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bravecaptain
Joined: 08 Feb 2003 Posts: 859
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Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 12:34 Post subject: Safe As Book |
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John's post made me want to start a book thread. Not favourite books, just the book you are currently reading and your thoughts etc.
You shall Know Our Velocity
- Dave Eggers
Loved his first one, this one has started promisingly. His descriptive sentences are singularly vivid. Hope it's as funny as 'A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius'.
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Darraghh Guest
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Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 13:13 Post subject: |
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Although i'm supposed to be studying now, i find i'm always peeking at some irrelevant book or another. Totally excellent is Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Tool. I bet you've already read it martin!! Its so funny it made me snort orange juice out me nose at one point.
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Kris
Joined: 16 Sep 2002 Posts: 2550 Location: Sheffield
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Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 13:13 Post subject: |
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'Firewall' By Andy Mcnab.
Fluff with lots of violence.
Sorry to lower the tone so soon into this thread!!!!
Kinks
x _________________ "fashioned by the blade of a world that doesn't care,
feeling so removed, drifting thru stealing air then...
pause and think about it, try to move and shift the pain, but it's there you feel it kicking and you scream and feel alive." |
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ciaranm Guest
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Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 13:13 Post subject: |
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I'm currently reading the Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan. Top stuff, it's about a sixteen year old lad locked up in Liverpool in the 50's for being part of the IRA. It's funny shit.
As a recommendation can I say Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak. An important book by any standards and also very moving.
HWOFSTG (hip acronyms again) is brilliant and it's the honesty that gets me. |
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bravecaptain
Joined: 08 Feb 2003 Posts: 859
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Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 13:47 Post subject: |
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Wow, my girlfriend asked me to recommend a book last night and I gave her 'Confederacy Of Dunces'. Top book, the character always reminded me of Arturo Bandini in Fante's 'Road to Los Angeles'. Full of wind and bluster.
'Borstal Boy' is fucking brilliant as his 'Teems of Times and Happy Returns' by his brother, Dominic. My grandfather was from Newry and lived there through the twenties before moving to New York during the depression. These books remind me of the stories he used to tell.
I've just finished reading Lisa Jardine's biography of Robert Hooke which was ace. He is almost unknown nowadays but was responsible, along with Christoper Wren, of rebuilding London after the great fire of 1666. He built Monument and also designed and built the Bethlehem Hospital (Bedlam). His 1665 book, Micrographia, which he wrote and drew, is incredible and one of the most psychedelic books I've seen. He was a pioneer of microscopy and the drawings in Micrographia are of insects, plants etc seen through his microscope. He was safe as fuck and I can't wait to meet him when I die and we'll both go round to Isaac Newton's cloud and give him a kick in the bollocks.
I think I'm getting into architecture.
Help.
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Kris
Joined: 16 Sep 2002 Posts: 2550 Location: Sheffield
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Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 14:15 Post subject: |
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There'[s a shitload of money in Architecture Just four years training and you could have a nice way of funding ya records _________________ "fashioned by the blade of a world that doesn't care,
feeling so removed, drifting thru stealing air then...
pause and think about it, try to move and shift the pain, but it's there you feel it kicking and you scream and feel alive." |
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bc Guest
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Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 14:27 Post subject: |
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ok, where do i sign? x |
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John Mc
Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Posts: 1398
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Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 14:41 Post subject: |
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Before you put scrap your new album and head down to B&Q to buy a spirit level, remember the lyrics to The Hexx by Pavement:
"Architecture students are like virgins
with an itch they cannot scratch
Never build a building till you're 50
what kind of life is that?"
Base your life around the lyrics of Stephen Malkmus and you won't go far wrong. |
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bc Guest
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Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 15:16 Post subject: |
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but i don't like oysters. x |
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Setareh Juventina
Joined: 01 Dec 2002 Posts: 1415 Location: Norrköping, Sweden
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Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 21:21 Post subject: |
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I'm reading the Dalai Lama book, I don't know the English title but it's written by an American psychologist about his talks with the Dalai. It's interesting. L&P _________________ Man is the only animal clever enough to build The Empire State Building and stupid enough to jump from it. |
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Hew
Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 529 Location: Chicago
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Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 23:54 Post subject: |
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My Side by David Beckham is a classic. _________________ Martin O'Neill's Claret And Blue Army |
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CiaranMac
Joined: 03 Sep 2002 Posts: 460 Location: Sligeach
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Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 08:48 Post subject: |
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BC, what can I say? you've got great taste!
I laughed out loud twice reading Borstal Boy last night, that never happens. _________________ www.myspace.com/storkboychoons
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John Mc
Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Posts: 1398
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Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 13:15 Post subject: |
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Just started reading "Revolution" which is about The White Album and is written by David Quantick. Hopefully it will be like "Revolution In The Head" but with a few jokes thrown in. David Quantick is a very funny man. |
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bc Guest
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Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 13:50 Post subject: |
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It is a good book and he is a very funny man. x |
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Monkey Boy
Joined: 06 May 2004 Posts: 68 Location: York
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Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 16:22 Post subject: |
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I've read that White album book too, It's not bad and it only cost me a couple of quid as well. I'm currently reading Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood. It's a portrayal of pre war Berlin - pretty good so far but I'm only one chapter in. |
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