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*What book are you reading? (part 2)
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Serving Eargasms....
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
i thought this was very good. a very absorbing mix of the personal and political. and quite inspiring as well.
Dirty Martini
gets what he cant want
Got pissed off with Calvino so am reading The Judgment of Deke Hunter by George V Higgins, which is everything Higgins always is, which is great.
ChrisC
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Yes that seems to be the general attitude. I must admit it's not as good as Redemption Ark and Revelation Space.
After I have finished this I'll be reading David Brin's second uplift trilogy.
I've just had a fine run of books:
Watchmen - Alan Moore: wanted to get it read so I could be righteously indignant at the film. I loved this book! You can see why it's the big daddy graphic novel - the ideas and execution are so ambitious. It's ace.
Valley of the Dolls - Jaqueline Susan: This was ace, prototype blockbuster trashyness. This book is why gossip mags are so popular - the filth of the rich and famous.
Bad Vibes - Luke Haines: I don't know The Auteurs or Black Box Recorder or Bader-Meinhof but will be digging some out now just to hear what kind of music this furious, vicious and villainous man made
It is fucking hilarious this book - about Britpop and it's fall. Britpop was the soundtrack of my teens. I was shortchanged and I listened to all the wrong bands but this book clears all that up for me. It was kind of therapeutic for me . I urge you all to read it.
The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman: A nice Neil Gaiman book for kids. That's it really - not aimed at me.
Watchmen - Alan Moore: wanted to get it read so I could be righteously indignant at the film. I loved this book! You can see why it's the big daddy graphic novel - the ideas and execution are so ambitious. It's ace.
Valley of the Dolls - Jaqueline Susan: This was ace, prototype blockbuster trashyness. This book is why gossip mags are so popular - the filth of the rich and famous.
Bad Vibes - Luke Haines: I don't know The Auteurs or Black Box Recorder or Bader-Meinhof but will be digging some out now just to hear what kind of music this furious, vicious and villainous man made
It is fucking hilarious this book - about Britpop and it's fall. Britpop was the soundtrack of my teens. I was shortchanged and I listened to all the wrong bands but this book clears all that up for me. It was kind of therapeutic for me . I urge you all to read it.The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman: A nice Neil Gaiman book for kids. That's it really - not aimed at me.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Bad Vibes - Luke Haines: I don't know The Auteurs or Black Box Recorder or Bader-Meinhof but will be digging some out now just to hear what kind of music this furious, vicious and villainous man made
They're all fucking great, Haines is a genius. I meant to ask me bro if he had this and could I borrow it when I saw him on saturday. Bugger.
Run out and buy After Murder Park and How I Learned to Love the Bootboys NOW
I'm sure Jefe won't mind.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
I liked a S*M*A*S*H* album
A SMASH album? There can't have been more than one, can there?
i saw them three times. Oh Ovary! isn't a bad song
starfish
No dialogue. Just plot.
Just started reading this too. Can vaguely remember it from my teens & what with the film out & all that, has a similar feel to the New Statesmen series from Crisis.
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
Same here, "If on a winter's night" started clever, then began to fall apart, nearly rescued itself, but then disappeared up its own arse.
Now onto Ancient Rome: The rise and fall of an empire - Simon Baker.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Hergé's "Tim und Struppi: Die Schwarze Insel", otherwise known as "Tintin and Snowy: The Black Island".
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
Still reading this. Is very good. Has good info on what life in Broadmoor is like and interviews with ex staff and patients, doctors and nurse notes, and people recall what visiting Tony in there was like. It sounds grim!
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
aagghh!! the bloody library have mislaid it! (ie a member of staff's nicked it)
baldrick
hmmmmm
erich maria remarque - all quiet on the western front.
not exactly what i expected so far. i thought it was going to be relentlessly gloomy and horrifying. black humour.... definitely, but not depressing. all the better for it i think. only 20 pages in though, it could all change
not exactly what i expected so far. i thought it was going to be relentlessly gloomy and horrifying. black humour.... definitely, but not depressing. all the better for it i think. only 20 pages in though, it could all change
A piece of trash I bought in newcastrle central station as it wa half price. called City Boy and it's an account from a previous city broker type about the firms and banks and stuff and what a load of wankery it was.
Black humour is a great way to deal with war though (viz Citizen kane
erich maria remarque - all quiet on the western front.
not exactly what i expected so far. i thought it was going to be relentlessly gloomy and horrifying. black humour.... definitely, but not depressing. all the better for it i think. only 20 pages in though, it could all change
I love that book. Reread it again last year, and it was as good as I thought it was the first time around
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
Joe Abercrombie "The Blade Itself" - nice bit of fantasy, just started it this morning and am already enjoying it plus took my mind of my aching head and tummy so I like it for that!
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