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perkino · 21st May 2004, 02:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Flaming Toilet Bag

Good show!

'Brighton Rock' - Graham Greene (which I've been wanting to read for years

yay).

Graham Greene's It's a Battlefield is cool, we studied it as a late modernist text. my favourite books of this semester have been:

James Joyce - Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners both really engaging and interesting books esp. portrait
Joseph Conrad - The Secret Agent brilliant twist at the end, bit heavy going tho
Graham Swift - Waterland a fresh and easy to read novel, easily one of the best books of the last 20 years

by far the best tho is Gustave Temple & Vic Darkwood - The Chap Manifesto "revolutionary etiquette for the Modern Gentleman" Genius, i really want a moustache and a pipe now...

wee_kell · 21st May 2004, 03:29 PM

To Kill A Mockingbird is good

Mike - Indi Rev · 21st May 2004, 05:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Flaming Toilet Bag

Douglas Coupland is great, although I've not read 'Shampoo Planet', but 'Miss Wyoming', 'Generation X' and 'Girlfriend In A Coma' are amazing. Apparently 'Microserfs' is good too.

I've read 'Life After God', 'Microserfs', 'All Families Are Psycotic' and 'Generation X' and enjoyed them all. 'Microserfs' is definitely worth reading.

Would anyone know what I'm talking about if I were to mention Doggles (it's from a Douglas Coupland book)?

FashionWhore · 21st May 2004, 05:35 PM

im currently working my way through the works of palahniuk - read: fight club, invisible monsters, diary, choke, lullaby and currently finishing of survivor. . . . . . .

i love his work

dancedisaster · 21st May 2004, 06:44 PM

heart classics.

Crime and Punishment. Has to be one of the best stories ever, it's a favouirite of mine i DO say.

I read too many biographies as well. So says my English teacher.

Anyone read Please Kill Me?

trickyvicki · 21st May 2004, 07:45 PM

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Originally Posted by snaZZ::

im currently working my way through the works of palahniuk - read: fight club, invisible monsters, diary, choke, lullaby and currently finishing of survivor. . . . . . .

i love his work

yeah, I have only read lullaby so far and I have fight club sitting here. I love lullaby, I really liked the way it was writen, it was in a completely different style from books I have read before and I enjoyed this change of writing style and I got completely emerged in the book.

I sat and read most of the book in a day in the summer of last year, I didn't realise how long I had been sitting out in the sun till I had finished the book and stood up to go home and when I got home and took off my sunglasses and realised I was burnt to a crisp!! But the book was worth it

chewlip · 21st May 2004, 08:38 PM

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Originally Posted by perkino

James Joyce - Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners both really engaging and interesting books esp. portrait

I studied Dubliners for my A-levels, and recently read it again. I really like it. It's very poetic.

Now (not literally, obviously) I am reading the Bell Jar. Yet AGAIN!

Becca Bomb · 21st May 2004, 09:44 PM

Has anyone read any Rupert Thompson books? He's one of my faves at the moment. Especially 'The Insult'.
I also read 'Microserfs' ages ago, what a unique book!

trickyvicki · 21st May 2004, 09:53 PM

I recomend people try some Christopher Brookmyre if they havn't already, he is one of my favourite authors

A lot of his books are set in Scotland and I love the references that there are in his books to things from/in Scotland

Lovecat · 21st May 2004, 10:17 PM

Yeah hes fantastic.

perkino · 21st May 2004, 11:49 PM

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Originally Posted by chewlip

I studied Dubliners for my A-levels, and recently read it again. I really like it. It's very poetic.

Now (not literally, obviously) I am reading the Bell Jar. Yet AGAIN!

read Joyce's Portrait of the Artist.... its amazing, plays with the idea of realism in the mind as opposed to the conventional take on realism. the development of the main character is projected onto the narrative, brilliant.

i've heard good things about palanuika with regards to his style

i started reading Crime and Punishment but had to stop to start my course texts, i cant wait, its so intensely engaging. dostoyevsky's work really influenced Conrad so i'm eager to read more, it's just finding the time!!

my favourite plays are probably Chekov's The Seagull and John Osborne's Look Back in Anger. Waiting for Godot is hilarious too.

Dashingmajor · 22nd May 2004, 08:10 PM

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Originally Posted by trickyvicki

I recomend people try some Christopher Brookmyre if they havn't already, he is one of my favourite authors

A lot of his books are set in Scotland and I love the references that there are in his books to things from/in Scotland

He is very funny. His books are nice and easy to read as well. I wasn't as keen on his newest one as I have on others, but it's still good. There's a tv adaptation of quite ugly one morning being made just now, but Jack Parlabane is being played by James Nesbit. I don't understand how they can get him to do it, it just won't seem right.

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suede · 23rd May 2004, 05:24 PM

Sylvia Plath is really good - i bought "The Bell Jar" from Fopp a few months ago for Â£3. Im reading Marianne Faithfull's biography ("Faithfull") just now - its really good and only cost me Â£8.

Books are the new CDs!! hehe

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21st May 2004, 03:29 PM	#17 (permalink)
wee_kell Registered User Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: motherwell, glasgow Posts: 31	To Kill A Mockingbird is good

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FashionWhore Banned Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Dundee Posts: 9,126	im currently working my way through the works of palahniuk - read: fight club, invisible monsters, diary, choke, lullaby and currently finishing of survivor. . . . . . . i love his work

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dancedisaster Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Glasgow Posts: 1,062	heart classics. Crime and Punishment. Has to be one of the best stories ever, it's a favouirite of mine i DO say. I read too many biographies as well. So says my English teacher. Anyone read Please Kill Me?

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Becca Bomb Senior Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: the ghost train Posts: 3,738 Band: The Leatherettes	Has anyone read any Rupert Thompson books? He's one of my faves at the moment. Especially 'The Insult'. I also read 'Microserfs' ages ago, what a unique book!

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trickyvicki Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: dundee Posts: 1,544	I recomend people try some Christopher Brookmyre if they havn't already, he is one of my favourite authors A lot of his books are set in Scotland and I love the references that there are in his books to things from/in Scotland

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Lovecat Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Glasgow Posts: 1,043	Yeah hes fantastic.

23rd May 2004, 05:24 PM	#28 (permalink)
suede Registered User Join Date: May 2004 Location: Perth/Dundee Posts: 380	Sylvia Plath is really good - i bought "The Bell Jar" from Fopp a few months ago for Â£3. Im reading Marianne Faithfull's biography ("Faithfull") just now - its really good and only cost me Â£8. Books are the new CDs!! hehe