What Book Did You Read Last Night??? (10 Viewers)

[nooleen]

Now it's time for a more male "sprawling, fierce, vulgar display".

the stirring tale of a dude aggressively airing his balls out?

 

[Jim Daniels]

What's that Jenny Ofili like? Was thinking of picking it up....

It's great. Short paragraphs with a lot of cool and engaging observations. You'll fly through it.

 

[Jim Daniels]

the stirring tale of a dude aggressively airing his balls out?

Hope not - I like my tea and scone to stay down while I'm reading

 

[pete]

Just about finished with this. Its a pretty decent account of the hacker/cryptography movement that spawned Wikileaks etc. A little too in thrall to the personalities and absolutely no notion of any kind of critique but it's informative and entertaining. Actually made me nostalgic for my early experiences of the Internet. I feel like cracking out a Linux box and telnetting the fuck into something now.

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[nooleen]

i'm reading this

following fictional characters (who occasionally encounter such lads as st patrick, brian boru and strongbow) through irish history centred around dublin from around 400 AD to the 1500s. i was expecting it to be a pile of shit but it's a great read. a giant multigenerational saga in the style of james michener, if you like that sort of thing, which i really do.

i definitely need history to be presented in the form of swashbuckling fiction. i don't know how much time i spent learning this stuff at school but only the vaguest notion of the details ever stuck; i have a much better grasp of it now.

 

[Jim Daniels]

i'm reading this

following fictional characters (who occasionally encounter such lads as st patrick, brian boru and strongbow) through irish history centred around dublin from around 400 AD to the 1500s. i was expecting it to be a pile of shit but it's a great read. a giant multigenerational saga in the style of james michener, if you like that sort of thing, which i really do.

i definitely need history to be presented in the form of swashbuckling fiction. i don't know how much time i spent learning this stuff at school but only the vaguest notion of the details ever stuck; i have a much better grasp of it now.

Looks like good craic.

 

[Jim Daniels]

i definitely need history to be presented in the form of swashbuckling fiction. i don't know how much time i spent learning this stuff at school but only the vaguest notion of the details ever stuck; i have a much better grasp of it now.

Kind of reminds me of an edition of the "Heroes of Greece and Troy" I have somewhere, which my brother got for his 12th birthday. It's fantastic and tells the stories of Heracles, Prometheus and all those lads, in a cool understandable way, with great illustrations throughout.

The lads would go on great quests where they would meet ladies who would "provide great entertainment" for the night.

 

[nooleen]

Books You'll Never Brag About Having Read - How many will you admit to reading?

five...but wtf's wrong with go ask alice and jonathan livingston seagull?

 

[David Kronenbourg]

9

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Both Dan Browns
Both BEE's
Both Franzens
The Doors, Led Zepplin books and can't remember what the other one was

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Oh the James Frey book

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

I read Jonathan Livingstone Seagul and about 500 pages of Battlefield Earth. I read JLS when I was a teenager, I was thoroughly ridiculed when I recommended it to the lad sitting beside me in school but I'm still not sure why. It's a bit naff, maybe.

 

[hugh]

What's embarrasing about having read Das Capital? Surely that's pretty impressive.

I've read five of these. The two Franzens (are they embarassnig because the Internet hates him now for some reason?), one of the Brett Easton Ellis (again, huh?), The Doors book and The Da Vinci Code (okay, that was shite).

 

[Lili Marlene]

eight!

Both Dan Browns
Two Twilights
Some Grisham
50 Shades
The Secret
Go Ask Alice

Most of them were utter shite but I'll happily admit to reading them since it usually makes a good conversation.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

Just two. Some strange choices in there for sure. I thought The Doors book was ok but I was only a young fella when I read it which may explain that.
Oh, and I tried to read Mein Kampf but it was shite so gave up.

 

[nooleen]

go ask alice was one of the books we had in the house growing up so i've read it at least five times

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

Go Ask Alice was lying around in our house too but I never read it. Did they give it out at mass or something?

 

[Lili Marlene]

I picked it up in the library when I was about 11, had no idea it was a big famous thing until I was maybe 20.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Books You'll Never Brag About Having Read - How many will you admit to reading?

five...but wtf's wrong with go ask alice and jonathan livingston seagull?

Just The Davinci Code. Never heard of 90 % of that list.

 

[Jim Daniels]

go ask alice was one of the books we had in the house growing up so i've read it at least five times

Same here!

The only other ones I read were Franzen's Corrections - which was grand, and Flowers in the Attic, which I sneaked out of my sister's room when I was a teenager. I really felt like I was reading something forbidden.