Picked up any good reads at the bookstore?

[yord]

and its 2pm and the archers are starting. Pip wakes up to reality , ha

[Repat Van]

Jul 7, 2010 7:45:35 GMT mids said:

"on a recommendation"

Yeah, from me.

Unless you have become a tatooed, pierced, ex-military, highly intelligent, incredibly sexy Australian colleague of mine, I most certainly did not get the recommendation from you...

(Well if I did I paid it no attention).

[mids]

Subconsciously, you did. The film's good too although it shies away from one important aspect of the story.

[lala]

Ah yes, the old "It looks like she's ignoring me but she's subconsciously attracted to me and is sending out 'come on, big boy,' signals through the way she hold her cigarette" routine. I, too, have used this to defend myself from the knowledge of my total inadequacy. I feel you pain, Mids, really I do.

[mids]

Translation: you admire me very much...

[Muz]

I'm now reading 'The Witching hour' by Anne Rice.

[Repat Van]

Jul 8, 2010 6:53:49 GMT mids said:

Subconsciously, you did. The film's good too although it shies away from one important aspect of the story.

Being?

[lala]

I think this is Mids 'subconsciously' manipulating Vanner into watching the film.

[Marshall]

Just started on Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton. Hard SF by a British writer.
Looks like it will be a good read so far.

[lala]

LINE 14: Thus accompanied, and with revolvers at their belts, they had started to chop their way with machetes through the thorny scrub on the neck of the peninsula.

After a brief respite, we reach the end of the third paragraph.

This line is deceptively simple; though it purports to describe the simple process of a small group of adventurers heading off into the bush in search of silver, it encapsulates the colonial history of Coastaguana - the foreigners seeking to impose their will on the natural landscape of the country.

It also prefigures much that will come later on, in the main body of the story - both the much larger desecration-in-quest-for-silver in the development of the San Tome mine, and the forcing of the railway across the mighty mountain ridge that divides Costaguana in two. Though it is not essential to the plot in the way that the San Tome mine is, the railway is one of the fetishes of the novel - it is imbued with almost mystical significance, a symbol of the triumph of 'material interests' over nature.

The mention of the gringo's revolvers is probably not accidental, either, hinting at the violence and threat that accompanies the development of 'material interests' in Costaguana.

[lala]

FWIW, I'm still reading Les Miserables, and I think I'm still at about the same point as last time. Other books I am reading just now are Return to the Middle Kingdom by Yuan-tsung Chen, Tell Me How Long The Train's Been Gone by James Baldwin and The Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence.

Oh, and a collection of short stories by Robert 'I Claudius' Graves. One per night, as I sit with la Jnr, waiting for him to nod off.

[mids]

Jul 8, 2010 21:12:19 GMT Repat Van said:

Jul 8, 2010 6:53:49 GMT mids said:

Subconsciously, you did. The film's good too although it shies away from one important aspect of the story.

Being?

It's a bit of a spoiler. Ok, here goes...



SPOILEEEEERRRRRR BELOW!






































































The little vampire girl isn't really a girl. It appears 'she' was once a boy but was turned into a vampire by some castle dwelling vampire nobleman who also cut his cock and balls off. It's not 100% clear that's exactly what happened as the scene in the book is a vision that the vampire boy/girl puts into his/her boyfriend's mind friend so it's a bit mixed up. Still, it's pretty close to that and that's my interpretation. In the film they sort of gloss over it with that scene where he sees that she has a scar instead of a fanny but gets sort of glossed over too.
































END SPOILEEEERRRRRRRR!!!

[Minge är en jävla besserwisser]

I've just started " a race for mad men" excellent.

Just Bye the bye, you might like to try The escape artist, by matt Seaton.

I know, I know it's a cycling book, but it's not really

It's rully rully good.

[wetkingcanute]

Did I ever mention that Graham Swift is the Greatest Living English Novelist?

[mids]

That cnut?

[wetkingcanute]

I bow to your superior and well argued Literary Criticism.

[feral]

Seeing as this has been bumped again:
I'm halfway through John Irving's " Last night in twisted river " and it's very good

[grizzley]

"The Greatest Trade Ever" by Gregory Zuckerman........

I knew the potential, but I couldn't figure the Trade. Kudos to this guy.

[silkbreeze]

recently read 'middlesex' by jeffrey eugenides; 'the wasted vigil' by nadeem aslam, 'calamity physics' by marisha pessl; one of angela levy's, that indian thing - shamarayam i think, probably a murikami too, a toni morrison and another book by farnoosh moshiri (who wrote the amazing book 'at the wall of the almighty ;D

[Amazed]

Aug 16, 2010 15:22:36 GMT feral said:

Seeing as this has been bumped again:
I'm halfway through John Irving's " Last night in twisted river " and it's very good

It is! I loved it.