| Topic: What you reading? |
| Posted : 18/07/08 / Views : 5723 / Replies : 108 | |
 | | User | anon |
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|  | Just finishing Jonathan Coe - The Closed Circle. Follow up to The ROtters Club. ANyone read them.
I would also recommend his What a carve up! It's an awesome read.
ANy good recommendations? |
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| Reply #1: Re: What you reading? |
| Posted : 08/08/06 | |
| | | Just finished 'Disconnected', a very interesting insight into teen culture... not vegetarian related at all, oh was that the point of the post??! |
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| Reply #2: Re: What you reading? |
| Posted : 08/08/06 | |
| | I'm very bad at reading - have barely read any books since leaving school.
Ones I did enjoy though were To Kill a Mockingbird (was forced to read it for GCSE but ended up liking it), Inconceivable by Ben Elton and I, An Actor by 'Nicholas Craig' (really Nigel Planer and Christopher Douglas). I liked it because it has lots of pictures...
I prefer to write than read. Trying to write a book at the moment but it's not easy. |
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| Reply #3: Re: What you reading? |
| Posted : 09/08/06 | |
| | User | anon |
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| | Not veggie related, though What a carve up! has some stuff on that...
Demeter, what you trying to write? I like writing, but then get bored with my efforts after about 10 000 words... I find reading other books helps inspire me, though. |
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| Reply #4: Re: What you reading? |
| Posted : 09/08/06 | |
| | You didn't say it had to be vegetarian-related! Nigel Planer did play Neil in The Young Ones and HE was a vegetarian.
I won't tell you what I'm writing about (sorry. Got this silly idea in my head that I'm going to get it published) but it will definitely promote vegetarianism and other animal rights issues (someone has to). |
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| Reply #5: Re: What you reading? |
| Posted : 09/08/06 | |
| | You don't say what those books are about, Semtex. Are they fiction? Short stories? Comedy? Horror? Crime? etc etc.
I also find it hard to get into reading, or writing.
It's depressing (to me) that many on the bestseller lists tend to be TV-related.
I like fact-based stories rather than fiction myself. |
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| Reply #6: Re: What you reading? |
| Posted : 09/08/06 | |
| | Have just finished "Q" by Luther Blissett. fiction deals with the Reformation / counter reformation / anabaptists and lots more besides.
Have now ordered "54" by Wu Ming who are the same people as Luther Blissett.
I don't read much veggie oriented stuff. |
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| Reply #7: Re: What you reading? |
| Posted : 09/08/06 | |
| | Am rereading The Te Of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff (follow-up to The Tao Of Pooh)
Am also reading Readings In Medieval History edited by Patrick Geary
I think I need something lighter - where is that Archie comic book pile???? |
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| Reply #8: Re: What you reading? |
| Posted : 09/08/06 | |
| | | Actually, I can't read and neither can FMTP, that's why our posts are so wonderful... lmao |
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| Reply #9: Re: What you reading? |
| Posted : 09/08/06 | |
| | User | anon |
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| | CP - fact based? is that real stuff (history etc) or, much like Coe's work, fiction which includes factual events?
Rotters Club and the follow up, Closed Circle focus on the lives of some school friends in the 70's and what they are doing now...Probably doesn't sound interesting from that, but so well written.
What a carve up! relates the capitalist world to us through the story of a single family, again factual stuff that is weaved into fiction. |
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| Reply #10: Re: What you reading? |
| Posted : 09/08/06 | |
| | User | anon |
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| | | Started reading Q but had to stop. Got in about 70 pages, loved it. Yet again it weaves a lot of factual stuff with fiction. Must borrow it to finish it... |
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