ninehertz

1. • Rob Himself
   • Because I'm too lazy to salvage the old one.
     
     JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
     Jerry White - London in the nineteenth century
     
     One's a nice silly bit of fun, the other's a hulking great essay as long as your arm. Wicked though. History rules!
   • [19:39 on 22/07/08]
2. • Pete
   • Are You Dave Gorman? by Dave Gorman and Danny Wallace, kindly lent to me.
   • [19:40 on 22/07/08]
3. • Big Si
   • Been on a comic binge. Wanted by Mark Millar is awesome, there is no way in the world the film will touch half the subject matter. From reading a synopsis, they seem to have dropped about 90% of the main concept. Not surprised, though, I couldn't really imagine a Hollywood film in which the central character revels in indiscriminate rape and murder.
     Also just re-read Watchmen and am part way through V For Vendetta.
     Next up, The Boys by Garth Ennis. Then I want to get hold of some Authority stuff, but I don't know where to start on that.
   • [19:56 on 22/07/08]
4. • Biledriver
   • I've been reading Kerouac's 'The Town and the City' for weeks now. It's great I'm just really out of the habit, too many steak nights.
   • [20:10 on 22/07/08]
5. • Wez TDJ
   • Just finished The Satanic Verses, now started Battle Royale.
   • [21:13 on 22/07/08]
6. • Rob Himself
   • Pete says:

     
     Are You Dave Gorman? by Dave Gorman and Danny Wallace, kindly lent to me.
     
     
     
     The original and best! I quite fancy reading Wallace's new 'un. He's taken Gorman's docu-travel lead and turned into Louis Theroux for Dummies, I quite like him.
   • [21:57 on 22/07/08]
7. • Th@ Guy
   • I'm still battling my way through Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace... but the end is in sight..... just 150 pages of a 1050 page novel left.
   • [08:40 on 23/07/08]
8. • mamba
   • I was annoyed to find that when my mate said he was busy last Wednesday, he failed to mention that he was busy going to see Danny Wallace do a book reading in Borders minutes from my front door. Apparently he didn't know I liked him.
     
     I'm a rubbish reader. I'm still battling through America Unchained. I average about a chapter a month. I might be done by Christmas.
   • [08:43 on 23/07/08]
9. • Hopkins
   • The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
   • [09:02 on 23/07/08]
10. • mike
    • Hopkins says:

      
      The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
      
      
      
      Amazing.
    • [09:06 on 23/07/08]
11. • Hopkins
    • It certanly is, not read for about 10 years, so thought I'd give it another viewing
    • [09:35 on 23/07/08]
12. • Wez TDJ
    • mike says:

      
      

      Hopkins says:

      
      The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
      

      
      
      Amazing.
      
      
      
      Agreed, it is amazing.
      
      I loved Walking On Glass too.
    • [09:46 on 23/07/08]
13. • Podge
    • Zadie Smith - On Beauty
      Some fella - History of the british empire
      
      Slomo will batter me for this but the wasp factory is toss.
    • [11:50 on 23/07/08]
14. • mike
    • Why? Massive twist, sick plot, vivid descriptions of an isolated setting, whats not to like?
    • [15:04 on 23/07/08]
15. • Gareth
    • Recently finished:-
      
      100 years of solitude - gabriel garcia marquez
      unbearable lightness of being - milan kundera
      the raod - cormac mccarthy
      
      Just bought
      
      border trilogy - cormac mccarthy
      look to windward - ian m banks
      exiles return - raymond e feist (started the trilogy about 4 years ago)
    • [16:01 on 23/07/08]
16. • Podge
    • mike says:

      Why? Massive twist, sick plot, vivid descriptions of an isolated setting, whats not to like?
      
      there are many more books out there with far better of all the above but people don't bum them like they do wasp factory. its not especially graphic or anything, its just "a book"
    • [18:07 on 23/07/08]
17. • ChrisSD
    • The Wasp Factory is an abortion of a book.
      I cannot fathom why anyone would think it even passable in the slightest.
      How it got published is absolutely beyond me.
      
      Now Reading: Nothing... for ages... I'm still burnt out from my degree I think. Can't bring myself to pick anything up despite having lots on my shelves I really, really want to read. Odd.
    • [18:09 on 23/07/08]
18. • MatthewRedStars
    • Battle Cry Of Freedom.
      
      Totally amazing book about the American Civil War and all the aspects of industrialisation, slavery and democracy within. I would 100% recommend to anyone who's into history/politics. Very dense and full of statistics but these enlighten the subject rather than drag into a mire of numbers.
      
      Just finished: Zen & The Art Of Motorcycle Maintence.
      
      Interesting but pretty hard going. Raised alot of questions about conciousness and 'life' that i thought about LOADS so i guess thats a good thing!
    • [20:12 on 23/07/08]
19. • theadore
    • MatthewRedStars says:

      
      Just finished: Zen & The Art Of Motorcycle Maintence.
      
      
      
      I have owned three copies of this book and left 2 of them on trains.
    • [23:14 on 23/07/08]
20. • Carey
    • affinity - sarah waters
      
      a careful reader of these threads will already know me as a big fan. this was good. not her best, but better than most.
      
      
    • [23:40 on 23/07/08]

Forums - General Chat - Shiny new reading thread