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I swear I'm so close to going postal... trouble is I'm home alone (not a shoddy early 90's slapstick comedy) so I'd just take myself out...

 

I'm waiting for the window cleaners (yes... they're working today.... and I gotta pay em £6 despite the fact that thirty seconds after they clean my windows they'll be hacky again) when they knock on the door they're going to get pent up anger in the form of a surly thankyou and a forced smile... oh aye, they'll not soon forget this day!

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I tried to make some joke about "turning the lights on" but it wasn't funny so instead I thought I'd dance for you

 

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I'm afraid that in reading about all the myriad reasons we have to go insane that I'm finding it harder and harder to cease the inevitable slide into disfunctional existence, rocking back on forth muttering incoherently, repeating the same stock phrase

 

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Just finished '1933 Was A Bad Year' by John Fante which is about a poverty stricken High School kid who dreams of playing professional baseball. It's only a novella really but it's excellent. Just started reading 'Lullaby' by Chuck Palaniuk (the geezer who wrote 'Fight Club').

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Aye, i hear its good like. I was thinkin Porno next as its the follow on from Trainspotting.

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I wasnt that keen on Porno, didnt cut it for me after Trainspotting.

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whats the second one doing :D bowing to roses?

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Im ganning on me hols soon and I like to take a couple of books. One a nice biography or a non fiction and then a fiction.

 

I wouldnt mind have a good go at the Stephen King novals, the early horror ones.

 

Anyone reccomend anything?

 

Also anyone read The Robin Friday Story?

 

I quite fancy that one.

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'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' by Milan Kundera. An excellent read, but melancholy.

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Class book. I've almost finished 'Lullaby' by Chuck Palaniuk (geezer who wrote 'Fight Club').

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  • 3 years later...

Bright Lights, Big City. You've probably read it Chez but, if not, I think you'd like it.

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Not read that, just checked it out on Amazon, looks good.

 

Am also re-reading Popper's All Life Is Problem Solving, which i'd recommend to anyone looking for an interesting collection of philosophical essays.

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I finally got round to getting a copy of a book I've meant to read for ages, Wanderer, Sterling Hayden's autobiography.

 

He's one of my favourite actors and had an incredible life so I was looking forward to it. But this book is absolute torture, like swimming in blancmange. He fancies himself as a Conrad I suspect, but the result is a mess - I managed about 20 pages. I'm now looking for a decent biography :superman2sa2:

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