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• #127
Ahem. I just want to apologise for my drunken ranting.
I shouldn't have opened the laptop, let alone logged on here. Sorry all.
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• #128
I'm still on American Pyscho. Good, but starting to get annoyed by the constant outfit analysis, but I guess it's because he's pyscho.
Picked up a book from south bank books about razor gangs of the Bogside.. sounds crazy.
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• #129
I've just started Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone. Only three chapters in but its shaping up nicely.
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• #130
On the Road by Jack Kerouac, a great read so far.
oh yes, i loved that.
top 5 books*:
1) life of Pi
2) on the road
3) vernon 'god' little
4) eternal lightness of being
5) wind-up bird chronical*subject to change :D
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• #131
oh yes, i loved that.
top 5 books*:
1) life of Pi
2) on the road
3) vernon 'god' little
4) eternal lightness of being
5) wind-up bird chronical*subject to change :D
Those are all great reading. As a norwegian I'll suggest the swedish novel "Let the right one in" by [ame="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/203-3505392-1015115?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books-uk&field-author=John%20Ajvide%20Lindqvist"]John Ajvide Lindqvist[/ame]. A great read, sad, funny and thrilling. The best read I've had the last five years. And i don't even like books on wampires.
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• #132
Currently Fundamentals of Molecular Spectroscopy by C.N. Banwell...
Thrilling stuff :(
Although I'm about to start Crime Passionel by Sartre :)
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• #133
Just finished Confessions of a Carp Fisher by B.B. Very lovely book.
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• #134
half way through invisible monsters, and the books thread was my incarnation, just saying
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• #135
Just finished "We Think" (http://www.wethinkthebook.net/) which was pretty good.
I am nearly done with "The Long Tail" which is awesome, really good book about lots of different things - http://www.thelongtail.com/ -
• #136
I would recommend the 'Year of the Hare" by Arto Paasilinna.
A very short read about a journalist who accidently hits a hare on his way home. He then follows it into the forest to help the injured animal only to then decide to give up modern life and live a simple life in the forests of Finland.
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• #137
I just got 'Four Against the Arctic'
The true story of 4 sailors survival for 6 years in the Arctic after being shipwrecked on a hunting expedition. All they had with them was a rifle with 12 shots, 20lbs of flour, their clothes, and a wooden shed.
The first chapter is mindblowing, I'm hooked already!
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• #138
the above book started off well and then developed into some intellectual bullshit comparing previous records against his own... I quickly lost interest as it was less about the 4 Pomori, but more about the author. Zzzzz
so now I have purchased the classic Robinson Crusoe and I am loving it.
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• #139
just starting a 15,000 word dissertation on "Voss" by Patrick White, a book concerned with 'the most fundamental issues of humanity, such as the relationship between madness and sanity, reality and illusion, and the problem of communication in existential matters'.
should be fun.
if anyone needs me, i'm in the library. forever. and ever.
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• #140
godspeed, pj!! would be interesting to read the finished product...!
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• #141
'Lights Out For The Territory' by Iain Sinclair... just started it, but it's looking pretty good. Sinclair's style can be a bit exhausting at times, I think, but it's usually entertaining enough that you don't mind too much. Recommended, though - might make you think about the city (any city, not just London) in a different way.
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• #142
I really enjoyed that Iain Sinclair one too.
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• #143
I purchased a new copy of George Orwells classic Down and Out in Paris and London on the weekend.
I love George Orwell. He is the best.
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• #144
I love books like 'Island', 'A Modern Utopia', 'Nineteen Eighty-Four', etc, but I'm just coming to the end of the most mindblowing thing I've ever read;
Olaf Stapledon - Star Maker
*"Star Maker is a cornerstone work of science fiction. Stapledon undertakes the immense task of describing the entire history of life in the universe. It dwarfs in scale even his 1930 book Last and First Men, which is a history of the human species over two billion years. It tackles philosophical themes such as the essence of life, of birth, decay and death, and the relationship between creation and creator, and it succeeds in evoking a sense of the sheer scale and complexity of the cosmos. The narrator starts with a concern at the clash of ideas on Earth and finds analogies to both communism and fascism among the aliens he visits.
A pervading theme is that of progressive unity within and between different civilizations. Some of the elements and themes briefly discussed prefigure later fiction concerning genetic engineering and alien life forms. It has long been considered to be one of the finest works of science fiction ever written."*
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• #145
Currently reading:
The Penultimate Truth - PK Dick which a la Woody Allen will be utter genius or utter toss. Naturally I go with the former save the latter who is most definitely latter.
Jennifer Government - Max Barry - File under enjoyable trash.Recently read:
Off The Rails, medium-well written travelog of two recumbents from Moscow to Beijing.
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• #146
finished Young Stalin last month, i'm halfway through Stalin The Court Of The Red Tsar both by Simon Seabag Montefiore
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• #147
I'm reading the FT Weekend after finishing City's for a small planet by Richard Rogers.
The next thing I'd like to read is the Quran and a book explaining the Quran.
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• #148
gosh, i'm totally hooked on the dark materials trilogy! can't put it down. just in the second book now, loved the first. before that i read neuromancer and loved it. want to read some P.K Dick soon too.
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• #149
You should get onto the Math-fi that is Neal Stephenson. The Baroque Cycle is a fine epic.
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• #150
Re-reading
J. D. Salinger, For Esmé – with Love and Squalor
It shouldn't take too long.Michel Houellebecq, Atomised
and Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
I've read them all before and really need something new.
Time for Sylvia Plath?
I loved the Bell Jar when I was a teenager, indeed was a little obsessed the woman, even read the 'Letters Home' collection & recall visiting Chalcott Sq where she put her head in the oven, am considering a re-read
On the Road by Jack Kerouac, a great read so far.