milesy said:
if you haven't read Girlfriend In A Coma, go for that ASAP
*What book are you reading ?
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if you haven't read Girlfriend In A Coma, go for that ASAP
kyser_soze
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milesy said:
YAY!!! Another Coupland convert!!
I'd recommend Miss Wyoming next rather than GIAC (Dub and I had a debate on this in an earlier section of this thread) but they're all great - he's a brilliant writer.
Miss Wyoming isn't all that, IMO.. not as bad as the execrable All Families Are Psychotic (the only Coupland that is actually 'bad', as opposed to 'not as good) but still far from his best
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Definitely a good choice with those 2 - Stone Junction is one of my fave books - I'm always reccommending it to people but no-one ever seems to read it (they're missing out!)Dubversion said:
Almost done with The Corrections - and it's definitely got a lot better.
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Dubversion said:
You just lack the necessary sappy romance gene to appreciate the wonderfulness that is Wyoming Dub
Kinda agree with Psychotic tho...I could never get past the 'sister as astronaut' bit...
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I am reading and writing books right now. One of the best that I have read in a long time is On Being Loves Warrior. It is a book about reclaiming personal power and using spiritual techniques to break free of the brainwashing done by society. A lot of radical ideas are included, like people are able to choose forthemselves and dont need anybody to tell them what is right and wrong. Things like that.
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I am reading and writing books right now. One of the best that I have read in a long time is On Being Loves Warrior. It is a book about reclaiming personal power and using spiritual techniques to break free of the brainwashing done by society. A lot of radical ideas are included, like people are able to choose forthemselves and dont need anybody to tell them what is right and wrong. Things like that.j.w. Gil
rorymac said:I'm reading three at the moment...very sloooowwwwly mind...
Millroy the magician...... Paul Theroux
He's Louis Theroux's dad.
Damn good it is too.
Fast food nation....*
and
Out of it...*
* Both are in me motor and I can't be arsed to go and get them but they're both big sellers at the moment.
ps and quite rightly so.
fishfingerer
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The Star Fraction - Ken McLeod. I started reading it in the pub yesterday but I'll have to start again cos I don't have a clue what's going on.
just started Robinson by Chris Petit. all very Soho drinking dens and Derek Raymond so far - and i'm liking it - but i suspect it will all change before long.
West68thStreet
your misguided trousers
Just finished 'Confessions of a Gnostic Dwarf' by David Madsen (very good), now reading 'Memoirs of an Ex-prom Queen' by ALix Kates Shulman (even better). Also reading Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson which is indescribably fascinating.
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henry charles lea, materials towards a history of witchcraft (vol i)
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Nowt but trouble
what book are you reading
Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis. It aint American Psycho but its fairly hilarious.
Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis. It aint American Psycho but its fairly hilarious.
Zenith said:
Great book, try The Crow Road, also good.
I'm reading The Chamber by John Grisham
Orang Utan
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Talk To The Hand - Lynne Truss - this book is currently irritating me. I can't help with agreeing her about the decline of public conduct and customer services, but her book is not going to have the desired effect on me because she is so wrongheaded about some things that you want to annoy her by being rude to her if you ever encounter her just to spite her. Grumpy bitch.
Also reading Down And Dirty Pictures by Peter Bisking - slightly disappointing follow up to Easy Riders, Raging Bulls but still jam packed with juicy anecdotes and monstrous egos.
Also reading Down And Dirty Pictures by Peter Bisking - slightly disappointing follow up to Easy Riders, Raging Bulls but still jam packed with juicy anecdotes and monstrous egos.
Dubversion said:
this is a BRILLIANT book
Brainaddict
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The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon - enjoying it very much so far. I love Pynchon's writing style, even when he's being so deliberately opaque that you can't possibly tell what he's rabbiting on about 
Orangesanlemons
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Brainaddict said:The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon - enjoying it very much so far. I love Pynchon's writing style, even when he's being so deliberately opaque that you can't possibly tell what he's rabbiting on about
I love 'Lot 49'. It bears an incredibly light touch for Pynchon - short, sweet but so dense with ideas and possibilities that it rewards a dozen re-reads. It should also be a set text for conspiraloons everywhere, but that's another story.
Pynchon apparently hates it and regards it as the weakest thing he's ever written, a step backwards from even his late short stories. I'm not sure how he came to that conclusion. I think it's a wonderful novel.
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foamy said:
I've had an open copy of 'Oryx and Crake' by my bed for months, and I've restarted it a couple of times. I can't get into it at all, I'll start and finish another book and then try again.
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