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PostPosted: Mon May 10, 2004 12:34    Post subject: Safe As Book Reply with quote

John's post made me want to start a book thread. Not favourite books, just the book you are currently reading and your thoughts etc.

You shall Know Our Velocity - Dave Eggers

Loved his first one, this one has started promisingly. His descriptive sentences are singularly vivid. Hope it's as funny as 'A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius'.

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PostPosted: Mon May 10, 2004 13:13    Post subject: Reply with quote

Although i'm supposed to be studying now, i find i'm always peeking at some irrelevant book or another. Totally excellent is Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Tool. I bet you've already read it martin!! Its so funny it made me snort orange juice out me nose at one point.
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PostPosted: Mon May 10, 2004 13:13    Post subject: Reply with quote

'Firewall' By Andy Mcnab.

Fluff with lots of violence.

Sorry to lower the tone so soon into this thread!!!!

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PostPosted: Mon May 10, 2004 13:13    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm currently reading the Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan. Top stuff, it's about a sixteen year old lad locked up in Liverpool in the 50's for being part of the IRA. It's funny shit.

As a recommendation can I say Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak. An important book by any standards and also very moving.

HWOFSTG (hip acronyms again) is brilliant and it's the honesty that gets me.
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PostPosted: Mon May 10, 2004 13:47    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow, my girlfriend asked me to recommend a book last night and I gave her 'Confederacy Of Dunces'. Top book, the character always reminded me of Arturo Bandini in Fante's 'Road to Los Angeles'. Full of wind and bluster.

'Borstal Boy' is fucking brilliant as his 'Teems of Times and Happy Returns' by his brother, Dominic. My grandfather was from Newry and lived there through the twenties before moving to New York during the depression. These books remind me of the stories he used to tell.



I've just finished reading Lisa Jardine's biography of Robert Hooke which was ace. He is almost unknown nowadays but was responsible, along with Christoper Wren, of rebuilding London after the great fire of 1666. He built Monument and also designed and built the Bethlehem Hospital (Bedlam). His 1665 book, Micrographia, which he wrote and drew, is incredible and one of the most psychedelic books I've seen. He was a pioneer of microscopy and the drawings in Micrographia are of insects, plants etc seen through his microscope. He was safe as fuck and I can't wait to meet him when I die and we'll both go round to Isaac Newton's cloud and give him a kick in the bollocks.






I think I'm getting into architecture.

Help.

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PostPosted: Mon May 10, 2004 14:15    Post subject: Reply with quote

There'[s a shitload of money in Architecture Wink Just four years training and you could have a nice way of funding ya records Wink
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PostPosted: Mon May 10, 2004 14:27    Post subject: Reply with quote

ok, where do i sign? x
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PostPosted: Mon May 10, 2004 14:41    Post subject: Reply with quote

Before you put scrap your new album and head down to B&Q to buy a spirit level, remember the lyrics to The Hexx by Pavement:

"Architecture students are like virgins
with an itch they cannot scratch
Never build a building till you're 50
what kind of life is that?"

Base your life around the lyrics of Stephen Malkmus and you won't go far wrong.
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PostPosted: Mon May 10, 2004 15:16    Post subject: Reply with quote

but i don't like oysters. x
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PostPosted: Mon May 10, 2004 21:21    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm reading the Dalai Lama book, I don't know the English title but it's written by an American psychologist about his talks with the Dalai. It's interesting. L&P
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PostPosted: Mon May 10, 2004 23:54    Post subject: Reply with quote

My Side by David Beckham is a classic.
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PostPosted: Tue May 11, 2004 08:48    Post subject: Reply with quote

BC, what can I say? you've got great taste!

I laughed out loud twice reading Borstal Boy last night, that never happens.
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PostPosted: Wed May 12, 2004 13:15    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just started reading "Revolution" which is about The White Album and is written by David Quantick. Hopefully it will be like "Revolution In The Head" but with a few jokes thrown in. David Quantick is a very funny man.
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PostPosted: Wed May 12, 2004 13:50    Post subject: Reply with quote

It is a good book and he is a very funny man. x
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PostPosted: Wed May 12, 2004 16:22    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've read that White album book too, It's not bad and it only cost me a couple of quid as well. I'm currently reading Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood. It's a portrayal of pre war Berlin - pretty good so far but I'm only one chapter in.
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