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

[Lili Marlene]

That said ANGST. I have no life, etc.

it sounds to me like you have a pretty awesome life, studying all that stuff

 

[jonah]

This is for you jonah

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Oh dear, does the fact that I borrowed 'Karlology: What I've learned so far' by Karl Pilkington from the Jubilee Library today negate this?

 

[washingcattle]

Wangst.

 

[jonah]

Trangst.

 

[St. Fechin]

You know, oddly that would work as a very geeky chat up line, the answer being 'i'. A really odd grammatically incorrect one, but a pretty awesome one.

That said ANGST. I have no life, etc.

How about:
"Hey baby, would you like to Sokal my hoax?"

Science wars themed sexual harassment.

 

[jonah]

How about:
"Hey baby, would you like to Sokal my hoax?"

Science wars themed sexual harassment.

As in thoroughly disgrace and demerit me in a very public setting? Jeez, my kind of come on line!

 

[St. Fechin]

As in thoroughly disgrace and demerit me in a very public setting? Jeez, my kind of come on line!

...

 

[jonah]

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Hahahahahah

 

[St. Fechin]

Hahahahahah

Actually, that's gonna be my new avatar.

 

[jonah]

perpetual scorn.

 

[Jill Hives]

well, The Tortilla Curtain is the only one out of those three that i've read. it's good but not his best. i would start with Drop City. it was my introduction to him and remains my favourite. World's End, Riven Rock and The Inner Circle are also amazing. I'm going to read The Women next

I listed those because they are readily available to me. Maybe I'll start The Women this week too and when done you can rank it for me.

 

[St. Fechin]

Last few days:

Finished this. I suppose It's humorous enough in parts, gives an interesting insight into the period and has got some appealingly out there metaphors here and there, but too many chunks of it verge towards unreadability for me:

She could not conceive of her country emotionally: it was a way of living, an abstract of several landscapes, or an oblique frayed island, moored at the north but with an air of being detached and washed out west from the British coast.

Not quite sure whether that falls into the 'appealingly out there' or 'unreadable' camp, both probably, anyway: it's over with.

Extremely well researched (possibly autobiographical), very well written, laugh out loud funny - seems to have sunk almost without trace. Shame.
Mind you, the 'explosive' ending is contrived and out of place (it cheapened the overarching Sex 'N' Religion theme a bit) and she has the annoying habit of rendering certain characters' speech phonetically (a bugbear of mine), great overall though.

 

[Gambra]

How did this thread become one of the most popular on the entire forum?

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Because all the illiterate people have left thumped for facebyouk.

 

[Lili Marlene]

I'm reading this drabbily titled biography

I have no idea who all the leading jazzmen that keep getting referred to are but it's pretty good so far, she tends to do more in a week than I do in 26 years.

Read this on and off all summer, finished it there last week. She was totally mental but very interesting

then I find this

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/aug/10/reese-witherspoon-peggy-lee-biopic

fucks sake, go away reese witherspoon

 

[Jill Hives]

Read this on and off all summer, finished it there last week. She was totally mental but very interesting

then I find this

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/aug/10/reese-witherspoon-peggy-lee-biopic




fucks sake, go away reese witherspoon

Nah, I can get behind that casting.

 

[Lili Marlene]

meh, I can get behind her looking like her.

what I can't get behind is casting someone who thought Just Like Heaven would be a good film to make.

 

[Jill Hives]

meh, I can get behind her looking like her.

what I can't get behind is casting someone who thought Just Like Heaven would be a good film to make.

But so did Mark Ruffalo. It was dreadful, I must admit but I still like both of them.



I'm a few chapters in on this and it's making me laugh.

 

[Lili Marlene]

But so did Mark Ruffalo. It was dreadful, I must admit but I still like both of them.

Mark Ruffalo was in 13 Going on 30. I can forgive him lots.

I'm a few chapters in on this and it's making me laugh.

Oh yeah? I'll have to read it. Have you read Starter for Ten? It's pretty much the book about what it was like to be me when I was 18

 

[Jill Hives]

Mark Ruffalo was in 13 Going on 30. I can forgive him lots.

You need help.

Oh yeah? I'll have to read it. Have you read Starter for Ten? It's pretty much the book about what it was like to be me when I was 18

Saw the movie but never read the book. The first chapter of One Day pretty much described 21 year old me. Embarrassingly so. I was nearly offended. Highly entertaining thus far, imho.