*What book are you reading ?
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Oooh I want to read that book!
I bought it for my (now ex) boyf last year but he never read it (stupid, ungrateful, almost-illiterate bastard)
Shouldve kept it for myself
I bought it for my (now ex) boyf last year but he never read it (stupid, ungrateful, almost-illiterate bastard)
Shouldve kept it for myself
I am getting towards the end of
The wind up bird chronicle by Haruki Murakami
and it has been a fantastic read. Brilliantly translated by Jay Rubin,
I don't know how true it is to the original Japanese,
but the writing is stunning throughout.
I will continue to iritate my friends and anyone I get chatting to
by raving on about this book. I love it.
The wind up bird chronicle by Haruki Murakami
and it has been a fantastic read. Brilliantly translated by Jay Rubin,
I don't know how true it is to the original Japanese,
but the writing is stunning throughout.
I will continue to iritate my friends and anyone I get chatting to
by raving on about this book. I love it.
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
I read that a few months ago. It was surprisngly funny. I've just finished Things Snowball by Rich Hall, which was also surprisingly funny.red rose said:
I don't know why i'm always surprised that books by comedians are funny
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
captainmission said:
Is that in the same series as The Weirdstone Of Brisingamen. I remember those from from when I was a kiddie. Good books
red rose
Fee-Ai-Esh-See-Oh
SubZeroCat said:Oooh I want to read that book!
I bought it for my (now ex) boyf last year but he never read it (stupid, ungrateful, almost-illiterate bastard)
Shouldve kept it for myself
Well gergl wants to borrow it next but you're welcome to it after that.
You gotta be careful with it though cos its autographed
stereotypical
hospitality king
Dead Famous by Ben Elton, quite good like
dweller said:
Yes - a great book that. I read it last year and thought it was ace.
I love all the stuff about being stuck down wells...
Agreed about the translation too, sometimes I find translated works a bit 'stiff', but that one was very well done. Apparently the author worked directly with the translator.
now my exams are over i can read fiction again 
so after going to local library yesterday, currently reading "The Disposessed" by Ursula K Le Guin, cued up to be followed by "Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys and "the Man In The High Castle" by Philip K Dick... then i might start re-reading one of my old favourites like maybe "Meridian" or "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest"...
so after going to local library yesterday, currently reading "The Disposessed" by Ursula K Le Guin, cued up to be followed by "Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys and "the Man In The High Castle" by Philip K Dick... then i might start re-reading one of my old favourites like maybe "Meridian" or "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest"...
bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
i'm currently reading angela carter's the infernal desire machines of dr hoffham. it's very good indeed. real sinister fairy tale stuff. highly symbolic. of course, i'm 100% convinced i know what it's symbolic of, but...
Just reading Revolution and Counter-revolution in England, Ireland and Scotland 1685-60 by Brian Manning who died earlier this year - he will be missed - he made that period of history a damn sight more exciting than when I 'learned' about it at school. Currently have a anthology of short stories in the bathroom - "Welcome to Camelot" and one of the Tony Benn diaries in the sitting room and TV Nation by Michael Moore in the bedroom.
Drives Hocus Eye nuts as he keeps falling over them.
1984 next on list as just spotted it again
Mrs Hocus Eye
Drives Hocus Eye nuts as he keeps falling over them.
1984 next on list as just spotted it again
Mrs Hocus Eye
G. Fieendish
Snark Hunter
Currently Reading -
John Brunner's "The Sheep Look Up"
Or how The U.S.A collapses within the space of a year, due to ecological/ pollution related consequences....
Personally, on rereading this, I'm amazed that no one's bought the film rights for this....
But then again....
Yours,Grimley
John Brunner's "The Sheep Look Up"
Or how The U.S.A collapses within the space of a year, due to ecological/ pollution related consequences....
Personally, on rereading this, I'm amazed that no one's bought the film rights for this....
But then again....
Yours,Grimley
MysteryGuest
beyond boring and interesting
I am reading 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C Clarke
Or rather I should be coz this is the 2001st reply to this thread.
But I'm not.
Sorry.
edited to add note to self:
Should've waited two more posts before doing this, then it would've been your 2001st post. Ho hum.
Or rather I should be coz this is the 2001st reply to this thread.
But I'm not.
Sorry.
edited to add note to self:
Should've waited two more posts before doing this, then it would've been your 2001st post. Ho hum.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
nearly finished storm of steel, ernst junger's classic autobiographical account of the first world war.
Currently reading 1984 and thoroughly enjoying it. Always thought it might be a bit heavy going, but I have found the narrative surprisingly easy to read (although the extracts from the book slow it down a bit). Orwell is a master at drawing the reader in, raising your hopes that Winston will beat the system while knowing all the time that the system will eventually crush him. I am definitely going to read some more Orwell once I've finished 1984.
onemonkey
winmonkey
My May reading list
A lot less than normal this month & late to boot due to my preoccupation with cramming for my exams.
Psychopathology - John Stirling & Jonathan Hellewell
A Scottish Higher level textbook giving a whistlestop tour of some psychological disorders; schiz, depression, eating disorders, etc. Necessarily brief but the final chapter giving examples of poor exam answers and how they might be improved gave me a scare since one of the C-grade Higher essays was better than some of more panicked my degree essays!
The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Schizophrenia - Chris Frith
More a monograph than a book. Uta Frith's husband lays out his theory that schizophrenia is consequence of faulty monitoring. The voices in your head appear not to originate there, attention and thought are confused. AN interesting theory that has entirely been corroborated in the 10-15 years it's been around, but which extending the pioneering approach of Tim Crow has focused attention on the cognitive components of schizophrenia.. regaining ground from the medical obsession with disease and cure.
I'm not scared - Niccolo Ammaniti
One hot summer in rural southern Italy a little boy discovers something so scary it doesn't seem real. And then the weather gets hotter and things get worse..
Flour Babies - Anne Fine
Aww, not Flour Babies, SIr! That has to be the worst science project ever! (Especially for a 'problem' class of 11 year old boys.) And yet it does something funny to the most problematic of them all, Simon Martin, whose father walked out when he was six weeks old. He will look after his 6 pound flour baby for the whole fortnight - well, he'll try!
A worthy winner of the Smarties prize that i'd been meaning to read for years.
Autism (2nd Edition) - Uta Frith
A survey of the state of the art in autism research by Chris Frith's wife. Blunted by being dumbed down slightly for a general readership and padded out with slightly spurious historical anecdotes (I really don't think Kaspar Hauser was autistic.) Nonetheless, it covers well the three complementary cognitive theories of autism; weak central coherence (see the trees not the wood), executive dysfunction (poor planning of actions) & mind-blindness (the effortless ordinary mindreading we take for granted).
Between the two of them, the Friths show that there's still life in the theory that autism is a early onset equivalent of schizophrenia with attendant developmental consequences. (If you never learn what 'normal' is you never go mad.)
- if only they'd asked about it in the exams
A lot less than normal this month & late to boot due to my preoccupation with cramming for my exams.
Psychopathology - John Stirling & Jonathan Hellewell
A Scottish Higher level textbook giving a whistlestop tour of some psychological disorders; schiz, depression, eating disorders, etc. Necessarily brief but the final chapter giving examples of poor exam answers and how they might be improved gave me a scare since one of the C-grade Higher essays was better than some of more panicked my degree essays!
The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Schizophrenia - Chris Frith
More a monograph than a book. Uta Frith's husband lays out his theory that schizophrenia is consequence of faulty monitoring. The voices in your head appear not to originate there, attention and thought are confused. AN interesting theory that has entirely been corroborated in the 10-15 years it's been around, but which extending the pioneering approach of Tim Crow has focused attention on the cognitive components of schizophrenia.. regaining ground from the medical obsession with disease and cure.
I'm not scared - Niccolo Ammaniti
One hot summer in rural southern Italy a little boy discovers something so scary it doesn't seem real. And then the weather gets hotter and things get worse..
Flour Babies - Anne Fine
Aww, not Flour Babies, SIr! That has to be the worst science project ever! (Especially for a 'problem' class of 11 year old boys.) And yet it does something funny to the most problematic of them all, Simon Martin, whose father walked out when he was six weeks old. He will look after his 6 pound flour baby for the whole fortnight - well, he'll try!
A worthy winner of the Smarties prize that i'd been meaning to read for years.
Autism (2nd Edition) - Uta Frith
A survey of the state of the art in autism research by Chris Frith's wife. Blunted by being dumbed down slightly for a general readership and padded out with slightly spurious historical anecdotes (I really don't think Kaspar Hauser was autistic.) Nonetheless, it covers well the three complementary cognitive theories of autism; weak central coherence (see the trees not the wood), executive dysfunction (poor planning of actions) & mind-blindness (the effortless ordinary mindreading we take for granted).
Between the two of them, the Friths show that there's still life in the theory that autism is a early onset equivalent of schizophrenia with attendant developmental consequences. (If you never learn what 'normal' is you never go mad.)
- if only they'd asked about it in the exams
Lakina said:
I also loved that book and her second book, 'The little Friend' is really good too.
I'm reading Beautiful Shadow by Andrew Wilson. It's a biography of Patricia Highsmith. I have never really read a biography before because I've never fancied them but I want to know more about Highsmith.I buy every book of hers that I see and I've enjoyed them all, the way she makes you feel that Ripley is a good guy is amazing. Her other charactors too, she makes you really care about the ones that you shouldn't. I think if I'd met her I would have really liked her.
captainmission
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Defacement by Michael Taussig- Really bizzare collection of essays about subcomadate marcos, monarchists beheading a staue of the queen in austrailia, lying spanish anarchists, Santa and scheming women in terra del fuego. About ideology apparently. Really insightful and often quite funny and all.
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