What are you reading?

[goth_pet]

ok i see watching and listening so reading i havn't seen or couldn't find in a search.

I'm re-reading the mammother book of thrillers-ghosts and mysteries.

tis a good book, not all stories in it are good, but majority of them are.

nearly baught a book on heroes and lost the other day but the lack of money and need to eat stopped me.

so whats everyone else reading?

[Terracod]

This:

http://man-wich.com/rev.gif

[Terracod]

Also, this:

http://man-wich.com/venison.jpg

[Terracod]

And this:

http://man-wich.com/prawns.jpg

[Tom]

I'm halfway through Soul Music by Terry Pratchett. Easy reading that you don't need to focus too much on, and it raises a giggle every now and again.

[Edinburgh]

Travels with Charley-John Steinbeck

Brilliant.

Steinbeck must be my favorite writer next to Camus.

[TMISv2.0]

Mark Chadbourn - The Burning Man.

Fast paced as hell, it's absolutely ace so far. You'll need to read the others first though.

[Gareth]

Iain M Banks - The Algebraist

you have to focus on the reading, else you just... miss stuff.

it's very in-depth

[fermium]

Doris Lessing - The Golden Notebook for book club, only just started it but I like it so far.

Bill Bryson - A Short History of Nearly Everything. Really ace quick overview of lots of science written in an easy to understand way.

[Pish]

Cornflakes By Kellogs

[Markoos]

Still reading The Bourne Identity because I get to read for about 20 minutes a day.

[stephen]

Just about to start reading Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. The Virgin Suicides is one of my favourite books ever, I'm hoping that this is as good.

[Vincent]

Finished The Prestige, which has an awesome ending. :cool: Now reading Interview With The Vampire. Think I prefer it to the film thus far, as Louis isn't as much of a wuss.

[Hex]

Carpe Jugulum.

[Davos]

Now reading Interview With The Vampire. Think I prefer it to the film thus far, as Louis isn't as much of a wuss.

not bad, though her Lasher series is much better.

I'm currently reading Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, to be followed by The Algebraist by Iain M Banks.

[Beaker]

Orcs - Stan Nicholls
Book is told from the POV of an Orc Warband. Pretty good actually, got it in Oban for something to chill out with.

Wellington : Pillar Of State - Elizabeth Longford
A Biography that deals with what Wellington did after Waterloo until his death. Quite interesting to be honest.

CCA Study Guide - Various
Basically a technical manual that i'm studying to pass my CCA exams.

[Gazno1]

And this:

http://man-wich.com/prawns.jpg

is that the singer from sonic boom six?

also, not that i'm picking on you but that is a lobster haha

[Gazno1]

Louis Theroux- The Call of The Wierd

The Script of 'Fame: The Musical', because i'm playing Schlomo in a small university piece showcasing some of the songs.

[totalvictory]

http://biblioklept.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/our-band.jpg

[Hopkin Green Frog]

I'm reading Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder, by David Weinberger (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Everything-Miscellaneous-Power-Digital-Disorder/dp/0805080430/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208690450&sr=8-1) - not often I read non-fiction in book form, but this is enjoyable and interesting.

[Pink]

I need a good book to read

Recommendations please.

I like horror, sci fi, chick lit, auto biogs, crime thrillers etc. Well anything really.



go!

[Beaker]

I need a good book to read

Recommendations please.

I like horror, sci fi, chick lit, auto biogs, crime thrillers etc. Well anything really.



go!
Trudi Canavan - The Black Magician triliogy. Sould keep you going for a few weeks.

[Pink]

Trudi Canavan - The Black Magician triliogy. Sould keep you going for a few weeks.

Thankies

I shall try to seek it out

[Beaker]

Thankies

I shall try to seek it out
Borders had them on Buy one, get one half price. That deal is responsible for more overspend than I can count. She has 2 triliogys out on the shelf. The Black Magician and The Age of the Five. Either are worth a read. Both me and Kait like them. Others to look at include "The Lies of Locke Lamora" by Scott Lynch, and the sequel "Red Seas under Red Skies", or "Wicked" by Stephen Schwartz, Wicked was a book before it was a musical.

[Pink]

Borders had them on Buy one, get one half price. That deal is responsible for more overspend than I can count. She has 2 triliogys out on the shelf. The Black Magician and The Age of the Five. Either are worth a read. Both me and Kait like them. Others to look at include "The Lies of Locke Lamora" by Scott Lynch, and the sequel "Red Seas under Red Skies", or "Wicked" by Stephen Schwartz, Wicked was a book before it was a musical.

Righto.

I am heading out shortly so I will try and get to Borders.


Cheers me dear

[Blousey Brown]

I've been a bit lazy with my reading recently, opting for books that I can fall asleep to.
I'm not after reading War and Peace, but can anyone name me some of the classics of literature that I really should get read?

[TMISv2.0]

I need a good book to read

Recommendations please.

I like horror, sci fi, chick lit, auto biogs, crime thrillers etc. Well anything really.



go!


Mark Chadbourn's Age of Misrule (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Age-Misrule-Darkest-Forever-Gollancz/dp/0575079185/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208691324&sr=8-1) trilogy... Then go on from there. Seriously what I'm reading now is further on in the series and it's been consistently ace throughout the whole series :D

[Rach]

I am still trying to read 'Death of an ordinary man' by Glen Duncan, it is really hard to read and I have now been trying for about 2 weeks! I have read some other books in the meantime notably Nick Hornby 'Slam', which was really good.

[Anneka]

Severed by Simon Kernick
http://www.play.com/Books/Books/4-/3490244/Severed/Product.html
Awesome book a full throttle read.

I've read so many books recently but some of my favs include;
Flowers in the Attic, the full series by Virginia Andrews,(very emotional story)
'A Child called it' trilolgy by Dave Pelzer, ( True life story, gripping)
The Dexter Triolgy by Jeff Lindsay ( lots of gore and awesomness) and
Under My Spell by Deborah Wright (a lovely rom com with magic spells.)

[JohnnyYen]

I've been a bit lazy with my reading recently, opting for books that I can fall asleep to.
I'm not after reading War and Peace, but can anyone name me some of the classics of literature that I really should get read?

Wuthering Heights is good. Most Dickens is a pain, I can't stand Jane Austen...if you're talking modern classics, I'd go for:


The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
The Sound And The Fury - William Faulkner
A Confederacy Of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis

[robbieBAYAREATHRASH]

http://biblioklept.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/our-band.jpg

this is an awesome book! Made me really love Minutmen and early Sonic Youth, tis good. Dance Of Days is worth reading as well, if your interested by the DC scene.

I'm reading -

Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer
Viz over and over
Emma Goldsmith's "Anarachism"
and lots of nerdy music books; Audio Culture, Ocean of Sound, The Thinking Ear and The Wire's Undercurrents amongst many others.

[Emma]

I'm reading Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for my Gothic Lit essay. It's actually not bad.

[robbieBAYAREATHRASH]

I need a good book to read

Recommendations please.

I like horror, sci fi, chick lit, auto biogs, crime thrillers etc. Well anything really.



go!

H.P. Lovecraft

this is a total winner -
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Call-Cthulhu-Stories-Penguin-Classics/dp/0141187069/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208700172&sr=1-4

[Blousey Brown]

Wuthering Heights is good. Most Dickens is a pain, I can't stand Jane Austen...if you're talking modern classics, I'd go for:


The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
The Sound And The Fury - William Faulkner
A Confederacy Of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis


Aye I've read Wuthering Heights numerous times, my favourite book to date.
I'll check those others out though. Thanks :)

[Rutherford]

is that the singer from sonic boom six?



I doth wonder that too it looks like Leila K...


I am currently reading "Motorsport Aerodynamics and Computational Fluid Dynamics" and it's slowly driving me insane...

But I just ordered a Hunter S Thompson book which should restore the balance.

[JohnnyYen]

H.P. Lovecraft


I think it's all legal, out of copyright stuff, if not I'm sure a mod can delete it:

Bunch of Lovecraft stories online. (http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/index.html)

[enomilie]

Trudi Canavan - The Black Magician triliogy. Sould keep you going for a few weeks.

:cool: really good books!

I'm on with the age of five trilogy at the moment!

[Wishfairy]

Tom holt - who's afraid of the beowolf? - I know I can rely on Holt for a good for a giggle

HH The Dali Lama - The art of happiness - a little bit of straight to talking from the man who knows best. Ask yourself do you want it because it will bring you pleasure or because it will bring you happiness? It's a great read and helps readjust perspective.

Good Housekeeping - Complete indian and far eastern cookbook - time to try something new!

[Wishfairy]

:cool: really good books!

I'm on with the age of five trilogy at the moment!

Canavan's are the only books we fight over, we both want to read them as soon as they get released but it seems pointless to buy two copies. I usualy lose though and end up reading them second!

[Edinburgh]

http://biblioklept.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/our-band.jpg
That book is awesome. On a side note-Ian MacKaye is a wanker.

Wuthering Heights is good. Most Dickens is a pain, I can't stand Jane Austen...if you're talking modern classics, I'd go for:


The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
The Sound And The Fury - William Faulkner
A Confederacy Of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis


Yes, read this one. Stupidly funny,as for the main character...infuriating is the word.

[Pink]

Thanks for the recommendations and links guys.

As soon as I get my new cash card I shall be ordering up a storm on Amazon!

[robbieBAYAREATHRASH]

That book is awesome. On a side note-Ian MacKaye is a wanker.



Yes, read this one. Stupidly funny,as for the main character...infuriating is the word.

how is he a wanker?

[Metrobone]

sourcery by terry pratchett

[Rach]

A few years ago one of the newspapers printed the Top 100 books of all time and I decided I was going to read them all, I started and then forgot about it, found the list again and have decided to do it again, only 51 to go!

[Pink]

A few years ago one of the newspapers printed the Top 100 books of all time and I decided I was going to read them all, I started and then forgot about it, found the list again and have decided to do it again, only 51 to go!

ooooohhhh, post it!

I would be interested in that

[Rutherford]

Everyone should read Catch 22... Funiest/saddest thing i've ever read.

And all 5 of the hitchikers trilogy...

[Edinburgh]

how is he a wanker?

His attempt tp be holier-than-thou is just tiring. He seems to criticise every person that happens to wanna drink or smoke or whatever. So what? Why can't people have a choice to if they wanna do that?

Then there's the bootleg that's going around. Ian got mad because kids were slam dancing and since Ian had slamdanced ten years earlier as a kid, it therefore was not okay for kids who weren't around back then to repeat his action and slam dance on their own. "Can't you come up with a new dance?," he insisted, at which point the entire crowd realized the error of doing something that he had done ten years earlier when they were too young to do it with him, and worked together for two hours to develop a brand new dance that mixed the best elements of the waltz (another dance that people shouldn't do anymore because Ian's grandfather did it a long time ago and it was old now) and the Macarena (which it was okay to do, because it hadn't been invented yet). When all was to Ian's liking and nobody was drinking a cigarette, smoking a beer or having sex with a girl, he ceased his pouting for half a second and continued the show. Then during "Suggestion," he became overcome by emotional pain as he looked out a crowd that was more interested in having fun than listening to a bald guy with a gruff voice pretend to be a woman who's been raped, and he left the stage in tears. Because it's very hard for a sensitive man like Ian MacKaye who spent his youth beating the shit out of everybody who wasn't just like him to understand how a crowd of kids could be so insensitive to the plight of today's woman, as portrayed by Ian MacKaye.

I'm sorry, but anyone who tries to tell his fans how to dance an dwhat they should and shouldn't do is a wanker in my book.

[Rach]

This isn't the same one but is more recent i think and has many of the same ones

The lord of the rings. J.R.R. Tolkien
1984. George Orwell
Animal farm. George Orwell
Ulysses. James Joyce
Catch-22. Joseph Heller
The catcher in the rye. J.D. Salinger
To kill a mockingbird. Harper Lee
One hundred years of solitude. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The grapes of wrath. John Steinbeck
Trainspotting. Irvine Welsh
Wild swans. Jung Chang
The great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald
The lord of the flies. William Golding
On the road. Jack Kerouac
Brave new world. Aldous Huxley
The wind in the willows. Kenneth Grahame
Winnie the Pooh. A.A. Milne
The colour purple. Alice Walker
The hobbit. J.R.R. Tolkien
The outsider. Albert Camus
The lion, the witch and the wardrobe. C.S. Lewis
The trial. Franz Kafka
Gone with the wind. Margaret Mitchell
The hitchhiker´s guide to the galaxy. Douglas Adams
Midnight´s children. Salman Rushdie
The diary of Anne Frank. Anne Frank
A clockwork orange. Anthony Burgess
Sons and lovers. D.H. Lawrence
To the lighthouse. Virginia Woolf
If this is a man. Primo Levi
Lolita. Vladimir Nabokov
The wasp factory. Iain Banks
A la recherche du temps perdu. Marcel Proust
Charlie and the chocolate factory. Roald Dahl
Of mice and men. John Steinbeck
Beloved. Toni Morrison
Possession. A.S. Byatt
The heart of darkness. Joseph Conrad
A passage to India. E.M. Forster
Watership down. Richard Adams
Sophie´s world. Jostein Gaarder
The name of the rose. Umberto Eco
Love in a time of cholera. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Rebecca. Daphne du Maurier
The remains of the day. Kazuo Ishiguro
The unbearable lightness of being. Milan Kundera
Birdsong. Sebastian Faulks
Howard´s End. E.M. Forster
Brideshead revisited. Evelyn Waugh
A suitable boy. Vikram Seth
Dune. Frank Herbert
A prayer for Owen Meany. John Irvine
Perfume. Patrick Süskind
Doctor Zhivago. Boris Pasternak
Gormenghast. Mervyn Peake
Cider with Rosie. Laurie Lee
The bell jar. Sylvia Plath
The handmaid´s tale. Margaret Atwood
Testament of youth. Vera Brittain
The Magus. John Fowles
Brighton Rock. Graham Greene
The ragged-trousered philanthropists. Robert Tressell
The master and Margarita. Mikhail Bulgakov
Tales from the city. Armistead Maupin
The French Lieutenant´s woman. John Fowles
Captain Corelli´s Mandolin. Louis de Bernières
Slaughterhouse 5. Kurt Vonnegut
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance. Robert Pirsig
A room with a view. E.M. Forster
Lucky Jim. Kingsley Amis
It. Stephen King
The power and the glory. Graham Greene
The stand. Stephen King
All quiet on the western front. Erich Maria Remarque
Paddy Clarke ha ha ha. Roddy Doyle
Matilda. Roald Dahl
American psycho. Bret Easton Ellis
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas. Hunter S. Thompson
A brief history of time. Stephen Hawking
James and the Giant Peach. Roald Dahl
Lady Chatterley´s Lover. D.H. Lawrence
The bonfire of the vanities. Tom Wolfe
Complete cookery course. Delia Smith
An evil cradling. Brian Keenan
The rainbow. D.H. Lawrence
Down and out in Paris and London. George Orwell
2001 - a space odyssey. Arthur C. Clarke
The tin drum. Günter Grass
A day in the life of Ivan Denisovich. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Long walk to freedom. Nelson Mandela
The selfish gene. Richard Dawkins
Jurassic Park. Michael Crichton
The Alexandria quartet. Lawrence Durrell
Cry the beloved country. Alan Paton
High fidelity. Nick Hornby
The van. Roddy Doyle
The BFG. Roald Dahl
Earthly powers. Anthony Burgess
I, Claudius. Robert Graves
The horse whisperer. Nicholas Evan

[robbieBAYAREATHRASH]

His attempt tp be holier-than-thou is just tiring. He seems to criticise every person that happens to wanna drink or smoke or whatever. So what? Why can't people have a choice to if they wanna do that?

Then there's the bootleg that's going around. Ian got mad because kids were slam dancing and since Ian had slamdanced ten years earlier as a kid, it therefore was not okay for kids who weren't around back then to repeat his action and slam dance on their own. "Can't you come up with a new dance?," he insisted, at which point the entire crowd realized the error of doing something that he had done ten years earlier when they were too young to do it with him, and worked together for two hours to develop a brand new dance that mixed the best elements of the waltz (another dance that people shouldn't do anymore because Ian's grandfather did it a long time ago and it was old now) and the Macarena (which it was okay to do, because it hadn't been invented yet). When all was to Ian's liking and nobody was drinking a cigarette, smoking a beer or having sex with a girl, he ceased his pouting for half a second and continued the show. Then during "Suggestion," he became overcome by emotional pain as he looked out a crowd that was more interested in having fun than listening to a bald guy with a gruff voice pretend to be a woman who's been raped, and he left the stage in tears. Because it's very hard for a sensitive man like Ian MacKaye who spent his youth beating the shit out of everybody who wasn't just like him to understand how a crowd of kids could be so insensitive to the plight of today's woman, as portrayed by Ian MacKaye.

I'm sorry, but anyone who tries to tell his fans how to dance an dwhat they should and shouldn't do is a wanker in my book.

whoa the naivety of that post is unreal!

Firstly, people are gonna tell you what to all the time, whether it's your boss, your teacher, the police or whoever and often it's possible to turn off and not listen. Many people are passionate about their personal choices and like to express them in books, songs, tv shows, paintings, films etc. Ian Mackaye is passionate about Straight Edge, as many other people are and the reasoning he used to come about being Straight Edge is very rational. During the early years of the D.C. scene, many kids weren't allowed to go into shows if they were under 21, because of the presence of alcohol at shows, so he and many others in that scene were proud of wearing the X's on their hands (to show not to serve them alcohol) at shows and decided that they didn't need drink/smoke/drugs or whatever to have a good time. Which I totally understand, I'm not Straight Edge myself, but I have respect for people that do. The lyrics of Minor Threat and straight edge bands of the time were written when they were 18/19/20 and often when you first become involved in an alternative lifestyle choice you are initially very passionate about it.

Also, in relation to Ian Mackaye's critique of slam dancing, fair enough he did it once himself as did Rollins and many of the other kids involved in the Hardcore scene as well. But people change their views on violence and differ opinion, in case you didn't know. Fugazi are pacifists, and they like to put their theory into actions at their shows, one of the reasons being is that if you go to a show often you don't want to get kicked, punched or twatted by some meat head jock who's only reason to go to gigs is to kick the shit outta people. I think most people understand what their gonna get at a Fugazi gig and violence isn't one of them. Violence at shows can't often dominate shows and not let other people dance.

I suggest you watch "Instrument" and get a greater understanding of Fugazi and Ian Mackaye.

I understand some of what he says is not to everyone's taste, but there are reasons and truths behind what he says.

[JohnnyYen]

Thanks for the recommendations and links guys.

As soon as I get my new cash card I shall be ordering up a storm on Amazon!

Always try Halliwell's on Friargate first, you can often get a really nice 2nd-hand hardback for the same price as a new paperback from Amazon. And you're supporting local independents rather than corporate bastards.

[Pink]

Always try Halliwell's on Friargate first, you can often get a really nice 2nd-hand hardback for the same price as a new paperback from Amazon. And you're supporting local independents rather than corporate bastards.


I will do that!:cool:

[Edinburgh]

Firstly, people are gonna tell you what to all the time, whether it's your boss, your teacher, the police or whoever and often it's possible to turn off and not listen. Many people are passionate about their personal choices and like to express them in books, songs, tv shows, paintings, films etc. Ian Mackaye is passionate about Straight Edge, as many other people are and the reasoning he used to come about being Straight Edge is very rational. During the early years of the D.C. scene, many kids weren't allowed to go into shows if they were under 21, because of the presence of alcohol at shows, so he and many others in that scene were proud of wearing the X's on their hands (to show not to serve them alcohol) at shows and decided that they didn't need drink/smoke/drugs or whatever to have a good time. Which I totally understand, I'm not Straight Edge myself, but I have respect for people that do. The lyrics of Minor Threat and straight edge bands of the time were written when they were 18/19/20 and often when you first become involved in an alternative lifestyle choice you are initially very passionate about it.

Thing is, I'm pretty much staright edge myself. I rarely drink, I rarely do drugs, I don't smoke and I don't **** around. Do I begrudge people who want to go out every weekend and get destroyed? No cos I understand that it's a persons choice.
What right has Ian got to ask that no beer be sold at his gigs (which he's been known to do) just cos he doesn't like the idea of people wanting to have fun at gigs or in general.

Also, in relation to Ian Mackaye's critique of slam dancing, fair enough he did it once himself as did Rollins and many of the other kids involved in the Hardcore scene as well. But people change their views on violence and differ opinion, in case you didn't know. Fugazi are pacifists, and they like to put their theory into actions at their shows, one of the reasons being is that if you go to a show often you don't want to get kicked, punched or twatted by some meat head jock who's only reason to go to gigs is to kick the shit outta people. I think most people understand what their gonna get at a Fugazi gig and violence isn't one of them. Violence at shows can't often dominate shows and not let other people dance.

I'm not one who likes to go into any pit at any gig, but I understand if people do want to. You know what the people who don't wanna be in a pit can do? Get out of the pit. It really is that easy. It's up there with Billy Corgan saying at a gig "There will be no moshing at this concert"

I suggest you watch "Instrument" and get a greater understanding of Fugazi and Ian Mackaye.
Will do, but I've read enough about him to know my opinion of him.

[bigred]

electric michelangelo-tis an alright book, but she gets some of the stuff men think way off sometimes!

[Chopper Ironballs]

i am reading Rant by Chuck Palahniuk, it has not gripped me yet i think it's the way it's written in the form of interviews, it seems like it will get really good though


if anyone wants a proper pant dirtying horror book then read House Of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski. its both bizarre, scary and ace as tits.

[The Hinge]

Chuck Palahniuk - Non-Fiction

[MrAnderson]

Just finished The Road by Cormac McCarthy and am currently reading The Drought by J.G. Ballard whilst simultaneously reading the Wisden Cricketers Almanack 2008.

[Internets]

Bill Bryson - A Short History of Nearly Everything. Really ace quick overview of lots of science written in an easy to understand way.Yeah, nice 'little' book that.

[jesperado]

Nearly finished reading Dead Souls by Ian Rankin. Sadly, I'm starting to run out of Rebus novels now - for some reason I missed out Dead Souls so went back to it after reading Resurrection Men.

I really love Rebus novels but they are making me such a lazy reader. I think I've started about 5 other books before getting sucked into the familiar world of John Rebus. I really should get back to The Book of Dave but I found it difficult to read with it's phonetic-ness. I shouldn't really let that put me off though. I should also get back to The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde as it seemed pretty good and very creepy.

I might have a go at a few non-fiction books too although I'm quite into podcasts as a regular information fix at the moment.

[JohnnyYen]

Nearly finished reading Dead Souls by Ian Rankin. Sadly, I'm starting to run out of Rebus novels now...I should also get back to The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde as it seemed pretty good and very creepy.

Have you noticed that "Hide and Seek", the 2nd Rebus book, is full of deliberate paralells with "Jekyll and Hyde"?

Anyway if you like Rebus but fancy something a bit more literary and avant-garde, I recommend "The Red Riding Quartet" by David Peace. Very grim, very stylishly written crime fiction set in Leeds (and sometimes Preston) in the 1970s.

[Secret Boners]

currently reading No Country for Old Men by the Macarthy. read 120 pages of it this morning in about an hour and a half. ****ing page turner. i love his prose, it gives me erection.
also a trashy book called Fiendish Killers. it is about famous FIENDISH KILLERS. it's research for my dissertation. it also gives me erection.
the ultimate rush by joe quirk is getting rererererererererererere-read as well. i love it like a fat kid love cake.
plus this afternoon i will be re-reading the plays i've got an exam on on wednesday. Hedda Gabler here i come.

[totalvictory]

I might go and buy the Mark E Smith autobiography, but I read that it's ghostwritten.

[Terracod]

I might go and buy the Mark E Smith autobiography, but I read that it's ghostwritten.

You ghostread that.

[stephen]

if anyone wants a proper pant dirtying horror book then read House Of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski. its both bizarre, scary and ace as tits.

Probably my favourite book. I've only read it three times but it gets right under the skin, it's horrible.

[Madame Apfel]

I've just finished reading Jackie Stewart's book: Winning is not enough It was difficult to find interest in parts because it read like a billboard advertisement of RBS and Rolex... but the moments where he is talking about racing and the deaths of his friends are particularly poignant.

[Ziv]

Prestone.

[Miss 616]

Angela Carter - Passion of the New Eve

its a bit freaky and grim

[Barbara]

I just finished Fierce People by Dirk Wittenborn - very good...read it!

Now reading: The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

[bik]

This isn't the same one but is more recent i think and has many of the same ones

The lord of the rings. J.R.R. Tolkien
1984. George Orwell
Animal farm. George Orwell
Ulysses. James Joyce
Catch-22. Joseph Heller
The catcher in the rye. J.D. Salinger
To kill a mockingbird. Harper Lee
One hundred years of solitude. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The grapes of wrath. John Steinbeck
Trainspotting. Irvine Welsh
Wild swans. Jung Chang
The great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald
The lord of the flies. William Golding
On the road. Jack Kerouac
Brave new world. Aldous Huxley
The wind in the willows. Kenneth Grahame
Winnie the Pooh. A.A. Milne
The colour purple. Alice Walker
The hobbit. J.R.R. Tolkien
The outsider. Albert Camus
The lion, the witch and the wardrobe. C.S. Lewis
The trial. Franz Kafka
Gone with the wind. Margaret Mitchell
The hitchhiker´s guide to the galaxy. Douglas Adams
Midnight´s children. Salman Rushdie
The diary of Anne Frank. Anne Frank
A clockwork orange. Anthony Burgess
Sons and lovers. D.H. Lawrence
To the lighthouse. Virginia Woolf
If this is a man. Primo Levi
Lolita. Vladimir Nabokov
The wasp factory. Iain Banks
A la recherche du temps perdu. Marcel Proust
Charlie and the chocolate factory. Roald Dahl
Of mice and men. John Steinbeck
Beloved. Toni Morrison
Possession. A.S. Byatt
The heart of darkness. Joseph Conrad
A passage to India. E.M. Forster
Watership down. Richard Adams
Sophie´s world. Jostein Gaarder
The name of the rose. Umberto Eco
Love in a time of cholera. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Rebecca. Daphne du Maurier
The remains of the day. Kazuo Ishiguro
The unbearable lightness of being. Milan Kundera
Birdsong. Sebastian Faulks
Howard´s End. E.M. Forster
Brideshead revisited. Evelyn Waugh
A suitable boy. Vikram Seth
Dune. Frank Herbert
A prayer for Owen Meany. John Irvine
Perfume. Patrick Süskind
Doctor Zhivago. Boris Pasternak
Gormenghast. Mervyn Peake
Cider with Rosie. Laurie Lee
The bell jar. Sylvia Plath
The handmaid´s tale. Margaret Atwood
Testament of youth. Vera Brittain
The Magus. John Fowles
Brighton Rock. Graham Greene
The ragged-trousered philanthropists. Robert Tressell
The master and Margarita. Mikhail Bulgakov
Tales from the city. Armistead Maupin
The French Lieutenant´s woman. John Fowles
Captain Corelli´s Mandolin. Louis de Bernières
Slaughterhouse 5. Kurt Vonnegut
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance. Robert Pirsig
A room with a view. E.M. Forster
Lucky Jim. Kingsley Amis
It. Stephen King
The power and the glory. Graham Greene
The stand. Stephen King
All quiet on the western front. Erich Maria Remarque
Paddy Clarke ha ha ha. Roddy Doyle
Matilda. Roald Dahl
American psycho. Bret Easton Ellis
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas. Hunter S. Thompson
A brief history of time. Stephen Hawking
James and the Giant Peach. Roald Dahl
Lady Chatterley´s Lover. D.H. Lawrence
The bonfire of the vanities. Tom Wolfe
Complete cookery course. Delia Smith
An evil cradling. Brian Keenan
The rainbow. D.H. Lawrence
Down and out in Paris and London. George Orwell
2001 - a space odyssey. Arthur C. Clarke
The tin drum. Günter Grass
A day in the life of Ivan Denisovich. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Long walk to freedom. Nelson Mandela
The selfish gene. Richard Dawkins
Jurassic Park. Michael Crichton
The Alexandria quartet. Lawrence Durrell
Cry the beloved country. Alan Paton
High fidelity. Nick Hornby
The van. Roddy Doyle
The BFG. Roald Dahl
Earthly powers. Anthony Burgess
I, Claudius. Robert Graves
The horse whisperer. Nicholas Evan


according to who?

no truman capote - In cold Blood? this is the best book i have ever read

[Cuckoo For Caca]

I'm currently rereading Dean Koontz's Life Expectancy. Definitely one of my fave books.

[Rach]

Just finished 'How to talk to a widower' by Jonathan Tropper and now reading 'Everything changes' by the same author, this guy is ace, he has written a few others also, will be ordering them soon.

[Vincent]

James Herbert's Nobody True. It's pretty good so far, a well interesting idea. Even if he does occassionally come across like a bit of a shallow perv.

[Davos]

My favourite book is Papillon by Henri Charriere. It's awesome.

Currently still plodding through Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. I don't quite get it yet, but I will when I finish it, I hope.

Next on the list is an Iain M Banks book - I have four in my possession which I haven't read yet - Feersum Endjinn, The Algebraist, Against a Dark Background and Excession. Can't decide which to go at first.

I'm also intending to buy Moab is My Washpot by Steven Fry. I've no idea what it's about, but The Liar was a brilliant version of the Count of Monte Cristo, and Fry is a geniousious, so I'm sure it will be good when I get around to it.

[Jonnysus]

Slash's autobiography
and jane is reading Lullaby by Chuck Palaniuk

[Lou]

How to win friends and influence people.

It's just making me bossy towards the cat.

[Harbl]

Robert Graves' I, Claudius.

[Doctor C]

Currently rereading Maldoror by Isadore Ducasse. Think I might make a habit of dropping into Harbl's to read books, as I ironically (or not; I don't honestly think this counts as irony but can't think of a better word) have no computer-based distractions there

Also I realised the other day whilst talking to Cherish that I want to read the Bible from end to end. Logically I should do the Koran too, but that's all in good time

[ShonaDownfall]

Return to Labyrinth Manga books vol 1 & 2 cant wait for number 3 to come out in nov!

[ZaraLH]

I am currently reading The Catcher In The Rye which Pumpactionsunshine kindly lent me which i need to finish and give him back

[Rach]

How to win friends and influence people.

It's just making me bossy towards the cat.

That made me lol, a lot!

Currently rereading Maldoror by Isadore Ducasse. Think I might make a habit of dropping into Harbl's to read books, as I ironically (or not; I don't honestly think this counts as irony but can't think of a better word) have no computer-based distractions there

Also I realised the other day whilst talking to Cherish that I want to read the Bible from end to end. Logically I should do the Koran too, but that's all in good time

I did that when I was a teenager.

[bigred]

i keep reading this

That morning I woke up and wanted to create something so badly I nearly cried.

Staring at a blank screen, the refresh rate flickering in my drying eyes.

I scratched the back of my head, you know that part just above your neck where you can first properly feel your skull.

It felt small at first, it ached like a spot so I squeezed it, but it was numb in the centre, it was false in the centre.

I held it there still at that part where your skull begins just above your neck, and then I pulled a little.

It moved, slipped, slid, out of my scalp I held it firm between finger and thumb.

[phreaxboy]

Re-reading Neither Here Nor There by Bill Bryson.

Anytime I go away anywhere I get in a Bryson mood beforehand.

[Funk-star]

Next on the list is an Iain M Banks book - I have four in my possession which I haven't read yet - Feersum Endjinn, The Algebraist, Against a Dark Background and Excession. Can't decide which to go at first.

The Algebraist is fooking brilliant, I say go at that first

I'm currently reading 'Barking' by Tom Holt. It was dead good for the first half but it's starting to wear a bit thin

[Doctor C]

I did that when I was a teenager.
I'm a little annoyed I haven't done it yet really, especially considering I've owned a copy of the Good Book for ten years now (Jerusalem Bible edition, rather than the notorious King James Version) and only pull it out for reference

[Edinburgh]

Thought I'd drag this back up.


Now reading Bret Hart's autobiog.

It's awesome, not sure if it's as good as Mick Foley's but either way it rules.

[Alcmene]

Re-reading Neither Here Nor There by Bill Bryson.

Anytime I go away anywhere I get in a Bryson mood beforehand.

I'm reading Notes from a Small Island!

[Alcmene]

Robert Graves' I, Claudius.

Class!

Have you read Goodbye to All That?

[dave penberthy]

The Daily Mail.

[jesus_nightside_eclipse]

Martin Meredith, The State of Africa. A good, informative read, but is absent of any criticism of the impact of external agencies on African politics and poverty, treating the IMF's Structural Adjustment Policies as being in the interests of African people, not Western corporations.

Next: a book about Oswald Mosley called Blackshirt.

[J2TheH]

The side of a Weetos Box
Cinnamon Spice menu (recreational reading)
Chat
Bella
Now!
Marvel Encyclopedia of superheroes.

All the greats.

[Ziv]

Some Sci Fi book, and also to balance that out a shitty chick book by KatieMegatitsPrice

[Internets]

The Complete Making of Indiana Jones

I love how the new film has lead to all sorts of merchandise being released. Some of it is crap, but the above is excellent.

[Lou]

Minette Walters - The Echo

[Dave Gate Mk 2]

Variously:

"Never Had It So Good (Britain from Suez to The Beatles)" by Dominic Sandbrook

"The Double Helix" by James D. Watson

"Mexico Set" by Len Deighton

"The Electrician's Guide to the 17th Edition of the IEE Wiring Regulations and Part P of the Building Regulations" by John Whitfield


and

"How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie

I love reading!

[piercedmilo]

anything by len deighton is awesome, I have "an expensive place to die' if you want to borrow it?


I am currently reading The Idiot by Dostoyevsky

[dogzilla]

I just finished The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon. Not as great as Kavalier & Clay, but still very good

I've now started Hiding The Elephant, which despite what the title may suggest is not about the porn industry

[Ziv]

I've not started Hiding The Elephant, which despite what the title may suggest is not about the porn industry

I saw that in the loo earlier.. I read it and have successfully hidden an Elephant in the house! Bet you can't find it.

[dogzilla]

Is it made out of plasticine?

[JohnnyYen]

"Lincoln" by Gore Vidal.

[joe ersatz]

Also I realised the other day whilst talking to Cherish that I want to read the Bible from end to end. Logically I should do the Koran too, but that's all in good time

i wouldn't bother - it's a bit boring in places. you can get away with skipping vast tracts of it without losing any of the meaning...

[Hex]

Currently reading: "Eric" by Terry Pratchett.


I should really get out of the Pratchett loop and, y'know, try reading a different author.

[Davos]

Currently reading: "Eric" by Terry Pratchett.


I should really get out of the Pratchett loop and, y'know, try reading a different author.

I suggest Ian M Banks, who is ace. I have a number of his books if you'd like to borrow.

Against a Dark Background
Consider Phlebas
Feersum Endjinn
The Player of Games
The Agebraist
Excession
Look to Windward
Use of Weapons
State of the Art

go on. you know you want to.

[Hex]

I suggest Ian M Banks, who is ace. I have a number of his books if you'd like to borrow.

Against a Dark Background
Consider Phlebas
Feersum Endjinn
The Player of Games
The Agebraist
Excession
Look to Windward
Use of Weapons
State of the Art

go on. you know you want to.


Are they Fantasy?

[Davos]

Are they Fantasy?

Sci Fi. But the best Sci Fi ever. Easily as magical(technological) and grim as fantasy, but with larger ideas.

If you're a fantasy buff, I have a Witchwar series you can borrow. Never read it though, so I cannae vouch for the quality.

[Stoical_Halo]

The Book Theif- Markus Zusak when I get a minute to myself to read that is!

[procopius]

Are they Fantasy?

See Davos' post for answer. However, if you want to give 'em a try, I've got a few on the shelves, you'll have to hunt about a bit and I suspect most of my Banks are on the shelves in the workshop. Help y'self.

[Hex]

Sci Fi. But the best Sci Fi ever. Easily as magical(technological) and grim as fantasy, but with larger ideas.

If you're a fantasy buff, I have a Witchwar series you can borrow. Never read it though, so I cannae vouch for the quality.
See Davos' post for answer. However, if you want to give 'em a try, I've got a few on the shelves, you'll have to hunt about a bit and I suspect most of my Banks are on the shelves in the workshop. Help y'self.


Awesome.

I shall probably check him out once I've exhausted my desire for Fantasy.

[Diran]

American Gods - Neil Gaiman

[Lou]

For pleasure;

Iain Banks - Espedair Street

For learning;

BSL level 1

Braille for the sighted

[Fluid Addict]

American Gods - Neil Gaiman

Top book :)

I'm currently on Neutral Buoyancy by Tim Ecott

[Funk-star]

I WAS reading a book called Barking by Tom Holt but then my dog ate it

ironeee >:-(

[Ziv]

Is it made out of plasticine?

Nah, I only make placticine penii.

[jesus_nightside_eclipse]

An awesome eastern European anarchist/anti-fascist magazine called Abolishing the Borders from Below. It's got a great layout, the English is spot-on and the articles are really interesting, it's a completely different culture over there. The contacts list they have is endless as well, enabling me to sit here all day emailing Russians and Croatians for information. Should be a cool day!

[Pumpactionsunshine]

Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde - Stevenson. although i think it's cursed. i nothing but bad things have happened since i started it.

then i move on to the Penguin 'Great Ideas' collection (vols 1 &2). 40 books on philosophy, science, war, god, friends, literature, hating and more fantastic dinner conversation subjects....

[stephen]

Madeline L'engle - A Wrinkle In Time

Philip K Dick - The Man In The High Castle


Hehe "dick".

[Chopper Ironballs]

alright alright i'm reading the half blood prince again ok!!! i know its not big or clever but its relaxing before bed ok

i read rant by chuck phalllaaahahhhahahahanuik before that, it was ok. wasn't keen on the documentary style of it but i liked the story

[MrAnderson]

The Long Emergency by James Howard Kunstler

[jesus_nightside_eclipse]

Stephen Dorrill, Blackshirt: Sir Oswald Mosley and British Fascism.

[Pish]

Stephen Dorrill, Blackshirt: Sir Oswald Mosley and British Fascism.

You got the LEP?

[Lizibeth]

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

[jesus_nightside_eclipse]

You got the LEP?

When from? I got the one with our review in on Friday!

Currently reading a 2000-word article I've written for an anarchist magazine about fan-controlled football clubs such as AFC Wimbledon and FC United.

[Funk-star]

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

awesome isn't it?!

[Lizibeth]

awesome isn't it?!

I'm about half way through and loving it so far :]

[enomilie]

Currently reading:
K-PAX - gene brewer

[Alcmene]

I have a few on the go at the moment. Though just finished Snuff and am now halfway though Choke, both by Chuck Palahniuk.

[Pink]

I am reading fever pitch by nick hornby.

Didn't really think I would enjoy it, but its good

[jesus_nightside_eclipse]

Lots and lots of pamphlets and fanzines! After that I'm going to finish my H.P. Lovecraft book and probably move onto more Philip K. Dick.

[Alcmene]

Lots and lots of pamphlets and fanzines! After that I'm going to finish my H.P. Lovecraft book and probably move onto more Philip K. Dick.

Have you read The Tales of Perky Cat? I really enjoy it as I can read a story a night!

[Rach]

Currently reading:
K-PAX - gene brewer

One of my favourite ever books!

I am reading 'Black Swan Green' by David Mitchell

[Metrobone]

skeleton crew

[Stoical_Halo]

The book of lost things- John Connolly

[Edinburgh]

Just finished a book about the JFK assasination.

I'm now reading Auschwitz:The final solution. Happy reading it is not.

After that Portrait of an artist as a young man-Jame Joyce

[Tarnishedglitter]

Save me the Waltz by Zelda Fitzgerald. I'm getting on really well with it, I reckon it's unfairly ignored because of her more famous husband. typical men! :p

[Davos]

Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart

Interesting...

[Stoical_Halo]

Currently reading: "Eric" by Terry Pratchett.


I should really get out of the Pratchett loop and, y'know, try reading a different author.

Try John Connolly, I like Pratchett and I see similarities in style. Connollys not such a huge 'comic' as Pratchett is though, but i'm still finding him a great read so far. I'm on the book of lost things, but he has another I know of called Nocturns too.

[Russ]

Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart

Interesting...

Lovely jubbly.

I'm half way through The Princess Bride by William Goldman. I've loved the film for ever and after forcing an ex to watch it a few years ago she went off and read the book, then told me I had to do the same. I put it off for a couple of years because I didn't believe it could add much to the film. It adds something with almost every sentence, I haven't slept much before 5am any night this week.

[Punkage]

im currently reading Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter...which im quite enjoying

[Alcmene]

Lovely jubbly.

I'm half way through The Princess Bride by William Goldman.
This guy is amazing, didn't he write Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?

[bigred]

just finished- And then we came to an end. Interesting book about offices, who would have thunk it!

now re-reading the electric Michelangelo, Book about a morcombe tattoo artist guy around the 1920's, its ok!

[Alcmene]

just finished- And then we came to an end. Interesting book about offices, who would have thunk it!

now re-reading the electric Michelangelo, Book about a morcombe tattoo artist guy around the 1920's, its ok!

I have that! It's a bit slow but has it's moment of genius, possibly a little bit too descriptive for my liking, see how you like it! Good enough to read all the way through.

[Rach]

I have that! It's a bit slow but has it's moment of genius, possibly a little bit too descriptive for my liking, see how you like it! Good enough to read all the way through.

:eek: Any book you start you have to read all the way through, even if it is terrible!

[bigred]

I have that! It's a bit slow but has it's moment of genius, possibly a little bit too descriptive for my liking, see how you like it! Good enough to read all the way through.

already read it once! and yes there are completley unneccessary sections, its like the chapter in American Psycho thats just about genesis!

[Alcmene]

:eek: Any book you start you have to read all the way through, even if it is terrible!

It took me about 3 years to read Lord of the Rings, was the most awful drivel. I had to FORCE myself to restart it so many times as it was so boring. I finally finished the trilogy when I was about 15.

[Rach]

It took me about 3 years to read Lord of the Rings, was the most awful drivel. I had to FORCE myself to restart it so many times as it was so boring. I finally finished the trilogy when I was about 15.

I have never even started to read it because I know I won't like it, took me ages to read The Hobbit, but once I have started a book I have to finish it.

[Heartbox]

Lovely jubbly.

I'm half way through The Princess Bride by William Goldman. I've loved the film for ever and after forcing an ex to watch it a few years ago she went off and read the book, then told me I had to do the same. I put it off for a couple of years because I didn't believe it could add much to the film. It adds something with almost every sentence, I haven't slept much before 5am any night this week.

It's brilliantly written. Completely unreverential. Read it a few years ago, actually before I saw the film.

Currently on with The English, Jeremy Paxman

[bigred]

:eek: Any book you start you have to read all the way through, even if it is terrible!

completley untrue. If a book is shite i am more than happy to put it down and never pick it back up again!

[Heartbox]

completley untrue. If a book is shite i am more than happy to put it down and never pick it back up again!

Agree. Like a film. If the first 100 or so pages/45 mins don't grab me, I don't feel obligated to continue when there's so much more to be enjoyed.

[Rach]

completley untrue. If a book is shite i am more than happy to put it down and never pick it back up again!

I wish I could do that but I find it very difficult, unless I can't even get past the first page without hating it I will persevere, sometimes it pays off though because the book ends up being good!

[brainwaster]

Currently reading

The Driver by Alexander Roy

then i`ve got Dawn Of The Dumb by Charlie Brooker to read

[bigred]

Currently reading

The Driver by Alexander Roy

then i`ve got Dawn Of The Dumb by Charlie Brooker to read

i dont know if i could cope with an entire Brooker book, i like a column of his every now and again but an entire book would just depress me i think!

[brainwaster]

i dont know if i could cope with an entire Brooker book, i like a column of his every now and again but an entire book would just depress me i think!

I`ve read Screenburn by Charlie too, that was hillarious, dawn of the dumb is another collection of his Articles like Screenburn was. I like his ranting

[bigred]

I`ve read Screenburn by Charlie too, that was hillarious, dawn of the dumb is another collection of his Articles like Screenburn was. I like his ranting

have you seen tvgohome? i think it was an early project with chris morris he did. its ace, gogle it its onlie somewhere.

[JohnnyYen]

have you seen tvgohome? i think it was an early project with chris morris he did. its ace, gogle it its onlie somewhere.

http://www.tvgohome.com/ (http://http://www.tvgohome.com/)

[brainwaster]

http://www.tvgohome.com/ (http://http://www.tvgohome.com/)

I`d herad of tvgohome but never seen it, He co worte Nathan Barley too didnt he and I hated that. Charlies tv show on bbc3 was funny though

[bigred]

I`d herad of tvgohome but never seen it, He co worte Nathan Barley too didnt he and I hated that. Charlies tv show on bbc3 was funny though

I found nathan barley ****ing hilarious as i saw it when i was down in london talking to lots of media types, the similarities are astonishing!

[godonlyknows]

I'm reading "beyond secrets" by Jay Sankey. A series of short writings about helping to make close-up magic cease to be the domain of shiny one-liner dicks, and more of a shared experience that makes everyone feel rad. It's good.

[dogzilla]

have you seen tvgohome? i think it was an early project with chris morris he did. its ace, gogle it its onlie somewhere.
Chris Morris didn't have anything to do with it, they only teamed up later to do Nathan Barley

[Lizibeth]

Today I am starting on American Gods by Neil Gaiman.
Only one more book of his to go after this.

[bigred]

Chris Morris didn't have anything to do with it, they only teamed up later to do Nathan Barley

are you sure? im could be well and truly wrong but as nathan barley is in the listings i thought they were linked earlier on. and some of those shows definately smack of Morris.

[stephen]

Today I am starting on American Gods by Neil Gaiman.
Only one more book of his to go after this.

It's really good! Have you read Neverwhere as well?

[dogzilla]

are you sure? im could be well and truly wrong but as nathan barley is in the listings i thought they were linked earlier on. and some of those shows definately smack of Morris.
Yeah. It was obviously inspired by that whole Day Today surreal fake news stuff (though they weren't the first people to do that) but the online stuff was just Brooker on his own. It was the success of that that got him jobs writing for TV and eventually doing his own stuff. I think he did some writing for Brass Eye which is presumably where he met Chris Morris

[Samuel]

I got a couple of very old books last week. i'm currently reading the last of the mohicans, then i'll likely move onto Moby Dick. I feel i should be having a go at these old 'classics' because stuff like this is often brought up in more modern thingies.

[bigred]

I got a couple of very old books last week. i'm currently reading the last of the mohicans, then i'll likely move onto Moby Dick. I feel i should be having a go at these old 'classics' because stuff like this is often brought up in more modern thingies.

i read seven years in tibet and that was quite good (at least i think i did....)

[Samuel]

i read seven years in tibet and that was quite good (at least i think i did....)

Might be one for me to look out for then. I will admit that i got about half way through 20,000 leagues under the sea before putting it down after its lack of shooting and death. I might finish it sometime soon though. For now, the last of the mohicans is a good way of wiening myself off Sharpe books.

[Lizibeth]

It's really good! Have you read Neverwhere as well?

yep :) neverwhere is my second favourite, after stardust <3

[Heartbox]

Today I am starting on American Gods by Neil Gaiman.
Only one more book of his to go after this.

I has a signed hardback special edition of Anansi Boys. Is nice.

Read Coraline?

He's doing a reading from his new book at the end of Oct in Manc and I'm considering going.

[Brack]

"Marabou Stork Nightmares" by Irvine Welsh, again. "Sports Nutrition" by Anita Bean, and "Teach Yourself Italian" published by Berlitz.

[Rach]

"Marabou Stork Nightmares" by Irvine Welsh, again. "Sports Nutrition" by Anita Bean, and "Teach Yourself Italian" published by Berlitz.

I lent someone that about 12 years ago and never got it back, I do not like lending books out :mad:

[Brack]

I lent someone that about 12 years ago and never got it back, I do not like lending books out :mad:

I lost a signed first edition of "Trainspotting" in the same way. Also mad.

[Lou]

A couple of self-help type things on and off and the Rebus novels in order.

[Rach]

A couple of self-help type things on and off and the Rebus novels in order.

I recently did that, only have the first 10 though (I think, not sure how many there are actually).

[enomilie]

K-PAX was a really good read

Now on with: idoru - William Gibson

[JoesHero]

Filth - Irvine Welsh.

bit sick in places but genius like everything else hes ever written.

[SeansHero]

The Anti-Matter Anthology : A 1990's Post-Punk & Hardcore Reader - Norman Brannon

also Joe, you're a massive tool?!

[Fugazi]

I just finished reading Dawn of the Dumb by Charlie Brooker, and now I'm into his Screen Burn. They're what I expected.

After that, I Am America, And So Can You by Stephen Colbert, followed by America: A Citizen's Guide by Jon Stewart.

[Blousey Brown]

After that, I Am America, And So Can You by Stephen Colbert, followed by America: A Citizen's Guide by Jon Stewart.

There's some sort of deduction to be made here, but I can't quite put my finger on it.

[Fugazi]

There's some sort of deduction to be made here, but I can't quite put my finger on it.

That I enjoy political satire?

[Rach]

K-PAX was a really good read

Now on with: idoru - William Gibson

Don't watch the film though, t'is rubbish!

[Edinburgh]

Don't watch the film though, t'is rubbish!

No wai!! It was awesome!

[dogzilla]

About to start Matter by Iain M Banks

I hope it's a return to form, his last few scifi books have been disappointing

[Metrobone]

not the chamber of secrets i've lost my copy :(

[enomilie]

Don't watch the film though, t'is rubbish!

I loved the film which is why I wanted to read the book! Book was so much better tho!

[liveforever]

Sylvia Plath- The Bell Jar

[Edinburgh]

Sylvia Plath- The Bell Jar

"Oh, Sylvia Plath, whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the schoolgirl mentality."

[Tanye]

The complete robot, collection of Isaac Asimov stories, top tits.
Also just bought a star trek book entitled 'Resistance' woo.

[Drunknmunky]

am reading an interesting facts book called "Do ants have aresholes?"

[Tanye]

am reading an interesting facts book called "Do ants have aresholes?"

And do they?I would love to know.

[Drunknmunky]

And do they?I would love to know.

yeh they do but it is th smallest thing on planet earth in that it will only let 1 atom out at a time, meaning if you see a pile of ant shit, it hass probably been made overa long time, or some serious ant diarrohea?!

[Falleniceangel]

yeh they do but it is th smallest thing on planet earth in that it will only let 1 atom out at a time, meaning if you see a pile of ant shit, it hass probably been made overa long time, or some serious ant diarrohea?!

Prestone = educational

i am currently ready merde actually by stephen clarke, tis good, ive found myself giggling more at this one even more than the first.

[jesus_nightside_eclipse]

The complete robot, collection of Isaac Asimov stories, top tits.

Awesome, need to read some Asimov sooner or later. I'm currently finishing off my H.P. Lovecraft book, and alternating that with a book on the Niger Delta and oil called Black Gold: Fifty Years of Oil in the Niger Delta which is pretty interesting, wish I 'd known about it when I was doing my dissertation!

[getcloser]

im currently waiting for my new book to turn up as i had to order it.
its called 'will you still love me if i wet the bed'.
the man at waterstones kept asking me to repeat what it was called and then kept laughing at me.
mean man!

[Punkage]

Just finished my Darth Maul novel and it was awesome, will now read the Mick Fowley autobiography that rossy has

[Falleniceangel]

Just finished my Darth Maul novel and it was awesome, will now read the Mick Fowley autobiography that rossy has

you gonna read it over his shoulder like ppl do on the tube? :)

[Punkage]

you gonna read it over his shoulder like ppl do on the tube? :)

I would for the hilarity of it but unfortunatly he isnt reading it at the moment

[Rach]

Just finished my Darth Maul novel and it was awesome, will now read the Mick Fowley autobiography that rossy has

That is my favourite of all the wrestling autobiographies I have read.

[Hex]

The Art of Happiness -- by HH Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler

[Andy]

Just finished my Darth Maul novel and it was awesome, will now read the Mick Fowley autobiography that rossy has

Did you know Mick Foley has signed for TNA now, I saw some leaked footage of him at a house show.

[Edinburgh]

That is my favourite of all the wrestling autobiographies I have read.

I read the Bret Hart one. That is, if not better, then just as good as the Mick Foley one.

[Edinburgh]

Did you know Mick Foley has signed for TNA now, I saw some leaked footage of him at a house show.

Is he actually gonna be wrestling? If so then he's an idiot.

[Rach]

I read the Bret Hart one. That is, if not better, then just as good as the Mick Foley one.

I used to love him, prefer the Mick Foley one though, China's is also very interesting.

[bik]

finished K-pax. i thought it was ok, makes me want to read K-pax II. i read a session a week, so it was like i WAS Prot :)

[Edinburgh]

I used to love him, prefer the Mick Foley one though, China's is also very interesting.

Not read the Cyna/China one. After that you're going into shit territory. And I REFUSE to read the Ric Flair one.

[Rach]

Not read the Cyna/China one. After that you're going into shit territory. And I REFUSE to read the Ric Flair one.

Ric Flair is a cock, I might use his as toilet paper.

[Rach]

finished K-pax. i thought it was ok, makes me want to read K-pax II. i read a session a week, so it was like i WAS Prot :)

Finally!

[Edinburgh]

Ric Flair is a cock, I might use his as toilet paper.

*fonz thumbs up* eyyy HI-FIVE!

[bik]

Finally!

what? i told you how i was reading it!

[Rach]

what? i told you how i was reading it!

No you didn't! or if you did I don't remember.

[Tim]

I'm well happy!!
We might be doing Faustus this year for second year English Lit...And what did I keep coming out with A's in and almost 100% essays with at college? FAUSTUS!

w00p. Can't wait! :D

[bik]

No you didn't! or if you did I don't remember.

even if i didn't, my post explains....jeez...you women

[Rach]

even if i didn't, my post explains....jeez...you women

Read that other one I lent you now, that is also good, actually I have a book here I think you would like.

[Punkage]

Green Arrow - Quiver

[Rach]

One of my favourite ever books 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas' has been made into a film, by Disney, they had better not ruin it :tantrum:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/features/Disney39s-39The-Boy-in-the.4479755.jp

[Russ]

One of my favourite ever books has been made into a film, by Disney

I think perhaps 'ruining it'. Is a safe bet.

[Rach]

I think perhaps 'ruining it'. Is a safe bet.

Don't know though, just read a couple of reviews and watched the trailer, it looks ok, it would be pretty hard to make it an uplifting, twee disney type film, the book is pretty bleak.

[JohnnyYen]

One of my favourite ever books 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas' has been made into a film, by Disney, they had better not ruin it :tantrum:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/features/Disney39s-39The-Boy-in-the.4479755.jp

Holocaust Disney? Jesus wept.

[Rach]

Holocaust Disney? Jesus wept.

The songs are gonna be awesome!

[JohnnyYen]

The songs are gonna be awesome!

I'm just bitter my sitcom adaptation of "The Drowned And The Saved" is going to look like a cash-in. The bit where PrimoBoy falls through the wire fence is hilarious.

[executiverocker]

world war z

[bigred]

I've been treading loads of things ive already read!

like the electric michelangelo and the Fell graphic novel.

i need to make a trip to oxfam and buy some more!

[enomilie]

Portrait of a killer: Jack the Ripper - case closed, by Patricia Cornwell

[Juggsy]

One of my favourite ever books 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas' has been made into a film, by Disney, they had better not ruin it :tantrum:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/features/Disney39s-39The-Boy-in-the.4479755.jp

(I saw the trailer for that on a DVD we watched recently, it looks crap. I've never read the book though, thankfully. I hate it when books I like get turned into films tat aren't worthy of them.

[Edinburgh]

Portrait of a killer: Jack the Ripper - case closed, by Patricia Cornwell

But is it really?

As for me 'Portrait of the artist as a young man' by James Joyce.

I'm not the that much of a fan of 'stream-of consciousness' writing but this seem alright to do so far.

[dogzilla]

But is it really?
LOL no, she just made half of it up

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_a_Killer#Responses_from_critics

[bik]

eyes wide shut/dream story by Arthur Schnitzler

[Rach]

(I saw the trailer for that on a DVD we watched recently, it looks crap. I've never read the book though, thankfully. I hate it when books I like get turned into films tat aren't worthy of them.

Read it, it is brilliant in a totally horrible way.

I am reading 'Pies and Prejudice In search of the North' by Stuart Maconie.

[bik]

Portrait of a killer: Jack the Ripper - case closed, by Patricia Cornwell

yeah, this is a bit rubbish. well written, i just mean the arguement she puts forward. a bit sensational and OTT, but she does write made up stories for a living

[jesus_nightside_eclipse]

Read it, it is brilliant in a totally horrible way.

I am reading 'Pies and Prejudice In search of the North' by Stuart Maconie.

That's a brilliant book! Read it a few weeks ago. I'm currently finishing The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H.P. Lovecraft (it's one of those Penguin Classics comps, someone on here will probably claim they read all the original pulp magazine editions), which I put down weeks ago to read other things, reading loads of short stories at once bores me.

[dogzilla]

I <3 Lovecraft, despite him being a mental racist nazi. Actually, maybe because of

[enomilie]

But is it really?



LOL no, she just made half of it up



yeah, this is a bit rubbish. well written, i just mean the arguement she puts forward. a bit sensational and OTT, but she does write made up stories for a living

aghhhh don't tell me the ending guys.

also that works well for me, I read made up stories for a living :) ... no wait

[bik]

aghhhh don't tell me the ending guys.

also that works well for me, I read made up stories for a living :) ... no wait

if you don't know the ending to this story, where the hell have you been living?

[jesus_nightside_eclipse]

I <3 Lovecraft, despite him being a mental racist nazi. Actually, maybe because of

It's definitely why I picked the book up. I read the introduction at the beginning of the book, and it said he hated living in the city because of all the foreigners, and the stories are laced with referenced to similar sentiments. He's a great author, I've never read anything like him before.

[stephen]

It's definitely why I picked the book up. I read the introduction at the beginning of the book, and it said he hated living in the city because of all the foreigners, and the stories are laced with referenced to similar sentiments. He's a great author, I've never read anything like him before.

He had a dog called "Nigger".

Thing is, some of his stories are genuinely scary. Brilliant author.

[Tarnishedglitter]

O pioneers by Willa Carther. Easy, entertaining read, nowt special though. I read it for uni.

[dogzilla]

It's definitely why I picked the book up. I read the introduction at the beginning of the book, and it said he hated living in the city because of all the foreigners, and the stories are laced with referenced to similar sentiments. He's a great author, I've never read anything like him before.
Yeah he was racist, sexist, antisemitic... but none of that marks him as particularly unusual for his time. I guess it's the way those prejudices all seem linked to a general fear of the Other that feeds into his writing and makes it so weirdly intense. Not just the idea of fearing the external but also the internal, all those stories where the characters are betrayed by some hidden rotten thing in their own biology or sanity

Both his parents died after going insane, so I suppose it's not too surprising he ended up kind of highly strung

[Pod]

I bought 900 pages of lovecraft the other day for £2. (The Necronomicon - it's an omnibusal anthology type thing). Can I be in your guys' club, pls?

[godonlyknows]

Pseuds.

I'm reading Prestone, Facebook and gmail.

[Pod]

What;'s the ending like?
Did the butler do it?

[gracie]

I just finished reading A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, which was fabulous. I recommend it to anyone.
Now I'm reading A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson. I'm liking it so far, although he has a tendency to get a little carried away with the science stuff.

[dogzilla]

Pseuds.
Yes, because melodramatic horror writers are really popular amongst the literary elite :|

[dogzilla]

Can I be in your guys' club, pls?
Only after you get an Elder Sign tattooed on your chest

[jesperado]

I'm reading the last ever Rebus novel. I'm going to cry when I finish it.

[Fugazi]

I'm reading the last ever Rebus novel. I'm going to cry when I finish it.

Why, is the last page printed on onions?

[dogzilla]

Because she'll realise she has 80 more Rebus books to read after it

[jesperado]

Why, is the last page printed on onions?

Yes. That's the reason.

[Gandalf]

Robin Hobb - Assassin's Apprentice

I've been TOLD to read this, shes really good apparently.

[jesus_nightside_eclipse]

Yeah he was racist, sexist, antisemitic... but none of that marks him as particularly unusual for his time. I guess it's the way those prejudices all seem linked to a general fear of the Other that feeds into his writing and makes it so weirdly intense. Not just the idea of fearing the external but also the internal, all those stories where the characters are betrayed by some hidden rotten thing in their own biology or sanity

Both his parents died after going insane, so I suppose it's not too surprising he ended up kind of highly strung

That's a great way to put it. I'm reading 'The Whisperer in Darkness' at the moment, just after he gets to Akeley's house, and it's just so unlike any other author I've read, his writing is completely distinct. It's not even an up-front kind of horror, like someone being chased by an axe-murderer, it's the subtle kind where the fear is of what you don't know. It's so much harder to write that kind of thing, because you have to construct all the emotion and atmosphere alongside the plot.

I bought 900 pages of lovecraft the other day for £2. (The Necronomicon - it's an omnibusal anthology type thing). Can I be in your guys' club, pls?

Awesome, is that that hardback one with the ornate cover? I saw it the other week, it looks sweet! Has it got the actual Necronomicon in it? By 'actual', I mean the fake one that was written about 40 years ago.

[Pod]

That's a great way to put it. I'm reading 'The Whisperer in Darkness' at the moment, just after he gets to Akeley's house, and it's just so unlike any other author I've read, his writing is completely distinct. It's not even an up-front kind of horror, like someone being chased by an axe-murderer, it's the subtle kind where the fear is of what you don't know. It's so much harder to write that kind of thing, because you have to construct all the emotion and atmosphere alongside the plot.



Awesome, is that that hardback one with the ornate cover? I saw it the other week, it looks sweet! Has it got the actual Necronomicon in it? By 'actual', I mean the fake one that was written about 40 years ago.

It's the paperback version. Had the hardback been there it would have been £3 :)
and no idea on the actual Necronomicon. I'll check tonight.

[Rach]

Why, is the last page printed on onions?

That made me laugh for about 5 minutes, thank you.

[dogzilla]

Has it got the actual Necronomicon in it? By 'actual', I mean the fake one that was written about 40 years ago.
I don't think that Necronomicon you can buy really has anything to do with Lovecraft, they just nicked the name and some of the IA SHUB NIGGURATH! type stuff. But it's not meant to be like a mock up of the book from his stories (or even the one from Evil Dead), it's a load of ropey chants and stuff for Wiccany people to do

[dogzilla]

it's the subtle kind where the fear is of what you don't know.
And also fear of what you might find out. I like how half his characters go insane and the rest tend to run off and try to forget everything they found out about the real nature of the universe. In his stories ignorance is bliss, knowledge generally brings madness and death

[jesus_nightside_eclipse]

I don't think that Necronomicon you can buy really has anything to do with Lovecraft, they just nicked the name and some of the IA SHUB NIGGURATH! type stuff. But it's not meant to be like a mock up of the book from his stories (or even the one from Evil Dead), it's a load of ropey chants and stuff for Wiccany people to do

Yeh, it's a complete hoax, I knew that before I got it, god knows why I bought it!

And also fear of what you might find out. I like how half his characters go insane and the rest tend to run off and try to forget everything they found out about the real nature of the universe. In his stories ignorance is bliss, knowledge generally brings madness and death

Yeh, basically what happened at the end of "The Whisperer in Darkness" after he found that guy's face. Hope you have already read it so I didn't blow the ending! The whole theme of getting away from true knowledge does a lot to reinforce his idea that ultimately, humans mean anything, and there are somethings that have been and will be in existence on a much longer timespan than our species.