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by **DMcNay** » Fri May 21, 2004 7:37 am

Yeah, I know, we did this a wee while back, but I thought people might be reading something new. I certainly am. So I'm asking it again.

I'm currently struggling to finish "Clearly My Duty" which is a collection of letters from the Boer War by Jack Gilmour, who was an officer in the Fife Light Horse, and later became Secretary of State for Scotland. It's good, if a little jingoistic and horsey.

by **Kirsty** » Fri May 21, 2004 8:42 am

I am reading "Buddha Da" by Anne Donovan. very funny, about a Glasgow Painter and Decorator who becomes a Buddhist and the effects on his wife and daughter.

by **KonstantinL** » Fri May 21, 2004 11:11 am

I'm looking forward to being able to read an actual novel after my exams next week.

I always feel slightly ashamed that I've never read any Tolstoy so I might give him a go.

by **turbozutek** » Fri May 21, 2004 12:17 pm

I am mostly reading;

In Hitler's Bunker! One simple reason... Someone left it lying around my work area!

Anyways, it's a novel written by a man who was at the time a sixteen year old hitler youth courier.. He was assigned to work at the bunker when the war was drawing to a close and certian things were hitting the fan.

Really interesting read and very very disturbing in places.

Chris...

by **mustardman** » Fri May 21, 2004 6:28 pm

F**king "Thermodynamics:an engineering approach"

by **kirkyguy** » Fri May 21, 2004 9:23 pm

English passengers by Matthew Kneale...a fantastic story about a voyage to Tasmania in 1857 in search of the garden of Eden...tis braw..

by **Reverend Scapegoat** » Sat May 22, 2004 9:18 pm

Reading No Logo, and The Unnoficial Guide To Disney World.

I love hearing about all the behind-the-scenes stuff at these parks ( And Disney in general. )
Anyone else know of other books on the subject?

by **Kirsty** » Sun May 23, 2004 9:12 am

Mouse Tales: A Behind-The-Ears Look at Disneyland
David Koenig, Art Linkletter

Looks at all the skullduggery and shenanigans they don't want the consumer to know about!!

It is very good

Kirsty

by **looceefir** » Sun May 23, 2004 1:37 pm

Three or four things going on at the moment (in a post-exam induced mass-reading project)

Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut - read Cat's Cradle a wee while ago, and this one was in a pile of old books I found among my stuff. I love the narrative voice, lots of echoes and repetition and stuff. Haven't got deep enough in to know if I like the novel in general, but it's definitely interesting.

McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales - reading Dave Eggers' story, Up the Mountain Coming Down. One of the only things in the anthology I haven't read, and actually one of the best. Weird.

American Splendor Anthology - Harvey Pekar and misc. artists. Had vaguely heard of this before the film, but that was the spur to make me go get it. It's great, very simple but really addictive storytelling.

And this: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1568984308/qid=1085319164/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_1/103-0160841-9269406?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 - You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination - fascinating collection of maps of imaginary and real places, looking into the different styles and techniques etc. I'd have preferred more photography-based maps, but those are a bit hard to represent in books I suppose...

by **Pgcc93** » Sun May 23, 2004 6:17 pm

Kirsty Wrote:

Outside my window this morning is a man in a white Cavalier reading a porno mag, he has just chucked the wrapper on to the street!!

I was quietly reading a Haynes manual for a Vauxhall Cavalier (white) untill some curtain twitcher put paid to it ::):

Howdy folks I'm back :!:

by **duncan** » Mon May 24, 2004 4:25 pm

Touching The Void by Joe Simpson, that one they made a cracking documentary about last year

by **Pgcc93** » Mon May 24, 2004 7:34 pm

duncan wrote:Touching The Void by Joe Simpson, that one they made a cracking documentary about last year

If you enjoy that book Duncan, you should read his other books 'This Game of Ghosts' being one that springs to mind and 'Dark Shadows Falling' there is another one but the name of it escapes me at the mo :!:

by **duncan** » Mon May 24, 2004 8:15 pm

Pgcc93 wrote:there is another one but the name of it escapes me at the mo :!:

'Storms of Silence', it says in the inside back cover

by **Lucky Poet** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:16 pm

Here's a blast from the past then. I'm starting on Richard Ellmann's biography of Oscar Wilde. (For the second time; I read it once before c.2000 but I've forgotten most of it.) Wish me luck.

by **Dugald** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:29 pm

[quote="looceefir"]
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut - read Cat's Cradle a wee while ago, and this one was in a pile of old books I found among my stuff. I love the narrative voice, lots of echoes and repetition and stuff. Haven't got deep enough in to know if I like the novel in general, but it's definitely interesting.[quote]

I had to read Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, twice to understand what it was about. Once one straightens out what it's about, it does have its moments...takes a wee bit o' straightening though.

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