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Are-K142 wrote:just gonna have a spliff n tea and give JB Ballard - High Rise a go

I enjoyed it, typical later Ballard.

Descartes - Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings, only read the intro so far.

last one was +summer sisters+ by judy blume (made me cry at the end)
and before that +blues lessons+ by robert hellenga

anything to recommend by phillip k dick?

the man in the high castle is the only one I've read - superb book.

datura wrote:

Are-K142 wrote:just gonna have a spliff n tea and give JB Ballard - High Rise a go

I enjoyed it, typical later Ballard.

cool, aint read owt else by him but its pretty easy to read so nearly done

Hereforthwith books are to be burnt, not read with.

The Haunter of the Dark - H.P. Lovecraft

that looks quite cool stanton..

im reading Enter The Dragon at the moment, cant remember off the top of my head who its by, but its basically about history of tribes/armies of china/asia...starting with the mongols going right through to the present day...some wicked shit going down in this book, highly reccomend it

badger wrote:ive finally got round to reading nineteen eighty four and it's really good. i'm so glad i've got into reading again, it's been a while

I still haven't read this - maybe I will after this one

Are-K142 wrote:All about WATCHMEN - wonder how that film is coming on?

I've seen a preview recently looks amazing! Doubtful it will come even close to the comic though ;(

hahah i'm on ross kemp on gangs! the book accompaniment to the sky series! it quite good actually. nice pictures

triky wrote:

badger wrote:ive finally got round to reading nineteen eighty four and it's really good. i'm so glad i've got into reading again, it's been a while

its a great book if u liked it and havent read this, try also brave new world by Aldous Huxley... another classic along the same lines set in London 2540. ace book.

that's on my to read list too. i did a dystopian literature course for my english literature degree and yet somehow managed to not read these two classics (or most of the other great books on the reading list )

epic smh @ that tbh

Finished The Drowned World by JG Ballard a few weeks ago, after hearing Kode9 and The Bug going on about it in interviews, figured it was worth a read.

Brilliant book... the idea of london becoming a semi-flooded tropical swamp is hypnotising. Sitting on the tube sweltering and listening to the new FlyLo album probably helped, such a good combination.

finished ' the long walk' such a good read It was done in about 3 days.

Read 'Money' by Martin Amis recently, going to start reading 'The Secret Agent' by Conrad tonight hopefully.

Corpsey wrote:Read 'Money' by Martin Amis recently, going to start reading 'The Secret Agent' by Conrad tonight hopefully.

I loved 'Money'. Amis at his best, though 'Times Arrow' comes close.

I've just finished 'Chinese Whispers' by Hsiao Hung Pai. She's a Guardian journo who went undercover to investigate the world of undocumented Chinese immigrant workers in the UK. It's pretty harrowing stuff - people who leave their native land in the hopes of finding a better job to provide for their family yet end up being chewed up and spat out by the system, working illegally for 12 hours a day, under constant fear of arrest, and then handing over almost all their meagre earnings to criminal gangs and moneylenders.
It's a good read though my only criticism is that it feels like it was rushed to publication - few typos and dodgy sentence constructions that should have never have made it past the editing stages.

i finally finished Haunted the other day and i'm definitely glad i did.

its pretty twisted but there are some really good stories in there. worth the read if you're a Palahniuk fan.

Mika Waltari - Egyptian Sinuhet
it's way more massive than I had hoped for, epic reading

Microserfs - Douglas Coupland, started it last night.

Read nearly all of his books now. I love the way Banks builds a story, just when you start thinking bugger all is going to happen, you turn the page and blam all hell breaks loose. Yesterday i didn't put this book down for five hours (apart from to make Tea of course)
I have alot of time on my hands