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Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 9:56 am
by LEQ
I just started the Liar by Stephen Fry.

Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 10:14 am
by Disco Nutter
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This guy has such a way of writing and he's coming up with stupidly great concepts!

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Awesome, really awesome book! Just finished it. I watched the movie again after reading the book to see what parts of it they used. And it proved to be not that much. But that is definitely something worth reading. Totally WORTH IT!

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First time listening to an audio book. Vonnegut is one heck of an author. But couldn't listen to last last 5-6 chapters, I don't know why, just didn't feel like it.

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If someone hasn't read Slautherhouse Five, then he is missing out on one of the best fuckin books ever! It's absolutely BRILLIANT!

I love reading, and I love buying books! If I enter a bookshop I'll definitely leave with at least one book.

Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 10:18 am
by onelouder
Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk.
ouch.

Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 10:45 am
by BLZDub
LEQ wrote:I just started the Liar by Stephen Fry.
He's a don.
I've just finished High Rise by J.G Ballard, which of course was genius like most things that Ballard has written.
Just started I'm Not Scared by Niccolo Ammaniti, which is also proving to be very good.

Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 5:22 pm
by funky stanton
Johnny Beat wrote: If someone hasn't read Slauthergouse Five, then he is missing out on one of the best fuckin books ever! It's absolutely BRILLIANT!

Sounds better in german, Slauther Haus fünf.


I just finished The Hacker Crackdown by Bruce Sterling. Aces.

Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 5:29 pm
by datura
Johnny Beat wrote:Image

First time listening to an audio book. Vonnegut is one heck of an author. But couldn't listen to last last 5-6 chapters, I don't know why, just didn't feel like it.
You miss out on Vonnegut's amazing drawings with the audiobooks.

Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 9:42 pm
by Disco Nutter
I had a look at them after listening to a couple of chapters :)

Prefer reading to listening though.

Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 10:42 pm
by tinkers
Have to say, my favourite Chuck Palahniuk novel is 'Lullaby'. I think I was a bit too young when I first read it. It affected me pretty deeply. He's an awesome story teller.

Anyone into Neil Gaiman? 'Stardust' was released recently as a film (which I didn't see) but it's not his best one, I don't think. Top of my list would have to be 'Neverwhere', probably the best book I've read in my adult life, closely followed by 'American Gods'.

Can anyone recommend any other authors like these two?

Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 12:32 pm
by ajantis_art
WORLD WAR Z

full on zombie apocalypse :P:

Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 11:30 pm
by rrob
finally finished cancer ward by solzhenitsyn. exhausting, book worthwhile read[/img]

Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 11:31 pm
by rrob
edit - but worthwhile :lol:

Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 11:25 am
by BLZDub
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Get to know.

Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 1:43 pm
by dexdur
wizards 1st rule

Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 3:39 am
by reason
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The first chapter made me laugh out loud more than I ever have through an entire book before, and the subsequent ones are turning out to be just as clever and entertaining.

I, Robot is indeed a great book, and far better than the movie which took about one chapter and added a whole bunch of crap with guns and fighting and explosions.

Tried to read Vonnegut once before and was too bored to finish, which is strange because I usually enjoy books that most others would find extremely boring, such as Wuthering Heights, and Pride and Prejudice both of which I read over the summer after finally finishing Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.

Next I'm diving into The Thomas Covenant trilogy recommended by a friend.

Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 3:05 pm
by danny bwoy
ajantis_art wrote:WORLD WAR Z

full on zombie apocalypse :P:
got this for christmas lol

pageturner!

Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 9:06 pm
by eventualdecline
Funky Stanton wrote:I just finished The Hacker Crackdown by Bruce Sterling. Aces.
Not sure if you've read this already but Underground is a similar type of book and it's great, I liked it better than Crackdown. It's published online by the author for anyone to read for free here: http://www.xs4all.nl/~suelette/undergro ... tents.html

I'm currently reading this:
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Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 4:31 am
by bandshell
heart of darkness- joseph conrad

love all the people - bill hicks

Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 9:39 pm
by j-sh
BLZDub wrote:Image

Get to know.
love this book, some seeriiouuss knowledge

Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 10:24 pm
by datura
Joe Sacco - Palestine

Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 8:55 am
by LEQ
I just got DBC Peirres follow up to Vernon God Little, Ludmila's Broken English and some more Palahniuk.