Ninjadmin
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book which are like an albatrossi have a huge book of grammar which i read at about a page a day
it's always sitting on top of my telly, taunting me for not reading it, at this rate i will never even finish chapter 1, it's just so difficult
do you have any books like that?
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bristle-krs
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i'm about halfway through 'domain' by james herbert, and have been since the end of february, i just feel let down by how shoddy it is, especially as i had such fond memories of it as a kid 
there's also 'the longest war', about the iran-iraq gulf war, it was interesting stuff, but i was about 50 pages shy of the end and i got distracted; i think i'll need to speed-read through the rest of it if i want to get through to the end and it all make sense.
oh yeah, i borrowed that misha glenny book about the balkans about 5 years ago, off flypanam or bosco, and it was fascinating, but really dense, and the whole point of the narrative is that you have to understand the past to understand the present, except there's all these really complicated social ranks and political systems and names and places, and it all got too confusing, so i'll definitely need to start at the beginning 
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Ninjadmin
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| bristle-krs wrote: | | i'm about halfway through 'domain' by james herbert, and have been since the end of february, i just feel let down by how shoddy it is, especially as i had such fond memories of it as a kid |
james herbert is the worst
stupid pointless epics. it's basically darkplace
i loved clive barker as a kid but i wouldn't touch his books now for the same reason
weaveworld hahahaha
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bristle-krs
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epics? most of his books pre-magic cottage/sepulchre/moon were nippy pulp thrillers/horrors (i guess domain, 3rd in the then-trilogy, was the exception at the time), 150-200ish pages...
just checked - the rats weighs in at 175, the survivor 206
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Ninjadmin
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| bristle-krs wrote: | epics? most of his books pre-magic cottage/sepulchre/moon were nippy pulp thrillers/horrors (i guess domain, 3rd in the then-trilogy, was the exception at the time), 150-200ish pages...
just checked - the rats weighs in at 175, the survivor 206 |
i read magic cottage and rats and they were both advertising some huge book he'd written, maybe it was a series or something
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bristle-krs
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magic cottage was mid to late 80s, the rats - his first novel, iirc - was early to mid 70s... you were probably reading a reprint of it (or both of them), with updated ads/promos.
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Ninjadmin
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yeah, my friend had them all but i only read those two, clive barker and steven king were loads better imo
there was another pulp fiction book i was really into called Genesis which was this conspiracy theory that UFOs were really nazi scientists hiding out in the north pole
have you heard of that?
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hiccup
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I've never gotten past the 1st quarter of Lord of the Rings, despite several attempts
I've got a biography of Marx that I've been halfway through for about five years
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Ninjadmin
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dostoevsky is another one who i've tried to read loads of his books and nevermanaged to finish
i spose i should try again now im off teh druqks
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districtline
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alfred döblin - berlin alexanderplatz 
it's a really dense 600 pages long book and most of the text is dialogue written in 1920s berlin slang...
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wraeth
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| hiccup wrote: | I've never gotten past the 1st quarter of Lord of the Rings, despite several attempts
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Shame on you etc
I read the entire book to my lil bruv and his mate with accents and everything  I could read it to you hiccup if that'd help?
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districtline
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| Derian wrote: | | hiccup wrote: | I've never gotten past the 1st quarter of Lord of the Rings, despite several attempts
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Shame on you etc |
well tbf, it's a childrens book and hiccup is an adult
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wraeth
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| districtline wrote: | | Derian wrote: | | hiccup wrote: | I've never gotten past the 1st quarter of Lord of the Rings, despite several attempts
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Shame on you etc |
well tbf, it's a childrens book and hiccup is an adult |
The Hobbit is a children's book. LOTR isn't.
Anyway - nowt wrong with children's books - children are far more discerning than adults
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bristle-krs
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| Derian wrote: |
I read the entire book to my lil bruv and his mate with accents and everything I could read it to you hiccup if that'd help?
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*ahem*
radio show!!!
*coff*
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wraeth
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| bristle-krs wrote: | | Derian wrote: |
I read the entire book to my lil bruv and his mate with accents and everything I could read it to you hiccup if that'd help?
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*ahem*
radio show!!!
*coff*
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I made button do one ... which you've ignored krzzle
I got one in me heed 
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bristle-krs
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i've ignored nothing, dezza - i've queued it
busy boy atm
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DrCarnage
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ive been trying to read Jude the Obscure for about 5 years. i keep starting it and putting it down after a few chapters and reading something else.
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wraeth
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| bristle-krs wrote: | i've ignored nothing, dezza - i've queued it
busy boy atm |
I know that busy feeling, 5am start today 
I want to go back to bed  
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wraeth
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| DrCarnage wrote: | | ive been trying to read Jude the Obscure for about 5 years. i keep starting it and putting it down after a few chapters and reading something else. |
Thomas Hardy can be hard work when you're not in the mood for pages of descriptions ...
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hiccup
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Did The Mayor of Casterbridge at school. That was enough Hardy for me thanks.
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wraeth
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| hiccup wrote: | | Did The Mayor of Casterbridge at school. That was enough Hardy for me thanks. |
I did too. I only started liking Hardy (when in the mood) and Jane Austen since I left school tbh
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the button
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Moby Dick. I must've started that book 10-15 times. I love it as well, but I can't seem to ever finish it. 
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DrCarnage
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| Derian wrote: | | I only started liking Hardy (when in the mood) and Jane Austen since I left school tbh |
I only got into Hardy after my A-Levels. I hated Tess while i was studying it but read it again and loved it.
Nowadays I can only read Hardy sat onhe grass on a nice summer day (and when im in the mood for tons of imagery)
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wraeth
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| DrCarnage wrote: | | Derian wrote: | | I only started liking Hardy (when in the mood) and Jane Austen since I left school tbh |
I only got into Hardy after my A-Levels. I hated Tess while i was studying it but read it again and loved it.
Nowadays I can only read Hardy sat onhe grass on a nice summer day (and when im in the mood for tons of imagery) |
I only read Tess for the first time a few months ago
And I've never read Moby Dick, not even started it
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DrCarnage
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i like tess. i think the ending is fantastic!
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wraeth
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I like Tess as well
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snouty
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'the executioner's song;' time stretches out, the moment becomes endless, interminable, tedium, infinite tedium stretching from here to the poorly described horizon.
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