*What book are you reading ?
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jeff_leigh said:i thought the title of this thread was What book are you reading ? not give us a thesis
Doh !! Sorry I didn't mean to post the whole review here - I've written it out then pasted it to the various groups I use. Here I usually say what I read then post a link to the http://urbanbookreview.blogspot.com/ . I was at the gym earlier and I though " I remember going to urban75 and not the blog "
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4 great books though - startlingly good indeed . Reminded me a lot of Suitable Boy with its vast saga like epic. A work of art really - I wonder if the early 80's "Jewel in the Crown " TV series fixed it in folks mind and left the books forgotten. To be honest if a lot of modern work I read doesn't even get near the quality of writing that Paul Scott managed time after time.
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have you read that 'short course on the history of the cpsu (bolshevik)' (london: lawrence & wishart, 1941)?Ryazan said:
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only bits'n'bobs.Ryazan said:
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there's a good bookshop down the shopping centre in the elephant for russian history - which is where i got the short course for £1.50.
I don't have access to much in terms of finding poltical books in my area, as I live in a crap place for that kind of thing*. But with the PC I can search on ABE and other sites for the stuff I need, providing it is for a reasonable price. I aint no snob, so special hardbound first editions are not my cup of tea. As long as it is in good nick and I can read it without the pages falling out I am fine. And of course, that it will last a few more readings than just the once.
*Although there is some bloke who has his own archive in my town, an ex CPGB member and he has thousands of old books, pamplets and other things, and is selling a small portion of it, but I don't se him that often, he is too busy.
*Although there is some bloke who has his own archive in my town, an ex CPGB member and he has thousands of old books, pamplets and other things, and is selling a small portion of it, but I don't se him that often, he is too busy.
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Just picked up 'The Arabian Nights: Tales From A Thousand And One Nights' - translation by Sir Richard Burton. I have wanted to read this since reading some of the material written by Lewis regarding the concept and treatment of 'race' within Islam.
Wish me luck!
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They came and ate us - Armageddon II: The B-Movie by Robert Rankin, fucked up but funny.
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This is my second post... the quiver is going.
Anyway, I'm reading Cock and Bull by Will Self. Two short stories, one about a woman who grows a penis and then rapes her husband and the other about a man who grows a vagina behind his knee and is then seduced by his male doctor.
I mean, how can you not read a book like that.
Anyway, I'm reading Cock and Bull by Will Self. Two short stories, one about a woman who grows a penis and then rapes her husband and the other about a man who grows a vagina behind his knee and is then seduced by his male doctor.
I mean, how can you not read a book like that.
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midlandsmuse said:
it's not his best IMO. I think he's better at short stories . Cock & Bull are really novellas rather than short stories aren't they?
Actually the Book of the Dead is one of my favourites so bang goes my idea about him not being able to do novels
Have you ever read Graham Stephenson's History of Russia 1812-1945?Pickman's model said:
If so (and there is a very good reason why I ask) do you own a copy?
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A Natural History of Carnivores
top book, highly recommended
A Natural History of Carnivores
top book, highly recommended
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La Bete Humaine - Zola.
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Basil D'Oliveira : cricket and conspiracy, the untold story - Peter Oborne
The Da Vinci Code, seems pretty good thus far
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Just finished "Staying On" by Paul Scott - a stand alone Novel that won him the 1978 Booker prize but really a sequal and final closing chapter in the superb Raj Quartet that I finished last week. I've reviewed it on the urban book blog - feel free to comment - http://urbanbookreview.blogspot.com/ - its a superb read even if you haven'e read the awsome Raj Quartet. Sadly Paul Scott died in 1978 - this is a superb memorial to him .
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I'm reading 'grasshopper' by barbara vine (ruth rendall) bit of a book snob and keep the thrillers hidden under cleverer stuff but really enjoy them and this one is very well written but a bit scary and i'm sleeping on my own tonight so will be hearing murderers in the shrubbery all night long 
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