what are you reading?
| guffer |
 Posted: Wed, 07/09/2005 - 9:47am
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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..? |
| superbe |
Posted: Mon, 15/03/2010 - 10:16am
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Awesome read |
| Ulster_Blue |
Posted: Mon, 15/03/2010 - 10:47am
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Just finished The Things They Carried and If I Die In A Combat Zone by Tim O'Brien and am interested in reading more about vietnam. Anyone recommend any similar books? I hope I'm not recommending something that you've already come across but have you read Dispatches by Michael Herr? In the book, Herr writes about his experience as a war correspondent in Vietnam, retelling stories that he heard from the people that he encountered during his time there (some characters are fictionalised). He later co-wrote 'Full Metal Jacket' with Kubrick and contributed to the narration of Coppola's 'Apocalypse Now'. There is also an incredibly interesting documentary on YouTube that I would recommend called 'First Kill', in which Herr talks about Vietnam and the psychology of war. The documentary also features verbatim from Vietnam war veterans and an interview with Eddie Adams, a photojournalist who captured a picture of the chief of police executing a Viet Cong soldier. ulster, definately read dispatches. also the gate - francois bizot river of time particularly is a devastating book Thanks for the help guys, will be checking dispatches out and move on to the rest from there! |
| velvet |
Posted: Wed, 17/03/2010 - 2:13am
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can anyone recommend me something to read that is based around a "cool" and "sophisticated" male lead character...like holden caulfield & pat bateman etc etc Victor Ward in 'Glamorama' Unnamed in 'Bright Lights, Big City' Dorian Grey and Lord Henry Wotton in 'A picture of Dorian Grey' Charlie in 'The perks of being a wallflower' (he isnt cool or sophisticated but he shares some similar characteristics to Holden Caulfield if thats what youre looking for) i own and have read all of them, weird how only bateman and caulfield stand out amongst them |
| Rez |
Posted: Wed, 17/03/2010 - 2:24am
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Stephen in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. |
| eliotness |
Posted: Wed, 17/03/2010 - 9:34am
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David Eagleman - Sum Bit of a hype book, but really good book that you could read in 2-3 hours. I really liked this, some interesting theories, some a bit silly. also as each of the afterlife theories are a maximum of four pages long its really good for just dipping in and out of. or reading all in one go. |
| eliotness |
Posted: Wed, 17/03/2010 - 9:37am
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also i wouldn't say holden caulfield is by any means sophisticated. james bond. king of cool and sophistication |
| mr.white |
Posted: Wed, 17/03/2010 - 9:51am
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Bruce Robertson, in Filth by Irvine Welsh.
Filth tells the story of Bruce Robertson, an Edinburgh policeman whose life resembles Harvey Keitel's in Bad Lieutenant. Racist, misogynist, homophobic and psychotic, Robertson devours hard-core pornography whilst mentally and physically abusing himself and everybody around him. Despite his appalling personal hygiene supplemented by a genital rash and an attack of tapeworms (more of this later), he nonetheless manages to have sex with almost every female he meets, in between setting up colleagues for queer-bashing or driving others to the brink of suicide. |
| unCouth |
Posted: Wed, 17/03/2010 - 10:53am
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Want to start reading again, any recommendations or anyone got a fiction/adventure/fantasy book I could borrow? shantaram or the shadow of the wind I'm currently half way through Shantaram. Enthralling read so far. would recommend. |
| guffer |
Posted: Wed, 17/03/2010 - 11:10am
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the sequel was supposed to be out by now, but it keeps getting put back... |
| eliotness |
Posted: Fri, 02/04/2010 - 2:16pm
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Recently read 'Death and the Penguin' by Andrey Kurkov. Really really good book with lot's of bleak dark humour and surreal elements. It centers around Viktor, an aspiring writer who lives in post soviet Ukraine with his depressed pet penguin Misha whom he obtained from Kiev zoo when they was struggling to feed their animals and as a result started selling some of them. Viktor gets his first proper writing job doing obituaries for a local newspaper for people that are not yet dead. He proves a very good obituary writer however none of his subjects are dying. Suddenly the subjects begin to die in suspicious circumstances and Viktor gets swept up in a complicated life threatening series of events involving the Ukrainian mafia, his penguin and a little girl. It has been translated from Russian by a very good translator and it doesn't feel as if it has lost any of Kurkov's writing style, which is very distinct and addictive with short chapters and a melancholic humour. Highly recommended. |
| San |
Posted: Sun, 04/04/2010 - 10:35pm
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This little snippet |
| dirtyoldtown |
Posted: Mon, 05/04/2010 - 11:41am
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just attempted to read william burroughs - nova express. hardest read ever. |
| eliotness |
Posted: Mon, 05/04/2010 - 12:25pm
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william burroughs is awesome. you do know that most of his works are "cut up"? he wrote chapters, then cut them up and stuck them back together filling in spaces and making them link up (slightly) hence the difficult flow of the text. it can make things seem like a big load of nonesense but I think the idea was that cutting up and re arranging a completely linear text at random would reveal a hidden and more intuitive meaning to the text that is impossible to do consciously. |
| Serbia |
Posted: Fri, 09/04/2010 - 12:26am
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David Eagleman - Sum Bit of a hype book, but really good book that you could read in 2-3 hours. I really liked this, some interesting theories, some a bit silly. also as each of the afterlife theories are a maximum of four pages long its really good for just dipping in and out of. or reading all in one go. glad you enjoyed it. I've just watched a debate/interview with Will Self and Egleman discussing the book. If you liked the book you might find it good. Will Self is so dry it's painful compared to Eaglemen. Really relevant after reading that religion thread. |
| MrPlatinum |
Posted: Fri, 09/04/2010 - 12:28am
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I bought this poetry book off Luke recently, it's brilliant: |
| eliotness |
Posted: Fri, 09/04/2010 - 9:56am
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David Eagleman - Sum Bit of a hype book, but really good book that you could read in 2-3 hours. I really liked this, some interesting theories, some a bit silly. also as each of the afterlife theories are a maximum of four pages long its really good for just dipping in and out of. or reading all in one go. glad you enjoyed it. I've just watched a debate/interview with Will Self and Egleman discussing the book. If you liked the book you might find it good. Will Self is so dry it's painful compared to Eaglemen. Really relevant after reading that religion thread. Looks very good, I will watch that when I get home, thanks. |
| BOOKSTORECORE |
Posted: Thu, 15/04/2010 - 3:58pm
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I need some books on revolution, reading Zizek - Violence and The Communist Manifesto atm, maybe might flick through some Fanon and late Sartre stuff. Not sure what to pick up, anyone? |
| BOOKSTORECORE |
Posted: Thu, 15/04/2010 - 4:02pm
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Preferably violent revolution btw. |
| eliotness |
Posted: Thu, 15/04/2010 - 4:05pm
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get some russian stuff? bulgakov's 'the white gaurd'? |
| BOOKSTORECORE |
Posted: Thu, 15/04/2010 - 4:08pm
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Sorry, I was thinking more from a cultural theory ground, theoretical and politically galvanising stuff. Althusser, Gramski etc. |
