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the prophet - Kahlil Gibran

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls

It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.

And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then shall you begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

At the moment I'm reading Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and I just got done reading God's Debris.

The bones of the master by George Crane.

Inferno - Larry Niven and Jeremy Pournelle

It's essentially a rewrite of Dante's Inferno, with Benito Mussolini as Virgil and a science fiction writer as Dante. Superb book, especially how it links to the original inferno in ways such as those in administration in hell complaining of people knowing more about hell since Dante wrote his book.

Wachs Lyrical wrote:Paradise Lost - Milton

*looks up and down thread and comes to the conclusion that Dubstep producers really are more intelligent than the rest of the world lol*

Oh God... I feel for you man. What book are you on?







About to start "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," by Maya Angelou.

Wachs Lyrical wrote:Book X

Once you get into it it is actually quite funny at points.

Adam to Eve when they are arguing over whether or not she should go and work by herself:

"Nothing lovelier can be found in woman, than to study household good"

Or when Milton goes on a rant about how woman are only out to do men harm and you can't win against them or their parents lol.

Agreed actually - it can be quite funny, I had a chuckle at the same bit - but the long diatribes annoyed me like crazy - esp. coz I had to write essays on the book.
Book I (I think - it could have been Book II) has the classic example with the page and a half long description of the way Hell is, and how all the fallen angels are shackled to the hellfire.

Re-reading this

recommended to me by my very good friend ellen, its awesome so far, contains so much interesting history of new york (and of jamaica in one chapter) as well, so much so that music hasn't even been mentioned in it that much yet, there's so much information on the history of the bronx etc.

haven't got that far into it yet, but if the rest is as awesome as the first four chapters then its set to be an amazing read

Dr. Nikita Vizniak - Quick reference evidence-based physical assessment (3rd ed.)

Big things, trust. All about the twist in the appendix!

bassculture is a bloody dense read !

me lookin at the fotos in this:

Solid Geometry - Ian McEwan

Great collection of short stories, some are very disturbing...

I wrote a new book available from: http://stores.lulu.com/murtaghchris

can download for free, then buy it if you think it's worth it.

this is an edit of the letter I'm going to use to send to agents:

A collection of three morality tales, that attempt to capture the absurdities and tortures of the modern office experience, Liam Murrihy, a bitter, romantic young worker with few transferable skills and frustrated high ambitions, is trapped in three warped versions of everyday Birmingham.
In the first story, Liam fresh from graduating from university, and a brief spell as a squatter, goes to work for a bank. He finds that he's ill-suited to the work of a bank clerk and struggles to meet the stats targets expected of him, in desperation he turns to the morally dubious advice of a mysterious figure H. Harry Kuddy. The second story is a modern reworking of Dante's Inferno, Liam dies after a drunken fall down a bus staircase and spends the afterlife experiencing tortures shaped from his experiences of office life, he travels between these experiences on Birmingham's famous number eleven bus route. In the third story the office environment has been further industrialised with jobs reduced to mind numbing simplicity, to escape the tedium of their lives the workers turn to desperate measures, first to drugs and then to sinister new technology.

hope you like, I thought about putting up some kind of a sample piece of writing can do if people want, or a seperate topic saying I wrote a book, but I didn't want to take the piss. I'm not doing this to promote myself, the only way to make money from books it to get a good agent, and get published. I just thought some of you may be interested and may be good enough to give me some feedback.

Cheers

^absolutely fucking brilliant

Yeah I know, I'm really lame....

Very entertaining so far. Written by the same guy who does Y The Last Man and also writes for Lost.

Alty wrote:Reading a star wars book right now. But right now I seriously want to read George RR Martin's A Song of Fire and Ice which is probably the series of books I've enjoyed the most.

I also quite want to re-read Shantaram again even though I read it quite recently, but it's just so damn good.

gangsta! recommended to anyone and especially if you want something to read abroad