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Ooh that sounds interesting Han, what's it called?

I'm reading Kafka on The Shore by Haruki Murakami - I love his books but this one has me chuckling when the talking cat comes along (I love him!!!) :D
 
I've started The Secret Life of Bees. Only got it cos I was meant to be writing a review for it, but it's that turgid, and fey, I've managed 20 pages, in bits, and had to admit I can't do the review cos it'll take me a lifetime to get through it. Thinkin on, though, I could always just do a review that says 'this is shit, don't waste your money on it, it's shallow it's lame it's worthless'. Not sure it'd fit the word count though
 
Dirty Martini said:
Who do you review for, or would that be giving the game away?
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A community mag (nowt famous in case you were wondering:D ), only just started doin it n all :oops: that'll go down well won't it? :rolleyes:
 
I got editted down meself - they cut out the best most important bits! Drove me mad - I'd set out in openin para what I was gonna discuss, and they cut out a bit that was relevant to it! :mad:
 
Finished Drop City by TC Boyle. Good story, but as with the other one of Boyle's I read (Inner Circle), he loses his grip about 2/3rds of the way through, the writing loosens up and repeats itself too much, occasionally reading like the notes he must have made for the novel. I dunno, loss of interest maybe. I think he boxed himself in a bit with the subject.
 
Dirty Martini said:
Finished Drop City by TC Boyle. Good story, but as with the other one of Boyle's I read (Inner Circle), he loses his grip about 2/3rds of the way through
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I think that's a fair point. All of his that I've read have tailed off some; but I still think he has such a gift, when he feels like exercising it, that his books are a pleasure.
 
Started Henry Rollins - Black Coffee Blues and swiftly realised it's one for the plane next week.

So got stuck into Kill your Darlings by Terence Blacker - fuckin hilarious! Tony Watson has just GOT to be Will Self! It's incisive, self-mocking, self-referential - am loving it :D
 
Recently read:

"Pretty Boy" - Lauren Henderson. Utterly shit crime novel I picked up from the staffroom cos I had nothing else to read; hideously self-regarding 'urban cool' wankery. Avoid.

"Bad Chili" - Joe R Lansdale. Utterly brilliant crime novel from the East Texas legend, another rip thru in two days classic. Dirty nurses, gay violence, grease-napping, electric shock torture, and packed full as ever of laconic, hilarious dialogue. All in all, the best £2.80 I've ever spent in a charity shop.

Next I am supposed to be reading 'Pride and Prejudice' for my book club, but keep forgetting to get it out of the library. I bet when I go in, I get seduced by something more exciting.
 
:D You're a very bad cat (and probably right).

I have read P+P before and seem to recall enjoying it, but right now I'm so much more in the mood for crime and thrillers which, let's face it, JA doesn't really know much about. Not counting social crimes or the thrill of having your corset pulled too tight, of course.
 
May Kasahara Not counting social crimes or the thrill of having your corset pulled too tight said:
Or using 3 billion words when a sentence would suffice :D

i fuckin HATE p+p, with a passion. I hate loads of that ilk...the only decent book (which admittedly came a fair bit later) was Wuthering Heights. imVHo of course
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May Kasahara said:
Which is exactly the reason I loathe George Eliot. Hate, hate, hate her!
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:D And why I loathe and detest Charlotte Bronte. Villette - that's 3 days of my life I'll never get back :mad: (I only read it all the way through cos it was a set book on a module)

Charlotte Bronte - you're a boring cunt :mad:
 
sojourner said:
Charlotte Bronte - you're a boring cunt :mad:
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I'm going to get that put on a t-shirt and wear it every day.

We were supposed to read 'Middlemarch' for one of my core modules at uni. Thank god I'm one of life's blaggers! The only use it ever got in my house was as a doorstop.
 
May Kasahara said:
I'm going to get that put on a t-shirt and wear it every day.
We were supposed to read 'Middlemarch' for one of my core modules at uni. Thank god I'm one of life's blaggers! The only use it ever got in my house was as a doorstop.
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:D

The worst is when you get cornered by a load of (usually) older women, telling you how funny it is, and how ironic it all was - and you're saying (to their utter disbelief and horror) 'no, its not funny, it's barely ironic, and yes I know how women were kept down in writing, and yes I have read A Room of Ones Own, but FOR FUCKS SAKE IT'S SHIT'

ahem

:D
 
been re-reading peter ackroyd's london the last week or so. one of the best non-fiction texts ever and one of my desert-island books!
 
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