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    Re: Fifty book challenge 2008

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    Glad you enjoyed it
    Yeah, cheers again for the recommendation.

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    Have either of you read Vile Bodies? I bought it the other day, i just haven't got round to reading it yet.
    Fraid not. I only picked up A Handful of Dust cos we're studying it in my tutorials this term, but I'd like to read more of his. I like that we've got more freedom in third year, we can write essays on pretty much anything we like. I'm thinking I'll twang Virginia Woolf in favour of stuff like Waugh, Pinter and Lawrence.

    Have you read Anais Nin's Henry and June? It's an account of her affair with Henry Miller... read half of it back in December. It's quite girly, but beautifully written, and it's pretty interesting comparing the Miller who wrote Tropic of Cancer to the Henry she describes. It annoys me that magazines like Cosmo are constantly pushing Nin as "erotica" alongside a load of guff chick lit - it's not in the same league at all.

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    Re: Fifty book challenge 2008

    Miller is erotica, he's all about the 'backscuttling'

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    6. Jean Baudrillard - The Spirit of Terrorism or A Requiem for the Twin Towers
    I read this last year too but had to re-read it for a presentation I was doing. It's pretty good.

    7. AL Kennedy - Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains
    A couple of really decent short stories in it, some not so good ones, her descriptive style is really great in places. And shes from Glasgow eh.
    8. The Life of Rob Roy - Anonymous

    9. Miranda July - No one belongs here more than you.
    Great book of short stories from the writer/director/lead actres of You Me and Everyone We Know. Kinda Murakami meets Palaniuk in shopping mall america.
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    Re: Fifty book challenge 2008

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    Read the forums for ages but never posted, thought posting in this thread would keep my motivation for reading up. So far:

    1. Night Train: A Biography of Sonny Liston - Nick Tosches
    2. Pound for Pound: A Biography of Sugar Ray Robinson - Percy Sutton
    3.Atlas: From the Streets to the Ring: A Son's Struggle to Become a Man - Teddy Atlas

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    Re: Fifty book challenge 2008

    1. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1st book in the HHGttG series) - Douglas Adams
    2. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (2nd book in the HHGttG series) - Douglas Adams
    3. Life, the Universe and Everything (3rd book in the HHGttG series) - Douglas Adams
    4. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (4th book in the HHGttG series) - Douglas Adams
    5. Mostly Harmless (5th book in the HHGttG series) - Douglas Adams
    6. The God Delusion (2006 Ed.) - Richard Dawkins

    Interesting book, a bit argumentative in style for my tastes, but still worth a read. Going to look for more of his books now.
    Quote Originally Posted by ¡Punk!
    The guy's done a lot more than most people despite the fact he looked like a half aborted feotus and he's always up for a wee bit of banter about it as well.

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    Re: Fifty book challenge 2008

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    1. An introduction to African Politics - Alex Thompson

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    2 Other voices, other rooms - Truman Capote

    I like his writing although the descriptions are long and rich, I couldn't read a few of his books in a row. It's obvious this was his first book, but i quite enjoyed it, full of homosexuals and ghosts set in Alabama in the 1940s what more is needed :P

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    Re: Fifty book challenge 2008

    1. The Rules of the Game - Neil Strauss
    2. The Hungry Moon - Ramsey Campbell
    3. Watchmen - Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons


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    Re: Fifty book challenge 2008

    Quote Originally Posted by Rowsbette View Post
    Yeah, cheers again for the recommendation.



    Fraid not. I only picked up A Handful of Dust cos we're studying it in my tutorials this term, but I'd like to read more of his. I like that we've got more freedom in third year, we can write essays on pretty much anything we like. I'm thinking I'll twang Virginia Woolf in favour of stuff like Waugh, Pinter and Lawrence.

    Have you read Anais Nin's Henry and June? It's an account of her affair with Henry Miller... read half of it back in December. It's quite girly, but beautifully written, and it's pretty interesting comparing the Miller who wrote Tropic of Cancer to the Henry she describes. It annoys me that magazines like Cosmo are constantly pushing Nin as "erotica" alongside a load of guff chick lit - it's not in the same league at all.
    Yeah, although Erotica is just a poncey word for pornography isn't it? I have noticed that people tend to lump Henry Miller's work in that catagory as well, and i feel (from what i've read anyway) that there is much more to his writing than that, although i can understand why some people might arrive at that conclusion.

    But i've only really got into Henry Miller so once i'm a little more familiar with his work i might give Henry and June a shot.
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    Re: Fifty book challenge 2008

    1. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1st book in the HHGttG series) - Douglas Adams
    2. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (2nd book in the HHGttG series) - Douglas Adams
    3. Life, the Universe and Everything (3rd book in the HHGttG series) - Douglas Adams
    4. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (4th book in the HHGttG series) - Douglas Adams
    5. Mostly Harmless (5th book in the HHGttG series) - Douglas Adams 6. The God Delusion (2006 Ed.) - Richard Dawkins
    7. A Briefer History of Time - Stephen Hawking

    Not a subject I have read much about but found it not too bad - Physics still isn't my subject though.
    Quote Originally Posted by ¡Punk!
    The guy's done a lot more than most people despite the fact he looked like a half aborted feotus and he's always up for a wee bit of banter about it as well.

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    Re: Fifty book challenge 2008

    1. Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomicon
    2. Neal Stephenson - The Diamond Age
    3. Joe Abercrombie - The Blade Itself (The First Law: Book One)
    4. Richard Morgan - Altered Carbon
    5. Terry Pratchett - The Light Fantastic
    6. China Miéville - The Iron Council
    7. Ian Irvine - The Curse on the Chosen (Book Two of the Song of the Tears trilogy, part of the Three Worlds Cycle)
    8. Richard Dawkins - Unweaving the Rainbow
    9. Joe Abercrombie - Before They Are Hanged (The First Law: Book Two)

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    Re: Fifty book challenge 2008

    Quote Originally Posted by Hayabusa View Post
    Yeah, although Erotica is just a poncey word for pornography isn't it? I have noticed that people tend to lump Henry Miller's work in that catagory as well, and i feel (from what i've read anyway) that there is much more to his writing than that, although i can understand why some people might arrive at that conclusion.
    Hmm, I thought Miller was a bit too crude and male-orientated to be classed as erotica... maybe not though. It's not a genre that's ever taken my fancy so I'm not entirely sure what it entails.

    1. Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
    2. D. H. Lawrence - The Rainbow
    3. Evelyn Waugh - A Handful of Dust
    4. James Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
    5. Evelyn Waugh - The Loved One
    6. Philip Pullman - Northern Lights

    Read it plenty when I was younger but hadn't picked it up for years. Still love it. I quite enjoyed the film when I saw it the other week, but the re-read's only reminded me how vastly superior the book is.

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    Re: Fifty book challenge 2008

    1. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1st book in the HHGttG series) - Douglas Adams
    2. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (2nd book in the HHGttG series) - Douglas Adams
    3. Life, the Universe and Everything (3rd book in the HHGttG series) - Douglas Adams
    4. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (4th book in the HHGttG series) - Douglas Adams
    5. Mostly Harmless (5th book in the HHGttG series) - Douglas Adams
    6. The God Delusion (2006 Ed.) - Richard Dawkins
    7. A Briefer History of Time - Stephen Hawking
    8. The Art of War - Sun Tzu
    Quote Originally Posted by ¡Punk!
    The guy's done a lot more than most people despite the fact he looked like a half aborted feotus and he's always up for a wee bit of banter about it as well.

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    Re: Fifty book challenge 2008

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    Miller is erotica, he's all about the 'backscuttling'



    8. The Life of Rob Roy - Anonymous

    9. Miranda July - No one belongs here more than you.
    Great book of short stories from the writer/director/lead actres of You Me and Everyone We Know. Kinda Murakami meets Palaniuk in shopping mall america.
    10. Edwin Morgan - A book of lives.
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    Re: Fifty book challenge 2008

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    9. Miranda July - No one belongs here more than you.
    Great book of short stories from the writer/director/lead actres of You Me and Everyone We Know. Kinda Murakami meets Palaniuk in shopping mall america.
    Oh thanks for posting this, been meaning to get a copy of that - I love Miranda July.

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    Re: Fifty book challenge 2008

    1. Troy: Lord of the Silver Bow - David Gemmel
    2. The Winter King - Bernard Cornwell - His take on Arthurian Legend this is the first in the trilogy.
    3. Enemy of God - Bernard Cornwell - His take on Arthurian Legend this is the second in the trilogy.
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