hamstir Posted November 28, 2007 Report Share Posted November 28, 2007 post office by bukowski it's great Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
french_disko Posted November 28, 2007 Report Share Posted November 28, 2007 Just started "The Raw Shark Texts" by Steven Hall. Amazon.co.uk: The Raw Shark Texts: Books: Steven Hall Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarmaTsunami Posted December 7, 2007 Report Share Posted December 7, 2007 Plato's 'Phaedrus', and Derrida's 'Plato's Pharmacy', as well as other articles by Derrida and articles on Derrida's take on the idea of the pharmakon/writing/speech etc.By brain is slowly dripping onto the keyboard. I hate this course. Stupid core course. I guarantee you that the people taking my MLitt next year when it's properly established won't have to do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RF Scott Posted December 7, 2007 Report Share Posted December 7, 2007 Herzog by Saul Bellow. Pretty amazing so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen B Posted December 7, 2007 Report Share Posted December 7, 2007 Plato's 'Phaedrus', and Derrida's 'Plato's Pharmacy', as well as other articles by Derrida and articles on Derrida's take on the idea of the pharmakon/writing/speech etc.By brain is slowly dripping onto the keyboard. I hate this course. Stupid core course. I guarantee you that the people taking my MLitt next year when it's properly established won't have to do it.I had to read some Derrida for a course on the use of force in international law, and I've never fell so unintelligent in my life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarmaTsunami Posted December 8, 2007 Report Share Posted December 8, 2007 That's a fairly accurate description of how I feel reading it. I did however find a nice Routledge guide that makes it a tad easier to understand. I don't know why I chose it. I think my brain froze when I was faced with my Professor asking "So...what did you enjoy?". At least the other courses are going extremely well.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Denim.. Posted December 10, 2007 Report Share Posted December 10, 2007 I'm reading 'The 13 Steps to Mentalism' by Corinda. It's a book of magic tricks (written in the early 20th century) which surprisingly explains the workings of a lot of tricks by 'mentalist' magicians today...ie Derren Brown. (In fact, it explains nearly every damn trick he's ever pulled.)Fascinating. (I'd tell you the contents but I'd have to kill you afterwards.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre Von Mondragon Posted December 11, 2007 Report Share Posted December 11, 2007 'Guns, Germs and Steel' by Jared Diamond, aka why Eurasians got all the stuff at the expense of everyone else, turns out, its geography. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarmaTsunami Posted December 12, 2007 Report Share Posted December 12, 2007 I'm putting Derrida aside for a week or so. My Prof. reckons I'm 'getting to grips' with the concepts, so I'm taking a well earned break.Got the Paris Review Interviews Vol. 2 to work through! Then finished 'A Room of One's Own'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Denim.. Posted December 29, 2007 Report Share Posted December 29, 2007 I've finished a couple of books recently...Brother Odd by Dean Koontz. The third part of a trilogy about the guy that can see the dead. It was OK but I can't see it being made into a movie any time soon. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. by J.K. Rowling. I have to admit that I really enjoy the Harry Potter books and this is no exception. The ending really had me wishing that I'd brought the last book offshore with me as it left a few loose ends which the next book will no doubt fill. No doubt this will definately be made into a film (if it isn't already in production). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medichi Posted December 30, 2007 Report Share Posted December 30, 2007 I currnetly am failing to finish:The Road - Cormac McCarthySlash - AutobiographyThe new PratchettThe Raw Shark Text Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete_inthehills Posted December 30, 2007 Report Share Posted December 30, 2007 The wife got me Prachett's "hat full of sky" and "wintersmith" both featuring the nac mac feegle.They were ace. And living in Scotland, I didn't even have to look up the glossary to see what the bigman, Rob Anybody, was saying.peteinthehills Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bodast Posted December 30, 2007 Report Share Posted December 30, 2007 'Guns, Germs and Steel' by Jared Diamond, aka why Eurasians got all the stuff at the expense of everyone else, turns out, its geography.I liked that one. I just reread High Fidelity. I like Nick Hornby a lot, but I read A Long Way Down and thought it was gash so I just thought I'd reinstate my faith in him (though I didn't like High Fidelity as much as before, hm). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarmaTsunami Posted January 7, 2008 Report Share Posted January 7, 2008 Finished Sarah Water's 'Affinity', what a brilliant twist at the end. Halfway through Ali Smith's 'Hotel World' which is brilliant and definitely one of my favourites of hers. Got a fair few books to work through after that, it's trying to decide which one next..Banks, Gray, Hollinghurst or Banville? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuartmaxwell Posted January 7, 2008 Report Share Posted January 7, 2008 john le carre - tinker tailor soldier spy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimyReizeger Posted January 10, 2008 Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 Junky, by William S. Burroughs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarmaTsunami Posted January 10, 2008 Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
framheim Posted January 10, 2008 Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 currently re-reading 101 reykjavik by Hallgrmur 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Addi Posted January 10, 2008 Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 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 communiqus 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bluesxman Posted January 16, 2008 Report Share Posted January 16, 2008 If You Liked School Youll Love Work by Irvine Welsh. Pretty unimpressed so far, 3 stories in and not one seemed to have any point to it. Its 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Steven Dedalus Posted January 16, 2008 Report Share Posted January 16, 2008 If You Liked School Youll Love Work by Irvine Welsh. .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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kan' Sharuminar Posted January 16, 2008 Report Share Posted January 16, 2008 '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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Steven Dedalus Posted January 17, 2008 Report Share Posted January 17, 2008 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bluesxman Posted January 17, 2008 Report Share Posted January 17, 2008 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.Aye, I've progressed nicely...I see your comedy skills still need some honing though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen B Posted January 17, 2008 Report Share Posted January 17, 2008 I'm am currently reading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon, and it's quite darned good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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