*What book are you reading ?
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William S Burroughs, Junky
Inspired by Haggy's rather excellent post
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Inspired by Haggy's rather excellent post
http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=44904
Xtine
sprayingbushwithherbicide
i just finished a bio of baseball great/clown Casey Stengel. what fun!
i started Mae West's autobio, Goodness had Nothing to do With It on the plane to NYC and haven't finished it yet. dunno how many times i've read it; it's brilliant and very funny just like she was.
i started Mae West's autobio, Goodness had Nothing to do With It on the plane to NYC and haven't finished it yet. dunno how many times i've read it; it's brilliant and very funny just like she was.
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
I just bought 'The Life of Pi' this afternoon. Looks pretty good so far.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
"The Ambient Century: from Mahler to trance - the evolution of sound in the electronic age" by Mark Prendergast.
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Finished 'Catch 22' which really isn't the incredible work of genius that so many people reckon, imo. It's a pretty funny book with some genuinely good laughs in it, a good eye for irony and doing that lurching-from-humour-to-horror thing. No more, no less. *Lights blue touch paper and retires* 
Also finished 'The Quiet American' - Graham Greene, which I loved. Really liked the cynical vermouth-sipping, opium-smoking journo main character, whose name escapes me right now. This is the first Graham Greene that I've ever read and I'm definitely going to read more. Recommendations, anyone? 'Brighton Rock', perhaps?
I'm about two-thirds of the way through 'The Crow Road - Iain Banks. Really very good - not sure why I've never read this one before.
And after that I've going to get started on this big stack of books that Han lent me.
Oh yeah, btw, I read 'Generation X' and thought it was a load of old shite.
Also finished 'The Quiet American' - Graham Greene, which I loved. Really liked the cynical vermouth-sipping, opium-smoking journo main character, whose name escapes me right now. This is the first Graham Greene that I've ever read and I'm definitely going to read more. Recommendations, anyone? 'Brighton Rock', perhaps?
I'm about two-thirds of the way through 'The Crow Road - Iain Banks. Really very good - not sure why I've never read this one before.
And after that I've going to get started on this big stack of books that Han lent me.
Oh yeah, btw, I read 'Generation X' and thought it was a load of old shite.
Elpenor
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Originally posted by NVP
Also finished 'The Quiet American' - Graham Greene, which I loved. Really liked the cynical vermouth-sipping, opium-smoking journo main character, whose name escapes me right now. This is the first Graham Greene that I've ever read and I'm definitely going to read more. Recommendations, anyone? 'Brighton Rock', perhaps?
Oh yeah, btw, I read 'Generation X' and thought it was a load of old shite.
I'm about to read Generation X, as I'm on the last chapter of No Logo, my current book. I'll see what I think. I think I tried to read it when I was 13 but gave up.
Greene: Definitely Brighton Rock, I'd also suggest Stamboul Train and The Confidential Agent as being easy to read. Travels With My Aunt is a later, more comical work, which is really accessible. IMO of course
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
I gave up on VS Naipaul’s Guerrillas . I love his writing but this one just didn’t grab me. So I’ve gone for the lightweight Are you Dave Gorman? by Dave Gorman.
Very funny
Very funny
chemical_girl__
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i havent ever posted on this thread before, so i thought i would................ 'captain corelli's mandolin'. im not that far in, but i definitely like the airy style of the writing....... actually, i might go find some sunshine to sit in and read soon.........
I'm just about to finish Dr Janov's 'The Primal Scream'. Very interesting about crying, raging and emotions out, being the cure to many a disease. 
chemical_girl__
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Originally posted by onemonkey
no you should read it on the tube just like everyone else
lol....... i'll just take a two hour bus and train trip to london and hop on the tube then!
I'm reading Kate Atkinson's 'Not the End of the World' -- great stuff, very light. It's a collection of short stories, just what is required for these warm, short nights. (I don't seem to be able to manage long novels if it's not cold and miserable outside.)
I'm glad you liked 'The Crow Road', NVP -- definitely Iain Banks's most feel-good non-Culture novel.
I'm glad you liked 'The Crow Road', NVP -- definitely Iain Banks's most feel-good non-Culture novel.
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Reading The Bridge at the moment (yet another Banks). He grew up in one of the Queensferrys underneath the Forth Rail Bridge and you can feel every single detail of the place and how much he loves it.
He fecks the whole thing up with these twisted dream sequences manipulating the bridge, and drifting in and out of consciousness.
His imagination is pretty incredible....enjoying this one (especially since I can catch the bridge out the window )
He fecks the whole thing up with these twisted dream sequences manipulating the bridge, and drifting in and out of consciousness.
His imagination is pretty incredible....enjoying this one (especially since I can catch the bridge out the window
)I've just finished Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake. The future it portrays seems frighteningly possible. It was a little bit thin towards the end, and it wasn't hard to work out what was going to happen, although I suppose some of it was intentional. I'd recommend it. I'm now reading The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick.
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