#871
Cuchulain wrote:
The Reapers by John Connolly.
Fan of his Charlie Parker horror series and this is his latest one. Pretty good so far.
Just finished Suffer The Little Children by Frances Reilly.
Posted on Mon, 9 February 2009 at 10:58
#872
fatboy wrote:
Currently on a poetry binge at the moment, reading chunks of Carol Anne Duffy, Jim Carroll, Charles Bukouski (yup, he was a poet too)
Posted on Tue, 10 February 2009 at 19:28
#873
opal_mantra (Holly) wrote:
i’m being quite lazy…and just reading the new issue of skin deep..lol
i need some new books!!
Posted on Tue, 10 February 2009 at 21:36
#874
Dennis (Dudley Less) wrote:
Just finished that there Dice Man book, going to start on One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest next, I think.
Yes I know I am somewhat behind the times, but my friend, who is a massive book lover (as in she loves books a lot, not that she’s massive, just in case she reads this…) has given me a list of books I should read, and which probably most of the Western world read years ago!
Posted on Thu, 12 February 2009 at 11:59
#875
hoochalobster (Sarah) Super Moderator wrote:
Posted on Thu, 12 February 2009 at 12:27
#876
mrs h wrote:
I’ve got ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’ but I’ve never got round to reading it. I’m told it’s loads better than the film, and I think it’s a great film so I will probably read it this year. I’ve got about 20 books lined up waiting to be read though. Whilst I’m here I have to re-iterate ‘The Late Hector Kipling’ - still haven’t finished it but it’s absolutely brilliant so far.
Posted on Thu, 12 February 2009 at 19:06
#877
g (Does everything start with destruction?) wrote:
I’m onto the bit of 1984 where winston visits the shop he purchased his diary again, I cant believe this book was written in the 40s it has alot of aspects of our current culture correct. everywhere i’ve been refrences to the book seem to be cropping up.
Posted on Thu, 12 February 2009 at 20:50
#878
msd wrote:
Orwell had connections to the elite - it could be argued that he knew the plan
Posted on Thu, 12 February 2009 at 20:56
#879
g (Does everything start with destruction?) wrote:
It makes sense, I mean he even describes tabloid newspapers in one bit, im pretty sure they diddnt have tabloids in his time.
Posted on Thu, 12 February 2009 at 21:02
#880
msd wrote:
The idea of splitting the world in three and having a state of constant war is also interesting, we’re not far off that
Posted on Thu, 12 February 2009 at 21:13
#881
g (Does everything start with destruction?) wrote:
yeah, and I see a few parallels between the Goldstein character and Osama Bin Laden.
Posted on Thu, 12 February 2009 at 21:16
#882
msd wrote:
Absolutely, the big bad boogie man
Posted on Thu, 12 February 2009 at 21:17
#883
mrs h wrote:
Gimme Back My Brainsaw wrote:
I’m onto the bit of 1984 where winston visits the shop he purchased his diary again, I cant believe this book was written in the 40s it has alot of aspects of our current culture correct. everywhere i’ve been refrences to the book seem to be cropping up.
Of course it has a lot of aspects of our current culture correct, it was only a couple of generations ago! I’d be very surprised if you didn’t have family members still around who were alive in the 40s. Or did you think everything was black and white back then and every house had a little picket fence round it? :p
Posted on Fri, 13 February 2009 at 13:18 in reply to an earlier post
#884
Dennis (Dudley Less) wrote:
Most of the book has been used in lyrics by the manics, too.
Posted on Fri, 13 February 2009 at 13:20
#885
mrs h wrote:
New Year’s Eve 1983 was a bloody good night …
Posted on Fri, 13 February 2009 at 13:27
#886
g (Does everything start with destruction?) wrote:
Posted on Tue, 17 February 2009 at 17:19
#887
Dennis (Dudley Less) wrote:
Quite! Absolutely LOVE that book.
A Clockwork Orange is similar, too, though I thought the film was crap.
Posted on Tue, 17 February 2009 at 17:28
#888
g (Does everything start with destruction?) wrote:
I couldnt follow the film was never aware it was a book.
then again i tried watching the film of 1984 ad hated it, but I love the book.
Posted on Tue, 17 February 2009 at 17:31
#889
Dennis (Dudley Less) wrote:
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess - you could probably pick it up dead cheap too.
It takes a while to get your head around it, cos he uses a made-up* slang which takes a while to suss out but once you get into it, it’s really good.
(*before any pedants out there point out that a lot of the slang was actually real Russian slang or whatever it was, you know what I meant :p )
Posted on Tue, 17 February 2009 at 17:43
#890
Dennis (Dudley Less) wrote:
Sorry, meant to add: I found that a lot of 1984 was about the internalised stuff, feelings, thought processes, and that was lost in the film a bit. Same goes for Clockwork Orange - kind of doesn’t make sense without Alex’s narration. The new Sepultura album, A-lex, is based on Clockwork Orange, by the way.
Posted on Tue, 17 February 2009 at 17:44
#891
g (Does everything start with destruction?) wrote:
yeah I know excactly what you mean, when i was reading 1984 I was thinking how the fuck has this been adapted to film.
Posted on Tue, 17 February 2009 at 17:46
#892
Dermot wrote:
I read 1984 and Clockwork Orange in very quick succession when I was 16 or so. Think the Manic Street Preachers were to blame. Both great books though!
Posted on Tue, 17 February 2009 at 17:55
#893
g (Does everything start with destruction?) wrote:
I hate purity. I hate goodness.
now I know where they got that from.
Posted on Tue, 17 February 2009 at 18:33
#894
opal_mantra (Holly) wrote:
…i want to read the ‘he came to rock’ book about Dimebag…
but it’s £30..:0S too rich for my blood… i did just finish reading to kill a mocking bird for the millionth time..it is awesome!!
Posted on Sun, 22 March 2009 at 20:24
#895
mrs h wrote:
I am reading a really strange, really gripping, pretty grim and really quite challenging book called Bad Monkeys.
It’s unputdownable, and even though I’m nearly at the end I still couldn’t tell you for sure what’s going to happen. Very clever stuff. I would recommend it to anybody so far, and even though there’s some really grim bits there’s nothing gratuitous. There’s a tiny possibility that the ending could be crap. I very much doubt it though.
Posted on Sun, 22 March 2009 at 20:33
#896
mrs h wrote:
‘The Late Hector Kipling’ was brilliant too. I seem to be reading a lot of head-fuck books lately.
Posted on Sun, 22 March 2009 at 20:35
#897
Dermot wrote:
I’m still reading The Magic Mountain… it’s very long but very good.
Can see how it ties in with the themes of Crooked Timber!… unless the song title is just a coincidence :-s
Posted on Sun, 22 March 2009 at 21:57
#898
Dennis (Dudley Less) wrote:
Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
Posted on Mon, 23 March 2009 at 11:04
#899
Citizen Erased (confused again) wrote:
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Posted on Mon, 23 March 2009 at 11:20
#900
fatboy wrote:
1984 was a book that a mate of mine introduced me to.
This going back a good few years ago now, and I told him that I was planing to get into reading and one of the books that I intended to read happened to be George Orwell’s classic, and he dug out his copy that he was reading at the time. I didn’t read it until a few years later, by which time, I sent a copy of Clockwork Orange to him - the book, not the film, I might add.
Anthony Burgess was inspired by Orwell to write A Clockwork Orange. The language that Alex and his droogs mixed with English is called Nadstat, most of which has Russian origins. Oddly enough, the book went unoticed until Stanley Kubrick’s adtaptation came out ten years later. Burgess went to his grave hating the book, despite having written fifty other books.
Posted on Mon, 23 March 2009 at 11:55
