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Superb book, read it on the back of reading this thread. Savage story
Bossypants by Tina Fey is a book I’d recommend as well. Has a few weak bits but generally top notch. A book to carry into work to show the ladies that you are not really a misogynist. Tina is a role model for an important subset of the female half of the race and being seen with this book should help in opening up lines of communication to such ladies.
Paul Kimmages - Engage, with Matt Hampson. Excellent, heartbreaking, frightening and uplifting all at once.
Must get that Kimmage one. Papillon is an excellent yarn alright.
I didn’t like Corrections as much as Freedom but it’s still very good. Have Strong Motion (more Franzen) to read but in the middle of Oblivion (David Foster Wallace short stories) at the moment.
Everyone loves Papillon. The film is pretty good too.
Flicked through ‘I, Partridge’ the other day and it seems like great stuff. Anyone read it yet?
Mrs Rocko got the audio version. Not listened to it yet.
Quite busy at the moment but around Christmas time I plan on giving Rafa’s autobiography a good read on my much underused Kindle.
This thread is perverse. That said you can both have signed copies of my book when it’s finished.
Read ‘The Trial’ over the summer. Anyone else read it. I’m half way through ‘The Idiot’ and have finally got a handle on what’s going on but I’d say I’ll be lucky to finish it by christmas. Also reading The Hitchhiker’s Guide for the first time and it’s decent so far.
Do you mean Kafka’s The Trial, WTB?
Yep
I haven’t read The Idiot but The Trial is a fairly straight forward read. K is blaggarded by an absurd system of justice, it could have been written about Ger Loughnane railing against the Munster Council and Croke Park in the 1990s. The old film is actually quite good too.
Superficially straightforward but there’s a lot to it all the same. If you consider it in the context of Kafka’s own life and the existential despair that seemingly never left him it takes on another dimension again. I’d recommend reading the Kafka edition of the OUP Very Short Introduction series (download link - http://www.filestube.com/6jBnQcNy2dLbeiBfo6l4dJ/Kafka-A-Very-Short-Introduction.html).
Sheds a lot of light on where he was coming from personally. I think I bought the trial because he was such a fascinating character himself. Amazing that he died before any of his works were published and that they’d all have been burned but for his friend disobeyed him.
Dostoyevsky? I actually read that around four years ago, which is quite unusual for me because I don’t read much fiction. It takes a bit of getting in to, but it’s a cracking read. I’m a bit sketchy on the detail of it from this remove now though.
Crime and Punishment is the only of his books I have read and it more than lives up to its stature. Some day I will read more.
Anyone read Tolsty?
Good movie too, Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman
Have you read the wayward lad (Bradley), very good.
It’s not a normal book really because it’s a piss take so the audio version, read by the man himself, works more as a series of podcasts than a book.
Most of the way through Filth by Irvine Welsh at the moment. Finding it terribly enjoyable.
New book by one of my favourite writers , Michael Lewis, Boomerang, about the global meltdown is a cracking fast paced read. It’s essentially a collection of his articles on the subject for Vanity Fair.
Also everyone should read Anglo Republic.