Capsaicin Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 pastoralia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Masonic Boom Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism by Natasha Walter If I had any clout I'd make this required reading in every school in the country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muflontillah Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 Principes Of Marketing - Fourth European Edition - P.Kotler, V.Wong, J. Saunders, G. Armstrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest peaches Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 a scanner darkly by philip k. dick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 i bought neal stephenson's latest doorstop, anathem, yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest theSun Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 just finishing up glamorama by bret easton ellis. it's the only book other than american psycho that i've read of his, but i really like his writing style, the way he lols at 90s america through a character that takes the scene so seriously. he's also got me writing in run on sentences which i realize is annoying but that seems a better way to describe the mood of his books as the main character is generally thinking about 1000 different things and there's usually a funny bit somewhere in the middle that causes a mini-lol and then something totally or just a little bit unexpected and 3+ famous people later you've just read an entire paragraph. not sure if i really like it or not, but i don't hate his writing like most of you snobs here, i think he's quite readable. any other bee fans recommend a next book? i've wanted to read rules of attraction for a while, should finally get around to it. i hear bee is a prick so i don't want to read any interviews or anything, kind of ruined the flahblub for me even before i heard his shit, so i was never able to judge him objectively (some is good, but i can't stop thinking of dbag falhbub twittering away how he's really cool while listening to him). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred McGriff Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 "let's wrestle" by david shrigley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest theSun Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 (edited) just finishing up glamorama by bret easton ellis. it's the only book other than american psycho that i've read of his, but i really like his writing style, the way he lols at 90s america through a character that takes the scene so seriously. he's also got me writing in run on sentences which i realize is annoying but that seems a better way to describe the mood of his books as the main character is generally thinking about 1000 different things and there's usually a funny bit somewhere in the middle that causes a mini-lol and then something totally or just a little bit unexpected and 3+ famous people later you've just read an entire paragraph. not sure if i really like it or not, but i don't hate his writing like most of you snobs here, i think he's quite readable. any other bee fans recommend a next book? i've wanted to read rules of attraction for a while, should finally get around to it. i hear bee is a prick so i don't want to read any interviews or anything, kind of ruined the flahblub for me even before i heard his shit, so i was never able to judge him objectively (some is good, but i can't stop thinking of dbag falhbub twittering away how he's really cool while listening to him). 47 Edited February 1, 2010 by theSun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dese manz hatin Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 J Kerouac - Visions of Cody Very nice read----even wilder, more richly coloured and inspiring than On The Road And I just finished re-reading Islands in the Stream and To Have and Have Not (both Hemingway) as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ezkerraldean Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 when i actually have the time to read for leisure again i'll be reading the Nibelungenlied Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Franklin Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 I'm still reading Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon... it's still a difficult read and I'm not sure I understand it all but there are some kick ass parts and he's one hell of a writer. this helped me sort some shit out: http://www.amazon.com/Gravitys-Rainbow-Companion-Contexts-Pynchons/dp/0820310263 incredible book Thanks again Alsofribas. I'm now re-reading gravity's rainbow (which is fucking killer even though it's extremely dense) along-side the companion book. also reading Kaplan and Saddocks' Concise Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry. very helpful. And reading Phobic Disorders and Panic in Adults: A Guide to Assessment and Treatment by Antony and Swinson. Does anybody else read too many books at one time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Dylan Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 It's best to only read two books at the same time, one fiction one non-fiction. That works really well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chax Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 enjoyable so far Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tec Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 London - The Biography. This one is gonna take awhile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Dylan Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 Just started readon James Ellroy's conspiracy trilogy with American Tabloid: A Novel And my non-fiction book is Broca's Brain by Carl Sagan The current coffee-table book in my house is Glitch: Designing Imperfection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capsaicin Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 Portrait of Dorian Grey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SR4 Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 Gordon Wood-The Radicalism of the American Revolution. great, great book....his predecessor Bernard Bailyn is amazing on the Revolutionary ideology as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoodie Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 just finished reading "the things they carried" didn't really like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest GrandPopPoplock Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 The ending is unadulterated...epicness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capsaicin Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 just finished reading "the things they carried" didn't really like it. Really? It sounded good, I was planning on reading this fairly soon. Any reason why you didn't like it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoodie Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 just finished reading "the things they carried" didn't really like it. Really? It sounded good, I was planning on reading this fairly soon. Any reason why you didn't like it? i didn't like the way it was written (kinda simplistic) and it didn't leave me with any thought-provoking ideas or feelings. it was too unfocused for me to appreciate, i guess, because it did have some good ideas, they just weren't developed enough... it's worth a read if you like vietnam stories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halisray Posted February 28, 2010 Share Posted February 28, 2010 Just finished Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited and enjoyed it very much (I read Vile Bodies beforehand) And I am about to start The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. And I have about 30 books on my list to read ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted February 28, 2010 Share Posted February 28, 2010 i picked up simon fowler's the magus and david mitchell's cloud atlas for half nothing in a wonderful cave of a secondhand bookshop that i've found Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capsaicin Posted February 28, 2010 Share Posted February 28, 2010 The Plague by Albert Camus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capsaicin Posted February 28, 2010 Share Posted February 28, 2010 just finished reading "the things they carried" didn't really like it. Really? It sounded good, I was planning on reading this fairly soon. Any reason why you didn't like it? i didn't like the way it was written (kinda simplistic) and it didn't leave me with any thought-provoking ideas or feelings. it was too unfocused for me to appreciate, i guess, because it did have some good ideas, they just weren't developed enough... it's worth a read if you like vietnam stories. Turns out this is the required summer reading for my english class next year, so I'll be buying this one anyways. lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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