Books! Books! Books!

[Mike - Indi Rev]

Yay there's forum to talk about books in (thanks kj ).

I bought a load of books last week. I got:

Introducing Philosophy
Introducing Ethics
'1984' - George Orwell
'Miss Wyoming' - Douglas Coupland
'Shampoo Planet' - Douglas Coupland
'The Dice Man' - Luke Rhinehart
'Forward The Foundation' - Isaac Asimov

All those for £39.97

That'll keep me going for a while.

[WarmToast]

IVe nvr read the dice man but ive always wanted to. Im a big dave gorman fan and alot (nearly all) of his adventures are on a par with the diceman.

Im currently reading Mostly Harmless (the last book in the hitchhikers guide series) and I just finnished hat full of sky by terry pratchett. I recommend hat full of sky to anyone who has read wee free men in the same series.

[Mike - Indi Rev]

Yeah I'm looking forward to reading 'The Dice Man' but I think it'll be a little while before I get onto it. The story sounds like such an interesting concept.

Did you know that Otaker's has a whole section dedicated to Terry Pratchett? Its the same size as the Horror section.

[WarmToast]

The one in glasgow has got a fairly big section as well. Ive only read 7 of his books but theyre great. I think after mostly harmless im going to get another discworld book.

[Dashingmajor]

The dice man is class. But don't get too enamoured with it as it is quite a scary concept really.

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[trickyvicki]

I've got dice man sitting here waiting to be read but I have loads of books to get through so I don't know when I will get a chance to read it. I keep buying books from fopp, I have loads of them now :S

i will get through them all eventually and I should get through a fair few in my 4 months off from uni!

[Flaming Toilet Bag]

Originally Posted by Mike - Indi Rev

'1984' - George Orwell
'Miss Wyoming' - Douglas Coupland
'Shampoo Planet' - Douglas Coupland

Good show!
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 bought a couple of books on Friday:

'The Haunter of the Dark' - H.P. Lovecraft
'Brighton Rock' - Graham Greene (which I've been wanting to read for years yay).

[trickyvicki]

Just started Generation X last night, I am flying through it, it is a great book so far

[Lovecat]

Originally Posted by Flaming Toilet Bag

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

Thats an excellent book. You'll feel such conflicting feelings for the characters. Brillinat never the less, i wont say anymore, dont want to spoil it.

[AlanG]

I was a naughty boy and responded to an amazon spam mail today about cheap paperbacks by spending 26bucks, ive beens pending way too much money on books lately but it will keep me going through summer, got a pile of about 20-30 to read

on way:

The Spanish Civil War (Cassell Military Paperbacks) [Paperback]
By: Antony Beevor @ £3.99

hard to find good historical non-biased accounts, hopefully will be good.

"The New Discworld Companion (Gollancz S.F.)"
Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs (Illustrator); Paperback; @ 3.99 GBP

my copy only went up to like book 15 and its loaned out/lost

"Lies (and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them)"
Al Franken; Paperback; @ 8.40 GBP each

gotta read, heard so much good things about it

"A Devil's Chaplain: Selected Writings"
Richard Dawkins; Paperback; @ 3.99 GBP each
(Usually dispatched within 24 hours)

newest book to keep me going til october when the next ones out

"The Lie: Evolution"
Ken Ham, Luther Sunderland (Designer); Paperback; @ 5.63 GBP each
(Usually dispatched within 24 hours)

comedy intelligent design creationist option LOL

[Jeebus]

Originally Posted by WarmToast

The one in glasgow has got a fairly big section as well. Ive only read 7 of his books but theyre great. I think after mostly harmless im going to get another discworld book.

Read them in order first time round. It's much better when you get all the references.

[Misanthropy]

Originally Posted by Alan G

I was a naughty boy and responded to an amazon spam mail today about cheap paperbacks by spending 26bucks

you read spam! we can't be friends any more!

[Dashingmajor]

Originally Posted by Alan G

The Spanish Civil War (Cassell Military Paperbacks) [Paperback]
By: Antony Beevor @ £3.99

hard to find good historical non-biased accounts, hopefully will be good.

I think George Orwells account of his time fighting in the Spanish Civil war, Homage to Catalonia, is very good. It's a good peice of autobiographical journalism. Well worth a read.

A concise histroy of the Spanish Civil War, by Paul Preston is pretty good if i remember rightly. I read it about 6 years ago. I'll go and dig it out and re-read it.

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[Lovecat]

After reading "For whom the bell tolls" a few months ago I've been meaning to read a historical account of the Civil war. I'll pick up the one you mentioned. Thank you.