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Joined: Feb 16, 2005 Posts: 5203 Location: Norwich
in the vein of all the other threads like this i thought i would start one about books, also because i have only got a few books on my list to read now so i am looking for inspiration. anyways, i will start the ball rolling:
just finished sue townsend - adrian mole and the weapons of mass destruction and i am now starting on the battle royale comics that i have.
what are you reading? what do you think of it? and you got any other recommendations?
I have the cowboy bebop and Ghost in the shell mangas to read and the Jeremy Clarkson book i got for christmas. _________________ Download my e.p. here
Joined: Jul 21, 2005 Posts: 646 Location: On a Ragga Tip
I'm currently reading "If Chins Could Kill" - The auto-biography of Bruce Campbell. Not really started it yet but i have a feeling i'm going to thoroughly enjoy it!
I usually have 2 or 3 on the go, different genres cos I read according to what mood I'm in. Just read Peter Kayes book, I'm a fan so I loved it, very funny. Now starting 'Billy' (one about billy connolly by pamela stephenson).
Also just read 'Born On a Blue Day' by daniel tammet, absolutely brilliant. he has savant syndrome, which is a form of aspergers & is very rare. its the same thing that the bloke who inspired dustin hoffmans character in 'rainman' has. there was a documentary about him on tv, called 'brainman' which I missed but would love to see. its really inspirational in a non-sappy or annoying way. he went from barely being able to socialise & hating leaving his bedroom, to teaching in lithuania & doing all kinds of amazing things. totally recommend this to anyone, especially if you're interested in learning difficulties. now starting a book by a girl with tourettes, which hopefully will be interesting.
fiction wise I just read 'never let me go' by kazuo ishiguro, lent to me by a friend otherwise probably wouldnt have. I still cant decide how good it was. I did like it, it certainly had an interesting twist, in that it was different & totally unguessable, & most of the characters were good, BUT for some reason I can't go any further than 'good' in my description. really struggling to find great fiction at the mo _________________ Reporter: \"Mr. Gandhi, what do you think of Western civilization?\" Ghandi: \"It would be a good idea\"
Joined: Feb 16, 2005 Posts: 5203 Location: Norwich
on the aspergers note, i read the curious incident of the dog in the night time by mark haddon. it is a really good book about the murder of a dog which kind of spiels off after a while, still a good read, i was hooked and read it in a day which is amazing for me.
Joined: Feb 13, 2005 Posts: 4509 Location: The Rock Boudoir
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Just finished The Rise of Endymion by Dan Simmons (fucking awesome) and am now starting the sequel to Ilium, i.e. Olympos, by the same author. Based on Homer's Iliad, but science fiction.
I've moved off the Very Hungry Caterpillar and now I'm reading;
Bukowski's 'New Poems Book 1', I thought I’d lost it and only found it again the other week behind a display cabinet. Its the only Bukowski book I've read unfortunately.
and…
A book on Francis Bacon written by Luigi Ficacci. It keeps me occupied on the bus.
on the aspergers note, i read the curious incident of the dog in the night time by mark haddon. it is a really good book about the murder of a dog which kind of spiels off after a while, still a good read, i was hooked and read it in a day which is amazing for me.
yes, a very popular book. I too read it in one sitting, which was cool but at the same time annoying cos I like a book to last so as I havent got to struggle to find another good one. altho its rare if I like a book for it to take more than a few days to read it.
has anyone read 'war & peace'? I'm debating getting it cos obviously it'll last a while. would it appeal to someone who isnt generally into historical stuff tho? I only read/enjoy historical type novels if they have enough human interest type stuff to keep my attention. ie the book is more character than event driven. I really loved wild swans, even tho I didnt think I would because the people its about were amazing & the events it is set around were kind of secondary but also told in an interesting way. _________________ Reporter: \"Mr. Gandhi, what do you think of Western civilization?\" Ghandi: \"It would be a good idea\"
Joined: Feb 16, 2005 Posts: 1580 Location: Norwich
clydefrog wrote:
Just finished The Rise of Endymion by Dan Simmons (fucking awesome) and am now starting the sequel to Ilium, i.e. Olympos, by the same author. Based on Homer's Iliad, but science fiction.
Fucking sweet.
Simmon's Endymion & Hyperion novels are foookin good, are Ilium etc decent as well?
Alistair Reynolds is amazing for anyone who likes pretty hardcore Sci-Fi, recommend the 'Revelation Space' series. And of course Iain M. Banks (just finished 'Excession', Player of Games is cool too).
am half way through an Artemis Fowl - eternity code. its the 1st one i have read out of the series and is dam good.
before that was dean kootz's the husband and also dean kootz's frankenstein which i HIGHLY recomend _________________ DeathLesbian - www.myspace.com/joshharris87
Alas, I'm incapable of reading anything except newspapers and magazines. The copy of "The Godfather" which I was sent this week as a late Xmas pressie is lying untouched on the table in front of me. 590 pages and no pictures? Fuck off.
Joined: Feb 13, 2005 Posts: 4509 Location: The Rock Boudoir
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Aegis wrote:
clydefrog wrote:
Just finished The Rise of Endymion by Dan Simmons (fucking awesome) and am now starting the sequel to Ilium, i.e. Olympos, by the same author. Based on Homer's Iliad, but science fiction.
Fucking sweet.
Simmon's Endymion & Hyperion novels are foookin good, are Ilium etc decent as well?
Alistair Reynolds is amazing for anyone who likes pretty hardcore Sci-Fi, recommend the 'Revelation Space' series. And of course Iain M. Banks (just finished 'Excession', Player of Games is cool too).
Aegis
Yeah - Ilium is pretty awesome, but not as good as the Hyperion saga. I think Excession is my favourite Banks book, but Feersum Enjinn is fucking incredible just with regards to how the book is wrttien from the perspective of Bascuule (i.e. phoenetically). I like Reynolds too, but prefer Peter Hamilton. Neal Asher's books are good too - bit lighter, bit more actioney. Gridlinked is a good one. _________________
Joined: Feb 16, 2005 Posts: 6149 Location: Camden County
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now starting a book by a girl with tourettes, which hopefully will be interesting.
Is every other word 'CUNT' and 'FUCKING SWEATY MANBALLS!!!'?
I'm so mature.
I just finished 'Life on Planet Rock' by Lonn Friend who used to edit RIP magazine, it's awesome if you like rock bios as it's basically a collection of short stories about rockstars such as Axl Rose, Lars Ulrich, Seb Bach, Bon Jovi etc. strung together into an autobiography of Friend. It's an entertaining read.
I just started 'Haunted' by Chuck Palahniuk as I love his stuff but I'm not that far in. Looks like it could be good, hopefully it's better than 'Choke' anyway, which was poor.
After that I'm reading Lemmy's autobiography 'White Line Fever' as I bought it at the weekend. Can't wait for that one!
These days I mainly read politics stuff - best thing I read recently was Miguel Garcia's Story an autobiography of the anarchist side in the spanish civil war (mainly the warfare rather than the revolution).
I used to read a lot of SF - favourite authors being Bester, Barrington J Bailey, William Gibson's short stories, Star Maker and Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon, Cordwainer Smith short stories, Ursula le Guin's Dispossessed and The Lathe of Heaven. Philip K Dick - Now Wait for Last Year, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Martian Time Slip. John Sladek, Roderick books and Reproductive System. Matheson: I am Legend. Simmons' Hyperion is something on my "one day when i have time I'll get it and read it list". Didn't really get on with Alastair Reynolds, but of more recent authors (i miss the days when SF was 200 pages long!) Adam Roberts's Salt I liked, and Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy (though he talks too much about fuckin regolith...) I enjoyed some Michael marshall Smith, but got the impression that he seriously rushed some of it (or didn't do a second draft!).
Music wise i'm currently reading "A Network of Friends" a split zine between loads of different zines. Headwound is awesome, best zine ever. _________________ http://www.myspace.com/riotouspromotions
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