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What have you read recently? I'd like to know, i've read 4 books recently, I dunno if you've heard of them all.. Our Man In Havana - About a vacuum cleaner saleman who is enlisted as a spy and makes up everything, passing off vacuum diagrams as atomic bomb schematics...but then things start becoming real and people die. Very enjoyable read. 1984 - I think since this was year I was born I had to read it. Very ahead of its time but its ending seemed a bit too abrupt and a bit of a comedown...anyone agree? I'd like to rent the film, whats it like? Brave New World - I'd never heard of this until it was lent to me recently and I much preferred it to 1984 because it seemed to me to ask more questions rather than put in a scenario for you...the choice of lunacy in a uncivilised world or insanity in a civilised pleasant world. In my opinion this book is VASTLY underrated and even more ahead of its time than 1984 (this was written in 1930's I think)...however I don't know if society could undergo such a change to reply solely on fordism. Sorrow Of War - I didn't quite understand this book straight away because it kept moving around, but once i'd finished it it made more sense. A view of the vietnam war but this time from a viet congs perspective. not autobiographical but very moving and made me think more of what it must have been like for the 'enemy' that in most films we view as dehumanised savages. |
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I haven't read any of those but I do have 1984 and will read it... I just tried to read the new Clive Barker. Only the second book I've ever given up in my life... I'm re-reading 'Rules Of Attraction' by Bret Easton Ellis now. Oh and I read 'Rising Sun' by Crichton a coupla weeks ago. |
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i went there once, its just one big fly-over |
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why did u give up on it jar? |
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I have been reading: Mark cadbourne - Worlds End series. The ancient gods of legend are returning to the world (odin, Herne etc) and technology is failing. Humans are regaining the power to tap ley-lines control nature. But the forces of evil are at play nad the Black-Shuk is on the prowl in London. |
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anyone read the killing fields? i've never seen it and haden't really heard of it until recently |
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It was fucking cack Jack |
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I've just started: American Pastoral - Philip Roth Swede Levov, a legendary athlete at his Newark hihg school, who grows up in the boom postwar years to marry a former Miss New Jersey, inherit his father's glove factory and move into a stone house in teh idyllic hamlet of Old Rimrock. And then one day in 1968, Swede's beautiful American luck deserts him. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize |
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I enjoyed 1984 quite a bit. And I also thought the ending was a letdown, but in a good way. I'll probably read it again soon, after I finish with Atlas Shrugged, but I'm only about half way through that. |
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yeah, it was better than a cop out romantic ending...I hate those..(in the lnog run anyway) |
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Finished the biography of Keith Haring today....read it before but was a long while ago so cool to re-read...He's the guy who did all that little radiant baby & dog graffetti work back in 80s...you'd know it if you saw it.... but bios are always sad as the you just know the person is gonna die in the end...make's it a bit weird...Like Andy Warhols Diairies; huge book but so worth it... |
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ive reread chuck palahniuk's CHOKE. he's the author of FIGHT CLUB. good, but not as good. everyone should read his novel titled SURVIVOR. that one i really liked. |
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was it you that read francis wheen's biography of marx? |
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Ann Rand? Yuck.. Political drivel. *Yawn* |
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Yea, I agree that "Survivor" is his best I've been reading "The End of Nature" by I forget whom. It's summer reading for school about global warming and how the earth is doomed. A very interesting read. |
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Ayn? Can I not type today? Apparently not. |
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nah B3n...is it good?... I love those Chuck Paulaniuk books like Fight C & Choke.....all of his are very good & so funny... |
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yeah I enjoyed it a lot...I think it must've been jonesy (he liked it too) |
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I'm about to start reading Dickens' Great Expectations (because im forced to for school) and Brian Jaques' Legend of Luke. Anyone familiar with Brian Jaques' Redwall series? My personal fav. book series of all time, you should check em out. |
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"Anyone familiar with Brian Jaques' Redwall series? My personal fav. book series of all time, you should check em out." Yeah I got Return To Redwall but never botherede reading it all, that fantasy stuff isn't really my bag (baby) |
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shit, I need to read more books. what's a good story that's scary as shit, but intelligent and philosophical? oh and kinda weird? |
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I'm reading HP Lovecradt's Dagon: And other Macabre Tales, LotR: Return of The King, Dream Brother: Biographies of Jeff and Tim Buckley, and I recen;ty finished: Bitch by Elizabeth Wurtzel, The Tenth Kingdom (based on the tv series) by Kathryn Wesley and Talking to Addison by Jenny Colgan (free from Cosmo :D) |
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I'm reading K-PAX III which I'm finding V boring, but It's the last one so I have to finish it. I LOADS of books to read though Soul Survivor Harry Potter I & II The whole Hitch Hikers Set (apart from the newest one) Coldheart Canyon I'm sure there's more but I can't remember Jar's always giving me books to read aswell, I always love the books he gives me to read. If it wasent for Jar I would never have read the Dark Tower books *Shivers* |
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Dark Tower books p0g0!? |
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oh Lovecraft's awesome I read some of his stuff last summer; he's great. |
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OOOOOHHHHHH YEAH !! Love it =oD |
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All things serve the beam |
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Anyone like Thomas Pynchon? "The Crying of Lot 49" is a great little book in 7 chapters that can easily be read in a week. If you're feeling smart, you could try tackling the amazingly ponderous "Gravity's Rainbow." I'm truly afraid of that book. |
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I keep meaning to read some Pynchon as a lot of my designer mates think he's the tops.... Just started Underworld by Don DeLillo (sp??) yesterday...that's about a 1000 pages long & bloody heavy so it's a right arse to carry around (I read a lot on my journey to work)...still I guess the exercise will do me good :)...... |
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I see nick hornby is really 'in' now....everyone on the beach had a hornby book anylike roddy doyle's paddy clarke har har har? |
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I havent read any hornby. worth it? |
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I enjoyed Don DeLillo's "White Noise." For a long time I wanted to start a band named after the centerpiece of the the novel - the "Airborne Toxic Event." |
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think I'll go for that next as I'm really enjoying Underworld... |
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I much preferred 'high fidelity' to 'about a boy' the film high fidelity is good too, even though they changed it from london to chicago |
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Ayn Rand - Letters of Ayn Rand |
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Oh yeah, that's one of his innit !! I've seen the first 1/2 of the film then fell asleep (it was about 5am and I was stoned =o\) I'll give that one a go =oD |
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Ada or Ardor. Everything else seems so empty and poorly written after reading this. I've reading the complete works of oscar wilde at the moment, currently the play "Vera: Or, the Nihilists" it's quite weak compared to his masterpiece, "The importance of being ernest" and "The portrait of Dorian Grey". I'm also reading some "Just William" books that I bought in a car boot sale. I know they're kids books, but they're so funny. |
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I've been meaning to check out Don Deliello (or however you spell it). I'm currently reading 'Grits' by Niall Griffiths and its crap compared to 'Sheepshagger'. I want to give up but i'm halfway through and am loathe to put down a book I've started. |
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your mention of Wilde made me dig out his bio last week...tough going to start with but after the first 50 pages I was hooked...makes excellent background reading if you like the plays as it kinda puts em in context... I think it's by Richard Elleson or something like that... |
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I'm currently reading Albert Camus's The Stranger after being recommended by my philosophy professor. I'm near the end, and I must say, it's one of the most engaging reads I've had in a long time. It is relatively short (less than 150 pgs), but the style Camus uses is very powerful, putting great meaning in each setence instead of over-elaborating. The story itself is great and very morally intriguing, and I find myself relating to the main character very well, thinking that I would share similiar feelings in his sitiuation. I would highly recommend it to anyone looking for an interesting and thought-provoking read. |
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Been vaguely depressed lately, so i'm re-reading my way thru the moomin books by the wonderful mrs tove jansson. so dark and surreal and yet so lovely :) |
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I finished Nemesis (Isaac Asimov) a few weeks ago, which was good if you like Asimov, though the ending seemed quite weak. In another day I should be finished with Lucifer's Hammer (Larry Niven). It's been pretty darn good, especially if you are intrigued by end of civilization type stories. Been debating what I'm going to read next. It's either going to be some philosophy (Kierkegaard or Kant) or Mark Twain (Letters From Earth or Roughing It). Any suggestions? |
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The Stranger was one of the only good books I've read in highschool, I related well to the main character as well. |
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i've been reading some old steve perry sci-fi novels |
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"Tha Doggfather" - Snoop Dogg's autobiography. Highly recommended. |
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invisible monsters |
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