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Kieron



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 9:07 am    Post subject: What are you reading right now? Reply with quote

Right, I've got this idea, like the 'What are you listening to' thread. How about we say what we're reading right now? It can be any genre, be it music-based, graphic novels, fiction, or factual. But I'm not gonna say what I'm reading unless other people think this post is a good idea!
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 9:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm reading "Sandman", the first volume, by Neil Geyman, i'm enjoying it a lot Smile
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 10:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm reading Freedom Next Time by John Pilger. It's a slightly different look at modern history and mainstream media representations of events. In equal terms compelling and depressing. Though undoubtedly conterversial, too.

Also bought Jennifer Government by Max Barry at the weekend, which I will start in a day or two probably. It's a fictitious book set in the near future where private corporations control everything, and evryone... Sounds funny!
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 12:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm reading the second book of the hitchhiker guide to the galaxy, by douglas adams, i readed the first one before the movie went out. the book is a formal masterpiece of absurd art Smile

too bad i didn't know the guy before he died.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 2:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

im reading "and then he ate my boy-entrancers, confessions of georgia nicolson" by louise rennison. its a completley ridunklous trashy teen-read but i dont care because i cry with laughter when i read it. Very Happy
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 4:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

im reading facing death in cambodia by peter maguire. it focuses a lot on S-21, the infamous prison, which is really interesting, and goes pretty in depth historically, but the author seems to have a grudge with noam chompsky because in at least 3 instances he bad mouths him for no reason. all in all a good book though.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 4:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

terricloth wrote:
im reading facing death in cambodia by peter maguire. it focuses a lot on S-21, the infamous prison, which is really interesting, and goes pretty in depth historically, but the author seems to have a grudge with noam chompsky because in at least 3 instances he bad mouths him for no reason. all in all a good book though.


That sounds really interesting -- might check it out myself (though having digs at Noam Chomsky puts a downer on it!). I have a feeling you might enjoy Freedom Next Time...
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 6:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yes it looks very interesting thanks!
well apparently the author claims chompsky denied that the khmer rouge was commiting genocide and has never retracted his statements. whatevs. im a chompsky fan.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 11:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

disgrace by jm coetzee
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 12:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This thread (even if I say so myself) was a great idea! It's giving me lots of ideas for new stuff to read -- thanks everyone! I also find it interesting that the books people have mentioned appear quite diverse...
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 7:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just finished Ask the Dust by John Fante, which was fantastic. The book was apparently a huge influence on Bukowski.

I've also been reading portions of Karl Marx's Philosophic and Economic Manuscripts of 1844.

And the latest issue of Punk Planet!
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 4:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just finished "Bighead" by Jeffrey Brown, it's very funny.




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PostPosted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 6:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

im reading a german book called "neue vahr sued"

its about a guy called frank lehmann and he has to got to the army (in germany you got to go).i`ts really funny...
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 6:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Top 10, volume 2

It's a comic book by alan moore, the story takes place in a city where everyone got super powers, you follow the daily routine of cops, it's very good



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PostPosted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 3:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My girlfriend has a subscription to the London Review of Books, so I'm finding I often dip into that these days.
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