Swingin' Ryan Posted July 5, 2007 Report Share Posted July 5, 2007 Currently reading England's Dreaming by Jon Savage.Totally fascinating history of the development of Punk, covering everything from the Sex Pistols and The New York Dolls to Situationism. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimyReizeger Posted July 6, 2007 Report Share Posted July 6, 2007 Shockingly enough, seeing as I'm now an english graduate, I'm only just reading Jane Erye for the first time. And I love it, which isn't a huge surprise really.It's not so bad. Much better than anything by that Austen bloke anyway.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveCrisis Posted July 6, 2007 Report Share Posted July 6, 2007 Currently reading Mr Timothy by Louis Bayard.A word for the wise - don't read The Court Of The Air by Stephen Hunt.It's crap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaseyBoi Posted July 7, 2007 Report Share Posted July 7, 2007 Currently reading Bible johns secret daughter...Ive only just started it but upto now iive found it facinating....DNA is a powerful thing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bodast Posted July 7, 2007 Report Share Posted July 7, 2007 It's not so bad. Much better than anything by that Austen bloke anyway..Omg - I only realised a couple of weeks ago that Waugh was a man and not a mid-19th century feminist. Groo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Addi Posted July 8, 2007 Report Share Posted July 8, 2007 I think we can all agree that Silas Marner was shit and someone needs to punch George Eliot in the face./ tangent! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimyReizeger Posted July 8, 2007 Report Share Posted July 8, 2007 I think Austen is particularly hard to read because excruciatingly small amounts of information are related in very dense passages. How can someone brought up in a Nintendo era seriously entertain the prospect of wading through six or seven pages devoted to Mr Whatever's handwriting and how it reminds one of his disposition and character etc etc...Fantastic detail Love - expertly scripted - but I could've rolled through three shark attacks, a bank robbery and an unwanted pregnancy by now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kan' Sharuminar Posted July 9, 2007 Report Share Posted July 9, 2007 Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan. It was recommended to me, and given the picture it was based on I thought it was going to be some philosophy book about mankinds place in the universe.Turned out it kinda was, but at the same time it's a pretty fascinating account of mankind's recent(ish) forays into space, focusing on the Voyager missions and what they uncovered about Saturn and the outer planets. Gave me a new interest in astronomy, particularly given that some of the projects he briefly mentions (while they're in their infancy) are now coming about and I'm happily keeping track of nowadays Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TR!ΔNGL€ T€€TH Posted July 9, 2007 Report Share Posted July 9, 2007 Currently reading "If you like School, You'll love Work" by Irvine Welsh. It's a collection of short stories, which I am halfway through. Quite entertaining, but a bit disturbing at the same time... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarmaTsunami Posted July 9, 2007 Report Share Posted July 9, 2007 I think we can all agree that Silas Marner was shit and someone needs to punch George Eliot in the face./ tangent!Agreed. But then, we both suffered through the same higher english class. You, me, and fadgin found a better use of our time organising mix tape swaps! Currently reading Alan Warner's new novel 'The Worms Can Carry Me to Heaven', which is fantastically written...very much a Warner novel whilst being miles apart from his previous works. I've got me a summer reading list with a few Austen novels on there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Denim.. Posted July 10, 2007 Report Share Posted July 10, 2007 Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan. It was recommended to me, and given the picture it was based on I thought it was going to be some philosophy book about mankinds place in the universe.I was in the Moorings bar once and got someone noticed my 'Hail Satan' tattoo and misread it thinking it said 'Hail Sagan' which prompted quite an good discussion about Carl Sagan and his work. Which in turn prompted me to read the above book also. Funny how things happen like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flash@TMB Posted July 11, 2007 Report Share Posted July 11, 2007 Just finished:Mobster (a biography of John Gotti)Five Families - a history of the New York MafiaDonnie Brasco*this was the tail end of a mafia phase*Tishomingo Blues - Elmore Leonard (this was a re-read but it's bloody good)Broken Skin - Stuart McBride... best line ever:"I don't like people smoking in my flat""Well I don't like people wanking off my constables at gunpoint"... or approx dialogue to that effect.Currently on:EVP and New Dimensions - Alexander MacRaeA History of American Muscle CarsRecently abandoned:The Goldilocks Principle (pile of shite)Mr Majestic (pish poor effort from Elmore Leonard)About to start:Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, MD: Volume 1Stick - Elmore Leonard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Addi Posted July 11, 2007 Report Share Posted July 11, 2007 Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, MD: Volume 1Milton H Erickson rocks like a box of socks./ Bandler smells Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kan' Sharuminar Posted July 12, 2007 Report Share Posted July 12, 2007 I was in the Moorings bar once and got someone noticed my 'Hail Satan' tattoo and misread it thinking it said 'Hail Sagan' which prompted quite an good discussion about Carl Sagan and his work. Which in turn prompted me to read the above book also. Funny how things happen like that.Fantastic reason to get into Sagan I have no idea why I was recommended Pale Blue Dot, as the bulk of literature discussions I had had with the guy who recommended it were Second World War/History books, and hardly the future science/astronomy stuff that Sagan writes about. Good call, though, on his part - certainly gave me a new found interest in astronomy.Cassini-Huygens Project - Sagan touches upon it in Pale Blue Dot. It's wonderful to have constant updates nowadays for such things Speaking of which, After the Reich by Giles McDonogh is my current read. Spent enough time reading about Germany going to war, may as well find out what happened after. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metarie Posted July 13, 2007 Report Share Posted July 13, 2007 I think Austen is particularly hard to read because excruciatingly small amounts of information are related in very dense passages. How can someone brought up in a Nintendo era seriously entertain the prospect of wading through six or seven pages devoted to Mr Whatever's handwriting and how it reminds one of his disposition and character etc etc...Fantastic detail Love - expertly scripted - but I could've rolled through three shark attacks, a bank robbery and an unwanted pregnancy by now!o_OI hope you're joking.Seriously.During my mind numbingly boring week handing out gowns for the RGU graduations I was also reading Birthday Stories which was edited by and includes a short story by Haruki Murakami. Very light reading, mere fluff really but some really beautiful short stories in there. Especially one about a boy being told his god mother's version of the Emperor's New Clothes, only in this version he has no skin. Bizarre but ace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimyReizeger Posted July 14, 2007 Report Share Posted July 14, 2007 o_OI hope you're joking.Seriously..Why? And yes, I suppose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Insurrection Posted July 24, 2007 Report Share Posted July 24, 2007 Failed States by Noam Chomsky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Addi Posted July 24, 2007 Report Share Posted July 24, 2007 Finished the second Lovecraft compilation, then read 'the sign of four' (a sherlock holmes book), then read 'Spares' by Michael Marshall Smith and now I'm back on another sherlock holmes book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimyReizeger Posted July 24, 2007 Report Share Posted July 24, 2007 Failed States by Noam ChomskyReminds me of the time I tried reading 'Rogue States' by the very man... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimyReizeger Posted July 24, 2007 Report Share Posted July 24, 2007 Recently read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. It's much better than the film, which I didn't like; admittedly, a view heavily tainted by the legions of moronic, petty drug-users pledging their allegiance to it from the depths of pissed stained second-hand sofas at five in the morning when I just want to get some sleep...Also read 'The Rum Diary' by HST, which is even better than Fear and Loathing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norseman Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 I am working through an old box of Warhammer books that I had from years ago when I was working on a computer game design for a project with Games Workshop. Most amusing, hack, slash, blast, liquify! I had forgotten how mad they were in the area of uber violence with completely manic fast paced "storylines". hehe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Insurrection Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 Reminds me of the time I tried reading 'Rogue States' by the very man...While there are indeed similarities - both examine the failings of US foreign policy and the terrible terror and abuses that have ensued as a result, this new tome looks in detail at the often outrageous double standards as demonstrated by the allied powers, and in particular the United States.Rogue States was also as I recall a collection of essays, this book is not, and was I think published some years ago. Did you have some difficulty in reading it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Steven Dedalus Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 I am working through an old box of Warhammer books that I had from years ago when I was working on a computer game design for a project with Games Workshop. Most amusing, hack, slash, blast, liquify! I had forgotten how mad they were in the area of uber violence with completely manic fast paced "storylines". hehe.Ha ha! I just dipped into "Deathwing" cos an old friend found it in his house recently...It's the stuff dreams are made out of surely! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimyReizeger Posted July 25, 2007 Report Share Posted July 25, 2007 Did you have some difficulty in reading it?Yeah, but it wasn't the most focused session, half-drunk on my flatmate's sofa. I've read bits and pieces of his stuff on language too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirsten Posted July 26, 2007 Report Share Posted July 26, 2007 Right now, A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh. When I'm done with it, I'll move onto some of his other ones, Brideshead Revisited and Decline & Fall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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