Book Club

[amazombi]

Just finished "Guns, Germs and Steel". Very interesting if a bit dry and lengthy sometimes.

[Juan]

Doing a bit of shopping this morning and saw "The good Psychopath's guide to success; How to use your inner psychopath to get the most out of life" by Dr. Kevin Dutton and Andy McNab. Naturally I couldn't resist it and will start on it later. Quite looking forward to this as the last few books I've read have really began to annoy me to the extent they got thrown in the corner whilst uttering fuck off you pile of shite.

[triffid]

This may follow the same route Boss, it is written by Andy McNab (which way is north?) after all

[Juan]

I'm quite fancing this, www.freightbooks.co.uk/exposed-at-the-back-by-arild-stavrum.html

Arild was a decent player for my team on his day and we didn't have too much of them at that time. Or really at any time since then truth be told.

[motherevolution]

An artist of the floating world, by Kazuo Ishiguro

[nickj]

Oh yes that's very good. Read it a few years ago...

[motherevolution]

I enjoyed it. Nice writing style. Not a million miles away from how Murakami writes. My favourite of his being Norwegian Wood.
I also rate Bram Stokers Dracula as right up there with the best. The story telling is similar to some of the stuff out of the Necrimonicon by HP Lovecraft. A true tome of horror stories, delightful.


My contributions for the moment are;

Edward Abbey's - Desert Solitaire (small book, easy to get involved with)
Gregory Robert's - Shantaram (This book is great, a wealth of wisdom)
Bulgakov's - Master and Margharita (Satirical irony and fantasy at its best, much brilliance)

[tzsteve]

just having a go at the complete works of josephus, the bloke whoe many believe wrote the christian bible. this guy was an out and out killer forcing others to cut off their own hand and other such tricks. nice bloke

[triffid]

r u sure it wasn't the Koran I haven't read either but I believe they are quite similar in many areas, might get round to reading them one day.

[tzsteve]

read both, and they both served to unite the peasents under the control of various rulers and encourage a lack of ambition or free will.
the curan does however say that if your wife is disobedient or disrespectfull beat her daily and make her sleap apart from the family. in other words slap her around and put her in the shed (not what i would call nice)

[triffid]

Thats why a dog is better than a woman, you can lock yer dog in the garage for a couple of hours and it will still be glad to see you when you get back, try that with the missus!

[henri]

wouldnt dare do that with my dog ,he'd eat something an piss up the scoots ,an probably shag a few seats .an the missus would probably start dismantling stuff .
anyways back on thread .just wasted a rainy afternoon reading guy martins "when ya dead ya dead" . not very impressed with it to be honest ,if youve seen the tv shows theres nothing new here .an a load of psychology bull about his inner chimp . H

[tzsteve]

no time for psycolology, it explains everything and predicts nothing. so unlike maths or engineering it`s not a propper science just bullsh*t, however guy martin does come across as a decent bloke.

[henri]

he does still,i agree , if maybe with slightly dodgy attitudes to women .just seems to be leaning towards becoming a "media whore" a bit more . an who puts blackcurrant in Guinness, thats horrible waste of good beer .H

[triffid]

Have been know to drink a bit of guinness and black in my youth, now as I'm older and more bitter I prefer the bitterness of the pint on it's own. Definately tastes better in Ireland too.

[tzsteve]

lowering the tone of an inteligent thread by doing guiness cocktails

[Juan]

Read this last weekend whilst away, not bad at all. Wasnever a fan of him as a permorfer but he's a decent enough writer.

[leon]

Read and enjoyed a couple of Ben Elton's but not read that one. Am currently re-reading The Blade Itself from the First Law Trilogy by Joe Abercrombie. Kind of Lord of the Rings with lots of swearing.

[henri]

read stark by ben elton years ago , was basically his stand-up rants cobbled together by a random plot/conspiracy theory . avoided him since ,but might give that 1 a go .
currently am re-reading Joseph hellers catch 22 , for about the tenth time , an ian banks the wasp factory ,also for about the tenth time . must really go round the charity shops n get some new books .H

[cluelessfromkent]

I'm currently reading Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell.

I've read it a couple of times before. Brilliant book.

Nothing so far about Spanish PK anomalies..