READ ANYTHING INTERESTING RECENTLY ??

[goingtoadisco]

Songs of blood and sword by Fatima Bhutto. Girls asking for trouble.

 

[marinermick]

currently reading Animal Farm by Orwell.. started late last night.

only a night's reading

 

[serious14]

Was nearly barred from publication too (Animal Farm, that is).

 

[EastEnder]

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[hasbeen]

Brave New World (Huxley) is another chilling insight into the future.

Yup. Another favourite. Hmmm... dystopic sci-fi...

Talking of dystopia ... read the latest Federal budget release ....

 

[dibo]

If you're setting a pretty low bar as far as dystopia's concerned. Imagine, you're all set to run a big scare campaign about a $315 billion dollar debt that fails to keep the country out of recession, looming 10% unemployment and record deficits forever, and then you're stuck having to talk about a Government that has beaten off the recession, having debt peak at a third of that, having unemployment never crack 6% and running a total of four deficits.

That's a dystopic world, at least for Tony Abbott and Co.

 

[jiggles]

Brave New World (Huxley) is another chilling insight into the future.

For a classic..............Brighton Rock by Graham Green, a great portrait of a phscho

Don't f**king start me...had to read Brave New World back in year 12....hated it. hate hate hate. Thought it was stupid, and just...shit. Makes me angry just thinking about it.

 

[Mr Cleansheets]

I've only read BNW once and don't remember it too well so it mustn't have had much impact. Then again, there's plenty of stuff you read as a kid that doesn't mean a lot at the time that you then read in adult life and it blows you away. And let's face it, how you can you REALLY appreciate Shakespeare or Chaucer or Orwell when you've never had an unhappy love affair or had to pay your own rent?

I'm really into historical novels these days, and for anyone vaguely into that kind of thing I recommend the Flashman books most heartily. Brilliantly written and very funny. For those not into historical novels, I can't recommend Trainspotting highly enough. Easily the best book I've read in the last 15 years. Good writers will have some sort of original take on the human condition - Irvine Welsh does via the seamy lives of Edinburgh junkies, and it's utterly rivetting. And also pretty funny.

 

[serious14]

Reading Trainspotting is like listening to ArabMariner when he's out on the lash.  ;D

 

[Mr Cleansheets]

That may be so...nevertheless I recommend you give it another try. I must have read it ten times and always love it to bits.

Of course, everyone's different.

 

[serious14]

Oh don't get me wrong, it's a top book - I just have trouble understanding _thick_ Scottish sometimes. 

 

[jiggles]

Reading Trainspotting is like listening to ArabMariner when he's out on the lash.  ;D

Hah! The first time I tried reading that I was a good way through a bottle of wine on my balcony. I got about 5 pages in and got a headache, so gave up.

 

[bjw]

The Beach, Alex Garland.

 

[Kareem]

animal farm= unbelievably good read. We were forced to read this in year 10 english, and i thought it would be gay...but I got hooked. Well written, quite entertaining!

 

[Mr Cleansheets]

Just bought the 442 World Cup Guide.

Haven't read it yet.

 

[serious14]

Finished The Ghost over the weekend (overnight bus to Glasgow = 9 hours to kill).

On to the May issue of Q Magazine and some more Uni readings, specifically the seals and labels used on Roman Currency post-Caesar.  Love it.  ;D

 

[Mr Cleansheets]

What on earth are you studying? A PhD on roman britain?

 

[serious14]

Hahaha, noooooo - Ancient History with a focus on the Roman Civil War, Caesarean and Augustan Rome, and the Empire up until its peak.

 

[Mr Cleansheets]

And in your spare time, you get around Britain in a Mariners shirt, reading the classics...that must go down nicely in places like Toxteth and Moss Side!

Just had fantastic news. Mr Cleansheets has been accepted by both airport book chains. This is enormous! They never take books unless they've been published by one of the big six (Penguin, Random House etc).

 

[serious14]

And in your spare time, you get around Britain in a Mariners shirt, reading the classics...that must go down nicely in places like Toxteth and Moss Side!

I tend to avoid Liverpool unless absolutely necessary - Manchester is quite nice though.  Well, Moss Side isn't. 

Strangely, I've only worn my Mariners shirt once since I've been here.... to get a photo at Bramall Lane.  I must get around to uploading it.