Sue Denim.. Posted December 12, 2010 Report Share Posted December 12, 2010 I'm reading 'Perdido Street Station' by China Mieville. What an amazing author...fast becoming my favourite. It's like the guy has swallowed a dictionary, thesaurus and encylopedia and spits out subtle references to the most unusual subjects in his books. I recommend 'The City and The City'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vega Posted December 12, 2010 Report Share Posted December 12, 2010 Just finished "American Psycho" by Bret Easton Ellis. BRUTAL in places (the rat and the pipe...JESUS), but was actually pretty funny too. The entire chapters devoted to Genesis, Tina Turner and Huey Lewis and the News were great and in a strange way it made me want to know a lot more about men's fashion. Just started Jack Kerouac "Big Sur". So far, so good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moose Posted December 12, 2010 Report Share Posted December 12, 2010 Just finished "American Psycho" by Bret Easton Ellis. BRUTAL in places (the rat and the pipe...JESUS), but was actually pretty funny too. The entire chapters devoted to Genesis, Tina Turner and Huey Lewis and the News were great and in a strange way it made me want to know a lot more about men's fashion. Just started Jack Kerouac "Big Sur". So far, so good.American Psycho is ace, probably my favourite book. It reads like no other as well, the way that EVERY time Bateman encounters someone he gives an in depth description of what they are wearing. I love that! Some of the torture scens are horrific, but the way he non-chalantly describes them as if it is something somebody is wearing, or the music he likes, makes it so funny. Just thinking about this book has me in stitches!I've never read "Big Sur" but "On the Road" was better than I expected.As per your recommendation, I'm reading the Wind-up Bird Chronicle. Really good so far, I'm only 100 pages in!We have similar taste in books? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elizabeth Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 I'm scared that if I read American Psycho it'll make me throw up a bit, so instead I started Diving Bell and the Butterfly, 'cause it's small, I'm only like 50 pages in though, because I am slow. Next is Hotel World, or Lord of the Flies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidm Posted December 15, 2010 Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 American Psycho is ridiculously gruesome but definitely a great read. I want to read more by Bret Easton Ellis. Any recommendations as to what to go for next?I should ideally finish Vonnegut's 'The Sirens of Titan' tomorrow. may read 'Mason and Dixon' by Thomas Pynchon next. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elizabeth Posted December 18, 2010 Report Share Posted December 18, 2010 Apparently 'The Informers' is good. I don't know what it's about or anything though, but someone in my class is a big Ellis fan and they like that one as well?Just wiki'd it, apparently it's short stories? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 18, 2010 Report Share Posted December 18, 2010 I did my 6th year dissertation on American Psycho. Great book, very darkly humorous and I actually rate Bales portrayal of Bateman in the film adaptation very highly! Reading Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie at the moment. It's absolutely absorbing and reads so fluently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benji Posted December 30, 2010 Report Share Posted December 30, 2010 I've never read "Big Sur" but "On the Road" was better than I expected.As per your recommendation, I'm reading the Wind-up Bird Chronicle. Really good so far, I'm only 100 pages in!We have similar taste in books?On the Road was excellent. I found some other books with Dean Moriarty (Cassidy), try reading, 'The Electric Kool Aid acid test', for me this book shows how America moved from the beatnik generation to the Hippy era thanks in part to a bunch of maniacs in a magic bus, driven by Cassidy!Yoga, for people who can;t be bothered doing it is quite funny too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alkaline Posted December 30, 2010 Report Share Posted December 30, 2010 Just downloaded "A Game Of Thrones" for my Kindle. It's pretty good so far. I'm reading it in anticipation of the TV series when Sky Atlantic launches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaki Posted December 30, 2010 Report Share Posted December 30, 2010 On the Road was excellent. I found some other books with Dean Moriarty (Cassidy), try reading, 'The Electric Kool Aid acid test', for me this book shows how America moved from the beatnik generation to the Hippy era thanks in part to a bunch of maniacs in a magic bus, driven by Cassidy!Yoga, for people who can;t be bothered doing it is quite funny too.I stopped reading On the Road half way through on account of all the main characters being arseholes that I didn't much care for. May go back to it one day, I was probably in a bad mood that week. Off reading a bit at the moment. Still ploughing through The Corner. Also read a couple of chapter's of a Sue Townsend book today when there was a powercut at work. Nae my cup o tea but nae bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaaakkkeee Posted December 31, 2010 Report Share Posted December 31, 2010 I'm still on Bedroom Secrets of the Masterchefs. I'm struggling to get through it. I enjoy reading, but this book isn't grabbing my attention like all the other media in my house. And a good book should. All of the other Irvine Welsh books kept me up at night reading. This one is just a comedy so far. Plus I'm reading a few comics - Civil War, Death Note and Scott Pilgrim.After BSotM I'm getting stuck into Let The Right One In. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benji Posted December 31, 2010 Report Share Posted December 31, 2010 I stopped reading On the Road half way through on account of all the main characters being arseholes that I didn't much care for. May go back to it one day, I was probably in a bad mood that week. I hear what your saying, the charecters are snobby and a bit arsey. The fact that these events really happened got me through the book however, if it was some random story then aye I guess I would have put it down.Also... Hunter S Thompson's (Fear and loathing in Las Vegas) books are good are kinda intertwine with the whole ethos of on the road. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted December 31, 2010 Report Share Posted December 31, 2010 American Psycho is one of my favourite books too. Didn't care so much for the film, but there's really no way they could have made it like the book because it is so brutal.I've started "Full Dark, No Stars" by Stephen King. So far, trememdous, I've read the first 80 pages or so I reckon it's the best thing he's written in absolutely years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monster Zero Posted January 5, 2011 Report Share Posted January 5, 2011 I found 'On the Road' a chore to get through, persevered though. It kind of put me off reading more Kerouac though.'Less Than Zero' is another good Easton Ellis effort.I just recently finished Ozzy's autobiography which was good fun. Now reading Roy Keane's, which is also good fun in a different kind of way. I'm not normally one for sports books or indded much of a football person but I like mentalist footballers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirsten Posted January 8, 2011 Report Share Posted January 8, 2011 I found 'On the Road' a chore to get through, persevered though. It kind of put me off reading more Kerouac though.Same. Although, come to think of it, I'm not actually sure I ever finished it. Have this horrible feeling that I gave up with only forty or so pages to go. Started reading 'Revolutionary Road' by Richard Yates today as really nice editions of it and others in hardback are going for 6.50 at my work at the moment. So far so good. 'Slaughterhouse 5' is also available for any of the Vonnegut Appreciation Society interested. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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waltz Posted January 8, 2011 Report Share Posted January 8, 2011 I'm reading a Noam Chomsky about rogue states.It's called Rogue States.Pretty good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vega Posted January 8, 2011 Report Share Posted January 8, 2011 Same. Although, come to think of it, I'm not actually sure I ever finished it. Have this horrible feeling that I gave up with only forty or so pages to go. Started reading 'Revolutionary Road' by Richard Yates today as really nice editions of it and others in hardback are going for 6.50 at my work at the moment. So far so good. 'Slaughterhouse 5' is also available for any of the Vonnegut Appreciation Society interested.That link to the hardback edition says it's 12.99, I take it they're cheaper in-store? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirsten Posted January 8, 2011 Report Share Posted January 8, 2011 That link to the hardback edition says it's 12.99, I take it they're cheaper in-store?Yeah, sorry, I should have said. Half price for the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarmaTsunami Posted January 9, 2011 Report Share Posted January 9, 2011 I was working through the Collect Poems of Norman MacCaig, which are bloody brilliant. I got Frank O'Hara's 'Meditations in an Emergency' partly through curiosity after watching Mad Men, but it turns out that it'll be useful in my coursework which is handy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benji Posted January 9, 2011 Report Share Posted January 9, 2011 Anyone ever read Ginsberg Poetry?I find it a bit crap, dunno, I hear what he says an all but it's ranting as far as I'm concerned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen B Posted January 11, 2011 Report Share Posted January 11, 2011 Anyone ever read Ginsberg Poetry?I find it a bit crap, dunno, I hear what he says an all but it's ranting as far as I'm concerned.I went through quite the Ginsberg phase about 6 years ago. I always found him fairly hit and miss. Occassionally very direct poems overly adorned which beat generation jive talk.I've just finished Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov and was going to start Our Ancestors by Italo Calvino, but I'm expecting a copy of James Yorkston's book is the post for review so I'll wait for that rather than start anything else. I never read more than one book at a time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaki Posted January 11, 2011 Report Share Posted January 11, 2011 Started on Tess of the D'Urbervilles the other day. Enjoying it enough so far. I've never read anything by Hardy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vega Posted January 11, 2011 Report Share Posted January 11, 2011 Finished "The Informers" by Bret Easton Ellis. 3 in HMV just now and a collection of short stories. A couple of good ones (including a vampire take on American Psycho). Worth a punt, I guess. Currently pummelling through "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey. Loving it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 11, 2011 Report Share Posted January 11, 2011 Just finished Sir Thomas More's Utopia.Not the easiest thing to read for me, always a bit weary of quasi-didactic literature and it goes pretty slowly, moreso book 1. Appreciate how revolutionary it was at the time though, and it is an interesting book to read to get a take on really early communist ideals, and the narrator within a narrator device thingy was pretty original given the time period.Worth a read, especially if you're a politics student or a socialist, of which I am neither. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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