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Blarobbarg 06-21-2012 07:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Exoskeletal (Post 1202070)
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Wonderful book so far by one of my absolute favorite people on Earth.

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Originally Posted by FRED HALE SR. (Post 1202085)
I've been meaning to buy that. Bourdain is my kind of pompous New Yorker. I love his show, its always a great treat.

No Reservantions is one of the few shows that I truly love to watch. Bourdain is such a snarky *******, it's hard not to enjoy watching him.

I've been meaning to read the book as well. I'll get around to it one of these days.

LoathsomePete 06-21-2012 07:11 PM

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Originally Posted by James (Post 1202043)
I live in Scotland so it might be different in other countries. For Higher English, they can teach Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth I am sure. For Higher Drama they do Twelfth Night sometimes. For Advanced Higher English they do Othello, Antony and Cleopatra, The Tempest and A Winter's Tale - as well as the sonnets!

It's pretty similar to what I read while I was in high school in Canada and the US.

Arya Stark 06-22-2012 09:47 PM

Nobody answered my last comment, but it just got interesting.

Blarobbarg 06-23-2012 10:20 AM

http://www.bionic-reef.com/blog/wp-c...erewasnone.jpg

Picked it up at a some sort of used goods store for half a buck. Purple prose, imperialism, casual racism, oh my!

Paedantic Basterd 06-23-2012 10:50 AM

I just finished White Teeth, and for an author with a good sense of humour who writes so well, **** was it a dull read.

Frownland 06-23-2012 10:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon (Post 1202119)
We did Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet, MacBeth and The Taming of the Shrew.

Haha whoops, my bad, but we did read that one and I ended up listing it as a Shakespeare book when I meant it as an upperclassmen book as a whole. Foolish drunkenness pushes me to moronic musicbanter posts once again...

Arya Stark 06-24-2012 02:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Pedestrian (Post 1202551)
I just finished White Teeth, and for an author with a good sense of humour who writes so well, **** was it a dull read.

Damn, is that the one that you said was taking a long time to read on goodreads?
The cover looked so inviting.

RVCA 06-24-2012 02:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Blarobbarg (Post 1202540)
http://www.bionic-reef.com/blog/wp-c...erewasnone.jpg

Picked it up at a some sort of used goods store for half a buck. Purple prose, imperialism, casual racism, oh my!

I'm not one for murder mysteries but I really enjoyed this one. I suppose that's why it's touted as the best selling murder mystery of all time :p

Janszoon 06-24-2012 03:13 PM

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Originally Posted by RVCA (Post 1202912)
I'm not one for murder mysteries but I really enjoyed this one. I suppose that's why it's touted as the best selling murder mystery of all time :p

It is a good book. Too bad about the original title (and cover design) though:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Cover_1939.jpg

Blarobbarg 06-24-2012 03:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon (Post 1202917)
It is a good book. Too bad about the original title (and cover design) though:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Cover_1939.jpg

Like I said, casual racism. I've only just started it, but it already described someone as having "Semitic lips."

Oh, Agatha Christie, you racist you.

Paedantic Basterd 06-25-2012 01:07 AM

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Originally Posted by AwwSugar (Post 1202909)
Damn, is that the one that you said was taking a long time to read on goodreads?
The cover looked so inviting.

Yeah, I don't know if it was because it took me two months to read it or just what, but it was tough to get through.

RVCA 06-26-2012 03:18 PM

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More Dune! I aim to read Children of Dune as well but I don't plan on finishing out the series. If anyone has read all 6 books and wants to comment on whether or not it's worth it, feel free...

Flyingpig437 07-02-2012 02:33 PM

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Back on the Dick!

Janszoon 07-02-2012 02:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Flyingpig437 (Post 1205310)
Back on the Dick!

:laughing:

FETCHER. 07-03-2012 11:29 AM

My name is Kayleigh and I am an addict.

http://images.angusrobertson.com.au/...-books-1-4.jpg

Flyingpig437 07-03-2012 03:09 PM

A maze of death was like most Dick novels sort of promising but ultimately disapointing and thanks to the key plot point of some characters passing notes to a fish which then replies with cryptic messages just plain silly. I think I'm just going to have to say it. Dick is over-rated although I love his writing style and characters and some of the wacky things that happen I just find the plots unsatisfactory and often largely uneventful or rather not eventuful in a satisfying way. Still I'm going to read the ones I haven't read yet.

LoathsomePete 07-03-2012 03:11 PM

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Thus Spoke Zarathustra

This will be my third time reading this book and I'm hoping more of it will stick. That's the annoying thing with Nietzsche, he's so dense that it takes multiple readings and discussions to actually get what he's saying, or at least that's what I've found for myself personally.

bob. 07-03-2012 03:22 PM

you should take a shot every time you read the title :)

Rjinn 07-03-2012 03:38 PM

A short book about World War 1. Bit of a history buff.

Dr.Seussicide 07-05-2012 02:41 PM

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I am absolutely loving this book. I'd recommend this to anyone.

Next I'm gonna read:

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...VY0P_h9irZW8rR

Dr.Seussicide 07-05-2012 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by bob. (Post 1194397)
^such a fun book.....let me know what you think :)

i concur with Invisible Monsters and Diary :).....i need to read his latest about the little girl in hell

Oh I really liked it. His writing style actually makes you wonder if he really did used to hunt vampires. I found the second half of the book to drag a little bit though, but it wasn't bad. 3.5/5

TheBig3 07-05-2012 03:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Rjinnx (Post 1205600)
A short book about World War 1. Bit of a history buff.

I wasn't aware that they made such a thing.

Blarobbarg 07-06-2012 12:22 AM

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I really enjoyed The Lost World, I have high hopes for this.

FETCHER. 07-06-2012 08:43 AM

Literally everyone and their gran is reading a trilogy of books called 'Fifty shades' they're really dirty apparently.

http://media.salon.com/2012/04/fifty...eg-460x307.jpg

LoathsomePete 07-06-2012 08:43 AM

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Originally Posted by FETCHING. (Post 1206180)
Literally everyone and their gran is reading a trilogy of books called 'Fifty shades' they're really dirty apparently.

Buck the trend and read The Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille instead.

FETCHER. 07-06-2012 08:45 AM

I don't like books about love and **** anyway.

I'll take a note of that! What's it roughly like? :)

LoathsomePete 07-06-2012 08:58 AM

Two teenagers passionately in lust who leave a trail of corpses as they fuck their way across Europe.

FETCHER. 07-06-2012 08:59 AM

Wow, that's dark! I haven't read any books across those lines in a long while, although I have Myra Hindleys book which I'm dying to read. Totally forgot about it.

LoathsomePete 07-06-2012 09:04 AM

It's not quite as dark as Marqius de Sade's 120 Days of Sodom but it's pretty damn close.

FETCHER. 07-06-2012 09:19 AM

I haven't read that either, do you mean its not as dark as the Myra book or the Bataille book? I need to get a list together of really good 'fantasy' books too.

OOS 07-06-2012 10:00 AM

I'm not reading anything at the moment, but I do plan on going book-shopping soon, and hopefully i'll find something good. I'm in the mood for a really long, epic book at the moment. I'm thinking of trying Les Miserables, though I don't know if it still holds up.

WWWP 07-06-2012 11:10 AM

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Originally Posted by FETCHING. (Post 1206180)
Literally everyone and their gran is reading a trilogy of books called 'Fifty shades' they're really dirty apparently.

http://media.salon.com/2012/04/fifty...eg-460x307.jpg

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

bob. 07-06-2012 12:39 PM

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Originally Posted by FETCHING. (Post 1206192)
Wow, that's dark! I haven't read any books across those lines in a long while, although I have Myra Hindleys book which I'm dying to read. Totally forgot about it.

Myra Hindley wrote a book?!?

fiction? or an account of her crimes?

Sansa Stark 07-06-2012 07:39 PM

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Originally Posted by FETCHING. (Post 1206180)
Literally everyone and their gran is reading a trilogy of books called 'Fifty shades' they're really dirty apparently.

http://media.salon.com/2012/04/fifty...eg-460x307.jpg

They're really horrible and a bad portrayal of BDSM. I mean ffs the guy pulls out her tampon and just ****s her, wants complete control of her life, and while he's ****ing her while she's knocked up he tells her the fetus already likes sex


dude **** these books, read you some Lady Chatterley and leave this nonsense behind

Flyingpig437 07-08-2012 01:52 PM

Gues what? Yes! I'm reading a Philip K Dick novel. Eye in the sky this time.

FETCHER. 07-09-2012 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by bob. (Post 1206236)
Myra Hindley wrote a book?!?

fiction? or an account of her crimes?

No it's just a book about her, I've finished the first Game of Thrones and need to wait til the 20th (payday) to get the next

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Originally Posted by Hermione (Post 1206295)
They're really horrible and a bad portrayal of BDSM. I mean ffs the guy pulls out her tampon and just ****s her, wants complete control of her life, and while he's ****ing her while she's knocked up he tells her the fetus already likes sex


dude **** these books, read you some Lady Chatterley and leave this nonsense behind

Dude, I don't want to read them. It doesn't appeal to me.

I was merely making a statement Boaby :).

FETCHER. 07-09-2012 04:05 PM

OH GOD. My mum bought the second game of thrones for me on her kindle. ****ing YASSSS.

LoathsomePete 07-11-2012 12:32 PM

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Guards! Guards!

Been a very long time since I've read this, and thankfully it's just as funny then as it is now. I am a bit miffed that the ebook version is kind of... shit when it comes to its editing, especially when iBooks charges the same amount as a new copy from Barnes & Noble.

TheBig3 07-11-2012 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by FETCHING. (Post 1207070)
OH GOD. My mum bought the second game of thrones for me on her kindle. ****ing YASSSS.

I thought you were from Scotland. Don't you live the Game of Thrones?

FETCHER. 07-11-2012 05:50 PM

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Originally Posted by TheBig3 (Post 1207679)
I thought you were from Scotland. Don't you live the Game of Thrones?

:laughing:


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