Books

[Carnage]

I've read and enjoyed those two alright. Also read The Road (meh) and Blood Meridian (didn't enjoy it at all). I have Suttree, The Crossing and Cities Of The Plain gathering dust this long time and I'm in no rush to change that.

[nukeabuse]

after a Google I'll definitely be picking up that remembrance of earth stuff.

Just finished sutree by Cormac, would put it up with some of his best ones but that top 5 list but would tough to pick.

Started ringworld for the first time, speeding through it but still on the fence if it's gonna turn stupid or not

[Don Gately]

Moby Dick, never read it, always one for the long finger.

[Eoin McLove]

Moby Dick, never read it, always one for the long finger.

I read it recently. Good luck 

[mishima]

Currently about halfway through The Andromeda Strain. It's grand, like. Entertaining. Very film-like in its execution and pacing.
Will get back to The Border trilogy after that I guess.

[Eoin McLove]

I joined the local library today and took out a copy of A Decent Ride by Irvine Welsh. I had never even heard of it before but it's off to a good start.

[Caomhaoin]

I joined the local library today and took out a copy of A Decent Ride by Irvine Welsh. I had never even heard of it before but it's off to a good start.

Juice Terry 😀

Have you read 'Glue'? He's a peripheral character in that.

[Eoin McLove]

No but he was in Porno in a fairly minor way too. I like him so far 

[astfgyl]

I have A Decent Ride here as well I'm only a few chapters in but it's not going well for Jonty 

Juice Terry was a legend in Glue and Porno

[Eoin McLove]

Jesus Christ, JT banging the chick in the taxi as he's dropping her off to the bridge to kill herself  the only problem I ever have with Irvine Welsh is that I can't stop fucking turning the pages when it's time to go to sleep. He's one of a kind.

[Cailleach]

History:A very short introduction by John H. Arnold

[Don Gately]

Moby Dick, never read it, always one for the long finger.

I read it recently. Good luck 

I'm really enjoying Moby Dick, even the chapters about the cetology!

[Eoin McLove]

Moby Dick, never read it, always one for the long finger.

I read it recently. Good luck 

I'm really enjoying Moby Dick, even the chapters about the cetology!

Jesus, I struggled through it. I found it a slog.

[StoutAndAle]

Finished Keith Richard's book. It was grand - honest (or what I assume is honesty anyway) - but it got really fucking boring and a slog to finish. I started to wonder at the halfway mark if most of it was just directly transcribed from Keef's ramblings into a Dictaphone.

The section detailing his life with his first wife, their addiction and attitude towards rearing their kids is bleak.


Also read Todd Barry's "Thank You For Coming To Hattiesburg" - a tour diary of a comedian playing smaller towns - great. Bone dry humour.
 

Currently reading Charles Bukowski's "Factotum".

[Don Gately]

Put Moby Dick down on Sunday and read a short story by Katherine Mansfield "The woman at the store". From 1912. Recommended.