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dj_rasheed · Post by **dj_rasheed** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 10:45 pm

Charles Seife - ZERO : The Biography Of A Dangerous Idea

thomas · Post by **thomas** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 10:53 pm

Jah Pat wrote:

Anyone read any Fante?

Yes, i read ask the dust a while ago and didnt realise there was other Bandini books for a while.

Great writer. Reading "Wait untill spring, Bandini" right now actually.
Your right about the film, i had it ready to watch after the first half of the book. Watched it straight after and it almost ruined the whole experience in the first place. More reason, if you ask me, to trust Rotten Tomatoes.

spk · Post by **spk** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 10:47 am

"dead" (book 3) of stephen king's dark tower - epos

could eat these ones...

Pistonsbeneath · Post by **Pistonsbeneath** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 10:50 am

angelas ashes

makes me thankful for what i have

rrob · Post by **rrob** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 3:26 pm

one hundred years of solitude - gabriel garcia marquez, before that midnight's children - salman rushdie. both amazing

rrob · Post by **rrob** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 3:30 pm

number10 wrote:life is elsewhere - Milan Kundera.

Quite heavy going and not as good as The Unbearable Lightness of Being, but still better than most authors i have read.

this! both amazing. so is 'the joke'

jazz · Post by **jazz** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 8:31 pm

The Social Contract, Rousseau. Not exactly light reading, but it passes time.

diss04 · Post by **diss04** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 7:09 pm

just ordered;

narcisa by jonathan shaw

homeland by sam lipsyte

and money by martin amis

good choices?

drokkr · Post by **drokkr** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 6:28 pm

"blood meridian" by cormac mc carthy
seriously good book. dark, atmospheric and, at times, fairly violent.

he also wrote "no country for old men" btw

LEQ · Post by **LEQ** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 11:39 am

spooKs wrote:
BEN? wrote:Brighton Rock - Graham Greene
thats sick

Love it, wicked book. As is 3 men in a boat, hilarious.

I'm about to start Murakami, Hard-Boiled wonderland.

Just finished microserf by Coupland, was good but Interest started to wane towards the end, think I preferred Jpod.

wurge · Post by **wurge** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 5:26 pm

Statistics for Environmental investigations: Using statistics to understand the Environment

a man called dave · Post by **a man called dave** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 2:15 pm

LOTR Mines of Moria are not very nice.

elbe · Post by **elbe** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 2:58 pm

Just Finished:

Man In The High Castle by Phillip K. Dick

(Cheers Jubz for the lend

)

Was very good, took a little time to get going but the last third of the book is intensly gripping, some amazing sentences that just made me think 'Deep'.

Worst part...the end felt rushed and a bit abrubt.

Dead Rats · Post by **Dead Rats** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 10:07 pm

Eager to get my hands on Pratchette's new book.

dj cal cutta · Post by **dj cal cutta** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 11:43 pm

Mr Hyde wrote:'get in the van' by henry rollins.....its a bit depressing how pissed off he is with everything!

That's a good read. It's pretty fascinating to correlate that book w/Rollins' music and esp. his spoken-word stuff of the time. I admire his ability to focus his anger into his writing as he did. Never really liked him in Black Flag(or anything else he's done, for that matter).

thomas · Post by **thomas** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 11:52 am

"The Resturante at the end of the Universe" by Douglas Adams.

Great reading, need to read the next 4 in the trilogy

ch3 · Post by **ch3** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 6:11 pm

Just started Orientalism by Edward Said.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism_(book)

betamaxnomates · Post by **betamaxnomates** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 10:59 am

I just finished the book of 'Generation Kill'; it was, like series, absolutely amazing.
Now I'm about halfway through 'Who Killed Christopher Robin' which is a trashy supposed 'exposé' about the death of Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones.

datura · Post by **datura** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 6:39 pm

Hells Angles by Hunter S Thompson. Reasonably interesting so far, but a little turgid and repetitive at times.

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