*What book are you reading ?
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I've just finished Joanne Harris Gentlemen and PlayersI've just finished Francis Wheen's new one, 'Marx's Das Kapital: A Biography'. Very entertaining and accessible. I liked it so much I've got a review in the pipeline.
I'm now reading Jane Austen's 'Northanger Abbey'. I've still got Bourdieu's 'Sociology in Question' on the hob, and I began Simon Clarke's 'Marx's Theory of Crisis' this morning.
I feel unfulfilled unless I have 3 books on the go.
I'm now reading Jane Austen's 'Northanger Abbey'. I've still got Bourdieu's 'Sociology in Question' on the hob, and I began Simon Clarke's 'Marx's Theory of Crisis' this morning.
I feel unfulfilled unless I have 3 books on the go.
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
On holiday I read John Wyndham 'The Kraken Wakes' (very good, been meaning to start reading all his books for years so happy I enjoyed it, although reading a book about a menace from the seas while on a beach holiday isn't perhaps the most sensible option...) and Junichiro Tanizaki 'Quicksand', a sweaty tale of obsessional Japanese love in the 1920s, which was pretty good also. Just started Rupert Thomson 'Divided Kingdom'.
Orang Utan
They cannot crucify you if your hand is in a fist
Hello May, was wondering where you got to - where did you go?
I keep picking up that Rupert Thomson and getting distracted - any good?
I keep picking up that Rupert Thomson and getting distracted - any good?
onemonkey
winmonkey
the essential difference - simon baron cohen -- going on about the testosterone fuelled differences in male and female cognitive dispositions.. men on average are more systematic, women are more empathic.. (and how autism is instance of an 'extreme male brain' high syst + low emp) not much evidence to back it up and book fairly short but he might be onto something..
Orang Utan
They cannot crucify you if your hand is in a fist
That's Ali G's brother innit?
Orang Utan
They cannot crucify you if your hand is in a fist
Yay! Brilliant brilliant book!
onemonkey
winmonkey
his cousinOrang Utan said:
was reading RIM by Alexander Besher - but have given up on it.. I've read the sequel MIR which was hardly shit at all but this one is dull, lumbering and to enthralled to it's own weak presumptions.. basically total mess of karmic sci-fi and east mysticism.. with no story to grip you and allow suspension of critical faculties. into the cosmic bin with it
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Orang Utan said:
Yo dude, just went down to Malaga for a week with Cut Out - sun, sea, sand, sex, it was all very relaxing. Just as well really, as had some bad news when we got back.
Dunno about the RT yet, I've only read about 15 pages! I think it reads well though, and P finished it in 2 days, saying it was a ripping yarn, so I shall crack on with it.
fudgefactorfive
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mrkikiet said:
That was the first one of his that I read - still haven't gotten over it.
Read his "Dorian" recently. Nasty, nasty. Lovely
The book's alright btw.
spartacus mills
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fudgefactorfive said:That was the first one of his that I read - still haven't gotten over it.
Read his "Dorian" recently. Nasty, nasty. Lovely
I loved 'How the Dead Live' but hated 'Dorian'.
I'm a third of the way through Isabel Allende's ''Paula''.
schnickschnack
wie bitte?
Just got "Russian Disco" by Wladimir Kaminer out from the library and half way through Ive already decided that he's my favourite author ever.
Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century
Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View [Paperback] by Milgram, Stanley...
Agent Sparrow is trying to educate me in the world of psychology and so far its really bloody interesting!
Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View [Paperback] by Milgram, Stanley...
Agent Sparrow is trying to educate me in the world of psychology and so far its really bloody interesting!
It's been a long time since posting and a few books later, hmmm what have I read?
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
Eucalyptus by Murray Bail
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome
Voss by Patrick White (Excellent)
Am reading the Case of Comrade Tulayev by Victor Serge and Poor Man's Orange by Ruth Park. If anyone can think of any good Aussie literature let me know, especially preferred Patrick White novels.
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
Eucalyptus by Murray Bail
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome
Voss by Patrick White (Excellent)
Am reading the Case of Comrade Tulayev by Victor Serge and Poor Man's Orange by Ruth Park. If anyone can think of any good Aussie literature let me know, especially preferred Patrick White novels.
muser said:
It's alright so far, very much like her Statecraft actually. I'm wearing my critical specs as she's keen to present herself as having a coherent programme from the outset. From what I know this wasn't actually the case until later on.
It's going to take bloody ages to read.
districtline
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schnickschnack said:
i loved "russian disco" but all his other books seem to be the same. his german jungle book was quite boring imho.
his club "russian disco" in berlin is great though
fishfingerer
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Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy. Not my favourite one of his but he was a bloody genius.
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