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  • LixartoLixarto Frets: 1618
    bigjon said:
    Time-torn Man (biog of Thomas Hardy) by Claire Tomalin
    :)
    "I can see you for what you are; an idiot barely in control of your own life. And smoking weed doesn't make you cool; it just makes you more of an idiot."
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  • dafuzzdafuzz Frets: 1522
    Maus by Art Spiegelman - been on my shelf for years but never read it (the complete version)
    All practice and no theory
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  • d8md8m Frets: 2431
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  • mike_lmike_l Frets: 5700
    The jobs section of the local paper.......

    Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21) 

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  • Actually read some books on holiday. Big deal for me! Finished off the Lewis man trilogy ( nice detail about life in the Scottish isles, silly plots), my last Wallander ( only books about his daughter now, probably won't bother), that book about statistics in football ( really), a biography of Darwin ( he didn't believe in homeopathy but had success with water treatment - being wrapped in a wet blanket) and half way through The English Passenger which is fiction but set contemporary to Darwin so some cross over. Currently doing this because I'm supposed to be reading a spreadsheet at work.
    Tipton is a small fishing village in the borough of Sandwell. 
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  • VimFuegoVimFuego Frets: 15476
    currently re-working my way through the GOT books, and No Dog Gardening by Charles Dowding. 

    I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.

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  • Reading 'Crime and Punishment' at the moment. It really is a fantastic book and incredibly well written (if the translation is correct...) but for some reason it's not grabbing me as a 'page turner' just yet (only a 150 pages in).
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  • GrunfeldGrunfeld Frets: 4027
    d8m said:
    Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
    I love that book.  Very thought provoking. 


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  • HAL9000HAL9000 Frets: 9551
    Currently reading 'I am Pilgrim' by Terry Hayes. Fast-paced thriller a bit in the Jack Reacher/James Bond vein. Not exactly Dostoyevsky but very enjoyable. Before that it was 'Boogie Man: The Adventures of John Lee Hooker' by Charles Shaar Murray. Also very good.
    I play guitar because I enjoy it rather than because I’m any good at it
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  • dogloaddogload Frets: 1495
    I'm re-reading 'Ubik' by Philip K. Dick. 

    As usual with PKD, mad!
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  • Books I've read recently, all recommended with marks out of 10:

    - The Rosie Project -8/10
    - The Humans - 8/10
    - Stoner - 8/10
    - God of Small Things 9/10
    - Wuthering Heights 8/10
    - To rise again at a decent hour 7/10
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  • HootsmonHootsmon Frets: 15924
    edited September 2014


    the power of now

    the graveyard book

    the music lesson, a spiritual search for growth through music


    tae be or not tae be
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  • imaloneimalone Frets: 748
    dogload said:
    I'm re-reading 'Ubik' by Philip K. Dick. 

    As usual with PKD, mad!
    Ubik is possibly his strangest, though I haven't read the second two VALIS books. Still thoroughly absorbing.

    MazzaG said:
    Reading 'Crime and Punishment' at the moment. It really is a fantastic book and incredibly well written (if the translation is correct...) but for some reason it's not grabbing me as a 'page turner' just yet (only a 150 pages in).
    It gets a bit more involving, don't think it ever really becomes a page turner, but still very enjoyable. For me it's really one of the books that demonstrates page-turning-ness isn't a requirement to being enjoyable. Dead Souls (Gogol) is another.

    Actually read some books on holiday. Big deal for me! Finished off the Lewis man trilogy ( nice detail about life in the Scottish isles, silly plots), my last Wallander ( only books about his daughter now, probably won't bother),
    Wallander on the other hand, a while since I read one, but have occasionally ended up reading until 5am to get them finished. Running low on remaining books too.

    Last one I read:
    Patrick Leigh Fermor - A Time To Keep Silence. One of his shortest, about two separate stays in monasteries. Exudes a quiet peacefulness, together with dashes of his knowledge of history.
    Currently:
    A North Light - John Hewitt's memoir. Ulster's most famous poet before Seamus Heaney, he was also deputy director of the Ulster Museum, and it's an interesting insight into artistic and cultural life in NI during the middle of the 20th C.
    Next:
    Probably another PLF, The Broken Road. But I've also started the first few pages of Laurie Lee's A Rose For Winter.
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  • duotone said:
    Around 50 pages of this left. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hells-Angel-Barger-Angels-Motorcycle/dp/1841153362/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1390003128&sr=8-1&keywords=sonny+barger Got Questloves and then Dennis Bergkamps autobiography to read after.


    I was left in two minds about that one; on one hand it's a compelling account of how the HA came to be and how their creed developed, on the other hand it's quite self-glorifying and very 'American' (his conviction that every American should own a pump-action shotgun 'for home defense'). Apparently Barger's mellowed a bit since, but the book as a whole does leave me slightly uneasy.

     

    Anyway, I've just finished GoT up to book 5, daren't start the sixth one whilst I've got work piled up so picked away at a couple of histories of WW2 (one called 'The Storm of War' which is the size of a breezeblock, the other 'A Short History' by Norman Stone, which does what it says on the tin).

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  • VimFuegoVimFuego Frets: 15476
    IanSavage said:
     
    picked away at a couple of histories of WW2 (one called 'The Storm of War' which is the size of a breezeblock, the other 'A Short History' by Norman Stone, which does what it says on the tin).
    spoiler alert, we won.

    I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.

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  • "How to cheat at everything" by Simon Lovell.

    He's one of my favourite magicians and in the past was an advisor to the big Vegas casinos about how to catch cheats.

    Mainly because his past was somewhat, err, involved in winning lots from casinos.
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  • JalapenoJalapeno Frets: 6378
    Just consumed the latest Lee Child / Jack Reacher - Personal - back to form IMHO

    Also just read the Joseph Wambaugh Hollowood series.

    Donald Fagen's Elegant Hipsters - dipping into now and again

    Now halfway through Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch series - #1 The Black Echo
    Imagine something sharp and witty here ......

    Feedback
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  • Jalapeno said:
    Just consumed the latest Lee Child / Jack Reacher - Personal - back to form IMHO

    Also just read the Joseph Wambaugh Hollowood series.

    Donald Fagen's Elegant Hipsters - dipping into now and again

    Now halfway through Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch series - #1 The Black Echo

    Lee Child ( that the right way round?) was on Radio 2 this week, he is an Aston Villa fan and apparently uses Villa player's names for characters in his book. He has also written in fan's names. That seemed quite cool. Slightly tempted to try one of the books.
    Tipton is a small fishing village in the borough of Sandwell. 
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  • dogload said:
    I'm re-reading 'Ubik' by Philip K. Dick. 

    As usual with PKD, mad!
    Thats prob my favourite PKD one!
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  • dogloaddogload Frets: 1495
    I loaded my Kindle with PKD a couple of years ago for my holidays, and ended up reading about ten off the trot. Bad idea - I felt a bit like I'd been 'processed'. Very bizarre .
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