What are you reading?
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Reading "Andorra's box" or something like that by Ross O'Carroll Kelly. Crap writing, but it is hilarious. And it has pictures
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Re: What are you reading?
the last 4:
Empire of the Summer Moon - about the rise and fall of the Comanche nation.
Outlander - Sci/Fi thing where WWII nurse goes back in time and has adventures in the scottish Highlands.
The Night Circus - another sci/fi involving a duel of sorts between two young magicians.
Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander - Thomas Merton is excellent. I'm a big fan of Trappist monks and Trappist beers.
Empire of the Summer Moon - about the rise and fall of the Comanche nation.
Outlander - Sci/Fi thing where WWII nurse goes back in time and has adventures in the scottish Highlands.
The Night Circus - another sci/fi involving a duel of sorts between two young magicians.
Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander - Thomas Merton is excellent. I'm a big fan of Trappist monks and Trappist beers.
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Just finished "Trout Fishing In America", now reading "Herzog" by Saul Bellow and trying to teach myself German.
A little Kingsley Amis ("The King's English") on the side as well.
A little Kingsley Amis ("The King's English") on the side as well.
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Herzog isn't anything to do with Werner Herzog the German film director is it? He's one of my favourite directors of all time.Shane's Dentist wrote:Just finished "Trout Fishing In America", now reading "Herzog" by Saul Bellow and trying to teach myself German.
A little Kingsley Amis ("The King's English") on the side as well.
I'm currently reading Wild Swans by Jung Chang - all about growing up in communist China. It's really interesting but a bit hard going at times. If you believe half of what she writes about Mao then he was one seriously crazy bastard...
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It isn't, but I like Werner, too. Need to see more, but "Stroszek" was interesting!kowalski wrote:Herzog isn't anything to do with Werner Herzog the German film director is it? He's one of my favourite directors of all time.Shane's Dentist wrote:Just finished "Trout Fishing In America", now reading "Herzog" by Saul Bellow and trying to teach myself German.
A little Kingsley Amis ("The King's English") on the side as well.
I'm currently reading Wild Swans by Jung Chang - all about growing up in communist China. It's really interesting but a bit hard going at times. If you believe half of what she writes about Mao then he was one seriously crazy bastard...
I have a copy of "Wild Swans" somewhere. A difficult read, certainly.
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Auntie Mame, of all things. I picked it up off the dollar rack at the local bookstore. Plenty of good, boozey humor.
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Check this shit oooouuuuut! (ala: Jeepers Creepers Semistar)
http://www.npr.org/2011/12/08/143386922 ... ion-nights
The supposed greatest work of Japanese Science fiction that is finally available in English. I heard the above review and immediately ordered. I haven't started it yet, though.
I have been reading some of these:
http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/fiction/
http://www.npr.org/2011/12/08/143386922 ... ion-nights
The supposed greatest work of Japanese Science fiction that is finally available in English. I heard the above review and immediately ordered. I haven't started it yet, though.
I have been reading some of these:
http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/fiction/
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That sounds great, if a bit heavy.FNZ wrote:Check this shit oooouuuuut! (ala: Jeepers Creepers Semistar)
http://www.npr.org/2011/12/08/143386922 ... ion-nights
The supposed greatest work of Japanese Science fiction that is finally available in English. I heard the above review and immediately ordered. I haven't started it yet, though.
I have been reading some of these:
http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/fiction/
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Re: What are you reading?
The God Delusion. I'm about the only person in the galaxy who hasn't read it yet.
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Nope, we're at least two.GinSoakedGirl wrote:The God Delusion. I'm about the only person in the galaxy who hasn't read it yet.
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Just finished "Last Train To Memphis" (@1995/Peter Guralnick). It chronicles, in a completely humanistic way (no gushing fan fluff), Elvis Presley's life from his birth, up until when he shipped out to Germany with the U.S. Army in 1958.
The detail and breadth of the historical research, the extensive, quoted remembrances of Presley's contemporaries, along with Guralnick's own, understated, reasonable and quite logical suppositions, are all of the highest caliber.
The detail and breadth of the historical research, the extensive, quoted remembrances of Presley's contemporaries, along with Guralnick's own, understated, reasonable and quite logical suppositions, are all of the highest caliber.
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Re: What are you reading?
The Dark Side of the Sun - Terry Pratchett, which you should be a little drunk while reading.
Just finished Uncorking the Past by Patrick E. McGovern, a great book if you have any interest in the role of Alcohol in our earliest civilizations, and who the hell doesn't?
Just finished Uncorking the Past by Patrick E. McGovern, a great book if you have any interest in the role of Alcohol in our earliest civilizations, and who the hell doesn't?
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Re: What are you reading?
I just started Three Sheets to the Wind: One Man's Quest for the Meaning of Beer by Pete Brown. A book that starts out "Fancy a pint?" is going to be great.
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If you enjoyed Strosek then maybe check out Fitzcarraldo or Aguirre the Wrath of God. If you want to be a bit freaked out then watch Even Dwarfs Started Small.... He's also done some really good documentaries over the past 10 years which are worth watching.Shane's Dentist wrote:It isn't, but I like Werner, too. Need to see more, but "Stroszek" was interesting!kowalski wrote:Herzog isn't anything to do with Werner Herzog the German film director is it? He's one of my favourite directors of all time.Shane's Dentist wrote:Just finished "Trout Fishing In America", now reading "Herzog" by Saul Bellow and trying to teach myself German.
A little Kingsley Amis ("The King's English") on the side as well.
I'm currently reading Wild Swans by Jung Chang - all about growing up in communist China. It's really interesting but a bit hard going at times. If you believe half of what she writes about Mao then he was one seriously crazy bastard...
I have a copy of "Wild Swans" somewhere. A difficult read, certainly.
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One of my favorite flicks of all time just for the simple oddity of it.Even Dwarfs Started Small....
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