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Question What are you reading?

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Generation Kill - Evan Wright

superb, probably should have read it before watching the series (will re-watch it afterwards!)
 
Has anyone on read Tokyo Year Zero by David Peace - while is was a pretty decent read, I got so fed up of the repetition. I swear the book could have been half the size if he'd cut it out.
 
Finished Kafka's 'The Castle', decent read but I wasn't blown away, reminded me of Dostoyevsky & Kundera in style.

Just started Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis, making me laugh already.

MK - How did you get on with the Murakami books?
 
Reading The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker, as well as One Blood, a look at British gang culture, by John Heale.

Funnily enough, Heale's book mentions a seaside town at the end of the train line, but doesnt say what it is. My bet is it's Southend. What a grim place we live in.
 
Just bought Cory Doctorow's Little Brother, which is a bitch to explain, but it is a very good read. If only for some cracking tips for getting round some security systems (got a gait reader at work? shove some gravel in your shoes, a good amount of the stuff, like 10-20 decent sized pieces, you'll be completely invisible to the little sods).

I'm also waiting on Amazon to deliver the Percy Jackson series, Watchmen (the graphic novel), Batman: The Killing Joke, The Dark Knight Returns, The Dark Knight Strikes Again, and Batman: The Long Halloween.

I've checked. There's 6074 pages of material there.
 
Just finished reading Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis.

***Contains Spoilers!***

Excellent read, very dry funny dissection of celebrity culture, before the big move into the usual blood n gore you'd expect from BEE. Did leave me scratching my head as to what the hell was going on near the end, I'm guessing the film crew was a figment of his imagination, but what about the rest? Was Victor in NY at the end an imposter, while the real victor was dragged around europe on smack?

Either way, brilliant.

Also for those on twitter, just discovered @eastonellis not sure if it's the real BEE...
 
Kate Bush's Biography.

Wasn't sure I was going to like it at first, but is getting a lot better. Spolit rich bitch as a kid though!!
 
Bluesmanager said:
Just bought Cory Doctorow's Little Brother, which is a bitch to explain, but it is a very good read. If only for some cracking tips for getting round some security systems (got a gait reader at work? shove some gravel in your shoes, a good amount of the stuff, like 10-20 decent sized pieces, you'll be completely invisible to the little sods).

I'm also waiting on Amazon to deliver the Percy Jackson series, Watchmen (the graphic novel), Batman: The Killing Joke, The Dark Knight Returns, The Dark Knight Strikes Again, and Batman: The Long Halloween.

I've checked. There's 6074 pages of material there.
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Got my delivery (well, deliveries, some smart ******* at Amazon decided it'd be smart to send me the last 2 Percy Jacksons and the graphic novels, sans Long Halloween first. Tosser).

I've tried writing a review on the Percy Jackson series for a few days now and it's bloody hard. There's so much to talk about. But, while it may seem a bit generic in structure (Percy Jackson is attacked by monsters and has to go to summer camp for his own safety. He is then offered various quests based in and around Greek Mythology. After many trials and tribulations, he succeeds) but the humour in the series is sublime (Tyson the 12-year-old Cyclops still cracks me up and I've read the series about 2-3 times since I got it about a week or so ago). The action is also superb, particularly in The Last Olympian, the final book in the series, which is basically the Battle of Manhattan for acts 2 and 3, totalling about 200 or so pages total. A cracking series, and while I have my doubts over the film due out next year that's based on the first book (most of the actors are far older than they should be and it's directed by Chris Columbus, who I've had on my Bad List since Harry Potter and the Phliosopher's Stone and Chamber of Secrets) I'm still gonna go see it as my Birthday Movie.

The graphic novels... well to be honest, they confuse me. Maybe I should've started with something smaller (the only other graphic novel I had before the delivery was BTVS season 8 volume 1, which is much smaller and easier to follow). Dark Knight Returns and Dark Knight Strikes Again are the main culprits, although Watchmen and Long Halloween aren't far behind.

Guess it's a good thing I'm only in college 3 days a week this year.
 
'Deer Hunting With Jesus' by Joe Bageant

A biting, hard hitting yet satirically funny look into the lives of those living with God in the dirt poor southern states of the US and how they have been betrayed by the very people they work and vote for - big business.
 
Re-reading 'The Vision of the Anointed - Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy' by Thomas Sowell. A withering analysis of 'progressive' policies in the post-war US.
 
Just finished 'Livability' by Jon Raymond, collection of short stories from the writer of my favourite film, Old Joy. very good indeed.

Just started 'All Gone To Look For America' by Peter Miller, a british journalist. It's a travelogue of his journey around America using the fading train network. Superb so far and I'm only a few pages in.
 
Just finished mark Billingham's Buried. Not a patch on his earlier stuff. Now reading 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill - a cracking collection of short horror stories
 
I'm reading quite a bit of modern Russian history at the moment. Currently reading Ivan's War by Catherine Merridale. An extraordinary look in to the Red Army during WWII.

Those with an interest in WWII or Russia should look in to reading this.
 
SUFC_Al said:
I'm reading quite a bit of modern Russian history at the moment. Currently reading Ivan's War by Catherine Merridale. An extraordinary look in to the Red Army during WWII.

Those with an interest in WWII or Russia should look in to reading this.
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Considering doing an OU History degree. Feel a little bit lost now I'm not studying. Am I mental?
 
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