What are you reading?

heavenscented · Post by **heavenscented** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 6:37 pm

Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace .. pretty good

snake91 · Post by **snake91** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 9:29 pm

Jezza's new book

heidi m. · Post by **heidi m.** » Thu Jul 09, 2009 7:55 am

Earth Inc. by Michael Bollen, half of Cassetteboy. Reccomended.

B_90 · Post by **B_90** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 1:29 pm

Iain Banks - The Wasp Factory

Thats some dark shit, well reccomend it

actraiser · Post by **actraiser** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 10:38 am

Bill Bryson - A Short History Of Nearly Everything..

This will make your brain hurt as its about everything.. from the big bang theory, how the universe exists as it does, planets, molecules, particles, atoms, single celled life, all the way up to our evolution from a pool of mud..

Its damn interesting to know how we got to where we are today and how flukey we are to even exist.. and its the easiest account of all this to read you will ever find..

only thing is you will start constantly thinking about all the massive numbers used in the book... 37 billions years, 4 trillion particles, 500 million billion light years etc..

pass the codine

actraiser · Post by **actraiser** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 10:41 am

oh and anything by HUNTER S THOMPSON is amazing.. the rum diary is a good read although not his best (he wrote it when he was 22 and it got left unpublished for ages), Songs of the Doomed is wicked as is the Great Shark Hunt..

bandshell · Post by **bandshell** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 12:15 pm

My favourite piece from Thompson is an account of his first time doing mescaline, he's in a hotel room writing whilst on it, at one point he tries to grow weed in the rug.

I think it's on the gonzo site.

trap · Post by **trap** » Mon Jul 13, 2009 2:36 pm

Well, I abstained from Mein Kampf, and moved onto Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar - I'm only about thirty pages in, but her use of similes and metaphors make it so evident that she's a poet. Makes it all the more enjoyable to read.

thomas · Post by **thomas** » Mon Jul 13, 2009 5:57 pm

Olio wrote:then i plan on reading 'Down And Out In Paris And London' by George Orwell. So far ive only read 1984 by him.

"Down and out" and "The road to Wigan peir" are much better books than both "1984" and "Animal farm" in my opinion. Although obviously not as important right now, they still have alot to comment on. Great Writer

lil-tee · Post by **lil-tee** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 9:20 am

Tony Thompson - Gangs.

Tony Thompson meets various professional criminals from the British underworld. Goes through how they make their money and how robberies were planned.
It's really interesting to read about these crimes as the gang members describe them, and then to Google them and see the news articles from when the crime took place.

j-sh · Post by **j-sh** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 10:10 pm

Trap wrote:Well, I abstained from Mein Kampf, and moved onto Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar - I'm only about thirty pages in, but her use of similes and metaphors make it so evident that she's a poet. Makes it all the more enjoyable to read.

Lol apparently you and I have a really similar tastes in books!
Quite liked the bell jar, you can really tell its written by a woman - or at least that you're hearing the thoughts of a woman.

trap · Post by **trap** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 2:43 pm

J-sh wrote:
Trap wrote:Well, I abstained from Mein Kampf, and moved onto Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar - I'm only about thirty pages in, but her use of similes and metaphors make it so evident that she's a poet. Makes it all the more enjoyable to read.
Lol apparently you and I have a really similar tastes in books!
Quite liked the bell jar, you can really tell its written by a woman - or at least that you're hearing the thoughts of a woman.

You can tell she's a woman just from the fact that she's nuts! Nah, seriously, it's an amazing book. She's dark though, man. I suppose you know it's semi-autobiographic?

I become attached to anything morbid, to be fair, but I'm really enjoying it. Got about seventy pages left, and the mental breakdown just seems to have come from nowhere. It could be written around anything though, and I'd still love it for the creativity of her writing.

trap · Post by **trap** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 10:37 pm

Finished The Bell Jar - it winds down nicely. Well, actually, it's pretty damned relentless.

Now... American Psycho, Gandhi, Catch 22, The Grapes Of Wrath... Too much on the pile.

paolo · Post by **paolo** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 6:23 pm

heavenscented wrote:Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace .. pretty good

One of my favourites. He killed himself earlier this year

steppo · Post by **steppo** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 10:15 pm

frank herbert - dune

catching up on what the movie left out

soupdogg · Post by **soupdogg** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 7:18 pm

I listen to audiobooks at work to pass time right now its Dante Alighieri's Inferno

Next the it's the Trial by Franz Kafka.

bob6978 · Post by **bob6978** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 1:21 am

this stupid forum thread !!!

menacetosobriety · Post by **menacetosobriety** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 11:49 am

got these three books on the go, picked them up in charity shops

Anthony Bourdain ‘Kitchen Confidential’

Christopher Hitchins ‘God is not Great: The Case Against Religion’

Thomas Cleary ‘Code of the Samurai’

two oh one · Post by **two oh one** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 7:03 pm

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