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Re: What are you reading?

#21 Post by jptm » Fri Feb 24, 2012 6:12 pm

I just finished the Jobs bio & Micheal Connelly's 'The Drop' *big Bosch fan*... am now reading Stephen King's 'Lisey's Story'.

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Re: What are you reading?

#22 Post by perkana » Sat Feb 25, 2012 1:08 pm

I'm reading E.M. Forster's Howards End.

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#23 Post by Japhy » Sat Feb 25, 2012 1:44 pm

I'm currently working my way through the Jasper Fforde catalogue. I was loaned Shades of Grey and then discovered the rest from there - i'm currently on book 5 of the Thursday Next series. They're utterly bonkers and hilarious.

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#24 Post by Artemis » Sat Feb 25, 2012 2:22 pm

Just started this:

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Winner of the 2011
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Finalist for the Man Booker Prize

Finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize

Finalist for the Governor General's
Literary Award for Fiction

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Berlin, 1939. A young, brilliant trumpet-player, Hieronymus, is arrested in a Paris cafe. The star musician was never heard from again. He was twenty years old. He was a German citizen. And he was black.

Fifty years later, Sidney Griffiths, the only witness that day, still refuses to speak of what he saw. When Chip Jones, his friend and fellow band member, comes to visit, recounting the discovery of a strange letter, Sid begins a slow journey towards redemption.

From the smoky bars of pre-war Berlin to the salons of Paris, Sid leads the reader through a fascinating, little-known world, and into the heart of his own guilty conscience.

Half-Blood Blues is an electric, heart-breaking story about music, race, love and loyalty, and the sacrifices we ask of ourselves, and demand of others, in the name of art.

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Re: What are you reading?

#25 Post by blackula » Sat Feb 25, 2012 9:11 pm

i recently read duff's book now i'm reading the 4th update of chomsky's 9-11 book, mainly interviews with noam that bring us to the bin laden killing.

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Re: What are you reading?

#26 Post by Warped » Sun Feb 26, 2012 6:38 am

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Of course in german, it is called "Der Mandant". Amazing, detailed, very exciting :thumb:
Sometimes i read books in english just to train my language skills but it is very exhausting especially when laying in bed. :lol:

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Re: What are you reading?

#27 Post by SR » Sun Feb 26, 2012 10:30 am

Saussure and Jakobson

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Re: What are you reading?

#28 Post by Pure Method » Mon Mar 05, 2012 12:48 pm

Japhy wrote:
ant wrote:I'm reading "And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks" by Kerouac/Burroughs. Each writer swapped chapters and also tells the story from a different character's perspective. It's sort of a beat mystery/noir story. I like both writers so I'm finding it to be pretty good and it's a quick read.
I am a HUGE Kerouac fan so i'm maybe a little biased, but i absolutely love this book... and yeah, i also liked it because it is such a quick and easy read.

I'm currently reading Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde. Very clever theme (your social status is defined by the colours that you can see) and it's also very amusing which was a surprise.

so good. so fucking good. bringing it with me on vacation to reread. :wave:

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#29 Post by Japhy » Mon Mar 05, 2012 4:00 pm

Pure Method wrote:
Japhy wrote:
ant wrote:I'm reading "And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks" by Kerouac/Burroughs. Each writer swapped chapters and also tells the story from a different character's perspective. It's sort of a beat mystery/noir story. I like both writers so I'm finding it to be pretty good and it's a quick read.
I am a HUGE Kerouac fan so i'm maybe a little biased, but i absolutely love this book... and yeah, i also liked it because it is such a quick and easy read.

I'm currently reading Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde. Very clever theme (your social status is defined by the colours that you can see) and it's also very amusing which was a surprise.

so good. so fucking good. bringing it with me on vacation to reread. :wave:
Which one man... Hippos? Awesome read. Both of them actually so good choice either way!

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Re: What are you reading?

#30 Post by blackcoffee » Mon Mar 05, 2012 6:04 pm

Another Bullshit Night in Suck City...a memoir about an absent ex con father and the son who meets up with him while working at a homeless shelter. Was made into a film recently.

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Re: What are you reading?

#31 Post by farrellgirl99 » Mon Mar 05, 2012 8:31 pm

Just finished the Hunger Games trilogy. It had it's moments, overall not great.

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Re: What are you reading?

#32 Post by SR » Tue Mar 06, 2012 11:50 am

E.M. Forster A Passage to India

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Re: What are you reading?

#33 Post by thoreau » Wed Mar 07, 2012 7:56 pm

Currently reading Tony Bourdain's Medium Raw.

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#34 Post by Matz » Thu Mar 08, 2012 8:16 am

thoreau wrote:Currently reading Tony Bourdain's Medium Raw.
he's a really cool guy. used to love watching his travels to India and such. He got high on hash cookies in one episode in a desert.

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Re: What are you reading?

#35 Post by ragdoll » Mon Mar 12, 2012 5:39 am

Susan Cain "Quiet"-The Power Of Introverts In A World That Can't Stop Talking

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Re: What are you reading?

#36 Post by nausearockpig » Thu Mar 15, 2012 3:32 am

I just finished It's So Easy by Duff McKagan. Now reading Star Wars Darth Plagueis. Somewhat lowbrow compared to everyone else's reading matter. Oh well.

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Re: What are you reading?

#37 Post by Hokahey » Thu Mar 15, 2012 7:42 am

Absolutely incredible book.

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Even if you have zero interest in running it's still a great read.

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Re: What are you reading?

#38 Post by Matov » Thu Mar 15, 2012 1:13 pm

i was just given this one for my birthday
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anybody here read it? i know its not exactly a novelty, but i usually like to get some reviews before getting into a book

so, thanks in advance!

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Re: What are you reading?

#39 Post by Matz » Thu Mar 15, 2012 1:58 pm

Matov wrote:i was just given this one for my birthday
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anybody here read it? i know its not exactly a novelty, but i usually like to get some reviews before getting into a book

so, thanks in advance!
here's what the folks at amazon have to say about it

http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews ... DWL6I6BVXY

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Re: What are you reading?

#40 Post by Matov » Thu Mar 15, 2012 2:11 pm

Matz wrote: here's what the folks at amazon have to say about it

http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews ... DWL6I6BVXY
thanks matz! i was actually more interested in reading about what you guys (if anyone had read it) had to say about it, since even though you´re almost as random as the guys who post reviews at amazon, i can relate your reviews to the way you feel about other topics, such as music, politics, etc.

It still wouldn´t change the way i feel about the book, but its a more complete way of knowing what to expect from it.

not sure that made any sense at all :bday:

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Re: What are you reading?

#41 Post by Larry B. » Thu Mar 15, 2012 4:06 pm

Matov wrote:i was just given this one for my birthday
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anybody here read it? i know its not exactly a novelty, but i usually like to get some reviews before getting into a book

so, thanks in advance!
Feliz cumpleaños, man!! :bday: :bday: :bday:

Veinticuántos?

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Re: What are you reading?

#42 Post by Matov » Thu Mar 15, 2012 7:32 pm

Larry B. wrote:Feliz cumpleaños, man!! :bday: :bday: :bday:

Veinticuántos?
Thanks Larry! it's veintiocho for me :banana:

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Re: What are you reading?

#43 Post by Larry B. » Fri Mar 16, 2012 1:26 am

Matov wrote:
Larry B. wrote:Feliz cumpleaños, man!! :bday: :bday: :bday:

Veinticuántos?
Thanks Larry! it's veintiocho for me :banana:
Hahaha, sos una semana mayor que yo!

:gayfight: :bday: :bday:

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Re: What are you reading?

#44 Post by Artemis » Sat Mar 17, 2012 8:07 pm

Matov wrote:i was just given this one for my birthday
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anybody here read it? i know its not exactly a novelty, but i usually like to get some reviews before getting into a book

so, thanks in advance!

hello and happy belated birthday!

i didn't read that book but i am familiar with some of Hanif Kureishi's work.

i saw the films my beautiful laundrette and sammy and rosie get laid. he wrote the screenplays for both of them. i also read a more recent book called something to tell you.

rom the films and the book i read, he writes about the experiences of immigrants and the children of immigrants growing up in london. he writes about racism, identity(sexual and individual), cross-cultural variation, social commentary.
i think he is a good writer. very smart and witty.

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#45 Post by Matov » Mon Mar 19, 2012 5:57 am

Artemis wrote: hello and happy belated birthday!

i didn't read that book but i am familiar with some of Hanif Kureishi's work.

i saw the films my beautiful laundrette and sammy and rosie get laid. he wrote the screenplays for both of them. i also read a more recent book called something to tell you.

rom the films and the book i read, he writes about the experiences of immigrants and the children of immigrants growing up in london. he writes about racism, identity(sexual and individual), cross-cultural variation, social commentary.
i think he is a good writer. very smart and witty.
Thank you Artemis!
Yeah the same guy who gave me the book reccomended the films... your definition of the themes he explores is spot on, i'm finding the book to be entertaining. its funny how every other page, he'll name drop a rock album from the 70s, which is where he set the story. Its not always fundamental to the story he's telling, but it helps to engage with the main character. He'll tell how the main character gives a handjob to one of his classmates then licks the semen off his hand, while listening to Umagumma by Pink Floyd. They could've been listening to any music, or none at all and the story would be the same. But i do like Pink Floyd more than licking someone else's semen from my dirty hand, so i sympathised a bit more. so far, so good :wiggle:

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