*What book are you reading ?
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elevendayempire
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Michel Faber - Under the Skin. Two chapters in, and it's... weird.
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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
The War Of The World - Niall Ferguson - he seems like he's a bit too enamoured with the idea of empire, but an interesting read nonetheless. I bet he reads the Telegraph.
Black Swan Green - David Mitchell - I'm loving this - it's a bit I Love 1982, but it's spot on and painfully accurate about the pain of adolescence - I'm finding it difficult in places cos it's bringing up some harsh long-buried memories
Black Swan Green - David Mitchell - I'm loving this - it's a bit I Love 1982, but it's spot on and painfully accurate about the pain of adolescence - I'm finding it difficult in places cos it's bringing up some harsh long-buried memories
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Finished The Lovely Bones last night, thankfully. Despite some vivid moments and a few nice images, the writing lacks range and seems consciously pitched at an Oprah-friendly level, i.e. painfully earnest wonderment. The most believable scenes in the book are those detailing Susie's rape and murder, which I think is probably because of Sebold's own experience. As the book goes on and everyone learns and grows and sheds a few unsnotty noble tears, the experience of reading it seems more and more like sitting through an 8 hour Dawson's Creek marathon, all shallow emotional insights masquerading as deep life lessons. There were a few lazy continuity errors that annoyed me as well - it's not exactly Finnegan's Wake, the author or any decent editor should have picked them up before publishing.
Am starting 'Little Face' by Sophie Hannah next, which I anticipate to be much more hard-boiled.
Am starting 'Little Face' by Sophie Hannah next, which I anticipate to be much more hard-boiled.
I'm still reading The Innocent but I'm also reading The Menstrual Cycle by Anne E. Walker
elevendayempire said:
i think that might well be THE WORST BOOK i have ever read. In fact i very nearly went and asked for my money back, but i only paid £1 for it.
just finished Black Swan Green by David Mitchell - loved it so much more than Cloud Atlas (now have Number9 Dream to read too
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Throbbing Angel
this is no longer a place of honour
PULP by Bukowski
Babbitt By Sinclair Lewis, very amusing and poignant. Clever.
Just finished To the Islands by Randolph Stow, a short but mystical account of an old man's journey to despair and back in NW Australia.
And I finished A People's Tragedy by Orlando Figes! I'm quite impressed with myself as this may be the longest book I've read, and it was very interesting.
Just finished To the Islands by Randolph Stow, a short but mystical account of an old man's journey to despair and back in NW Australia.
And I finished A People's Tragedy by Orlando Figes! I'm quite impressed with myself as this may be the longest book I've read, and it was very interesting.
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
Just finished The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster. I've tried to read it twice before but given up - not in the mood I guess. I had to read it for my course though this time and absolutely loved it.
It's the only book I've ever read that as soon as I read the last sentence made me want to go straight back to the beginning and read it again. It is also the book that has most made me want to write myself.
Let's hope I can write about it for an hour on Thursday in my exam
Next - reading Day of the Locust again for the same exam. It's short so I can get it read in a morning.
Then reading lit crit.
Then reading the complete works of James Baldwin, starting with Go Tell it on the Mountain and Giovanni's Room. Not for my exams, but half for pleasure, half for research for my dissertation and masters.
Also on my list are the few Brautigans I still have waiting to read, I need to get a copy of God's Country by Percival Everett too, and various other things that have been waiting until the end of term.
It's the only book I've ever read that as soon as I read the last sentence made me want to go straight back to the beginning and read it again. It is also the book that has most made me want to write myself.
Let's hope I can write about it for an hour on Thursday in my exam
Next - reading Day of the Locust again for the same exam. It's short so I can get it read in a morning.
Then reading lit crit.
Then reading the complete works of James Baldwin, starting with Go Tell it on the Mountain and Giovanni's Room. Not for my exams, but half for pleasure, half for research for my dissertation and masters.
Also on my list are the few Brautigans I still have waiting to read, I need to get a copy of God's Country by Percival Everett too, and various other things that have been waiting until the end of term.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Just finished Black Swan Green. Made me cry. There's some unconvincing elements but all in all it's brilliant.madamv said:
Dirty Martini
gets what he cant want
Dirty Martini said:
Utter fucking garbage. Boring, nasty, contrived, badly written, dumb, lazy. Either he lost form badly after Minotaur, or this was a first novel dusted off. Toss.
Next it's Hotel California -- Singer-Songwriters & Cocaine Cowboys in the LA Canyons 1967-76 by Barney Hoskyns. This should be good
scumbalina
Scummy Mummy
Just finished Chocolat. It was alright, passed the time *shrugs*.
Dirty Martini
gets what he cant want
Dirty Martini said:Next it's Hotel California -- Singer-Songwriters & Cocaine Cowboys in the LA Canyons 1967-76 by Barney Hoskyns. This should be good
Liking this a lot. Did anyone see the documentary and was it any good?
scumbalina said:
Have you read any more Joanna Harris? They're all the same but set in a different place and with name changes. Having said that i've read them all
Just finished:
Cats Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut: read it for book group and enjoyed it, especially as it's not something i would have read without book group promtpting.
now starting:
The Woman Who Walked Into Doors - Roddy Doyle.
Nikkormat
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Just started The Greatest Raid of All, by C.E. Lucas Phllips. 50 pages in, great so far.
Throbbing Angel
this is no longer a place of honour
just started Ian Rankin's first Rebus novel 'Knots & Crosses'
60 pages in - like it a lot
gave up on Magnus Mills' 'Explorers of the New Century' after one chapter, 20 or so pages. First time that's happened with one of his books - ho hum
60 pages in - like it a lot
gave up on Magnus Mills' 'Explorers of the New Century' after one chapter, 20 or so pages. First time that's happened with one of his books - ho hum
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
Took my last exam yesterday, so I can finally spend some time reading what I actually want to.
So, I started a book that I've wanted to read for ages, In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan. I didn't know anything about it so it was a bit of a surprise when I started reading. A lovely, whimsical style, and yet I've got to say, it's a little unnerving. Maybe because of our modern cynicism, but I'm expecting it all to go horribly wrong.
So, I started a book that I've wanted to read for ages, In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan. I didn't know anything about it so it was a bit of a surprise when I started reading. A lovely, whimsical style, and yet I've got to say, it's a little unnerving. Maybe because of our modern cynicism, but I'm expecting it all to go horribly wrong.
The Book of Revelation by Rupert Thomson.
Started it last night and it made me have weird sex dreams
Started it last night and it made me have weird sex dreams
Dirty Martini
gets what he cant want
Finished Hotel California -- Singer-Songwriters & Cocaine Cowboys in the LA Canyons 1967-76 by Barney Hoskyns.
An entertaining cavalcade of bedenimed doughnuts and heroes, well written. Good guys: JD Souther, a few of the early A&R people, Gene Clark, Bernie Leadon, Randy Newman, Graham Nash. Bad guys: Crosby (insane and highly unpleasant, like Stephen Stills), Geffen, etc. etc. Neil Young is a major figure here, and a bit of a weird fella.
It's nice to see Gene Clark figure so prominently though.
The book is a very l o n g Mojo article, but a good laugh all in all.
An entertaining cavalcade of bedenimed doughnuts and heroes, well written. Good guys: JD Souther, a few of the early A&R people, Gene Clark, Bernie Leadon, Randy Newman, Graham Nash. Bad guys: Crosby (insane and highly unpleasant, like Stephen Stills), Geffen, etc. etc. Neil Young is a major figure here, and a bit of a weird fella.
It's nice to see Gene Clark figure so prominently though.
The book is a very l o n g Mojo article, but a good laugh all in all.
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg - for book club
It's dreadful. Boring, claggy, about as interesting as a dog turd on a rainy day. I've read more scintillating prose in a cost benefit analysis spreadsheet on bog-roll suppliers.
I don't think I'm going to finish it somehow. Boy, is THIS gonna get a drubbing!
It's dreadful. Boring, claggy, about as interesting as a dog turd on a rainy day. I've read more scintillating prose in a cost benefit analysis spreadsheet on bog-roll suppliers.
I don't think I'm going to finish it somehow. Boy, is THIS gonna get a drubbing!
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