Rachie Posted March 31, 2006 Report Share Posted March 31, 2006 I just finished Jarhead (highly recommend it - very good read, just as good as the film, even better in fact.) and I'm back reading Pride & Prejudice 'cause it's one of my favourite books in the world Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
french_disko Posted March 31, 2006 Report Share Posted March 31, 2006 "Rip It Up & Start Again - Post Punk 1978-84" By Simon Reynolds. http://www.simonreynolds.net/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doom donkey Posted March 31, 2006 Report Share Posted March 31, 2006 You should all read "Under the Frog" by Tibor Fischer or seeing as this is a music site "Wonderland Avenue" by Danny Sugarman. Both are great.... well i liked them anyway 8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SevenOaths Posted March 31, 2006 Report Share Posted March 31, 2006 readingAt the moment I'm reading "The Path of Daggers" which is by Robert Jordan. It's book eight of the The Wheel of Time series and I have book nine ready and waiting. There really good books, a lot like Lord of the Rings but I far less easier read! S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest b-bert Posted March 31, 2006 Report Share Posted March 31, 2006 i am reading the same robert jordan series but i am only on book 4 "the shadow rising". it is very good though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen B Posted March 31, 2006 Report Share Posted March 31, 2006 I just finished reading The Drowned World by JG Ballard, which I reckon would make a great intelligent sci-fi film. Now I'm reading The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek, which is a very funny and entertaining read so far, and also has some brilliant accompanying illustrations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jake Wifebeater Posted March 31, 2006 Report Share Posted March 31, 2006 Just started "Stalin" by Isaac Deutscher. This is the 4th biography of Stalin I have, this is reckoned to be the most authentic one. Then it's Volumes 2, 4, 5 and 6 of Lenin's "Selected Works". Red or dead, comrade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hog Posted March 31, 2006 Report Share Posted March 31, 2006 I got half way through a book which was runner up in the booker prize but I think I have lost it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.Pel Posted March 31, 2006 Report Share Posted March 31, 2006 I'm reading Christopher Brookmyre's ''Boiling a Frog'' at the moment, fuck knows why.Give me Irvine Welsh anyday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trippinoneastereggs Posted March 31, 2006 Report Share Posted March 31, 2006 Working my way through rebus in no particular order.Currently on A Question of Blood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepeep Posted March 31, 2006 Report Share Posted March 31, 2006 I just finished reading The Drowned World by JG Ballard' date=' which I reckon would make a great intelligent sci-fi film. Now I'm reading The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek, which is a very funny and entertaining read so far, and also has some brilliant accompanying illustrations.[/quote']you should read the RAMA series, by Arthur C clarke, and Gentry Lee, these are fantastic books... a giant cylindical object appears in our solar system, 18Km in diameter and 80Km in length, a crew of astronauts are sent up to check it out, the description of the inside is amazing, it's a giant world, with a "cylindrical sea" running all the way around the inside of the ship, so if yuou look up, you see the opposite "wall" filled with trees and bushes, with the sea above your head...like I say, read the book, I can't do it justice here...morgan freeman has the rights to make the film of it, and I think he'll do it justice, when they get round to making it.http://www.rendezvouswithrama.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachie Posted March 31, 2006 Report Share Posted March 31, 2006 Can someone recommend the best Christopher Brookmyre book to start with to someone who has yet to read any of his books? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salsadecacahuete Posted March 31, 2006 Report Share Posted March 31, 2006 Can someone recommend the best Christopher Brookmyre book to start with to someone who has yet to read any of his books?no. but i CAN recommend 'The Stinkey Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales' by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen B Posted March 31, 2006 Report Share Posted March 31, 2006 no. but i CAN recommend 'The Stinkey Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales' by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith.I remember they had that at my primary school library. It was hilarious. I seem to remember there was ranting chicken on the back cover. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trippinoneastereggs Posted March 31, 2006 Report Share Posted March 31, 2006 Can someone recommend the best Christopher Brookmyre book to start with to someone who has yet to read any of his books?I personally read "Quite Ugly One Morning" First, but my favourite is "A Big Boy Did it and Ran Away"There's quite a few of them featuring Jack Parlebane, Quite Ugly One Morning is the first one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachie Posted April 1, 2006 Report Share Posted April 1, 2006 Thanks I've been meaning to read them for a while but never got round to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarmaTsunami Posted April 1, 2006 Report Share Posted April 1, 2006 Currently reading 'Easy Riders, Raging Bulls' by Peter Biskind, but I haven't picked it up in a week or so. I plan to sit down and properly read this Summer...my reading goes all over the shop during uni. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brymon Posted April 1, 2006 Report Share Posted April 1, 2006 The book i just finished was Congratulations youve just met the casuals! Im now reading the lost secrets of the Ark of the Covanant. (My head hurts)Itll take a couple of years to get through as it is so fuckin big and the text is so fuckin small!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bluesxman Posted April 1, 2006 Report Share Posted April 1, 2006 V For Vendetta. Bought it ages ago and forgot all about it. The film being released reminded me of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Frieda Posted April 2, 2006 Report Share Posted April 2, 2006 Im reading Muriel Spark for my uni course. Its pretty rubbish - Aiding and Abetting.Oh my goodness, salsadecacahuete!!! I read The Stinky Cheese Man when I was little too!! That was amazing!! I remember one page being upsidesdown, chicken licken (or something with a hen, henny penny? who knows....) and in the princess and the pea story, the prince put a massive bowlign ball or something under her matresses... amazing....Im going to look for it on Amazon right now, along with 'The Little Red Bus and other stories'. Good stuff! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scorge Posted April 2, 2006 Report Share Posted April 2, 2006 Rik Mayall's autobiography, it's an entertaining read....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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