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*What book are you reading ?

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Fictionist said:
You really did enjoy this book didn't you? Without giving too much away (I'm still getting through it) what did you like most? I'm really beginning to feel a little lost with this one.
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Yep made a big impact on me

I just loved the wanton chaos of it all, the sneaky digs at the political climate, the sub-story on jesus et al. It's not a book that gives you everything on a plate - and certainly the only book to make me physically and psychologically disorientated :):cool:
 
Finally got round to reading Matter - Iain Banks........(thanks to the library)



have to say it doesn't grab me like the others did........s'ok i spose !
 
sojourner said:
Yep made a big impact on me

I just loved the wanton chaos of it all, the sneaky digs at the political climate, the sub-story on jesus et al. It's not a book that gives you everything on a plate - and certainly the only book to make me physically and psychologically disorientated :):cool:
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Thanks for taking the time to answer Sojourner :) - I'll let you know if it has the same effect on me. It has made me trek to a local bookshop and pick up a copy of Goethe's 'Faust' - so this might well be the start of something!
 
Fictionist said:
Thanks for taking the time to answer Sojourner :) - I'll let you know if it has the same effect on me. It has made me trek to a local bookshop and pick up a copy of Goethe's 'Faust' - so this might well be the start of something!
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No worries - if there's one thing I love as much as reading good books, it's yakking about them :D Be interested to hear your final thoughts on it once you're done:)
 
The Selfish Gene. Richard Dawkins.


Do people read the prefaces and ting to books, or do they just dive right in?

I will sometimes but I haven't read the many pages of preface to this book.... should I?
 
Yes, of course - it's very important to read it all!
You didn't even read the cover it seems - it's by Richard Dawkins! :p
 
Started Fury by Rushdie. I did a search to see what else has been said about it, and this post from way back in 2003 summed it up perfectly for me:

transparent said:
Fury by Salman Rushdie, was put off by his writing style at first, very pretentious (by my standards anyway :confused: ), but there's definitely potential, bit of a grower.
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I went and bought 2 more books, despite still reading 3 others :oops:
Now I have The Gate Vegetarian Cookbook and Geoff Dyer's The Ongoing Moment to read
 
I just read the Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller which made me want to visit Greece and now I'm going to read every poker book ever written before I go to Vegas.
 
Now I've finished the old degree I can start ploughing through all the books I've been buying over the past 3 years :D

First one: that Oscar Wao book. Only about 100 pages in, but finding it very good so far.

Don't know what to read next. Probably Brockmeier's A Brief History of the Dead.
 
I'm on a self-imposed ban this month. I totted up roughly how much I've spent on books in the last couple of months and it was a bit :eek:

I've done fairly well so far - only, er ... five. :oops:
 
Orang Utan said:
I have a special shelf for them
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:) I try and make sure I put them all together on the top shelf, so I can easily browse through the not-read pile

I'm going to finish that fucking Paul Morley book tonight if it kills me. I only had 30 pages left last night but I just couldn't keep me eyes open. I've got a cracking Margaret Attwood I want to start!
 
Roadkill said:
I'm on a self-imposed ban this month. I totted up roughly how much I've spent on books in the last couple of months and it was a bit :eek:

I've done fairly well so far - only, er ... five. :oops:
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Im in recovery. I did manage to walk into Waterstones the other week and come out without a single book!

It was a sad day. :(
 
Finished the Kelly Gang - excellent book.

Now reading another TC Boyle book - The Tortilla Curtain - which is about Mexican illegal immigrants in LA running up against white liberal values. Pretty good so far.

I think I'm close to reading more books by Boyle than anyone I can think of.
 
Just finished Darkfever by Karen Marie Moning, the first book in a series of 5. A fantasy fae fiction. Loving it. Just ordered book 2 Bloodfever.
 
Fez909 said:
Started Fury by Rushdie. I did a search to see what else has been said about it, and this post from way back in 2003 summed it up perfectly for me:
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I spoke recently with a work colleague who was describing his experience of reading Rushdie, and he summed it up by stating that there was great narrative storyteller waiting to get out, if only he could drop the baggage. Strangely enough, he had read all the Rushdie that I had ignored (and vice versa) - but his comment did register with me.
 
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