What are you reading?

cogidubnus · Post by **cogidubnus** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 1:31 pm

hashmoney wrote:Just finished "the Dice Man' what can you say about that book....

You can say it's fucking excellent, but probably not advisable to lend to your Dad afterwards...

alfie · Post by **alfie** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 5:12 pm

diss04 · Post by **diss04** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 6:49 pm

i want to read one of the big books now. i'm sick of reading ones no one has ever heard of.

'catcher in the rye', '1984' or 'catch 22' - which should i read next?

limb · Post by **limb** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 8:14 pm

Diss04 wrote:i want to read one of the big books now. i'm sick of reading ones no one has ever heard of.

'catcher in the rye', '1984' or 'catch 22' - which should i read next?

catch 22 is the only one that's funny but its also pretty long

spooKs · Post by **spooKs** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 9:48 pm

Diss04 wrote:i want to read one of the big books now. i'm sick of reading ones no one has ever heard of.

'catcher in the rye', '1984' or 'catch 22' - which should i read next?

never got into catch 22, i'll have an epiphany one day i guess. the other two, doesn't matter really, i would read catcher in the rye first then 1984, that would make a lovely contrast!

triky · Post by **triky** » Thu Mar 19, 2009 12:32 pm

i just bought the shephard fairey cover version of 1984 and animal farm, coz i love those books and obey rocks.

sweet.

spooKs · Post by **spooKs** » Thu Mar 19, 2009 2:35 pm

yeah thats sick, obey is awesome

dj dead · Post by **dj dead** » Thu Mar 19, 2009 6:21 pm

Diss04 wrote:i want to read one of the big books now. i'm sick of reading ones no one has ever heard of.

'catcher in the rye', '1984' or 'catch 22' - which should i read next?

Just finished Catch 22, took about 200 pages for me to get into it, but it's really worth it if you perservere. also i think it's a book that gets better the more times you read it, because there are so many characters, and the plot is constantly jumping back and forth through time.

after that read 1984, bleak but brilliant

dj dead · Post by **dj dead** » Thu Mar 19, 2009 6:30 pm

also just about to read Concrete Island by J G Ballard which should be interesting

__________ · Post by **__________** » Fri Mar 27, 2009 10:29 am

dj dead wrote:
Diss04 wrote:i want to read one of the big books now. i'm sick of reading ones no one has ever heard of.

'catcher in the rye', '1984' or 'catch 22' - which should i read next?
Just finished Catch 22, took about 200 pages for me to get into it, but it's really worth it if you perservere. also i think it's a book that gets better the more times you read it, because there are so many characters, and the plot is constantly jumping back and forth through time.

after that read 1984, bleak but brilliant

i thought catch 22 was dire, personally. dunno what all the fuss is about

fivesixkids · Post by **fivesixkids** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 10:01 pm

walden II by b.f. skinner. only like a quarter of the way in, good so far

BaronVon · Post by **BaronVon** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 5:57 pm

Sleazy paronoid serial killing in Japan

What more do you want from a novel. Marvellous

nousd · Post by **nousd** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 8:46 am

stirring conscience at a time that I'm anti-armaments:
Hidden Agendas: John Pilger
simultaneously, wanting a good read & feeling poetic:
The Book Of Disquiet : Fernando Pessoa (native of Britain's oldest ally)

limb · Post by **limb** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 1:48 pm

just bought on a 3 for 2 in waterstones:

The Corner by the people who wrote the wire
Matter by ian banks
and
The Road by Cormac Mc Carthy

at the moment I'm reading Oblivion by David Foster Wallace, I've never read any of his before, and from this book I don't know what all the fuss is about, I'm thinking of abandoning it halfway through, I donno.

deeps · Post by **deeps** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 7:39 am

Just read Christopher Reeve's "Nothing is Impossible", excellent recommendation.

Currently shifting through a pile of books:

Hidden Truth: Forbidden Knowledge by Dr Steven Greer
Kahlil Gibran "The Collected Works of.."
James Allen "As a Man Thinketh"
Anthony Robbins "Unlimited Power"

datura · Post by **datura** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 8:03 am

Baron_von_Carlton wrote:

Sleazy paronoid serial killing in Japan
What more do you want from a novel. Marvellous

The dark Murakami has a sick mind!

samantha g · Post by **samantha g** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:31 pm

Anyone read Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr? One of my favourite books of all time! Movie is wicked too.

djelements · Post by **djelements** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 1:19 am

The Road.
Dark as.

misskatiemo · Post by **misskatiemo** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 8:46 pm

Just finished (last 2 weeks)

- Twilight (all 4 in the series) - Stephanie Meyer
- Southern Vampire Series (all 8, this is what True Blood is based off of) - Charlaine Harris
- Quincy Jones Autobiography (KILLER read)

In the middle of:
- The End of Poverty
- Hot, Flat and Crowded
- World Wide Rave

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