Lemonade Posted August 25, 2008 Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 I've had a collection of Spike MIlligan's war memoirs on my shelf for about 8 years and never got past the second book so I've just started again from the beginning with "Adolf Hitler - My Part In His Downfall".I've also just started Jules Verne's "20000 Leagues Under The Sea" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TR!ΔNGL€ T€€TH Posted August 25, 2008 Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 Roddy Doyle - Oh, Play that thingI've started to read it at work, but my lunchtime today was rudely interrupted by having to test a compressor, so I couldn't really get into it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeanette Posted August 28, 2008 Report Share Posted August 28, 2008 I'm trying to read Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment but it's proving tricky! It's going to take me a while! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RF Scott Posted August 28, 2008 Report Share Posted August 28, 2008 I'm away to give that 33 1/3 series ONE last chance and read the Double Nickls On The Dime one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen B Posted August 28, 2008 Report Share Posted August 28, 2008 I'm away to give that 33 1/3 series ONE last chance and read the Double Nickls On The Dime one.They're hit and miss really. Some are just pretty much biographies (Neutral Milk Hotel), some are cringe-inducingly earnest or personal (Replacements/The Smiths) but some are genuinely insightful and entertainign reads (ABBA/Magnetic Fields).I just finished The Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard and can't think of better way to describe it than the quote from the book cover:"Splendid entertainments...touched with genius" George McDonald Fraser Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Android Posted August 29, 2008 Report Share Posted August 29, 2008 I'm trying to read Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment but it's proving tricky! It's going to take me a while!It's definitely worth sticking with it, one of my favourite novels.It was very slow going for me at the beginning too. It took me ages to get my head around all the long russian names. Once I really got into it I rattled through it, I read the second half in the fraction of the time I spent on the first half of the novel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeanette Posted August 29, 2008 Report Share Posted August 29, 2008 It's definitely worth sticking with it, one of my favourite novels.It was very slow going for me at the beginning too. It took me ages to get my head around all the long russian names. Once I really got into it I rattled through it, I read the second half in the fraction of the time I spent on the first half of the novel.Cool. I will definitely stick to it. I just feel like it takes 10 minutes to read each page! But yeah, the long names and all the Russian things that can be checked at the back takes its time!Guess I just haven't read a testing novel for a long time! I suppose that's what uni does to you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swingin' Ryan Posted September 5, 2008 Report Share Posted September 5, 2008 They're hit and miss really. Some are just pretty much biographies (Neutral Milk Hotel), some are cringe-inducingly earnest or personal (Replacements/The Smiths) but some are genuinely insightful and entertainign reads (ABBA/Magnetic Fields).You haven't read the 'If you're feeling sinister' one have you? I was toying with buying it but having already read the rather fantastic 'This is just a modern rock story' biography by Paul Whitelaw, I'm not sure if it's going to really offer me anything I don't already know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen B Posted September 5, 2008 Report Share Posted September 5, 2008 You haven't read the 'If you're feeling sinister' one have you? I was toying with buying it but having already read the rather fantastic 'This is just a modern rock story' biography by Paul Whitelaw, I'm not sure if it's going to really offer me anything I don't already know.It was the last one I read actually. It was good actually although some of it would probably be unnecessary biography I'd imagine. Still worth reading though. Scott Plagenhoef is good writer (or maybe I'm just asying that because he likes B&S, Orange Juice and Dexys) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepeep Posted September 5, 2008 Report Share Posted September 5, 2008 I just bought Bertrand Russells "Why I am not a Christian" - It's fantastic, not difficult to read at all, so eloquent and logical...I think I'll read the bible next (or the edited books that Penguin did (Nick Cave doing the Intro to Armageddon))... One essay (do we survive death?) was written in 1930 and it's amazing the foresight he has over certain aspects of science...(he "sort of predicted" that electrons are not particles, using this as a way of showing that science can have "fundamentals" that are still under scrutiny, which doesn't weaken "science", but strengthens it....good read for all you blasphemous brethren out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TR!ΔNGL€ T€€TH Posted September 6, 2008 Report Share Posted September 6, 2008 You haven't read the 'If you're feeling sinister' one have you? I was toying with buying it but having already read the rather fantastic 'This is just a modern rock story' biography by Paul Whitelaw, I'm not sure if it's going to really offer me anything I don't already know.I quite enjoyed "This is just a modern rock story" even though it did paint Stevie Jackson as a right miserable bastard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TR!ΔNGL€ T€€TH Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 They're hit and miss really. Some are just pretty much biographies (Neutral Milk Hotel), some are cringe-inducingly earnest or personal (Replacements/The Smiths) but some are genuinely insightful and entertainign reads (ABBA/Magnetic Fields)I just read the Replacements one today, and I don't know if I enjoyed it really.I wasn't expecting to be so personal and not give any real details about the creation of the songs or making of the record. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ithaca Posted September 11, 2008 Report Share Posted September 11, 2008 Finished 'The Active Side of Infinity' by Carlos Castaneda at the weekend. One of the most thought-provoking books I've read in ages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metarie Posted September 11, 2008 Report Share Posted September 11, 2008 Just finished 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of The West' and it was brilliant. First book I've read in ages that has left me at a bit of a loss as to what to read next. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre Von Mondragon Posted September 11, 2008 Report Share Posted September 11, 2008 Just finished Asimov's Foundation Trilogy, good story and ideas, wafer thin characterisation, and have just started 'Stranger In A Strange Land' by everyones fave raving crypto-fascist, Robert Heinlein. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panda Strong Posted September 16, 2008 Report Share Posted September 16, 2008 I finished Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita for the...third time last night. I never get tired of reading it. Definitely my favourite book.American Tabloid by James Ellroy is next. Has anyone read this? I've heard really good things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen B Posted September 23, 2008 Report Share Posted September 23, 2008 The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norseman Posted September 24, 2008 Report Share Posted September 24, 2008 just started Warhammer - The Blood Angels Omnibusalso bought one of those Sony eBook thingymijigs so will have to try a couple of eBooks out now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alkaline Posted September 24, 2008 Report Share Posted September 24, 2008 just started Warhammer - The Blood Angels Omnibusalso bought one of those Sony eBook thingymijigs so will have to try a couple of eBooks out now.Do those Sony things have books pre-loaded on them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest treader. Posted September 25, 2008 Report Share Posted September 25, 2008 they come with some sample chapters, yes. but not full books.I've just started reading Animal Farm as I havent actually ever read it, despite having done my Higher English exam on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norseman Posted September 25, 2008 Report Share Posted September 25, 2008 I like the display on it and it feels very well made. Mine is currently loaded up with scientific papers in pdf format as my missus has snaffled it for some studying over the next couple of days.Seems to be loads of free ebooks out there for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TR!ΔNGL€ T€€TH Posted September 27, 2008 Report Share Posted September 27, 2008 I've started to read Catch 22 at work.Does anyone have any recommendations of good music biographies to read? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 27, 2008 Report Share Posted September 27, 2008 I've started to read Catch 22 at work.Does anyone have any recommendations of good music biographies to read?Johnny Cash by Johnny CashAnd I would avoid most things about Kurt Cobain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarmaTsunami Posted September 28, 2008 Report Share Posted September 28, 2008 Finally finished Hemingway's 'For Whom the Bell Tolls', nice grim read for a sunny day....Started and am now half way through J.D Salinger's 'Raise High The Roofbeams Carpenter/Seymour: An Introduction'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surfer_Rosa Posted September 29, 2008 Report Share Posted September 29, 2008 Just finished The Watchmen. I didn't think I'd really like graphic novels, but I was properly engrossed. Definitely one of the best reads I've had in quite some time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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