kirsten Posted May 16, 2008 Report Share Posted May 16, 2008 Beckett plays particularly Waiting For Godot and Endgame over and over and over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted May 16, 2008 Report Share Posted May 16, 2008 Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre.I hated that. I gave up about halfway in.I'm onto Thunderball by Ian Fleming, and also Jack The Ripper: The 21st Century Investigation by Trevor Marriott. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted May 16, 2008 Report Share Posted May 16, 2008 I just read Sunset Song for the first time the other day. Had to push a bit through the first half, but overall it's a pretty classy book, and I'm proud that it came from this part of the globe.Aye I read that at school, I remember really enjoying it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calum Posted May 16, 2008 Report Share Posted May 16, 2008 Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre.I read that a while back after a friend raving about it. Enjoyed it but didn't think it was that special. Mostly, I think - and here you can really see the depth of my literary analysis - because the boy came across as a bit of a twat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted May 16, 2008 Report Share Posted May 16, 2008 I read that a while back after a friend raving about it. Enjoyed it but didn't think it was that special. Mostly, I think - and here you can really see the depth of my literary analysis - because the boy came across as a bit of a twat.For some reason I took particular exception to the constant use of the word "fucken" instead of "fucking". Once I realised it was annoying me I couldn't read the book properly because it's used on almost every page. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen B Posted May 16, 2008 Report Share Posted May 16, 2008 For some reason I took particular exception to the constant use of the word "fucken" instead of "fucking". Once I realised it was annoying me I couldn't read the book properly because it's used on almost every page.The main character's "attitude" is layed on rather thick I must say and the characters are all a bit exaggerated, although i think the grotesque nature is intentional. I'm not far enough into to be sure what I make of it yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissBecca Posted May 16, 2008 Report Share Posted May 16, 2008 Just finished The Bone Collector Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waltz Posted May 19, 2008 Report Share Posted May 19, 2008 How is it? I have never read any of his stuff but I have heard that one in particular would be a useful one to read because it was influential (and a good book anyway). I've not read that much of it yet, but so far it's pretty good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimyReizeger Posted May 19, 2008 Report Share Posted May 19, 2008 I'm intrigued. Why are you reading The Idiot? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waltz Posted May 20, 2008 Report Share Posted May 20, 2008 I'm intrigued. Why are you reading The Idiot?It was in the library, next to Crime And Punishment, thought i'd go for something I could get done by the end of study leave.Why do you ask? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimyReizeger Posted May 21, 2008 Report Share Posted May 21, 2008 'Something I can get done by the end of study leave'. Almost sounds as though you can just bash your way through it in no time? Obviously I may have misunderstood you, but one wonders when others cite 19th century Russian high-art as a bit of light reading! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waltz Posted May 21, 2008 Report Share Posted May 21, 2008 'Something I can get done by the end of study leave'. Almost sounds as though you can just bash your way through it in no time? Obviously I may have misunderstood you, but one wonders when others cite 19th century Russian high-art as a bit of light reading!Ha, I was just kidding. Im thinking of doing Dostoevsky for my adv. english dissertation next year. I'm a coward and I picked the shorter of his novels first. There you go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimyReizeger Posted May 21, 2008 Report Share Posted May 21, 2008 Ah, there's a reasonable...reason. So what's the criteria - Are you picking from a set range or is it fairly open? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waltz Posted May 21, 2008 Report Share Posted May 21, 2008 Ah, there's a reasonable...reason. So what's the criteria - Are you picking from a set range or is it fairly open?You can pick whatever author you want really, as long as it's deemed appropriate for advanced higher. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bluesxman Posted May 22, 2008 Report Share Posted May 22, 2008 Just read 'Complicity' by Iain Banks, now on 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimyReizeger Posted May 22, 2008 Report Share Posted May 22, 2008 You can pick whatever author you want really, as long as it's deemed appropriate for advanced higher.Seems like you're making it needlessly difficult for yourself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nev Posted May 23, 2008 Report Share Posted May 23, 2008 I'm sort of mixing between Jeremy Clarkson, Stuart Macbride and Irvine Welsh at the moment, patiently waiting for Christopher Brookmyre's next effort to hit the shelves.Seems to be a bit of a backlog on the Welsh at the moment, three of his piled up next to my bed... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TR!ΔNGL€ T€€TH Posted May 29, 2008 Report Share Posted May 29, 2008 Nikki Sixx: The Heroin DiariesGreat stuff, a typical day for Nikki is to wake up, take shit loads of drugs, write a terrible song (possibly recording it in the studio drugs permitting), go out and have sex with stranger and then end up paranoid in the wardrobe with a gun to top off the evening. Next day: repeat yesterday.It also includes lyrics to songs that didn't make it as Motley Crue songs, god they are good, no really, they are good, honest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirsten Posted May 30, 2008 Report Share Posted May 30, 2008 Great stuff, a typical day for Nikki is to wake up, take shit loads of drugs, write a terrible song (possibly recording it in the studio drugs permitting), go out and have sex with stranger and then end up paranoid in the wardrobe with a gun to top off the evening. Next day: repeat yesterday.I posted a similar review, possibly in this thread, but I think mine was more negative... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TR!ΔNGL€ T€€TH Posted May 31, 2008 Report Share Posted May 31, 2008 Just got a copy of Charlie Brooker's Screen Burn through the mail, I'm looking forward to reading that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirsten Posted May 31, 2008 Report Share Posted May 31, 2008 I think you'll love it. Brooker's a genius. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murrr Posted June 10, 2008 Report Share Posted June 10, 2008 I think you'll love it. Brooker's a genius.Hear hear. Haven't got his new one yet, but "Screen Burn" is a corker!Just finished "Post Office" by Charles Bukowski. It's pretty short, I managed to polish it off in just two days, but I thought it was awesome.Vonnegut "Slaughterhouse 5" is up next. After that I'm going to take my first foray into sci-fi with "The Time Machine". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam 45 Posted June 10, 2008 Report Share Posted June 10, 2008 I just finished reading "Things The Grandchildren Should Know" by Mark Everett. Absolutely loved it. Read it over 2 days which is fast for me as i don't read that much.If anybody else has any musical related biography suggestions i'd like to hear 'em. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-matthEw- Posted June 10, 2008 Report Share Posted June 10, 2008 I just finished reading "Things The Grandchildren Should Know" by Mark Everett. Absolutely loved it. Read it over 2 days which is fast for me as i don't read that much.If anybody else has any musical related biography suggestions i'd like to hear 'em.none that i've read are even close to that in my opinion. Dylan's Chronicles is probably the nearest. Just realised you're speaking about biographies not so much autobiographies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeanette Posted June 10, 2008 Report Share Posted June 10, 2008 I'm just starting 'Its Colours They Are Fine' by Alan Spence, which is a collection of short stories linking peoples' lives in Glasgow.Quite looking forward to it, so we'll see how it goes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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