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  1. Bladez

    What Book Did You Read Last Night???

    I just finished "Angst" by Zweig and really enjoyed it. It's about the psychological state of a married woman afraid that her affair will be revealed. It's a very short novel. I had the same experience as you - I tried one of the longer works and quickly lost interest. But this was short and snappy.
  2. Bladez

    What Book Did You Read Last Night???

    I completely understand. I'm the same. I can read the Kindle for much longer because of the larger font and less words per page. It's much less tiring. In fact I only read on a Kindle anymore. The way it's so easy to buy books is dangerous though. I've got a virtual stack of 10s of books waiting...
  3. Bladez

    What Book Did You Read Last Night???

    Ham On Rye is my favorite. It feels his most honest. You understand where his feeling of being an outsider comes from. Pulp is also available on Kindle. It's Bukowski living as a private detective and is also a good read. It put me onto Celine and Journey to the End of the Night which is...
  4. Bladez

    What Book Did You Read Last Night???

    Great book. But its a monster. I spent months reading various parts of it but never finished it.
  5. Bladez

    What Book Did You Read Last Night???

    I preferred Breakfast of Champions. Its completely crazy, with the mad tangents in the story and the different perspectives and all the illustrations. Cat's Cradle is great too, but it didn't have the impact for me that Breakfast of Champions did. Maybe its because I read Breakfast of...
  6. Bladez

    What Book Did You Read Last Night???

    Breakfast of Champions!
  7. Bladez

    What Book Did You Read Last Night???

    Cathedral by Raymond Carver. Easily my favorite of his books of short stories.
  8. Bladez

    What Book Did You Read Last Night???

    Im reading What Is Life by Erwin Shrodinger. So far it has been about why our brains have to be so big relative to the size of atoms. Interesting so far.
  9. Bladez

    What Book Did You Read Last Night???

    Aha! http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A13482443
  10. Bladez

    What Book Did You Read Last Night???

    I just imagined they were minced-meat and tomato sauce sandwiches - like spaghetti bolognaise without the spaghetti and between two slices of bread.
  11. Bladez

    What Book Did You Read Last Night???

    Maybe its a reference to Catcher in the Rye. Both books are about adolescence and alienation. Or maybe its just a reference to a type of sandwich he ate when he was young. Or maybe both. Or maybe neither.
  12. Bladez

    What Book Did You Read Last Night???

    I loved them all. Ham on Rye is my favorite. I don't know about the lack of imagination. Pulp is one of the most imaginative books I've ever read.
  13. Bladez

    What Book Did You Read Last Night???

    And I'm reading Women. Not as good as Ham on Rye but still excellent. Did he write anything other than the Chinaski stuff and what's it like?
  14. Bladez

    What Book Did You Read Last Night???

    On my shopping list for today so.
  15. Bladez

    What Book Did You Read Last Night???

    :) I got a copy of it for a friend for her birthday the other day but that description has made me want to read it myself. Still in hard-back though = 20 euro.
  16. Bladez

    What Book Did You Read Last Night???

    Because it was depressing or because you've come to the end of it?
  17. Bladez

    What Book Did You Read Last Night???

    I've only read one of her short stories. It appeared in Birthday Stories, the collection of short stories that Murakami compiled and published. It was one of the better ones in the collection. I've just finished Bucowski's Pulp which is some of the most exciting writing I've read in a long...
  18. Bladez

    What Book Did You Read Last Night???

    I'm a few chapters into Vernon God Little. I can't say I'm too impressed. The style seems to be a cheap imitation of Catcher in the Rye. The prose isn't very natural and with each sentence you can sense the author trying to be clever, but it just comes across as very forced. Its a Booker...
  19. Bladez

    What Book Did You Read Last Night???

    I read Elephant by Raymond Carver - a collection of short stories that he wrote just before his death. It's my first taste of Raymond Carver's writing and I really enjoyed it.
  20. Bladez

    What Book Did You Read Last Night???

    Yeah...exactly. Each one is a bit pointless and just leaves you with a feeling of 'meh'. It's a shame, because I really enjoyed The Elephant Vanishes. My trouble with Murakami is that although he is excellent at setting up a story, once he gets there, he doesn't seem to know what to do with...
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