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Post by Juan on Oct 7, 2012 21:03:16 GMT
Just wondered if anyone would be intrested on a subsection for recommended reading when we're not wasting time on-line?
I'm no massive reader but I've read a few crackers over the years and will devour a book if I get into it.
Thought's please Ladies and Gents.
Any mention of 50 shades of Grey or any shite like that and I'll immediately delete your account.
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Post by ttscshaggy on Oct 7, 2012 21:22:25 GMT
Any mention of 50 shades of Grey or any shite like that and I'll immediately delete your account. Good man |
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Post by eean on Oct 7, 2012 21:26:31 GMT
If your not a great reader or want to get into something quick 'Of mice and men ' is an old one and thin book/fast read, well I thought it was ;D
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Post by amazombi on Oct 7, 2012 22:05:04 GMT
Sounds good.
Rushdie, "Haroun and the sea of stories". Not what he's famous for, but a good read if magic realism is your cup of tea.
O'Toole, "Confederacy of Dunces". Hillarious.
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Post by breezer on Oct 7, 2012 22:26:11 GMT
Good shout on the steinbeck front - very much like his stuff.
I like the laid back american writing of bukowski kerouac hunter s thompson and steinbeck
Im up for it juan i think it will add a little civility and sophistication to the forum. I also think a wine forum cheese forum and smoking jacket forum could do well.
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Post by amazombi on Oct 7, 2012 23:09:42 GMT
Good shout on the steinbeck front - very much like his stuff. I like the laid back american writing of bukowski kerouac hunter s thompson and steinbeck Im up for it juan i think it will add a little civility and sophistication to the forum. I also think a wine forum cheese forum and smoking jacket forum could do well. Read Thompson's book about the Hell's Angels a couple of month ago. Some very weird stuff in it, like that one bloke who walked around with a set of pliers in his pocket which he used to pull random peoples' teeth. Scary. "Fear and loathing in LA" on the other hand I found extremely dissapointing. Bukowski has some great stories. I remember reading a short story where he describes a party in his flat where everybody gets pissed to point where nobody conscious is left, and then he wakes up, desperate for a fuck, and just manages to crawl to the neares body on the floor. When he pulls the pants down he realises it's a blow, but he's to pissed to do more crawling around, so he just goes ahead. Next morning the guy realises what happened and the whole thing sort of catches him on the wrong foot, so he stays for while to make up his mind on how to deal with the situation. After a day or two he starts to get in Jack's nerves, who then gives the guy's mother a call to ask her to come and pick up her "fucking faggot son". I hope Bukowski only made that one up, probably he hasn't though. |
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Post by Juan on Oct 8, 2012 6:09:28 GMT
2 books that I really loved from recent years are Chas Hodge's "Chas and his rock 'n' roll Allotment" and William Shatner "Up 'til now".
Both gave me a sore face from laughing in parts.
One recommended to me by my mate is "If chins could Kill" by Bruce Campbell, I'll be starting on that one during the week.
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Post by breezer on Oct 8, 2012 6:37:25 GMT
I know the buk story you mean mathias - very odd!
Books I have read over and over, apart from those already mentioned are rivethead - tales from the assembly line by Ben hamper I'd reccoment it to anyone, life in the seventies and eighties working for general motors but the bloke is a anti authority punk type so much piss taking ensues.
Also rat scabies and the holy grail wherein damned drummer rat goes searching for the holy grail in France in his carpet slippers while smoking loads of dope. Quallo!
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Post by nicsar on Oct 8, 2012 15:48:06 GMT
This one kept me awake for a few nights.  |
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Post by eean on Oct 8, 2012 17:56:08 GMT
American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis, blows the film completely away, that author is seriously fucked up in the head ;D I like Steven King aswell, he co wrote one with Peter Straub called 'The Talisman' I quite liked it  |
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Post by jacques on Oct 8, 2012 18:44:03 GMT
Love books and reading...
Bill Bryson - A short history of nearly everything
Haruki Murakami - Sputnik Sweetheart & also The elephant vanishes
Tom Robbins - Jitterbug Perfume (Funny as hell!)
Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere and also American Gods. (Love American Gods...a must read)
A must read for everybody, even if you do it just once....Douglas Adams - Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Yeah I know the radio show and all but the book is a million times better.
Anything by Terry Pratchett...
I read a lot of Sci-Fi but mostly to pass time...
Can we make this a sticky?
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Post by bikegrim on Oct 8, 2012 18:44:13 GMT
Jo Nesbo is quite fashionable at the mo with a more aggressive "Wallanderesque" theme I have got a few of them under my belt recently including Nemesis and The Snowman (not that one ;D).
Just read "a Light that Never Goes Out" by Tony Fletcher for all you Smiths fans - very good read if a little bit geeky in parts.
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Post by amazombi on Oct 8, 2012 19:16:35 GMT
Love books and reading... Bill Bryson - A short history of nearly everything Haruki Murakami - Sputnik Sweetheart & also The elephant vanishes Tom Robbins - Jitterbug Perfume (Funny as hell!) Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere and also American Gods. (Love American Gods...a must read) A must read for everybody, even if you do it just once....Douglas Adams - Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Yeah I know the radio show and all but the book is a million times better. Anything by Terry Pratchett... I read a lot of Sci-Fi but mostly to pass time... Can we make this a sticky? I read that one by Bryson and liked it so much that I bought his other stuff too. Unfortunately the rest with his "deep insights" into things european made me think he's a bit of a prick really. |
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Post by vesparep1 on Oct 8, 2012 20:24:20 GMT
whot the fuck  thought i was on the wrong forum for a minute ;D to be honest i read fuck all.......... well scootering each time im sat on the thrown lol, oh and forums , ebay , and anything on the net about scooters , still each to there own , so you cleaver fuckers enjoy your books, ho and porn  |
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Post by Juan on Oct 8, 2012 20:31:13 GMT
I was thinking about this today and I'm a huge fan of Tom Sharpe and his Farces. Everyone of them is a Gem but if you only ever read one then check out "The Throwback" which has the funniest passage in it that I've ever read.
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Post by Juan on Oct 8, 2012 20:41:37 GMT
Will need to check out Rivethead, have heard someone talking about it before, might've been you.
Read the Foreword to "Chins" earlier and I like the bloke already, looks promising.
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Post by Jimmy D on Oct 9, 2012 15:41:16 GMT
I read about 2 books a year... never find the time. The misses is an English teacher so our house is full of books though!
This year (;D) I'm reading Five People You Meet In Heaven, by Mitch Albom.
Not got far yet but it's brilliant, about this old bloke who maintains the rides at an amusement park and gets crushed to death by the machinery when a rollercoaster fails... he wakes up in 'heaven' and meets five people from his childhood.
Worth a read, apparently there was a TV movie of it with Jon Voight in about 10 years ago if you're more of a movie type (like me!)
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Post by amazombi on Oct 9, 2012 16:01:19 GMT
I was thinking about this today and I'm a huge fan of Tom Sharpe and his Farces. Everyone of them is a Gem but if you only ever read one then check out "The Throwback" which has the funniest passage in it that I've ever read. Read pretty much every one of the earlier Tom Sharpe books, brilliant. I'll try to get "The Throwback" before I start my ten-day-one-man-invasion-of-France on a pushbike on thursday. |
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Post by jacques on Oct 9, 2012 19:16:18 GMT
Love books and reading... Bill Bryson - A short history of nearly everything Haruki Murakami - Sputnik Sweetheart & also The elephant vanishes Tom Robbins - Jitterbug Perfume (Funny as hell!) Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere and also American Gods. (Love American Gods...a must read) A must read for everybody, even if you do it just once....Douglas Adams - Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Yeah I know the radio show and all but the book is a million times better. Anything by Terry Pratchett... I read a lot of Sci-Fi but mostly to pass time... Can we make this a sticky? I read that one by Bryson and liked it so much that I bought his other stuff too. Unfortunately the rest with his "deep insights" into things european made me think he's a bit of a prick really. Not read much else from Bill Bryson, that one is my favourite so far. If you think he's bad you should have a go at reading The Angry Island by A.A Gill...I can't stand the guy...A good English author but terrible Englishman...Ha! ;D |
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Post by amazombi on Oct 9, 2012 19:32:31 GMT
I'll also check that.
Anyone read "An utterly impartial history of Britain" by John O'Farrel?
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