ross
872 posts since 6/2/10
11 Feb 2011 00:25
shock doctrine by naomi klein at the minute. not much of a reader but this is pretty cool.
bruk
3449 posts since 2/11/06
11 Feb 2011 00:54
i tend to read a whole bunch of books at any one time, so currently on the go are….
Cormac McCarthy : The sunset limited (a play, very short, will finish it tomorrow, so far so good)
Lucian Randall: Disgusting Bliss the Brass Eye of Chris Morris (interesting if you like his work and want to dig a little deeper)
Alexander Masters: Stuart, a life backwards (great insight into homlessness via an unlikely friendship… midway through, pretty compulsive)
Steve Toltz: Fraction of the whole (blackly comic, strange, quite moving at times… its a long ass book but worth sticking with!)
11 Feb 2011 09:53
Mario Vargas Llosa - The Time of the hero.
Great read. Prose is fantastic and the shifting perspectives are cool
11 Feb 2011 12:46
Zizek - Violence: six sideways reflections
Cleaver - Reading Marx Politically
Garcia Marquez - The Autumn of the Patriach
deuce
13155 posts since 21/1/08
11 Feb 2011 12:51
where do most of you read? i find it hard to just read sat at home, when instead i could be listening to music/chatting to hot girls on the internet aaaaaaaall day etc
11 Feb 2011 12:56
Lunchbreak if i dont meet friends and at home for 30mins-1hr before bed
18 Mar 2011 21:02
Just finished the killer inside me, excellent read if a little short.
Started crime and punishment yesterday
FrIEND
13277 posts since 27/11/03
1 Apr 2011 11:28
finished mobs recommendation of "under and alone", thought it was good and very interesting - didnt even know biker gangs really still/ever existed.
ending "Hater" now - kinda post apocalyptic story about a large % of the human race suddenly turning violent on each other through fear. Guillermo Del Toro's allegedly bought the rights and is producing a film.
anyone got any more suggestions?
FrIEND
13277 posts since 27/11/03
1 Apr 2011 11:31
Commander_Venus wrote: Jordan wrote: where do most of you read? i find it hard to just read sat at home, when instead i could be listening to music/chatting to hot girls on the internet aaaaaaaall day etc
Before bed.
1 Apr 2011 11:31
If you liked the post-apocalyptic stuff Death of Grass is good and I enoyed Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood.
FrIEND
13277 posts since 27/11/03
1 Apr 2011 11:46

thanks
EDW
2565 posts since 23/2/10
5 Apr 2011 19:52
Just finished reading american psycho, proper messed up! Trying to read up on the "classics" anyone recommend a good read? what about any other of Bred Easton Ellis's books?
5 Apr 2011 20:02
ive read glamorama and less than zero both by him as well, they are good but not as good as american psycho, imo
other 'classics' include
underworld - don delillo
seize the day - saul bellow
a confederacy of dunces - john kennedy toole
on the road - jack kerouac
catch 22 - joseph heller
and many many others