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| ramona |
Posted - 06/18/2004 : 11:43:09
Just a thought but maybe we could have a forum book club over the summer. Something like, we pick a book and have a few weeks to read it and then we can all "discuss" what we thought of it. Maybe we can pick MUSIC books or something, at least to start. The new Marvin Gay bio is coming out soon...
I don't know. Would anyone be interested in this? 
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I replace you easily, replace pathetically,
I flirt with any flighty thing that falls my way.
But how I needed you. When I needed you.
Lets not forget we are so strong... so bloody strong. |
| 35 L A T E S T R E P L I E S (Newest First) |
| n/a |
Posted - 08/17/2004 : 11:34:52
I guess I didn't expect anything, but laughed my arse off and didn't see the "twist" coming at all! I love that book, some girl's got my copy, grr. But no, it's not shocking really, i'll give you that much
( )
I also think a good read for anyone is Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
 I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.
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| shineoftheever |
Posted - 08/17/2004 : 11:27:11
i nominate this one too!
http://www.brookmyre.co.uk/book6.htm
i read 'boiling a frog' and 'quite ugly one morning' a long time ago and remember enjoying them a quite a bit!
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| n/a |
Posted - 08/17/2004 : 10:35:43
securities schmecurities.
I'm reading a cheeky little textbook number called "Gene VII" it's saucy... But for the meaty textbook action "cell and molecular biology" or "introduction to biochemistry" is where the hardcore action's at.
I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.
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| bumblebeeboy2 |
Posted - 08/17/2004 : 10:33:46
not sure about wasp factory blowing anyone's mind. it's very good, but i don't know, wasn't as good or as shocking as i expected it was going to be. quite funny at points, his brother is hilarious!
books i recommend at the moment (that i've just finished reading or am currently reading the latter's case)...
farenheit 451
the curious incident of the dog in the night-time (an absolute must!)
death and the penguin (that is very good so far!)
and of course, the space odyssey books, my fave of all time! 
And it's hard to be a human being, and it's harder as anything else, and I'm lonesome when you're around, and I'm never lonesome when I'm by myself, and I miss you when you're around. |
| shineoftheever |
Posted - 08/17/2004 : 09:39:30
OK - my 3 nominations for September's book:
Affliction by Russell Banks
Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
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| shineoftheever |
Posted - 08/17/2004 : 08:52:52
hehe, i read a securities textbook just so i could pretend to know my exes job better than she did, it was funny for a while, now we're exes......
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| klikger |
Posted - 08/17/2004 : 01:45:50
I'll let you know the title of my new Securities textbook in a couple of weeks. :) I'm sure everyone will love it. |
| shineoftheever |
Posted - 08/16/2004 : 08:30:22
quote:
Originally posted by klikger
I'm about to start several textbooks. Anybody wanna join me? :)
that could very well be the nerdiest thing ever....a book club choosing to read a text book!
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| klikger |
Posted - 08/16/2004 : 01:08:27
I'm about to start several textbooks. Anybody wanna join me? :) |
| n/a |
Posted - 08/15/2004 : 14:45:13
Sounds good. Read the Wasp factory btw, it'll blow your mind!
I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.
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| shineoftheever |
Posted - 08/15/2004 : 14:31:44
i am currently reading great apes, will self. i liked the business better than complicity, those are the only two banks i've read.
maybe we should change this to 1-book-a-month-club and we can post what each month's book will be and anyone who wants to read it has a full month. this would work thusly - in august we talk about july's book and what book we will be reading for septamber, that gives us a month to decide and discuss each book? how does this sound?
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| n/a |
Posted - 08/15/2004 : 13:08:07
I didn't but the book, I have two bloody will self books that I so cannot be arsed with at the moment, I think the bookclub died.
Since it started I have read some good ones though, I read the Bill Hicks Biography, I re-read Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith (I really really recommend this to everyone - the guy has a tube station called Fuck Station Zero in it for fords sake) I read the Bridge (Iain Banks) er,Jeff Noon, some pynchon, some hunter s thompson, loads, can't remember it all...
TarTar - I have read the bridge, the crow road, walking on glass, complicity, the wasp factory (the best of them all imo), The business, whit and song of stone
The only two I haven't read yet are espedair street and dead air, It's a bit hit and miss with banks, I did love the bridge but I think he struggles to finish them in a satisfactory manner sometimes
I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.
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| NimrodsSon |
Posted - 08/15/2004 : 12:45:17
What happened to this?
ˇViva los Católicos! |
| shineoftheever |
Posted - 07/12/2004 : 13:16:51
Did anybody finish?
"chicken pot, chicken pot, chicken pot piiiieeeee!" |
| shineoftheever |
Posted - 07/12/2004 : 13:11:49
How'd it go? Did everybody finish?
"chicken pot, chicken pot, chicken pot piiiieeeee!" |
| TarTar |
Posted - 07/06/2004 : 05:54:37
An Iain Banks novel turned into a TV series? That's crazy!
"There is a new craze in the nation/ it is lamination/ we like to laminate/ we laminate our driver's license/ so cannot be changed" |
| Newo |
Posted - 07/05/2004 : 09:26:24
The Crow Road is a good´un.
-Owen |
| TarTar |
Posted - 07/04/2004 : 12:13:05
Oh, Tre, read any other Iain Banks? Anything worth reading? I see Complicity in a lot of bookstores.
"There is a new craze in the nation/ it is lamination/ we like to laminate/ we laminate our driver's license/ so cannot be changed" |
| TarTar |
Posted - 07/04/2004 : 12:11:32
Holy shit, Tre. The Wasp Factory was the book I was going to mention, too. That's an incredibly twisted book. The band Lusk had a video for their song Backworlds which was clearly lifted from the book (the sea mine murder). That's actually how I found out about the book, someone said the video was taken directly from the Wasp Factory. Wow, not many people know that novel.
"There is a new craze in the nation/ it is lamination/ we like to laminate/ we laminate our driver's license/ so cannot be changed" |
| Leah |
Posted - 07/04/2004 : 10:12:02
Can I play please?
I promise I won't mention Kinky Friedman or Nick Cave or Leonard Cohen?!
Hmmmmm. And in no way shape or form am I going to suggest that you are clearly quite mad for not mentioning The King Of Gonzo, Hunter S. Thompson...
Every choice human being strives instinctively for a citadel and a secrecy where he is saved from the crowd -
Nietzsche |
| Little Black Francis |
Posted - 07/03/2004 : 23:55:13
I ain't got mine yet, but count me in...
giocare al golf? |
| GypsyDeath |
Posted - 07/02/2004 : 15:04:10
Its really good...or was...I think I may have lost my copy on a very long train journey home...but im not positive yet!
Just thought I'd throw that in there... |
| shineoftheever |
Posted - 07/02/2004 : 13:36:12
So, how is everybody enjoying the book? I'm jealous, I'll have to wait for the next one.
Happy reading!
"That's Nuckin' Futs" |
| ramona |
Posted - 06/23/2004 : 11:58:32
Er, yeah... cool. 
Sooooo, short stories are fine with me. The next book after this will be Cowboys are my Weakness by Pam Houston. Short stories by a girl and one of my favorite books ever. Because I say so, it is true! 
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I replace you easily, replace pathetically,
I flirt with any flighty thing that falls my way.
But how I needed you. When I needed you.
Lets not forget we are so strong... so bloody strong. |
| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 06/23/2004 : 11:56:10
quote:
Originally posted by bumblebeeboy2
homers, shouldn't you finish "Where's Spot?" before you start getting other books?
I am my only god, ha ha ha ha ha ha
They found spot. You were humping him when the RSPCA paid a visit to your house.
Listen to Nine Black Alps. |
| NimrodsSon |
Posted - 06/22/2004 : 21:14:24
No copies at my library so I won't participate. Have fun!
ˇViva los Católicos! |
| GypsyDeath |
Posted - 06/22/2004 : 16:26:25
oh, yes, ti is that book, the title being ' the Quantity Theory of Insanity'
I bet you never thought your movie would turn out this way
You crossed the other way, youd hope i wouldnt see you, you say youre doing fine, but thats not what it looks like, your undercovers on...
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| GypsyDeath |
Posted - 06/22/2004 : 16:24:26
Well ive already bought the book now, so we have to!!! haah
ON your marks, gets set...go!!!
Ive read bits of self shorts before, they are really good...Ive always been put off by shorts before, because i like to get stuck in to a book...
But i think to start us of this is a good idea, nice and short, and despite cheesemans worries, hes always a good read.
I bet you never thought your movie would turn out this way
You crossed the other way, youd hope i wouldnt see you, you say youre doing fine, but thats not what it looks like, your undercovers on...
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| shineoftheever |
Posted - 06/22/2004 : 15:03:18
wait, wait, wait..........I just googled Will Self and that book is a book of short stories! Are we cool with that?
"Here today, Guano tomorrow" |
| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 06/22/2004 : 14:58:48
Frickin wordy Will Self. If I can, I'll join in.
 "Ee-hee! Shamone!" |
| ramona |
Posted - 06/22/2004 : 13:02:16
Okay, cool. Let's roll, readers.
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I replace you easily, replace pathetically,
I flirt with any flighty thing that falls my way.
But how I needed you. When I needed you.
Lets not forget we are so strong... so bloody strong. |
| n/a |
Posted - 06/22/2004 : 13:00:19
Done and done
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| shineoftheever |
Posted - 06/22/2004 : 12:56:49
My library lets me have books for three weeks (two weeks for new releases) so let's say Quantity Theory of Insanity by Will Self - read by July 10?
"Here today, Guano tomorrow" |
| ramona |
Posted - 06/22/2004 : 11:38:15
This one? http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679750940/qid=1087928901/sr=8-2/ref=pd_ka_2/002-1963896-9306419?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
Looks good to me. How long to read it? Two weeks? Three? I don't really want to go longer than that, b/c I will already be well on to my next book in three weeks.
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I replace you easily, replace pathetically,
I flirt with any flighty thing that falls my way.
But how I needed you. When I needed you.
Lets not forget we are so strong... so bloody strong. |
| n/a |
Posted - 06/22/2004 : 11:21:50
thats is it I think.
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