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What are you reading at the moment?
posted at 14/9/2004 9:44 AM BST
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Total posts: 346
First post: 9/1/2004 Last post: 17/2/2005 |
...and what do you think of it? (not that everyone's gonna say this much) A nice new shiny one of these threads for that back-to-school time of year. Just finished Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland. Ironically - given its glaringly obvious 'message' - I found myself thinking that "there has to be more to this"; so many intelligent people love Coupland and this novel had all the subtlety of a sledgehammer. After reading a few old reviews & crits, found that practically its only interesting feature (besides the Smiths references!) is that it can be viewed as his manifesto for the 'New Sincerity' movement, and rejection of his previous pop-culture driven style. Well, there's sincerity, and there's not being given anything to think about. And started The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart. Men I know or meet keep talking to me about this book, and ask if I've read it. Gonna have to set targets to get this one finished. It ain't that great and there's 550 pages of it. The sick humour of the narrative is quite amusing, esp if imagined in a film noir voiceover stylee. But this time capsule (from the late 60s - early 70s) hasn't travelled too well. The discussions of psychotherapy are tedious as there have been so many developments in the field since. And the self-satisfied tone of the protagonist who sees the world as his plaything reminds me what Germaine Greer and her mates must have been railing against. |
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posted at 14/9/2004 10:18 AM BST
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Total posts: 196
First post: 3/12/2003 Last post: 21/3/2005 |
Bachelorette, thanks for starting this up again. I've just finished a book so want to see recommendations before I start a new one. I've just finished reading Tama Janowitz's "A Certain Age" which was brilliant. It's about an amoral thirty-something woman in NY, desperately trying to meet a rich man. Definitely not Chick-Lit. Funny, depressing. Actually very sad. And very realistic in parts about social status issues for single women. I have in my reading pile Graham Greene's The End of the Affair but I don't know if I fancy that right now so looking for other suggestions. |
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posted at 14/9/2004 3:51 PM BST
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Total posts: 1904
First post: 5/9/2003 Last post: 4/6/2007 |
Michael J Fox's autobiography. Only just started it though so can't really comment. Have hardly read any non-fiction but am branching out after Notes on My Travels by Angelina Jolie and Dream Brother, the biog of Tim & Jeff Buckley (can't remember who by!) and liking them. So will report back... |
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posted at 14/9/2004 8:37 PM BST
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Total posts: 24346
First post: 18/3/2004 Last post: 18/11/2009 |
Been non-fictiony recently, Bill Bryson-Short history of Nearly Everything, and just finished A.N.Wilson The Victorians....fascinating! slightly TOO much detail, but a good read all the same. Now going to start Anne Tyler The Amateur Marriage as some light relief. xx |
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posted at 14/9/2004 9:13 PM BST
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Total posts: 3373
First post: 9/1/2004 Last post: 8/11/2009 |
Have just read "Memoirs of a Geisha" which I really enjoyed but found it took me ages to read as I could only read one or two chapers at a time. Have now started "Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Have never read it. My brother in-law has lent it me - it's his favourite book ever. Am actually enjoying it so far. The book he's lent me is the omnibus edition so I may have to leave off after book one for a break! |
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posted at 14/9/2004 9:56 PM BST
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Total posts: 238
First post: 25/9/2003 Last post: 17/8/2009 |
At the moment im reading Jordan's autobiography :) I only got it yesterday and im half way through already its that kind of book that you just cannot put down, before that I was reading Lesley Pearce - Charity, that was fantasic it had a really good story to it :) |
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posted at 15/9/2004 9:36 AM BST
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Total posts: 1675
First post: 15/1/2004 Last post: 24/3/2009 |
Reading Oliva Joules and the Overactive Imagination and enjoying it. Great concept and has got a nice pace to it. Before that I read Nikki French Land of the Living (?) (book free with Eve) and quite liked it. Good for an interim read, quite well written as entertainment. |
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