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Just finished Geek Love - Dub got it for me for xmas. It was fantastic.
Wonderful, humane book - fucking funny too. As usual, the blurb written on the back was a load of old arse. It doesn't "require a sickbag" - it's very satirical and is about human relationships essentially. Just that the relationships are between a family of freaks, genetically engineered to be so by their experimental parents.
I recommend this one to you all and I haven't done that since Cormac McCarthy
Wonderful, humane book - fucking funny too. As usual, the blurb written on the back was a load of old arse. It doesn't "require a sickbag" - it's very satirical and is about human relationships essentially. Just that the relationships are between a family of freaks, genetically engineered to be so by their experimental parents.
I recommend this one to you all and I haven't done that since Cormac McCarthy
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Oooh - and you were right about him...
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Neutronium Alchmemist, but Peter F Hamilton...fucking great except for the Louise Kavanagh storyline...
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Cheers, but I have about 10 books in my 'intray' - probably won't even be at BG for a while (unless that gets picked of course)PieEye said:I can lend you it if you want - although I'm actually going to push it at Book Group too
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Margaret Atwood - Alias GracePieEye said:
Oliver Sacks - Uncle Tungsten: Memories Of A Chemical Boyhood
Tales Of Hoffmann
Jonathan Safran Foer - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin
Andrew Smith - Moondust
Philip Roth - Everyman/The Plot Against America
Pat Barker - Blow Your House Down/Union Street
and some others I forget
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Nah, doesn't appeal at allsojourner said:I see
STILL no Surfacing then?
maya
timewasting fool (in every universe)
I'll recommend The Blind Assassin over Alias Grace... TBA is more complex and emotionally engaging (although before the main characters are established, the story at first glance seems a bit too slow and overtly pernickety... but then as you understand things more and more it sucks you in and just keeps getting better... and the twist at the ending is unforgettable)
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
It just looks like something I would have been made to read at college as an example of classic feminist literaturesojourner said:No bloody taste*huffs off*
<ducks>
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
They're in no particular ordermaya said:
It's nowt bloody like that!
maya
timewasting fool (in every universe)
Yeah, that's the best way to read, IMO... Or else it becomes 'duty reading', and you lose interest* (it's a pretty traumatic experience to plow through 100+ pages of novels you absolutely hate, just to 'have read it')Orang Utan said:
Didn't mean to get up on a high horse and tread own taste down the ears of others, either... Books are such a personal taste, that the concept of "recommendations" really seems meaningless (except for gently steering you away from the most abominable excretions, such as Dan Brown and similar filth)
((*although my own adhd hops between novels every other chapter- i'm currently switching between three novels, lacking the concentration necessary to stick to just one and every time a passage gets boring i switch to a different book, then back agaain as that gets slow- seems a bit too stressful to be practical in general...))
QueenOfGoths
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"Inversions" by Iain M. Banks - and I am enjoying it. A lot!
May Kasahara
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I loved Inversions as well. Haven't ever read any of his other IMB books, but that one really grabbed me.
I'm reading The Grass Crown at the moment and thoroughly enjoying it. It's part 2 of the Masters of Rome series and chronicles Rome's tension with its Italian allies and it's slide towards authoritarianism.
I can't wait for book 4 out of 6 which is all about Ceaser. At the moment, he's a precocious 2 year old!
I can't wait for book 4 out of 6 which is all about Ceaser. At the moment, he's a precocious 2 year old!
the button
out on the kocker
The Radetsky March -- Joseph Roth
I'd only read Legend of the holy drinker before (and wasn't that impressed, tbh), but this is great.
I'd only read Legend of the holy drinker before (and wasn't that impressed, tbh), but this is great.
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I had a go at it and that exact thing with the beginning made me lose interest. I'll have another go on your recommendation, maya. I need some recommendations actually - I feel all loose and have no books lined up.
I need to finish Cormac McCarthy actually - will read No Country for Old Men before it becomes the Film of 2008
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
QueenOfGoths said:
Enjoyed it more on 2nd reading. Very different from the rest of the Culture books.
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
May Kasahara said:
I read "The Algebraist" last year - which I thought was brilliant - and have been meaning to read some more IMB. Found this. copy of "Inversions" at a book sale for 50p so decided that must be fate telling me to do so!
Dillinger4 said:
The copy of The Double that i read was a fairly recent translation by Richard Pevear, I've also read some Chekhov translated by him and imo they are very readable.
Just finished One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn and was surprised by how much I enjoyed it, I'd always avoided it because it seemed too bleak and depressing. The subject matter (internment of political prisoners in sub zero temperatures) is obviously grim, but the emphasis is more on the strength of the human spirit. Great stuff, but i'm not sure I'm ready for the Gulag Archipelago just yet.
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