What Book Did You Read Last Night??? (6 Viewers)

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

loving it again,like the intro says its not a prize winning piece of literature but it did launch the environmental direct activism movement which is far more important.highly recommended.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Read Slaughterhouse 5 last night/this morning. I am pretty sure I read it decades ago but didn't remember much. It's really good.

Yeah, I'm on it now. It's not what I expected at all. V. good!

 

[Mormon Nailer]

I read that when I was over at Primavera there a few weeks ago. So there.

I read half of it and dropped it then picked it up again.
I flew through the second half in an evening. I think the other people at the coffee shop were wondering what the hell is the guy in the corner so miserable about.

I love to send a copy to. [email protected]

It's (like Disgrace) pretty unsettling, especially as the time and place are so vague.

 

[sugar_referee]

Darwins's 'Voyage of the Beagle'

On a ship, belting around the Magellan stratis, looking at rocks and animals and South Americans. Can barely keep up with the geological stuff but fucking hell the man can describe a cliff in an interesting way.

 

[IFF]

currently

i read the short story Lord Arthur Saville's crime by Oscar Wilde yesterday

 

[rettucs]

i read the short story Lord Arthur Saville's crime by Oscar Wilde yesterday

Isn't it great! Its online here - http://www.oscarwildecollection.com/

with lots of other stuff.

'The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.'

etc...

I'm still plodding through Richard Ellman's Oscar Wilde biography. It ranges from intensely interesting to just plain impossible to follow. Hes in France now though and is getting a bit gay. I sense the good stuff about to happen any moment!

 

[nooleen]

not really a book, but alan moore's 'lost girls'

the grown up alice (in wonderland), wendy darling (peter pan) and dorothy (wizard of oz) meet in a hotel and share stories of their lurid sexual histories while enthusiastically rogering each other with strap ons, amongst other things

 

[rettucs]

not really a book, but alan moore's 'lost girls'

the grown up alice (in wonderland), wendy darling (peter pan) and dorothy (wizard of oz) meet in a hotel and share stories of their lurid sexual histories while enthusiastically rogering each other with strap ons, amongst other things

sounds great nooly. I might wait for the movie though. I reckon I'd need pictorial aids for such subject matter!

 

[nooleen]

it's a graphic novel...very graphic indeed

great stuff. filthy!

 

[Lili Marlene]

It's amazing how obsessed people are with putting filth and or/drugs into those books. There must be literally hundreds of such 'interpretations'

 

[IFF]

Isn't it great! Its online here - http://www.oscarwildecollection.com/

with lots of other stuff.

'The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.'

etc...

I'm still plodding through Richard Ellman's Oscar Wilde biography. It ranges from intensely interesting to just plain impossible to follow. Hes in France now though and is getting a bit gay. I sense the good stuff about to happen any moment!

i thought it was good

didn't know about thwe website though i did pcik up the 450page selection of works of his that i'm going through for 4.99 in my local bookshop

 

[jonah]

not really a book, but alan moore's 'lost girls'

the grown up alice (in wonderland), wendy darling (peter pan) and dorothy (wizard of oz) meet in a hotel and share stories of their lurid sexual histories while enthusiastically rogering each other with strap ons, amongst other things

I've been trying to find that for a bizarrely long time and I never seem to cross its path. I really should start buying things on the internet.

Anyway, I'm reading 'Camp Concentration' and am laughing more than I have in a long, long time.

 

[rettucs]

The Wizard of Oz came free with the Sunday Times last weekend. I shall certainly read that when I get around to it.

 

[Lili Marlene]

The Wizard of Oz came free with the Sunday Times last weekend. I shall certainly read that when I get around to it.

The first one? Don't bother, it's not very good

I'm reading this right now. It's not the best, after the initial conceit of turning the folk song into a proper story the author seems to be floundering

I think I may only have purchased it because of the pretty girl on the cover

still plodding through this, YAWN, they just brought up an illuminati conspiracy though so that might hold my attention for a while but right now it's just BLAH BLAH INDEPENDENT WOMAN IN 18TH CENTURY BLAH BLAH WEAR MENS CLOTHES AND FEEL FREE BLAH

 

[rettucs]

The first one? Don't bother, it's not very good

no? but the film is great.

I have 3 days of solid boredom coming up in a couple of weeks in the form of a work trip to the UK. I need something easy-going for that given the numb state I expect my brain to be in. I thought this might fit well.

Oh well, a trip to the bookshops of town this saturday is in order so.....

 

[Lili Marlene]

You know that bit at the end of the film where the wizard just gets in the balloon and shouts 'GOODBYE' and that's it? I used to wonder as a kid why he was such a jerk, could he not wait 30 seconds for Dorothy and bring the balloon back down or whatever?

It's all from the book, anytime something bad happens people immediately give up and shout 'GOODBYE FOREVER', it's makes for really disconcerting reading



anyway, apparently the main reason it's still seen as a classic is because it's one the first wholly american myths/story cycles. Despite the fact that oz is obviously europe.....

 

[rettucs]

well maybe being of the advanced years that I am, I'll be able to handle it now. To be fair though, its a kids book from 1899. Kids were different in those days. Sent out to work in the mines at 8, married by 10, having kids at 12, dead by 20. In that context, disconcerting could well come across as playful and jolly.

and I just assumed he didn't come back because he was incompetent and the rope slipped. I did wonder what would happen when he made it to Kansas. Apart from the obvious, 'jaysus, what a shithole' reaction, how would he land the balloon. These things weren't addressed adequately, either in this, or the rather scary 'Return to Oz'.

 

[Lili Marlene]

well maybe being of the advanced years that I am, I'll be able to handle it now. To be fair though, its a kids book from 1899. Kids were different in those days. Sent out to work in the mines at 8, married by 10, having kids at 12, dead by 20. In that context, disconcerting could well come across as playful and jolly.

You should read the History of the Fairchild Family

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_the_Fairchild_Family

laugh a minute

check out this infamous chapter, where the father brings the children to gawk at a corpse as a reminder of their own mortality

http://core.roehampton.ac.uk/digital/chlit/shehis/pgs144-147.pdf
http://core.roehampton.ac.uk/digital/chlit/shehis/pgs148-151.pdf
http://core.roehampton.ac.uk/digital/chlit/shehis/pgs152-155.pdf

the chapter after that is even better where the "Effects of Disobedience to Parents" are demonstrated with a bold kid being (accidentally) killed and the father is all "LET THAT BE A LESSON TO YOU"

 

[rettucs]

wow, that is quite something. I always wondered what 'temporal death' was!

I wonder did Mary Martha write any sex education books. I should be very interested to read her take on that topic.

 

[dirtyvicar]

I keep meaning to re-read the Oz books I read. I remember them being full of endearingly self-important characters. Apparently yer man Baum was some kind of utopian socialist, and the books are full of subtle exposition of his ideas.