Portlett Posted January 15, 2008 Posted January 15, 2008 Just started reading Atonement, read Enduring Love about 4 years ago and thought it was great.
Slaggis Posted February 20, 2008 Posted February 20, 2008 I'm currently reading "My Loose Thread". It's really rather dirty! This bit made me (and a few mates) laugh: "She straddles his face and begins to masturbate him".
killthenet Posted February 20, 2008 Posted February 20, 2008 Currently reading "The Fall" by Albert Camus. Not as intense as "The Outsider" so far, but I can feel it coming.
MoogleViper Posted February 20, 2008 Posted February 20, 2008 Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Author: Douglas Adams (Hitchiker's guide to the galaxy) 8.5/10 A good read. I haven't read HGTG I've justs seen the film. But this is a really good buch. The way it is written is quite different. There is a lot of digression. "It is my firm belief in the interconnectedness of all things" This is pretty much what the book is like. "A thumping good detective-ghost-horror-who dunnit-time travel-romantic-musical-comedy-epic." -The author
Beardy Man Posted February 20, 2008 Posted February 20, 2008 MURAKAMIMURAKAMIMURAKAMIMURAKAMIMURAKAMIMURAKAMIMURAKAMIMURAKAMIMURAKAMIMURAKAMIMURAKAMIMURAKAMIMURAKAMIMURAKAMIMURAKAMIMURAKAMIMURAKAMIMURAKAMI started to read The wind-up bird chronicle last november. Couldn't believe how brilliant he is! Everyone should read his work! A true original modern masterpiece!
welsh_gamer Posted February 20, 2008 Posted February 20, 2008 I finished John Grisham's The Innocent Man on Monday. Very good read. It's also a true story which makes it a sad and shocking tale. If anyone can recommend me anymore top quality Grisham novels, I would be very grateful.
Supergrunch Posted February 20, 2008 Posted February 20, 2008 MURAKAMIMURAKAMIMURAKAMIMURAKAMIMURAKAMIMURAKAMIMURAKAMIMURAKAMIMURAKAMIMURAKAMIMURAKAMIMURAKAMIMURAKAMIMURAKAMIMURAKAMIMURAKAMIMURAKAMIMURAKAMIstarted to read The wind-up bird chronicle last november. Couldn't believe how brilliant he is! Everyone should read his work! A true original modern masterpiece! He is indeed great. ...hell to understand in original Japanese though.
Oxigen_Waste Posted February 20, 2008 Author Posted February 20, 2008 MURAKAMIMURAKAMIMURAKAMIMURAKAMIMURAKAMIMURAKAMIMURAKAMIMURAKAMIMURAKAMIMURAKAMIMURAKAMIMURAKAMIMURAKAMIMURAKAMIMURAKAMIMURAKAMIMURAKAMIMURAKAMIstarted to read The wind-up bird chronicle last november. Couldn't believe how brilliant he is! Everyone should read his work! A true original modern masterpiece! Hard-Boiled Wonderland & The End Of The World.
Daft Posted February 20, 2008 Posted February 20, 2008 Started reading this because of BioShock and Kotaku's article. (http://kotaku.com/354717/no-gods-or-kings-objectivism-in-bioshock) The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. I'm really enjoying it so far. A lot of people don't seem to like her style of writing but I can't put it down.
Oxigen_Waste Posted February 20, 2008 Author Posted February 20, 2008 So anyway, about Dune, can anyone tell me if the ones written by Herbert's son to provide closure are any good?
Slaggis Posted February 20, 2008 Posted February 20, 2008 I'm currently reading "My Loose Thread" by Dennis Cooper. It's really rather dirty! Update: Wow, this book is written in such a confusing style. It bounces from one place to the next, and then suddenly gets either all sexual or all violent. I love it though!
Beardy Man Posted February 21, 2008 Posted February 21, 2008 Hard-Boiled Wonderland & The End Of The World. Reading it right now
Iun Posted February 21, 2008 Posted February 21, 2008 If you're into Professor Layton, then I strongly suggest you pick up the Sherlock Holmes books. There's a completed edition with everything available and it's really rather good.
Hellfire Posted February 21, 2008 Posted February 21, 2008 So anyway, about Dune, can anyone tell me if the ones written by Herbert's son to provide closure are any good? I've always heard they were crap, but I never read them.
Beardy Man Posted February 21, 2008 Posted February 21, 2008 This is the best piece of work i've ever read, mind blowing I say!
Mundi Posted February 21, 2008 Posted February 21, 2008 You should look up more of his stuff on fanfiction.com it´s amazing
KKOB Posted February 21, 2008 Posted February 21, 2008 If you want to read Murakami i'd say Dance, Dance and Kafka on the shore are my favorites by far! ATM i'm reading The Hippopotamus by Stephen Fry after bingeing on cheaps books in HMV in London last weekend.
LazyBoy Posted February 21, 2008 Posted February 21, 2008 Just finished To Kill A Mockingbird. What a beautiful little book, filled with charm and character, Lee gives you an amazing atmosphere to work with and a story filled with depth presented through an ingenious narrative. Loved it.
KKOB Posted February 21, 2008 Posted February 21, 2008 Just finished To Kill A Mockingbird. What a beautiful little book, filled with charm and character, Lee gives you an amazing atmosphere to work with and a story filled with depth presented through an ingenious narrative. Loved it. Now then, now then, To Kill A Mockingbird is without a doubt the greatest book i've ever read, even greater than tLOTR or Murakami novels. It's like concentrated novelistic perfection, spread over a couple hundred pages. It has a beautiful plot which conjures up majesty and the racial tension of the times, along with the inequality and how ill treated black people were in the deep south in the early/mid 1900s. Anyone who doesn't read this book, the only one Harper Lee has ever written, seriously needs their head looking at.
ipaul Posted March 6, 2008 Posted March 6, 2008 Bumpdebumpbump. Started reading through Pride and Predjudice and I'm about 60 pages through but I'm not finding it interesting at all. To anyone who has read it, does it remain similar throughout or does it 'pick up' somewhere?
The Bard Posted March 6, 2008 Posted March 6, 2008 Pride and Prejudice is fantastic, it's a pretty easy read too, and the chapters are pretty short. I thought it was pretty great throughout, but it gets more interesting as the whole Darcy/Elizabeth thing develops. Currently reading: The Great Gatsby, again. Because it's perfect.
Supergrunch Posted March 6, 2008 Posted March 6, 2008 Bumpdebumpbump. Started reading through Pride and Predjudice and I'm about 60 pages through but I'm not finding it interesting at all. To anyone who has read it, does it remain similar throughout or does it 'pick up' somewhere? If you haven't read any other Jane Austen, then no, it's like that all the way through. Personally I find Austen interesting to analyse but boring to actually read.
ipaul Posted March 6, 2008 Posted March 6, 2008 Back when I was doing A level literature we were studying that book(Gatsby), but I haven't looked at it since =/ The teacher was always very enthusiastic about it, I imagine I would have liked it as well. Enjoyed the first three chapters enough =P
The Bard Posted March 6, 2008 Posted March 6, 2008 It's such a brilliantly written book, I love it. You need to read it more than once to take it all in though.
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