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MS · Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Posts: 53 Location: South London

Over Xmas I read 'Spares' by Michael Marshall Smith and 'Survivor' by Chuck Palahniuk....Both very good.

gillworm · Joined: 14 Nov 2002 Posts: 529 Location: London

I read the Constant Gardener after seeing the film - I've been a fan of Le Carre for years but somehow missed that book. it's impressive that the film was so well written when you consider that it had to be condensed and simplified to fit into a couple of hours storytelling.

anyway, i found the book sad and moving as well as intriguing and at times very funny - he slips in sly jokes that are wickedly funny. so when i got to the end I turned to the front again and started reading it all over again! definitely one of his best novels in recent years, in my opinion.

makes me want to trawl through the libary and re-read everything i don't own.
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MS · Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Posts: 53 Location: South London

Also finished 'The Sacred Art of Stealing' & 'All Fun and Games Until Someone Loses and Eye' by Chrostopher Brookmyre Last month. Not very esoteric - but good fun to read.
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Guest · Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 16:26 Post subject:

Spares by Michael Marshall Smith is one of the most entertaining books Ive ever read, it flips between funny and horrifying amazingly and some of the ideas in it are mental, I especially like Rapt.

Did anyone see that film The Island with Ewan McGrogor, I didnt but it sounded like a complete rip off of spares, at least the cloning parts anyway

Danger Mouse · Joined: 06 Jan 2006 Posts: 5

Is it just me or is everything shit? - by those two people who wrote it, can't remember their names.
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Guest · Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 18:37 Post subject:

Guest · Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 18:41 Post subject:

Forgot to log-in. Last post was from me.

MS · Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Posts: 53 Location: South London

Actually it was me!
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John Mc · Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Posts: 1398

Moondust - a journalist interviews the main people involved with the Apollo missions to the moon in the late 60's/early 70's. Fascinating stuff, at one point 5% of America's GDP was being spent trying to get man to the moon, $25 billion in 1960's dollars which is still a fair bit of cash today.

John Mc · Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Posts: 1398

Blink by Malcolm Gladwell - about people forming opinions based on snap judgements. Like "The Tipping Point" I thought it was interesting and I love his writing style.

If you've got 5 minutes have a go at the "Race IAT" test on this website:

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/selectatest.jsp

And if you've got another 5 minutes (and 28 seconds) listen to "Til I Die" by The Beach Boys twice.

gillworm · Joined: 14 Nov 2002 Posts: 529 Location: London

I recently bought a secondhand copy of Little Drummer Girl by John le Carre. I'm a huge fan or his but I had been put off this book by the film which featured Diane Keaton. turns out it's a brilliant book, which meant that I fetched down all my other le Carres from the shelf and worked my way through them and I've made a list of the ones I don't have or haven't read and will be trawling through charity shops for nice copies. apart from the cost of new paperbacks I prefer the old covers, I even have a vintage film tie in version of the Spy Who Came In From the Cold with pics of Burton and Claire Bloom.
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Kris · Joined: 16 Sep 2002 Posts: 2550 Location: Sheffield

More Iain Banks greatness:

"Iain Banks' daring new novel opens in a loft apartment in the East End, in a former factory due to be knocked down in a few days. Ken Nott is a devoutly contrarian vaguely left wing radio shock-jock living in London. After a wedding breakfast people start dropping fruits from a balcony on to a deserted carpark ten storeys below, then they start dropping other things; an old TV that doesn't work, a blown loudspeaker, beanbags, other unwanted furniture . . . Then they get carried away and start dropping things that are still working, while wrecking the rest of the apartment. But mobile phones start ringing and they're told to turn on a TV, because a plane has just crashed into the World Trade Centre . . ."

Best book I've read for many a year.

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mrfiresky · Joined: 28 Dec 2004 Posts: 274 Location: surrey

im reading a book about Spike Milligan by hisd former manager. Very Good it is too.
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John Mc · Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Posts: 1398

Like baseball? Like statistics? Then you'll love Moneyball by Michael Lewis

It's about how a major league baseball team, the Oakland A's were able to compete with teams with millions more dollars than them by sacking all their scouts and using computers to predict who they should sign.

I like baseball, I am a geek and I really liked this book.

mixedcasesspaces · Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 14:14 Post subject:

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