Ali La Pointe Posted February 2, 2008 Report Share Posted February 2, 2008 i'VE just finished The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniVery gud.maybe a good read but it is completely innacurate depiction of life in afghanistan . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bex Posted February 2, 2008 Report Share Posted February 2, 2008 Bex, i thought ON BEAUTY - ZADIE SMITHWAS SO...DISSAPOINTING.argh, I bought it the other day. and it's taking me too long to get into-if i'm not gripped from the beginning then I can't go oni know what you mean, it does take a while to get going, plus the beginning is kinda confusing. but persevere with it if you can! everything ties together at the end.loafs i really liked it! what did you find disapointing? i admit it is kinda difficult to get into, it was my holiday book last year so i had no choice but to read the whole thing lol. i thought it finished well though, i liked how it wasn't a stereotypical "happy ending" (don't wanna say too much if people are reading it) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrJibbles Posted February 2, 2008 Report Share Posted February 2, 2008 And still browse through this.Looking to get a few more Japanese crime/thrillers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRACKTRO Posted February 2, 2008 Report Share Posted February 2, 2008 That streetwear books good. Read a coupla brands pages in Topshop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gemma Posted February 3, 2008 Report Share Posted February 3, 2008 i read alot of eric d*ckey jerome books cuz i love themwaiting for this one to arrive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrJibbles Posted February 3, 2008 Report Share Posted February 3, 2008 Anyone read Haruki Murakami's book "Underground"? Just got this and the one above today, good read "Underground" so far. It's about a gas attack on a Tokyo subway left 12 people dead but thousands were injured and many suffered serious after-effects. He interviews the victims. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Em Dott Posted February 3, 2008 Report Share Posted February 3, 2008 I need to try and stick to my new years resolution of reading at least one book a month.Llow forcing yourself to read.I'm not forcing myself to read. This is something I wanted to do. I wanted to just read more then I usually do. I called it a new years resolution because I started it at the beginning of the year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ali La Pointe Posted February 3, 2008 Report Share Posted February 3, 2008 i rarely read fiction anymore, and most fiction i have read in the past has been classics i just find that modern day novels are no where near as enticing as the classics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
That's That Kid Posted February 3, 2008 Report Share Posted February 3, 2008 I need to try and stick to my new years resolution of reading at least one book a month.Llow forcing yourself to read.I'm not forcing myself to read. This is something I wanted to do. I wanted to just read more then I usually do. I called it a new years resolution because I started it at the beginning of the year.Alright cool bruv, it weren't a hating ting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shy One Posted February 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2008 Ok so i finished 'Beyond Ugly'. I wouldn't especially recommend it. Unless you've read Ugly and want to follow up ion her, it's just the rest of her life really. Nothign special. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Posted February 4, 2008 Report Share Posted February 4, 2008 The art of war- Sun Tzu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cipher Posted February 4, 2008 Report Share Posted February 4, 2008 re-reading LOTR atm.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Posted February 4, 2008 Report Share Posted February 4, 2008 re-reading LOTR atm..Frodo dies at the endPISSED Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cipher Posted February 4, 2008 Report Share Posted February 4, 2008 re-reading LOTR atm..Frodo dies at the endPISSED re-reading LOTR atm..Once again, you fail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Posted February 4, 2008 Report Share Posted February 4, 2008 re-reading LOTR atm..Frodo dies at the endPISSED re-reading LOTR atm..Once again, you fail.Why the f*ck are you reading them again? You failed to understand it the first time round so you're doing a "RE-TAKE" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cipher Posted February 4, 2008 Report Share Posted February 4, 2008 re-reading LOTR atm..Frodo dies at the endPISSED re-reading LOTR atm..Once again, you fail.Why the f*ck are you reading them again? You failed to understand it the first time round so you're doing a "RE-TAKE" Laughing at your own joke doesnt get anyoen to laugh alone with you, it just makes you look much more sad.I'm reading them again because they are entertaining.Speaking of failing to understand things, you clearly do not understand the food chain, Me>>>You.You also fail to understand things if you missed the first time that I said Rereading, not just reading. Imbecile.Don't think you have the wit to address one such as myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Posted February 4, 2008 Report Share Posted February 4, 2008 Skeen if reading about hobbits is your thing go for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cipher Posted February 4, 2008 Report Share Posted February 4, 2008 Skeen if reading about hobbits is your thing go for it.It clearly is, since I said I am reding the lord of the rings.Is failing one of your hobbies, child? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Posted February 4, 2008 Report Share Posted February 4, 2008 Skeen if reading about hobbits is your thing go for it.It clearly is, since I said I am reding the lord of the rings.Is failing one of your hobbies, child? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Em Dott Posted February 4, 2008 Report Share Posted February 4, 2008 re-reading LOTR atm..Frodo dies at the endPISSED re-reading LOTR atm..Once again, you fail.LOLMan bombed himself hard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cipher Posted February 4, 2008 Report Share Posted February 4, 2008 Skeen if reading about hobbits is your thing go for it.It clearly is, since I said I am reding the lord of the rings.Is failing one of your hobbies, child? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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CRACKTRO Posted February 4, 2008 Report Share Posted February 4, 2008 Bought Michel Houellebecq - Atomised today.ReviewMichel Houellebecq's dark and disturbing novel Atomised sees him establish himself as a unique and important voice in European letters. With his first work, Whatever, Houellebecq had created a sassy, street-wise bulletin of disaffected existentialism, and here that voice brilliantly extends its range. Atomised (from the French Les Particules élémentaires) is the story of two half-brothers, Michel and Bruno, who seem to represent two sides of Houellebecq himself (there are more than a few moments in the book where we feel we are reading a strange roman àclef). Michel, a molecular biologist, finds ordinary, human emotions inexplicable, making him seem abstruse and cold. Bruno is his opposite: a frustrated libertine trapped in a body most find repellant but still holding sex up as his most validating moment. Through these skewed archetypes an intricate, sometimes quite moving story of the brothers' lives is formed.Houellebecq obviously has a formidable intellect and, like the best French writers, manages to rail against anthropology, psychoanalysis, New Age philosophy and modern society in general without losing sight of his narrative--indeed the narrative is controlled quite beautifully, the pacing excellent, the switching from one brother's story to the other's done with a quiet grace. While some of Houellebecq's views are at the least questionable, and while there are moments when the conclusions to be drawn from his broadsides are disturbing, this never negates the value of the work. This is an ambitious book in which Houellebecq asks important questions: if sex is continually degraded by its increasing commodification and, concomitantly, genetics increasingly offers us the opportunity for procreation without recourse to it, where does that leave us? How do we navigate ourselves, afloat as we are, in this new moral universe? What does the increasing pace of scientific change mean to the conversations non-scientists have about our lives? What place does something called spirituality, whatever that means, have in this brave, new world? This is a big, bold, clever book that has already achieved more than cult status in France. Houellebecq should be read, and read carefully, if not always believed. --Mark Thwaite Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i_Break_Ankles Posted February 4, 2008 Report Share Posted February 4, 2008 On the Real Side: A History of African American Comedy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Libertine Posted February 6, 2008 Report Share Posted February 6, 2008 shittest book ive ever read Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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