SCRUBBER 0 Posted July 13, 2007 Share Posted July 13, 2007 Restless by William Boyd was a great read and highly recommened. Just started reading something a friend bought me (god knows why), The Devils Guide to Hollywood. A bit of light reading Remember the writer is the main guy for a film. Link to post Share on other sites
indosnm 0 Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 Dirt Music by Tim Winton pretty enjoyable novel. Beats the heck out of the options and T?A books that I've been reading lately. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 I hesitate to say Michael Moore. He's turning out to be a bit of a maniac. Link to post Share on other sites
69 5 Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 I haven't read anything he has written but I get that impression from his documentaries and increasingly angry interviews. He doesn't do himself (or the caue) many favors in that respect. What book are you reading thursday? Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 Originally Posted By: guzzlers-baps Out by Natsuko Kirino. Such a lovely story. 4 women who work in a night shift factory. One of the women gets depressed and ends up murdering her husband, and her friends help with the chopping and disposal. The guy who gets pinned for the murder starts stalking them when he gets out of jail and killing them one by one. Not as gruesome as it sounds, honest! yeah I read that too, its ok, I thought it was pretty slow moving though. Right now I'm reading a pulp fiction novel by Joseph Kanon, Los Alamos. But have my eye on the book, American Shogun, about the relationship between MacArthur and Hirohito Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 69, i get a regular dose of his rant via email. I read Stupid White Men, saw Columbine, saw Sicko. The dude has gone off on a tangent. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 I didn't like Stupid White Men, it was so boring and way too one sided. Although I do like his movies, even although you know that they too are skewed in his direction, just that it gives the other side of the coin to the Government peddled crap, so you can make a guess at the reality by stepping in the middle of both arguements Link to post Share on other sites
NutteyCubey 0 Posted October 1, 2007 Share Posted October 1, 2007 Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge. Good observations on humanity and it's love affair with technology. Link to post Share on other sites
soubriquet 0 Posted October 1, 2007 Share Posted October 1, 2007 Fanny Hill or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. John Cleland. Interesting read. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted October 2, 2007 Share Posted October 2, 2007 Sounds great Soubs!! I just finished reading a Tom Clancy pulp novel, Red Storm Rising, it was pretty shit. Link to post Share on other sites
soubriquet 0 Posted October 2, 2007 Share Posted October 2, 2007 Fanny Hill was written in 1749. It's online. A bit of an alternative to Jane Austin (OK, she was later). Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted October 2, 2007 Share Posted October 2, 2007 Thats the place I'd like to live, Fanny Hill...... Link to post Share on other sites
soubriquet 0 Posted October 2, 2007 Share Posted October 2, 2007 I used to live on a lane called Lower Ladyes Hill. True. And that's Jane Austen, dumbkopf! Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted October 2, 2007 Share Posted October 2, 2007 Kate Bush, Wuthering Heights. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 Reading another novel and had to laugh when it said that the character couldn't sit down because she had a sore fanny from walking all day!!! Link to post Share on other sites
bushpig 0 Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 Class! Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 that must've been an american book then, cos a brit version would not be from walking. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 hahaha, yeah I know Thurs. Such a cheap laugh but I love it!! Link to post Share on other sites
fish&chips 0 Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 Drug Lords The Rise and Fall of the Cali Cartel. It's an expose of the Columbian drug traffikers who traded cocaine had fights and got bloody before being brought down. Fascinating read. Link to post Share on other sites
big-will 7 Posted November 27, 2007 Share Posted November 27, 2007 My friend knows what a bad time I had at colleage with one flatmate.... bought me a book called I Lick My Cheese And Other Notes From The Frontline of Flatsharing. Quite funny. Some funny notes posted in a flat to flatmates: "You know that I know that you know thar I know that you took it. So give it back." "I needed that ham. Really needed it. GO SHOPPING" "Either I go or you go" "Hope you don't mind me cleaning your damp wank rag off the table. It's just that I was expecting friends round for dinner and they probably think that it's a #$#% disgrace that someone....." Link to post Share on other sites
samurai 0 Posted November 27, 2007 Share Posted November 27, 2007 How about this note I left a flat mate. "Thanks for f-ing your girlfriend where I brush my teeth. I'll wait for you to clean up the pubes." Link to post Share on other sites
rach 1 Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 Oh the days of sharing houses. I had generally good experiences but know a few people who were living in hell for the year. The worst one was the guys down the road who - apart from one - were out every night, constantly drunk, got into drugs, girls over. That one was a good friend of mine and it really affected him big time, he spent most the best part of 3 months dealing with it and trying to get out. Link to post Share on other sites
klingon 10 Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 I'm just reading "Where's my Jetpack" which looks at some future inventions that we are all impatiently waiting for and Tomorrows World promised us a long time ago. Very interesting book Link to post Share on other sites
bobby12 0 Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 I'm reading these right now: -Game Theory at Work -Project Management for Dummies -Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience -Working an Living in Australia Link to post Share on other sites
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