What Book Did You Read Last Night??? (5 Viewers)

[Jerry Twig]

Another righteous Monbiot manifesto, and a damn good read.

 

[IFF]

Another righteous Monbiot manifesto, and a damn good read.

read that 2 years ago and made really great arguments and thoroughly interesting read

Recently:

I read a short story collection by this guy last year and I wasn't particularly impressed, but all these are great.
Clearly influenced by the likes of Jane Austen, Laurence Sterne, Voltaire, Jonathan Swift blah blah and he's consistently laugh out loud funny.

his name has came to me before but i've not read anything of his yet. where to start? any reccomendations

currently as well as being 88% through with "finnegans wake", i'm also in the middle of

john steinbeck - cannery row
ian mcewen - solar
oscar wilde - picture of dorian gray (as part of a book of "selected works" of oscar wilde)

 

[St. Fechin]

read that 2 years ago and made really great arguments and thoroughly interesting read



his name has came to me before but i've not read anything of his yet. where to start? any reccomendations

Erm...yes, those three.
Start with 'Epitaph...' it's probably the easiest to get hold of.

 

[Jerry Twig]

read that 2 years ago and made really great arguments and thoroughly interesting read

Have you read Cool it by Bjorn Lomborg? Just finished that, a rather different view.

 

[hugh]

Have you read Cool it by Bjorn Lomborg? Just finished that, a rather different view.

Yeah but a view that is completely full of shit isn't it?

 

[IFF]

Have you read Cool it by Bjorn Lomborg? Just finished that, a rather different view.

no, i've not read it

i think what hugh is getting at is that Bjorn Lomborg's scientific credentials have been questioned lately

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

http://books.google.ie/books?id=CnM...ook_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAQ

its pretty excellent.

 

[rettucs]

its good, its annoying, and its annoying also.

I'm kind of losing the rag with it due to his continuous rattling off of acronyms and initialisms without explaining what or who the different groups are.

but its good too.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Liberation by William Hitchcock. It's a harrowing account of the impact of the end of the war on civilians in Europe. I found it very readable if a tad grim.

 

[Moods For Mallards]

its good, its annoying, and its annoying also.

I'm kind of losing the rag with it due to his continuous rattling off of acronyms and initialisms without explaining what or who the different groups are.

but its good too.

Ah no, that's a great read. To understand the acronyms etc., either look them up on the internet or, more enjoyably, read Hugh Thomas' The Spanish Civil War, which is brilliant, especially on the background.
George Orwell reminds me of being 17 or so.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Ah no, that's a great read. To understand the acronyms etc., either look them up on the internet or, more enjoyably, read Hugh Thomas' The Spanish Civil War, which is brilliant, especially on the background.
George Orwell reminds me of being 17 or so.

reminds me of being 15, I win etc.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Just kidding, i've never read Homage to Catalonia but I got a complete novels of George Orwell from the library one summer when I was about 15 and liked the manics a bit much.

I was kind of disappointed when I discovered later on that he renounced pretty much all of them

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

read Hugh Thomas' The Spanish Civil War, which is brilliant, especially on the background

was gonna recommend this actually,really good reading.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

There's also the Battle For Spain by Beevor.

 

[Moods For Mallards]

Just kidding, i've never read Homage to Catalonia but I got a complete novels of George Orwell from the library one summer when I was about 15 and liked the manics a bit much.

I was kind of disappointed when I discovered later on that he renounced pretty much all of them

Orwell never renounced Richey.

 

[IFF]

Ah no, that's a great read. To understand the acronyms etc., either look them up on the internet or, more enjoyably, read Hugh Thomas' The Spanish Civil War, which is brilliant, especially on the background.
George Orwell reminds me of being 17 or so.

i'm going to look into this. been meaning to get a book about the spanish civil war for ages

a good general book about spain is "ghosts of spain" by giles tremlett i thought but i'd like something more cfocused on the civil war

 

[Richie]

Luke Haines - Bad Vibes

It's funny to read him ripping the piss out of mediocre 90s UK acts, felt fairly light in substance though. Not really a thorough enough dissection of the whole Britpop thing for it to be a worthwhile overview of that, or enough insight into his own music, with the stuff about the Auteurs etc mostly focused on the string of mishaps and bad decisions that supposedly contrived to prevent him becoming famous. That anonymous cello player must feel fairly hard done by, didn't seem like he did too much wrong besides a basic personality clash with Haines.

 

[jonah]

i've just started reading 'Les Miserables' by Victor Hugo.

 

[Lili Marlene]

I'm reading His Dark Materials again and trying to form an argument for an essay.

hummmmm

 

[St. Fechin]

i've just started reading 'Les Miserables' by Victor Hugo.

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