Can anyone recommend a book i should read next.
Iv'e just finished a book called Shataram and it was fantastic and i dont know if anything will top it.
Any ideas?
Cheers.
Can anyone recommend a book i should read next.
Iv'e just finished a book called Shataram and it was fantastic and i dont know if anything will top it.
Any ideas?
Cheers.
karen armstrong
a history of god
Post Office,
by Charles Bukowski.
Loved it
Read this years ago. Bukowski is fantastic.
^^ rubbish book
its just shit....
read gormenghast, tis fantastique
i've just bought gormenghast
i'm hoping it's going to be amazing, i've heard only good things.
Read
Zozo Rides a Bike,
Meg & Mog - Mog's Box
There's always one in every thread!
Smart arse!
indie kidd! woop!
http://www.walkerbooks.co.uk/Books/By-Category/Young-Fiction-Indie-Kidd-Series
good use of brackets (not!)
(Hmm?)
D:
Written on the body
by Jeanette Winterson
You won't regret it.
Cheers
I'll add it to the list.
I say this every time...
'House of Leaves' by Mark Z Daneilewski. It truly is the most incedible, ambitious, plain terrifying book ever constructed. Read the Damn thing. NO, don't sit there posting about your favourite fucking Fugazi album - get yourself over to Amazon or wherever and order it.
NOw!
NO - you don't want to fucking wait! Get express delivery! NOW!
[apologies, I get a bit carried away by House of Leaves]
^
i've always pondered about reading that, but when i "search[ed] inside" on amazon, i was totally bewildered and scared and awed and intrigued all at once. but i just wanted to high five your use of "constructed", because it doesn't look like that book has been written, especially when the text switches to panels and multiple footnotes and words dotted around the page. pretty ingenious.
Yeah, I've had a really hard time convincing friends / family
to read it. 'it looks weird!' etc is the answer I get most times or 'it's so long' but... come on - surely people use this site because they like music that might be a little challenging and 'non-standard' but ultimately more rewarding than the standard pap everyone else likes...
Point taken!
If your that fanatical about a book then it must be good.
Consider it ordered.
Cheers.
I'm a fucking English teacher.
My life is books! (and music)
And Nothing I have ever read has ever come close. So, yeah, I'm pretty damn fanatical. I really hope you give it a good chance and come to love it. Enjoy.
Thanks
I'll let you know what i think!
^ this
My copy was second-hand and is falling apart at the bindings. With any other book, that would piss me right off, but conceptually speaking it feels so right. Fuckin' a.
And I say this every time:
Neal Stephenson: Cryptonomicon
ok now I'm sounding a little odd
but I actually bought a second copy. Took all of the pages out and pasted them onto four large canvases to make a rather odd, dark artwork series (complete with ink stains etc etc) as a tribute to the book.
that's fucking creepy
I bought a second copy so I could read it without pages falling on my feet, and because I found it for a fiver at a charity shop.
I met MZD once. Lovely chap.
i'm currently reading 'then we came to the end' by joshua ferris
a recommendation from richard & judy's book club (\m/).
it's about the trials and tribulations of office life and that and it's rather funny, but also has some touching bits.
very I AM AN OFFICE WORKER-centric. if you work in an office, you'll no doubt think "omg this is so like my office", making you realise that every office really is built from a cookie cutter (kill me, i don't want to work there again).
I read that.
It was pretty good.
But it wasn't really like any office I've worked in. Probably because I've only ever really worked in stupid big open-plan offices. And mainly only with middle-aged women.
Something by Douglas Coupland
Girlfriend In A Coma or Hey Nostradamus! are probably the best places to start.
The Late Hector Kipling
by David Thewlis...the funniest and most original book I've read in years.