What's Everyone Reading At The Moment?

[virtually dead]

I recently finished Dostoevsky's Crime And Punishment and now I'm back on The Picture Of Dorian Gray...agian.

[wolve]

I'm reading "House of leaves" by Mark Danielewski. It's wicked.

[DeliciousDemon]

Just brought it and had to read it again (such a great book!)

Jaroslav Hašek - The good soldier Švejk

[Lor]

The Complete Illustrated Works of Oscar Wilde... I'm on a story called The Star Child.

[Pervomartovtsi]

I don't know what everyone is reading, but If I can help I can say I'm reading the infance of europe from mister Robert Fossier...436 pages of mainly boredom

[half a person]

Down and Out in Paris and London- George Orwell

[hatfull]

Curriculum Guidence for the Foundation Stage, the National curriculum, Excellence and Enjoyment, Readings for Reflective Teaching, the Primary National Stratergy. I miss reading for pleasure!:(

[Lor]

Those seem... interesting.

[hatfull]

The Curriculum Guidence for the Foundation Stage is quite good, the Literacy and Numeracy stratergies were awful, but they're being revised, so I hope they won't be as bad! One day I'll read a really enjoyable book again!

[half a person]

Fantastic book! Did you get to the bit where he's working in the restaurant yet?

I'm just up to it now, I've been meaning to read it ever since I read 1984 twice back to back (i never do that with books!) and finally found it in the careers section of the library (it's a very disorganised library!) :D

[Jose]

Well... erm... I'm reading Charlie & the Chocolate Factory at the moment :o

[Lor]

^^Oh! That's a good one! :D

[Codreanu]

I'm reading "House of leaves" by Mark Danielewski. It's wicked.
Yeah, it's wicked.
http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showpost.php?p=352111&postcount=11 ;)

[wolve]

Yeah, it's wicked.
http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showpost.php?p=352111&postcount=11 ;)

I haven't read much, but I have already questions! And the lay-out certainly is special. When my reading's finished, will you provide me some answers? ;)

Have you already read his newest book?

[dazzak]

Anything by Wilde, of course.

Really, Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion, Sacred by Dennis Lehane and I just finished Pet Shop Boys' Catalogue.

[Bluebirds]

I'm reading Marching Powder about San Pedro prison in La Paz. Which is an entertaining enough read if hardly a literary heavyweight

I am the reading the History Of the Conservative And The Nation State 1922-1997. By Alan Clark. Yes the dead one. (Does anyone know the originations of the phrase "disgusted of Tunbridge Wells"? I've read it about four times now and well thanks if you know)

I have to read a text about the Fall Of Communism by next week (homework, love it!!)

I flit through the pages on a book about Fell Running now and again... bunch of weirdos who run around the Lake District and the Highlands in disgusting conditions. Very well written though

And I have just started the Panini Football Sticker ALbum 1984. Check out those haircuts

[mar2d2]

"Y: the last man" 45#

[Busy Clippers]

Some natural history:
The Outermost House - Henry Beston
The Outer Lands - Dorothy Sterling

Call me silly, but since the other day I've been dipping in and out of the essays posted on theologian Peter Kreeft's web site. I'm doing some mind-numbing work, so I allow myself one visit after each completed task. Funnily enough, I'd never read him before. Some of his ideas are heartbreakingly beautiful and his writing style is quite singular.

[wolve]

(I don't want to spoil the fun, but 'kreeft' = Dutch for 'lobster'. I did spoil your fun? Sorry. Thought I had to mention it ;))

[Morrissey the 23rd]

Your post?

[Busy Clippers]

(I don't want to spoil the fun, but 'kreeft' = Dutch for 'lobster'. I did spoil your fun? Sorry. Thought I had to mention it ;))

No, you've just reminded me of this, from Rich Hall's Roadside America website:

Gibsonton, Florida was famous as a Sideshow Wintering town, home to Percilla the Monkey girl, the Anatomical Wonder, and the late Lobster Boy, who was murdered. The Siamese twin Hilton sisters ran a fruit stand here. It's got the only post office with a counter for midgets. Aside from the agreeable winter climate, Gibsonton offered unique circus zoning laws that allowed residents to keep elephants and circus trailers on their front lawns. :D

[Disappointed]

Well, I read Anne Rice's "The Witching Hour", which I quite liked, though didn't love, then went on to the next book in the series, "Lasher", which I loathed. Then, against my better judgement, perhaps, I continued on into the third book in the series, "Taltos". I stopped in the middle of that one, when I discovered that I hated all of the main characters. The one major character who I liked was killed off near the beginning of the book. ***SPOILER ALERT*** The 13-year-old girl getting impregnated by her adult cousin's 48-year-old husband, and the cousin's approving of it, was the last straw for me on that one.

Today, I just got a book called "Nazi Women", which comes highly recommended. I'm not sure when I'll start it, though...I have a lot of schoolwork to do.:(

[no one in particular]

http://dsp.blueidea.com/thinkfuse/articleimg/016/TN_Google_for_Dummies.JPG

(thanks to simonmoz..)

:D

[drunken goldfish]

What I'm reading at the moment is too embarrassing to reveal in such cultured society :) . However once I'm finished I was thinking of reading "White Teeth", anyone read it? It got a lot of hype a few years back.

[CharethCutestory]

Journey under the sea (Choose your own adventure).

[bikubesong]

I've started reading the Harry Potter books again.. And I read most of what I can find by a norwegian author called Jens Björneboe.. Anyone who've heard about him? He's genial..:)

[wolve]

I've started reading the Harry Potter books again..

Oh yes, that's my guilty pleasure as well :o

[Pervomartovtsi]

still reading the infance of europe unfortunatly

[CharethCutestory]

Oh yes, that's my guilty pleasure as well :o

Shit though aren't they, when it comes down to it. Woefully, shamefully shit.

[CeciDeMorrissey]

I'm in volume 3 of 1985 Alan Moore's The Watchmen. Impossible to read just one page.

[realitybites]

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins and Without Conscience by Robert D. Hare.

The former is about the insane (hehe) the latter is about psychopaths.

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/gulrober/movie%20posters/ChuckPalahniuk_InvisibleMonsters.jpg
did not go out tonite so i can finish
&
once i have, ill have read all his books
:)

[the more you explore me!]

i'm a very lazy reader, at the moment i'm finishing off 'The Rik Mayall: bigger than hitler better than christ'. it's taken months, it isn't like war and peace but close!
Rik Mayall is a british comedian/actor.

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

i'm a very lazy reader, at the moment i'm finishing off 'The Rik Mayall: bigger than hitler better than christ'. it's taken months, it isn't like war and peace but close!
Rik Mayall is a british comedian/actor.
~known to most americans only as 'Rick' from The Young Ones
unless they were the other person along with me that saw
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/gulrober/movie%20posters/nose.jpg
Drop Dead Fred
which, i really only saw cuz Phoebe Cates was in it

then there is the brilliant, but unknown here, Bottom
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/gulrober/funny/vlcsnap-1168288.jpg
though i still find it almost hard to believe to the man left?(with the doll)
could write a book
:eek:

[the more you explore me!]

well robby it is written like a scene out of bottom or the young ones. its a "autobiography" account of his career.

the rain was lashing down and i looked a lot like clint. in fact a lot of people walking past me said, "het bloke, yoy llok a lot like Clint, only better"
"thank's complete strangers", i said, and carried on my way muscularily.
"excuse me sir", said another one.
"Yes non-entity" "are you going to be Rik MAyall, international light entertainment leviathan?"
"no", i said.
"get away".
"don't talk to me like that"
"no i meant 'get away' as in you are going to Rik Mayall",
"no, i'm not. i'm going to be The Rik Mayall and much more besides".
"blimey bloody crikey, can i have your autograph?"
"not yet -i am only a partially formed foetus of a comedy legend. give me a chance".
"thanks anyway".

[mauve21]

Zhuan Falun by Master Li Hongzhi.

[Danielledelu]

Im reading Return of The King.. I can't wait till' i'm finished.

[Disappointed]

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/gulrober/movie%20posters/ChuckPalahniuk_InvisibleMonsters.jpg
did not go out tonite so i can finish
&
once i have, ill have read all his books
:)

I've only read one Palahniuk story, "Hot Potting". It really got to me (in a good way). I've been meaning to pick up one of his books.

[M-in-Oz]

What I'm reading at the moment is too embarrassing to reveal in such cultured society :) . However once I'm finished I was thinking of reading "White Teeth", anyone read it? It got a lot of hype a few years back.

Yep, I've read it. I've read all her books, I particularly liked her book 'On Beauty' - perhaphs because it deals with the academic world. I think Zadie Smith is a fantastic writer. Currently I am reading Rushing To Paradise by JG Ballard.

[drunken goldfish]

^^Thanks, I'll give it a try then. I really like books about immigrants, especially to Britian. I liked Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia as a teenager, though I'm less impressed with it now.

[Codreanu]

Finishing: The Journal of Jules Renard (ed. & trans. by Louise Bogan and Elizabeth Roget)

Beginning: Men Among the Ruins: Post-War Reflections of a Radical Traditionalist by Julius Evola

Relishing: Maria Callas: A Musical Biography by Robert Levine

http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/4125/callas1ua6.jpg

[andy_fozzy]

Er, the computer screen.....

[almareallymatters]

The Argos catalogue (special Christmas edition!) the Early Learning Centre catalogue (again the Christmas suppliment!) and the terms and conditions leaflet that came with my overdraft!!!...HO HO FUCKING HO!:mad:

[drdannyace]

i read "by grand central i sat down and wept" on a regular
basis to see if i can make any more sense of it ... some parts
of that f**king impenetrable!

[andy_fozzy]

The Argos catalogue (special Christmas edition!) the Early Learning Centre catalogue (again the Christmas suppliment!) and the terms and conditions leaflet that came with my overdraft!!!...HO HO FUCKING HO!:mad:

:D :D

Sorry, Alma, but that was v funny!!!!

[almareallymatters]

:D :D

Sorry, Alma, but that was v funny!!!!

I spent almost the whole of today in the local TOYS R US superstore....hence the rant!....me and Mr Reallymatters have renamed it HELL IS US.....you know they actually have the audacity to allow FUCKING kids in there!.....BASTARDS!:mad:

Rant over!!!!!:)

[andy_fozzy]

I spent almost the whole of today in the local TOYS R US superstore....hence the rant!....me and Mr Reallymatters have renamed it HELL IS US.....you know they actually have the audacity to allow FUCKING kids in there!.....BASTARDS!:mad:

Rant over!!!!!:)

lmao :D

I like you Mrs. Reallymatters :D

[almareallymatters]

lmao :D

I like you Mrs. Reallymatters :D

And I like you Mr Fozzy....."quite profoundly so!":)

[Chartres]

Män som hatar kvinnor (Men who hates women) by Stieg Larson

[bagface]

i just finished camus's a happy death. it was pretty good but not quite as good as the stranger.

[Roma De Moz]

The Human Stain - Philip Roth

Roth is a good author, plenty of anger in this novel, but he goes of on to many tangents at times. One feels he'd be better suited to writing an essay at particular moments in the novel.

[Lor]

Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis

Pretty funny :)

[wolve]

Virginia Woolf - The Years

[chica]

The Human Stain - Philip Roth

Roth is a good author, plenty of anger in this novel, but he goes of on to many tangents at times. One feels he'd be better suited to writing an essay at particular moments in the novel.
Compared to the book, is the film any good?
Virginia Woolf - The Years
You're only reading it because she's a wolve too, admit it! ;)

[wolve]

You're only reading it because she's a wolve too, admit it! ;)

No, I'm reading it because she was a lesbian feminist.

[chica]

^^ But that's what I said! :confused:

:D






On this note - a joke:

Three Liverpool supporters were in a pub and spotted a United fan at the bar. The first one said he was going to piss him off. He walked over to the United fan and tapped him on the shoulder.

"Hey Manc, I hear your David Beckham is a poof".
"Really? I didn't know that".
Puzzled, the Scouser walked back to his buddies.
"I told him Beckham was a poof and he didn't care"!
"You just don't know how to set him off, watch and learn".
The second Scouser walked over and tapped the United fan on the shoulder.
"Hey Manc, I hear your David Beckham is a transvestite poof"!
"Oh, Christ I wasn't aware of that, thanks".
Shocked beyond belief, the Scouser went back to his buddies.
"You're right. He is unshakeable!"
The third Scouser said "No, no, no, I will really piss him off, you just watch".
The Scouser walked over to the United fan, tapped him on the shoulder and said.........

"Hey Manc I hear your David Beckham is a Liverpool supporter!"
"Apparently so. Just as your mates said earlier"

[wolve]

^^ But that's what I said! :confused:


thanks

[drunken goldfish]

Re: the joke: I resent that! :D (though I actually like poofs. And David Beckham.

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

http://img.tesco.com/pi/Books/L/16/0099533316.jpg

[chica]

thanks
You're welcome wolvey.
Re: the joke: I resent that! :D (though I actually like poofs. And David Beckham.
Oh God... someone stop me from posting this... anyone? :D

OK then...

"Beckham, Giggs & Cole were training on a Wednesday afternoon when Cole says, 'why don’t we skive off? The boss leaves at noon on Wednesdays & never calls or rings or nowt, he’d never know!'

They all skived off & Cole went to the pictures, Giggs went to the zoo (like the good welsh lad he is) & Beckham thought he would surprise his missus. He arrived home to find A.F wedged firmly up posh spice.

Next Wednesday afternoon, Cole suggested they skive off again, Giggs agreed but Beckham said “No way, I nearly got caught last week” "

[drunken goldfish]

We all know I'm the village idiot so I'm not embarrassed to ask: A.F.?

[chica]

You never stop seducing me, do you! :mad:
:p

Alex Ferguson, honey.

Do you know who Alex Ferguson is?


Oooops... here comes another one!

"Q: What's the difference between Alex Ferguson and God?
A: God doesn't think he's Alex Ferguson."

[drunken goldfish]

Oooops... here comes another one!

"Q: What's the difference between Alex Ferguson and God?
A: God doesn't think he's Alex Ferguson."
:D
Good night...

[Codreanu]

Feeling well enough, though still very tired (could someone FedEx me some Benadryl, please?), so we're back to my boring life in books.

I finished the remaining sections of Cocteau's The Difficulty of Being this morning, half-awake, through watery light and insomnia. That leaves Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality by Andre Gide and the second half of M. Scott Peck's, disappointing, People of the Lie, at least until the books I ordered recently arrive from amazon. I'm thinking tonight would be well spent, enflanneled and with a cup of chamomile, leafing through The Intertidal Wilderness: A Photographic Journey through Rocky-Shore Tidepools (sample photos (http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/8355/8355.images.html)) and having impure tropical thoughts of being suctioned to a raw blaze of coral bed, alongside Clippers, beneath a lurid rose slush of Floridian sun.

Books ordered from Amazon:

The Voronezh Notebooks: Poems 1935-1937 by Osip Mandelshtam

The Mother of the Saviour: And Our Interior Life by Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange

The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements by Kevin MacDonald

Poems and Prose by Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Meaning of Language by Robert M. Martin

http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/8852/motherrp4.jpg

P.S. Clippers, dear, according to an e-mail received earlier, yours shipped out this morning. ;)

[bikubesong]

Ecology, society and life style (Thiink that'll be the title in English) by Arne Næss.:)

[wolve]

I've finished '100 years of solitude' and have now started in 'wuthering heights' :o (I need to get passion somewhere!)

[hatfull]

I love 'Wuthering Heights', one of my fave books ever!
I have just finished a Nick Hornby book called 'Long Way Down'. It was very good, because some of his books are rubbish (how To Be Good was really bad)but I enjoyed it a lot.

[drunken goldfish]

I'm reading White Teeth. I really like the writing style, very witty, but the plot is a little dull, so I'm not sure whether I'll keep reading it or not.

[Busy Clippers]

I'm thinking tonight would be well spent, enflanneled and with a cup of chamomile, leafing through The Intertidal Wilderness: A Photographic Journey through Rocky-Shore Tidepools

Not even illness diminishes your perfection!

xxxxx

[Chartres]

A biography about Katarina de Medici.

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dd/Amerika_novel.jpg

[bikubesong]

We have to read a book at school.. I wasnt very happy about it and chose randomly one of three books. And it was fantastic :eek: I mean. He loved The Smiths (and lots of other fantastic bands), was a leftie, and just.. charming. If you can say about a book that it's charming- this is:)

[Wild Oscar]

[QUOTE=dazzak;387416]Anything by Wilde, of course.QUOTE]

Of course!

Have, again, picked up Rogan's latest, but it just doesn't leave you (unlike the Goddard book) wanting to read or know more - probably because we know it already. I read a chapter (covering 1 album), put the book down somewhere and never think about it again until I stumble across it a month later.

Just got the Billy Bragg Progressive Patriot book, and that looks promising, and then the Dawkins God Delusion is in my sights.

Interesting to see what others are reading (although I know similar threads have been posted b4 - good for an update). Thanks

[punky bunnymen bunnyfan]

1) I'm currently looking over 3 map books for MCR & LPL. They are from the A to Z company.

2) The complete and unabridged works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (made by Barnes & Noble)

3) The complete and unabridged works of Edgar Allen Poe (also by B&N)

[Busy Clippers]

Never mind what I'm reading, but I am enjoying a debate with a friend who claims that

Emily Dickinson:

http://www.jesuslist.com/blog/images/emily-dickinson.jpeg

looks like

Joyce Carol Oates

http://www.shsu.edu/~eng_wpf/authors/pictures/oates.jpg

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

http://www.smu.edu/cte/images/reading_circle_pics/On%20Bullshit.jpg

[The Crime Of The Century!]

I am reading 'A Season In Hell' by Arthur Rimbaud, and I am just starting a biography about R.S.Thomas, the poet.

[Kickstand]

The Revolution betrayed; Leon Trotsky

[wolve]

^You can read?! And immediately choose Russian revolutionaries? :p

[Kickstand]

Yes I know it's hard to believe but I can infact just about manage to read. :D

I'm reading this book, because I am studying about the Russian Revolution at school. :p

[lottie]

i'm a very lazy reader, at the moment i'm finishing off 'The Rik Mayall: bigger than hitler better than christ'. it's taken months, it isn't like war and peace but close!
Rik Mayall is a british comedian/actor.

any good?

I read 'the wrong boy' by willy russell whilst travelling for the wembley gig,
(hated the ending, sad and happy, and yet i cant help but be cross with raymond) since then i was too unwell to cope with reading, but i am DESPERATE for a new book, don't seem to have any in the house that i havent read several times....

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

Never mind what I'm reading, but I am enjoying a debate with a friend who claims that

Emily Dickinson:

http://www.jesuslist.com/blog/images/emily-dickinson.jpeg

looks like

Joyce Carol Oates

http://www.shsu.edu/~eng_wpf/authors/pictures/oates.jpg

http://www.celebsmoking.com/S_Duvall.jpg
olive oyl

[the more you explore me!]

any good?
.

it's ok, it's funny very him if you know what i mean but if you want to know about the man well this isn't it. it's just like an episode of bottom! then a detailed history of his life.

[Wild Oscar]

^You can read?! And immediately choose Russian revolutionaries? :p

Nothing wrong with that - if I'm not mistaken, doesn't Trotsky's RB accurately (according to historians - ok, then, let's go for persuasively) portray how and why the Russian leaders went wrong? (Yes, that's right - it does what it says on the tin;talk about stating the bleeding obvious! I'm so dumb sometimes).

But, you know what I mean, it's supposed to be a very persuasive critique of Stalin et al, and provides food for thought for old lefties :o to reminisce and go...aahh, if only...:(

[Worm]

Should read: Soviet leaders, or Bolshevik Revolution, not Russian Leaders or Russian Revolution. Slightly pedantic point I know but not to some.

[lottie]

it's ok, it's funny very him if you know what i mean but if you want to know about the man well this isn't it. it's just like an episode of bottom! then a detailed history of his life.

ah, might skip it then thanks...
read eric sykes one recently and it was a great read. such a nice guy.
I'm on kenneth williams one now, so i need a fiction book to read after, anyone read the new dean Koontz, 'Brother odd'? ive read the other 'odd' books by him and they were great.

wish my library would sort themselves out and get some decent books in.

Anyone read any Tom holt? he is VERY funny, nearest thing i've found to dear old Douglas Adams.

(why aren't the smilies working for me?)

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

Nothing wrong with that - if I'm not mistaken, doesn't Trotsky's RB accurately (according to historians - ok, then, let's go for persuasively) portray how and why the Russian leaders went wrong? (Yes, that's right - it does what it says on the tin;talk about stating the bleeding obvious! I'm so dumb sometimes).

But, you know what I mean, it's supposed to be a very persuasive critique of Stalin et al, and provides food for thought for old lefties :o to reminisce and go...aahh, if only...:(

uhh
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/gulrober/movie%20posters/gof.jpg
read it
most of it is worth the read
but even better is
http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1930-hrr/index.jpg

[Walkers Crisp]

"At Swim, Two Boys" by Jamie O'Neill.

[Busy Clippers]

Got a whole slew of dollar books this weekend, including:

http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/341/moonhavanakh0.jpg

[Dave]

"At Swim, Two Boys" by Jamie O'Neill.

Nights of Rhodes (http://www.iol.ie/~atswim/stories/rhodes.html)

Thanks, Walkers.

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

Nights of Rhodes (http://www.iol.ie/~atswim/stories/rhodes.html)

Thanks, Walkers.

is this thread gay now

[Busy Clippers]

is this thread gay now

if so, then it should have a parade:

http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/2474/999768gayparadesanfrancyu4.jpg

[Dave]

is this thread gay now

http://images.salon.com/ent/feature/2001/06/30/gay_trek/story.jpg

now it is

I didn't get the gay thing from the story I read though. It has a guy that might be gay giving money to and trying to arrange a meeting with someone that is not revealed to be gay or straight, but seems more about trying to survive without any money than about anything else.

I guess "At Swim, Two Boys" by Jamie O'Neil could be a title of a gay book (or whatever), but maybe there is a subtext to Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, too. I'll ask the Cat's Mother. :D

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

just for Kupier, im gonna read
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~aahobor/Lucy-Day/Images/Covers-50/Holy-Bible-NIV.jpg
but while thinking;
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/gulrober/funny/Jesus-with-boy.jpg
&
http://images.salon.com/ent/feature/2001/06/30/gay_trek/story.jpg

now it is

I didn't get the gay thing from the story I read though. It has a guy that might be gay giving money to and trying to arrange a meeting with someone that is not revealed to be gay or straight, but seems more about trying to survive without any money than about anything else.

I guess "At Swim, Two Boys" by Jamie O'Neil could be a title of a gay book (or whatever), but maybe there is a subtext to Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, too. I'll ask the Cat's Mother.
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/gulrober/funny/Your_a_fag.jpg

[Dave]

and yet Ponch does nothing for me at all. strange

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

and yet Ponch does nothing for me at all. strange

http://www.chips-tv.com/wiki/images/thumb/a/a8/Jon.jpg/200px-Jon.jpg
or
http://www.toymania.com/334archives/chips/jon.jpg

[Dave]

now you're talking. I want to brush his hair. :D

His doll did not do him justice at all.

[no one in particular]

just for Kupier, im gonna read
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~aahobor/Lucy-Day/Images/Covers-50/Holy-Bible-NIV.jpg
but while thinking;
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/gulrober/funny/Jesus-with-boy.jpg
&

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/gulrober/funny/Your_a_fag.jpg

and kuiper will still forgive you, love you, and pray for you despite such irreverance. http://www.freedomdive.com/webboard/html/emoticons/pray.gif

;-)

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

and kuiper will still forgive you, love you, and pray for you despite such irreverance. http://www.freedomdive.com/webboard/html/emoticons/pray.gif

;-)

damn!
:mad: :D

[Kickstand]

I'm reading a book on Boris Becker, the Greatest German the world will ever see and look at the hair, it's like magnificento.

http://www.nndb.com/people/231/000023162/boris-becker-2.jpg

[realitybites]

Down and Out in Paris and London- George Orwell

I have that on my list of must reads. Chef Anthony Bourdain mentioned it in his last book "The Nasty Bits."
How is it, btw?

[HIM]

"is it me or is everything shit? (volume 2)" - steve lowe and alan mcarthur

and

"the body in society" - alexandra howson

[scottishlass]

"is it me or is everything shit? (volume 2)" - steve lowe and alan mcarthur

and

"the body in society" - alexandra howson


That somewhat suprises me, I thought you would be more of a razzle merchant!

[HIM]

That somewhat suprises me, I thought you would be more of a razzle merchant!

that's me, baby: somewhat surprising

[Bluebirds]

The book with no name- anonymous and

Naughty Lola- (London Review Of Books personal classified ads) featuring such wonderful items as:

They call me Naughty Lola. Run of the mill beardy physicist -- male, 46. (hence the title)

Shy, ugly man, fond of extended periods of self-pity, middle aged, flatulent and overweight, seeks the impossible.

Eager-to-please woman, 36, seeks domineering man to take advantage of her flagging confidence. Tell me I'm pretty, then watch me cling.


Bald, fat, short, and ugly male, 53, seeks short-sighted woman with tremendous sexual appetite.

Mature gentleman, 62, aged well, noble grey looks, fit and active, sound mind and unfazed by the fickle demands of modern society … Damn it, I have to pee again.

Unashamed triumphalist male for the past 46 years. Will I bore you? Probably. Do I care? Probably not.

Bastard. Complete and utter. Whatever you do, don't reply -- you'll only regret it.

I like my women the way I like my kebab. Found by surprise after a drunken night out, and covered in too much tahini. Before long I'll have discarded you on the pavement of life, but until then you're the perfect complement to a perfect evening. Man, 32. Rarely produces winning metaphors.

Romance is dead. So is my mother. Man, 42, inherited wealth.

Save it. Anything you've got to say can be said to my lawyer. But if you're not my ex-wife, why not write to box no. 5377? I enjoy vodka, canasta, evenings in, and cold, cold revenge.

To some, I am a world of temptation. To others, I'm just another cross-dressing pharmacist. Male, 41.

This ad may not be the best lonely heart in the world, nor its author the best-smelling. That's all I have to say. Man, 37.

My finger on the pulse of culture, my ear to the ground of philosophy, my hip in the medical waste bin of Glasgow Royal Infirmary. 14% plastic and counting -- geriatric brainiac and compulsive NHS malingering fool (M, 81), looking for richer, older sex-starved woman on the brink of death to exploit and ruin every replacement operation I've had since 1974. Box no. 7648 (quickly, the clock's ticking, and so is this pacemaker).

7 million is good for me. Most days though I plateau at around 3 million. Any advances? Man with low sperm count (35 -- that's my age) seeks woman in no hurry to see the zygotes divide.

Sinister-looking man with a face that only a mother would love: think of an ageing Portillo with a beard and you have my better-looking twin. Sweetie at heart, though. Nice conversation, great for dimly-lit romantic meals. Better in those Welsh villages where the electricity supply can't be guaranteed. Charitable women to 50 appreciated. Box no. 0364.

My other car is a bike. Eco-friendly bio-diverse M (29). Smells a bit like soil and eats too much soup, but otherwise friendly (you're not seriously going to put that burger in your mouth, are you?).

You're a brunette, 6', long legs, 25-30, intelligent, articulate and drop-dead gorgeous. I, on the other hand, am 4'10", have the looks of Herve Villechaize and carry an odour of wheat. No returns and no refunds at box no. 3321.

Ads Placed by Women:

Blah blah, whatever. Indifferent woman. Go ahead and write. Box no. 3253. Like I care.

Your stars for today: A pretty Cancerian, 35, will cook you a lovely meal, caress your hair softly, then squeeze every damn penny from your adulterous bank account before slashing the tyres of your Beamer. Let that serve as a warning. Now then, risotto?

Attention male London Review of Books readers: 'Greetings, earthling -- I have come to infest your puny body with legions of my spawn' is no way to begin a reply. Female, 36 -- suspicious of any men declaring themselves to be in possession of a 'great sense of humor.'

I'm just a girl who can't say 'no' (or 'anaesthetist'). Lisping Rodgers and Hammerstein fan, female lecturer in politics (37) WLTM man to 40 for thome enthanted eveningth.

Love is strange -- wait 'til you see my feet. F, 34, wide-fitting Scholl's.

[Chartres]

Katarina de Medici - a biography by Leonie Frieda

[Wild Oscar]

Should read: Soviet leaders, or Bolshevik Revolution, not Russian Leaders or Russian Revolution. Slightly pedantic point I know but not to some.

Of course - how ignorant of me. I studied the revolution's failure during my first degree. I should have known better.

[Wild Oscar]

"is it me or is everything shit? (volume 2)" - steve lowe and alan mcarthur

Great title - makes you want to read it on that basis alone. How is it? Any good?

[Dave]

Naughty Lola- (London Review Of Books personal classified ads) featuring such wonderful items as:

They call me Naughty Lola. Run of the mill beardy physicist -- male, 46. (hence the title)


I like my women the way I like my kebab. Found by surprise after a drunken night out, and covered in too much tahini. Before long I'll have discarded you on the pavement of life, but until then you're the perfect complement to a perfect evening. Man, 32. Rarely produces winning metaphors.

Romance is dead. So is my mother. Man, 42, inherited wealth.

To some, I am a world of temptation. To others, I'm just another cross-dressing pharmacist. Male, 41.

My finger on the pulse of culture, my ear to the ground of philosophy, my hip in the medical waste bin of Glasgow Royal Infirmary. 14% plastic and counting -- geriatric brainiac and compulsive NHS malingering fool (M, 81), looking for richer, older sex-starved woman on the brink of death to exploit and ruin every replacement operation I've had since 1974. Box no. 7648 (quickly, the clock's ticking, and so is this pacemaker).

My other car is a bike. Eco-friendly bio-diverse M (29). Smells a bit like soil and eats too much soup, but otherwise friendly (you're not seriously going to put that burger in your mouth, are you?).

You're a brunette, 6', long legs, 25-30, intelligent, articulate and drop-dead gorgeous. I, on the other hand, am 4'10", have the looks of Herve Villechaize and carry an odour of wheat. No returns and no refunds at box no. 3321.

Ads Placed by Women:

Blah blah, whatever. Indifferent woman. Go ahead and write. Box no. 3253. Like I care.

Your stars for today: A pretty Cancerian, 35, will cook you a lovely meal, caress your hair softly, then squeeze every damn penny from your adulterous bank account before slashing the tyres of your Beamer. Let that serve as a warning. Now then, risotto?

Attention male London Review of Books readers: 'Greetings, earthling -- I have come to infest your puny body with legions of my spawn' is no way to begin a reply. Female, 36 -- suspicious of any men declaring themselves to be in possession of a 'great sense of humor.'

I'm just a girl who can't say 'no' (or 'anaesthetist'). Lisping Rodgers and Hammerstein fan, female lecturer in politics (37) WLTM man to 40 for thome enthanted eveningth.




:D Good stuff. I read a book called Dates from Hell that covered similar themes.

[Grim O'Grady]

Spike & Co. by Graham McCann

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0340898089.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V65321027_.jpg


good but not brilliant so far, I'm up to pg 252, so just over 1/2 way through it.

love

Grim

[lilybett]

Books about personality disorders

Let this be a lesson: never pick your modules after a glass or two of the good stuff :eek:

[HIM]

Great title - makes you want to read it on that basis alone. How is it? Any good?

it's an absolute beauty, sir, and no mistake (although i think vol.1 may be better).

it is very funny, indeed, and you should buy it.

[realitybites]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/Smithsonissey/hannibalrisingcover.jpg

[Busy Clippers]

bump

http://www.mariancenter.com/images/BK-Catholicism-for-Dummies.JPG

[lilybett]

Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger, again

swoon

if i ever have kids, they're not being called maud and pubert anymore. franny and zooey.

[slum mum 1974]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/Smithsonissey/hannibalrisingcover.jpg

I'm cheating, i am LISTENING to this on my ipod. scary stuff....but fascinating, can't wait to see the movie

[Poco Innocente]

Surprised by Joy - C.S. Lewis

[Kewpie]

No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai.

This is one of the books I avoided in my teens...a typical Japanese Smiths fans' favourite book.:o

Dazai committed double suicide with his mistress in 1948.

[Busy Clippers]

No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai.

This is one of the books I avoided in my teens...a typical Japanese Smiths fans' favourite book.:o

Dazai committed double suicide with his mistress in 1948.

Why'd they do it?

[!Viva Hate!]

Some people just want to die...

[Kewpie]

I don't know...he lost a will to live I guess.
In 20th Century many influencial Japanese novelists commited suicide...Akutagawa (author of Rashomon), Dazai, Mishima and Kawabata are the most famous ones.

[!Viva Hate!]

See, it was like I said...some people just want to die...









(like me)

[HIM]

at work - "social security legislation 2006 (vol. 2): income support, jobseeker's allowance, state pension credit & the social fund" (oh joy)

for uni. - "the politics of disablement" (michael oliver) & "stigma: notes on the management of spoiled identity" (erving goffman)

at home - "rumpole and the reign of terror" (john mortimer)

[hatfull]

at work - "social security legislation 2006 (vol. 2): income support, jobseeker's allowance, state pension credit & the social fund" (oh joy)

for uni. - "the politics of disablement" (michael oliver) & "stigma: notes on the management of spoiled identity" (erving goffman)

at home - "rumpole and the reign of terror" (john mortimer)

Wonna swap? For uni : "Teaching English 3 - 11", "Mathematics and The Primary School Teacher", "Achieving QTS:Understanding ICT" and how could I forget "How Children Think"

For home: "Heat"

[HIM]

Wonna swap? For uni : "Teaching English 3 - 11", "Mathematics and The Primary School Teacher", "Achieving QTS:Understanding ICT" and how could I forget "How Children Think"

For home: "Heat"

well i'll swap ya all of mine for your "heat"...

deal?

[hatfull]

*Hides copy of Heat under her sick bed* umm...think the cat ran away with it sorry. Here, have "Mathematics in Nursery Education instead!!!" Look, there are teddies on the cover!!! And they have numbers on thier tummies!!!

[HIM]

*Hides copy of Heat under her sick bed* umm...think the cat ran away with it sorry. Here, have "Mathematics in Nursery Education instead!!!" Look, there are teddies on the cover!!! And they have numbers on thier tummies!!!


well if those guys really do have numbers on their tummies, you've sold it to me.

(i may still have to wrestle you for your 'heat', tho)

[hatfull]

Oh, it's the same old trash...girls who are on diets, girls who 'should' be on diets, z list stars falling over and, of course, Russell Brand

Yes, the cartoon teddies really do have numbers on their tummies.

[Kewpie]

See, it was like I said...some people just want to die...

(like me)

Who gives a damn about you...pathetic attention seeker.

[!Viva Hate!]

Oh I was just waiting for you to say something jerk...

[HIM]

Oh, it's the same old trash...girls who are on diets, girls who 'should' be on diets, z list stars falling over and, of course, Russell Brand

Yes, the cartoon teddies really do have numbers on their tummies.


any news on harvey?

[hatfull]

Who's Harvey? (I am very out of touch, I used to read Heat every week at work, don't bother much these days)

[HIM]

Who's Harvey? (I am very out of touch, I used to read Heat every week at work, don't bother much these days)

jordan's son. i saw a headline that she set him on fire recently

[hatfull]

jordan's son. i saw a headline that she set him on fire recently

Oh that Harvey!!! He got into a scalding hot bath I think, easy for children to do. He's ok now though I think.

[HIM]

Oh that Harvey!!! He got into a scalding hot bath I think, easy for children to do. He's ok now though I think.

well, of course, that harvey! he's in 'heat'/'ok'/'reveal'/'hello' every week. (not that i get them, myself - a girl i used to work with got them and if i was bored i'd glance at them, that's all! :o )

[hatfull]

well, of course, that harvey! he's in 'heat'/'ok'/'reveal'/'hello' every week. (not that i get them, myself - a girl i used to work with got them and if i was bored i'd glance at them, that's all! :o )

'Gkance at them' ie, sneak off with them when she wasn't looking and gorge yourself on celebrity gossip (most of which is made up)

[HIM]

'Gkance at them' ie, sneak off with them when she wasn't looking and gorge yourself on celebrity gossip (most of which is made up)

well, ok then, y'got me :o

[hatfull]

Did you used to fill in all the crosswords? That's when you know you have a problem...

[mspendl828]

Gladstone and the Liberal Party; Michael Winstanley

[girlunafraid]

Oh, it's the same old trash...girls who are on diets, girls who 'should' be on diets, z list stars falling over and, of course, Russell Brand

Yes, the cartoon teddies really do have numbers on their tummies.

This week's Heat has somebody with a "Meat is Murder" tattoo that was alright. I read it in the dentist waiting room, honest.

[thursdays child]

im reading, short stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky:)

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cf/Executioners_song.gif

[Codreanu]

Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Very Private Life
by Robert Bernard Martin

http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/6275/gmh1bl8.gif

[slum mum 1974]

Paramedics By Paul Chapman & Jeremy Mills

(The book of the TV series)

[mspendl828]

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0895260131.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

[hatfull]

Ah yes, the tattoo was ok...but...it was Jodie Marsh who made her boyfriend get the tattoo! *feels ill at the memory *

[Walkers Crisp]

"Margrave Of The Marshes" by John Peel/Sheila Ravenscroft

[miss_bunbury]

Alan Bennetts History Boys

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f36/MissBunbury/bennet.jpg

:cool:

[vivaissy]

im back again again again on the l-shaped room trilogy...ive just started 'two is lonely'
its only like my fv book like ever like y'know?

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0895260131.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

you have issues, don't you?

[Kuiper]

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0895260131.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

:cool:

I just started re-reading The Hobbit. Then I lost the book. Damn...

[Born under a bad sign]

Football results

barcelona 1 LIVERPOOL 2

[Born under a bad sign]

Liar
Stop Trying To Be A Snob

I Did Read Crime And Punishment Though, The Last Decent Bestseller Of His

[Born under a bad sign]

Notdes On Suicide Before I Succumb To Reading Russian Shite

[sonof77]

Johnny marr(The Smiths & the art of gun-slinging) -Richard Carmen. Can't really call it a book.
Untold stories - Alan Bennett
Orlando - Virginia Woolf
The Public Image - Muriel Spark

[Stitchell]

Beneath The Underdog - Charles Mingus

[English Heart]

I'm reading "All Men Have Secrets" and I can't put it down. :)

[hatfull]

I'm reading "All Men Have Secrets" and I can't put it down. :)

That is a fantastic book, I was obsessed with it!

[English Heart]

It's beautiful. The best thing is, if you wanted to you could open it at any page and just start reading...

[hatfull]

It's beautiful. The best thing is, if you wanted to you could open it at any page and just start reading...
I did!!! I din't read it in order, just picked a page I fancied reading!

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/gulrober/me/quotes/2mericanfascists.jpg

ps: he's a Christian, see they aint all crazy...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hedges

[Kuiper]

I have to skim through 2-3 astronomy books for writing a paper due on the 5th. Damn...


^^Fascists? You mean, like, this one?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a9/Hitler-praying.jpg
Who said this?
National Socialism and religion cannot exist together.... The heaviest blow that ever struck humanity was the coming of Christianity
:cool:

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

I have to skim through 2-3 astronomy books for writing a paper due on the 5th. Damn...


^^Fascists? You mean, like, this one?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a9/Hitler-praying.jpg
Who said this?

:cool:

no, there are many other kinds dude
by the way the author of the book above is a pretty devout Presbyterian
who's dad is a minister :cool:
now
back on task;
i'm almost always reading 2 books during the same week
one non-fic
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0802134955.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
and one fic

[slum mum 1974]

Wuthering heights by Miss Bronte (have to read it for Uni, not a bad thing though:))

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

Wuthering heights by Miss Bronte (have to read it for Uni, not a bad thing though:))

Emily Brontë
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/Emilybronte_retouche.jpg
may have been doable :p
as long as the cracks are not a part of the portrait :eek:

[the more you explore me!]

Kitchen Confidential: anthony bourdain.



xxxx to the person who told me about it:)

[Bluebirds]

Johnny Marr biography- rather tempered by typos, inaccuracies and a bizarre bit which somehow manages to incorporate the fact that j'en ai marre in French means I'm fed up!!! Not the greatest literary masterpiece to grce my toilet seat.

Gary Imlach- My Father And Other Working Class Heroes- absolutely riveting read. A must read for all fans of football and those who have suffered loss and want to piece together a lost life. Only £3 in HMV!!

The Little Prince- Antoine Saint Exepury- hadn't read it since i were a kid, still brings a tear to the eye and makes one laugh out loud. A bit like The Smiths really.

Shadows Of The Wind- Carlos Ruiz Zavon- a rather riproaring entertaining yarn. Recommended. Although it does go on a bit at the end.


And that was my holiday in Morocco!!!

[Albion]

The Man Wthin-Graham Greene and amny other bits & bobs of poetry.

[HIM]

"where stuff comes from: how toasters, toilets, cars, computers and many other things come to be as they are" - harvey molotch

"death and the penguin" - andrey kurkov

[hatfull]

I just ordered 'Blue Moon' by Lauren K Hamilton

[Codreanu]

http://img489.imageshack.us/img489/6629/coverapriluj0.jpg

BBC Music Magazine
April 2007 – Volume 15 Number 8

FEATURES

COVER STORY: The 20 Greatest Sopranos of all time
Which prima donnas do the critics think have packed the biggest punch? Read the results of our exclusive poll - and find out which sopranos inspire our brightest young singers.

2007 Summer Festivals Guide
Welcome to our essential guide to this summer's classical music festivals across the UK, Europe and the US.

Composer of the Month
Berio: maverick yet approachable

Musical Destinations
Daniel Ja ffé reports from Arques, France

Building a Library
Haydn, Prokofiev and Verdi

/

Oh, how I love thee, Busy Clippers. ;)

"misterioso...
croce e delizia al cor!" * (http://download.yousendit.com/E854E9870249D095)

xxx

[thewarroom]

Kitchen Confidential: anthony bourdain.



xxxx to the person who told me about it:)

OMG that's a fantastic book! I read it awhile back. :D

[slum mum 1974]

There are a few.......Criminology :Stephen jones, Gender and social psychology: Vivien Burr, Women and Crime by Frances Heidensohn and last but not least When She Was Bad By Patricia Pearson.....

[bikubesong]

http://www.npr.org/news/images/2005/aug/24/crime_punishment200.jpg

[FlickanMedTörnen]

oo i love crime & punishment.
about to start on the picture of dorian gray. thought it was a shame i hadn't read a word by wilde..

[Theo]

WHAT IS THEO READING RIGHT NOW????


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http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1559212969.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307265439.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1596911638.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

[Theo]

&

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1596240148.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_V45258874_.jpg

[bikubesong]

oo i love crime & punishment.
about to start on the picture of dorian gray. thought it was a shame i hadn't read a word by wilde..
You'll love it. but there's a point in that book it gets soo boring you wanna give up, then suddenly everything happens. Fast:eek::p so, i recommendsssss

[FlickanMedTörnen]

You'll love it. but there's a point in that book it gets soo boring you wanna give up, then suddenly everything happens. Fast:eek::p so, i recommendsssss
good to know, i'll hang in there

[velvet]

I just began reading "The Da Vinci Legacy" of Lewis Perdue.
I found it in a store last week, and it was sooo cheap. ;)
Some people say that Dan Brown copied him, because the book of Perdue was printed in the 80's, but just had a remake a few years ago. :D

[bikubesong]

I just began reading "The Da Vinci Legacy" of Lewis Perdue.
I found it in a store last week, and it was sooo cheap. ;)
Some people say that Dan Brown copied him, because the book of Perdue was printed in the 80's, but just had a remake a few years ago. :D
Lol:p I haven't read any of Dan Brown's's books. but parody's.. are ok:D

[Robert Neville]

I'm Now Reading Catcher In The Rye :O

[Walkers Crisp]

"Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer.

[meat_is_murder19]

The gift lewis hyde

[Strange Fear]

Flowers in the Attic

[The Seeker of Good Songs]

To my daugter at bedtime: Many Waters by Madeleine L'Engle

To my son at bedtime: THE BOXCAR CHILDREN - BOXCAR MYSTERIES #16 MYSTERY IN THE SAND

to myself:

Why Geography Matters: Three Challenges Facing America: Climate Change, the Rise of China, and Global Terrorism by Harm de Blij

and

The Skeptical Environmentalist by Bjorn Lomborg

and

The Bible

[slum mum 1974]

Flowers in the Attic

Ooooh, strangey that is such a :( book.....very good but oh so sad..

[Strange Fear]

Ooooh, strangey that is such a :( book.....very good but oh so sad..

I know, well what I've heard of it. I barely started it today and I just can't believe what a great book it is, I can't wait to keep reading it, though I already know what happens.:(

[slum mum 1974]

surely that makes reading it even worse.......i hate to know what happens in a book especially when it's sad.....i'm like that with my films, i can't watch it again if it upsets me....i'm so pathetic....:o

[Strange Fear]

surely that makes reading it even worse.......i hate to know what happens in a book especially when it's sad.....i'm like that with my films, i can't watch it again if it upsets me....i'm so pathetic...


Yeah, it kind of does:( But luckily since the book is fantastic I just can't wait to read every single thing that happens. I guess after I read it I might see the movie:)

You're not pathetic, it's just a special kind of emotion that one gets towards movies, for a long while I couldn't watch Bambi and Dumbo:(

[appleblonde]

http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/4370/adoredcw6.png (http://imageshack.us)

[slum mum 1974]

Yeah, it kind of does But luckily since the book is fantastic I just can't wait to read every single thing that happens. I guess after I read it I might see the movie:)

You're not pathetic, it's just a special kind of emotion that one gets towards movies, for a long while I couldn't watch Bambi and Dumbo:(

B..BB..Bambi......:( *runs off sobbing* sooooooo cruel, Walt needs slapping for psychologically scarring kiddywinks with that sort of horror....I'm 33 and i still can't watch it....:o

[Strange Fear]

B..BB..Bambi.....*runs off sobbing* sooooooo cruel, Walt needs slapping for psychologically scarring kiddywinks with that sort of horror....I'm 33 and i still can't watch it...

Yes Bambi:( , I just realized I haven't watched it in 9 years:o . Well, if they actually froze Walt Disney:rolleyes: , when he wakes up you can slap him;)

[mspendl828]

Servants of the People: The Inside Story of New Labour
by
Andrew Rawnsley

[slum mum 1974]

Yes Bambi, I just realized I haven't watched it in 9 years:o . Well, if they actually froze Walt Disney:rolleyes: , when he wakes up you can slap him;)

I'll be first in the queue....:D

[Strange Fear]

Cool:D

[slum mum 1974]

I will slap him for every child he has scarred:D, (although i really love some of his films) i think the animators are really sadists or is it masochists?....i forget:o

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

WHAT IS THEO READING RIGHT NOW????

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0307265439.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

good book
but my fave by him is
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/gulrober/movie%20posters/oodmeri.jpg
now
back on task;
http://cyberread.com/files/_xml_import/littlechildren4.jpg
if i like it
i'll watch the movie after :)

[AngelGoneMad]

I am currently waiting for my Jane Austen books to be delivered...i bought Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion and Pride and Prejudiced...anyone read them?

[slum mum 1974]

Never actually read them but i love the films...Mr Darcy...*SWOON*...:) Have fun...i may have to dig out my copies now and give them a go:o

[half a person]

I'm reading 'Pies and Prejudice: In serach of the North' by Stuart Maconie, bought soley on the strength of the title :) It's very good, with a fair few Morrissey references.

[Grim O'Grady]

Blue Blood - Mike Doyle
easy read but what can you expect from a footballer?

love

Grim

[slum mum 1974]

How was your trip?....sorry it's not on topic but what is these days in the 'Off Topic' section :p

[Grim O'Grady]

How was your trip?....sorry it's not on topic but what is these days in the 'Off Topic' section :p

marvelous dear, mind you I can't believe I sang 'I predict a Riot' on karaoke but me mates said I did, I'm obviously not used to real northern ale anymore!
I had to red-bull it home Sunday but still it was a great weekend.
How was yours?

love

Grim

[slum mum 1974]

marvelous dear, mind you I can't believe I sang 'I predict a Riot' on karaoke but me mates said I did, I'm obviously not used to real northern ale anymore!
I had to red-bull it home Sunday but still it was a great weekend.
How was yours?

love

Grim

ooooh, northern ale...don't touch it anymore it got me into trouble three times....i'm a lightweight now:o can't handle me beer...

I thought you sang it really well......i was over in the corner...hehehe...My weekend was good too....cheers for asking..:)

[the more you explore me!]

"pretty girls make gravy" the morrissey/smiths cookbook.

[bikubesong]

"pretty girls make gravy" the morrissey/smiths cookbook.
WHATTT????..

[Kumo]

I am currently reading the Kojiki in acient Kanji with side by side English translation.

I am also reading Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960 by Dr. Milton Friedman

I also just started Koizumi Diplomacy: Japan's Kantei Approach to Foreign and Defense Affairs

Kumo

[slum mum 1974]

I am currently reading the Kojiki in acient Kanji with side by side English translation.

I am also reading Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960 by Dr. Milton Friedman

I also just started Koizumi Diplomacy: Japan's Kantei Approach to Foreign and Defense Affairs

Kumo

Are you reading those for fun or what? ;)

[sonof77]

Just started re-reading Shout by P.Norman. Not read it for about 10 years.

[Kumo]

Are you reading those for fun or what? ;)

In French there is a saying that goes something like
"you can neither force someone to love or read"

I read for my own pleasure...

Kumo

[mspendl828]

I am also reading Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960 by Dr. Milton Friedman


A great book.

I highly reccomend it to anyone.


Anyway, I'm now re-reading

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1842750267.02._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

EDIT:

Just started re-reading Shout by P.Norman. Not read it for about 10 years.

Another great book.

[Spineless Swine]

Currently reading Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion." As a athiest I nod my head to every sentance uttered, It's my bible

[mspendl828]

Currently reading Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion." As a athiest I nod my head to every sentance uttered, It's my bible

Have you read

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0722536771.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

It basicly goes over things attributed to Jesus and says where similar things were attributed to pagen gods pre-Jesus and makes the case that the whole idea of 'Jesus' was created by the Church to attract pagens into converting. I don't think I've phrased that especially well but it's a very interesting read.

[Spineless Swine]

sounds interesting, may give it a browse

And have you really read that Tory book?

post 100 yay!

[virtually dead]

Congratulations :)

I'm reading In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

[mspendl828]

sounds interesting, may give it a browse

And have you really read that Tory book?

post 100 yay!

Yeah, this is my second read through as I just finished a book about the Labour Party during the same time period by Andrew Rawnsley so thought I'd go back to the Tory book to refresh myself about what was going on there in comparison.

The problem with the Tory book is that it finishes with people saying how great Iain Duncan Smith is and how he'll take the party back to power etc etc... :rolleyes:

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

Congratulations :)

I'm reading In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

after you are done, i suggest watching
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/gulrober/movie%20posters/psh.jpg

[virtually dead]

it seems i shall never be done :eek:

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

http://www.harpercollins.com/harperimages/isbn/large/8/9780060936648.jpg
in the world i wanna live in :cool:
this book would also be made into a rad film everybody went to see :)
but alas :(
i live in this one instead...

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/gulrober/her/symbols/1850658420.jpg
its like the closest you can get to Iain King writing a book :o
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_King

[Vauxhall95]

YES! I love The Picture of Dorian Gray. Have you read Notes From the Underground?

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

YES! I love The Picture of Dorian Gray. Have you read Notes From the Underground?

yep, both
my fave Dostoevsky is The Idiot :)
&
of Oscar Wilde's i'd have to say The Importance of Being Earnest :o

[Cassius]

I like Wilde's "The Decay of the Art of Lying"

[Vauxhall95]

The Importance of Being Earnest is glorious, but I can re-read The Picture of Dorian Gray a hundred times!

[Bluebirds]

Christine Keeler- The Truth At Last.

Christine Keeler was the subject of the film Scandal. This book came out about 15 years after said film.

Ghost written unfortunately.

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

Christine Keeler- The Truth At Last.

Christine Keeler was the subject of the film Scandal. This book came out about 15 years after said film.

Ghost written unfortunately.
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/gulrober/sexy/CKeeler1.jpg
the babe that brought down a government...

[Codreanu]

http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/6266/4c8gq4.jpg

[hatfull]

COD!!!!!
How are you?

[Codreanu]

^Shhhhhhhhhh!!! Quiet!

http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/6802/bookworm2afj4.jpg

Keep it down, or Kewpie will toss you from this thread.

[hatfull]

Ah, drunken hatfull has com out to play. *whisprs* how are you?

and I am reading...this forum?

[Codreanu]

^How am I? A little 'tipsy'... I've been reading all afternoon, and must've swallowed the worm.

[hatfull]

Me too. Ooooooooh! I am reading a book at the moment! I'm reading 'The Witches' and 'The Enormous Crocodile' by Rohld Dahl to the kids at school. Very good books for kids, even now.
How is everything else Cod?

[HIM]

unadulterated filth & depravity, generally

[hatfull]

Really? Now that sounds worth reading...

[HIM]

remind me, then and i'll show you, some time. although, i think you may already have read some. let me know.

[hatfull]

I think we could have a nice, lazy afternoon tomorrow inbetween working

[Kewpie]

^Shhhhhhhhhh!!! Quiet!

http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/6802/bookworm2afj4.jpg

Keep it down, or Kewpie will toss you from this thread.


Ewww...I never toss anyone from here. :rolleyes:

[thewarroom]

"Hate Mail From Cheerleaders"

Its a collection of columns by Sports Illustrated writer Rick Reilly. Very funny stuff!

[HIM]

"tombstoning", by doug johnstone. just started it, really. so far, not bad, at all.

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

http://www.bookcourt.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/7%20plays.jpg

[Oh my god, it's Robby!]

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/gulrober/41C.jpg
my friend wrote it :)

[Busy Clippers]

http://www.bookcloseouts.com/images/small/isbn978039/9780399529689-s.jpg

Bonus Morrissey reference, p 62:

The kitchen of New York artists Rob Pruitt and Jonathan Horowitz' brilliant gothic house includes a butcher block table upon which they painted in lovely, drippy, bright red, "Meat is Murder." The photo is captioned, "A $40 butcher block table, right, became a style statement even Morrissey could love."

[CharethCutestory]

The TV/Movie-tie in of Robocop 2 by Ed Naha.

[Hellie]

I know why the Caged Bird Sings....its a powerful book.

[the more you explore me!]

The wanderers: Richard Price

[Walkers Crisp]

"I, Claudius" - Robert von Ranke-Graves

[mozmal]

Landscapes Of The Mind by David Bret. It's a join the dots Morrissey biography that has some mistakes. If you're a serious fan, there's nothing you won't already know. :D

[thewarroom]

Landscapes Of The Mind by David Bret. It's a join the dots Morrissey biography that has some mistakes. If you're a serious fan, there's nothing you won't already know. :D

That was the first Moz book I read. It wasn't too bad.

I'm reading: Hate Mail From Cheerleaders by Sports Illustrated columnist Rick Reilly.

[the judge]

The Decay of Lying, Oscar Wilde.
I should read some novels for exams, but Oscar is far better. :D