What are you reading tonight?

madmarx · Post by **madmarx** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 6:18 pm

Tonight i shall mostly be reading Juvenile Delinquency. classic and contemporary readings, Thompson and Bynum.

Uni started again as you can tell

Puskas · Post by **Puskas** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 9:08 pm

Mark Ronan's "Symmetry and the Monster"

Because he's had the sheer, balls-out affrontary to write a popular science book (note that, popular) about the classification of finite simple groups. Fantastic. He needs to be supported in this.
Read it, boys and girls - it's maths. The Queen of Sciences.

Rated R Superstar · Post by **Rated R Superstar** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 11:57 pm

I finished reading Catcher in the Rye last night. I'd never read it before and the only thing I knew about it was that it's supposed to be controversial.

Having now read it, I was really disappointed by it. I found it boring and the main character, Holden, really annoying.

Has anyone else read it?

Bruce Rioja · Post by **Bruce Rioja** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:39 am

Rated R Superstar wrote: Has anyone else read it?

Various nutters, I believe. Like the guy that shot John Lennon, his sort.

Not that I think you're a nutter or owt you understand, RRS?

boltonboris · Post by **boltonboris** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 1:13 pm

I'm giving 1984 - George Orwell a second read - Enjoyed it a year or so back and I've feck all left on the shelf

Batman · Post by **Batman** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 5:36 pm

madmarx wrote:Tonight i shall mostly be reading Juvenile Delinquency. classic and contemporary readings, Thompson and Bynum.

Uni started again as you can tell

I'm reading Economics for the Built Environment for my course

oh the joy

marshall_42 · Post by **marshall_42** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 6:48 pm

I don't normally read this type of book, but I have nothing else to do and its quite good so far.

Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden (I have never seen all of the movie through from start to end, so that helps too)

Rated R Superstar · Post by **Rated R Superstar** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 8:47 pm

Bruce Rioja wrote:
Rated R Superstar wrote: Has anyone else read it?
Various nutters, I believe. Like the guy that shot John Lennon, his sort.

Not that I think you're a nutter or owt you understand, RRS?

I'm not a nutter..............honest.........

I have to go before the care worker finds out I'm on the inter-choobs again

superjohnmcginlay · Post by **superjohnmcginlay** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 11:33 am

Rated R Superstar wrote:I finished reading Catcher in the Rye last night. I'd never read it before and the only thing I knew about it was that it's supposed to be controversial.

Having now read it, I was really disappointed by it. I found it boring and the main character, Holden, really annoying.

Has anyone else read it?

Ive read that unfortunatley. Not by fooking choice mind - forced to for english lit years ago. Yep its dull.

Batman · Post by **Batman** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 11:37 am

just bought the Silmarillion and Children of Hurin

looking forward to starting them both

Verbal · Post by **Verbal** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 1:06 pm

Rated R Superstar wrote:I finished reading Catcher in the Rye last night. I'd never read it before and the only thing I knew about it was that it's supposed to be controversial.

Having now read it, I was really disappointed by it. I found it boring and the main character, Holden, really annoying.

Has anyone else read it?

I have, and I agree with you - just seemed to be umpteen pages of Holden rambling on about shite. Though I'm not exactly a literature critic here.

Started reading The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas on the train yesterday. Seems like it'll be a good one, even if it is written very similarly to 'The Curious Incident...'

enfieldwhite · Post by **enfieldwhite** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 3:43 pm

Batman wrote:just bought the Silmarillion and Children of Hurin

looking forward to starting them both

Batman whatever you do, don't waste a month of your life on the Silmarillion.

I'm a big Lord of the Rings fan. I have read the Trilogy and the Hobbit six or seven times, yet I have NEVER been able to get more than two chapters into this tome. It was so boring Tolkien died leaving it unfinished and his son thought he was doing the world a favour by completing it. He wasn't.

enfieldwhite · Post by **enfieldwhite** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 3:44 pm

Verbal wrote:
Rated R Superstar wrote:I finished reading Catcher in the Rye last night. I'd never read it before and the only thing I knew about it was that it's supposed to be controversial.

Having now read it, I was really disappointed by it. I found it boring and the main character, Holden, really annoying.

Has anyone else read it?
I have, and I agree with you - just seemed to be umpteen pages of Holden rambling on about shite. Though I'm not exactly a literature critic here.

Started reading The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas on the train yesterday. Seems like it'll be a good one, even if it is written very similarly to 'The Curious Incident...'

Thirded. I read it by choice. I wish I hadn't.

Lord Kangana · Post by **Lord Kangana** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 4:10 pm

I did the honourable thing and gave up halfway - which took me months, and I normally read books in days. I'm sure someone will fill me in on the finer points of why its a classic, but its utterly lost on me.

Bruce Rioja · Post by **Bruce Rioja** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 4:27 pm

I'm away next week so fert trip I've borrowed Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years with Brian Clough by Duncan Hamilton.

There seems to be (understandably) quite a few books about old Cloughie, so whether this one's actually any good or not I don't know, but I'll give you my unreliable opinion once read.

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 4:36 pm

"Dazzler on the Dance Floor" by Darren Gough. Er, I'll not bother reporting on it then.

Batman · Post by **Batman** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 4:36 pm

i've read most stuff about Clough, and that's one of the best

the author had a ridiculous amount of access to Clough over the years, and this gives him a very unique insight

you'll like it

Prufrock · Post by **Prufrock** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 5:01 pm

how to lose friends and alienate people. not what i thought it would be, but see,s interesting so far.

ps apologies for my eve worse than usual spelling and punctuation, french keyboards suck!

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 5:26 pm

Just got the book bargain of the year in Asda on Manchester road: The Encyclopedia of Golf (priced at £12-99) and a book on Dance, well, I can't let one go even though I can dance and have quite a few. (priced at £9-99).

Got the pair for £8. Superb.

Rated R Superstar · Post by **Rated R Superstar** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 5:55 pm

enfieldwhite wrote:
Verbal wrote:
Rated R Superstar wrote:I finished reading Catcher in the Rye last night. I'd never read it before and the only thing I knew about it was that it's supposed to be controversial.

Having now read it, I was really disappointed by it. I found it boring and the main character, Holden, really annoying.

Has anyone else read it?
I have, and I agree with you - just seemed to be umpteen pages of Holden rambling on about shite. Though I'm not exactly a literature critic here.

Started reading The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas on the train yesterday. Seems like it'll be a good one, even if it is written very similarly to 'The Curious Incident...'
Thirded. I read it by choice. I wish I hadn't.

Glad I'm not the only one.

I kept ploughing through it expecting something, anything to happen. It never did.

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