#631
mrs h wrote:
It’s quite scary, it made me want to play!
If you can’t find it anywhere send me your address and I’ll lend you my copy :)
Posted on Thu, 10 May 2007 at 09:27
#632
Dennis wrote:
Posted on Thu, 10 May 2007 at 09:29
#633
mrs h wrote:
In fact you can read a bit of chapter 3 right here if you like.
… If you’re one of those weird people who dip into a book before they read it!
Posted on Thu, 10 May 2007 at 09:36
#634
Divers (Simon) wrote:
Lords of chaos
Not too bad a book, a bit full on in places… interesting to read about the whole black metal culture, but quite a few of them come across as arogant fuckwits.
A few Robert Rankin books
The Bightonomicon.. which i really enjoyed.
Today when i bought The witches of chiswick I was asked if i wanted the new Harry Porter novel… i told them i would rather set myself on fire… hopefully the staff member nearby who was dressed as a wizard goes off has a damn good cry and then GETS A FUCKING LIFE!
Posted on Sat, 21 July 2007 at 03:28
#635
hoochalobster (Sarah) Super Moderator wrote:
How mean :p
I just finished The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, which I liked a lot. Then I had to do some research on her for work and found out it was autobiographical and she committed suicide when she was really young :(
To cheer myself up I’m now reading A Thing of Unspeakable Horror - which is all about the history of Hammer Horror, yey for jolity :D
Posted on Sat, 21 July 2007 at 07:04
#636
mr self destruct wrote:
Divers wrote:
Lords of chaos
Not too bad a book, a bit full on in places… interesting to read about the whole black metal culture, but quite a few of them come across as arogant fuckwits.
Some of the chapters are bollocks (“Resurgent Atavism” for example) but the sections about the beginning of the scene are good.
Posted on Sat, 21 July 2007 at 08:03
#637
Divers (Simon) wrote:
hoochalobster wrote:
Some would say mean… others would say justified.. never know i may have done him a favour and at 30 he may finally get laid?
Posted on Sun, 22 July 2007 at 00:58
#638
mrs h wrote:
tgE wrote:
started Vernon God Little by the mental case that is DBC Pierre.
I just started reading this the other day and it so fascinating and unputdownable I’m halfway through already. Everyone I know should read this book because it’s so brilliantly written and gripping.
The weirdest bit for me is that it makes you feel as though you are living in the head of a 15 year old boy, but I think most WoMbles would find that quite normal ;)
Posted on Sun, 22 July 2007 at 10:55
#639
Dennis wrote:
Saint Morrissey.
Not so much a biography so much as a lengthy dissertation on the ex-Smiths singist.
Quite heavy going, but well written. Some of it is steeped in psychobabble nonsense, but he doesn make some very pertinent points.
Next up, I think I will restart on the Terry Pratchett books - I got towards the end of The Lost Continent and got distracted for a couple of weeks, by which time I had completely forgotten what had happened in the book.
Posted on Mon, 23 July 2007 at 10:48
#640
Igor Belanov wrote:
I think Morrissey would defy most attempts to psychoanalyse him. Is the book generally for or agin Moz?
Posted on Mon, 23 July 2007 at 11:21
#641
Dennis wrote:
I don’t know if there’s really a whole book’s worth that can be written about Morrissey from a psychological point of view without resorting to guesswork for a lot of it, but this guy backs up his ideas quite well all the same.
It’s very “pro” Morrissey, but not in an especially sychophantic way.
Posted on Mon, 23 July 2007 at 11:46
#642
fatboy wrote:
Currently reading a black writer called Courttia Newland, Music for the Off Key. Pretty good.
Before that was If You Like School, You’ll Love Work, the new Irvine Welsh book. Let me put it this way; its an improvement from his last book, but we all know that he’s not going to repeat the rawness of Trainspotting or any of his early works.
Oh, a good book website worth checking out
http://www.bookmunch.co.uk
:)
Posted on Mon, 30 July 2007 at 16:55
#643
Taz94 (Tessa) wrote:
Just started in the Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde. I got it as a birtday present :). I really love his books, especially the Thursday Next series.
Posted on Tue, 31 July 2007 at 07:32
#644
Dennis wrote:
Terry Pratchett - The Last Continent
I was getting through the Discworld series quite quickly, but I started reading this when I was in Cuba, and I was so depressed at getting home I didn’t wanna pick it up again for a while.
So, I have just restarted it. Hopefully I can crack on and finish the series soon.
Posted on Tue, 31 July 2007 at 08:47
#645
Jess wrote:
Have you read the one he wrote with Neil Gaiman? After i read that I went onto American God’s which is excellent
Posted on Tue, 31 July 2007 at 09:26
#646
Dennis wrote:
I haven’t read that one, no..hadn’t even heard of it until now, I must admit!
Just googled it and it sounds good - I will be checking it out once I have polished off my wife’s pile of Discworld books, seeing as she has long-since read them all.
Posted on Tue, 31 July 2007 at 09:39
#647
Jess wrote:
All the Neil Gaiman stuff i’ve read is brill, he’s done a few books of short stories - there’s an alternate version of snow white which makes you think…he’s got a bit of that Roald Darl thing going on - his books were excellent
Posted on Tue, 31 July 2007 at 09:59
#648
Divers (Simon) wrote:
Jess wrote:
Have you read the one he wrote with Neil Gaiman? After i read that I went onto American God’s which is excellent
Is that Good Omens? I do like that book, nicely different to the stuff Pratchett. I’ve enjoyed all his books and look forward to his next one.
I’m currently making my way through all the Robert Rankin books.
Posted on Tue, 31 July 2007 at 23:23
#649
Misanthropologist (d) wrote:
Good Omens is cool.
‘Her mother christened her Anathema. Her mum didn’t know what it meant, but thought it sounded like a lovely name for a girl.’ :D
Posted on Wed, 1 August 2007 at 11:29
#650
interzone (Get your hands off of my woman mother fucker) wrote:
Posted on Wed, 1 August 2007 at 12:10
#651
Jess wrote:
Divers wrote:
Is that Good Omens? I do like that book, nicely different to the stuff Pratchett. I’ve enjoyed all his books and look forward to his next one.
I’m currently making my way through all the Robert Rankin books.
I started reading Fragile Things recently and had to give up half way after 3 nights with terrible nightmares - i don’t know what it is about the book it’s not particularly scary - i was the same after watching Donnie Darko
Posted on Wed, 1 August 2007 at 13:12
#652
Dennis wrote:
Misanthropologist wrote:
Good Omens is cool.
‘Her mother christened her Anathema. Her mum didn’t know what it meant, but thought it sounded like a lovely name for a girl.’ :D
I started Good Omens over the weekend. I am just under half way through it now - It’s definitely a book that has grabbed my imagination. Very dry, as all the best Pratchett books are.
Posted on Mon, 15 October 2007 at 08:58 in reply to an earlier post
#653
Misanthropologist (d) wrote:
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I’m reading The Maltese Falcon. It’s cool, and quite true to the film… ;)
And I recently finished Pale Fire, which was excellent.
Posted on Mon, 15 October 2007 at 11:03
#654
fatboy wrote:
I’m getting towards the end of Emma by Jane Austen. Just another five chapters and I’m done, though I’ll be reading bits of it in my A-Level class. I’m also reading selected poems of Ted Hughes for the course. No time for the books I want to read. There’s a cheap book shop in Swansea called Bookends and I’ve bought loads from there. Life of Pi for one quid fifty, why not. The poetry collection Staying Alive for two quid when its £11 in Waterstones? Oh I was having that alright. Coming to think about it, I’ve been more into cheap/second hand bookshops as of late, some good but overlooked stuff around.
Posted on Mon, 15 October 2007 at 15:31
#655
Dermot (The Derm) wrote:
I’m reading Resurrection Man by Eoin McNamee
Posted on Mon, 15 October 2007 at 15:46
#656
Dennis wrote:
Divers wrote:
Is that Good Omens? I do like that book, nicely different to the stuff Pratchett. I’ve enjoyed all his books and look forward to his next one.
I’m currently making my way through all the Robert Rankin books.
I have been told I would like the Rober Rankin ones… Is there a particular order to them, are they a series, of can you just pick them off at random to read?
Posted on Tue, 16 October 2007 at 08:04 in reply to an earlier post
#657
hoochalobster (Sarah) Super Moderator wrote:
For Robert Rankin you need to start with The Brentford Trilogy - The Antipope is the first one :)
Posted on Tue, 16 October 2007 at 08:15
#658
Dennis wrote:
Cheers. I was googling the names of the books this morning and just the titles had me intrigued. Deffo gonna raz through the last few Discworld books I have left to read and then start on the Rankin Roger ones, or whatever his name is.
Posted on Tue, 16 October 2007 at 08:19
#659
hoochalobster (Sarah) Super Moderator wrote:
Ok, can I advise you not to read about them on Wikipedia or owt - since there are some massive spoilers just in the little summaries :mad: < not angry enough.
The Brentford books:
The Antipope
The Brentford Triangle
East of Ealing
The Sprouts of Wrath
The Brentford Chainstore Massacre
There are 3 more in that series but I think they might also be connected to other books, best check with mum :s
Posted on Tue, 16 October 2007 at 08:50
#660
Dennis wrote:
I have literally looked at the titles on Play.com, so I think I will leave it that way until I read them - thanks for the warning!
Mind you, I have such a bad memory I’d have forgotten what the spoiler was by the time it mattered.
I usually find that unless I read a book really quickly I forget what happened at the start. On a slightly different note, It made watching Memento a right arse, I can tell you!
Posted on Tue, 16 October 2007 at 08:59
