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[spiritualtramp]

i'll try and pick it up second hand somewhere, i reckons.

there is about a million second hand copies of this book floating around Dublin.

 

[LMD64]

i'll just fish one out of the liffey then

 

[Space]

Two questions for ye book people:

Anyone read "The Fortress of Solitude" by Jonathan Lethem, I need to find someone who shares my apprecition of it.

Anyone read the new Douglas Coupland novel; Eleanor Rigby.
I'm just about to start it, reading "fast food nation" at the moment.

 

[guy of the tiger]

i read da vinci code first. it's good.
digital fortress is one of the worst books i've ever read. soooo f crap.
put me off Dan Brown.

mmyeah, i read Digital Fortress, wasn't too gone on it, seemed like it was written for a movie plot. Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon is waaa-hey better, and bigger too.

is Da Vinci Code really all that good? if tis, may have to have a book-buying day today.

 

[guy of the tiger]

currently reading 'a brief history of time' by

and just finished reading

gotta love those pagans..

 

[Catwoman]

currently reading Breakfast of Champions, by Kurt Vonnegut, and getting embarrased on the bus by the big and obvious pictures of a [large rodent] beaver and a [legs wide open] beaver

That book's excellent. Kilgour Trout rules! Have you read any other Vonnegut?

Currently reading Reefer Madness which is certainly an eye-opener. A fella in the US gets a life sentence for possession of 0.016 grams of hash.

Just read The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy (thanks, Juno!) which is a deadly read. Simliar fire and ice cop routine as L.A. Confidential (though I've only seen the film). Anybody got any other Ellroy recommendations?

 

[LMD64]

That book's excellent. Kilgour Trout rules! Have you read any other Vonnegut?

slaughterhouse 5, and timequake, and i have deadeye dick somewhere at (parents') home, gotta root that one out.

his stuff is quirky and poignant, both depressing and hilarious at the same time. very anti-war, in a far more interesting way than michael moore, less stats, more 'pointing out the ridiculousness of it all'.

 

[Catwoman]

slaughterhouse 5, and timequake, and i have deadeye dick somewhere at (parents') home, gotta root that one out.

his stuff is quirky and poignant, both depressing and hilarious at the same time. very anti-war, in a far more interesting way than michael moore, less stats, more 'pointing out the ridiculousness of it all'.

Yeah, that's true. If you get a chance, read Fates Worse Than Death, a collection of essays. His non-fiction stuff is really good to, again, it stresses the absurdity of war. It was written in the 80s but is still relevant today.

 

[Juno]

Anybody got any other Ellroy recommendations?

American Tabloid!


(I may have said this to you already but the wine...eet makes me forget...)

 

[Catwoman]

American Tabloid!


(I may have said this to you already but the wine...eet makes me forget...)

hahaha, you did, yes. Did I ask if you had it and could I borrow it?!

 

[Jimmy Magee]

Can I join in the Vonnegut self-wetting? Just finished Slaughterhouse Five, tis marvellous, although I was expecting it to be more in the Catch-22 vein and not so utterly demented...but tis very funny nonetheless. I'm now reading The Life of Pi...it's a bit gay. But it's okay. I mean it's very good, I have to say so cos me flatmate got it for me and he's now reading this

 

[juan_paulo]

Been reading

Hegemony or Survival - Noam Chomsky

Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

Collected Short Stories - Franz Kafka

... and a terribly boring Land Law book

 

[LMD64]

Can I join in the Vonnegut self-wetting? Just finished Slaughterhouse Five, tis marvellous, although I was expecting it to be more in the Catch-22 vein and not so utterly demented...but tis very funny nonetheless. I'm now reading The Life of Pi...it's a bit gay. But it's okay. I mean it's very good, I have to say so cos me flatmate got it for me and he's now reading this

funny? i like this book, but she make me cry, alsmost.
now read Deadeye Dick, his take on gunlaws and stuff.

and also just finished Da Vinci Code, better than digital fortress by a mile. pretty predictable, buh, still a page turner though.

 

[spiritualtramp]

so far this week I read the new Adrian Mole book - Adrian Mole and the weapons of mass destruction. it is ok, not as good as the early ones but still amusing enough.


I am now reading house of sand and fog which (so far) I think is totally fantastic. tis quite the page turner.

 

[LMD64]

just started Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson. it's a mighty tome, 900 pages with small print. i'll report back next week, when i'm done.

 

[Jimmy Magee]

Currently readin Franny and Zooey be Salinger...I'd only read Catcher before, seems to be similar territory...which is fine be me, I'm still stuck at a mental age of about 15...

 

[cassette/tape]

the daVinci Code: there's always an albino giant isn't there?

 

[dudley]

i read the angels and demons book by dan brown on me holidays.
officialy has the worst ending line to a book ever.
stomach churningingly bad. bah.

currently reading the bookseller of kabul, seems good, recommended by richard and judy too which is no bad thing.

 

[Latex lizzie]

John Pilger. THe new rulers of the world.

I was a bit late reading this first published 2002. But It's never been more topical..the bit where he says " It is more than likely that the us will invade iraq again.." sent a chill up my spine.If only it were fairy tale....

 

[ratmonkey]

Just read Hubert Selby Jr's Waiting Period. Great book about some lad who wants to kill himself, and then decides to kill other people instead.