*What book are you reading ?
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Shmu said:
Ah, the Debt to Pale Fire...
I enjoyed it actually, a real page-turner. There aren't that many culinary why-do-its out there; it's always nice to find a good 'un! Mr. Philips was pretty decent too (Reggie Perrin meets Ulyses), and after i've finished with Roth's The Plot Against America i've got Lanchester's Fragrant Harbour waiting in the wings. Looking forward to it.
Dirty Martini said:Did you think it faded away in the last quarter of the book? I felt Dodge didn't really know where to go towards the end. Didn't spoil it though, I still liked it a lot.
Doublegone Johnson's recounting of the Job story was the one of the highlights for me
i was surprised by the ending - i guess i expected something a bit more triumphant - but i think it actually fits. don't know if i think it fades at the end, i just think the psychosis gets hold.. which also fits
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Ah, can I have it after you?
You are a lovely person.
Ah, can I have it after you?
chooch said:
You are a lovely person.
having perused my tottering piles of as yet unread novels, i settled on Dirty Havana Trilogy by Pedro Juan Gutiérrez. partly because i've heard it's very good, partly because i'm ridiculously libidinous at the moment.
well that's what i WAS going to read next, but the last person i loaned it too totally fucked the spine up and a bunch of pages fell out while i was in the bath and got soaked.
for fuck's sake
for fuck's sake
Orang Utan
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Dubversion said:well that's what i WAS going to read next, but the last person i loaned it too totally fucked the spine up and a bunch of pages fell out while i was in the bath and got soaked.
for fuck's sake
That's your story - you spunked all over the pages didn't you?
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Just finished 'Muhammad' by Karen Armstrong and 'Muhammad' by Maxime Rodinson, and I know which one I prefer. The thing that strikes me is the fact of how accepting of Islamic historical orthodoxy both books are (even the Rodinson work which can certainly be regarded as critical). Has anyone else found this?
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Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (London: Penguin, 2005)
That's a bit racey for you, isn't it??Pickman's model said:
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what, you're presumably thinking of the bit where carmen sternwood's found naked and drugged in the same room as a dead arthur gwynne geiger?IntoStella said:That's a bit racey for you, isn't it??
Dubversion said:well that's what i WAS going to read next, but the last person i loaned it too totally fucked the spine up and a bunch of pages fell out while i was in the bath and got soaked.
for fuck's sake
that was me!! i think it happened on the beach in italy. i believe i fell asleep in it.
apologies.
hmmph
No, more that it makes a change fromPickman's model said:
An Ontological Historiography of Observance of the Dessication Process in Liquid Wall Coverings, Professor Norbert Spong, Neasden University Press, 1952.
spartacus mills
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Just started ''Landor's Tower'' by Iain Sinclair.
Germinal. - Zola.
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it's crap i tell you.. crap!
you'll enjoy it for a bit though.. no question there.
i have to say anyone i have spoken to about it got fed up half way through too.
would have been good to be able to reach my own conclusions
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Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley. S'alright - quite sweet and quaint really.
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kyser_soze said:
Loved this - I had been looking for it and my wife kindly ordered it for me , when it came it was a reprint in A4 size softcover , the print is slightly larger than A5 so there is a 30mm white border all round each page!. it's like reading a manual for the pc or windows!
A good read!
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I have had a really hectic last 5 weeks so I've only managed Bhowani Junction and The Decievers both 50's novels by John Masters. They were made into films too - Bhowani Junction in 1956 starring Ava Gardner and Stewart Granger and The Decievers in 1988 with Peirce Brosnan.
At the moment I'm taking a break from Indian themed novels with "Birdsong" by Sebastion Faulks. Its really very good indeed, I had read some off reviews but I find it excellent.
At the moment I'm taking a break from Indian themed novels with "Birdsong" by Sebastion Faulks. Its really very good indeed, I had read some off reviews but I find it excellent.
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Shmu said:
A fantastic book indeed - thank goodness I don't eat fungus!!
His later novel Mr Phillips is superb too.
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William Godwin, Things As They Are; Or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982)
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Wyn said:
Have you read Heat and Dust by her? superb .
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foo said:Toast - Nigel Slater
a lovely book.
Fantastic book - underated and sadly found in the food section of soem bookshops - I reckon he could have won an award for the quality of it!
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chooch said:
Could you be more defined?
I'm only part way through but its perfectly good , the WW1 part at the momnet is very well written . I have strict requirements wherever 20th century armed combat finds its way into novels, it must be accurate . There can be no excuse for anything less as there are 100's of books on the subject especially autobiographies.
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