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Just picked up Umberto Eco's The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana from my local Waterstone's bookseller. I've read chapter one of part one; the story concerns an amnesiac who remembers nothing about himself, but remembers the contents of every book he's ever read. It's been engrossing so far. "A beautiful evocation of a difficult period of Italian history, full of the flair and erudition for which we love Eco" Metro "Confirms Eco as an outstanding writer of philosophy dressed as fiction" Observer "Another great exhilaration from Eco. Eye-poppingly fascinating" These write-ups greatly influenced my decision to purchase this book. |
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"Umberto Eco once again triumphs in reminding everyone how cleve he is" I am reading "Cortos" by Alberto Fuguet, but I couldn't tell you much about it beyond it's quite entertaining. That and my luxury volumes of Robert Aickman that I am savouring page by haunted page. |
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The Cheese Lover's Cookbook and Guide: Over 150 Recipes with Instructions on How to Buy, Store, and Serve All Your Favorite Cheeses by Paula Lambert. The plots a bit rubbish. Each chapter seems different from the last with only the same loose cheesy theme running through it. |
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Charles Bukowski: Women Very entertaining. |
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I can't even spell "clever" and I've read both The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum, and both were insufferable. |
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I saw a very similar book myself recently; next time you're browsing at the bookshop, you might like to consider moving away from the Dairy Product section. |
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I haven't read any Umberto Eco before; I saw Name of the Rose many moons again and remember liking it. Anyway, I'm enjoying this book so far, and if I enjoy it for its remainder I might well pick up another Eco! |
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But I like reading the dairies of people lives :( |
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Bukowski rules. I didn't like Women as much as his other semi-autobiographical novels, though. Currently reading Richard Ford - Independence Day. It's pretty good, the main character kind of reminds me of Lester Burnham in the movie American Beauty. |
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In which case, like a farmer passing through a field of cows, you must tread more carefully through that section, else you might find yourself enstenched in Cheese Books :'{ |
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Dean Koontz - Velocity. absolute fucking garbage. really is shit. im only still reading to find out who the killer 'genius' is. last time i take a book recommendation off of my housemate. twat. |
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I only read "post office" before, wich i liked a lot. I was caught in a crappy job myself, at the time i read it, so it was perfect. Enjoying "Women" as well. |
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Haha! You didn't pause when you discovered the author was Dean Koontz? That didn't arouse your suspicions about the book's quality? :D |
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I'm reading: Earth and Planetary Science Letters Vol. 47 part 1. It's a real page-turner. |
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id never heard of him before. i dont follow fiction really. I only actively seek out sci-fi books and most of them are old. My mate works in a book shop so i let him recommend me a lot of stuff. the last fiction book i read before this was Haunted by Palahniuk (?) and i thought that was shit too so i put it down and read Last Exit to Brooklyn for the third time. |
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just finished altered carbon by richard morgan, now finishing count zero by william gibson, |
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You should have read "Choke" instead. |
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"Sex, death and flyfishing" by John Gierach |
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i just read the ruins by scott smith, which was quite a trashy no brainer but fun, and am about to open warren fellows' the damage done. |
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ive read choke and i enjoyed it. thats why i picked up Haunted. it was just really disappointing though. the structure of the book seemed cool at first but the stories were mostly crap. |
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princess diaries pt.2 |
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is it good? |
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in the final third of the good soldier by ford madox ford. gets better the more you realise how unique it is. |
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kurt vonnegut -wampeters, foma and granfalloons it's a collection of essays and speeches mostly |
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Ah, OK. Cool. Then i would reccomend "Survivor". It's really good as well. I understand your critique. |
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Seconding Survivor, really enjoyed that one. What's his best novel apart from that one? |
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that one |
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Choke and Survivor are two excellent books. Read them first, and if you really love them maybe go on with hmmm.... Invisible monsters. Then Lullaby Then Stranger than fiction/Nonfiction: A good read actually. There was one of the bits, that i had to skip, because i found it to disgusting. For the first time in any Palahniuk book! Fight Club: is probably good, but having seen the movie before i read it, it coloured my reading of it a lot. |
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Also, my favourite book of alltime: Hermann Hesse: Siddhartha Has anyone read it? It's such a good book. |
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ocean of sound: david toop weird book about ambient and early electronic music. found it at the garden centre down the road before i came to uni. |
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I recommend Haruki Murakami for those of you who haven't read anything by him. Dance Dance Dance and the Wind-Up Bird Chronicle are two of the best books I've read. |
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I have recently read: Haunted - Chuck Palaniuk, Cocaine nights - JG Ballard and Rip it up and start again - Simon Reynolds. Haunted was an excellent read. Palaniuk has a way of reading that keeps you engrossed, even if what he is talking about makes you feel sick. JG Ballard writes well. This is the first book i have read by him. I will find some more. The way cocaine nights ends is fantastic. Rip it up and start is a book about post punk 1978 - 1984 and is a fascinating read if you are a music geek. I have discovered some great bands thanks to this book. It is written in a way that just flows nicely and it gives you a balanced view of the most of the main players in each little scene covered. Currently reading: Metamorphosis and other stories by Franz Kafka. I really do enjoy his style. Metamorphosis is only a short story but it gives you quite a nice scope into a whole range of human emotion. Well worth reading. |
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That post punk book sounds mighty interesting, I'll definately check it out sometime |
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I searched up the old Wot R U Readin LOL thread for some recommendations a few weeks ago and found that I had posted saying I was reading Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man, which i realised I never finished, so im reading that again. I also got Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five out of the library because some people ranted about it. and also a Tom Wolfe book because I just finished a Hunter Thompson said he was cool. |
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Kafka... the one where the protagonist is turned into a bug? |
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I find Kafka's prose to be almost unreadable; I started to read his collexion of short stories many moons ago and just couldn't enjoy it all. I do remember quite enjoying The Trial, but couldn't get into The Castle. |
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Slaughterhouse 5 is wikkid. |
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Oh I love Kafka and I love The Castle and the way he writes. It's incredibly precise in its senseless ramblings and very funny. |
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i'm reading last month's SoundOnSound yeah ! |
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Altered Carbon that's what I am reading right now. |
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It's good that he has an appreciative audience; alas, just doesn't resonate with me personally |
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I am also reading the Portrait of the Artist. Also have to reread dubliners & ulysses for uni... |
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The story is called metamorphosis. |
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The sequel to "Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance", which is called "Lila". I'm also reading Gordon Ramsay's autobiography. |
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DMT, the spirit molecule by Rick Strassman. fascinating stuff. |
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I'm sorely tempted to buy David Hasselhoff's autobiography, for the comedy value. I picked it up at an ASDA, opened it at random, and he has just met Sammy Davis Jr (I think), and Sammy says to the Hoff. "One of my biggest regrets is that I never got to sing with you." By God, it made me chuckle. |
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I forget how important reading (non fiction) is. I've been festering for some time, evidenced by my xlfuckitronic posts. Reading is almost the only thing that matters. And genetically I'm stupid as fuck so need all the culture I can get. Now, essays here: |
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a field guide to the flora of south eastern australia |
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago |
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I just finished Evelyn Waugh's 'A Handful of Dust'. It damn near killed me. "The Loved One' was much more enjoyable. I picked up JSwift's "Gulliver's Travels" yesterday for a good second hand price, but I think I'll leave it for a while. I need something to pick me up after the slow torture that was 'A Handful of Dust'. I am thinking maybe 'The Hobbit'. |
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