bukes

[Bambi]

y'know.. the things with pages and words and the like..anyone read them? read anything lately? i used to read bukes years back mostly read technical manuals these days

 

[Allan]

all the time

 

[Bambi]

examples being?

there may be questions to ensure youve read said bukes

 

[Allan]

Last good week I've read Jack Kerouac's On the road and Dharma Bums and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Even enjoyed all of them

Plus some bits in history books I won't bore you with. All for that university thing I claim to be attending.

 

[Bambi]

i like history bukes but, full of wars and sly bastards

tried reading frankenstein when i was a kid but gave up on it. some of the victorian penny dreadful stuff is quite fun, varney the vampire etc

 

[Allan]

The history books I'm told to read are all busy nuancing things, makes it all so complicated, annoying really.

 

[discouraged1]

have read nick hornbys latest, the long way down.
commercial, but ok.

 

[siderea]

lately i'm reading the sandman comics and i finished stardust from neil gaiman the other day (fairy tale kind of, bad dutch translation i think), i'll start this biography from anais nin tomorrow, am still reading paranoia, fifties book from a belgian writer named w.f. hermans and the suffering of the young werther or however that's called in english. from goethe that one.

i'm still looking for funny books though... advice?

 

[Strangelight]

The Camino: A Journey Of The Spirit
Started off good, it's getting a bit odd now.

 

[Mick Moss]

Im reading my kids Harry Potter book coz she begged me to. Its actually dead good. Im reading it tho on the condition that she reads James Herbert. ho ho ho

 

[bleed_black_orchid]

Im reading Robert Rankin the four chocolate bunnies of the apocalypse..Im upto the last chapter at the moment. I bought it in London because of the title n the fact it was bright yellow but its been a pretty good read.

Its about a human who goes to a city inhabited by toys.. toys who are prossys, drink, have different religions etc. Quite weird. Funny though.

 

[Bambi]

Sounds like a current 93 album

or was that the four noddies of the apocalypse?

 

[bleed_black_orchid]

oh and you should definately read Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk (I have no idea if I have spelt that correctly.)

 

[Don Corleone]

lately i'm reading the sandman comics

simply amazing, isnt it? big fan here. have the originals (in english) of books no. 1,2,4,5,8,9. im waiting for the rest to be delivered to the bookstore.

as for what im reading currently:

daniel pinchbeck - "breaking open the head: a psychedelic journey into the heart of contemporary shamanism"

those of you who are into psychedelics HAVE TO read this. this is the greatest thing after huxley's "doors of perception." much more profound even maybe

and i've got a few turkish novels and douglas adams waiting for me next. =)

 

[Bambi]

douglas adams is good for a giggle, and p.g wodehouse is too, so try them sid

 

[Brynjar]

douglas adams is good for a giggle, and p.g wodehouse is too, so try them sid

was about to mention the hitchhiker's guide to the galexy. laughed myself to bits reading that. a bit long for reading in one go, so taking breaks and reading something else inbetween the books is alright I woul think.

readin some sci-fi novel by peter hamilton right now. or trying to. I've started, just to give up, on the last three books I've aquired (snorre, don quijote (spelling?), and that hamilton book), so I guess I'm not in the reading mood at the moment.

 

[siderea]

simply amazing, isnt it? big fan here. have the originals (in english) of books no. 1,2,4,5,8,9. im waiting for the rest to be delivered to the bookstore.

yeah i'm pissed of today because the person who's still having nr. 3 from the library was supposed to bring it back today but didnt

i like it yeah, a friend of mine was talking a lot lot about them some years ago,i thought they'd be ununderstandable, but that's not the case at all... cant wait to continue...

thanks for the tips, havent read of adams yet, though i've seen some episodes of hitchhikers once...

 

[discouraged1]

aye adams definitely comes next on my checkout list

 

[Don Corleone]

and i heard they've shot the movie for the hitchhiker's guide eh? coming this summer, is that true?

 

[zupi_clone]

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