adidasss

The book is awesome. Just fucking read it.

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Last.fm

The Batlord

Don't tell me what to do, libcuck!

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rostasi

A Farewell To Arms is a completely ‘armless read.

jwb

nah not really

He obviously sympathized more with the rebels but there are also passages in there that depict the brutality and sort of aimless mob violence that manifested on that side as well

Decent book... His best book is the sun also rises though.

jwb

a farewell to arms is also better imo... Much more bleak outlook on war. But Celine's Journey to the End of the Night is tops for that genre to me...

jwb

1. Who is/are your favourite author(s)?
Philip k dick, bukowski, Vonnegut, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Dostoyevsky

2. And your least favourite?
Don't read enough to have one

3. What is your preferred genre to read?
Don't read enough to have one

4. What is/are the best book(s) you ever read?*a scanner darkly, the brothers karamazov, cats cradle, black no more

5. And the worst?*
If I don't like a book I won't make it through much of it..

6. Who do you believe gets more credit than they should as an author?
Muhammad


7. What determines, generally, if you stop reading/lose interest in a book?
How intoxicated I am + how much the book sucks


8. Do you have a Kindle/reader and if not, do you ever intend to get one?

No, and maybe

9. How large (approximately) is your book collection (to the nearest hundred, say) to the nearest hundred? Let's go with one hundred lol

10. What is the best line you ever read in a book?

11. What is/are your favourite non-fiction book(s)? *

12. What book(s) have you never read, but would like to?*

* Keep it to a maximum of ten[/QUOTE]

SGR

rostasi

Where’s Trollheart with his rimshot when you need him...

Trollheart

Sorry I was in the can.

A Farewell to Kings is better...

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Lisnaholic

@Frownland: Good to see George Orwell on your list of favourites: he should've been on mine too. His two big novels, 1984 and Animal Farm both deserve their reputation, while the lesser known Coming Up For Air is perhaps my personal favourite.
Virginia Woolf has always been a struggle for me, though I did once make it to the end of The Waves. I enjoyed reading The Hours by Michael Cunningham more than V Woolf in the original. Insider detail: For a year or so, I worked in an office right next door to where the Woolf's lived and opened the Hogarth Press: Hogarth House, 34 Paradise Road, Richmond. In this photo, the key details are in blue: a small round plaque, right of main entrance, that tells you that the house is famous, and the street sign on the far right that looks like it's touching the lower window of our office building:



Between the 2 buildings: the entrance to a barely-visible footpath by which I arrived at work from the local railway station. (Hence the blue arrow.)

Thanks!
Yes, The Right Stuff is such a great insight into the early days of manned space flight. OH really liked it too.
Not by Tom Wolfe, but a book that gave me the same revelatory feeling of , "Aha! So that's how it all started" was Hackers by Steven Levy. Many of us know about Steve Jobs and co starting out in a garage, but Hackers takes you behind the scenes of the earlier, pioneering nerds on whose shoulders Jobs was standing.

Like a lot of Jasper Carrot, it's both funny and true.

A curiosity about the dark side of human nature, I see, TH. I bet the Jimmy Saville one is interesting. I've read a few books of real-life horror too, notably Myra Hindley by Jean Ritchie. Recommended!

TBH, I wouldn't use the word "lovely" for a A Moveable Feast. As I read it, I went from disappointed to bored to irritated. Sorry, adidasss - perhaps I should give it another go.

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