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The Little Friend by Donna Tartt

I love everything I have read by this woman (which so far is The Secret History and half of this one)

She seems to put out a book every ten years unfortunately :( (1992,2002,2013)

  On 1/11/2015 at 6:20 PM, very honest said:

 

 

picked up david lynch's "catching the big fish." patton oswalt recommended it as a primer to transcendental meditation on the "you made it weird" podcast. of course it's awesome.

Picked this up years ago in a charity shop but only ever flicked through it.

Recently I've been clearing out my flat and keep seeing it in odd corners as I sort through stuff, might have to give it a proper perusal.

  On 1/12/2015 at 6:16 PM, LUDD said:

The Little Friend by Donna Tartt

 

I love everything I have read by this woman (which so far is The Secret History and half of this one)

 

She seems to put out a book every ten years unfortunately :( (1992,2002,2013)

I read the Secret History just before coming to University, it's a pretty sweet book.

http://marcelm.nl/How%20to%20Talk%20to%20Anyone%20-%2092%20Little%20Tricks%20for%20Big%20Success%20in%20Relationships.PDF

could anyone recommend anything similar to Blood Meridian or The Man in the High Castle?

bought a copy of Dune for about 50p from Cardiff market earlier,,,,,,but the above titles have been a huge influence to the point that writing fiction has become almost impossible due their scarily high standards

Now reading: textbooks for school :(

just finished Letters to a Young Poet by Rilke, really beautiful stuff. started on Niels Lyhne by Jens Peter Jacobsen as per Rilke's praises in Letters; a nice read so far, very classical and elegant. also attempting to get through Gravity's Rainbow but school starting up will likely shit all over that.

  On 1/16/2015 at 1:02 AM, Danny O Flannagin said:

Now reading: textbooks for school :(

lel

I'm reading alsos some stuff like that.... Programmiing: Head First series (Python, C#, Java). Those books are amazing! And in the recreative world The Monk (a gothic love story).

  On 1/16/2015 at 1:02 AM, Danny O Flannagin said:

Now reading: textbooks for school :(

Same here... Currently reading Patterson and Hennesssy's "Computar Organization and Design" at sanic speed, exam's in 2 weeks

Bukowski's Ham On Rye

  On 1/16/2015 at 1:02 AM, Danny O Flannagin said:

Now reading: textbooks for school :(

I really enjoyed about 90% of my readings for uni. The other 10% were just so-so.

In fact I'm currently re-reading my micro-economics textbook.

  On 1/18/2015 at 10:02 AM, chenGOD said:

 

  On 1/16/2015 at 1:02 AM, Danny O Flannagin said:

Now reading: textbooks for school :(

 

I really enjoyed about 90% of my readings for uni. The other 10% were just so-so.

 

In fact I'm currently re-reading my micro-economics textbook.

 

  On 1/16/2015 at 8:32 PM, ThatSpanishGuy said:

 

  On 1/16/2015 at 1:02 AM, Danny O Flannagin said:

Now reading: textbooks for school :(

 

Same here... Currently reading Patterson and Hennesssy's "Computar Organization and Design" at sanic speed, exam's in 2 weeks

 

  On 1/16/2015 at 1:34 AM, logakght said:

 

  On 1/16/2015 at 1:02 AM, Danny O Flannagin said:

Now reading: textbooks for school :(

 

lel

 

I'm reading alsos some stuff like that.... Programmiing: Head First series (Python, C#, Java). Those books are amazing! And in the recreative world The Monk (a gothic love story).

 

I think you guys have a higher attention span than me. I can hardly read textbooks because its so easy to get distracted while reading them

PKD related

a tv series adapted from "The Man in the High Castle" starts this week.......gotta have a nose @ this

Musicophilia - Oliver Sacks

gonna have to nibble at this

  On 1/19/2015 at 7:09 AM, cwmbrancity said:

Musicophilia - Oliver Sacks

 

gonna have to nibble at this

Looking to read The Satanic Bible on my Kindle app, to find out it's no longer for sale in the US.

read: 'john dies at the end' sorta funny in a 'braindead the movie' way. 6/10

read: 'the wasp factory' (trying some of his non-culture books, this is the 1st) story was good in the middle, the ending was meh. i guess it didnt stand the test of time. 6/10

just started the 'revelation space' trilogy. all 5000 pages of it. i hope its worth it.

i really miss Iain Banks

  On 1/11/2015 at 6:08 PM, Capsaicin said:

I finished Dune by Frank Herbert and it was stupidly ridiculously good. Way better than I hoped, and I had high hopes going into the book. Some of the best sci-fi I've read in a long time.

I've just finished it myself and loved it to pieces too! I think I'll go on reading the following books but for now I'm reading a SAS book (spies novel by a french author named Gerard de Villiers) I found in the metro some weeks ago. It's pretty lol but way more well written than I expected it to be.

i think many watmmers might really like knausgaard's work. look him up mates

A Most Wanted Man by Le Carré, found a nice hardcover in Salvation Army for £2. Good so far.

Shadows of the horde by Michael Stackpole. Lolz it's not actually THAT bad.

Mara and Dann by Doris Lessing arrived in the post, as well as picking up The Grandmothers, also Lessing, and Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years in a local charity shop. Score!

I bought Lessing at the same time I bought some Enslaved, Cryptopsy and Decapitated cds. The cashier was confused.

Gödel, Escher Bach - 50 pages in, 700 to go, and if the first 50 pages are representative of the whole book, this is going to be one of those books you have to read with pen and pencil besides you

<3 ozi art catalogues, slowly digesting ...

Just finished Ham On Rye. Not Bukowski's best, but still pretty good. I think he peaked with his first two novels (and Pulp).