TR!ΔNGL€ T€€TH Posted June 20, 2009 Report Share Posted June 20, 2009 I've bought myself a copy of The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighbourhood by David Simon and Ed Burns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete_inthehills Posted June 20, 2009 Report Share Posted June 20, 2009 Damned straight. I've read all the Hrabal that's available except Letters to Dubenka. You read anything else by him or seen either of the film adaptations by Jiri Menzel?that was the first book of his I'd read, so I went out and got a couple of others. I'm now reading "...served the king of England" and I've got Total fears sitting on my book case too.What are the films called?peteinthehills Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen B Posted June 21, 2009 Report Share Posted June 21, 2009 There's an adaptation of Closely Observed Trains from 1966, won best foreign film at the oscars and there's an adaptation of I Served the King of England from a couple of years ago. Both pretty good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirsten Posted June 28, 2009 Report Share Posted June 28, 2009 I've been reading "Meetings with Morrissey" by Len Brown extremely intermittently since Christmas. Bizarrely I can't seem to make myself sit down and keep reading it, even though when I do, I enjoy it.I keep meaning to get this and also Morrissey In Conversation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hobo Posted June 29, 2009 Report Share Posted June 29, 2009 Has anyone else had the thought that they'd rather buy a book for hours/days of pleasure rather than spend the same amount or more on a film which only lasts about 3 hours?Reading 'Down and out in Paris and London' by George Orwell, good book Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen B Posted June 29, 2009 Report Share Posted June 29, 2009 Reading and immensely enjoying Wonderboys by Michael Chabon."Not only would I never want to belong to a club that would have me for a member - if elected I would wear street shoes on the squash court and set fire to the ballroom curtains" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted June 30, 2009 Report Share Posted June 30, 2009 Currently reading quite a bit by William McIlvanney and loving it. Started with the Laidlaw stuff, then went through The Big Man and today I finished Docherty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaki Posted June 30, 2009 Report Share Posted June 30, 2009 I finished a book and then started a new pro evolution soccer master league on the PS2 last night. This will be my last post here for some time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted July 9, 2009 Report Share Posted July 9, 2009 I'm reading "Bag Of Bones" by Stephen King. I know it's fashionable in literary circles to slag off the Kingmeister's writing abilities, but I love reading his books, he's a great storyterller and the books are really accessible and easy to get absorbed into. Real page turners, every one. He is about the only author who's books I read again and again and again. I started reading him when I was 14, and I spent that year just alternately reading "Christine" and "Pet Semetary" over and over again. I sort of rediscovered him last year after many years away and it's rekindled my love of reading.Though yeah, he does descend into corniness a little too often, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted July 10, 2009 Report Share Posted July 10, 2009 Christine is mint. I even like the film too, even though it hasn't aged well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted July 10, 2009 Report Share Posted July 10, 2009 Christine is mint. I even like the film too, even though it hasn't aged well.It really hasn't, that one could do with a remake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirsten Posted July 10, 2009 Report Share Posted July 10, 2009 Bought John Ajvide Lindqvist's 'Let The Right One In'. Really wanted to see the film but missed it in the cinema so while I wait for it to come out on dvd, thought I'd read the book. I'm enjoying it a lot, but have been told that "the film is like Freaky Friday after reading the book". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TR!ΔNGL€ T€€TH Posted July 11, 2009 Report Share Posted July 11, 2009 I've bought myself a copy of The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighbourhood by David Simon and Ed Burns.This book is brilliant, a must for any fan of The Wire. I would say that it is one of the bleakest books that I have ever read though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFM Posted July 11, 2009 Report Share Posted July 11, 2009 Currently reading Brian Lumley-Necroscope 2,really good so far Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
palmer_eldritch Posted July 12, 2009 Report Share Posted July 12, 2009 Philip K. Dick's "Ubik". Huge fan of his work, and so far this one hasn't let me down. It can be a head fuck at times though o_O Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen B Posted July 12, 2009 Report Share Posted July 12, 2009 Christine is mint. I even like the film too, even though it hasn't aged well.A case of so bad it's good as regards the film. Especially the fight scene in the garage. Some great dialogue too "Get your mits of me motherfucker!!" Really? Mits and motherfucker in the same sentence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarmaTsunami Posted July 13, 2009 Report Share Posted July 13, 2009 Currently unexpectedly enjoying Nick Cave's 'The Death of Bunny Munro'. A few chapters in and after not thinking I would enjoy it all that much, I've warmed to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murrr Posted July 13, 2009 Report Share Posted July 13, 2009 At moment I'm reading Dean Koontz's "Frankenstein, Book 1: Prodigal Son" because I wanted a popcorn book after reading more Dostoyevsky than my brain could handle. It's hardly a masterpiece but it's a fun story and I'm absolutely flying through it. Thinking about a bit of Kerouac when I'm finished.I'm also reading The Count of Monte Cristo in the background at work, using this wonderful site: Main Page - Gutenberg. I really like it so far, but I suspect it'll be a long time before I finish it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monster Zero Posted July 14, 2009 Report Share Posted July 14, 2009 Currently unexpectedly enjoying Nick Cave's 'The Death of Bunny Munro'. A few chapters in and after not thinking I would enjoy it all that much, I've warmed to it.wtf? Why didn't I know this was out? Visit to Waterstones at lunchtime methinks....I am currently reading 'The Late Hector Kipling' by David Thewlis. Only a few pages in, but I suspect I am going to enjoy it...favourite quote so far - "...to say that he's getting on my nerves doesn't do it justice; he's finding footholds on every f**king synapse". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarmaTsunami Posted July 14, 2009 Report Share Posted July 14, 2009 Oh, it's not til September, I'm reading an advance copy. Advantages of working in a bookshop Apologies! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monster Zero Posted July 14, 2009 Report Share Posted July 14, 2009 Ahhhh. Little miss fancypants. Ah well, means I can work on my backlog of reading before that arrives.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Amy* Posted July 15, 2009 Report Share Posted July 15, 2009 I've just finished a wee gem of a book about John McEnroe called..... 'On Being John McEnroe' by Tim Adams and thoroughly enjoyed it! Adams was almost obsessed with McEnroe during his time on the tour (and beyond but it's focussed on the '70s and '80s). The research he did ranging from sponsorship to partners was brilliant and the psychological side of the game is covered, which is clearly handy when you're speaking about a guy like McEnroe. The changes within the game and society (mainly British as the focus is on Wimbledon) over the years are wonderfully linked with the game and players at the time. Would definitely recommend this for a fan of the man and game or any sports fan really! I've also almost finished 'White Teeth' by Zadie Smith which I'm not entirely sure that I'll actually bother finishing. I expected to really like this but to be honest I've found it pretty boring and try-hard. If it didn't cover race, religion, gender etc in the way it did it would be dire. The time scale it's written in is pretty impressive in that you don't feel like you've missed out on chunks of any of their lives but I've never really warmed to any of the characters except Irie. Hmmmm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WoodyRATM Posted July 15, 2009 Report Share Posted July 15, 2009 I've just finished reading Angels and Demons. Alot better than i thought. Got the new trudi canavan book at home but thats to wait till holiday... so i might read 1984 or wasp factory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre Von Mondragon Posted July 15, 2009 Report Share Posted July 15, 2009 the current batch is;John Brunner-The Sheep Look Up. Another ace dystopia from the master, this one from 1972. After classics on race/genetic engineering and overpopulation, this one is about pollution, and so up to the fucking minute that it practically bleeds. I'm just about 100 pages in, so can't fully judge it yet, but the advertorial asides and expository clips allow the creation of a more convincing dystopia than most, ace.William Burroughs-Junkie. Consists of actual paragraphs and that. Really good, as I can imagine him speaking it in his drawl, and not so heavy on the sodomistic hanging, which kind of put me off of Naked Lunch.Got some Norman Spinrad to read soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Jo-D Posted July 16, 2009 Report Share Posted July 16, 2009 Stuart McBrides first one Cold Granite - weird knowing the places he describes in the book! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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