Jill 0 Posted November 7, 2015 Share Posted November 7, 2015 Margaret Attwood - 'The Blind Assassin' She's a great writer but this isn't a good book for my commute because there's too much noise around me to sit and focus on it properly. When I'm just reading it at home though, it's lovely. Unfortunately that means it's going to take absolutely ages to get through as I'm used to doing most of my reading on the bus. Currently I've read about 16% and have just under 10 hours reading time left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Hermione 13863 Posted November 7, 2015 Share Posted November 7, 2015 (edited) Aye, I love Margaret Atwood. It's her most famous one but have you read Handmaid's Tale? She has some mint short story collections too, Good Bones and Simple Murders and Wilderness Tips are two I go back to every now and then. That reminds me, her new one from this year is lying around my house somewhere but I haven't read it. Edited November 7, 2015 by Ayatollah Hermione Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jill 0 Posted November 7, 2015 Share Posted November 7, 2015 I have read Handmaid's Tale, but it was a long time ago so I'm probably due another read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35079 Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 I loved The Handmaid's Tale but, for whatever reason, haven't read any more Margaret Atwood. Just finished Alan Paton's Cry the Beloved Country. Which almost sounds like a line from Curb... Proper book, as Graeme Souness would say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 21921 Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 Catch 22. I'm on a mission to get through the classics I've never read. Catcher in the rye next. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 71 Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 Never finished C22. Catcher is a proper classic but according to legend unlucky to read it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35079 Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 Catch 22 is awesome, you fucking philistine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 71 Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 Wildly overrated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 21921 Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 I have to say that it is hasn't completely grabbed me yet but I'm sticking with it. I just finished gone girl, obviously not a classic, but a page turner in comparison, so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35079 Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 Wildly overrated. Your antisemitism is clouding your judgement I reckon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 71 Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 71 Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 I have to say that it is hasn't completely grabbed me yet but I'm sticking with it. I just finished gone girl, obviously not a classic, but a page turner in comparison, so far. Gone Girl is quite good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJS 4383 Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 I tried to read Catch 22 years ago and gave up but I'm not a big "classics" reader. I've also tried to read Vonnegut and Philip Dick in the past and failed as well. I think it's partly due to being forced to read stuff in school I disliked and maybe a bit of emperors new clothes from my pov. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 20135 Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 Just finished Dead Men Risen, superb read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 71 Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 Ordered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChezGiven 0 Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 Economic Philosophy by Joan Robinson. Its a page turner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44872 Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 You don't hear the name Joan much these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howmanheyman 33191 Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 There's a lezza started at our place recently. Walks like John Wayne. Her name is now Joan Wayne after 'someone' made it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catmag 337 Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 'Someone' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 17257 Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 Economic Philosophy by Joan Robinson. Its a page turner. "Economics has always been partly a vehicle" for the ruling ideology of each period as well as partly a method of scientific investigation. It limps along with one foot in untested hypotheses and the other in untestable slogans. Here our task is to sort out as best we may this mixture of ideology and science." With these provocative words, Joan Robinson introduces this lively and iconoclastic book. "In what follows," she says, "this theme is illustrated by reference to one or two of the leading ideas of the economists from Adam Smith onwards, not in a learned manner, tracing the development of thought, nor historically, to show how ideas arose out of the problems of each age, but rather an attempt to puzzle out the mysterious way that metaphysical propositions, without any logical content, can yet be a powerful influence on thought and action." Robinson is responsible for some of the most austerely professional contributions to economic theory, but here in effect she takes the reader behind the scenes and cheerfully exposes the dogmatic content of economic orthodoxy. In its place, she offers the possibility that with obsolete metaphysics cleared out of the way economics can make a substantial advance toward science. This is why we mere mortals who inhabit the nether regions of these boards don't live in a Gallic chateau with a wine cellar the size of the Leazes Park Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howmanheyman 33191 Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 This is why we mere mortals who inhabit the nether regions of these boards don't live in a Gallic chateau with a wine cellar the size of the Leazes Park Tut tut, lifestyle top trumps, new low etc, etc. Anyway, where's Jeeves parked the bloody Rolls this time, what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 17257 Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 Any Bernard Cornwell aficionados out there?.....have read a Sharpe or two in my time but prompted by the current showing of Last Saxon am tempted to try his Arthurian series first, anyone given them a go? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 17257 Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 Tut tut, lifestyle top trumps, new low etc, etc. Anyway, where's Jeeves parked the bloody Rolls this time, what? its in its usual spot outside the Raby, next to Chez's 88 Nissan Bluebird Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44872 Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 "Robinson is responsible for some of the most austerely professional contributions to economic theory, but here in effect she takes the reader behind the scenes and cheerfully exposes the dogmatic content of economic orthodoxy." She really lets her hair down with this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toonotl 2978 Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 She hits hard. Joan a'Lomu, more like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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