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Postby jim » Fri Aug 12, 2005 2:31 pm

'Comet in Moominland' Tove Jansson
'A Secret History of Consciousness' Gary Lachman
'The Hill of Dreams' Arthur Machen
'Camping and Woodcraft' Horace Kephart
'Place' Tacita Dean & Jeremy Millar
'Weirs Way' Tom Weir
'Writing on Drugs' Sadie Plant
a pair of stout boots, a stick, and away...
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Postby Merlot » Fri Aug 12, 2005 2:34 pm

The Last Juror, John Grisham
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Postby salty dog » Sat Aug 13, 2005 2:17 am

Im currently reading "Rambles around Glasgow" by Hugh McDonald , circa 1910.
Also "The Glasgow Story" by Colm Brogan circa 1952 , "Down the Clyde " by Jack House 1959 , "Scotlands western seaboard" by G Douglas Bolton.

ohh..and the usual internet porn .... :roll:
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Postby jim » Sat Aug 13, 2005 11:39 am

You 'read' porn? I prefer to lick the screen.
a pair of stout boots, a stick, and away...
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Postby anok » Sat Aug 13, 2005 7:40 pm

The Glaswegiana by William W. Blair. very good if you can get your hands on one.Image last printed 1973 by vista of 22 royal crescent Glasgow G3
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Postby viceroy » Sat Aug 13, 2005 9:33 pm

William W. Barr actually, not Blair. Looks like a well read copy. I've got one as well, his book was reprinted by the Molendinar Press in 1980. Probably only available secondhand now I would imagine.
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Postby salty dog » Sat Aug 13, 2005 9:35 pm

jim wrote:You 'read' porn? I prefer to lick the screen.





.... did i say internet porn ? ..oops , ii naturally meant ..er research , internet research
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Postby anok » Sun Aug 14, 2005 10:21 am

sorry a bit slow today :oops: , this ones a 1973 copy a lucky find in the book nook a few years ago
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Postby viceroy » Sun Aug 14, 2005 10:42 am

Was that the Book Nook which use to be on Queen Margaret Drive? Was really sorry to see that shop go. It specialised in Penguin paperbacks, there were thousands of them. The guy who ran it was an ex-journalist or he might have worked for the BBC, can't really remember. He had to shut shop because the lease ran out. Pity. :(
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Postby MotoMad » Sun Aug 14, 2005 7:22 pm

just starting to read "gerry Adams" by gerry adams :wink:
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Postby anok » Sun Aug 14, 2005 7:34 pm

thats the very shop. a goldmine, sad loss :(
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Postby escotregen » Mon Aug 15, 2005 10:55 am

On recent holiday, now fading in memory :cry: I at last managed something I've been aiming for a long time to read through - Garcia Marques 'A Hundred Years of Solitude' . I'm glad I did, I'm not usually good at sticking with fiction, especially the fictional 'historical' variety. but this is something awesome. It doesn't fall easily into any particular genre, and that means there will be a lot of people it will not appeal to. But it's still running through my mind with a mixture of comments on the human condition, bizzare events that I'm not sure how you are meant to read, and acres of very good prose.
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Postby PlasticDel » Mon Aug 15, 2005 11:07 am

National Geographic! I'm in Amsterdam!
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Postby Monument » Tue Aug 16, 2005 7:36 pm

escotregen wrote:On recent holiday, now fading in memory :cry: I at last managed something I've been aiming for a long time to read through - Garcia Marques 'A Hundred Years of Solitude'


I read this a long time ago when I was a student, along with a few of his other books - went through a bit of a phase. I don't remember much about the content, but I remember the writing being so beautiful that I started learning Spanish so that I could read it in original version. Didn't get very far though...

I am currently reading the complete works of Oscar Wilde for some reason. It's funny how, when you read the stories and plays one after another, they do get very samey. My favourite of his stories has to be the Happy Prince. I cry every time I read it :cry: even though I know it is sentimental nonsense. Does it have this effect on anyone else?
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Postby MsStormwalker » Mon Aug 22, 2005 9:53 pm

Bommi Baumann "Terror or Love? The Personal Account of a West German Urban Guerrilla."

I'm into the personal memoirs of terrorists at the moment, for some bizarre reason.
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