Guest alex Posted May 3, 2006 Share Posted May 3, 2006 Unforgivable Blackness: Biography of Jack Johnson (boxer not singer). 130854[/snapback] Did you see the three part series 'The Fight' that was shown on the beeb about the history of boxing? It was also repeated on UK History or something recently. The first one featured Jack Johnson a lot. It was an excellent series. 130862[/snapback] The singer or the boxer? 130864[/snapback] Guess. Are you up for the match at the weekend btw? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manc-mag 1 Posted May 3, 2006 Share Posted May 3, 2006 Unforgivable Blackness: Biography of Jack Johnson (boxer not singer). 130854[/snapback] Did you see the three part series 'The Fight' that was shown on the beeb about the history of boxing? It was also repeated on UK History or something recently. The first one featured Jack Johnson a lot. It was an excellent series. 130862[/snapback] The singer or the boxer? 130864[/snapback] Guess. Are you up for the match at the weekend btw? 130879[/snapback] Aye. The second I heard Cath was out of the country I put the feelers out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 45982 Posted May 3, 2006 Share Posted May 3, 2006 Are you bringing your lass again, or will you be allowed to talk to us this time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snakehips 0 Posted May 3, 2006 Share Posted May 3, 2006 Did you see the three part series 'The Fight' that was shown on the beeb about the history of boxing? It was also repeated on UK History or something recently. The first one featured Jack Johnson a lot. It was an excellent series. 130862[/snapback] Saw that series - fantastic. It was because of Jack Johnson that the phrase 'great white hope' began iirc. Anyway, I don't want to spoil the thread so I will just state that I am still on The Fall of The Roman Empire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 45982 Posted May 3, 2006 Share Posted May 3, 2006 Stephen King - Cell and Michael Connelly - The Closers Nothing too highbrow for me at the minute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manc-mag 1 Posted May 3, 2006 Share Posted May 3, 2006 Are you bringing your lass again, or will you be allowed to talk to us this time? 130885[/snapback] She might be there but I'll leave the papoose at home this time. PS you cant blame her for being all over me likes fly's round shit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted May 4, 2006 Share Posted May 4, 2006 Having read 'Great Expectations' by Charles Dickens, I was left bitterly disappointed. 130758[/snapback] Great Expectations is utterly fantastic. 131406[/snapback] Good film too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 More of a Charles Bukowski man tbh. 66204[/snapback] Have you seen Factotum? It's canny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15716 Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 Just launching into my umpteenth Christopher Brookmyre now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 45982 Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 Just launching into my umpteenth Christopher Brookmyre now. 133193[/snapback] There's nowt like doing a day's work is there? I'm having another go at the Da Vinci Code. Started it once before and just stopped halfway through. Which means I'm having to re-read half the book as well. Cliche-tastic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walliver 0 Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 Just launching into my umpteenth Christopher Brookmyre now. 133193[/snapback] I read A Big Boy Did It And Ran Away (or something similar) which was very good. I tried to start reading another of his books but I couldn't be bothered with it. He's bald. And supports a really dodgy Scottish team, but I forget who. I'm reading Gideon Defoe's The Pirates in an Adventure With Scientists. It's superb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 More of a Charles Bukowski man tbh. 66204[/snapback] Have you seen Factotum? It's canny. 132628[/snapback] Yeah, thought Matt Dillon was good. The book is class though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetleftpeg 0 Posted May 9, 2006 Share Posted May 9, 2006 I read Glue by Irvine Welsh while on holiday - very good, enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Canny chapter about them (Hibs casuals) going into the Rangers end at a game and causing all kinds of chaos. I know Welsh was a Hibs casual in the past, and it's canny interesting to read some of the stuff he's included about that side of life that is more than likely based on fact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 (edited) Why I Am So Wise by Friedrich Nietzsche. I never tried it as typical Schoodent so I thought I'd give him a go now. I thought it was going to be a general 'I', as in a look at human cognition. Then I read the other chapter headings - "Why I am So Clever" & "Why I write such Good Books" and I thought it may not be so general. I'm only into the wise bit so far but it's funny stuff like: "However unchristian it may seem, I am not even inimical towards myself, one may turn my life this way and that, one will only rarely, at bottom only once, discover signs that anyone has borne ill will towards me - perhaps, however, too many signs of good will...My experiences even of those whom everyone has had bad experiences speak without exception in their favour, I tame every bear, I even make buffooons mind their manners. During the seven years in which I taught Greek to the top form of the Basel Grammar school I never once had occasion to mete out a punishment; the laziest were industrious when they were with me" or "One would have to go back centuries to find this noblest of races that the earth has ever possessed in so instinctively pristine a degree as I present it. I have, against everything that is today called noblesse, a sovereign feeling of distinction - I wouldn't award to the young German Kaiser the honour of being my coachman". Conceited little prick. If he put that on his CV I'd shove it straight in the bin. No wonder everyone ignored him when he was alive. Edited May 18, 2006 by Happy Face Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Manson 0 Posted May 18, 2006 Author Share Posted May 18, 2006 Having read 'Great Expectations' by Charles Dickens, I was left bitterly disappointed. 130758[/snapback] Great Expectations is utterly fantastic. 131406[/snapback] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khay 10 Posted June 21, 2006 Share Posted June 21, 2006 Jules Verne Jounrey to the centre of the earth, thought it was fitting with the time it takes me bus to get to work and back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Manson 0 Posted June 21, 2006 Author Share Posted June 21, 2006 Stephen King - Thinner But now being forced to read a german novel which, whilst I'm sure is a perfectly thoughtful novel, it's no King. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sicklee Sausage Roll 0 Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 Why I Am So Wise by Friedrich Nietzsche. I never tried it as typical Schoodent so I thought I'd give him a go now. I thought it was going to be a general 'I', as in a look at human cognition. Then I read the other chapter headings - "Why I am So Clever" & "Why I write such Good Books" and I thought it may not be so general. I'm only into the wise bit so far but it's funny stuff like: "However unchristian it may seem, I am not even inimical towards myself, one may turn my life this way and that, one will only rarely, at bottom only once, discover signs that anyone has borne ill will towards me - perhaps, however, too many signs of good will...My experiences even of those whom everyone has had bad experiences speak without exception in their favour, I tame every bear, I even make buffooons mind their manners. During the seven years in which I taught Greek to the top form of the Basel Grammar school I never once had occasion to mete out a punishment; the laziest were industrious when they were with me" or "One would have to go back centuries to find this noblest of races that the earth has ever possessed in so instinctively pristine a degree as I present it. I have, against everything that is today called noblesse, a sovereign feeling of distinction - I wouldn't award to the young German Kaiser the honour of being my coachman". Conceited little prick. If he put that on his CV I'd shove it straight in the bin. No wonder everyone ignored him when he was alive. 137921[/snapback] By the time he wrote "Ecce Homo" he had descended into madness, tbf... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 45982 Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 Just coming to the end of In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. One of the best books I've read. Has anyone seen the movie Capote? It's on my list at Screenselect, just wondering if it's any good? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetleftpeg 0 Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 I'm currently through the first 2 of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. They're canny actually, although not as funny as I'd hoped they'd be. Still, canny witty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khay 10 Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 Just got round to reading the last chapter of centre of the earth, on to book four of the wheel of time now, bought the 11th book nearly a year ago but could not remember what happend so i have been slowly reading them up again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 Just coming to the end of In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. One of the best books I've read. Has anyone seen the movie Capote? It's on my list at Screenselect, just wondering if it's any good? 159167[/snapback] I've got Capote at home (Amazon Rental) and I'm probably going to watch it tonight, so I'll let you know. Keep meaning to read 'In Cold Blood'. The only book by him I've read is 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' which is well worth reading a bit darker than the movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15716 Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 Lewisham Library have decided that their LGB-interest books aren't worthy of actual shelf space, so they're now sitting in a corner on a rickety old trolley. Fab. Just ploughed through Stephen Fry's "The Stars' Tennis Balls" as a bit of light summer reading - the basic plot's great (not surprisingly, since it's straight from the Count of Monte Cristo) but the implementation gets really clunky towards the end. Now hoping that Michael Cunningham's "A Home At The End Of The World" hits the spot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 I'm currently through the first 2 of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. They're canny actually, although not as funny as I'd hoped they'd be. Still, canny witty. 159170[/snapback] Only ever read one 'Mort', bit shit in all honesty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adios 717 Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 I've seen Capote, brilliant acting, great story, enjoyable but didn't do much for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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