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Post by Mutant Couch on Jun 12, 2012 21:53:46 GMT -5
I finished The Mill for Grinding Old People Young. Some parts were really brilliant, but I was just rushing through it at the end. I'm going to start The Great Gatsby again. I never actually read beyond the first chapter back when we had to read it at A Level and just used an online synopsis for the exam (and somehow managed to get my best result ever by sheer luck). I never really gave it a chance, but I know people who wouldn't ordinarily read that much who swear by its brilliance. I'm still on like page 15 of it and have been for about 6 years. I pick it up every now and then and read a few sentences. I just cannot get into it. I love Tender Is the Night, so I don't know what it is. |
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Post by Tiarnán on Jun 13, 2012 3:56:11 GMT -5
I was like that the first time, but it gets a lot better once the Gatsby/Daisy stuff starts.
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Post by Tarry on Jun 17, 2012 14:27:21 GMT -5
I'm re-reading The Crow again. The artwork is fantastic, and the dialogue is so haunting.
The Crow is one of my favourite books/movies but I don't think I could ever cast it tbh.
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Post by Tiarnán on Jun 19, 2012 13:36:06 GMT -5
I finished Brideshead Revisited properly finally. I loved it so much.
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Post by Tarry on Jun 23, 2012 12:14:22 GMT -5
I'm currently reading The Rise & Fall of ECW. I got it for Christmas a few years ago, but I've only just got round to reading it.
It's actually really good, I've been reading for 2 days I'm already halfway through, which is amazing for me, because it usually takes me weeks/months to get through a book.
It's easily the best wrestling book I've read since Jericho's first.
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Post by Tarry on Jun 25, 2012 12:32:40 GMT -5
I just spent £33 on books.
I ordered Kick-Ass, Kick-Ass 2, and Watchmen. I've read Kick-Ass and Watchmen before, but I need to own then, I can't keep borrowing my friend's copies.
I almost didn't get Kick-Ass 2 because I don't like what happens to one of my favourite characters, but I've decided to man-up and just get it.
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Post by Tiarnán on Jun 26, 2012 12:20:32 GMT -5
I'm reading Cashelmara by Susan Howatch, which is good but will take a little longer than some of the other books I've read recently cause it's a 700 pager. Then I've got Pride and Prejudice lined up.
Has anyone ever noticed how common homosexuality is in literature as a theme? It's come up in a most of the books I've read lately and I didn't go into any of them expecting it. In this one the son is blatantly in love with his best friend and started crying when his dad was talking to him about sex and mentioned how gay men prey on boys his age.
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Post by Tiarnán on Jun 28, 2012 13:16:27 GMT -5
Of course I was right:
"They met at the foot of the gangway. Everyone stared as they embraced, and no one stared harder than I. They laughed, gestured, embraced again. For a long time I could not see Patrick's face; I saw only the peculiarly naked joy smoothing all trace of sophistication from Derry's expression, and then as Patrick finally turned back towards the gangway I looked upon his face and realized at last - too late - that of course he was exactly the sort of man who should never marry."
I don't object to it, but the fact that it's cropping up in every book I read is kinda killing the excitement I get when I do accidentally stumble on a gay central character.
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Post by Tarry on Jun 28, 2012 13:26:36 GMT -5
I finished reading The Rise and Fall of ECW about 10 minutes ago.
Paul Heyman is full of shit, he shifts the blame for the desmise of ECW multiple times within one paragraph. Seriously Paul, just accept the blame.
It was really good though. Kick-Ass 2 arrived today, but I need to re-read the first Kick-Ass to refresh my memory before I give that a go.
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Post by Tiarnán on Jun 30, 2012 16:48:48 GMT -5
I don't think I've ever felt so uncomfortable reading a book. I can't look away though and there's one character who I can't help sympathising with even though I'm not sure if I should be.
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Post by Mutant Couch on Jun 30, 2012 17:11:28 GMT -5
Sleeping with the Fishes. I was in the mood for something light after absurd amount of feminist literary criticism I've been forced to read. There's nothing that makes me hate my own sex more than feminist theory being shoved down my throat. Anyway, I knew I would enjoy the book before it started as it quoted both The Odyssey and The Little Mermaid in the intro. Plus, the main character is a bitchy, sarcastic, half-mermaid.
Very first line of the book: "The unbelievable horror began, when Fred walked in on her parents making love on the living room coffee table."
It's always nice to feel sorry for the main character right out of the gate.
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Post by Tarry on Jun 30, 2012 17:13:40 GMT -5
I think "For my dad and your balls..." is my favourite one liner from a comic book.
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Post by Tarry on Jul 1, 2012 6:14:33 GMT -5
I've just finished reading Kick-Ass 2. It was amazing, and it was much better than the first. The movie is sure to be a great watch.
The huge riot scene at the end is going to look so good on the big screen.
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Post by Tiarnán on Jul 2, 2012 18:27:18 GMT -5
Finished. I think everyone should probably read that. All of our countries get a mention, though poor Scotland doesn't come out of it looking too good.
Novel list 2012:
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Gregory Maguire)
Interpreter of Maladies (Jhumpa Lahiri)
One Day (David Nicholls)
Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Disgrace (J. M. Coetzee)
Notes on a Scandal (Zoe Heller)
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ (Philip Pullman)
A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
The International (Glenn Patterson)
The Mill for Grinding Old People Young (Glenn Patterson)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)
Cashelmara (Susan Howatch)
Pride and Prejudice next.
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Post by Tarry on Jul 3, 2012 5:04:01 GMT -5
Issue 2 of Assimilation2 was much better than the first. I'm already looking forward to Issue 3.
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