What Book Did You Read Last Night??? (1 Viewer)

[Jim Daniels]

Ha! That's the book I should be reading for a book club meeting tomorrow but I haven't started it.

Ha, that's funny. Its not bad at all Jill. A pretty easy read. Tell your clubbers that the narrator is like Holden Caufield, if Roddy Doyle dreamt him up.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Very enjoyable.
I liked Liars Poker but the people in this book aren't the arsehole spivs of that book, they are more interesting.

Great stuff, isn't it?

He really knows how to draw the dramatic essence from his characters.

Say that again.

 

[St. Fechin]

Fnarr! Fnarr!

 

[jonah]

Thats my favourite book of the last year. Read it in 3 days over Christmas. Highly entertaining!

The more I read, the more I love it. Martin is such a hilarious character I can't even cope with it. Its one of those books I feel I almost have to read aloud to properly appreciate the language. It's brilliantly written.

 

[nooleen]

reading this since last night. i got it a few months ago and had gone out of the poetry mood by the time it arrived in the post. there's some great ones in it, as good as any she's done

 

[David Kronenbourg]

slaughterhouse 5. ah yeah

 

[rettucs]

I'm giving 'At Swim, Two Birds' by Flann O'Brien a go. I loved the first 3 pages. By page 4 I was lost. In a good way though.

Just finished this. I got lost so many times in it, but its a very enjoyable read, by in large. Mostly because hes such a witty writer. Its just hard to follow at times. I'd still recommend it though. Its short so you'd get through it before losing the rag with it.

 

[rettucs]

jesus.

Book of the decade shortlist announced




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Keane by Roy Keane
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PS I Love You by Cecelia Ahern
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Seriously Fucking Lean Decade by Scutter

 

[Lili Marlene]

jesus.

Book of the decade shortlist announced




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Keane by Roy Keane
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PS I Love You by Cecelia Ahern
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Seriously Fucking Lean Decade by Scutter

Nah, just the same old thing, 90% of persons are fucking idiots.


The voice of the people has spoken and they read the Sun

 

[Lili Marlene]

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0414/breaking42.html?via=latest

actually the amount of those books i've read is probably in single figures so I'm not really one to scoff

 

[Moods For Mallards]

Reading new books is nothing to be proud of.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

It is surprising how alliterate our society seems to be considering we huff and puff about all our great writers a lot.

 

[Mormon Nailer]

Great stuff, isn't it?

He really knows how to draw the dramatic essence from his characters.

Say that again.

http://www.propublica.org/feature/a...one-hedge-fund-helped-keep-the-housing-bubble

In a similar vein-this is well worth a read.

This hedge fund Magnetar was buying the shitty bottom tranche of CDO with, what seems to be, the sole objective of providing the impetus for the CDO to formed at all. Then they shorted the CDO in it's entirety. The 10mil or so they would loose on that equity tranche when the underlying mortgages inevitably defaulted was simply the cost of creating the short, which was worth 100s of millions.

Their actions had a lot to do with keeping the market for CDOs and by extension shitty sub prime mortgages buoyant at a time when people were starting to see that the instruments were a bad buzz.

 

[Mormon Nailer]

I'm reading this now.
I like Krugman a lot.

 

[washingcattle]

White Noise Don Delillo.

Excellent.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

i thought so too

 

[Mormon Nailer]

One of my favourite all-time books. Top 5, like.

Yeah me too.

 

[washingcattle]

Any suggestions of what Dellillo to go for next ?

I've done Underworld too.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

whatever you do dont read Ratner's Star. I forget now, they were the only two i loved

 

[Lili Marlene]

I'm reading this right now

so far so good