Currently reading High Life by Matthew Stokoe.
This book is fucked up!
It's kinda like American Psycho only better.

Quote from: blessed1 on November 16, 2020, 11:27:06 AM
Currently reading High Life by Matthew Stokoe.
This book is fucked up!
It's kinda like American Psycho only better.
You'll probably move onto Colony of Whores next maybe?

Finally getting around to reading The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. I'm about halfway through and really enjoying it. The writing is effective, atmospheric and easy to read. Good stuff.

Yeah, it's great. Her descriptions of sense perception are particularly striking.

Excellent book and apprently there's a sequel that came out recently. A shame she's so snotty about it, though. She'd have a seizure if you referred to it as sci fi.

Jerusalem arrived today. Holy fuck, the size of it. At least if it's shite it'll come in handy as a brick next time I'm out defunding the police.

#651 November 19, 2020, 09:21:17 PM Last Edit: November 19, 2020, 10:07:48 PM by Scáthach
The missus has a stack of other Atwood there so I'm looking forward to digging in. The Covenants is the sequel (I think) you're referring to Carnage. The missus says it's even better, and goes into more detail about how Gilead came about.

And yeah Mclove, I think Jerusalem has a longer word count than the KJV Bible. And as you allude to, you don't even have to freeze it, to use it as a weapon.

I think Alan Moore is putting the finishing touches to a book on magic, I'd be well up for reading that.

Edit - whoops, that sequel is The Testaments. Doh!

Oh yes, me too. I love his take on magic, from the interviews I've watched. He is such an eccentric,  and I mean that in the best way possible.

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations

Just finished The Troop by Nick Cutter.
Very cool book that's described as the Lord of the flies meets The Thing and it didn't disappoint!
Nice and fast paced.

Jordan Peterson 12 Rules

Quote from: Don Gately on December 09, 2020, 11:46:00 AM
Jordan Peterson 12 Rules
Another Penguin dies in Canada....

Dune finished just in time to take Dune Messiah away on the few days off I have this week. Really looking forward to getting stuck into these further books I never got around to, as I got so much enjoyment and more out of revisiting the first book after all this time.

Got this for the bus journey home today, you'd get through it in 30 minutes  :laugh:
Some hilarious stuff in it.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Beautiful-Poetry-Donald-Trump/dp/1786892278

#659 December 22, 2020, 07:33:19 AM Last Edit: December 22, 2020, 07:41:09 AM by leatherface
That Alan Moore book on magic may never get released at this stage. There seems to be an ongoing delay with it. It's supposed to be designed like an old children's annual complete with games. I don't know how long ago I read about it.