Books reading at the moment?
Apr 25th 2018, 5:56 am
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Re: Books reading at the moment?
so very true!
what is it with guys reading while on the bog?? Is it coz the poo is difficult to push out and hence takes time?
bog off lol
Apr 25th 2018, 6:47 am
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Re: Books reading at the moment?
Seems like we're being stalked...
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...-enjoy-reading
Typical Grauniadian post-modern liberal elite pretentious shite, mind. Do they try to out-do the Fail at the other end of the spectrum?
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...-enjoy-reading
Typical Grauniadian post-modern liberal elite pretentious shite, mind. Do they try to out-do the Fail at the other end of the spectrum?
Apr 25th 2018, 7:03 am
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Apr 25th 2018, 8:31 am
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Re: Books reading at the moment?
It's private time, as Millhouse alluded. You're alone, in a safe and secure private space, it's often warm, you have the 15-20 minutes to your thoughts and magazine or book.
Apr 25th 2018, 9:00 am
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It's nice to have a safe, secure, warm, peaceful place to read or think but the bog when shitting just doesn't ring my bells.
Each to their own though, I know some people find it's the only place to hide away and get peace from dogs / kids / wives / husbands / life itself.
Apr 25th 2018, 9:20 am
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...on an uncomfortable seat, in a tiled room, with terrible lighting, with shit coming out of your bottom, smelling potentially awful and you get dead legs after 10mins.
It's nice to have a safe, secure, warm, peaceful place to read or think but the bog when shitting just doesn't ring my bells.
Each to their own though, I know some people find it's the only place to hide away and get peace from dogs / kids / wives / husbands / life itself.
It's nice to have a safe, secure, warm, peaceful place to read or think but the bog when shitting just doesn't ring my bells.
Each to their own though, I know some people find it's the only place to hide away and get peace from dogs / kids / wives / husbands / life itself.
I never spend more than 5mins for all the reasons you said. Enough for one economist article.
Apr 25th 2018, 1:09 pm
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Apr 29th 2018, 7:36 pm
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Anyway, back to topic: A brief history of seven killings by Marlon James. It uses the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in 1976 as the fulcrum for a mind blowing relentless drama about the metastasis of Jamaican gangs from '70s local political hoodlums to '90s multinational cartels. The cast of characters is huge and compelling and mixes real with fictional people brilliantly and seamlessly.
The whole thing is stunning and thrilling. It's a big book and needs a bit of concentration to get into because it's told from multiple viewpoints and it takes a while to get all the characters straight (there is a cast list helpfully provided). Once you do, you are then eagerly anticipating their next contribution. Orhun Pamuk's My Name is Red is similar in that respect. The only thing is that occasionally the technical brilliance is a bit too obvious rather than being implicit. It has been called "movie-esque" and compared stylistically to Tarantino but I think James is more artful. It will almost certainly end up being an HBO series but I would unreservedly recommend reading the book.
Mission, I am really really sorry for you that you don't experience the magic of reading: far more immersive and captivating than watching a movie.
One book that I pushed myself through was Pamuk's Black Book but was so glad that I did as I still regularly think about it.
I subscribed to the Economist for a while many years ago, before the internet, but I used to get guilty about backed-up editions that I hadn't fully read and couldn't bring myself to throw away. Like Millhouse I now tend to only get the print edition free from lounges or aeroplanes - even then they often pile up at home and I have to have a regular purge (fnaar fnaar)...
The whole thing is stunning and thrilling. It's a big book and needs a bit of concentration to get into because it's told from multiple viewpoints and it takes a while to get all the characters straight (there is a cast list helpfully provided). Once you do, you are then eagerly anticipating their next contribution. Orhun Pamuk's My Name is Red is similar in that respect. The only thing is that occasionally the technical brilliance is a bit too obvious rather than being implicit. It has been called "movie-esque" and compared stylistically to Tarantino but I think James is more artful. It will almost certainly end up being an HBO series but I would unreservedly recommend reading the book.
Mission, I am really really sorry for you that you don't experience the magic of reading: far more immersive and captivating than watching a movie.
One book that I pushed myself through was Pamuk's Black Book but was so glad that I did as I still regularly think about it.
I subscribed to the Economist for a while many years ago, before the internet, but I used to get guilty about backed-up editions that I hadn't fully read and couldn't bring myself to throw away. Like Millhouse I now tend to only get the print edition free from lounges or aeroplanes - even then they often pile up at home and I have to have a regular purge (fnaar fnaar)...
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Apr 30th 2018, 7:56 am
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Re: Books reading at the moment?
Anyway, back to topic: A brief history of seven killings by Marlon James. It uses the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in 1976 as the fulcrum for a mind blowing relentless drama about the metastasis of Jamaican gangs from '70s local political hoodlums to '90s multinational cartels. The cast of characters is huge and compelling and mixes real with fictional people brilliantly and seamlessly.
The whole thing is stunning and thrilling. It's a big book and needs a bit of concentration to get into because it's told from multiple viewpoints and it takes a while to get all the characters straight (there is a cast list helpfully provided). Once you do, you are then eagerly anticipating their next contribution. Orhun Pamuk's My Name is Red is similar in that respect. The only thing is that occasionally the technical brilliance is a bit too obvious rather than being implicit. It has been called "movie-esque" and compared stylistically to Tarantino but I think James is more artful. It will almost certainly end up being an HBO series but I would unreservedly recommend reading the book.
Mission, I am really really sorry for you that you don't experience the magic of reading: far more immersive and captivating than watching a movie.
One book that I pushed myself through was Pamuk's Black Book but was so glad that I did as I still regularly think about it.
I subscribed to the Economist for a while many years ago, before the internet, but I used to get guilty about backed-up editions that I hadn't fully read and couldn't bring myself to throw away. Like Millhouse I now tend to only get the print edition free from lounges or aeroplanes - even then they often pile up at home and I have to have a regular purge (fnaar fnaar)...
The whole thing is stunning and thrilling. It's a big book and needs a bit of concentration to get into because it's told from multiple viewpoints and it takes a while to get all the characters straight (there is a cast list helpfully provided). Once you do, you are then eagerly anticipating their next contribution. Orhun Pamuk's My Name is Red is similar in that respect. The only thing is that occasionally the technical brilliance is a bit too obvious rather than being implicit. It has been called "movie-esque" and compared stylistically to Tarantino but I think James is more artful. It will almost certainly end up being an HBO series but I would unreservedly recommend reading the book.
Mission, I am really really sorry for you that you don't experience the magic of reading: far more immersive and captivating than watching a movie.
One book that I pushed myself through was Pamuk's Black Book but was so glad that I did as I still regularly think about it.
I subscribed to the Economist for a while many years ago, before the internet, but I used to get guilty about backed-up editions that I hadn't fully read and couldn't bring myself to throw away. Like Millhouse I now tend to only get the print edition free from lounges or aeroplanes - even then they often pile up at home and I have to have a regular purge (fnaar fnaar)...
Apr 30th 2018, 8:50 am
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Re: Books reading at the moment?
Apr 30th 2018, 9:21 am
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Apr 30th 2018, 11:28 am
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Just finished Stephen Frys books - would recommend his auto !
Apr 30th 2018, 12:44 pm
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Audiobooks I have listened to recently (last 2 months):
Robert White - The Fix, The Fall & The Fire - action adventure, quite Andy McNabby. Decent.
Craig Robertson - Last Refuge, A Place of Death & The Photographer - Detectivey. Decent
Stephen Leather - The Shout - action adventure. Not as good as his old Spider books.
Chris Ryan - Global Strike - Standard stuff. Decent.
Chris Ryan - Safe - A guide how to be 'safer' in the modern world by using techniques he learnt in the SAS. Surprisingly good.
Paul Finch - Stalkers & Sacrifice - Detective thrillers. Very graphic but very good. Just downloaded another 3 of the series.
They're all of the unabridged variety and between 10-13hrs a pop. Listen as I am driving to site and they're good for keeping me from collecting speeding tickets but if you're tired they're not the best idea.
Robert White - The Fix, The Fall & The Fire - action adventure, quite Andy McNabby. Decent.
Craig Robertson - Last Refuge, A Place of Death & The Photographer - Detectivey. Decent
Stephen Leather - The Shout - action adventure. Not as good as his old Spider books.
Chris Ryan - Global Strike - Standard stuff. Decent.
Chris Ryan - Safe - A guide how to be 'safer' in the modern world by using techniques he learnt in the SAS. Surprisingly good.
Paul Finch - Stalkers & Sacrifice - Detective thrillers. Very graphic but very good. Just downloaded another 3 of the series.
They're all of the unabridged variety and between 10-13hrs a pop. Listen as I am driving to site and they're good for keeping me from collecting speeding tickets but if you're tired they're not the best idea.
