half way through now too and think its very good, i am struggling to stay awake when reading it although thats no reflection on the book
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half way through now too and think its very good, i am struggling to stay awake when reading it although thats no reflection on the book
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Iain M Banks- Consider Phlebas. I've read several of his non-SF books and liked them so I thought I'd get around to this one. I'm only 10 pages in but it seems quite promising.
Dirty Martini
gets what he cant want
The book's annoying me and I'm only 40 pages in. The narrator's a dick, which normally wouldn't matter, and the writing's not clever enough
CharlieAddict
nekomimi rocks!!!
ju-jitsu unleashed - eddie bravo. so far, so interesting.
fractionMan
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I just read "the fall of hyperion" and I'm about to start "century rain".
They've both got shiny covers.
They've both got shiny covers.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Re-reading Neverwhere by Gaiman, because I've an essay to do on it.
Pleasure book is Polity Agent, the usual mix of freakery and violence you expect from a polity novel
Pleasure book is Polity Agent, the usual mix of freakery and violence you expect from a polity novel
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Funnily enough I've just started re-reading CP! TBH I'd forgotten how good it is, and it'll be pretty cool getting your introduction to The Culture
Re-reading Neverwhere by Gaiman, because I've an essay to do on it.
Pleasure book is Polity Agent, the usual mix of freakery and violence you expect from a polity novel
There're 2 new Cormac books out. Line War which is the final Agent Cormac novel - or at least the last one in the Dragon/Jain sequence, and a shorter one in the style of Prador Moon called 'Scorpio Rising' or somesuch which details Cormac's life as a kid when his old man gets it in the Prador war.
I *heart* the Polity almost as much as the Culture - moreso in some ways cos it's less utopian and perfect, and considerably more inventive on the weapons front
jeff_leigh
What happened to Dubversion ?
Just picked up "How to be free - Tom Hodgkinson"
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Funnily enough I've just started re-reading CP! TBH I'd forgotten how good it is, and it'll be pretty cool getting your introduction to The Culture
There're 2 new Cormac books out. Line War which is the final Agent Cormac novel - or at least the last one in the Dragon/Jain sequence, and a shorter one in the style of Prador Moon called 'Scorpio Rising' or somesuch which details Cormac's life as a kid when his old man gets it in the Prador war.
I *heart* the Polity almost as much as the Culture - moreso in some ways cos it's less utopian and perfect, and considerably more inventive on the weapons front
Theres another Prador one? is it set on spatterjay again?
I fucking loved that prador one, sentient horntets, immortal fishermen it was class
e2a
The Polity is far grimier than the fluffy Culture. It's like they're some pre-cursor society to the Culture if that makes any sense
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Innit. Well if you want more Spatterjay action there's 'Voyage of the Sable Keech', which is good, but essentially a re-run of 'The Skinner' (but with even more extreme Spatterjay fauna so that should make you happy).
But the one I'm referring to is 'Prador Moon' - it's a shorter story, and it's really only for Asher completists as altho each chapter is well written, it doesn't hang together 100%, altho it gives you loads of history on how the war started, the Polity getting it's arse kicked into the next century, whole worlds being annihilated by anti-matter bombardment, how the dysfunctional wardrones like Sniper and Arach come into being and some really interesting stuff with a runcble gate that is hinted at in Polity Agent...
But the one I'm referring to is 'Prador Moon' - it's a shorter story, and it's really only for Asher completists as altho each chapter is well written, it doesn't hang together 100%, altho it gives you loads of history on how the war started, the Polity getting it's arse kicked into the next century, whole worlds being annihilated by anti-matter bombardment, how the dysfunctional wardrones like Sniper and Arach come into being and some really interesting stuff with a runcble gate that is hinted at in Polity Agent...
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
A House For Mr Biswas - V.S Naipaul
citydreams
on the road again
I really really wanted to like this book, went for a little walk down by the rock pools and never came back.
edit: Ok, I loved Charles' views on what makes for a good dinner
Just this minute finished Will Self's Book of Dave. Easily his best novel IMO, there's a lot of anger in it, some brilliant ideas and a great premise. Took a while to adjust to the mangled cockney of the future, but when you get it, it's like second nature
Oscar Wao next, I think
Oscar Wao next, I think
Maurice Picarda
Actually, might as well flounce.
I do agree. It's his best novel by a huge distance. All his others feel a little like short stories pushed too far, but Dave is flawless.
I hadn't made the Riddley Walker connection, but both reviews I've just googled do, and apparently Book of Dave is explicitly influenced by it. Might have to try that out..
Maurice Picarda
Actually, might as well flounce.
I struggled with it. Not a patch on Hoban's books about Frances the Badger.
Jeremy Rowett Johns - The Smugglers' Banker
It's a biography of a Cornish businessman who among many other things financed smuggling in the late eighteenth century. I bought it for work since the bloke's name - Zephaniah Job - has come up in some stuff I've been looking at, and found it far better than I expected. Fascinating, well researched and nicely written as well.
It's a biography of a Cornish businessman who among many other things financed smuggling in the late eighteenth century. I bought it for work since the bloke's name - Zephaniah Job - has come up in some stuff I've been looking at, and found it far better than I expected. Fascinating, well researched and nicely written as well.
Stuart Maconie - Pies and Prejudice
A 'travel guide' to the North, except it's not the whole North It's fascinating, funny (been chuckling out loud at points), packed with interesting snippets about, say, the Peterloo massacre, and how Skem was settled in the 9th century by a Viking called Skjalmar, hence Skjalmar's Dale And he mentions the little village I come from, several times
Loving it
A 'travel guide' to the North, except it's not the whole North
It's fascinating, funny (been chuckling out loud at points), packed with interesting snippets about, say, the Peterloo massacre, and how Skem was settled in the 9th century by a Viking called Skjalmar, hence Skjalmar's Dale And he mentions the little village I come from, several times Loving it
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
All I'm reading at the moment is stuff for my dissertation. I love the subject, but I'm about sick and tired of it now.
I've got a massive pile of stuff to read after the 13th of May though. Top of the list are my most recent purchases:
Drown and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, both by Junot Diaz
But Beautiful, by Geoff Dyer
American Youth, by Phil LaMarchie
The Brief History of the Dead, by Kevin Brockmeier
Persepolis
Naive: Super, by Ican'readhisnamefromhere
I've got a massive pile of stuff to read after the 13th of May though. Top of the list are my most recent purchases:
Drown and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, both by Junot Diaz
But Beautiful, by Geoff Dyer
American Youth, by Phil LaMarchie
The Brief History of the Dead, by Kevin Brockmeier
Persepolis
Naive: Super, by Ican'readhisnamefromhere
I am also reading My Secret Garden - Nancy Friday. Its a great read for sexing up, and being put off! The amount of women obsessed about dogs dicks is appalling.
Haha!! You should read Women on Top, or the one she did about blokes - there's primate-fucking fantasies
(I think - or maybe I just made that up!)
Maurice Picarda
Actually, might as well flounce.
Gordon Burn: Fullalove. Despite being about a burned-out drunken hack and the excesses of the tabloid press, it somehow manages to avoid being cliched and stay compelling.
madamv
Oi! With the poodle already
Haha!! You should read Women on Top, or the one she did about blokes - there's primate-fucking fantasies
No, the bloke one is next on my agenda
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