and an album. I've just got my library card!
I've already taken out 2 books, and because I'm a new member I think I can only take out 2 more at the moment, so what should I get?
and an album. I've just got my library card!
I've already taken out 2 books, and because I'm a new member I think I can only take out 2 more at the moment, so what should I get?
Along what lines?
I don't know
if you enjoyed it then go.
The ones I've taken out are Crime and Punishment, and Why Europe will run the 21st century, if that helps.
and I know my spelling's bad so don;t suggest a spelling book
kthxbi.
Both good.
Hmm, the last one where I had that "wow" thing after finishing it was All Quiet on the Western Front by Remarque. I'd *highly* recommend that.
As for album...
You have no Nick Cave in your artist ratings (which are v. good btw), so Let Love In or Abattoir Blues.
very good choice
'all quiet at the western front' is one of the most memorable books i've read and definitely the best we had to read in school.
I wish we could've studied it in school.
It's a brilliant book.
OH SHIT
My albums are about 4 months overdue.
Fuckity fuck :(
Book
Chuck Palahniuk - Non Fiction
Album
Trojan Battlefield - Theo Beckford & Friends
I just read Starter for Ten in a day
really enjoyed it
Anything by Borges
Philip K Dick- VALIS or A Scanner Darkly or The Man In The High Castle
I second, A Scanner Darkly. Great book.
I've just finished Friedrich Nietzsche's 'Beyond Good and Evil', which was way overrated, and 'Perdido Street Station' by China Mieville, which was just the opposite. Fabulous read.
Book - easily the most enjoyable book I have ever read
Moab Is My Washpot by Stephen Fry
Got that already
I love Stephen Fry.
& Thank you for the suggestions.
Vernon God Little - DBC Pierre
these are my favourite books so one of these
anything by douglas coupland (premptive shut up to the haters)but mainly life after god girlfriend in a coma or all families are psychotic
mother night by kurt vonnegut
middlesex by some guy whose name I cant spell
jesus' son by denis johnson
norwegian wood by haruki murakami
the amazing adventures of kavalier and clay by michael chabon
a heart breaking work of staggering genius by dave eggers
revolutionary road by richard yates
pretty standard indie list but all good
Norwegian Wood
is a great read, seconded.
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro is also awesome.
survivor
by chuck palahnuik is pretty damn epic.
Recently I read
Grotesque, by Natsuo Kirino which has has a brilliantly subversive take on the modern crime novel.
Albums wise Magik Markers "boss"
I just re-read
Down and out in Paris and London by Orwell and heartily recommend.
Well played.
I preferred the Paris section to the London section, but it's great all round.
Agreed.
The London section lacks something. The Paris section more than makes up for it though...
Oh and album,
M83's Saturdays=Youth is impressing me a great deal...try that.
got it
but not yet listened properly. I will do though
Couleurs
In particular is a great track, it's like a full-on French version of Niobe by Caribou. Awesome.
A clockwork Orange
Book of Dave
Any Human Heart by William Boyd
I've just finished reading this and would recommend it to anyone. The most I have enjoyed a book in ages.
my favourite book is haruki murakami - the wind-up bird chronicle
and Electrelane as an album.
I owe about a fiver to the library :( Really should take those books back tomorrow...
...
Mackenzie - The Man of Feeling
or
Flanagan - Gould's Book of Fish
or
Samuel Johnson - The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
The Mackenzie/Johnson ones are of novella length, which I tend to love, and are packed full of minor revelations. Both are utterly beautiful.
Written on the body
by Jeanette Winterson <3
Lucky Man by Michael J Fox
i'm reading "zen and the art of the motorcycle maintenance" at the moment
you could get that. it's pretty interesting. even the bits about pistons and crankshafts.