*What book are you reading ?
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Didn't dislike it, but isn't he supposed to be shit-hot or something? 
he is really amazing imo, but yes, that book is nowhere near as good as some of his other stuff. read enduring love and atonement. they are amazing.Calva dosser said:Didn't dislike it, but isn't he supposed to be shit-hot or something?
in fact i might read enduring love again soon.
Heard a fantastic radio version of one of his books once, ex- students in Scottish university town, all very torturous, gruesome murder when they were young, then the copper wot done it starts bumping 'em off one by one when they're middle-aged. Any bells?
With hindsight I DO like McEwan, just a bit sniffy tonight.
With hindsight I DO like McEwan, just a bit sniffy tonight.
Ah yes, Cement Garden. Charlotte Gainsborough?. You get some sleep, I take back all I said about Macca 
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you drunk in many of bexley's pubs? ms derian, ms shells and i could give you a tour, like....Pickman's model said:
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Peter Humfrey & Martin Kemp, eds, The Altarpiece in the Renaissance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990)
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ok then.spanglechick said:you drunk in many of bexley's pubs? ms derian, ms shells and i could give you a tour, like....
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aha, finished that a couple of weeks ago. very odd but effective book
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Great book, thoroughly strange.
I finished Cloud Atlas, which I enjoyed. A real performance, especially the centrepiece. I thought it began to unravel a bit in the last third. It's no masterpiece -- the themes are too weak, its attempts to say something about imperialism and slavery unconvincing -- but good reading and very moving in parts. He's got style.
Now onto 'Memory and the Mediterranean' by Fernand Braudel, a survey from prehistory to the end of the Roman Empire. Alongside it, Tristram Shandy, shamefully abandoned more times than I can remember but I'm determined this time.
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Pretty sweeping. Good for general information
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I'm reading my way through the Booker Shortlist having got it for my birthday. I've read The Sea , George and Arthur , Never let me Go, The accidental and now I'm on "On Beauty " by Zadie Smith.
Its readable but I'm only 80 pages in so its early days yet.
For what its worth "Never let me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro is much better then the winner _ The Sea by John Banville.
Its readable but I'm only 80 pages in so its early days yet.
For what its worth "Never let me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro is much better then the winner _ The Sea by John Banville.
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Just reaching the end of 'On the Road' by Kerouac.
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"All You Need to Know About the Design and Repair of Russian Cameras" by Isaak Maizenberg.
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Anthony Smith, Blind White Fish in Persia (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1953)
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is that the one out of the pelican latin american library?zog said:
yep. i am greatly impressed with the first thirty or so pages. good books are like good people: you can usually decide whether you like them from the off.maya said:
btw, on the subject of books: i was sooooo tempted by the blythe doll book that has just come out. i almost had an orgasm flicking through it in the bookshop today. if i had more disposable income i would have purchased it immediately.
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...is it the one w/a pic of her in a hooded jacket on the front cover?Vixen said:
i have that and don't read it anymore,
if you donate a small sum to the server fund i'll send it off to dub (you're mates, right?) and ask him to pass it on to you!
(you have to wait a bit until i've actually found it, somewhere inside the tower/pile of unopened flatmove boxes, though!)
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