What Did You Just Finish? - Page 3

CHUCK LIDELOL · 8th July 2008, 10:10pm

Loan'd be braw but I was thinking library.

Foxglove · 8th July 2008, 10:13pm

Slash then The Dirt - seemed logical.The review above says all that needs to be said about The Dirt. (Might read Tommyland and The Heroin Diaries unless the feeling is that they will have nothing more in them than those 2 books?)

CHUCK LIDELOL · 9th July 2008, 1:15am

Tempted to get The Heroin Diaries today but I've been told they're basically the same stories from The Dirt just elaborated. I like the front cover though! Very nearly bought it today... Instead I went for Russell Brand's My Booky Wook. Quite an interesting read that's a bit ruined as I'd previously read a biography of the dude. Decent enough. (3/5)

convectuoso · 9th July 2008, 1:34pm

Just read Coraline by Neil Gaiman on the train. Lovely, freaky little kids book, will be putting it aside for any sprogs I end up fathering.

Esme · 18th July 2008, 10:03pm

Finished 'The Kite Runner' after meaning to get round to it for a while.
Loved it, in the end, but it really was a long way in before I felt it started properly, a slow burner.
It was very moving, I sobbed numerous times.

*Charlie Parker* · 18th July 2008, 10:14pm

Bag Of Bones by Stephen King. Overwrought rubbish.

CHUCK LIDELOL · 18th July 2008, 10:26pm

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Originally Posted by Foxglove

Slash then The Dirt - seemed logical.The review above says all that needs to be said about The Dirt. (Might read Tommyland and The Heroin Diaries unless the feeling is that they will have nothing more in them than those 2 books?)

Heroin Diaries was good aye. Not REALLY worth going out of yer way for. Someone loaned it me. The artwork and the presentation were great. All the pages are graced with some almost generic teen angst pics. They're quite good. Better than blocks of text. The book's punctuated with notes on the entries from Nikki as well as friends and family (band members, management, Slash!, his mum etc). Aye, I enjoyed it. Quite read too.

Foxglove · 19th July 2008, 5:08pm

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Originally Posted by CHUCK LIDELOL

Heroin Diaries was good aye. Not REALLY worth going out of yer way for. Someone loaned it me. The artwork and the presentation were great. All the pages are graced with some almost generic teen angst pics. They're quite good. Better than blocks of text. The book's punctuated with notes on the entries from Nikki as well as friends and family (band members, management, Slash!, his mum etc). Aye, I enjoyed it. Quite read too.

Thanks for this - I think I might look it out. Have you read Tommyland?

19th July 2008, 5:25pm

The Water Method Man by John Irving. I absolutely loved The Cider House Rules and Irving's oft-pretentious writing style so I picked up this book thinking it would be similarly thought provoking, entertaining and political. I couldn't have been more wrong. It's an interesting enough story and his imagination combined with attention to detail blows me away, but I really struggled to finish this.

Mwezzi · 19th July 2008, 5:43pm

Whilst away I finished The Pirates! and in Adventure with Whaling, Heart of Darkness and Ender's Game. It's taken me about 8 years to pick up that last one, but people managed to persuade me that this sci-fi was in no way crap like the other nonsense that put me right off the genre in the first place. They were right.

HoD was a little underwhelming, but I was mostly reading it whilst half-asleep so it's possible that I missed something. That first-person recall-style was also slightly infuriating, whenever the narrator broke the stream of conciousness and did an aside it completely ruined the flow of it for me.

CHUCK LIDELOL · 22nd July 2008, 11:51pm

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Originally Posted by Foxglove

Thanks for this - I think I might look it out. Have you read Tommyland?

Nah, I assume that's Tommy's biography? I'm not sure I'd be interested in that. I like Tommy Lee, he came across very well in both books (aside from the domestic abuse in 'Dirt' which he tried to play down...) but I'm not really interested in reading more about him.

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Chuck Palahniuk - Rant.
Finished this today.

Good stuff aye. Lots of fucking effort gone into this book, it's quite a thinker when it gets going (the final third). Really easy read too, lay-outwise, with the different people's differing views and their oral biographical account of Rant's (Buster's) various schemes.

Found the lead character to be utterly repulsive but strangely romantic. I guess because the only words we hear him say in the book are ... well, lovely. It's also quite strange in that we don't actually get an accurate depiction of Rant as he's being shown from the viewpoint of so many different people and we rarely get insight into what he's thinking.

This book didn't really fall into the trap of Haunted, in that, it's not disgusting for disgusting's sake. There are gross-out moments here but they fit the story and seem to serve a purpose for the storyline and the character.

I reckon this is definitely a two-reader. I had to read back certain parts after the final twists to appreciate them further. As usual though, it's full of Chuck's faux-nihilistic 'LIVE TO DIE TO LIVE' teenage verbiage and plenty of consumer culture tips (the car-salesman). Over-all though, really good stuff. A return to form, I'd say. Reminiscent of Fight Club in a few ways. Bring on the apparent two planned sequels. 5/6.

kimzor · 22nd July 2008, 11:54pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_God_of_Small_Things

Great book. That is all.

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Originally Posted by CHUCK LIDELOL

Nah, I assume that's Tommy's biography? I'm not sure I'd be interested in that. I like Tommy Lee, he came across very well in both books (aside from the domestic abuse in 'Dirt' which he tried to play down...) but I'm not really interested in reading more about him.

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Chuck Palahniuk - Rant.
Finished this today.

Good stuff aye. Lots of fucking effort gone into this book, it's quite a thinker when it gets going (the final third). Really easy read too, lay-outwise, with the different people's differing views and their oral biographical account of Rant's (Buster's) various schemes.

Found the lead character to be utterly repulsive but strangely romantic. I guess because the only words we hear him say in the book are ... well, lovely. It's also quite strange in that we don't actually get an accurate depiction of Rant as he's being shown from the viewpoint of so many different people and we rarely get insight into what he's thinking.

This book didn't really fall into the trap of Haunted, in that, it's not disgusting for disgusting's sake. There are gross-out moments here but they fit the story and seem to serve a purpose for the storyline and the character.

I reckon this is definitely a two-reader. I had to read back certain parts after the final twists to appreciate them further. As usual though, it's full of Chuck's faux-nihilistic 'LIVE TO DIE TO LIVE' teenage verbiage and plenty of consumer culture tips (the car-salesman). Over-all though, really good stuff. A return to form, I'd say. Reminiscent of Fight Club in a few ways. Bring on the apparent two planned sequels. 5/6.

I'm reading Invisible Monsters by Palahniuk at the moment. The first I've read of his works.

Kicks ass so far.

CHUCK LIDELOL · 23rd July 2008, 12:13am

I can't remember if I've bothered with that.

Nah, I've not. I'll see if El Jenpot has it lying about, seems interesting.

kimzor · 23rd July 2008, 12:16am

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Originally Posted by CHUCK LIDELOL

I can't remember if I've bothered with that.

Nah, I've not. I'll see if El Jenpot has it lying about, seems interesting.

If she doesn't have it I'll try getting it to you once I've read it. It was a random find in a charity shop.

endless psych · 23rd July 2008, 12:27am

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Originally Posted by CHUCK LIDELOL

Found the lead character to be utterly repulsive but strangely romantic. I guess because the only words we hear him say in the book are ... well, lovely. It's also quite strange in that we don't actually get an accurate depiction of Rant as he's being shown from the viewpoint of so many different people and we rarely get insight into what he's thinking.

Is that maybe because...

The main character is the major villan and hero of the book?

Apparently there will be more Rant books. Huzzah.

On an invisible monsters note its probably the weakest of Chucks first four books (Fight Club and choke being the strongest and survivor somewhere inbetween.) Given the themes and characters are all fairly similar. The plots good but would have probably been around ten times better written by a lullaby/diary Palahniuk.