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

[david jatt]

Or rather, not. This made my head hurt so I switched to "Christine Falls" - Benjamin Black (Banville). Rollicking great read which doesn't make my head hurt. Yay!

"The Silver Swan" by Benjamin Black is a worthy follow up.

 

[travispickle]

"The Silver Swan" by Benjamin Black is a worthy follow up.

OOOH didn't know there was another! Cool, thanks.

 

[david jatt]

OOOH didn't know there was another! Cool, thanks.

yeah, came out in November, I think it's better then Christine Falls and apparently he completed the third "Quirke" book in a number of weeks.

 

[carbide]

Reading Ian McEwan's First Love, Last Rites collection at the moment

how are you finding it? it wasn't the first of his stuff i'd read but since then, i can't get the big fuss over atonement, saturday, etc, when there's batshit brilliance like 'complex geometry'.

i'm trawling through a big pile of zines i got recently, but also about to settle into some richard bausch short stories after hearing 'letter to the lady of the house' this week. they delight me in the same way as raymond carver, and on a little reading/lots of hard thinking schedule, short stories rock.

 

[Cara]

The Toyminator by Robert Rankin, pure fluff, but an enjoyable way to pass a plane journey, like across between Jasper Fforde and Terry Pratchett but not quite as good as either

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

just read The Unusual Life Of Tristan Smith by Peter Carey and Hemlock & After by Angus Wilson. Carey one was very enjoyable although having read most of his books now the formula is slightly obvious by now. Oscar and Lucinda is still one of my favorites ever though. The wilson one was quite good too

 

[Wobbler]

just read The Unusual Life Of Tristan Smith by Peter Carey and Hemlock & After by Angus Wilson. Carey one was very enjoyable although having read most of his books now the formula is slightly obvious by now. Oscar and Lucinda is still one of my favorites ever though. The wilson one was quite good too

I'm reading My Life As a Fake by Peter Carey at the moment. I think it's brilliant. I've read a few of his by this stage, I agree with you about Oscar & Lucinda. What a book.

 

[Super Dexta]

i bawled my eyes out at oscar and lucinda. the book anyway, can't remember about the film.

other things i have bawled my eyes out at: jimmy corrigan: the smartest kid on earth, the elephant man (the film), of mice and men.

 

[rettucs]

R
No Road for Old Men.

shit book. waste of time.

seriously hope the film is better cos the book is a load of codsbollox

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

I'm reading My Life As a Fake by Peter Carey at the moment. I think it's brilliant. I've read a few of his by this stage, I agree with you about Oscar & Lucinda. What a book.

i thought my life as a fake was deadly too. did you read Illywhacker? that and the tax inspector would probably be my favorite after O & L.

 

[Raudi Raus Schinkel]

i thought my life as a fake was deadly too. did you read Illywhacker? that and the tax inspector would probably be my favorite after O & L.

scuse me shane, where the fuck are you?

 

[Wobbler]

i thought my life as a fake was deadly too. did you read Illywhacker? that and the tax inspector would probably be my favorite after O & L.

I've read the Illywhacker and the Tax Inspector. I really enjoyed the Illywhacker but wasn't mad on the Tax Inspector. I just found it a little too creepy.

 

[Franco]

Won a load of sports books on Newstalk. Just finished Trevor Brennan's autobiography, now i'm reading Lawrence Dallaglio's.

You can shove yer literature up yer bollix, Haruki Murakami.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

scuse me shane, where the fuck are you?

hi raudi. i am in Tamale, Ghana for the third time in a week. its alright like, but i saw everything there was to be seen here in half an hour one morning last week. i seem to be stuck here for the day now and im too tired to read me book. what are you reading at the moment?

 

[Raudi Raus Schinkel]

hi raudi. i am in Tamale, Ghana for the third time in a week. its alright like, but i saw everything there was to be seen here in half an hour one morning last week. i seem to be stuck here for the day now and im too tired to read me book. what are you reading at the moment?

the news
and me tax assessment forms

it's time for you to move on boss, youre goin to be home and then off to nz innit?

Tamale is a mexican corn thing, spawned the sayin

She's a hot little tamale!

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

the news
and me tax assessment forms

it's time for you to move on boss, youre goin to be home and then off to nz innit?

Tamale is a mexican corn thing, spawned the sayin

She's a hot little tamale!

i never new that. i am moving on, in a few hours. i need to get more books somewhere too...

 

[magicbastarder]

reading the trouble with physics by lee smolin at the moment. good read, but you do have the nagging feeling that he's pushing his own agenda.

 

[IFF]

currently reading:

ghosts of spain - giles tremlett
click - 10 authors, in aid of amnesty international
all the rage: boondocks past and present - Aaron McGruder

 

[Super Dexta]

reading the trouble with physics by lee smolin at the moment. good read, but you do have the nagging feeling that he's pushing his own agenda.

I worked in a library once with someone who insisted on referring to that as "The Trouble With Psychics", and not for comedy effect, either, she just wasn't so great on the old reading.

At the moment I'm reading The Book of Dave by Will Self. It's pretty good so far, getting a bit grim with the torture and all now

 

[sarah]

I worked in a library once with someone who insisted on referring to that as "The Trouble With Psychics", and not for comedy effect, either, she just wasn't so great on the old reading.

At the moment I'm reading The Book of Dave by Will Self. It's pretty good so far, getting a bit grim with the torture and all now

Cool let us know how you get on with the Wil Self book, loved everything of his I've read so far especially the one with the Apes, whose name escapes me at the mo.