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

[Goff]

Just R=finished the story of the Rossport 5. Great read, would make a great movie

Considering your taste in movies, I doubt it. We talking Silkwood? Erin Brockovitch?

Any chance of a lend? You know you'll never get it back.

Apart from seeing it in the windit of Hodges Figgis once, it's a bit hidden in general.

 

[Janer]

The Ten Commandments

Nearly 3 and a 1/2 hours

Yul is off to kill Moses at the moment.

 

[Janer]

I appear to have posted my film in the book forum.

 

[niallmc]

Considering your taste in movies, I doubt it. We talking Silkwood? Erin Brockovitch?

Any chance of a lend? You know you'll never get it back.

Apart from seeing it in the windit of Hodges Figgis once, it's a bit hidden in general.

no bother, don't need it back - i've read it!

 

[Scientician 0.8]

I am currently reading PD James' Children of Men. I saw the film and then later found the book on the shelf here at home so thought I would give it a look. The film is rather different from the book. I found it kind of depressing. It deals in depth with what a world would be like where no children could be born.

 

[MDR]

I finally finished Women In Love by DH Lawrence. It was a bit of a struggle to be honest. 500 pages on hairsplitting philosophy and upper class ennui. Glad to have it over with.

Next it's on to the Three Musketeers. I really enjoyed the Count of Monte Cristo and am looking forward to some Dumas-style fast-paced action after the treacle of the DH Lawrence book. I also want to find out why musketeers use swords rather than muskets.

 

[therealjohnny]

Currently rereading Emmett Grogans Ringolevio- a great read but after looking him up on the web it seems he had a tendency to be a bit of a bull-shitter. I always thought his stories were a bit far-fetched but I hadn't heard people like Peter Coyote saying to take everything he says with a pich of salt. I also didnt know he co-wrote alot of the songs on a Robby Kreiger LP and Bob Dylan dedicated an album to him.

Some character, while reading it I got to thinking "I wonder what he's doing now", I was actually shocked and saddened to learn he died in 78, apparently of a heroin overdose.

 

[hermie]

(Edit: wrong thread)

 

[MDR]

Finished the Three Musketters last weekend. What a weird ending. Weird book. I can't believe Dumas (or dumbass I'm told he's called) published that and The Count of Monte Cristo in the one year.

Am now half-way through Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy. One of lighter books, though probably his best writing of regional dialect; also quite funny (for him).

 

[nEiLo]

"That they may face the rising sun" - John McGahern. A book about culchies. Fierce mighty, altogether.

 

[Goff]

"That they may face the rising sun" - John McGahern. A book about culchies. Fierce mighty, altogether.

Most of the graves in Glasnevin (Prospect side) Cemetary face the rising sun. In the older part anyway.

I think that's nice.

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

henry miller - 'tropic of capricorn'

i feel like a teenager reading something mind blowing for the first time
because i am reading something mindblowing for the first time!

 

[Goff]

henry miller - 'tropic of capricorn'

Durtbag.

 

[magicbastarder]

am about halfway through blue mars by kim stanley robinson. am about at the stage where my reading is accelerating to get the trilogy finished.

 

[Squiggle]

The Awakening by Kate Chopin. Not a bad read... quite a short book so I'm about half way through.

 

[paula]

i really, really liked the awakening when i was an impressionable first year, but maybe i'll change my mind whenever i re-read it.
at the moment i'm about 60 pages off finishing middlemarch. which i really enjoyed. it has seemed like an intellectual soap opera.

 

[Squiggle]

i really, really liked the awakening when i was an impressionable first year, but maybe i'll change my mind whenever i re-read it.
at the moment i'm about 60 pages off finishing middlemarch. which i really enjoyed. it has seemed like an intellectual soap opera.

Well, I'm coming to The Awakening from having forced myself to read about half of Caleb Williams before getting so sick of it that I couldn't face another page. Talk about a breath of fresh air.

 

[BC]

"the structure of magic" by richard bandler and john grinder. another accessible and illuminating guide to hypnosis from the fathers of neuro-linguistic programming.

 

[paula]

Well, I'm coming to The Awakening from having forced myself to read about half of Caleb Williams before getting so sick of it that I couldn't face another page. Talk about a breath of fresh air.

eek. caleb williams was another first year book for me. i think i got to page 9 before giving up.

 

[Squiggle]

eek. caleb williams was another first year book for me. i think i got to page 9 before giving up.

Yep, these are course related reading too. Caleb Williams does get marginally more interesting after a while, but doesn't get any easier to read. TRIPE! And that's exactly what I intend to say if I have to do an assignment or write an exam answer on it.