Official ViP2 Book Club

[Superstition]

I don't normally read fiction, but I picked up The Book of Dave by Will Self today. He is a genius mind and I love reading what he conjures. It's about a book written by an angry/depressed, misogynistic taxi driver (Dave). It's discovered in post-disaster London hundreds of years later, after England is totally destroyed by flooding. And it's taken as a sacred text, becoming the template for society. Dave is deified; and society, language, religion, government, relationships, families are all based on his writings. The narrative jumps between present-day existence of Dave, and the future (500 years after his book is discovered). Haven't read any of it yet, but it's Will Self so I'm confident it'll be brilliant.

This is a f*ck*ng quality book. (High praise from me, I'm extremely discerning about fiction)Self is a hugely gifted writer, and he executes the farcical premise with great discipline, and buckets of wit. He's got a knack for painting the worlds which materialize from his weird and perceptive visions. Both the present & the future are depicted vividly and with such humour (it's genuinely laugh-out-loud funny in so many parts). A brilliant story, written in a funny and captivating way, all threaded upon a commentary about "revealed religion" and its inherent absurdities. Loved it and recommend it to everyone.

[Axiom]

just read do recommend.

[macz]

sniper one

[GoldCoast]

finished Kane & Abel by Jeffrey Archer two days ago,currently reading the Prodigal Daughter

[Shatterstar]

Check out 'The Damage Done' by Warren FellowsOnly just started it but it managed to shock me in the prologue & the first chapter has me fully locked in.It's about an Aussie guy who got caught heroin trafficking & did 12 years in a Bangkok prison.

[VENOM]

im joining a book club to get my book game on. last book i read was tin tin

[Mr Q]

Native Son.Richard Wright. Made me cry.

i have got to read this for one of my units this semester.

[Sub_Zero]

A Song of Fire and Ice - George R R Martin.

[Ismooth]

The mack within >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Real sh*t

[Trilliam]

Allen Ginsberg - Howl

[carpedeum]

The secrethttp://www.amazon.com/Secret-Rhonda-Byrne/dp/1582701709

[revs]

Influence: The psychology influence of persuasionby Robert Cialdini

[Uncle Man]

Allen Ginsberg - Howl

no homoguy just writes gay porn mostly@ superstition i hate will self,just find his tone jarring,any other i wud make a note for wen i start reading books again@ goldcoast.sick i used to read bare jeffrey archer books

[Trilliam]

Allen Ginsberg - Howl

no homoguy just writes gay porn mostly

:lol:wudnt say mostly, but yh no holmes

[Gunner]

Reading men are from mars and women from venus.Rich dad, poor dad

[Captain Planet]

Can anybody recommend a book on musical theory.But not the basic stuff like scales, intervals etc.But rather like the theories of harmonization and f*ckery stuff like that, should really let ABRSM tech me but I'm giving lessons a break until I can fund them myself.

[Frank Furta]

just read the last godfathers by john follain good stuff.. would reccomend.

[Mousey]

The coldest winter ever - Sister Souljah

[Guest Esquilax]

Just finished Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capotenothing how you'd expect. Excellent characters, rich settings

[Lofa]

Q&A.Has now been adapted into a film but the book is really great.

[UncleSimit]

Story of God by Robert Winstonit's good

[bladerunner]

I don't normally read fiction, but I picked up The Book of Dave by Will Self today. He is a genius mind and I love reading what he conjures. It's about a book written by an angry/depressed, misogynistic taxi driver (Dave). It's discovered in post-disaster London hundreds of years later, after England is totally destroyed by flooding. And it's taken as a sacred text, becoming the template for society. Dave is deified; and society, language, religion, government, relationships, families are all based on his writings. The narrative jumps between present-day existence of Dave, and the future (500 years after his book is discovered). Haven't read any of it yet, but it's Will Self so I'm confident it'll be brilliant.

This is a f*ck*ng quality book. (High praise from me, I'm extremely discerning about fiction)Self is a hugely gifted writer, and he executes the farcical premise with great discipline, and buckets of wit. He's got a knack for painting the worlds which materialize from his weird and perceptive visions. Both the present & the future are depicted vividly and with such humour (it's genuinely laugh-out-loud funny in so many parts). A brilliant story, written in a funny and captivating way, all threaded upon a commentary about "revealed religion" and its inherent absurdities. Loved it and recommend it to everyone.

My mum's got this, I started reading it, but weren't feeling it at all.

[Superstition]

Yeah Will Self is definitely a marmite-type figure, his acutely lugubrious grandiloquence is a divisive styleOne of my favourite contemporary writers though

[bladerunner]

Yeah Will Self is definitely a marmite-type figure, his acutely lugubrious grandiloquence is a divisive styleOne of my favourite contemporary writers though

No, Self himself is utter genius, on that I completely agree. I just didn't get into that particular book.

[JGGB]

McMafia by Misha GlennyTrue Crime, nothing to do with MacDonalds or scottish crime. It's loads of different true stories from the criminal underworld.Very graphic at parts-Man gets shot through the eye etc