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What Are You Reading? Part Deux. (pg. 23)
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| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sand Leaper
Currently busy with this...
...which through pitch black humour and total grimness effectively eradicates all belief you previously might have had in humanity. |
I just finished The Marabou Stork Nightmares, actually. A pretty grim novel, although very interesting in narrative and graphological respects. It was quite disturbing because I read the whole thing in a couple of days, and by the end I'd spent so much time in the protagonist's head it became difficult to think in my own voice again, and Roy Strang isn't a pleasant guy to share a psyche with. |
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| Sand Leaper |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
I just finished The Marabou Stork Nightmares, actually. A pretty grim novel, although very interesting in narrative and graphological respects. It was quite disturbing because I read the whole thing in a couple of days, and by the end I'd spent so much time in the protagonist's head it became difficult to think in my own voice again, and Roy Strang isn't a pleasant guy to share a psyche with. |
Has Welsh ever written ANYTHING where England and Scotland do not emerge as spawning pools of everything that is ugly about humans? Don't get me wrong, he does it incredibly well, but his descriptions and scenarios still end up worrying me quite a bit. |
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| boris_the_bear |
| trying to read a little book on the basics of architectural styles. the reading is moving along very slowly (like 3-5 pages per week) because I'm lazy and prefer to watch a movie or go out with a friend rather than read a book in the evening:confused: I'm doomed:( |
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| inconspicuous |
Crestron DM-MD8X8/16X16 DigitalMedia Switchers Operations Guide
enthralling. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sand Leaper
Has Welsh ever written ANYTHING where England and Scotland do not emerge as spawning pools of everything that is ugly about humans? Don't get me wrong, he does it incredibly well, but his descriptions and scenarios still end up worrying me quite a bit. |
I've heard his recent work is concerned with the upper-middle class, in the same way bands sing about being famous when they've made it. I haven't read any of his newer books, though. |
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| Haak |
Just finished these:
     
Onto the rest tomorrow. |
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| Silky Johnson |
| I still haven't finished 'A Man in Full', but I also started reading Wilkie Collins' 'The Woman in White'. I saw it at my work ages ago, but only decided to read it recently because a comic strip in the paper has one of the character's reading it. So I took it as a sign. |
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| Lebezniatnikov |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov
This was recommended in an earlier book thread, and I've had it on my bookshelf for a few months now and am only just getting around to reading it. And it's absolutely fantastic - definitely met the high expectations set by whoever posted it before. The prose is fairly simple, but very rich.
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Got through 400 pages yesterday... only 400 more to go...
God, I love having a deck. I have a feeling I'm going to be so much more productive now. |
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| trancechan |
finished this recently:
now reading:
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| RapidFire |
just read animal farm by orwell. nice short little satire on communist russia.
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