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- gramme0
Gilead
excellent novel. Not a bad cover deisng either.
- soda0
Are people that live in crouch end allowed to call anybody ponces?
skt
(Mar 2 06, 06:09)ha ha ha!
And Para, I originally did have Mr Genius in my gaze for that comment but I like you more so I gave it to you instead.
- 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.
- paraselene0
s'an honour, kind sir.
- 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)
- flavorful0
I don't even know what a ponce is... so I'm guessing I really am one, heh.
- seed0
Call of the Wild, Hagakure
- runDMB0
I haven't heard about a new Franzen book, but then I don't keep up with stuff very well.
- Rand0
the poetics of space by gaston bachelard
- 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.
- Kidswift0
A brief history of time by Stephen Hawking, a surprisingly good read & not dry at all. Also has the geek chix mackin on you on the ride home on the tube!!
- jakeyj0
the great gatsby
- 4cY0
Also has the geek chix mackin on you on the ride home on the tube!!
Kidswift
(Mar 2 06, 06:58)lol i wanna see that.
- autoflavour0
the internet doesnt count as an answer ... right?
if not, then nothing. i am not reading anything.