What are you reading at the moment?
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What are you reading at the moment?
Just finished a biography of Bill Hicks 'American Scream' by Cynthia True.
To paraphrase the man himself
Why is Bill Hicks dead and not Noel Edmonds?
Just about to start Nostradamus's Prophesies to see if he got it right this time about the next bishop of Rome
To paraphrase the man himself
Why is Bill Hicks dead and not Noel Edmonds?
Just about to start Nostradamus's Prophesies to see if he got it right this time about the next bishop of Rome
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I just finished Cooper's The Last Of The Mohicans earlier today. Fantastic book!!! It's miles away from the movie & WAY better. I highly recommend it if you have any interest in that period of history or the peoples who were here before the 'Americans'.
I found it a bit of a hard read in spots though because of some of the language used since it was written in 1826, but it was well worth the effort.
I found it a bit of a hard read in spots though because of some of the language used since it was written in 1826, but it was well worth the effort.
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Last week I read Blankets by Craig Thompson (graphic novel, I really enjoyed it) and Amanda Bright @ Home by Danielle Crittenden (meh, not really worth it).
Up next:
The Promise of Happiness - Justin Cartwright (novel)
Paul has a Summer Job - Michel Rabagliati (graphic novel)
Field Study - Rachel Seiffert (short stories)
Good-bye, Chunky Rice - Craig Thompson (graphic novel)
It's a good thing I work in a public library... free access to books!
Up next:
The Promise of Happiness - Justin Cartwright (novel)
Paul has a Summer Job - Michel Rabagliati (graphic novel)
Field Study - Rachel Seiffert (short stories)
Good-bye, Chunky Rice - Craig Thompson (graphic novel)
It's a good thing I work in a public library... free access to books!
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i'm reading this now:
in dutch this time
altho i read a lot of books in english too.
anyway, can't really tell you anything about it yet, as i just started.. it's supposed to be a great book
in dutch this time
altho i read a lot of books in english too.
anyway, can't really tell you anything about it yet, as i just started.. it's supposed to be a great book
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I'm currently reading Michel de Montaigne's 'Essays'. He's a 16th Century French aristocrat who wrote loads of rambling stuff down about anything and everything – his life, his philosophical beliefs, cannibals, people not wearing trousers, bits of food getting stuck in his moustache... everything. The word "essay" is actually derived from him writing these pieces.
He's great. Very witty, very incisive, and very progressive thinking for the 16th Century.
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I'm currently reading Michel de Montaigne's 'Essays'. He's a 16th Century French aristocrat who wrote loads of rambling stuff down about anything and everything – his life, his philosophical beliefs, cannibals, people not wearing trousers, bits of food getting stuck in his moustache... everything. The word "essay" is actually derived from him writing these pieces.
He's great. Very witty, very incisive, and very progressive thinking for the 16th Century.
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I am still reading Salam Pax - Baghdad Blog. Good job it's short diary entries so I can just dip in & out as I never seem to get the time to properly read these days
Anyway, bloody good book, it's by a young Iraqi who just started doing a web log of his life up to and around the invasion of Iraq. His posts are thoughtful & intelligent, yet he is like any regular young guy into music and going out but with this huge thing looming in his life, that obviously ends up changing things.
Recommended.
Anyway, bloody good book, it's by a young Iraqi who just started doing a web log of his life up to and around the invasion of Iraq. His posts are thoughtful & intelligent, yet he is like any regular young guy into music and going out but with this huge thing looming in his life, that obviously ends up changing things.
Recommended.
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Cool. I have the One Dot Zero DVD with this on it.Dollydagger wrote:I am still reading Salam Pax - Baghdad Blog. Good job it's short diary entries so I can just dip in & out as I never seem to get the time to properly read these days
"punchy, hard-hitting and direct, graphic web promo for salam pax’s book of his blog [media-savvy iraqi net-addict started a web log and accidentally became the world's most famous web-diarist]. intro more than pack a graphic punch to match the emotional and loaded charge of pax’s missives. commissioned by screenbase for canongate books with music from salam's idol, warps very own aphex twin"
Nice DVD by the way
http://www.onedotzero.com/track.php?id=57&dvd=4
I have just finished reading "Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix" again
Just about at the right intellectual level for me!
Gonna start on the "The Da Vinci Code" straight after tho
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Oh that would be why she wants me to bring over magazines later on in the week then!
She's asked the right person!
However, my magazine reading has taken a back bench at the moment as I have just finished 2 Dan Brown books, one being Demons and Angels which scarily is about a election of a new Pope.
I read quickly so I've always got a stash of books on the go.
She's asked the right person!
However, my magazine reading has taken a back bench at the moment as I have just finished 2 Dan Brown books, one being Demons and Angels which scarily is about a election of a new Pope.
I read quickly so I've always got a stash of books on the go.
The Diamond Age is probably my second favourite* book ever! Such a clever and imaginative plot, and back when it came out 10 years ago seemed pretty far in the future but technology is moving on! (same thing as with Snow Crash I suppose...).Just finished 'Snow Crash' by Neal Stephenson (for the umpteenth time) and am about to start 'The Diamond Age' by the same author
Now reading : not a lot, I'm in a magazine phase...got no decent books to read at the moment. Though I've got a load of Ken MacLeod books that my mate Del swears are brilliant so I might get stuck into those.
Rich
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I started reading 'The Diamond Age' when it was published, but for some reason I gave up. I love Neal Stephenson's style and he's very similar (but not as good) to William Gibson, who will always be my favourite author.
"Gimme the sight to see
another world outside that's full of
all the broken things that I made"
another world outside that's full of
all the broken things that I made"
I'm reading A Clash of Kings, book two in the A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin, again.
Amazingly fantastic series, recommended to anyone who enjoys fantasy.
Amazingly fantastic series, recommended to anyone who enjoys fantasy.
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