I LOVE JG Ballard but that's one of his books I've NOT read. Maybe one day...Originally Posted by jivafox
In OTHER NEWS, I'm reading the second book this year that's just TOO HARD for me. It makes me feel thick
Top up, Sue?
Finally got around to Virgin Suicides, which is wonderful but despite seeing the film when it came out I couldn't recall any of it while reading. Also Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn... one of the most honest memoirs I've ever read. Currently on my first Roberto Bolaño with Savage Detectives.
AMAZING.
Finally a book I can recommend to others. I FULLY RECOMMEND the Booker Prize winning Julian Barnes' The Sense of an Ending. At only 150 pages long, it took me 4 days to read (during commuting time) and it was a joy to read something that didn't feel like you were PARSING LATIN to get the story.
Top up, Sue?
Finally finished The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan and i'm definitely not going to make my goal of one book per month this year
Next i think i'm going to dip into the huge list i made at the end of last year of the top ten books of 2011.
I just finished The Bell Jar. I want to read more, I used to read loads, now I hardly read a thing
I finished Rule of the Bone by Russell Banks the other night. 'Twas pretty good but I did get a bit bored of Jamaica.
Poor Sista Rose.
Just finished Straight Outta Scotland, picked it up at the library on a whim when I stormed off in a mard last week.
Its about 2 guys from Scotland who convince Sony/BMG they are from California, and get a record deal, and spunk a load of cash they've effectively blagged.
I read it in 1 day, its funny as fuck.
Got a load of Raymond Chandler novels waiting for me now, only ever read The Long Goodbye and loved it.
Take your nose off my keyboard.
I read Lolita in Thailand, and always felt a bit uneasy.
Take your nose off my keyboard.
Just read this. Is this guy actually real then? What a life if so.I didn't see this!
*buys*
*bankrupts self *
I read this a few months ago, and while I'm not usually a fan of the genre, it's one of the best books I've ever read.
I know 'gay gypsy' is a bit of a NICHE interest group, but he nails it. It's absolutely spot on and there's quite a few moments I've experienced myself (the five year-old cousin calling the teacher a cunt rings a bell). I also had exactly the same argument with my sister as he did, which also ended with her screaming 'You're a fucking GAY!'
My life has obviously been one of GLITZ and GLAMOUR.
Have you tried the sequel?
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He is real, yeah, but NAMES HAVE BEEN CHANGED. I found it very uplifting, and there's so many little details I can identify with. Fun fact: it's the only book one of my aunts has ever read. It's becoming quite popular amongst travellers (the few women who can read, anywayJust read this. Is this guy actually real then? What a life if so.
Have you tried the sequel?) and is actually helping to change people's opinions. In a lot of people's minds, gay people are totally separate from travellers and something that only exists outside, whereas this has helped people to identify with someone they can recognise as being one of their own. I haven't read the sequel yet, though.
I still hate the cover, though. It's the equivalent of a book about African immigrants with a picture of someone with a lip plate and a bone through their nose.
It was uplifting but at the same time it was hard to read page after page of abuse. Also, poor Irish Travellers.He is real, yeah, but NAMES HAVE BEEN CHANGED. I found it very uplifting, and there's so many little details I can identify with. Fun fact: it's the only book one of my aunts has ever read. It's becoming quite popular amongst travellers (the few women who can read, anyway
I still hate the cover, though. It's the equivalent of a book about African immigrants with a picture of someone with a lip plate and a bone through their nose.
I'm glad it's changing opinions among travellers. Reading it I was thinking the travelling community would be outraged when they found out about it based on how he described different aspects of society. It's nice to hear it's having a positive influence.
I love getting books you can properly relate to. I know it's not really the same thing at all but I was dead excited when one of our uni books turned out to be about a gay guy from Belfast in his late teens who happened to like wrestling and hate football.
Last edited by chlamydia92; 04-08-2012 at 12:58 AM.
Am almost a bit resistant to mentioning him as he feels like my LITTLE SECRET but Keith Ridgway's 'Animals' is fucking stunning
I'm going to start sending him insistent billets-doux
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Also, Georges Bataille forum now please
Not that he's a new discovery. But I always love a FORK IN THE THIGH
Finished Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn which was good but I'm not sure I enjoy crime novels much anymore, it all feels like an episode of a procedural on TV.
Now I'm starting on Shadow and Bone which is a fantasy novel set in a world that is based on the Russian culture.
despite having read "Postcards from the Edge" numerous times over the last few years I've never actually picked up any of Carrie Fisher's other books, so i've gone for her memoir/one woman show transcript "Wishful Drinking"
how's Shadow and Bone, Phee? I just ordered it at my local fantasy pusher because I thought... well you're reading it so I might also enjoy it. she told me it's classified as YA though which has got me a bit scared
It's ok do far, I'm halfway through it and it's entertaining but a lot of it I'd still introducing the world that I don't know what the actual threat is. It's defenitly more Hunger Games than Game of Thrones.
oh dear oh well, I guess I can afford to give YA a try
I did not enjoy that book.
I thought 'The Parts' on the other hand (by the same writer) was amazing.
I am currently reading Jilly Cooper's 'Rivals' and it is fabulous. Bushes galore.
I've never read a Jilly Cooper! I loved the TV adaptation of Riders though, not least for all the RACY SIDE NUDITY.
Books aren't always supposed to be ENJOYABLE
'Animals' is clearly intended to CAUSE SECTIONING
if you're looking for epic fantasy you should give The Wheel of Time a try, i've only read the first and it was good, it's 14 books though so i guess i'll be reading it for quite a while.
the guy died right? and someone else took over
I think I'll give fantasy a break and read some Cuban crime novels
I think I'm going for this next, heard good things about it and it's short so I can then move on to Gone Girl which is supposed to be an amazing crime novel.
Shadow and Bone was underwhelming and I need a break from fantasy.
I've finally finished The Two Towers, it was better than The Fellowship of the Ring, but quite difficult to get through anyhow. Now I'll start The Return of The King. I say it'll take me about 2 months give or take.
I should never have ordered it, I hope I can cancel it
<3
Top up, Sue?
I haven't read this, but I keep seeing it in Waterstones - doesn't it just look like the most
I just tried to wipe the speck off my screen before I realised it was a beauty mark
I hadn't read a book for quite a while but just got through Dry by Augusten Burroughs and The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller in quick succession. LOVED the latter.
The Song of Achilles is on my list, i shall bump it up and read it next. i just finished A Sense of an Ending and already have Gone Girl ready, which i'm hoping is as good as i read it is.
The Song of Achilles is a really BEAUTIFUL book - the only one I can remember that's made me cry
I've urged everyone to read it since, and I'm tempted to re-read, even though I don't normally do that with books.
I have to say there were just a few tears myself. I thought it was stunning too - so well written but in a very straightforward way.
Both are stunning.
ditched Gilead (will return to it when I'm 50, what a snooze) and We Need To Talk About Kevin, I just can't keep focus at the moment
so I got myself some Greek comedies
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Gone Girl was a very good read, part murder mystery and part suspense thriller.
I read this whilst on holiday. I know, terribly cliché, but I don't know much about the development of Islam after the death of the Prophet and this happens to detail and explain what happened (upto the current day), in such an easy to access/read fashion.
I wish I could make it compulsory for all people to read.
Last edited by Beverley; 23-10-2012 at 02:33 PM.
I WILL GET REAL GRIMEY. I WILL START CUTTIN' UP CLOTHES.
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