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• #1127
War Minus the Shooting - Marqusee. just started it today, perfect timing eh. i just finished Broom of the System (which is more than the author did haha)
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• #1128
Just stumbled across this fantastic new author. he seems to only deal with online distribution at the moment but his work is worth it IMO
Wowee.
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• #1129
I just can't imagine where he get's the inspiration for most of his stuff...
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• #1130
Just read this
[ame="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Remembering-Armed-Struggle-Life-Baader-Meinhof/dp/0955485045/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1298307796&sr=8-1-spell"]Remembering the Armed Struggle: Life in Baader-Meinhof: Amazon.co.uk: Margrit Schiller: Books[/ame]
Margrit Schillers account of her time with Baader-Meinhoff. Fascinating, illuminating and disturbing in equal measure.
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• #1131
haven't read much lately as i've been concentrating on other things. picked up this from my girlfriend's ever growing pile of discarded paperpacks the other day though:
really well written but i can't decide if it was intentionally pretentious or if that was part of the conceit. think i enjoyed it... not sure.
am currently very much enjoying the keith richards autobiography. liking the fact that it's been fairly lightly edited so that plenty of oddly structured sentences and seeming non-sequiturs have been retained. i like trying to read it in keith's lovely voice. he's such a likeable character.
*lowbrow
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• #1132
I'm reading The Naked Lunch at the moment, it's enriching my vocabulary endless.
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• #1133
Just stumbled across this fantastic new author. he seems to only deal with online distribution at the moment but his work is worth it IMO
did you read this one?
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• #1134
did you read this one?
no.
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• #1135
Currently steaming through Horus Rising, the first of the Horus Heresy books.
/warhammer40k
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• #1136
On 'Wait Until Spring, Bandini' at the moment. The only one I haven't read from the semi autobiographical Arturo Bandini saga by John Fante.
A bit slower to get moving than the others but no less funny. Nice to see the background of his parents and to learn a bit more about them.Thoroughly recommend any book in the Bandini series. Fante was an enormous influence to Bukowski, that's the main reason I looked him up in the beginning.
Also recomend any book by the (now defunct) publishers Rebel Inc Classics. Not been let down yet.
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• #1137
I got to Fante the same way.. Great writing.
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• #1138
This is a great read, somewhere between poetry, autobiography and comedy.
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• #1139
^classic!
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• #1140
anna karenina, still! i really don't read enough.
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• #1141
Needed something lightweight to get back into reading, so read The Lost Symbol.
Not bad, entertaining enough. Brown seems to have altered his formula slightly... there wasn't a single albino!
Just started Boy Racer... all good so far. I do like Cavendish, especially after the emotion he displayed during last years tour. Hopefully this year will be his year in green.
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• #1142
Reading: Louis L'Amour - Callaghen.
Light reading at its finest!
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• #1143
On 'Wait Until Spring, Bandini' at the moment. The only one I haven't read from the semi autobiographical Arturo Bandini saga by John Fante.
A bit slower to get moving than the others but no less funny. Nice to see the background of his parents and to learn a bit more about them.Thoroughly recommend any book in the Bandini series. Fante was an enormous influence to Bukowski, that's the main reason I looked him up in the beginning.
Also recomend any book by the (now defunct) publishers Rebel Inc Classics. Not been let down yet.
I love Bukowski! Is the Fante stuff readily available?
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• #1144
Yes
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• #1145
I love Bukowski! Is the Fante stuff readily available?
Which Bukowski work would you recommend I read first?
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• #1146
Ham on Rye
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• #1147
"The book of Dave" by Will Self
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• #1148
learning to eat soup with a knife
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• #1149
Pah, Bukowski. I wouldn't bother at all. Got Ham on Rye, wasn't enough to convince me to read another.
@terse
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• #1150
Which Bukowski work would you recommend I read first?
Post Office
Just stumbled across this fantastic new author. he seems to only deal with online distribution at the moment but his work is worth it IMO
http://www.crazymadwriter.com/home.htm