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by MsStormwalker » Tue Aug 23, 2005 11:54 am
DickyHart wrote:I wouldnt go about broadcasting that if I were you.
Don't worry I'm not a sympathetic reader
. I know people who read books about serial killers etc. It's interesting (and very scary) to see how evil people try to justify their actions to themselves.. but essential reading all the same.
Also, this particular group have disbanded so it is possible to study them from an historical point of view.
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by kirkyguy » Mon Apr 24, 2006 8:59 pm
A wee catch up.......everything by Charles Bukowski,cant get enough of him
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter s Thompson......magggicc
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh....hated it,couldnt stop reading it though
The Flashman diaries by George Macdonald Fraser....best character i've ever read....
currently......on the road by Jack Kerouac
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter s Thompson......magggicc
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh....hated it,couldnt stop reading it though
The Flashman diaries by George Macdonald Fraser....best character i've ever read....
currently......on the road by Jack Kerouac
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by Sharon » Mon Apr 24, 2006 9:16 pm
kirkyguy wrote:A wee catch up.......everything by Charles Bukowski,cant get enough of him
And Glasgow now has it's own Bukowski pub... Chinaskis on North St!
Featuring the work of a number of Glasgow artists... good food too
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by Dexter St. Clair » Tue Apr 25, 2006 7:03 am
Fergus took the name aff the front after another good review in the Sunday Herald to stop the "toursist drinkers".
There's nothing to see here, Repetoire could do with your business. More space to drink there.
There's nothing to see here, Repetoire could do with your business. More space to drink there.
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by Alycidon » Tue Apr 25, 2006 11:48 am
Not my usual diet of reading material, but the Brother in Law gave me it - "The Cage", by Tom Abraham, about one of the few Englishmen to serve in Vietnam.
the Review goes "As an office in the 1st Cavalry div during 1967/68, he saw combat in some of the fiercest encounters of the war. His gallantry earned him a chestful of medals including the Silver Star. during the Tet offensive Tom was captured and tortured,he made a escape into the jungle, which in its self was an ordeal, the book also deals with Tom's life after the war on returning to England and the problems that arose 30 years on". An interesting read.
the Review goes "As an office in the 1st Cavalry div during 1967/68, he saw combat in some of the fiercest encounters of the war. His gallantry earned him a chestful of medals including the Silver Star. during the Tet offensive Tom was captured and tortured,he made a escape into the jungle, which in its self was an ordeal, the book also deals with Tom's life after the war on returning to England and the problems that arose 30 years on". An interesting read.
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by Josef » Sun Nov 19, 2006 11:02 am
Jose Saramago, Seeing. Although, it could be any of his novels to be honest, since I've read half a dozen of them in the last couple of months.
Not sure whether to be annoyed that it has taken me this long to notice him, or happy that there is a bigger back catalogue to go through as a result.
Not sure whether to be annoyed that it has taken me this long to notice him, or happy that there is a bigger back catalogue to go through as a result.
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by Field Marshall Shug » Mon Nov 20, 2006 12:11 am
My Kitten scribed:
"My current read is "Millenium People" by J.G Ballard, all about tension and uprising in an exclusive housing community Bought it when sitting at Heathrow waiting for my plane home and the first bit I read is all about a bomb in Heathrow, cracking reading hehe.
Wouldn't recommend it as yet, seems a bit too much like his previous book "High Rise", which itself was good."
Ballard is my favourite living writer, even though it's the same book again and again - the middle class going crazy. I reviewed it on amazon a year before the London bombings and said it was inevitable a bomb was going to go of on the Tube. It gives me a shiver to think about it.
I have just finished re-reading John Keel's 'The Mothman Prophecies' and am moving on to re-read 'The Clash of Civilizations' by S. Huntington.
"My current read is "Millenium People" by J.G Ballard, all about tension and uprising in an exclusive housing community Bought it when sitting at Heathrow waiting for my plane home and the first bit I read is all about a bomb in Heathrow, cracking reading hehe.
Wouldn't recommend it as yet, seems a bit too much like his previous book "High Rise", which itself was good."
Ballard is my favourite living writer, even though it's the same book again and again - the middle class going crazy. I reviewed it on amazon a year before the London bombings and said it was inevitable a bomb was going to go of on the Tube. It gives me a shiver to think about it.
I have just finished re-reading John Keel's 'The Mothman Prophecies' and am moving on to re-read 'The Clash of Civilizations' by S. Huntington.
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