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- mg330
Currently reading this. Sobering as hell. It's a quick read if any of you are interested.
In Escape from Camp 14, acclaimed journalist Blaine Harden tells the story of Shin Dong-hyuk and through the lens of Shin's life unlocks the secrets of the world's most repressive totalitarian state. Shin knew nothing of civilized existence-he saw his mother as a competitor for food, guards raised him to be a snitch, and he witnessed the execution of his own family. Through Harden's harrowing narrative of Shin's life and remarkable escape, he offers an unequaled inside account of one of the world's darkest nations and a riveting tale of endurance, courage, and survival.
- agentfour0
i read that 'how to be a graphic designer without losing your soul' thing over the weekend. Not bad.
its the first book ive read in about 5 years i think
- Baskerville0
I tend not to read fiction that much I generally read books about real things (don't know what you call those kind of book 'fact book', non-fiction?)
I read Freakonomics too recently which was a quick fun read but did make me think about approaching problems from a different perspective.
I also read some pop-psych books like Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton, good if you want a quick explanation of those kind of things.
But I was given the Penguin 70th Anniversary boxed-set (70 books by 70 different influential authors) so I'm trying to make a dent in those books. It's great because they are all pretty short so you get a small taste of the author. Also I like to see how well people can write in a small space, if you need 1000 pages to get something across what does that say about your communication.
One of the books is 'short short stories' by dave eggers. They are all about 1 or 2 pages long maybe 200 words in total but some of them are really funny.
I used to love his short stories in the back of the guardian weekend magazine.
- Frantastic0
I've been reading old school
Nathaniel West - Day of the Locust (1930s hollywood)
Stanislaus Lem - Solaris (to make me finally sit down and watch the film properly)
Stefen Zweig - Chess (man goes chess loopy after Nazi torture)
- paraselene0
read helen simpson's 'constitutional' last night. slim book of excellent short stories that kept me up 'till the wee hours.
i don't think boys would like them, though.
and they're rather macabre.
- stem0
- wristtattoo0
Chuck Palahniuk's (Fight Club) Haunted - Lydon's No Blacks, No Irish etc and Paul Arden's It’s not how good you are... 100 odd page flick.
- mr_snuggles0
Still trying to finish Hunter s. Thompson's 'Great Shark Hunt (Gonzo Papers, Vol. 1)'
I've left it for the past few months, but I'm trying to get back into it...
- flavorful0
I just picked up and finished, "How to Make Love*
*The Bruce Campbell Way."
And laughed my ass off for three nites and could barely put it down for the life of me.
I highly suggest his auto-biography first, and then this. Classic stuff.
If Chins Could Kill...
http://search.barnesandnoble.com…How to Make Love*...
http://search.barnesandnoble.com…
- runDMB0
I haven't heard about a new Franzen book, but then I don't keep up with stuff very well.
- groog0
"Fourty Ouncer"
-thirst quenching fiction by
Kurt ZapataManic D Press
ISBN 0-916397-46-7(Fouty Ouncer caontains eleven intoxicating stories aand a staggering novella about fist fights, love bouts, the trials and tribulations of minimum wage employment, and, of course, carousing in bars and nightclubs - the publisher)
- paraselene0
i really loved the corrections. he's got a new(ish) one out now, hasn't he? i can't seem to catch it at the bookshop for some reason.
- runDMB0
Yeah, I've heard that book is pretty decent. "cloud atlas" is exceptional.
Another really excellent book I read a while ago was "The Corrections" by Jonathan Franzen.
Early Paul Auster stuff is mint as well ("Moon Palace", "New York Trilogy")
- skt0
"Cloud Atlas" - David Mitchell
www.amazon.co.uk/exec/...
runDMB
(Mar 2 06, 08:33)you might also want to try number 9 dream if you haven't already. Good book.
- runDMB0
"Cloud Atlas" - David Mitchell
- skt0
- rupedixon0
little friend - Donna Tartt
- dablammit0
The Sex Lives of Cannibals.
- kev_charlton0
I'm just about to start reading a Bill Shankly biography.
- Kidswift0
The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl. Just finished his other book of short stories called Switch Bitch, I love it just for the name alone. Don't be fooled these ain't fucking james and the giant peach / BFG / Charlie and the choc factory these are dark and with peppered with fantastic twists. A true genius. Respect!