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David Huxley - Nasty Tales: Sex, Drugs, Rock 'N' Roll and Violence In The British Underground. A look at the counterculture in Britain from the 1960s to the 1980s through the underground comics produced at the time starting with stuff like IT and OZ ending with Viz. Reads quite a bit like a school text book but with pictures of tits and monsters. Mildly interesting. |
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Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe |
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Wow. People here be reading some deep philosophical stuffs. Currently reading: The Echo Maker - Richard Powers The first hundred pages are boring. I'll probably finish it tomorrow. Next I want to read either Christoph Wolfe's Bach biography or the new Ian McEwan novella. I liked Saturday, so I'll probably save the Bach for later. |
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i'm reading a james herriot book my dad forced me to borrow. it's cute. |
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To Have and Have Not Hemingway Opto; I read the Herriot books when I was a teenager - they're quite gently humorous. |
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i'll never look at a cow's anus the same way again. |
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Did you know that there was a long-running TV series in the UK based on his books? |
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yeah, whenever i get a new book i compulsively read all of the articles associated with it on wikipedia. so far my biggest complaint about mr. james herriot (if that is his real name!) is a Severe Lack of Cat Stories, cats being the most idm of domesticated animals. most of the stories seem to be about herriot putting things inside of the asses of farm animals. |
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i was a bit of a ponce in 2004. apparently couldn't be arsed to correct mal-keystrokes either. anyhow, as fate would have it, i am currently reading the aforementioned Thief's Journal. pretty compelling stuff, which probably means that i'm gay. i had started reading Robert Musil's Five Women compilation of short stories before that, but then i left it at a friend's house, so now i'm waiting to finish it. also just got out Danilo Kis' Encyclopedia of the Dead, as i will need mondo reading materials for my impending eurotrip. before all this i read Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald, and can say that it was one of the better reading experiences i ever remember having. everyone should read Sebald. |
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i'm on the last 60 pages of gravity's rainbow. this bastard of a book has taken me like two months to read. if it was a videogame then it would be 100 hours of mindless grinding just for the dim satisfaction of defeating the final boss. quite possibly the most hyperdense and useless book i've ever read. well, i say that but i do enjoy reading it every now and then. it all depends on what kind of huge digression pynchon is on at the time. |
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Stephen Clarke - A year in the merde Richard Ellman - James Joyce |
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ooh, that's my favourite biography. fascinating and engrossing. |
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