Soda Jerk Posted April 14, 2014 Report Share Posted April 14, 2014 (edited) I got the Nick Offerman book for my birthday the other day. Haven't started reading it yet. I've heard mixed things about it. Edited April 14, 2014 by Joda Serk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Broonbreed Posted April 14, 2014 Report Share Posted April 14, 2014 Catch-22 was really good until the point where it went a bit sinister and ceased to be funny. Could easily have covered all the topics in a book half the size. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Android Posted April 14, 2014 Report Share Posted April 14, 2014 It is funny until the end. And it is sinister from the start. That's kind of the point. I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Broonbreed Posted April 17, 2014 Report Share Posted April 17, 2014 Maybe I was just getting bored of it then. I thought it stopped being funny around half way through and the sinisterness at the beginning had a certain jovialness about it. It was a good few years ago I read it though, so fuck knows really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarmaTsunami Posted May 9, 2014 Report Share Posted May 9, 2014 Reading 'Americanah' by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and it's absolutely brilliant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted May 26, 2014 Report Share Posted May 26, 2014 I audiobooked "The Picture Of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde and "Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets" over the weekend. I didn't do much this weekend except, cook, clean, and play Minecraft, all things that can be done with an audiobook. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted June 9, 2014 Report Share Posted June 9, 2014 I've just picked up Pirlo's autobiography. It's about as thick as a Goosebumps book, so I'll probably be done with it by the end of the day. A few pages in, and it reads like the memoirs of a tortured artist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted July 8, 2014 Report Share Posted July 8, 2014 It's a bit hard going. A lot of interesting content, but it's not really very cohesive. Big blocks of text, and the author seems to repeat herself a lot. The zine history was very informative though. It's a shame it's practically a dead format. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted August 22, 2014 Report Share Posted August 22, 2014 I picked this up based on an interesting blurb about it. I didn't cotton on that the name Mick Foley on the cover was THE Mick Foley as I bought it, until it arrived in the post, and it mentioned "Have a Nice Day" on the cover, and had a picture of him on the back. It's a first person narrative of a boy who is tossed between foster homes until he eventually is taken back by his real father, who is a total lunatic. I liked the story and the premise, but the dialogue was a bit ropey, and felt a little unconvincing at times. The depictions of the graphic and sexual violence were quite powerful though. A couple of chapters are arguably a few pages longer than necessary, but otherwise, it's pretty much bang on, as you'd expect it to be. I'm not very keen on the spoof-memoir genre. The Ron Burgundy one is atrocious. This nails it. It reads well if you read it in Alan Partridge's voice in your head. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted September 6, 2014 Report Share Posted September 6, 2014 Got a kindle for my birthday at the end of May and been getting torn back into reading. Got several books on the go at the moment: Bank 3.0 by Brett King which is interesting and relevant to my work and Your Money - The MIssing Manual by JD Roth which is a sort of financial guide that I'm reading cos I got it for free but is pretty basic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Broonbreed Posted December 9, 2014 Report Share Posted December 9, 2014 Just finished Pulp by Charles Bukowski. I thought I'd read it before when I bought it but I hadn't. Pretty good, and his least autobiographical work that I've read. Strange ending if you don't know much about the author at the time of writing - I had to google the ending - but a very good read nonetheless. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted December 9, 2014 Report Share Posted December 9, 2014 Currently reading To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee. Interesting so far but only about 3% of the way through Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Broonbreed Posted December 25, 2014 Report Share Posted December 25, 2014 Just finished Inherent Vice. Pretty decent but the whole way through I was just thinking, 'I can't wait to see the film'. Away to get back in to some Bukowski. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted December 26, 2014 Report Share Posted December 26, 2014 Just rounding off Harry Potter 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted December 29, 2014 Report Share Posted December 29, 2014 I've had a poor year of reading. I think I've only read about 10 books this year, and 4 of them were Harry Potter. The wife bought me a kindle for Christmas so hopefully that will change next year. Reading, bitch. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted January 5, 2015 Report Share Posted January 5, 2015 The Kindle is a game changer for reading! And you can pick up a tonne of classics for free too. I'm currently reading Captain Scott by Ranulph Feinnes. On of my heroes writing about another. Interesting perspective! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted January 6, 2015 Report Share Posted January 6, 2015 First book on my new Kindle is Stephen King "22/11/64". Pretty good so far. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stroopy121 Posted January 7, 2015 Report Share Posted January 7, 2015 Reading Game of Thrones just now. It's a lot less shit than the TV series. xx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Broonbreed Posted January 7, 2015 Report Share Posted January 7, 2015 Away to start The Double. Haven't read it in yonkos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted January 18, 2015 Report Share Posted January 18, 2015 Pirates, Punks & Politics - Nick Davidson Expels a number of myths surrounding FC St Pauli, whilst recounting how the author falls in love with club after becoming disillusioned with his once beloved Watford FC and English football in general. One of very few English language accounts on the club, which includes a brief history of the area and the club itself. A good, inspiring read about a superb football club. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Android Posted January 18, 2015 Report Share Posted January 18, 2015 What myths does he dispel out of interest? I'd be interested in reading that book. There was an excellent piece on the club and their supporters in an issue of the blizzard which made me think very positively about them. I'd like to read more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted January 18, 2015 Report Share Posted January 18, 2015 He pours cold water on the reputation the club has been given from poorly researched articles from the likes of The Sun, a few lads mags, and even FourFourTwo, which have often made the club appear as some sort of gimmick. With the ground being situated in Hamburg's red light district, it's often pedaled that pimps, prostitutes and transvestites make up some part of the club's matchday fan base, which results in matchdays attracting stag parties and the like, who are seemingly expecting it to be one big brothel or something. He separates the links between the club and the red light district, but whenever you read anything about St Pauli, the red light district will probably be mentioned in the first sentence or two. The club itself is incredibly successful when it comes to merchandising. They sell more shirts and take in more merchandise revenue than any club in Germany bar Bayern Munich, but the fans seem to be divided on the club's commercialism and how the identity of the club is potentially being harmed. The supporters are seemingly happy to welcome fans from all over the world to matchdays, but certain groups of fans oppose the commercial and merchandising side of it, though they acknowledge that it is the commercialism which keeps them afloat financially. From the outside looking in, I always got the sense that the fans were all anarchists and were all pushing in the same direction, but the club has inherently developed numerous different factions of supporters who all have very different ideas of which direction they would like to see the club go in to. I think it that sense, it brings the club down to earth a bit, and despite the gimmicky cult following it has, it still suffers from the problems the majority of football clubs face. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murrr Posted January 18, 2015 Report Share Posted January 18, 2015 He pours cold water on the reputation the club has been given from poorly researched articles from the likes of The Sun, a few lads mags, and even FourFourTwo, which have often made the club appear as some sort of gimmick. With the ground being situated in Hamburg's red light district, it's often pedaled that pimps, prostitutes and transvestites make up some part of the club's matchday fan base, which results in matchdays attracting stag parties and the like, who are seemingly expecting it to be one big brothel or something. He separates the links between the club and the red light district, but whenever you read anything about St Pauli, the red light district will probably be mentioned in the first sentence or two. The club itself is incredibly successful when it comes to merchandising. They sell more shirts and take in more merchandise revenue than any club in Germany bar Bayern Munich, but the fans seem to be divided on the club's commercialism and how the identity of the club is potentially being harmed. The supporters are seemingly happy to welcome fans from all over the world to matchdays, but certain groups of fans oppose the commercial and merchandising side of it, though they acknowledge that it is the commercialism which keeps them afloat financially. From the outside looking in, I always got the sense that the fans were all anarchists and were all pushing in the same direction, but the club has inherently developed numerous different factions of supporters who all have very different ideas of which direction they would like to see the club go in to. I think it that sense, it brings the club down to earth a bit, and despite the gimmicky cult following it has, it still suffers from the problems the majority of football clubs face. There was a great article about them in The Blizzard a few years ago (think it might have been Issue Zero, actually) that basically said the same thing, and there's a growing sect of old crusties in their support who are raging because "IT JUST ISN'T AS GOOD AS IT WAS IN 1872, DAMNIT." Really great read -- I'll probably pick this book up as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Android Posted January 18, 2015 Report Share Posted January 18, 2015 It is issue zero. I downloaded that one for free to check it out before deciding whether or not to pay for the physical editions. That was one of the articles that immediately won me over. I'd recommend doing the same to anyone who hasn't given The Blizzard a look yet and likes good football stories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted January 19, 2015 Report Share Posted January 19, 2015 I keep meaning to look into The Blizzard. The physical copies look tremendous as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.