What Book Did You Read Last Night??? (8 Viewers)

[David Kronenbourg]

this is brilliant. plenty dark and funny as fuck

 

[Deleted member 3435]

It's just down to tiredness I'd say but I thought it was worth sharing...

I read the thread title as "what book did you really read last night???"

I lolled.

 

[SomethingManic]

If anyone's interested, the Oxfam on George's Street has an original publication of Mein Kampf, from 1939.

It's €400.

 

[Anarcho Munk]

If anyone's interested, the Oxfam on George's Street has an original publication of Mein Kampf, from 1939.

It's €400.

christ, you'd nearly wann be a jew to afford that price

 

[Anarcho Munk]

His later stuff is known for being obsessed with finding a workable marxism which, to be honest, is a very mid 20th century conversation that i'm not that interested in.

Oh! how blasé. And just when I was beginning to get to like you too Lili Marlene.

Joke.
(I still haven't made my way through early 20th century marxism yet tbh)



Anyhow, I just finished these two:



This was a really rewarding read and offers the best introduction (apart from being something in itself) to Bauman's work. In it he characterises how we've shifted from a 'solid modernity' of the welfare state to what he calls the 'liquid modernity' of neoliberalism. Basically he shows the range of impacts neo-liberalism has had on human life - endemic uncertainty, job instability, individual respionsibility as the only option in solving all social problems with a near total abscence of any universal projects or goals - where everything in our lives amounts to a series of short-term pointless tasks with no sense of any permanency. It's pretty interesting where he goes from there and he has a veyr sharp and fresh take. It's kind of depressing though.





I liked this a lot.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

If anyone's interested, the Oxfam on George's Street has an original publication of Mein Kampf, from 1939.

It's €400.

It'd wanna be signed for that price.Terrible book.

 

[pete]

Finished Robopocalypse tonight.

Basically World War Z with robots. Good enough but at less than 400 pages really could have done with being a good bit longer. Seemed to skim over stuff, so much so that sometimes it reads almost like a treatment / screenplay for a movie than a full on novel.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

World War Z reads like that too and hey, it's becoming a film!

 

[fobster]

Just finished.

Slaughterhouse Five - Interesting read both from a character and a historical witness perspective. First Vonnegut book I've read, started Breakfast of Champions today.

Dracula - Finished yesterday. A good read after getting over all the preconceived notions of vampires I have become accustomed to from tv, films etc. Even better when you think it was first published in 1897.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

Finished both of these recently,good reading in both.I'm half hoping for another outbreak of the black death.

 

[magicbastarder]

there's shag all detail in the maria kelly book. just lots of extrapolation.

am rereading LOTR. great craic.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

there's shag all detail in the maria kelly book. just lots of extrapolation.

I was wondering about that because I read before in History Ireland there were scant few documentary sources left for the black death in Ireland.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

i'm a big dennis cooper fan but this is extremely fucked up, even by his standards.

 

[jonah]

Haven't read them yet, but I found these in the Amnesty International Bookshop the other day! So excited to read them.

 

[hermie]

Finished both of these recently,good reading in both.I'm half hoping for another outbreak of the black death.

Which is a better starting point? Would be interested in reading one of them

 

[magicbastarder]

i started 'the selected works of t.s. spivet' this morning and am enjoying it thoroughly.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1594202176/?tag=thumpedcom-20

 

[pete]

Went through my bookshelves yesterday and pulled out all the ones I haven't read yet. A 2 ft high pile.

Sigh.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

Which is a better starting point? Would be interested in reading one of them

Definitely 'A journal...',it gives a better feeling as to how it was back then as opposed to the more academic tone of the first.

 

[Kermit McDermott]

Nick Drake : The Biography by Patrick Humphries. I wonder how it ends.....oh wait, he dies.

 

[Cormcolash]

I just finished this. I'd say it's one of the best books of the year.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0575081414/?tag=thumpedcom04-21