*What book are you reading? (part 2)

[obanite]

Shelved The Illiad for a bit. Reading Shantaram, really enjoying it so far, feel slightly less pretentious

 

[Fictionist]

Shelved The Illiad for a bit. Reading Shantaram, really enjoying it so far, feel slightly less pretentious

Reading 'The Illiad' doesn't make you pretentious. It might, however, indicate you have an interest in the transition from oral to written culture, and the modes of behaviour used to express power and solidarity.

 

[baldrick]

the iliad is most excellent

 

[belboid]

just finished Renegade, the Mark E Smith autobiography. Should really be called 'Twat', he doesn't come over that well. It may sound funny in the pub Mark, but looks shit written down on paper.

And so just started on Christopher Brookmyres 'A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away. Quite good from the first sixty pages

 

[Voley]

just finished Renegade, the Mark E Smith autobiography. Should really be called 'Twat', he doesn't come over that well. It may sound funny in the pub Mark, but looks shit written down on paper.

I've been wondering whether to get that. Probably won't bother now - I like his music but pretty much everything I've heard about him as a person has been overwhelmingly negative.

 

[belboid]

borrow it from the library, wont take you long. there are some amusing bits, quite a few. but not enough to outdo the sense of 'stop being such an egotistical twat mark'

 

[Lazy Llama]

And so just started on Christopher Brookmyres 'A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away. Quite good from the first sixty pages

I've read all Brookmyre's novels. Not great intellectual literature by any means, but fun, imaginative and loaded with satire.

Some of the characters from "A Big Boy..." turn up in "Sacred Art of Stealing" and his latest, " A Snowball In Hell".

The latter is particularly good with Brookmyre venting his wrath at celeb culture and 'reality' TV.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Stephen King's "Duma Key" - slow but quite seductive

 

[N_igma]

Just finished Thomas Paine's-The Age of Reason.

Great stuff, any man who can make a good argument for Christains being atheists deserves to be applauded.

 

[sojourner]

borrow it from the library, wont take you long. there are some amusing bits, quite a few. but not enough to outdo the sense of 'stop being such an egotistical twat mark'

heh

i read it when it was serialised, and thought exactly the same thing.

 

[krtek a houby]

Reading a Tom Waits book, "Innocent When You Dream". What a card!

Also, ongoing dipping into Michael Palin's autobio, quite fun but my sis gave me the hardback edition and I can't really cart it about...

Recently read "Persepolis" by Maryam Satrap (may have got spelling wrong) and Jerome K Jerome's "Three Men in a Boat" - hilarious!

 

[Upchuck]

Savage Grace by Natalie Robins and Steven L. Aronson

Friday 17th November, 1972. London is rocked by a horrifying murder. Wealthy American socialite Barbara Bakeleand has been stabbed to death in her Chelsea apartment. the man arrested for the crime? Her own son.

A spellbinding tale of money and madness, incest and matricide..

 

[Vintage Paw]

Just got an email saying my The Sound and the Fury seminar has been cancelled, so I'm shelving that and starting Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist.

 

[sojourner]

Reading a Tom Waits book, "Innocent When You Dream". What a card!

that's one of my longterm bedside readers is that

 

[5t3IIa]

Keep eyeing a borrowed copy of Watchmen but not even nearly started it yet

 

[jeff_leigh]

Keep eyeing a borrowed copy of Watchmen but not even nearly started it yet

Thats a comic

 

[belboid]

it's a comic book.

Unless he's been lent all 12 original comics....

 

[ViolentPanda]

It's a graphic novel you pair of goat-fuckers!!

 

[jeff_leigh]

Most beautiful girl in town - Charles Bukowski

 

[Dillinger4]

I am re-reading Non Places: an Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity by Marc Auge, because I saw it mentioned somewhere.

 

[El Jefe]

just finished Luke Haines' AWESOME account of his time in the Britpop trenches, Bad Vibes.
An absolute classic.

Now reading On Some Faraway Beach, David Shepherd's weighty Eno biog

 

[Dillinger4]

When I say reading, I mean that I got it down from my shelf, read a few pages, and put it on my 'intend to read but probably wont' pile.

 

[sojourner]

You not started that Shelagh Delaney yet dilly?

I am reading Nelson Algren - Walk on the Wild Side, and it has already made its way into my top ten books of all time. Beautifully written, poetic, passionate...I'm hooked

 

[Dillinger4]

You not started that Shelagh Delaney yet dilly?

I am reading Nelson Algren - Walk on the Wild Side, and it has already made its way into my top ten books of all time. Beautifully written, poetic, passionate...I'm hooked

Yeh, I read the first story. I really like it!

I googled her, I didn't realize it was her on the cover of Girlfriend in a Coma by The Smiths.

That is very cool.

 

[sojourner]

No I didn't know that either. Oh well

 

[Dillinger4]

Nobody is perfect, eh?

 

[jules64]

'The Psychology of Happiness' written in 1946 ............ will fill in details next time i visit the 'net cafe )

 

[sojourner]

Nobody is perfect, eh?

I console myself with the thought that it wouldn't have been her decision

 

[Orang Utan]

No I didn't know that either. Oh well

The Smiths had all sorts of great and good people on their record covers

 

[sojourner]

The Smiths had all sorts of great and good people on their record covers

you're missing the point

i loathe the smiths, but love shelagh delaney. if i need to explain more, let me know