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kyser_soze said:
That would be "Look to Windward"
NOT
"Use of Weapons"
And the new covers are AWFUL
*What book are you reading ?
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That would be "Look to Windward"
NOT
"Use of Weapons"
And the new covers are AWFUL
phildwyer said:
Is that the same Boswell from Boswell and Johnson'sjourney in Scotland? If so is any of Boswell's work worth reading?
Oh and I'm currently reading Matryona's House and some other assorted Solzhenitsyn works which have revived my interest in him. I'll be trying to track down Cancer Ward so I can read it again.
And I'm struggling slowly through the Rebel by Camus, it is not a commuting book.
And some git's pinched my McCarthy's Bar book just as I was getting into it. That IS a commuting book.
And I've just finished The Harp in the South by Ruth Park.
I'm trying to save money, working through the book pile is the best way, I've a few to read for now.
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The Death Ship by B.Travern.
Donna Ferentes
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Yesterday I read Guido Van Genechten's Flop-Ear to a class of Spanish schoolkids. Does that count?
Day of the Jackal is ok. I read The Fourth Protocol once when there was nowt else and felt soiled.LilJen said:But he writes a damn good thriller
I particularly love the way he explores the inner world of characters from anything other than the upper middle class:
'What d'ya mean Guvnor?', said the sturdy Sergeant, whose thoughts were already straying to the 'slap-up' that Edna was preparing even now in their net-curtained council home, a haven of Brasso and boot polish deep in one of the less salubrious estates just south of the river. Bill Smyth, despite his upper crust name, explained away sheepishly as 'just one of those things' during the endless dominoes sessions at the Pig and Whistle, was a copper of the old school. He devoted his dogged attentions to two major loves- coarse fishing and West Ham United- with equal devotion and optimism. He was as unflappable in solid, unspectacular duty as his yeomen ancestors. And always ready to take on the burden of blooding a young officer straight out of one of the more 'progressive' universities.
maya
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you do know that he got his "Ph.D." from an indian correspondence course in 1988, didn't you?Masseuse said:The Hidden Messages In Water by Masaru Emoto. A mad japanese hippy who shows water nice pictures of flowers or chants "your beautiful" many times then photographs the ice crystals that result (very pretty). For balance he shows them pictures of mobile phones and shouts "stupid" at them and also records those images (weirdly wrong).
It's ace.
...but imagine it'd be fun to read this anyway- the japanese seems to have some interesting [shinto-influenced?] ideas about the "souls" hidden in inanimate objects-
once read about a japanese "experiment" with two bowls of rice in which you were supposed to sweet-talk to the first bowl and swear/insult the other one for a week,
then supposedly [they claimed] that the bowl of rice which'd been talked nice to lasted longer before it began to mould, while the "insulted" one got sour almost overnight...oo-er...
LOL - hippies!sadly i think his books have been used to boost claims by evil creationist-type people....riding on the tail of the success of "what the bleep do we know" and the renewed general interest in new age stuff...scary
jeff_leigh
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Reaper Man - Terry Pratchett
districtline
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bought christopher isherwood - gooodbye to berlin earlier today, 70 pages into it so far and really enjoying it.
bought "the edukators" dvd a few days ago, all forms part of my "longing to go back to berlin" mode
bought "the edukators" dvd a few days ago, all forms part of my "longing to go back to berlin" mode
Vintage Paw
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Revenge of the Lawn - Richard Brautigan. Fab so far. A really thin book filled with 62 short (and I mean short) stories. One of them is two sentences long. It's a good story too 
Next on my list - I'm not sure yet. I work in a bookshop so all my wages go on books, and I get freebies - so there is so much to choose from ... *ponders*
Next on my list - I'm not sure yet. I work in a bookshop so all my wages go on books, and I get freebies - so there is so much to choose from ... *ponders*
maya
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ooh, i love brautiganVintage Paw said:Revenge of the Lawn - Richard Brautigan. Fab so far. A really thin book filled with 62 short (and I mean short) stories. One of them is two sentences long. It's a good story too
right now i'm reading "The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg)" by Thomas Mann,
and after that i'll start "Doctor Faustus", also by him...
then i'll read about the Weimar Republic...
Dirty Martini
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maya said:
I'm going through a bit of a Weimar Republic phase at the moment, history and literature. J Roth a favourite.
I want to read Dr Faustus, too -- I've just got to get hold of the Woods translation, it's supposed to be brilliant, and much better than the old Penguin efforts.
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chooch said:
spartacus mills
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About to start 'The Hard Life' by Flann O'Brien.
Dirty Martini
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'Stasiland' by Anna Funder, which I liked. Bizarre fucking place, the DDR, full of psychotics.
Now 'The Emigrants' by WG Sebald, which I started a year ago but never got round to finishing. I love Sebald.
Now 'The Emigrants' by WG Sebald, which I started a year ago but never got round to finishing. I love Sebald.
maya
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ah, great- interesting period, innit?Dirty Martini said:
i really don't know a lot yet- found a book in uni library by a certain Peter Gay(!), called "Weimar Culture"- and searching through online indexes at the moment...
haven't read the "new" translation of Dr. Faustus, might give it a try...
although sometimes, erm i mean many times, the most pleasurable reads/translations are those that aren't too pedantic...
"word-by-word" fundie translations can be quite painful to read...especially if the musicality is lacking or the languages don't cross over well (as is the case with german into english- ouch!
)must find a non-highbrow book for next week, now
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recently finished Stump by Niall Griffiths, though nothing at the mo
It made me cry a hell of a lot that's for sure. On coaches in Turkey, damn it! I was hooked to it too, though unfortunately 80% of the book is completely implausible. The Taliban guy bit made me speak out loud at the book - totally ridiculous! He does well at pulling the heart strings but unfortunately the heart strings are completely covered in cheese. I'd still recommend it to everyone though. The early Afghanistan stuff is really interesting but clearly the author left a long time ago and hasn't really been back... I think. I do think he's a promising writer though. Will await his new book which is out later this year.Monkeygrinder's Organ said:Fantastic book, IMO.
I saw a guy on the tube reading it this evening and I really wanted to ask him what he thought of it, but I didn't as this is crappy England and I was too shy.
Last week I also read: Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kergov which made for a very nice light travel read and I read about half of V by Thomas Pynchon. I think I need to reserve a balanced judgement on it, if and when I ever finish it. (At this juncture I do not feel motivated to do this and couldn't even if I wanted to as it's miles away in Turkey... where I wish I still was
)
maya
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is it just me, or is the quality of US paperback bindings (usually) far superior to the UK ones? 
not only is the cover often thicker, but the paper seems to (often) be of better quality- not sandpaper-bumpy, 100000 times recycled out of old toilet paper or whatever
not only is the cover often thicker, but the paper seems to (often) be of better quality- not sandpaper-bumpy, 100000 times recycled out of old toilet paper or whatever
maya said:is it just me, or is the quality of US paperback bindings (usually) far superior to the UK ones?
not only is the cover often thicker, but the paper seems to (often) be of better quality- not sandpaper-bumpy, 100000 times recycled out of old toilet paper or whatever
think you're generally correct
spartacus mills
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An antholgy called "Three Pre-Surrealist Plays" consisting of Maeterlinck's 'The Blind', Jarry's 'Ubu the King' and Appilinaire's 'The Mammaries of Tiresias'.
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