Books

[Su Jacko]

I work in a book shop..even so tell me what you've read that you really enjoyed.

I really, REALLY enjoyed Northern Lights by Philip Pullman.

 

[Susie]

Secret seven, by Enid blyton

 

[zupi_clone]

ladybird series - all

 

[Lenore]

I really, REALLY enjoyed Northern Lights by Philip Pullman.

What is it about? I think someone referred to it already in a forum i visit (or was it you?) so it makes me quite curious ..

 

[bleed_black_orchid]

Porno by Irvine Welsh..until I got bladdered last night and left my bag with all my most precious possessions in it.

 

[bondcfh007]

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

 

[Allan]

Zoe Wicomb- David's Story (though it's a damn hard read, I got to like it. Change of perspective pretty much every page with absolutely no clarification)

Amitav Ghosh- The Calcutta Chromosome (Very entertaining, though I got in trouble for stating I didn't think it had much political importance in regards to the whole post-colonial thing)

Brian Friel- Translations (well it's a play. One for the Irish folks)

Patricia Grace- Baby No-eyes (Odd, but good)

Rudy Wiebe- A Discovery Of Strangers (extremely bleak though)

Right now I'm reading F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Tender Is The Night".

 

[sol83]

mostly greek stuff this period. poetry and prose.

 

[french_anatheman]

C Mac Cann - Dancer

 

[best]

hmm...

ham on rye by charles bukowski
notes from underground dostoyevsky
ask the dust john fante
journey to the end of the night louis ferdinand celine
the case of charles dexterward hp lovecraft

 

[StevenK]

all terry pratchet

secret seven was that the one with Frederick Algernon Trotville ( FAT ) guy in it?

 

[Dhatura]

Brian Friel - Translations

That's an amazing play, I taught it so I had to read it and, fuck, there aren't too many books that make me laugh and cry at the same time, and I was on the tram it was embarrassing too but really good as well.

 

[Alwin]

Dave Eggers - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

 

[zupi_clone]

yis boring bastads!

 

[Alwin]

yis boring bastads!

go dig a hole epsilon

 

[zupi_clone]

is that a drug name? or u just made it up?

 

[Alwin]

is that a drug name? or u just made it up?

if you had read "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley you would have understood...

 

[zupi_clone]

ah yea the blue pills, i knew it was made up

 

[Dhatura]

if you had read "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley you would have understood...

I read it but I didn't understand either You have to remember too.

 

[Alwin]

in that book people are genetically manufactured in 5 types: alpha,..., epsilon

alphas are the most intelligent and have leading roles in society
epsilons are the least intelligent and do construction work

get it now?