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Started by marja (sinner) in Chit-Chat

Since there’s a post on what’s everybody listening to, I thought it would be interesting to hear what’s everybody reading at the moment. Or just some good recommendations for reading.

At the moment I’m reading The inner game of music (nicely recommended by a kind member of the WoM). It really is great. if you have a problem with stressy situations, not even involving music, you should read this. It teaches you techniques to keep cool whatever happens.

Posted on Thu, 14 October 2004 at 12:25

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allroy wrote:

Don’t get to read much at the moment, only on my way to and from work.
Right now it’s
Terry Pratchett - The Colour Of Magic
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Andrew Hodges - Alan Turing:The Enigma.

But right after that: Mötley Crüe - The Dirt.:cool:

Recommended reading: anything by James Ellroy, Nick Hornby, Philippe Djian, Umberto Eco, Jorge Luis Borges, Kevin Sampson, Lawrence Norfolk or Keith Lowe.

Posted on Thu, 14 October 2004 at 12:36

#2

White Psycho wrote:

Finished The Beach by Alex Garland recently, bloody good book. Never seen the film and not sure if I want to really. When I read books I never have a clear idea on faces and I like that, I prefer having good impressions of the location involved.

Thinking of reading Titus Groan by Mervyn Peak again, its just being bothered

Posted on Thu, 14 October 2004 at 12:49

#3

marja (sinner) wrote:

don’t watch that movie. it’s crap.

Same goes for Lord of the rings. Those movies aren’t crap, but I liked the books better. A lot of things were left out of the movie, such a shame. I understand that you can’t pour 1000 pages or more into 10 hours of film (maybe it’s more, I can’t calculate so correct me :))without cutting a few things, but I missed out on some great pieces in the book, especially in the firt movie.

Posted on Thu, 14 October 2004 at 13:00

#4

Meenzer wrote:

Just ploughing through Douglas Coupland’s “Life After God” for the umpteenth time. It’s great to dip into every now and then.

Posted on Thu, 14 October 2004 at 13:00

#5

Dermot (The Derm) wrote:

I enjoyed The Beach too, haven’t seen the movie either.

I just finished reading Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk(recommended by fellow WOMbles!). I thought it was great until it started getting large scale -like when the events in the character’s life start affecting the whole of America, same as in Fight Club. Why can’t he just leave it small scale and personal?

Oh yeah. Satire :rolleyes:

I have to read shitloads for my course so I’ve just started into The Eternal Husband by Dostoevsky. That guy’s stuff is always amazin, definitely my favourite writer of all time.

Posted on Thu, 14 October 2004 at 13:00

#6

motherh666 wrote:

Clive Barker - ‘Gallilee’. A little too trashy-romance-novely for me.
Finished Dee Dee Ramone’s ‘Chelsea Horror Hotel’ recently, that rocked. Crazy fucked up stuff.
Also read ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’ by Mark haddon. Brilliant book.

Posted on Thu, 14 October 2004 at 13:14

#7

marja (sinner) wrote:

accepting the possibility to get laughed at, even completely trashed :), tell me everybody what’s your favourite Harry potter book. Mine Goblet of fire

Posted on Thu, 14 October 2004 at 13:35

#8

allroy wrote:

I haven’t read one so far and don’t intend to.

Give it a more cultural approach and ask for our favourite play by Shakespeare. Mine are Macbeth and Much Ado About Nothing.

Posted on Thu, 14 October 2004 at 13:52

#9

4eva wrote:

nothing - i don’t read i listen :eek:

Posted on Thu, 14 October 2004 at 13:53

#10

marja (sinner) wrote:

allroy wrote:

cultural approach

cultural sjmultural. There’s nothing wrong in liking those books, nice passtime with not too much to think about.

Quote (author unknown):

Much Ado About Nothing.

is this your lovelife we’re talking about :p

Posted on Thu, 14 October 2004 at 14:02

#11

allroy wrote:

Reading without thinking is like fucking without loving - can be fun sometimes, but it just scratches the surface (well, maybe a bit deeper :) ).

Right now, I think I’m in The Taming Of The Shrewd. :p

Posted on Thu, 14 October 2004 at 14:10

#12

marja (sinner) wrote:

with thinking I mean difficult wordings, metaphores, .. stuff like that.

It’s a lot of fun to just let your imagination run wild, and that’s what the Potter books do for me. And making love with a lot of imagination is a lot more fun than thinking to hard about it :) believe you me

Maybe, just maybe, you should try one, and then you should judge. Don’t ya think :cool:

Posted on Thu, 14 October 2004 at 14:19

#13

allroy wrote:

I don’t think so. You can have easy-to-read books that are highly entertaining without any hokuspokus like wizard kids. Or you can have a laugh about all this magic stuff by reading Terry Pratchett.

Posted on Thu, 14 October 2004 at 14:32

#14

White Psycho wrote:

marja wrote:

cultural sjmultural. There’s nothing wrong in liking those books, nice passtime with not too much to think about.

Terry Pratchett covers that for me, can’t be arsed with harry potter

Posted on Thu, 14 October 2004 at 14:56

#15

Krisken wrote:

Just finished the last of the Darktower books. I know, Stephen King isn’t exactly advanced reading, but the last book in the series really does blow all his other books away. The ending is spot on. Ever read a book and say to yourself “That wasn’t the ending I was hoping for, but that ending was RIGHT”? That’s how I felt.

Posted on Thu, 14 October 2004 at 15:47

#16

sister wrote:

reading my courses, after that this week’s humo, after that this week’s voetbal-magazine and after that it’s friday and time to go home again… ahh, a student’s life :)

Posted on Thu, 14 October 2004 at 15:50

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hoochalobster (Sarah) Super Moderator wrote:

Currently reading The Water Method Man by John Irving, my favourite writer - personal favourite so far is The Hotel New Hampshire.

Also recommend The Breeder’s Box by Timothy Murphy, owt by Martin Millar, Colin Bateman, Robert Rankin and a hundred others I might find the energy to post later… :)

Posted on Thu, 14 October 2004 at 16:51

#18

Citizen Erased wrote:

Reading ‘The Perfect Storm’ (on which the film was based), which so far has been good, but no-one’s gone sailing yet, so I’m expecting it to get a bit more exciting…

Posted on Thu, 14 October 2004 at 17:10

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MarkoJii (Ukko Perkele) wrote:

Currently reading Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates.

Next in line Iron Maiden’s biography Run To The Hills, Lemmy - White Line Fever & Dear Boy : The Life Of Keith Moon. So much to read, so little time…

Would recommend Mihail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita to everyone, no question about it that is the best book I have ever read.
http://www2.eunet.lv/library/lat/BULGAKOW/master97_engl.txt

Hammer Of Gods about Led Zeppelin is also great.

Posted on Thu, 14 October 2004 at 17:14

#20

Superstick Dude wrote:

Just finsihed reading Gene Simmons - Sex, Money, Kiss. It’s interesting and quite funny but i can’t say i agree wiht his philosophy. Now i’m gonna read Blood Crazy by Simon Clarke for the second time because i love it so much.

Posted on Thu, 14 October 2004 at 17:18

#21

3ddo-on-the-balcony (eddo) wrote:

I just finished ‘The Da Vinci Code’ by Dan Brown, a brilliant book, and just started ‘Dude, where’s my country’ by Michael Moore.

Some of my favourite writer have been mentioned already; Shakespeare, Eco, Tolkien. I’d like to add Bram Stoker’s Dracula. It’s truly one of the most facinating novels I ever read. Off course I have to mention Edgar Allen Poe, Isaac Asimov and Boccaccio’s Decamerone.

Posted on Thu, 14 October 2004 at 17:34

#22

FNYANKEZ wrote:

Just finished Chuck Pohlinuik’s “Diary”…interesting. Not his best, but it went quick and the very end had a cool little twist. Before that read Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon, excellent but it’s a time investment. I just picked up his Quicksilver but don’t know if I’m ready for another 900 page monster at the moment.

Posted on Thu, 14 October 2004 at 19:26

#23

trigger wrote:

i have read hitler’s biography by ian kershaw recently, hybris and nemesis.
the da vinci code too (but i dont understand why all the buzz about it).

Posted on Thu, 14 October 2004 at 19:42

#24

3ddo-on-the-balcony (eddo) wrote:

trigger wrote:

the da vinci code too (but i dont understand why all the buzz about it).

I do. The Da Vinci Code opposes to almost everything on which christianity is based. It’s the same as the commotion about the film The Last Temtation of Christ. I think the popy-the-vatican-man is not pleased with this novel. Well, I hope he isn’t :D

Posted on Thu, 14 October 2004 at 20:14

#25

rocking roxy wrote:

Last thing i was reading was: Barriers to fish migration on rivers in Thuringia :cool:

Posted on Thu, 14 October 2004 at 20:16

#26

donVutz wrote:

Just finished Philip K. Dicks A Scanner Darkly (realy good) and started H.G. Wells’ Men Like Gods (seems pretty good).
I have Hermann Hesses Sidaharta, Stephen Kings Dark Tower 7 and Mario Puzos The Godfather (finaly something usefull by the Bild) on my to do list.

Posted on Thu, 14 October 2004 at 20:29

#27

Misanthropologist (d) wrote:

Just started Theodore Zeldin’s An Intimate History of Humanity, but also reading Goethe’s Maxims and reflections, Kafka’s Diaries, Grimm’s fairy tales, Dickins - The Pickwick Papers, P.G. Wodehouse - The Clicking of Cuthbert, Brett Easton Ellis - American Psycho, Piers Brendon - The Dark Valley, and The Cambrdige Companion to Schopenhauer. Also bought The Grim Grotto by Lemony Snickett, which I plan on reading tomorrow :):o

My favourite Shakespeare would have to be either Macbeth, or Midsummer Night’s Dream (which I saw at The National Theatre, and was very very good).

Favourite Harry Potter would be The Goblet of Fire.

Posted on Thu, 14 October 2004 at 21:05

#28

Muskeg (Yes, It's me.) wrote:

I WAS reading Diary By palahniuk but It’s not as ” catchy ” as his other books and im struggling to be entertained by it. I need to finish it though.

I didnt like choke much either…i took it back.

Posted on Thu, 14 October 2004 at 21:50

#29

3ddo-on-the-balcony (eddo) wrote:

Misanthropologist wrote:

My favourite Shakespeare would have to be either Macbeth, or Midsummer Night’s Dream (which I saw at The National Theatre, and was very very good).

King Lear, Hamlet and The Taming of the Shrew are my favourites. I saw ‘The Shrew’ in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1978 during a schooltrip to England; awesome! Great actors. If there’s one art the British mastered, its acting. Which reminds me of John Clease who once played a perfect Petruccio. Hats off.

Posted on Thu, 14 October 2004 at 22:04

#30

Misanthropologist (d) wrote:

I’d love to see a proper performance of King Lear, in particular. I never seemed to get the opportunity. :(

Of course, laziness probably plays a part :)

Posted on Thu, 14 October 2004 at 22:06

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