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Im reading, well one of the many i have on the go

Cocaine True Cocaine Blue By Eugene Richards

When it came (Amazon) it wasnt what i had expected it to be. It is an in-depth and intimate look at three troubled communities in America. It is brutal and shows how drugs are destroying lives. The pictures throughout the book are horendous, and as he states beyond our wildest nightmares. I think he won an award for best photographic book. Huge A4 book worth it just for the photos alone.
 
Louloubelle said:
Just finished reading
Sickened: The True Story of a Lost Childhood by Julie Gregory

very well written memoir of a women who was abused by her parents, particularly her mother who made her ill so she could get attention from doctors.

Just started Murder in the Heart by Alexandra Artley
A true crime account of how 2 sisters were driven to murder by domestic violence, it's had mixed reviews so I'm interested in checking it out.
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jesus.

you go for some reet fluffy reading material Lou :D
 
foo said:
jesus.

you go for some reet fluffy reading material Lou :D
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tis true
I'm not really interested in 'happy' books
I hardly ever read fiction
I've had sone 'interesting' experiences in my own life am I'm interested in how other people respond to extreme trauma and pressure
 
yeh, i've had some 'interesting' experiences too. i guess i choose another option, denial. hence being furiously happy - most of the time ;)

have you tried I Choose To Live - Sabine Dardenne?

i've got it in my bookshelf but haven't read it. a friend said it's very courageous and unsentimental. :)
 
foo said:
yeh, i've had some 'interesting' experiences too. i guess i choose another option, denial. hence being furiously happy - most of the time ;)

have you tried I Choose To Live - Sabine Dardenne?

i've got it in my bookshelf but haven't read it. a friend said it's very courageous and unsentimental. :)
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no I haven't, although I'm very familiar with the case
Possibly the only case that brings out the conspiracy theorist in me, looks like the police and government and all kinds of powerful figures were involved in covering up child abuse

I'll put the book on my 'to read' list

I started on Murder in the Heart yesterday and I've stopped for a bit, as I'm feeling a bit down about it and about some other stuff that happened yesterday

I sometimes wish I could stop reading thse horrific memoirs and true crime accounts but I do think that they can help me to understand people's responses to trauma, which is I think an important understanding to have if you can bear to think about it (I can't always)

I'm going to put D'Angelo and lewis taylor on the CD player, think happy thoughts, and get on with some work :)
 
Arcadia for All
The Legacy of a Makeshift Landscape
Dennis Hardy and Colin Ward

fascinating story of the development of "plotlands" in SE England
 
Just finished "Song of Sussannah", the 6th in Steven King's Dark Tower series. Dissapointed. Relatively new to this board and not sure about the spoiler policy so won't go into detail but a big let down after the first 5, which I enjoyed so much.

Now looking at a pile including the last in The Dark Tower series (which 1 week ago I would have said would definitely be the next one, but now I'm feeling some trepidation), Hamilton's "Judas Unchained", Banks' "The Algebraist", and Reynolds' "Pushing Ice".
 
trashpony said:
I am reading a marvellous book called The Spell by Alan Hollinghurst. He's a brilliant writer and this book is just wonderful.

It's about a group of gay men between the ages of early 20s and late 40s. It's about love, dynamics between people, ageing and the 90s. It also has the best account of someone's first e I've ever read.

And it's fucking funny too :cool:
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Have you read The Line of Beauty by him?

We read that as part of the (in)famous manc bookclub started on urban. Very moving and at times funny novel. But quite long, and the second half is perhaps more amusing. An excellent account of the 80's seen through the eyes of a young homosexual guy but had some great satire on the Thatcher period complete with typcast Tory MP. I'd never have read this if someone else hadn't recommended it and I might go for another of his works, the Swimming Poll Library. Id never read any "gay" fiction before as this is what the novel would be misguidedly placed under. It's more than romance or satire though.

I've been on a bit of a book binge cos I'm trying to save money and reading is cheap entertainment. I've been reading the Castle and the Trial by Kafka and a book of criticism on the caslte as I was taken up by Kafka's themes. Also just read Farewell to Arms by Hemingway and Birdman, a scary crime novel by Mo Haydar. Birdman's pretty horrific and was lent to me by fellow poster mancboy. Read most of it in three days, it's not hard to read but entertaining and follows a haunted detective try to uncover the mystery surrounding a serial killer.

But finished it last night and I'm now reading the Ragged Trousered Philanphropists. Big book, but essential reading I'd say. This is also for the manc bookclub on urban, check it out in northern forum, new members both physical and virtual welcome.
 
Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince.

I love it but at the same time find it deeply unsettling, with thoughts of racism & date rape as themes in the book. This book seems to be worse than the others in this sense. Also violence; extreme violence being okay, or at least only mildly frowned upon.

If she wants to send an educational message about these issues she should put a bit more thought into it, I think. I still really enjoy HP though, it just makes me read the book in a more adult fashion, when I would prefer to go into child-mode when I read it.
 
Fledgling said:
Have you read The Line of Beauty by him?
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No - that's the only one I haven't read. I highly recommend both the Swimming Pool Library and the Folding Star. The Folding Star is absolutely beautiful - about romance between two men in Flanders in the late 18th century. His writing is exquisite I think

:)
 
trashpony said:
No - that's the only one I haven't read. I highly recommend both the Swimming Pool Library and the Folding Star. The Folding Star is absolutely beautiful - about romance between two men in Flanders in the late 18th century. His writing is exquisite I think

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The line of beauty has some great chapters in it, the novel is long, about 5-600 pages and doesn't really get going until about 130 pages in but definitely worth the read. I'll try and track down the swimming pool library sometime, I think the line of beauty picks up where swimming pool library left off, well according to Wookey.
 
Finished Derek Raymond's "A State Of Denmark" yesterday. It's set in England under fascism and, although magnificent, is one of the bleakest novels I've ever read in my life. Highly recommended.
 
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Alan Querdilion opened his eyes … and found himself living in a nightmare. The Nazis had won the War and the Third Reich stretched from the Urals to the Atlantic. Central Europe was a vast hunting preserve, ruled with savage authority by Count Hans von Hacklenberg, Master of the Reich’s Forests.

The Count’s passion was hunting and at night the sound of his horn echoed eerily through the moonlit forest as his weird hunting pack closed in on its prey. A pack of half-naked cat-girls, the inhuman creations of insane surgery, their hands sheathed in iron claws, their bellies starved of meat. And the quarry, as Alan discovered too late, is … himself.


It was a recommendation from my half-brother. Years ago when I took him to see Laibach at the QEH, he commented that their use of the sound of a hunting horn reminded him of this book. I think it’s entirely possible that NSK/Laibach are aware of that link. Unheimlich is the word here, I think.
 
Margrave of the Marshes.... :cool:
(has tempted me away from motherless brooklyn which i now dont reckon i'll finish before the meeting :( )
 
foamy said:
(has tempted me away from motherless brooklyn which i now dont reckon i'll finish before the meeting :( )
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I'll have it if you don't want it :p :D ;)

(it's just marty21 told me I had to read it and if I didn't he would give me a chinese burn :( )
 
MysteryGuest said:
I'll have it if you don't want it :p :D ;)

(it's just marty21 told me I had to read it and if I didn't he would give me a chinese burn :( )
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i am gonna read it though, i am, i am!!!
 
Martin Rees: Our Final Century

and the sublime, sublime - yet utterly horrible

John Gray: Straw Dogs

Has anyone read this great, nasty, mutherfucka of a book?
 
Just started Bret Easton Ellis' Less Than Zero. Was this his first book?

So far I'm expecting it to be a piss poor version of/ precursor to the much better Gen X by Coupland. I'll keep ya posted.

Got 4 books for less than a tenner in Oxfam yesterday. Well chuffed :D
 
I'm re-reading The Crying of Lot 49.

Oddly, there are whole passages that appear familiar verbatim - and others that I'm delighted to find, as new...
 
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