Boo-urns Its November 09 and I'm reading...
Bought The Road by Cormac McCarthy and Under the Dome by Stephen King, but probably wont get to them for a while.
Still reading The Golden Compass and also started Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
I've tried to read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland a few times and can never continue with it.
Stiff is one of my all time favorite non-fiction books. When you're done with that check out Spook. It's pretty good too. Haven't read Bonk yet.
No Way To Say Goodbye by Ron Madocks.
Rules of Attraction by BBE, as promised.
loving it so far, didn't realise it was written from different character POV's. good though.
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, liking it so far, but God, there really are a lot of characters to keep track on!
"Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested."
"Jemand musste Josef K. verleumdet haben, denn ohne dass er etwas Böses getan hätte, wurde er eines Morgens verhaftet"
Also, ready to begin Generation A by Douglas Coupland afterwards.
I just started reading Auster's New York Trilogy, it seems really good so far.
The last Paul Auster book I read was The Music of Chance. It was very absorbing and it excited a kind of anxious, hysterical feeling in my jaw. Brilliant!
At the moment I'm reading this:
I've been reading it for about three months. I bought the first one at a charity shop and then another from Amazon and another and another. I can't even tell if I'm enjoying it. It's really silly. Like sillier than these things usually are.
This was one of the few books I couldn't finish. And that was one of the reasons that I didn't finish it. I hate when there are so many flat characters - nothing special to help remember them...
loving it so far, didn't realise it was written from different character POV's. good though.
Yeah baby, he was doing it before that gay Palahniuk bloke 
I'm reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
What I have shown you is reality. What you remember... that is the illusion.
loving it so far, didn't realise it was written from different character POV's. good though.
Yeah baby, he was doing it before that gay Palahniuk bloke
I'm reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
ooooh yeah!
Fear and Loathing is a great book. love HST!
quick question: the italics in Rules of Attraction, what are they? i'm only up to about page 70 or something, so there has only been two, maybe three italicised passages. i can't work out whether they are personalised, to each character, and maybe them specifically speaking/writing to another character OR are they oe person (Lauren)?
Seeking Salamanca Mitchell by Kenji Jasper.
This was one of the few books I couldn't finish. And that was one of the reasons that I didn't finish it. I hate when there are so many flat characters - nothing special to help remember them...
yeah, I agree, it's hard to keep track of all the characters, but the dialogues are so god damn funny at times that they totally make up for that 
"Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested."
"Jemand musste Josef K. verleumdet haben, denn ohne dass er etwas Böses getan hätte, wurde er eines Morgens verhaftet"
A Fraction of the Whole by Stevie Toltze. Im 40 pages in and Im loving it.
Derek, I'm wondering how many books you've read.
loving it so far, didn't realise it was written from different character POV's. good though.
Yeah baby, he was doing it before that gay Palahniuk bloke
I'm reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
ooooh yeah!
Fear and Loathing is a great book. love HST!
quick question: the italics in Rules of Attraction, what are they? i'm only up to about page 70 or something, so there has only been two, maybe three italicised passages. i can't work out whether they are personalised, to each character, and maybe them specifically speaking/writing to another character OR are they oe person (Lauren)?
I love HST too, The Rum Diary is amazing.
The italics in the novel are letters from a nameless young lady.
What I have shown you is reality. What you remember... that is the illusion.
the one that kills herself in the movie? i heard it was a different girl in the book.
She's the one who commits suicide in the bathtub? If so, then yes. But there are loads of things in the book which the movie omitted.
What I have shown you is reality. What you remember... that is the illusion.
Stiff is one of my all time favorite non-fiction books. When you're done with that check out Spook. It's pretty good too. Haven't read Bonk yet.
Don't bother trying again with Alice's AiW, it's not worth it.
I read Bonk and liked it, although I scared my wife away from reading it...I kept trying to tell her about it and now she doesn't want to read it, but she read Stiff before that. Spook would probably just make me sad, people that watch Ghost Hunters and thinks they are actually doing science and finding "proof" of ghosts really make me sad 
Think for yourself. Question Authority.
The Key to the Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco
aww, poor form guys! I haven't seen the movie either. And yeah, I thought they seemed like letters - wish it were clearer from the start though.
Also, ready to begin Generation A by Douglas Coupland afterwards.
I just started reading Auster's New York Trilogy, it seems really good so far.
This was really good, I thought it worked well as a collection of short(ish) and as a single piece. I think he's almost an American equivalent of Haruki Murakami.
The Greatest Show On Earth- by Richard Dawkins
Eating Animals- by Jonathan Safran Foer
Also, ready to begin Generation A by Douglas Coupland afterwards.
I just started reading Auster's New York Trilogy, it seems really good so far.
This was really good, I thought it worked well as a collection of short(ish) and as a single piece. I think he's almost an American equivalent of Haruki Murakami.
I agree. Another cult member expressed a visceral feeling in their jaw when reading one of his books. He never ever lets me down and almost always gives me that feeling that is hard to come by.
aww, poor form guys! I haven't seen the movie either. And yeah, I thought they seemed like letters - wish it were clearer from the start though.
Ah, sorry Matt! It doesn't make much of a difference to the storyline though, so I/we haven't given too much away.
Let me know what you think of the book when you've finished it though!
What I have shown you is reality. What you remember... that is the illusion.
will do. i'm still only up to about page 100 or something. i've been busy the last couple of days reading and reviewing a bunch of folk in the workshop, so i have barely had a chance to pick it up again, and when i tried last night i crashed out.
yeah besides i didn't mention who it was in the movie who killed herself in the bathtub after sean accidentally rejected her by not knowing she existed. or he, it might have been paul because he had a thing for sean too. i kept it vague, you see.
you're lucky it's your birthday, mister!
I agree. I don't discount that their is a possibility of ghost. But I've yet to see proof that I can't explain.
The worst is people like John Edwards that get people to believe he's talking to their dead relatives.
I'm into magic - mostly mentalism - and I can pull off a show like his, no problem. It's sad.
Oh by the way - I'm sensing somebody who's name starts with a J that really needs to tell you something. Let me know if that makes sense... it might make more sense to you than it does to me? No? Ask you're Mom - she'll be able to let you know who I'm talking about. But just be aware for now.
My Goat Ate Its Own Legs by Alex Burrett.