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[stuartmaxwell]

john le carre - tinker tailor soldier spy

[KimyReizeger]

Junky, by William S. Burroughs

[KarmaTsunami]

Re-read 'A Room of One's Own' by Woolf, plus a bucketload of literary criticism on it, and 'Mrs Dalloway'. Essay time. Blows. Balls.

Currently working my way through 'Night Geometry', a collection of short stories by A.L. Kennedy.

[daveofficer]

currently re-reading 101 reykjavik by Hallgrímur Helgason which is about a slacker living in reykjavik. quite funny.

also working my way through adobe photoshop cs3 for photographers which isn't as funny.

[Addi]

I havent posted in this thread in far too long

So far this term I have read 'Common Sense' by Thomas Paine and am just over half way through the autobiography of Malcolm X and it is looking like its heading to be in my top 3 books.

Last term I read: 3 Sherlock Holmes books (finished them all now!), 'The End of the World Blues' by jon courtenay grimwood, 'Anna Karenina' by Tolstoy which was awesome, '1984' by Orwell, 'The War of the Flea' by Robert Taber which was a very good exploration of how/why guerilla wars begin/are fought, 'Conversations with Durito' by Subcommandante Marcos which is a collection of communiqués by the EZLN about an anti-neoliberalist beetle's experiences in the fight for indigenous rights in Mexico, 'Rights of Man' by Thomas Paine, and finally 'Crime and Punishment' by Dostoevsky which was also excellent.

I had very good luck with book choices last term, they were all great. Let's hope the same happens again this term!

[Lester Burnham]

I feel like I'm ruining the thread when I say this but...

I know you got soul - Jeremy Clarkson

‘If You Liked School You’ll Love Work’ by Irvine Welsh.

Pretty unimpressed so far, 3 stories in and not one seemed to have any point to it. It’s almost as if he wrote 3 stories that seemed to be heading in a predictable direction so he decided to confound expectation by just ending them with no real point to the story resulting.

Originally Posted by bluesxman

‘If You Liked School You’ll Love Work’ by Irvine Welsh.

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I didn't know you could read, martin!

Only kidding.

I'm reading "The Stand" by Stephen King, cos I'm skint and it was only £3 in the Oxfam Shop in Belfast.
Good times.

[Kan' Sharuminar]

Originally Posted by Pierre Von Mondragon

'Guns, Germs and Steel' by Jared Diamond, aka why Eurasians got all the stuff at the expense of everyone else, turns out, its geography.

Just got that today, looking forward to it.

Just finishing Stephen Ambrose' D-Day, which is far too focused on the American landings. He's still very complimentary to the Brits, but not enough to consider this as a good book for an overall view of the landings, and I think just one chapter is devoted to the Canadian beach!

Currently reading Max Brooks The Zombie Survival Guide. Using it as reference material, and it turns out it's a fantastic read

Originally Posted by Kan' Sharuminar

Currently reading Max Brooks The Zombie Survival Guide. Using it as reference material, and it turns out it's a fantastic read

Then you have to read "World War Z" which is the follow up.

It's brilliant.