BOOKS!

[mehrfarbig]

I'm reading Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell...it is better than I expected...so it has made the reading list easier if the first book I read is good.

[Goblin King]

There's that really long chapter on the Nature of Oligarchies or something, only champions and skim readings succeed in breaking that barrier.

I collected Oriental Adventures AD&D book from the PO depot today. At last, the collection from my childhood/teens is now restored! (no beeny crocodile jokes please )

[mehrfarbig]

I did miss out the writing on the book. As it was boring, haha, I've now finished it though and can tick it off the list. ;D

[Goblin King]

Very wise. I wonder if Orwell really wrote 1984 as "filler" around that chapter. INGSOC forever!

[mehrfarbig]

I've just been to library and picked up the books...they both sound quite good.

American Psycho: Patrick Batemen is 26 and works on Wall Street; he is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. Taking us to a head-on collison with America's greatest dream - and its worst nightmare - American Psycho is a bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognise but do not wish to confront.

An Artist of the Floating World: It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamities of WW2, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated painter, Masuji Ono, fills his days attending to his garden, his house repairs, his two grown daughters and his grandson; his evenings drinking with old associates in quiet lantern-lit bars. His should be a tranquil retirement. But as his memories continually return to the past - to a life and career deeply touched by the rise of Japanese militarism - a dark shadow begins to grow over his serenity.

[Goblin King]

I really enjoyed the first few chapters of American Psycho - found it really funny -possibly because of the many naff 80's pop-culture references which Batemen is so superior about. There was such a fuss when it came out. I think it was therapy for the author, who probably had a cocky friend who was a banker. I must get back into it sometime.

[mehrfarbig]

Well, first I've got to read my other 4 books...whenever I go to the library I always pick more books than I can read! LOL

I've got Happy Birthday, Glamour by Louise Bagshaw, Jonah by James Herbert and Devil Wears Prada...

I managed to walk out today with the two books I wanted only. An improvement! haha

[Thrin]

I got bored of American Psycho.

Am reading Jack Kerouac - On The Road. Meh.

I think I've lost my book reading mojo. It's been ages since I've properly gotten into a book.

[Goblin King]

Doesn't On the Road give you a sort of energy?
It's a good one to have in the bathroom because you can dip in randomly.

[Goblin King]

Aug 6, 2009 16:02:25 GMT mehrfarbig said:

Well, first I've got to read my other 4 books...whenever I go to the library I always pick more books than I can read! LOL

The problem with that is they end up feeling like homework - with a deadline! Most library book used to end up as fat coasters in my flat. It's too dangerous for me to borrow library books because they become absorbed by the Clutter Monster who lives in my flat.

[mehrfarbig]

Well I have a spesh section of shelf for them. ;D When I go to uni open day on 23rd I need to check out the village to find the library. lol

[Goblin King]

Hopefully the uni will have it's own library that you'll have exclusive access to.

[Goblin King]

I'm really enjoying AD&D Oriental Adventures rule book far too much. It's nearly 25 years old - I feel like a vintage nerd. *spod with glasses smiley*
Normally I don't spend long looking at a rule book unless it has lots of piccies (fortunately the new D&D books have lots of piccies)

[Thrin]

Aug 7, 2009 16:58:07 GMT Goblin King said:

Doesn't On the Road give you a sort of energy?
It's a good one to have in the bathroom because you can dip in randomly.

I'll keep that in mind

Not really, but then I haven't read that much of it yet.

[Goblin King]

It's a little slow in the first chapter, but then those crazy kids just rattle from one situation to the next.

I'm carrying Gormenghast around but the hero's school days are boring me a little. Also having trouble just sitting down and reading - unless it's some old role-playing game rulebook in bed, which must be my "comfort" reading material.(?)

[DAT500]

Uncle Pete's new anthology arrived last week - number 13 of 50! Arf.

[Darkness]

I'm reading Mouthing the Words, by Camilla Gibb.

[Goblin King]

Aug 25, 2009 11:07:58 GMT DAT500 said:

Uncle Pete's new anthology arrived last week - number 13 of 50! Arf.

I think that puts you on a special police list.

I should try getting back into the 2nd book from the Gormenghast series, I fear that I'm finding RPGs too stimulating last thing at night. (Oh dear that makes me sound like a sort of specialist pervert, as opposed to the normal pervert people think I am)

[DAT500]

^ Ah, come young soul and step into my web of pervery.

New Cave book arrived in a silly box. =]

[Count Überquart]

I have lots of exciting biology textbooks!
The biggest is the Biochemistry one which was written by a married couple and the cover is decorated with the same molemod/stick-and-ball molecular model tiled over and over again.
The Molecular Biology of the Cell book, however, is really pretty.

[mehrfarbig]

Around the World in 80's Day & Artist of a Floating World.

Cba to try and remember authers, I'm reading books off a 101 Books to Read Before You Die!

[mehrfarbig]

Finished Around the World and just finished Alice in Wonderland and Alice in the Looking Glass and what she finds there.

Now reading Glitz by Louise Bagshaw.

[Goblin King]

Do you like the Alice books?

I appear to be struggling with Gormenghast - I find the classroom scenes, unengaging, so to speak.

[Count Überquart]

Alicks bought me a copy of And Another Thing, the Douglas Adams book (part 6 of the trilogy) that he didn't finish before he died. Eoin Colfer has finished it, and was doing a book siging in Barnes & Noble in New York... I HAVE A SIGNED COPY!

I also went to the Oxfam bookshop today and was very successful - I bought The Restaurant at the end of the Universe, Life, the Universe, and Everything, and Subtle Knife. ;D
(There's a theme.)

[Goblin King]

Signed, eh? Ace!
I think I got to the fourth book in Hitch-hikers. Funny stuff, very English. Chagrin, irony + pythonesque silliness and irreverent (I remind myself Adams was writing before Pratchett really took off) - they may have dated a little. I think Thrin is a bit of a 'hikers expert.
I must try to finish reading Subtle Knife - only problem is that I'm returning it to the owner on Tuesday...

[Count Überquart]

You can do it!
I've read Northern Lights umpteen times. I've only read Subtle Knife once, but I remember liking it. I never finished The Amber Spyglass.
I only quite recently discovered Hitch-hikers. I was stuck for something to read and found Restaurant at the end of the Universe on my brother's bookcase. LOVED IT! Our copy of Hitch-hiker's guide has lost its first three chapters and I have never found a second-hand copy to replace it.

I read a different Douglas Adams book before I got these - The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul. It's not as WEIRD as the Hitch-hikers but it's still pretty odd...

[Darkness]

Does the Christmas issue of the Radio Times count as a book? It should do, it's big enough, lol.

[Goblin King]

Darkness and I, without knowing or requesting, bought each other the Simon's Cat book.

[Thrin]

Nov 1, 2009 18:17:43 GMT Goblin King said:

Signed, eh? Ace!
I think I got to the fourth book in Hitch-hikers. Funny stuff, very English. Chagrin, irony + pythonesque silliness and irreverent (I remind myself Adams was writing before Pratchett really took off) - they may have dated a little. I think Thrin is a bit of a 'hikers expert.
I must try to finish reading Subtle Knife - only problem is that I'm returning it to the owner on Tuesday...

I have all the radio shows of all the books on my ipod now, so I don't even have to bother picking up a book to get a hitchhikers fix I may be able to quote the first one from start to finish now...

[Darkness]

I've just started reading Tickling the English by Dara O'Briain. It was one of my birthday pressies.