Wavey Davey 0 Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 The dark tower 6 the song of susannah - stephen king What are the Dark Tower books like Bias? Can't speak for the other lad but the Dark Tower books are great. Have to read them in order though, or you'll get completely lost. Based on a poem called "Child Rolande to th Dark Tower came" As for Porno, massive disappointment and far inferior to Trainspotting. I prefer Filth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SloopJohn 0 Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 I'm reading the third installment of À La Recherche Du Temps Perdu, the Guermantes Way, by Marcel Proust. I always wonder why I bother with other authors when I'm reading Proust. it's almost discomforting how much better he is than every author of the past century. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Manson 0 Posted September 17, 2008 Author Share Posted September 17, 2008 Agatha Christie - The Mousetrap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wavey Davey 0 Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 I'm reading the third installment of À La Recherche Du Temps Perdu, the Guermantes Way, by Marcel Proust. I always wonder why I bother with other authors when I'm reading Proust. it's almost discomforting how much better he is than every author of the past century. "Mmmm. Quite." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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SloopJohn 0 Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 I'm reading the third installment of À La Recherche Du Temps Perdu, the Guermantes Way, by Marcel Proust. I always wonder why I bother with other authors when I'm reading Proust. it's almost discomforting how much better he is than every author of the past century. "Mmmm. Quite." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammynb 3342 Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 joseph conrad - the secret agent peter carey - my life as a fake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 10674 Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 Spot's Windy Day, it's a page turner and no mistake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starostin 0 Posted September 21, 2008 Share Posted September 21, 2008 Red Square - Martin Cruz Smith The Ghost - Robert Harris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bombadil 0 Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 Terry Pratchett - The Truth. I haven't read any of his other Discworld novels, but I have to say I quite like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wavey Davey 0 Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 Terry Pratchett - The Truth. I haven't read any of his other Discworld novels, but I have to say I quite like it. Well get crackin'. There's a lot to get through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Kenneth Noisewater 0 Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 To follow on from The Damned United. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14011 Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 Home Run - Escape From Nazi Europe I bough tit a while ago in June I think but I got two or three books at the same time There are some quality anecdotes in this book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Manson 0 Posted November 12, 2008 Author Share Posted November 12, 2008 Brecht - The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui I saw this play at an amateur theatre and loved it. Finally got the script, and have fallen in love with it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 Read quite a lot over the last month or so. Recently read the excellent 'The Wild Life of Sailor and Lulu' by Barry Gifford. Six interlocking novellas, the first of which David Lynch made into the film 'Wild at Heart'. Gifford also collaborated with Lynch on 'Lost Highway'. Kill, Kill, Faster, Faster by Joel Rose. Irvine Welsh said it was 'absolutely fucking brilliant' and who am I to argue? Fup by Jim Dodge, nice little book about a lad, his grandson and their pet duck. Much better than it sounds. The Bruno Dante trilogy. Three (thinly-veiled autobiographical) novels by Dan Fante (son of John Fante, of whom Bukowski said 'Fante was my God'). They basic chronical a battle against alcoholism and inner demons and are very similar in style to Bukowski's novels but more depraved. Also read 'Wake Up' by Kerouac but it's hard work to be honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 71 Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 Read quite a lot over the last month or so. Recently read the excellent 'The Wild Life of Sailor and Lulu' by Barry Gifford. Six interlocking novellas, the first of which David Lynch made into the film 'Wild at Heart'. Gifford also collaborated with Lynch on 'Lost Highway'. Kill, Kill, Faster, Faster by Joel Rose. Irvine Welsh said it was 'absolutely fucking brilliant' and who am I to argue? Fup by Jim Dodge, nice little book about a lad, his grandson and their pet duck. Much better than it sounds. The Bruno Dante trilogy. Three (thinly-veiled autobiographical) novels by Dan Fante (son of John Fante, of whom Bukowski said 'Fante was my God'). They basic chronical a battle against alcoholism and inner demons and are very similar in style to Bukowski's novels but more depraved. Also read 'Wake Up' by Kerouac but it's hard work to be honest. I'm gonna give Meenzer a couple of books for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 Read quite a lot over the last month or so. Recently read the excellent 'The Wild Life of Sailor and Lulu' by Barry Gifford. Six interlocking novellas, the first of which David Lynch made into the film 'Wild at Heart'. Gifford also collaborated with Lynch on 'Lost Highway'. Kill, Kill, Faster, Faster by Joel Rose. Irvine Welsh said it was 'absolutely fucking brilliant' and who am I to argue? Fup by Jim Dodge, nice little book about a lad, his grandson and their pet duck. Much better than it sounds. The Bruno Dante trilogy. Three (thinly-veiled autobiographical) novels by Dan Fante (son of John Fante, of whom Bukowski said 'Fante was my God'). They basic chronical a battle against alcoholism and inner demons and are very similar in style to Bukowski's novels but more depraved. Also read 'Wake Up' by Kerouac but it's hard work to be honest. I'm gonna give Meenzer a couple of books for you. Cheers mate. Got loads to read but always on the lookout for more. I'll lokk forward to getting them. I think you'd like any of the above but the Fante stuff is highly recommended. Did you ever read any of those novels (The Bandini Quartet) by John Fante I was on about? Brilliant writer. Should be mentioned in the same breath as people like Hemingway. Also read 'The Stars my Destination' recently by Alfred Bester. Very good (and I know you like a bit of sci-fi). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 71 Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 Read quite a lot over the last month or so. Recently read the excellent 'The Wild Life of Sailor and Lulu' by Barry Gifford. Six interlocking novellas, the first of which David Lynch made into the film 'Wild at Heart'. Gifford also collaborated with Lynch on 'Lost Highway'. Kill, Kill, Faster, Faster by Joel Rose. Irvine Welsh said it was 'absolutely fucking brilliant' and who am I to argue? Fup by Jim Dodge, nice little book about a lad, his grandson and their pet duck. Much better than it sounds. The Bruno Dante trilogy. Three (thinly-veiled autobiographical) novels by Dan Fante (son of John Fante, of whom Bukowski said 'Fante was my God'). They basic chronical a battle against alcoholism and inner demons and are very similar in style to Bukowski's novels but more depraved. Also read 'Wake Up' by Kerouac but it's hard work to be honest. I'm gonna give Meenzer a couple of books for you. Cheers mate. Got loads to read but always on the lookout for more. I'll lokk forward to getting them. I think you'd like any of the above but the Fante stuff is highly recommended. Did you ever read any of those novels (The Bandini Quartet) by John Fante I was on about? Brilliant writer. Should be mentioned in the same breath as people like Hemingway. Also read 'The Stars my Destination' recently by Alfred Bester. Very good (and I know you like a bit of sci-fi). Fante is on 'the list' and has been since you mentioned it a year ago... Just gave away 'Hollywood' by Bukowski (his funniest by far) and this... http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue308/books2.html ...which I know you'd love. 'The Stars my destination' should be good if you're other recc's are anything to go by. Barry Gifford - I didn't know that. Reading is stopping me from writing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 I think you and someone else mentioned that ages ago (Altered Carbon) on N-O. I must check it out. I liked 'Hollywood'. Not Bukowski's best work but still class. Most people who like him have read Factotum, Post Office and Women (the latter being the weakest probably, although still qulaity again) but not so many have read 'Ham on Rye'. Which is another of the Henry Chinanski novels and a prequel to the others. Pulp is class as well (a sort of humourous and surreal take on a Phillip Marlowe story). Pulp was his last novel completed just before he died. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khay 10 Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 If anyone is interested The Wheel of Time books should be being made into films and for each film there should be a game to go with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 Something to do with Death - Sir Christopher Frayling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fop 1 Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 Something to do with Death - Sir Christopher Frayling No you're not[/happyface] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 Something to do with Death - Sir Christopher Frayling No you're not[/happyface] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15350 Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 Never stalks people into other threads just to pick an argument with them, you know. Never. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 Never stalks people into other threads just to pick an argument with them, you know. Never. Who's that by? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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