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[billythekid]

I just finished(about 4 months ago) Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued about by Mil Millington. He got the book deal after the website of the same name... TMGAIHAA

I'm about to (re-)start with Christopher Brookmyre's Not the End of The World which I am assured is a good read.

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[SteveCrisis]

Originally Posted by billythekid

I'm about to (re-)start with Christopher Brookmyre's Not the End of The World which I am assured is a good read.

You have been assured correctly.

Two and a bit months to go and it's the publication of Brookie's latest 'Attack Of The Unsinkable Rubber Duck.'

Parlabane's back, but he's deid.

[PalmerEldritch]

Just finished The Doors of Perception/Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley.

Intend to re-read my three volumes of Phillip K. Dick short stories - highly recommended reading.

[pete_inthehills]

I've just finished Already Dead by Charlie Huston. Its actually a good vampire book. Not as pretencious as Anne Rice but much much better than that Poppy Z Brite shite.


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inthehills

[KimyReizeger]

Just finished Success by Martin Amis. I tried Times Arrow and Money initially but gave up on both for different reasons. Success is a fantastic read about a trio of young people driven to madness and vice by society..and incest. It captures very well the loneliness of city life, the physical and mental degeneration of working shitty jobs, abhorrence of a fashion / commerce driven society. Lucky Jim by his Dad, Kingsley, is also cracking; it's what inspired me to persist with Martin.

About to start a Will Self number I bought today (for a pretty horrible nine quid..)

[scottyboy]

Originally Posted by Addi

I finished the book about The Fall and also Moby Dick.

Moby Dick was awesome. Ahab = legendo!
There was a while there when I thought it was going to suck, but no.

Currently reading some pop-math stuff.

ahab is indeed a crazy guy. to be honest i skipped a lot of the parts where hes going off on a tangent about whales, as it bored the shit out of me. i prefer the parts where ahab is stalking the deck, waving burning harpoons around and generally scaring his own crew...

im reading whisky galore by compton mackenzie, the scramble for africa by thomas pakenham and slowly plodding through war and peace

[Fast Caz]

Just started reading The Epitome Of Evil : A Documentation regarding the most evil and vile people to have graced mankind.

Wow King Herod was a total dick haha

[Addi]

Finished both the pop-math books (although one was more computer-historyish).
Then read 'A Study In Scarlet' by Arthur Conan Doyle (it's the first sherlock holmes novel). I bought 6 shelock holmes books when I was in Blackwell's because there was a deal on. [3 for 2, £4.99 each] Awesome.
An I'm about 50 pages from the end of the penguin classics compilation of H.P. Lovecraft stuff called 'Call of Cthulhu and other wierd tales' which kicks ass, as expected.
Yaaaay, books. Exams are getting in the way, last one on friday though

[Bodast]

Escape from Alcatraz by J. Campbell Bruce. I'm reading it for facts, which it has, but I dislike the way it's written, which is something like a crappy novel crossed with amateur journalism.

"Their tommyguns beat a rat-tat-tat of slaughter that echoed in big black type, and their outsized egos gorged on the scare of banner lines." Huh??

[Dayeth]

Now I have the time of day to read, I've just finished "The First Casualty" by Ben Elton. Highly enjoyable.