The Book thread...

Will · Post by **Will** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 3:48 pm

system wrote:
Will wrote:Att System: It's Irvine Welsh. I highly reccomend Ecstasy, Filth and Trainstpotting.
sweet, sweet irony.

heHy, waf pishgd when mp wrohte thaf, o,k?

Post by **lynt** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 3:49 pm

me kin an me dar jus cau the fitba dun pub li

Post by **system** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 4:00 pm

Will wrote:heHy, waf pishgd when mp wrohte thaf, o,k?

at least no-one apart from your keyboard was damaged as a result.

Blush · Post by **Blush** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 6:04 pm

almax wrote:
1. you reply to this post
2. you go rape Arlene
3. you start a thread titled "Dice weekend"
4. you call oxfam and donate to the tsunami victims
5. you come to DJ Krush tonight
6. you go to SUV & Pendulum

Roll away

I rolled the boring one... which is exactly what is giving me goosebumps reading the book... how disappointed you feel when the dice don't allow you to do something baaaaaaaaad

Shiver. Pity I don't know Arlene, I may well have rolled again

B0mBjAcK · Post by **B0mBjAcK** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 4:35 pm

Has anyone read How to Kill a Country: Australia’s Devastating Trade Deal With the United States, by Linda Weiss, Elizabeth Thurbon, John Mathews?

I'm reading it atm and its scary.

Lephrenic · Post by **Lephrenic** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 11:21 pm

I'm just starting Michael T. Klare's Resource Wars. Pretty self-explanatory really.

killeye · Post by **killeye** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 2:46 pm

lynt wrote:

me kin an me dar jus cau the fitba dun pub li

aye i no bin doon there fo while...hehe..

I am a big Irvine Welsh fan..I really enjoyed Porno and the linkage back to Trainspotting.

I like to read the novels that films have been based on. Solaris (Stanislaw Lem) is a great read, as was the book that A Clockwork Orange was based on (forget who that was by)!

Also a fan or George Orwell (1984, Keep the Aspidistras Flying) and HG Wells wrote some ineresting freaky sci-fi stuff (Island of Dr Moreau) that i enjoyed...

I'd have to second the Alchemist as a good read, as well as another of my all time faves On the Road.

Post by **system** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 6:46 pm

killeye wrote:the book that A Clockwork Orange was based on (forget who that was by)!

Anthony Burgess, guy.

Miss Bee · Post by **Miss Bee** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 12:31 pm

breaksRbest wrote:I'm reading Shantaram at the moment, probably take me a year to finish it though

very interesting read

Me to, have almost finished it. Really enjoying it, but will be happy when I finish it, its a real pain carrying around in my bag all day. HUGE.

They are about to start making it into a movie ... with Johnny Deep playing Lin.

valuetime · Post by **valuetime** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 12:43 pm

i'm reading this book called 'killing hope' by william blum. it's a chronological summary of cia and american military interventions from the second world war up until the the gulf war in 92.

there's the obvious ones like vietnam and central america, and not so obvious ones like the australian gov general dismissing gough whitlam as pm in the 70s.

really good read.

sneaky hands · Post by **sneaky hands** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 2:27 pm

Feigan wrote:Read a book called monster if anyone gets a chance

top read

is that the book about that LA OG?
if so..dope read.

Trailer_trash · Post by **Trailer_trash** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 8:28 pm

Just got a copy of Arthur C Clarkes 'The Sentinel' from the Sydney Rd street festival...anyone read it??

waggers · Post by **waggers** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 3:15 am

Trailer_trash wrote:Just got a copy of Arthur C Clarkes 'The Sentinel' from the Sydney Rd street festival...anyone read it??

Haven't read The Sentinel, but I've read Arthur C Clarke's "Childhood's End" a few times - it's rad.

mecka · Post by **mecka** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 1:14 pm

Picked up a comic called 1602. Its a Marvel Comics release, taking the Xmen, Fantastic 4, Spiderman and Daredevil and putting them 400 years in the past.

Its not time travel, its set as if they'd always been in 1602. Really nice artwork, intriuging plot.

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Tue May 23, 2006 10:26 am

thought there was another book thread

anyhoo...

Just finished Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett - Disc World series.

Was hard to get into cos he goes off on tangents, but once i got into it, maaaan oh man, did i love it! LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE

This guy is a generous in terms of his writing. Each Disc World book stands alone as its own book so you don't have to read them in order, but i am seriously thinking of buying the whole series (think there is about 34 books altogether) and reading from start to finish.

Brilliant stuff, highly recommend, two thumbs up!

elysium · Post by **elysium** » Tue May 23, 2006 10:36 am

Hey Lizkins - we have most of them at home, happy to lend them to ya

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Tue May 23, 2006 10:56 am

elysium wrote:Hey Lizkins - we have most of them at home, happy to lend them to ya

ohhh that would be wikkid, but i kinda want to own em all too. will think on it. cheers though lovey

Post by **Friday** » Tue May 23, 2006 11:06 am

Lizkins wrote:thought there was another book thread anyhoo...

http://melbournebeats.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=186

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Tue May 23, 2006 11:09 am

Friday wrote:
Lizkins wrote:thought there was another book thread anyhoo...
http://melbournebeats.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=186

ahhhh i knew there was one with more pages to it. Cheers Luce

Post by **Friday** » Tue May 23, 2006 11:20 am

mrj · Post by **mrj** » Tue May 23, 2006 1:18 pm

Currently reading "Critical Mass" by Phillip Ball

Interestingly enough that was the name of my sisters deb ball partner, Phillip Ball that is, not Critical Mass.

"May I present Sally Polson, partnered by Critical Mass, whom I'm sure has some explosive fusion dance moves in store for us later.

Anyheeeeeeeew.....

This book is essentially concerned with a physics of social science, and deals predomoniantly with psychology, philosophy, and physics, and the inherent overlap.

Great book because these three topics are pretty much the things that are my intellectual passions (if I could call them that, I'm certainly not calling me self an intellectual).

Anyone thinking about tackling the book should prob start with CHAOS by James Gleick first, as "Critical Mass" has some great little bits in it that might be missed without a knowledge of historical discovery of "the sensitive dependence upon intial conditions" within all systems - otherwise known as the butterfly effect - (which CHAOS explains with beauty and insight - whilst remaining simple enough for the layman)

elysium · Post by **elysium** » Tue May 23, 2006 1:22 pm

mrj wrote: "May I present Sally Polson, partnered by Critical Mass, whom I'm sure has some explosive fusion dance moves in store for us later.

Post by **breaksRbest** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 3:41 pm

I just saw a book called

Please just F* Off, it's our turn now

written by a 25 year old Aussie about how the baby-boomers are fucking up our country

looked interesting.

Ag3nT[]0raNg3 · Post by **Ag3nT[]0raNg3** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 3:43 pm

reading Bave New World at the mo.

ghetto kitty · Post by **ghetto kitty** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 3:48 pm

thats is classic..written so long ago and still totally could be part of our future...

reading 'underground' at the moment, true story of aussie hackers overthrowing the NASA systems at the beginnig of the internet...

lots of jargon but an amazing story...

flippo · Post by **flippo** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 3:53 pm

The Elegant Universe - Brain Greene

dissapointing.

Ag3nT[]0raNg3 · Post by **Ag3nT[]0raNg3** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 3:55 pm

ghetto kitty wrote:thats is classic..written so long ago and still totally could be part of our future...

reading 'underground' at the moment, true story of aussie hackers overthrowing the NASA systems at the beginnig of the internet...

lots of jargon but an amazing story...

i used to work with Shoni Even-Chaim aka Phoenix. and one of my mates uncle is Electron (Richard Jones). nutterz

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 3:58 pm

working my way through the Disc world books still.

i began wherever, and now i have started at the start. I am so intune with Terry Pratchett now its crazy

only 29 books to go....after this one

Post by **Friday** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 4:02 pm

breaksRbest wrote:I just saw a book called

Please just F* Off, it's our turn now

written by a 25 year old Aussie about how the baby-boomers are fucking up our country

looked interesting.

i heard that guy being interviewed on hack a while back. they got him to have a debate with some boomers - was pretty funny.

finished deadkidsongs that i wrote about earlier. awesome awesome book. highly recommend it. very dark and a bit depressing at points but well worth it.

currently reading 'me talk pretty one day' by david sedaris. i reckon he's my favourite author of late. i read one of his other books last year and i think i'm gonna go out and buy everything else he's ever written after this. love his style. he makes me laugh out loud at least once per page...

sneaky hands · Post by **sneaky hands** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 4:03 pm

underground is great and brave new world is brilliant.

interesting one: "co-opetition" brandenburger and nalebuff
definitely worth reading if youre interested in learning more about business, competition and strategy.

another one "the red queen" about evolution, pretty solid.

Post by **breaksRbest** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 4:10 pm

Friday wrote:
breaksRbest wrote:I just saw a book called

Please just F* Off, it's our turn now

written by a 25 year old Aussie about how the baby-boomers are fucking up our country

looked interesting.
i heard that guy being interviewed on hack a while back. they got him to have a debate with some boomers - was pretty funny.

who won?

Post by **Friday** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 4:12 pm

breaksRbest wrote:
Friday wrote:
breaksRbest wrote:I just saw a book called

Please just F* Off, it's our turn now

written by a 25 year old Aussie about how the baby-boomers are fucking up our country

looked interesting.
i heard that guy being interviewed on hack a while back. they got him to have a debate with some boomers - was pretty funny.

who won?

it was pretty well deadlocked the whole way through

Polecat · Post by **Polecat** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 4:27 pm

There was an article in the Australian too with him and Imre Salinusky (sp?) debating each side of the argument. Imre got my vote.

Polecat · Post by **Polecat** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 4:51 pm

killeye wrote:I like to read the novels that films have been based on. Solaris (Stanislaw Lem) is a great read, as was the book that A Clockwork Orange was based on (forget who that was by) .[/i]

Those are both excellent books, esp Solaris (seen the 1st version of that movie Killeye?). Burgess is so creative in his language with Clockwork. Amazing.

Have you read The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty?
I reckon that is a good read too, and it came BEFORE the movie.

Mellogs · Post by **Mellogs** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 6:22 pm

Still reading Brave New World.

Very interesting.

ADD_Boy · Post by **ADD_Boy** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 6:28 pm

Just bought this

Apparently its OUT OF CONTROL!!

Mellogs · Post by **Mellogs** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 6:32 pm

I wanna read that as well. Johnny Depp has the rights to it to make the movie.

interesting. mmmmmmmmm

ADD_Boy · Post by **ADD_Boy** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 10:03 pm

Mellogs wrote:I wanna read that as well. Johnny Depp has the rights to it to make the movie.

interesting. mmmmmmmmm

just read that today in the MX.. veeeery interesting.. read a good story about him in a mag the other day too. he's a tripper..

Would be a wicked idea for a movie from what i know of the story..

:Must.get.reading:

Mellogs · Post by **Mellogs** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 10:45 am

did you keep your copy of mx?

ADD_Boy · Post by **ADD_Boy** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 10:47 am

nope, chucked it. Sorry !

Mellogs · Post by **Mellogs** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 10:48 am

no worries.

gnat · Post by **gnat** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 12:00 pm

This be the reason I am coming to work with my eyes hanging out their sockets every day...

Cannot get out of it. Hard core fucken.

ghetto kitty · Post by **ghetto kitty** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 12:24 pm

Ag3nT[]0raNg3 wrote:
ghetto kitty wrote:thats is classic..written so long ago and still totally could be part of our future...

reading 'underground' at the moment, true story of aussie hackers overthrowing the NASA systems at the beginnig of the internet...

lots of jargon but an amazing story...
i used to work with Shoni Even-Chaim aka Phoenix. and one of my mates uncle is Electron (Richard Jones). nutterz

cool!!! im four or so chapters in, and my speed reading abilities are finding me skipping the jargon now to get to the story...i think one of the dudes is this guy i know too, but dont know his old name...

ADD_Boy wrote:Just bought this

Apparently its OUT OF CONTROL!!

it is amazing>>real insight into indias underworld, and so well written! dont let the size of it daunt you, its good from front ot back....one that i had to pass on to someone...just had to...shantaram...wow.

ADD_Boy · Post by **ADD_Boy** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 12:39 pm

GK and Mel. Movie comes out in 2008 apparently.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0429087/

Mel :: Johnny Depp is starring as Lindsay, the main character.

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 12:43 pm

about to start reading shantaram. want to read it before i go to india.

at the moment i'm readint the songlines by bruce chatwin. it's about how australia was 'sung' into exsitence by the aboriginal ancestors. really interesting insight into an amazing mythology. i got inspired to read it after seeing ten canoes. highly recommended, although it changes course in the middle which really annoyed me.

ADD_Boy · Post by **ADD_Boy** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 12:46 pm

witty_pseudonym wrote:i got inspired to read it after seeing ten tuna canoes.

That would inspire anyone.

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 12:47 pm

ADD_Boy wrote:
witty_pseudonym wrote:i got inspired to read it after seeing ten tuna canoes.

That would inspire anyone.

rofl.

ghetto kitty · Post by **ghetto kitty** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 12:48 pm

songlines is great...and sally morgans my place is good for the story of native heritage now...

anyone read chuck phalinuk stuff (not fight club tho)??
what about alice walker (not the colour purple)??
how about neal stephenson (yes to snow crash)??

ive been trying to track down a book for years since i read it,
its fiction based on fact and the title is clumsy...

something like
"how the international drug trade fuels the nuclear arms race"

cant find it, neeed to read again..anyone know it???

Polecat · Post by **Polecat** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:27 pm

witty_pseudonym wrote:about to start reading shantaram. want to read it before i go to india.

A friend of mine who is always to busy to sit and read a book read this one and highly recommended it. Said it had him spellbound where as he loses interest in most books. Sounds like a full on tale!

Stray · Post by **Stray** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 2:13 pm

I just started reading - A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin.

Am really enjoying it so far.

Thanks to LE for the heads up.