Poodler Posted June 8, 2017 Share Posted June 8, 2017 Just read Albert Camus - The Outsider WOWOW Link to comment
buchanskii Posted June 8, 2017 Share Posted June 8, 2017 Just read Albert Camus - The Outsider WOWOW Looks right up my street, will give it a bash. Catch 22 - Absolute rubbish, avoid at all costs. Even worse than catcher in the rye Link to comment
KidCreole Posted June 8, 2017 Share Posted June 8, 2017 Just read Albert Camus - The Outsider WOWOWClassic one that read it when I was a teenager and again recently Link to comment
KidCreole Posted June 8, 2017 Share Posted June 8, 2017 Looks right up my street, will give it a bash. Catch 22 - Absolute rubbish, avoid at all costs. Even worse than catcher in the ryeCatchy titles though Link to comment
Poodler Posted June 8, 2017 Share Posted June 8, 2017 Classic one that read it when I was a teenager and again recently Aye, think it will take a few reads to fully appreciate it. Link to comment
Clydeside_Sheep Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 Now reading SS-GB by Len Deighton. Only just started, but v enjoyable so far. Always fancied it, but it took the recent TV adaptation to remind me of it. Link to comment
360 Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 Started House of Leaves a while ago. Found it a bit of a struggle and eventually fell away from reading it. Might give it another go Link to comment
Quagmire Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 A couple of chapters into the new John Niven book which is setting it up nicely. Link to comment
buchanskii Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 Just read Albert Camus - The Outsider WOWOW Enjoyed that very much, cheers for putting it up. Fat Chance: The hidden truth about sugar, obesity and disease by Dr Robert Lustig Quite enjoyed reading about how Americans are slowly killing themselves with the poison that is sugar and processed foods. Link to comment
amancalledbuck Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 Started House of Leaves a while ago. Found it a bit of a struggle and eventually fell away from reading it. Might give it another goI've started it a couple of times, but I've never got into it. The missus swears it's a great book and it's worth sticking with. Mibbe I'll give it another go. Link to comment
Poodler Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 Enjoyed that very much, cheers for putting it up. Fat Chance: The hidden truth about sugar, obesity and disease by Dr Robert Lustig Quite enjoyed reading about how Americans are slowly killing themselves with the poison that is sugar and processed foods. I just received a book called 'The mersault investigation' which uses the same story but retold from the POV of the arabs brother. I haven't read it yet but I'll let you know Currently reading Will Self's - Dorian. A modern take on my favourite book, Dorian Gray, Which if you haven't read, Hatters, you really should have. Link to comment
Henry Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 Finished that this morning, really enjoyed it. Link to comment
KidCreole Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 Halfway through Candide by Voltaire wiz a bit worried it wid be a heavy as fuck read but yon cunt Voltaire git a knack fir (sorry spell check set to Arabian knight) Link to comment
Guest milne_afc Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 Dorian. A modern take on my favourite book, Dorian Gray, Which if you haven't read, Hatters, you really should have.Seen the film. Actually knew about the book beforehand before realising it was available in technicolour - which saved me about 1 week's reading time. Link to comment
KidCreole Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 Finished that this morning, really enjoyed it. Am looking online for a second hand copy , Looks really good Link to comment
Poodler Posted August 4, 2017 Share Posted August 4, 2017 Just finished 'On the beach' - Nevil Shute Russia and China nuke each other to death and human kind is dying from the spreading radiation. A story about one of the last cities, waiting to die. Interesting. I enjoyed it. Now about to start 'A Rebours' by Huysmans. Decadence. I'm looking forward to it. Link to comment
Bluto10 Posted August 4, 2017 Share Posted August 4, 2017 On the beach by Chris tea is better Link to comment
buchanskii Posted August 4, 2017 Share Posted August 4, 2017 I'm a third of the way through a tale of two cities. Struggling Link to comment
Dal Riata Don Posted August 18, 2017 Share Posted August 18, 2017 Just finished Lord of the Flies. I don't know if it's a book for children or not, but I really enjoyed it and one of the scenes when the lad, Simon has the vision/epileptic fit was really terrifying. I often find that good works of fiction often present opinions and outlooks to show us some fundamental truth in life. The main message I got from this book was that; you can get life on your own terms - you're always in a position to choose how you see the world and how you conduct yourself. I know this is not exactly earth-shattering stuff, bit it's the kind of idea that can get lost in amongst the business of every-day life. Link to comment
Dal Riata Don Posted August 19, 2017 Share Posted August 19, 2017 I am in the middle of The Power Of Now - Eckhart Tolle. I don't know that, but the title sounds interesting. Once you finish, it would be nice to get your views, if you have time etc. I'd take more from the opinions set on here, than some of the guff on amazon/goodreads. Link to comment
YorkDon Posted August 20, 2017 Share Posted August 20, 2017 Just finished Lord of the Flies. I don't know if it's a book for children or not, but I really enjoyed it and one of the scenes when the lad, Simon has the vision/epileptic fit was really terrifying. I often find that good works of fiction often present opinions and outlooks to show us some fundamental truth in life. The main message I got from this book was that; you can get life on your own terms - you're always in a position to choose how you see the world and how you conduct yourself. I know this is not exactly earth-shattering stuff, bit it's the kind of idea that can get lost in amongst the business of every-day life. Did this one at school! If I remember right do they kind of go feral and end up in two different tribes? Link to comment
Bluto10 Posted August 20, 2017 Share Posted August 20, 2017 'Cause you're a bloody bloke. Link to comment
YorkDon Posted August 21, 2017 Share Posted August 21, 2017 It was on the school curriculum back in the day. Everyone did it, and yes they do splinter off in to 2 tribes, until there is only 1 of them left - Ralph. All the kids are drawn to the power of the stronger, vicious tribe and they try to kill him. Very good read from what I remember.Seem to remember Ralph being called Piggy and a rather large shell,a conch? Link to comment
Bluto10 Posted August 21, 2017 Share Posted August 21, 2017 Who is the best lord?Lord of the rings; lord of the flies; lord of the dance. Link to comment
Dal Riata Don Posted August 21, 2017 Share Posted August 21, 2017 Ralph was the leader and Piggy was his wee fat asthmatic sidekick with the glasses. The "others" steal his glasses to start fires. When there is only Ralph and Piggy left they go to offer a truce and Piggy is killed when they drop a boulder on him from the mountain, deliberately. Yea the conch brought order when it was blown. Like a school bell. When they were having discussions only the person holding it could talk. 2 films were made of the story.Great memory you've got! Piggy is holding the conch when the boulder hits him and kills him - it also shatters the conch so [i think] the idea is that ordered speaking to pursue intellectual objectives is gone - everything becomes based on raw power and animalistic instincts. Link to comment
Ke1t Posted August 21, 2017 Share Posted August 21, 2017 The Martian is fucking excellent. Audiobook even moreso. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idul6zQKVq8 Link to comment
YorkDon Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 That's right. I was shocked when Piggy got killed. We never even got told his actual name. I confess I re read it again last year. My memory is not all THAT good. Haha.Think I might have to re-read it too.From memory I really liked it. Link to comment
Dal Riata Don Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 I was shocked when Piggy got killed. We never even got told his actual name. Me too. I had never thought about not knowing his name - was it because that would make him easier to reject later on - sheer intellectualism crumbling in the midst of base needs and desires. He 'was' only as other people referred to him i.e. through a nick name, rather than reflecting his own distinct self? I really liked it.Me too. It conveys a lot about human morality and social structure but it isn't preachy, political or utopian. No mean feat! Link to comment
BWG Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan. First in the Wheel of Time series. An almost beat for beat rip off of Fellowship of the Ring. I've heard the rest of the series is better so I'll give the second book a go, but fuck me the first een was a slog. Link to comment
Henry Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 Weegie pish. No mean city, byraway big man. cheap on the Kindle. Link to comment
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