Books

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 12:27 pm

quick wrote:
Lizkins wrote:
valuetime wrote:you're exactly right, my main man.

now turn that four-dicked cartoon face off RIGHT NOW!

that's Mr Zoiburg to you Valuetime if only i could attach a sound bite right now cos that'd be gold
ZoiDburg

Hello Mr Anal. That is your name right?

diode · Post by **diode** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 1:52 pm

A very good read is "Marching Powder" by Rusty Young.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... 4?v=glance

Post by **lynt** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 2:11 pm

breaksRbest wrote:I really liked the book Porno, great sequel to Trainspotting.

bet you found you didnt end up getting what you expected

Hardy · Post by **Hardy** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 2:12 pm

breaksRbest wrote:I'm reading Shantaram at the moment

it's a true story about a guy who escaped prison (in Melbourne) and ended up in the Bombay Mafia

(cutting a long story short)

the longest book I've ever bought

I really liked the book Porno, great sequel to Trainspotting.

That sounds pretty cool! Who is it by?

Will · Post by **Will** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 3:05 pm

I just read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe again.

It's pretty shit.

Hardy · Post by **Hardy** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 3:26 pm

Will wrote:I just read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe again.

It's pretty shit.

That's a golden review.

But why did you reread, in full knowledge that it was in fact shit?

Will · Post by **Will** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 3:43 pm

Coz I read it when I was in Year 2 or sommit (the whole Narnia Chronicles actually) and really liked em.

Later I found out C. S. Lewis was actually a rabbid Anglican theologian who had packed his books full of Christian allegories to teach kids how to be upright, Jebus-fearing folk.

I thought it'd be interesting to read the Lion, the Witch and the Wadrobe again just to see what it's like to me now. What I found is it's boring as batshit, with some "died for the sins of others" crap in it. Shit. I think I'll be reading my kids The Hobbit instead. Or Biggles.

L-J · Post by **L-J** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 4:47 pm

check out the book for the film football factory..sick sick sick

LÃ³s Kasinoâ€” · Thu Dec 23, 2004 9:37 pm

Hardy wrote:
Will wrote:I just read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe again.

It's pretty shit.
That's a golden review.

But why did you reread, in full knowledge that it was in fact shit?

How bout "The Far Away Tree" with Dick, Fanny and some other cunt..
lol... thats what we read in grade two...

Post by **breaksRbest** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 8:19 am

Hardy wrote:
breaksRbest wrote:I'm reading Shantaram at the moment

it's a true story about a guy who escaped prison (in Melbourne) and ended up in the Bombay Mafia

(cutting a long story short)

the longest book I've ever bought
That sounds pretty cool! Who is it by?

here's a review:

http://www.anovelview.com/bookreviews/s ... oberts.htm

KAmis · Post by **KAmis** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 8:43 am

reading: Reality Isnt What It Used To Be - Walter Truett Anderson
very intresting look at postmodernism, highly recommended

and re-reading: Growth Fetish - Clive Hamilton
i think everyone should read this, makes you look at consumer society in a whole new light

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 9:37 am

currently reading Joe Cinque's Consolation. It's about the ANU Law Student, Anu Singh who murdered her boyfriend and managed to manipulated the entire legal system.

Very interesting shit.

Will · Post by **Will** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 9:49 am

I heard about that case, and the book written about it. Sounded interesting.

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 10:03 am

It's by Helen Garner. Somewhat controversial i think, but i'm really enjoying it.

great_magnet · Post by **great_magnet** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 10:20 am

Reading two books at the moment:

Guts - Simon Hammond

Fascinating book all about the value and power of trusting your instincts and letting go of the new trend toward control in both business and our personal lives

Scar Tissue - Anthony Keidis

Amazing insight into a frightful and fascinating life

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 10:33 am

great_magnet wrote: Scar Tissue - Anthony Keidis

Amazing insight into a frightful and fascinating life

i probably would have murdered to read this book when i was 16.

will definitly have to get it...the snippet in the Good Weekend ages ago seemed quite interesting.

B0mBjAcK · Post by **B0mBjAcK** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 10:36 am

I like ones with pictures... pretty pictures...

Haven't read for a while, should probably get some more good books to read on the train. The last few I read were Nick Earls (a grouse aussie writer and his books are piss funny too!) Perfect Skin, chicken World, and Head Games (Problems with a unicorn and a girl is abslute gold... pissa!!!) which is a bunch of short stories.

Come to think of it I haven't read anything appart from humerous books, I'll have to check out some new books...

great_magnet · Post by **great_magnet** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 10:57 am

witty_pseudonym wrote:
great_magnet wrote: Scar Tissue - Anthony Keidis

Amazing insight into a frightful and fascinating life
i probably would have murdered to read this book when i was 16.

will definitly have to get it...the snippet in the Good Weekend ages ago seemed quite interesting.

Trust me, you'll like it, how Keidis is still alive is a serious mystery. If I was on a plane that was about to crash I'd strap him to my back and jump out the window...

Post by **breaksRbest** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 11:28 am

that sounds a bit suss to me GM

have you often fantasised about strapping Anthony to your back?

great_magnet · Post by **great_magnet** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 11:32 am

breaksRbest wrote:that sounds a bit suss to me GM

have you often fantasised about strapping Anthony to your back?

Not since therapy...

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 11:46 am

great_magnet wrote:
breaksRbest wrote:that sounds a bit suss to me GM

have you often fantasised about strapping Anthony to your back?
Not since therapy...

i was about to say i'd have him on my back for other reasons.

great_magnet · Post by **great_magnet** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 11:57 am

witty_pseudonym wrote:
great_magnet wrote:
breaksRbest wrote:that sounds a bit suss to me GM

have you often fantasised about strapping Anthony to your back?
Not since therapy...
i was about to say i'd have him on my back for other reasons.

:chunderupbothmykidneysemoticon:

waggers · Post by **waggers** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 5:51 pm

DBoy wrote:this years best reads for dboy.
Age of Consent - George Monboit (political and inciting revolution)

Yeah, Monbiot is one smart mofo - an excellent read.

Lephrenic · Post by **Lephrenic** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 11:44 pm

Anyone after some non-fiction might like to check out:

Gary Webb, Dark Alliance - CIA, the Contras and the Crack Cocaine Explosion

Prof. Alfred McCoy, The Politics of Heroin - CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade (Libraries in the city of Melbourne have this)

Michael C. Ruppert, Crossing the Rubicon - The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil

Then, like me, you can wonder where the rest of your year went.

LÃ³s Kasinoâ€” · Mon Dec 27, 2004 12:27 am

cant wait to catch this one..

http://www.knowledgemag.co.uk/allcrews/

mishki · Post by **mishki** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 7:26 pm

Hardy wrote:
Off the top of my head:

George Orwell - 1984
Dosteyovsky - Crime And Punishment
Jonathan Kellerman - The Butchers Theatre (murder thriller)
James Ellroy (pretty much all his books)
Huxley - Brave New World

three of my favourite books are in your list so I'll recommend you a book, which I love. Chances are high that you'll enjoy. Secret History by Donna Tart. Can be found at most second hand book stores. Awesome read, you won't be able to put it down. I also love Anna Karenina by Tolstoy.

spazz · Post by **spazz** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 1:16 pm

Umberto Eco?? That is such a hard read.......if ya want your brain slowly sauted.....but Name of the Rose was a good book (and film)

On the Road - Jack Kerouac - a favourite that book rocks!!!!

Read that one Hardy- then I might respect ya!!

Da Vinci Code is good and easy to read.

My pick is American Gods by Neil Gamon. I love it when the rare american can look at his own reflection (culturally speaking)

Been reading Albert Einstein's bio - very interesting man. A genius that couldnt cook and clean for himself.

Lephrenic · Post by **Lephrenic** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 1:26 pm

A genius that couldnt cook and clean for himself.

Yeah, flatmates always use that excuse.

LÃ³s Kasinoâ€” · Sun Jul 03, 2005 9:27 pm

did u know there is a book called:

Some Melbourne beats: A "map" of the subculture from the 1930s to the 1950s. by G.Carbery

fascinating !

anyway to bring this topic back from the dead...

ive got my head in a book called - The World is Flat - which discusses how the dawn of the "Information Age" ie. the internet, is contributing to Globalization and how the world is now evolving towards greater freedom for all !

a good read !

Hardy · Post by **Hardy** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 9:31 pm

Thread resurrection is always good!

Just finished reading The Diary Of Anne Frank, and have now started on Les Miserables. I should finish it by early 2007.

mecka · Post by **mecka** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 10:00 pm

Farkin blast from the past.. .!

Just finished rereading Decipher by Stel Pavlou ... incredible book. Deals with linguistics + the legend of Atlantis + cosmology and weaves this incredibly complex tale about the end of the world.

Highly recommended

Lephrenic · Post by **Lephrenic** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 12:50 am

I think there was another book thread that came after this one as well. But just in case I didn't mention it there, I recommend China Mieville - "Perdido Street Station" for some bizarre fiction. Is it sci-fi? Fantasy? Horror? Marxist dialectics? In fact it's all of the above and it rocks.

And in six months I haven't read any books, though "Crossing The Rubicon" was so dense I've had to go back over sections of it repeatedly.

valuetime · Post by **valuetime** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 9:37 am

T I C K A wrote:ive got my head in a book called - The World is Flat - which discusses how the dawn of the "Information Age" ie. the internet, is contributing to Globalization and how the world is now evolving towards greater freedom for all !

a good read !

here's a funny review of that book. but don't read it if you're enjoying it, ticka.

http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/21856/

LÃ³s Kasinoâ€” · Mon Jul 04, 2005 1:04 pm

valuetime wrote:
T I C K A wrote:ive got my head in a book called - The World is Flat - which discusses how the dawn of the "Information Age" ie. the internet, is contributing to Globalization and how the world is now evolving towards greater freedom for all !

a good read !
here's a funny review of that book. but don't read it if you're enjoying it, ticka.

http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/21856/

"On an ideological level, Friedman's new book is the worst, most boring kind of middlebrow horseshit."

got to admit its a technical review...

"On a round earth, the two most distant points are closer together than they are on a flat earth."

valuetime · Post by **valuetime** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 1:07 pm

sorry dude. just seeing that you were reading that reminded me of the review. i haven't read the book, but i thought the review was funny.

carry on.

Post by **breaksRbest** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 1:52 pm

T I C K A wrote:cant wait to catch this one..

http://www.knowledgemag.co.uk/allcrews/

They've had it in DMC for weeks now

LÃ³s Kasinoâ€” · Mon Jul 04, 2005 1:57 pm

breaksRbest wrote:
T I C K A wrote:cant wait to catch this one..

http://www.knowledgemag.co.uk/allcrews/
They've had it in DMC for weeks now

date posted - Sun Dec 26, 2004

mrj · Post by **mrj** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 2:00 pm

valuetime wrote:sorry dude. just seeing that you were reading that reminded me of the review. i haven't read the book, but i thought the review was funny.

carry on.

After reading the review I was reminded of a book by James Gleick called Faster. Basically about how everything in the world is speeding up. Contains some good analysis of concepts such as "real time" (as opposed to fake time?). Kids should check it out.

Also, Gleick wrote CHAOS as well. Great book, but a hard read. I only made it half way (graphing non-linear fractals in 3 dimensional space is a bit much for someone who got D's and E's in mathmethods).

valuetime · Post by **valuetime** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 2:04 pm

^^ i read parts of FSTR.

i can totally relate to the bit where you press "33 / cook" on the microwave instead of "30 / cook", because it's saves a fraction of a second to press the "3" button twice.

Post by **breaksRbest** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 2:24 pm

T I C K A wrote:
breaksRbest wrote:
T I C K A wrote:cant wait to catch this one..

http://www.knowledgemag.co.uk/allcrews/
They've had it in DMC for weeks now
date posted - Sun Dec 26, 2004

mirai · Post by **mirai** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 4:59 pm

Philip K Dick's stuff is cool (but pretty crazy)

calstro · Post by **calstro** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 5:02 pm

I used to read heaps.... but have slowed right down in preference to writing choons.

Currently reading Bill Bryson - History of Nearly Everything...

rad book...

great_magnet · Post by **great_magnet** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 5:05 pm

Currently: Zen & The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig

Next: The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand

factory worker · Post by **factory worker** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 5:57 pm

Been reading a few rock'nroll biographies lately, The Dirt was good but nothing unusual from sex mad, wasted rock'n'rollers, could of been GnR or Led Zeppelin....... The NIN book was far more interesting (if you like Trents work, I spose)

quiet roar · Post by **quiet roar** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 6:50 pm

great_magnet wrote:Currently: Zen & The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig

Next: The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand

You'll have to let me know what you think about Zen & ...., GM. I read that book quite a few years ago and loved it. It changed the way I looked at life, and now I'm not sure whether it was the book or just the stage of life I was at.

Enjoyed The Fountainhead too, although Rand shits me to tears.

Rents · Post by **Rents** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 7:05 pm

the diceman is the best book!!!! the sequel isn't so great tho...

I just read ham on rye by charles bukowski... a good read, fictional but pretty much the story of bukowski's upbringing....

You could try The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat by Oliver Sacks ... its an interesting read.

I'm currently reading pattern recognition by william gibson... its very contemporary. Some good quotes coming from it.

elysium · Post by **elysium** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 7:09 pm

mishki wrote:[Secret History by Donna Tart. Can be found at most second hand book stores. Awesome read, you won't be able to put it down.

how good is that book! Her writing really grabs you. Usually I am only awake enough to read on the way home - so I know a book is really, really good when I am able overcome my usual torpor on the train in the morning and read it instead of snoozing!

LÃ³s Kasinoâ€” · Mon Jul 04, 2005 7:11 pm

Rents wrote:the diceman is the best book!!!!

indeed...

and welcome to MB.com Rents!

Rents · Post by **Rents** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 7:45 pm

Thanks TICKA!

I'm still spewing i missed teebee on friday night! arghhhhh i shouldn't have read the thread on how good it was, teebee is always my favourite gig of the year though.

gnat · Post by **gnat** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 12:00 pm

I'm into Lonely Planet Morocco coz I'm going in five weeks!

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