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bravecaptain
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reading 'Keir Hardie' by Caroline Benn
and a thousand other books for the OU course I start in Jan.
eeeeek, i never done no book learnin' before.
i forgot to mention that i read a book called 'barrel fever' by david sedaris. i bought it in austin tx five years ago and have just got round to reading it. very funny and gay as fuck. i think some of our u.s friends may have heard of him but i've never heard his name mentioned over here.
anyone like the go team? one of the albums of the year i reckin'.
and anything on the sound ink record label is fucking ace.
king honey, viktor vaughn, heat sensor etc
yeah!
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Bev
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Just started 'The Baghdad Blog' which is basically a book of an internet blog by an Iraqi before & during the current war... What's really cool is that he hasn't got a particular political axe to grind (he hates Sadam
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Bush) and the fact that he's bothered about the same things as thee and me - i.e. on pg 2 he's worrying when Massive Attack are next going to release an album... www.thebagdadblog.com
Just finished Nostromo by Conrad. But wearying in places, and not as good as 'Heart of Darkness' or 'The Secret Agent' by a long stretch.
Got Bob Dylan's 'Chronicles Vol 1' to read next too!
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180 Rain
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| Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 13:23 Post subject: |
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Wearying Bev? Christ, Nostromo seemed to take me about an entire summer 10 years ago to read. It's not especially long in number of pages but it just seemed like the never-ending book.
Chronicles I'm reading at the moment and it's good. Dunno what I expected not being a huge Dylan fan but it's quite literary, in a post-Beat poets kind of way (mentions cold-water flats and references Kerouac) which can't be a bad thing. |
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| Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 22:36 Post subject: |
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just before I went to see the film, I dragged the Manchurian Candidate down from the bookshelf, and started reading it. Well, it's brilliant, wickedly funny so that I was trying not to laugh out loud on the tube, also quite horrfying and finally sad.
Read it and weep. |
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gillworm
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| Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 22:39 Post subject: |
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| me again at the end, dunno what the bugger happened! |
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CranesAreFlying
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| Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2004 02:08 Post subject: |
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| bravecaptain wrote: |
i forgot to mention that i read a book called 'barrel fever' by david sedaris. i bought it in austin tx five years ago and have just got round to reading it. very funny and gay as fuck. i think some of our u.s friends may have heard of him but i've never heard his name mentioned over here. |
David Sedaris is hysterical. he came to read at a bookstore here a few monthsa ago. unfortunately it was sold out but I got to listen to him over the PA.
just read Bunnicula, which is a fantastic childrens book about a vampire rabbit who sucks the juice out of vegetables.
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Kris
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I have to admit, I'm 125 pages into Hubert Selby Jr's "The Room" now and........ it's just not ringing my bell....
Ah well I'll keep persevering.
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John M
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| I read a book about Pavement over the weekend called 'Perfect Sound Forever'. It was OK but a bit short. It spent over half the book concentrating on the build up to Slanted and Enchanted and then raced through the rest of the albums without much detail which was a bit disappointing. I wanted the lyrics analysed in minute and geeky detail but you just end up learning that you probably wouldn't want to share a mini bus with Gary Young and that Stephen Malkmus is good at Scrabble. However I have spent all of today listening to my Pavement albums so some good has come of it. "I was dressed for success, but success it never comes..." |
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Bev
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| John M wrote: |
I've recently finished "How Mumbo Jumbo Conquered the World" which is an author slagging off lots of things (horoscopes, Thatcherism, alternative medicine) |
Just finished reading that - very good but a bit random some of his rants, like linking post-modernism to creationism... The bit about 'Management Books' made me laugh out loud several times!
bravecaptain - what course are you doing with your book learnin' that you mentioned somewhere I can't find on this thread then?
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Tommy Tynans Lovechild
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just finished jon ronsons The Men Who Stare At Goats. Its ace. I love the man. So rare that a tvjourno come investigative journo produces such balanced programmes and books.
The Go! Team are the grooviest thing since dee-lite though i think the 1st track on the album sounds like an old housemartins b-side. |
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Bev
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Have finished 'if no one speaks of remarkable things' by jon mcgregor. Absolutely superb, really poetic writing, but contemporary sounding too. If you're gonna trust the taste of any random stranger writing under a false name on the internet (!) then trust me, this is ace.
Have started 'Spirit of the Wind' or somesuch book which I got as a present and so have to read really - it seems to be getting many reviews about how good it is, so I'll just say that despite some bits of slight good-ness it seems quite poorly written to me, with a story that is only superficially original... Although if any of you disagree with this, I'm sure you'll tell me!
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bravecaptain
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'straw dogs' by john gray
one of the best books i've ever read. pokes a hole with his finger through the fabric of what we perceive as our reality. nudged thought processes already in place and nothing, nothing, has been the same since.
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bravecaptain
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| Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 06:12 Post subject: |
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oh, and currently reading 'meat is murder' by joe pernice and 'self' by yann martel.
safe
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Tommy BOO
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one of the best books i've ever read. |
don't you say that about almost every book? 
so does that mean that you only read good books?
what's the worst book you've read lately?
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Kris
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The Room 
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