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May Kasahara
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sojourner said:
Sounds like you have more high-minded book club choices than me - this month it's 'Call of the Wild' (which I'm actually really looking forward to) and in April it's 'Northern Lights' by someone called Nora somebody. I think it was described as a good unchallenging read on Amazon
I'm still waiting for one of my choices to come up. Preferably 'Watchmen' or 'House of Leaves'.Anyway. Not complaining too much, I like my book club buddies and we always have lots to talk about. So I have dutifully ordered the above two books, and a copy of 'The Macguffin' too cos so many people on here have been raving about it
<imagines a bookgroup reading House of Leaves, all sat in a room with mirrors, microscopes and notebooks >
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May Kasahara
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And tape measures, don't forget the tape measures.
Ya think? I don't think the first choice is anywhere near meaty enough. And as for last months...pah. Noddy would have been more of a challenge.May Kasahara said:Sounds like you have more high-minded book club choices than me - this month it's 'Call of the Wild' (which I'm actually really looking forward to) and in April it's 'Northern Lights' by someone called Nora somebody. I think it was described as a good unchallenging read on Amazon
Anyway. Not complaining too much, I like my book club buddies and we always have lots to talk about. So I have dutifully ordered the above two books, and a copy of 'The Macguffin' too cos so many people on here have been raving about it
Do you have a core object or theme to the choices? Cos in my one, it started off with a ridiculous standard - the books had to be written by and about lesbians. Oh, and no american authors
I left for a while in a flounce cos the choices were so shit, and then no one would fuckin talk about them! 
I keep meaning to get a copy of The Macguffin. Why do you recommend House of Leaves then?
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Fledgling said:
I loved Grapes of Wrath too. also Red Pony, The Pearl - both magic! Tortilla Flat just mnakes me think of booze. Of Mice and Men makes me think of me ripping it off for my English O Level exam essay
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Don't understand how come Steinbeck didnt write Old Man and the Sea - i'm sure there was a mix up at the publishers with him and Ernest H
May Kasahara
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sojourner said:
Heh...I'm still scarred by having to read this:
We think it was chosen by someone who then left the group...certainly no one would own up to it!
sojourner said:Do you have a core object or theme to the choices? Cos in my one, it started off with a ridiculous standard - the books had to be written by and about lesbians. Oh, and no american authors
Eeek! Thankfully no, we don't - everyone gets to choose 5 books to go in the hat, they can be anything (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, comics, whatever) and you can choose stuff you've read before and loved, stuff you've never read but always meant to...anything really. We have had some good choices too, but some of it has been a bit MOR. Don't want to sound snobby, but if I'm going to be reading books I wouldn't necessarily have picked myself then I want to be challenged at least a bit. That's why my picks were: 'Watchmen' (superb comic), 'House of Leaves' (insane typographic ghost story headfuck), 'The End of Alice' (beautifully written and deeply disturbing paedo drama) and two books I've never read, 'The Maltese Falcon' and 'Regeneration'.
sojourner said:
See above
It's a mentalist, multilayered book about reading and storytelling, presented in some wigged-out typographic ways, which nevertheless manages to grip like a bitch with its central ghost/horror story. Thoroughly recommended, plus it's funny watching people wondering what you're doing as you turn the book this way and that to follow the typestreams.
ringo
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Just finished Hemingway's "The Garden Of Eden". Great book but a poor personal choice given similar recent experiences.
Also recently finished J.M. Coetzee's "Slow Man". Utterly miserable and not a patch on the incredible "Disgrace".
Cheering myself up with Robert Rankin's "American Gods".
Also recently finished J.M. Coetzee's "Slow Man". Utterly miserable and not a patch on the incredible "Disgrace".
Cheering myself up with Robert Rankin's "American Gods".
Oh dear god, that Eva Rice book looks like my idea of hell!!! Look at that bloody cover!May Kasahara said:Heh...I'm still scarred by having to read this:
We think it was chosen by someone who then left the group...certainly no one would own up to it!
Eeek! Thankfully no, we don't - everyone gets to choose 5 books to go in the hat, they can be anything (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, comics, whatever) and you can choose stuff you've read before and loved, stuff you've never read but always meant to...anything really. We have had some good choices too, but some of it has been a bit MOR. Don't want to sound snobby, but if I'm going to be reading books I wouldn't necessarily have picked myself then I want to be challenged at least a bit. That's why my picks were: 'Watchmen' (superb comic), 'House of Leaves' (insane typographic ghost story headfuck), 'The End of Alice' (beautifully written and deeply disturbing paedo drama) and two books I've never read, 'The Maltese Falcon' and 'Regeneration'.
See above
Sounds like a good idea, the ideas in a hat thing. I might suggest that next time, but I might just end up with a load of crap - lesbian detective fucking novels etc (and believe me there are lots of them). Hmm, maybe not.
The House of Leaves sounds really interesting - I'm deffo gonna get that! I'm really into experimental narrative structures, and this sounds right up my street
The End of Alice sounds intriguing as well.
*goes off to add to amazon wishlist*
May Kasahara
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sojourner said:Oh dear god, that Eva Rice book looks like my idea of hell!!! Look at that bloody cover!
It really was that bad. The funny thing was, we had all just been talking more generally about what kind of books we did/didn't like, and me and a few others had been giving shitty chick lit a right slating, complaining about books with pink covers and sketchy angular girls looking quizzical...and then this was pulled out for next month. The horror!
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Western Philosophy by Betrand Russell, generously lent me by Mr Citrone.
It's very big, but I'm reassured that the foreward and first couple of chapters haven't broken my head yet.
It's very big, but I'm reassured that the foreward and first couple of chapters haven't broken my head yet.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
purves grundy
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No book at all because the cunts in our central post room have lost the fuckers I ordered 5 weeks ago 
Orang Utan
They cannot crucify you if your hand is in a fist
Read The New Confessions - it's the best of the Boyds I've read - very entertaining
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Just finished Mark Haddon's 'A Spot of Bother'. Not a good book to read on public transport unless you don't mind people quietly moving away from you as you shriek maniacially with laughter that causes your eyes to weep and your nose to run.
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Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
It's very funny. I enjoyed it immensely. I was reading bits of it to Blind Lemon last night and had to keep stopping because I couldn't breathe I was laughing so much at the wedding bit.foamy said:
May Kasahara
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chin dildo said:
It's the only Boyd I've read (so far) - absolutely brilliant, loved it.
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I'm reading Graham Swifts "Waterworld" - it's not going well. I read Zoe Heller "Notes on a scandal" recently and it's not too bad . I was suprised when I heard it had been made into a film.
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