Chris Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 It's got huge text and double line spacing, I read half of it in 2 hours.Ahh that old trick. Great in secondary school, rubbish at uni (when electronic submission meant the lecturer didn't need to calculate the word count themselves). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 It's actually fairly bollocks as well, but it was late at night and I didn't want to start a 'proper' book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob-afc Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 I guess everything is dull compared to the shit you've seen though, huh?I've experienced some pretty amazing and some pretty horrific things, it's all relative as to what you want out of life though. I can look back in years to come and say I've made a small difference to many peoples lives, whether it will be for the better or not remains to be seen !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Steven Dedalus Posted January 30, 2008 Report Share Posted January 30, 2008 "Sex, Drugs and Choco Puffs" by Chuck Klosterman.Very good indeed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeaOfEnergy Posted January 30, 2008 Report Share Posted January 30, 2008 just read 'the state of the art' by Iain M Banks. Good quality shit as always prefer his proper novels though, 'the state of..' is just a bunch of short stories.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveCrisis Posted January 30, 2008 Report Share Posted January 30, 2008 just read 'the state of the art' by Iain M Banks. Good quality shit as always prefer his proper novels though, 'the state of..' is just a bunch of short stories....It's quite a good collection and one I always go back to after reading one of his heavier duty sci-fi's.Seriously, get your grubby little mits on Matter. Just published on hardback and a snip at 9.50 (if Waterstone's are still doing at half-price).Still nothing beats Excession imo, Meatfuckers!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimyReizeger Posted January 30, 2008 Report Share Posted January 30, 2008 "Sex, Drugs and Choco Puffs" by Chuck Klosterman.Very good indeed!I remember reading one of his books when I was about 15. He described how he spent an entire year drawing someone else's money that was mistakedly being put into his account. Sounded fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bluesxman Posted January 31, 2008 Report Share Posted January 31, 2008 'First Blood' by David Morrell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murrr Posted January 31, 2008 Report Share Posted January 31, 2008 Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darknes," and after that Conrad McCarthy's "The Road," ya dig? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimyReizeger Posted January 31, 2008 Report Share Posted January 31, 2008 "Heart of Darknes," Heh, I'm reading that this weekend! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norseman Posted February 5, 2008 Report Share Posted February 5, 2008 Reading the Planet Hulk graphic novel. Good smashing fun. :0)After that planning to read the new Simon Green Nightside book which should be getting delivered from Amazon this week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thehunger Posted February 5, 2008 Report Share Posted February 5, 2008 I just finished reading 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' by Philip K. Dick. It was good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarmaTsunami Posted February 9, 2008 Report Share Posted February 9, 2008 Hugh MacDiarmid's poetry. Lots of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RF Scott Posted February 9, 2008 Report Share Posted February 9, 2008 Heh, I'm reading that this weekend!So I guess you two are taking Modernism too, then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheTickingTime-Bomb Posted February 10, 2008 Report Share Posted February 10, 2008 Richard Dawkins "Unweaving the Rainbow".It's awesome so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimyReizeger Posted February 10, 2008 Report Share Posted February 10, 2008 So I guess you two are taking Modernism too, then?Yup.Found HoD pretty dull personally. Hoping Thomas Mann will be better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarmaTsunami Posted February 21, 2008 Report Share Posted February 21, 2008 Beckett's 'Trilogy'. About halfway through 'Malone Dies'. Enjoyable enough. But post-modernism makes me sleepy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TR!ΔNGL€ T€€TH Posted February 22, 2008 Report Share Posted February 22, 2008 No doubt I'll be purchasing this soon: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimyReizeger Posted February 25, 2008 Report Share Posted February 25, 2008 How anyone could be arsed with even more minor details about Nirvana is beyond me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RF Scott Posted February 28, 2008 Report Share Posted February 28, 2008 How anyone could be arsed with even more minor details about Nirvana is beyond me.It's a bit of a strange concept, given that their records don't really sound at all special, or unique (recording wise! I'm not Nirvana bashing). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen B Posted February 28, 2008 Report Share Posted February 28, 2008 It's a bit of a strange concept, given that their records don't really sound at all special, or unique (recording wise! I'm not Nirvana bashing).There will probably be a load of boring stories about Steve Albini. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimyReizeger Posted February 28, 2008 Report Share Posted February 28, 2008 Talk about over-analysis - I remember reading one thing that talked about 'Kurt's favourite oxymoron'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepeep Posted March 2, 2008 Report Share Posted March 2, 2008 I'm halfway through "Ghostwritten" by David Mitchell (Cloud atlas)...It's a great set of short stories that all link up in some way (previous characters influence or appear in the next story etc). Some fantastic ideas of naration, how the characters internalise and externalise their thoughts...the "mongolian" story is just ace..I won't spoil how the story is conveyed...It was funny, I was reading the "Tokyo" story, thinking "this is a murakami knock off"...and I read this review online:"...to a Japanese teen with a complicated family background who works in a record store. Satoru is a first-person narrator straight out of a Murakami Haruki novel. Since Mitchell's novel is an homage to the master throughout (the philosophizing, the characters, the interconnectedness of the world -- it's all very much like what Murakami does, except that Ghostwritten is perhaps more international in its settings), this is too close for comfort. He could have at least let the kid not sell jazz records. And, while it is a cute inside joke to give Satoru "a new Murakami translation of Fitzgerald's short stories", Mitchell might not have wanted to draw so much attention to the fact that he is basically copying the Japanese master. "----I've really enjoyed it so far, I can't see it being pish after the "second half"...so I'd reccomend it, some great descriptions, concepts and storylines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarmaTsunami Posted March 2, 2008 Report Share Posted March 2, 2008 Currently in flann o' brians 'at swim-two-birds' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murrr Posted March 3, 2008 Report Share Posted March 3, 2008 Yup.Found HoD pretty dull personally. Hoping Thomas Mann will be better.Thought it was a peach myself, went on to read a book with a bunch of Conrad's short stories.I'm about to start Capote's "In Cold Blood," going through the classics like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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