got it signed myself so it had sentimental value. My Uncle probably flogged it for a couple of quid or something.
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
I have a spare copy of 1980 if you want it.
started reading again
Today I finished Urban Grimshaw and the Shed Crew by Bernard Hare after a pause of several months.
I started The Mitfords: letters between six sisters edited by Charlotte Mosley and also The Reader by Bernhard Schlink on my mums recommendation.
Today I finished Urban Grimshaw and the Shed Crew by Bernard Hare after a pause of several months.
I started The Mitfords: letters between six sisters edited by Charlotte Mosley and also The Reader by Bernhard Schlink on my mums recommendation.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Ta, but flatmate has all 4 - gonna read them all this week/next week
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
That's brave. I spaced them out over 2 years - so grim I didn't fancy such an overload.
40 pages of the last one left to read, finally starting to make sense of the plot strands and the brilliance of the writing.
Structaural
in Chatsubo
Just finished 'They Fuck you up' by Oliver James.
Interesting stuff on nurture vs nature (he's not a big advocate of nature not surprisingly). Recommended.
Interesting stuff on nurture vs nature (he's not a big advocate of nature not surprisingly). Recommended.
Dirty Martini
gets what he cant want
Finished Closely Observed Trains. I liked it, but not as much as the other two of Hrabal's I've read.
Now it's Albion's Dream by Roger Norman, fairly enjoyable fantasy aimed at teenagers. Not quite sure why I'm reading it.
Now it's Albion's Dream by Roger Norman, fairly enjoyable fantasy aimed at teenagers. Not quite sure why I'm reading it.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
"Riot! The Bristol Bridge Massacre of 1793" by Michael Manson.
Voley
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I'm reading this after Mrs M's recommendation. Yes, it's wonderful and, yes, it should have the essay about the pot of tea. I love the fact that the man who wrote what I consider to be the greatest book ever written also had time to discuss the merits of getting your brew right. Very English.
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
I'm reading this after Mrs M's recommendation. Yes, it's wonderful and, yes, it should have the essay about the pot of tea. I love the fact that the man who wrote what I consider to be the greatest book ever written also had time to discuss the merits of getting your brew right. Very English.
1984 or Animal Farm (and I don't mean the rather dubious Dutch cinema version either, you mucky lot).
Orwell is my all-time favourite writer as well, a legend and without doubt one of the most important British writers of the 20th Century.
I've just started reading Paul Brickhill's 'The Great Escape' about, not surprisingly, the Great Escape, when 76 British and Allied aircrew escaped from the POW camp known as Stalag Luft III. Only three made the 'home run' back to the UK, while a number of others ended up in concentration camps and, of course, 'the fifty' were murdered by the Gestapo in retaliation for the escape.
The book is immeasurably better than the film.
Voley
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1984, Bakunin. Never read anything like it; relevant now more than ever. My favourite writer of all time.
Really into his essays atm. After 'Books v Cigarettes' I've got the 'Shooting An Elephant' anthology to go at. The essays are great - such diverse topics, everything from the nature of true patriotism to the perils of working in a second-hand bookshop. Ebay got me 'Inside The Whale' for a couple of quid recently, too, so I've got a lot of stuff to look forward to.
Really into his essays atm. After 'Books v Cigarettes' I've got the 'Shooting An Elephant' anthology to go at. The essays are great - such diverse topics, everything from the nature of true patriotism to the perils of working in a second-hand bookshop. Ebay got me 'Inside The Whale' for a couple of quid recently, too, so I've got a lot of stuff to look forward to.
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