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'big fry' barry fry's autobiography, seems like the man's had something of a colourful career so far!
*What book are you reading ?
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holden caulfield
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POTBELLY said:
if you like the book then you should watch land and freedom by ken loach which is basically a film version of the book without acknowledging it, but as you'll see the coincidences between plots are just too many to be mere accident. enjoy
tangerinedream
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I've just finished "the 5 people you meet in heaven" which i didn't find as miraculous as people suggest it is. Perhaps I'm too much of a grim mood though.
Going to start "Hey Nostradamus" now.
also reading "the age of reason" which I'm thinking a lot of thus far.
Going to start "Hey Nostradamus" now.
also reading "the age of reason" which I'm thinking a lot of thus far.
I, Phoolan Devi.
An OKish autobiography about a remarkable vengeful woman who suffered and then some at the lowest end of the Indian Caste system. "Versions" of her life still have controversy, even after her assasination.
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/sawweb/sawnet/roy_bq1.html
An OKish autobiography about a remarkable vengeful woman who suffered and then some at the lowest end of the Indian Caste system. "Versions" of her life still have controversy, even after her assasination.
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/sawweb/sawnet/roy_bq1.html
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http://unicycle-emptiness.co.uk/
the bookseller of kabul-interesting read but full of awful cliches etc-remember there was some controversy about it when it came out but can't remeber what...want ian mcewen's Saturday but 15 reservations on it at library 
I take your point, though Fowler is usually a damn sight better than most writers in the horror genre.Pickman's model said:
Wouldn't know about Muswell Green/Golders Hill.
I'm rereading Murakami's Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, which delivers up new insights on a second reading, as all good literature should. Absolutely wonderful.
Damn! And I was just about to start rereading Riders.maya said:
Orang Utan
They cannot crucify you if your hand is in a fist
The Earth - Richard Storey - pop science book about the history of the geology of Earth
tangerinedream
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Just read - 'Do androids dream of electric sheep' which in retrospect I can't believe I'd never read before.
tangerinedream
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It's the first thing I've read by him I think. I vaguely remember reading something by him years ago and not liking it. I'll definately read more now though.
I've just returned from the library with
'The human factor' Graham Greene
'The coma' Alex Garland
'You shall know our velocity' Dave Eggers
'The dwarves of Death' Jonathan Coe
I know I like Graham Greene, I liked Alex Garland (didn't everyone) about 6/7 yrs ago and the other two, I know I havn't read anything by them.
I've just returned from the library with
'The human factor' Graham Greene
'The coma' Alex Garland
'You shall know our velocity' Dave Eggers
'The dwarves of Death' Jonathan Coe
I know I like Graham Greene, I liked Alex Garland (didn't everyone) about 6/7 yrs ago and the other two, I know I havn't read anything by them.
tangerinedream said:
no i bloody didn't!
dreadful bollocks.tangerinedream said:
the Eggers is OK, but compared to Heartbreaking Work it's very flawed indeed.
Coe's a genius, pretty much, but i haven't yet read that one
tangerinedream
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Dubversion said:no i bloody didn't!
the Eggers is OK, but compared to Heartbreaking Work it's very flawed indeed.
Coe's a genius, pretty much, but i haven't yet read that one
Well I definately liked 'the tesseract', but I've no recollection of what it was about at all. 'The beach' I can happily accept is shit. 'The coma' looks very short, so I'll be interested to see if my older self is more critical of Garland or not., not to much to trawl through.
I heard the Radio 4 dramatisation of 'What a carve up!' and thought it was fantastic. I stopped listening to it, so I could read the book, but the library don't have it.
The Eggers book is seriously cool looking - the story starts on the outside of the front cover, how could i resist it
( [roboticvoice]must adopt more literary approach[/roboticvoice])districtline
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just finished dorian by will self which i started last year and then read another few pages of it in june and then let it rest until today. the idea is really good and it starts off okish but then it just deteriorates and he cant really carry it through to the end. may try another self novel soon, any recommendations on which one?
also borrowed "where have all the intellectuals gone?" by frank furedi and the first half was really interesting, and delightfully anti-postmodernism
i did borrow "after the quake" by that murakami too because everyone was talking about him a few pages back
oh and i've just seen that he's the man behind the "tony takitani" movie that i saw last week and found really really good (and lovely, albeit sad).
also borrowed "where have all the intellectuals gone?" by frank furedi and the first half was really interesting, and delightfully anti-postmodernism
i did borrow "after the quake" by that murakami too because everyone was talking about him a few pages back
oh and i've just seen that he's the man behind the "tony takitani" movie that i saw last week and found really really good (and lovely, albeit sad).
tangerinedream
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districtline said:just finished dorian by will self which i started last year and then read another few pages of it in june and then let it rest until today. the idea is really good and it starts off okish but then it just deteriorates and he cant really carry it through to the end. may try another self novel soon, any recommendations on which one?
also borrowed "where have all the intellectuals gone?" by frank furedi and the first half was really interesting, and delightfully anti-postmodernism
i did borrow "after the quake" by that murakami too because everyone was talking about him a few pages back
oh and i've just seen that he's the man behind the "tony takitani" movie that i saw last week and found really really good (and lovely, albeit sad).
I've read a collection of short stories by self which was.... ok. It wasn't particulaly gripping or interesting and after the third one I sort of felt like he was writing the same story over and over again. All terribly clever, yet somehow not.
Oooh, that sounds interesting. Tell us more.districtline said:i did borrow "after the quake" by that murakami too because everyone was talking about him a few pages back
oh and i've just seen that he's the man behind the "tony takitani" movie that i saw last week and found really really good (and lovely, albeit sad).
PS Why isn't this thread a sticky? I'm fed up with hunting for it.
A pedanticist writes, pt 94.....
A brilliant book but annoyingly titled because the plural of dwarf is, of course, dwarfs, no matter what Walt Disney might have you believe.tangerinedream said:
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
<gets out the gloy gum>
tangerinedream said:
That is a great read. I really enjoy Coupland's books.
I just finished rereading Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall. I found it much better the second time around - perhaps because the first time I had to read it for school.
I started High Fidelity several days ago and I am really liking it so far.
Yay. Now I can find it easily in my lunchbreak. Thanks!Mrs Magpie said:
maya
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-"The Wilderness Survival Guide".
...i now know the all-important skills of surviving various post-apocalyptic scenarios,
moreover exactly how to fend off aggressive grizzly bears,
and make fire from a handkerchief rag and bits of string when lost in unfriendly woods in the middle of the night with packs of wolves lurking your steps,
plus how to gnaw off your arm and eat it if you're trapped between two large rocks in the barren mountainside...indispensable information,
and very "now"...
< gets trend-chic hat and vodka glass >
< -skol! >
...i now know the all-important skills of surviving various post-apocalyptic scenarios,
moreover exactly how to fend off aggressive grizzly bears,
and make fire from a handkerchief rag and bits of string when lost in unfriendly woods in the middle of the night with packs of wolves lurking your steps,
plus how to gnaw off your arm and eat it if you're trapped between two large rocks in the barren mountainside...indispensable information,
and very "now"...
< gets trend-chic hat and vodka glass >
< -skol! >
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