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Dead Cat Bounce said:
Just about to finish A Mad World , My Masters by John Simpson. A book which had me crying with laughter and crying with tears the next chapter.
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have you read his first one called something like Unlikely people, remarkable places. It's even better
 
i'm reading "The Hotel On The Rooftop Of The World" by Alec Le Sueur, as recommended by Flavour :)
-not a book i'd read twice, but hysterically funny and very entertaining...:D
 
I have finished 'Atlas Shrugged' (at last), having managed to work through some of the tiresome dialogue, the stilted sex scenes, and the 'objectivist philosophy'.

BB :)
 
mrkikiet said:
orwell-coming up for air. pretty good.

i'm a big fan of penguin classics, silver covers do it for me...
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Coming up for Air - my most favourite Orwell novel . perfect.

It is as relevant today as it was then, beautifully crafted and written . A great reading choice, have you read his semi autobiographical "Down and Out in Paris and London"? .
 
spartacus mills said:
Finished 'Hawksmoor' by Peter Ackroyd last night. Just started on Iain Sinclair's 'Down River'.
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Hawksmoor - brilliant . Look on the net for all those wierd London churches, freaky!!.
Have you tried Dan Leno & the Limehouse Golem ? a fantastic book again with all those London settings .
 
Catch 22,
pretty cool(nothing better than a bit of comedy in the midst of death and destruction) but im kind of eager to finish it,
read the first couple chapters of the Earthsea saga and im kind of in the mood for an alternate reality (with the help of alternate mind state substances)
 
hey boogie boy..thats amazing you completed "atlas shrugged" i thought it was torture to read and tossed it away when i tried it out when i was about 19..her "pro business" (to put it in a polite way)attitude really wound me up somethin chronic. when i picked up the book i didnt really know much about it other than that she was supposedly "a modern philosopher"

dont worry im not attacking you ;) but i do find it wierd the way some people will stick with a book they LOATHE just cos they feel they have to complete whatever book they start.

im here to say..life is too short..burn the sucker and dance around the flames
;) :D
 
BEARBOT said:
hey boogie boy..thats amazing you completed "atlas shrugged" i thought it was torture to read and tossed it away when i tried it out when i was about 19..her "pro business" (to put it in a polite way)attitude really wound me up somethin chronic. when i picked up the book i didnt really know much about it other than that she was supposedly "a modern philosopher"

dont worry im not attacking you ;) but i do find it wierd the way some people will stick with a book they LOATHE just cos they feel they have to complete whatever book they start.

im here to say..life is too short..burn the sucker and dance around the flames
;) :D
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I'm just sad I guess, once I start reading something I always have to finish it, I often wait for the page to arise that suddenly makes the whole effort worth while, and it did not happen with this book ('Moby Dick' is another great example of this). I can imagine that if money is your principal measure of success this book would probably help ameliorate any sense of guilt that might arise as an individual exploited and destroyed other human beings to achieve their desires. And woe to anyone who is less intelligent, or less endowed with the features or aspects of character that the society that this author appears to wish for demands. :mad:

A quite depressing book in many respects.

Do you have any recommendations for my next read???

BB :)
 
i just finished "the restaurant at the end of the universe" and now feel the need to get the next book in the Hitchikers guide series...half way through it i though 'hmm dont think il get the next one just yet' but douglas adams is a bastard and has ended both books so far almost mid chapter and so you REALLY wanna know what happens next...*goes to buy the next one on play.com*
 
At the moment I nearly at the end of the Raj quartet - four books "The jewel in the Crown" "The Day of the Scorpion" "The towers of silence" "A Division of the spoils". I took them all on holiday and got through three and started the fourth. I've now nearly finished and I have to say it has been a stunning read - a huge sweeping story the takes in the history of the closing years of the British empire in India. Before that I read John Steinbecks superb "The Grapes of Wrath" - I've put my review on the Book Blog -

http://urbanbookreview.blogspot.com
 
boogie boy..i can't believe you read "moby dick"....im not knocking it, just dont think i could get thru it...
melville wrote "bartleby the scrivner" didnt he? now THERE'S a book..it's just a tad anti work

im currently reading obscure beat writer herbert hunke, he was a street junkie and pals with burroughs and ginsberg. he writes in a naturalistic fashion about his life..im a sucker for that style..especially if the persons life has been "colourful"
 
BEARBOT said:
boogie boy..i can't believe you read "moby dick"....im not knocking it, just dont think i could get thru it...
melville wrote "bartleby the scrivner" didnt he? now THERE'S a book..it's just a tad anti work

im currently reading obscure beat writer herbert hunke, he was a street junkie and pals with burroughs and ginsberg. he writes in a naturalistic fashion about his life..im a sucker for that style..especially if the persons life has been "colourful"
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You sound very much like someone I met at Rampart the other day........you wouldn't happen to like photography too?


BB :)
 
BEARBOT said:
boogie boy..i can't believe you read "moby dick"....im not knocking it, just dont think i could get thru it...
melville wrote "bartleby the scrivner" didnt he? now THERE'S a book..it's just a tad anti work

im currently reading obscure beat writer herbert hunke, he was a street junkie and pals with burroughs and ginsberg. he writes in a naturalistic fashion about his life..im a sucker for that style..especially if the persons life has been "colourful"
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I quite liked Moby Dick - its not Pc and the cetology is way out of date but you'll have to agree it fantastically well written . On the BBC book board there is a hardcore group who love Moby Dick - I'm in it! , its like Marmite love it or loath it no half measures!
 
I'm at work said:
I quite liked Moby Dick - its not Pc and the cetology is way out of date but you'll have to agree it fantastically well written . On the BBC book board there is a hardcore group who love Moby Dick - I'm in it! , its like Marmite love it or loath it no half measures!
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I hated it, absolutely hated it. But I love Marmite?

BB :)
 
I'm at work said:
Believe me - you'll find no ambiguity about Moby dick , "oh it was allright I suppose" is soemthing you'll never find attached to MB.
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I can well understand that, but then life would be pretty boring otherwise. I loved 'Q' by Luther Blissett, and that seems to separate people equally in to those that love and those that hate.

BB :)
 
Boogie Boy said:
I can well understand that, but then life would be pretty boring otherwise. I loved 'Q' by Luther Blissett, and that seems to separate people equally in to those that love and those that hate.

BB :)
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John Bergers "G" appears to be the same - love or loath - is it somrthing to do with single digit titles??
 
i really want to read "Q" online BB..its been mentioned before by citydreams and stupidly i didnt bookmark the link..do you or anyone eles have it..? thank q from ms bearbot

i havent been down to rampart in awhile, last time was for that party with infernal noise brigade( sort of an american "rhythms of resistance samba band" and the lost film festival..but the person you met sounds like someone i never meet but would love to
 
that BBC book board sounds interesting....is proust something people are meant to love or hate? i read "swanns way" and while it wasnt a revelation like i had been led to beleive, i didnt find it a chore to read.

never read "G" but saw a play by john berger recently..he seemed to working the psychogeography territory a la iain sinclair... is "G" in that vein?
 
just ordered 'A Savage Enquiry' off amazon
Inquiry(sp?)
supposed to be really good
all my uni lecturers say is worth reading
cos she worked at Barts + the London
 
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