*What book are you reading ?
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Sputnik Sweetheart by someone who's name i can't remember....
Its quite good
Its quite good
Im reading mccartheys bar which is funny as and have just fineshed sandra gregorys - forget u had a daughter which i highley recomend, proper shocking tale of girl who trys smuggling from thailand , gets caught and tells u all about the conditions of thai jails and then hollaway and other british jails.
Its well
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First time ive been on this thread and just noticed how many pages there are, mental.
Its well
and First time ive been on this thread and just noticed how many pages there are, mental.
Beyond Good and Evil.
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a decent read! have you tried that 'the antichrist'?IntoStella said:
A good choice for my 11th book.Pickman's model said:
Dr. Christmas
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A couple of new books on the go this week:
1. Independent People by Haldor Laxness, an Icelandic novel about battle between material and spiritual free will;
2. Cubism&Culture by Mark Antliff and Patricia Leighten, about the socio=-political context of Cubism in Paris before/after WW1;
3. El Greco, the catalogue to the amazing current exhibition at the NG.
This always happens to me. i come up to London and spend vasts sums of money on books.
1. Independent People by Haldor Laxness, an Icelandic novel about battle between material and spiritual free will;
2. Cubism&Culture by Mark Antliff and Patricia Leighten, about the socio=-political context of Cubism in Paris before/after WW1;
3. El Greco, the catalogue to the amazing current exhibition at the NG.
This always happens to me. i come up to London and spend vasts sums of money on books.
i just couldn't be arsed with The Plague i'm afraid. i read the first 30 pages about 4 times then just put it back on the pile...
and picked up Eccentric London by Benedict something, which is a curate's egg of a book. His humour and excitement is quite infectious, but often at the expense of knowing quite what the real story is...
and just borrowed How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered The World by Francis Wheen, which i'm looking forward to a lot..
and picked up Eccentric London by Benedict something, which is a curate's egg of a book. His humour and excitement is quite infectious, but often at the expense of knowing quite what the real story is...
and just borrowed How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered The World by Francis Wheen, which i'm looking forward to a lot..
Just finished Will Self's Dr Mukti. Oh dear. I doubt he's lost it entirely 3/10.
Started White Mughals, by William Dalrymple. Scholarly piece of Raj history. Covering a small cosmopolitan social set in Hydrebad C. 1795.
East India Company men taking up Islam. Indians smoothly moving in British society. And this is were the Duke of Wellington cut his teeth! Very far from the racist imperialism of the Victorians. Stylishly written and constantly suprising.
Started White Mughals, by William Dalrymple. Scholarly piece of Raj history. Covering a small cosmopolitan social set in Hydrebad C. 1795.
East India Company men taking up Islam. Indians smoothly moving in British society. And this is were the Duke of Wellington cut his teeth! Very far from the racist imperialism of the Victorians. Stylishly written and constantly suprising.
Currently having a bit of a reading binge. "The Naked and The Dead" by Norman Mailer (which I like one day, hate the next) as well as a Paul Theroux travel book where he´s in China (been there quite recently, but everything I read about it is just wrong, this is OK though), and les Elements Particulaires by Houellebeq. I think he needs to get out a bit more.
Dirty Martini
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Is that also called Atomised? I hated that book. Get out a bit more is not wrong -- I don't think I've read a more self-obsessed novel in years.
Orang Utan
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The Crimson Petal & The White - Michel Faber - fucking hell, this is good
Orang Utan
They cannot crucify you if your hand is in a fist
I would guess the Theroux book is called something like Riding The Iron Rooster - I read it years ago and it's one of his best.
Yep, the Paul Theroux book is "Riding The Iron Rooster". It is one of his best, though "The Happy Isles of Oceana" is still my favourite. Still haven´t got round to going there! And yes, Les Element Particulaires is Atomised. They also translated the equally self obsessed "Extension de la Domaine de la Lutte" as "Whatever". Maybe they couldn´t be arsed.
Dr. Christmas
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Orang Utan said:
That was one of my books of 2002. An amazingly panoramic historial reconstruction of victorian London. Took him the best part of 20 years to write, too...
Charlie Drake
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I'm not normally one for fiction but I've just finished reading the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman. Highly recommended if you're a fantasy geek You can stick yer Terry Pratchett's up yer arse - this is very good storytelling.
I'm going to read Dark Operations a book about the Real IRA when it comes out in paperback
You can stick yer Terry Pratchett's up yer arse - this is very good storytelling. I'm going to read Dark Operations a book about the Real IRA when it comes out in paperback
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Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
second time of reading it but that was about a year ago so looking forward to reading it again
second time of reading it but that was about a year ago so looking forward to reading it again
smile injection
wobbly but content
I know I was convinced it was true...then I read the back...
I was convinced it was true...then I read the back...DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Our Story by Reg and Ron Kray
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i wouldn't bother, if i were you. i got it a month or two back, and soon realised i'd picked up a pile of pony. there is a good book to be written about rira: this, though, isn't it.Charlie Drake said:
next time you see a copy have a good look at it. the people who've written it don't seem too keen on notes or bibliographies and when i've seen the book discussed on other boards the general view has been that yr money is best saved for something better.
if yr after reading it, i'd suggest "organising" it - or read it in the bookshop. absolutely no point parting with money for it.
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