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s-bunny said:
I'm reading the 19th century 'Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds' by Charles Mackay. It's funny how society repeats the same mistakes over and over.

We're DOOMED!
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...hey,i just read that! ..interesting book! :D

..currently switching between lots of books,heavily on the "philosophy/history" side of things:
* "Eichmann in Jerusalem" by Hannah Arendt,(about one of the men responsible for the Third Reich's "final solution"and the trial against him,about the paradox and perceptions of guilt)
*"Fatherland" by Robert Harris (crime story set in the parallel future where Hitler won the war),
*"Europe,a History" by Norman Davies
*"The Surgeon Of Crawthorne:A Tale of Murder,Madness and the Oxford's English Dictionary" by Simon Winchester
*"In Defence Of Witches:a historical reportage" by Jan Guillou

...and of course the loo library with shelf stocked full of old magazines,comics and paraphernalia...hours of entertainment! :D
 
Hey Nostradamus! by that man Douglas Coupland, finally. Only read the first few pages so far, it keeps reminding me of the film Elephant by Gus Van Sant, probably because they both feature a shooting .... :rolleyes:
 
STFC Loyal said:
Down and Out in Paris and London.

Having recently read both 1984 and Animal Farm I am on a bit of an Orwell-fest at the moment.
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Don't miss out on Homage to Catalonia, then. :)

I've just started reading To Kill a Mockingbird; a colleague whose opinion I value very much recommended it warmly to me today.
 
Zora, you'll love it.

TKAM is the first book that comes to mind when I think of 'Books with good endings'. They're aren't many.


I'm still halfway through Henry Miller.....Tropic of Cancer.
 
The Bang Bang Club - Greg Marinovich & Juan Silva

A story about photojournalists in apartheid South Africa - getting killed in some cases.
 
zora said:
I've just started reading To Kill a Mockingbird; a colleague whose opinion I value very much recommended it warmly to me today.
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..yes! ..that's definately an excellent book, remember it made a big impression at the time i read it -over 10 years ago! :)

..and it must've been where the Boo Radleys got their name from! :D
 
juts finished Philip K Dick's "Do androids dream of electric sheep?". Not bad actually. Quite liked the thought of ppl missing real animals after "WWT".

Question is - this MERCER bloke? Was he really and android? And what as with all of this stone throwing during the empathy process?
 
Sorting out billy - jo brand. Pretty good so far, some great characters and only one of them is a struggling female stand up comedian !!
 
Based on advice here I started Clockwork Orange . Difficult book to read at first. You need to get in on the dialect he uses, and it is pretty graphic, so iif you have an active imagination you will be repulsed by the images your mind comes up with (or at least you should be repulsed), but it is an excellent book once you get into it.
 
I'm reading Nymphomation by Jeff Noon. I bought it from Bookmongers in Coldharbour Lane at a very reasonable price :)
I've just finished Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. After reading the more emotional/relationship based The Robber Bride it was a welcome return to the political/dystopian style of The Handmaid's Tale.
 
"Not On The Label" by Felicity Lawrence.

It's all very Guardian (she's a journo for the paper), but full of good stuff on the way food is produced and sold in this country and Europe. Will possibly make you feel guilty every time you pop into the supermarket for a bit of cheap chicken or a loaf of 20p bread.
I liked it, and it made me fucking angry. A "Fast Food Nation" for Brits.
 
Just finished:
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
How Mumbo Jumbo Conquered The World by Francis Wheen
How To Be Alone by Jonathan Franzen
Dude, Where's My Country by Michael Moore
and have just started Reefer Madness by Eric Schlosser
Think the next one is going to be Oryx & Crake by Margaret Atwood, but looking for suggestions for good meaty reads
 
Just finished the third book of the Earthsea Quartet:

Farthest Shore,

am now on the last book Tahuna.

Once more, a highly recommended read :)
 
read Magnus Mills' The Scheme For Full Employment in one 3 hour coach journey to Bournemouth.

afraid it bored me rigid - i only finished it because my other book (Jim Crace's Six, which i've started and which seems pretty good) was in the luggage hold.
 
Dubversion said:
read Magnus Mills' The Scheme For Full Employment in one 3 hour coach journey to Bournemouth.

afraid it bored me rigid - i only finished it because my other book (Jim Crace's Six, which i've started and which seems pretty good) was in the luggage hold.
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aww that's a shame. i've not read it yet, am a great fan of his other stuff though. you're the second person i've heard say that it's not up to much.
 
milesy said:
aww that's a shame. i've not read it yet, am a great fan of his other stuff though. you're the second person i've heard say that it's not up to much.
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my mate said the same - he LOVED three to see the king. also, there's not actually much of a book - they're obviously trying to keep each title a uniform size, so there's actually only half a page of large text on each page :(
 
Didn't think much of Mills' latest offering either - it seems Mills has taken his obsession with work too far.
 
so nobody likes magnus mills' new book. and to top it all i saw one of my neighbours reading it. and she smells of wee and throws her fag butts into the communal garden and doesn't smile or say hello. i don't like her much. maybe i won't bother with the book then.
 
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by Arthur V. Evans and Charles L. Bellamy
 
The Story of O
by Pauline Réage

as light relief when I get to bogged down in
"An HR Guide to Workplace Fraud and Criminal Behaviour"
by M.J. Comer & T.E. Stephens
 
Just started State & Revolustion & am going to be looking for 1848 by John Saville (sp) (when I get paid) recommended by Paul Foot at a meeting about the Chartist movement at this year's Marxism, this being one of my historical interests next to the english civil war

KeeperofDragons
 
i've just started Jonathan Neale's 'Whats wrong with America? How the rich and powerful have changed America and now want to change the world' its very very good. starts with the fact that the rate of profit has fallen over the last 30 years and how the anti wat movements and women, gay and black liberation movements scared the shit out of the establishment. The chapter on the war on drugs is an eye opener. he states that prison rate is a form of social control. well worth the read.

The other book i'm reading at the moment is 'The Dante Club' by matthew pearl. For a historical crime novel with a literary bent its very good.
 
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