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sojourner said:
oh i can't wait to read this. currently reading a "very short introduction to classics" as i'm fascinated by the subject and want to learn my around it.
*What book are you reading ?
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oh i can't wait to read this. currently reading a "very short introduction to classics" as i'm fascinated by the subject and want to learn my around it.
sojourner said:
read the Border Trilogy - All The Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities Of The Plain. absolutely stunning.
don't read No Country For Old Men - it's toss
winterinmoscow
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I've just bought: Everything is Illuminated
and Weathercock and Hope by Glen Duncan
I adore Glen Duncan's novels but did give up on Weathercock, determined to get through it this time
and Weathercock and Hope by Glen Duncan
I adore Glen Duncan's novels but did give up on Weathercock, determined to get through it this time
Dirty Martini
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The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford. Interesting do far...
Cheers! Is it only 2009 then that it's coming out?Dubversion said:
Lots of interesting comments there on that thread....the issue of faith was massive (for me anyway)...I felt as if 'okay' was a post-apocalyptic substitute for 'amen', if you know what I mean?
Will check out the McCarthy forum that blinky bill linked to later
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I'm reading "I hope they serve beer in hell" written by Tucker Max and is basically about a guy who goes out and gets pissed and has sex, funny but not really worth the money
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Just finished footnote* by Boff Walley, Chumbawamber member. Excellent autobiography-funny, fascinating and intelligent
Dubversion said:.....i'm about to slide into the bath a crack the spine of Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Police Union. This guy better be good, after all the hype
well it's ace so far
Fannie Flagg - Welcome to the world Baby Girl
Well, it's certainly no Fried Green Tomatoes, that's for sure. In fact, it's probably the trashiest novel I've read in a long time, but is funny in places, and not offensively shit. I've started so I might as well finish it til me book club choice comes through, or the Border Trilogy, whichever comes first
Well, it's certainly no Fried Green Tomatoes, that's for sure. In fact, it's probably the trashiest novel I've read in a long time, but is funny in places, and not offensively shit. I've started so I might as well finish it til me book club choice comes through, or the Border Trilogy, whichever comes first
cyberfairy said:Just finished footnote* by Boff Walley, Chumbawamber member. Excellent autobiography-funny, fascinating and intelligent
great, isn't it?
Fannie Flagg
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tufty79 said:wake up, sir - jonathon ames
i'm only on chapter twoi'm really liking it, but just not in a read-y mood
actually, i'm going to go back to bed with it. now.
ahhhhhhhhhhh it was *fantastic*
need more more more of his stuff
dipping in and out of douglas coupland's hey nostradamus, and *loving* delia smith's basic blockading
Pie 1 said:
yeh, he tends to alternate between moving examinations of sad stuff (Eleanor Rigby for example, most recently) and more throwaway zeitgeisty stuff like Jpod. Was fun
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I'm having a hard time getting through this one, I've read 3 books while I am in the middle of this one and am only 1/2 way through, I think it's worth a read tho.
The Terror by Dan Simmons. A review:
The men on board, Her Britannic Majesty's Ships Terror and Erebus had every expectation of triumph. They were part of Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition - as scientifically advanced an enterprise as had ever set forth - and theirs were the first steam-driven vessels to go in search of the fabled North-West Passage. But the ships have now been trapped in the Arctic ice for nearly two years. Coal and provisions are running low. Yet the real threat isn't the constantly shifting landscape of white or the flesh-numbing temperatures, dwindling supplies or the vessels being slowly crushed by the unyielding grip of the frozen ocean. No, the real threat is far more terrifying. There is something out there that haunts the frigid darkness, which stalks the ships, snatching one man at a time - mutilating, devouring. A nameless thing, at once nowhere and everywhere, this terror has become the expedition's nemesis. When Franklin meets a terrible death, it falls to Captain Francis Crozier of HMS Terror to take command and lead the remaining crew on a last, desperate attempt to flee south across the ice. With them travels an Eskimo woman who cannot speak. She may be the key to survival - or the harbinger of their deaths. And as scurvy, starvation and madness take their toll, as the Terror on the ice becomes evermore bold, Crozier and his men begin to fear there is no escape...
The Terror by Dan Simmons. A review:
The men on board, Her Britannic Majesty's Ships Terror and Erebus had every expectation of triumph. They were part of Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition - as scientifically advanced an enterprise as had ever set forth - and theirs were the first steam-driven vessels to go in search of the fabled North-West Passage. But the ships have now been trapped in the Arctic ice for nearly two years. Coal and provisions are running low. Yet the real threat isn't the constantly shifting landscape of white or the flesh-numbing temperatures, dwindling supplies or the vessels being slowly crushed by the unyielding grip of the frozen ocean. No, the real threat is far more terrifying. There is something out there that haunts the frigid darkness, which stalks the ships, snatching one man at a time - mutilating, devouring. A nameless thing, at once nowhere and everywhere, this terror has become the expedition's nemesis. When Franklin meets a terrible death, it falls to Captain Francis Crozier of HMS Terror to take command and lead the remaining crew on a last, desperate attempt to flee south across the ice. With them travels an Eskimo woman who cannot speak. She may be the key to survival - or the harbinger of their deaths. And as scurvy, starvation and madness take their toll, as the Terror on the ice becomes evermore bold, Crozier and his men begin to fear there is no escape...
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Oh if you like dogs, that's really upsettingsojourner said:
Dirty Martini
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I finished FMF's The Good Soldier, which is pretty remarkable novel really, with some fairly vicious things to say about marriage, the English and the morality of the Victorian novel-reader. One of the first novels to use flashback apparently.
Now I've dived without much thought into A Question of Upbringing by Anthony Powell, being the first in his Dance to the Music of Time sequence. Just to see what it's like.
Now I've dived without much thought into A Question of Upbringing by Anthony Powell, being the first in his Dance to the Music of Time sequence. Just to see what it's like.
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I'm a liberal bedwetter who couldn't strim the grass yesterday cos there was ickle fwoggies jumping in it who might have been hurted (also a good excuse to not fucking bother doing stuffsojourner said:I like dogs, but I may not be as upset as possibly you could get me dear...I'm a hard-hearted cunt at the best of times
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Promethea.
Not really a book because it has pictures. Let's call it a comic 'book'.
Anyway, I have not made my mind up. Could be bollocks or incredible depending on how you look at it.
Not really a book because it has pictures. Let's call it a comic 'book'.
Anyway, I have not made my mind up. Could be bollocks or incredible depending on how you look at it.
Dirty Martini
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sojourner said:
Uptight English, foolish Americans, spa town, affairs, India, ennui, polo, suicide, madness and Surrey?
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