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and is it any good...
I just finished survivor by chuck palahnuik, it was pretty good. I have haunted and invisible monsters to read at some point as well...
going to start lunar park - bret easton ellis's new book today...
favorite authors..?
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just read past mortum by Ben Elton - first book I have read by him, surprised myself by loving it.
j
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My Magpie Eyes are Hungry for The Prize - The Creaton Records Story
Load of shite
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I need a fun book for my holiday Tomorrow, give me some suggestions
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jegaboo wrote:
just read past mortum by Ben Elton - first book I have read by him, surprised myself by loving it.
j
i liked that, but thought it was obvious who the killer was. as soon as the character came into the story, there was no real reason for them to be there so it was a bit of an anti-climax
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Reading the book after watching the film  
Me, reading Michel Houellebecq's atomised or elementry particles as its known in the states.
This is from amazon 
Bruno and Michel are half-brothers, born to a hippie mother who believed in following her bliss. As boys they live in ignorance of each other--at one point attending the same school without knowing of their blood connection. As grown men they're not truly close, but they occasionally phone each other late at night. Bruno's a hopeless sexual obsessive, often drunk or on his way there, and Michel's a molecular biologist, distant and inaccessible.
Michel Houellebecq's The Elementary Particles follows these brothers through the latter half of the 20th century. Bruno and Michel are buffeted by history, vessels of disappointment and desire rocked by the ocean of time. Shuttled away to a boarding school where he's sexually abused by other boys, Bruno grows up full of twisted sexual longings and a contempt for aging women so palpable that at times it's stomach-churning. At a commune in the country, Bruno takes stock:
"The women were intolerable at breakfast, but by cocktail hour the mystical tarts were hopelessly vying with younger women once again. Death is the great leveler. On Wednesday afternoon he met Catherine, a fifty-year-old who had been a feminist of the old school. She was tanned, with dark curly hair; she must have been very attractive when she was twenty. Her breasts were still in good shape, he thought when he saw her by the pool, but she had a fat ass. "
Michel doesn't hate women; he doesn't even notice them. Instead of leering at bodies by the pool, he stares at particles in microscopes. He wins prizes for his experiments, but never experiences the rush of life. For both men, the damage has been done by history, by mother, before the story begins. What interests Houellebecq are the permutations and recapitulations of damage--the way the particles of the self can never be completely reconstituted. --Emily White--
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Fowler - The Autobiography
Great read.
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Agree with Guffer on the 3 he's read.
I am reading...
Michel Houellebecq - Atomised
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only fiction?
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ingenious pain - andrew miller
before that
the crying of lot 49 - thomas pynchon
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guffer wrote:
nah, the only other book ive read by him was survivor...
what did you think of that? I wasn't impressed
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Haunted is pretty sick actually. good read but made my stomach churn. I only had to read the first chapter and realise that chuck paluhnuik is a very different type of author
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I'm currently reading Life, Death, Legend - Jim Morrison Biography
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Shell_Suits_Strike_Back wrote:
Fowler - The Autobiography
Great read.
does it tell you how he bought up loadsa houses and is making a killing?
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Not a well known book but just finished reading Recipes for Living by Damian Carter.
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frenchfried wrote:
invisible monsters - Chuck Palahniuk - i dont rate it, it seemed like an attempt to shock and felt to over the top and not real enough.
i liked that book...
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I was reading the Red Dwarf books.
Now I have decided to re-read my a-level text Wuthering Heights....
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finished:
dance dance dance - murakami - amazing
hey nostrodamus - douglas coupland - ok, last story was the best
choke - palahniuk - pretty good, better than survivor or invisible monsters imo
now reading:
norwegian wood - murakami
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nah, whatever... 
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I'm reading 1984 at the moment, it's a lot better than i thoguht it would be.
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Hello all, just finished a re-read of Zena And The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirzig. It's a philosohical story about a guys trip through madness and the destruction it brings to his life and family, then his recovery with their help.
Some fascinating stuff and deep meaningful bits.
For example, without using comparisons, how would you define the meaning of "quality". No cheating by looking it up - try and see if you can do it.
I'm also working through the back issues I have of Headpress magazine, a counter culture mag that covers the seamy underside of society. Nasty, nasty stuff, weird stuff, sexy stuff and stuff that makes me wonder how people ever got into their particular fetish.
thanks
Iain
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