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Re: What are you reading tonight?

Post by Prufrock » Wed Aug 17, 2016 6:08 pm

I've seen other people do it, but I thought they were like people who laughed at shakespeare, doing it for effect. That's not to say I haven't found books funny, I have, but it's always been a smile rather than a laugh. Similar effect I guess to how I laugh out loud less when I watch TV comedy on my own.

Anyway, The Sellout: Pru's top holiday read recco.
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Post by Worthy4England » Wed Aug 17, 2016 7:09 pm

I reckon few and far between. I'd have probably been in my late teens early 20's when I first read Puckoon. There were tears streaming down my cheeks as I tried to contain it. Certainly not for effect, I generally don't give a fcuk what anyone else thinks but would want to spare them the worry of a nearby loony if poss.

So this book. Is it owt like David whatshisname? Or Shakespeare?

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Post by bobo the clown » Wed Aug 17, 2016 8:34 pm

I was like that with David Niven's "Moon's a Balloon" and then "Bring on the Empty Horses". Later with the great majority of Tom Sharpe's stuff. So much so that I'd not read it unless alone.
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Re: What are you reading tonight?

Post by Prufrock » Thu Aug 18, 2016 4:16 am

Will check them out.

It's a satire of the state of America race-wise. Black guy from an LA ghetto brings back segregation because he decides black people were better off then than now. Makes it sound more earnest than it is.
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Re: What are you reading tonight?

Post by thebish » Thu Aug 18, 2016 10:58 am

For a reason I won't bore you with, and not cos it's summat I ever do otherwise, I was reading an english translation of Jean paul Sartre's "Being and Nothingness" yesterday...

Sartre walks into a cafe, and the waiter asks what he'd like to order. Sartre replies, "I'd like a cup of coffee with sugar, but no cream."
The waiter goes off, but returns apologising, "I'm sorry, Monsieur Sartre, we are all out of cream. How about with no milk?"

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Post by Prufrock » Thu Aug 18, 2016 11:23 am

:)

What do you reckon to it? Total fraud, Sartre, in my utterly inexpert opinion!
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Post by thebish » Thu Aug 18, 2016 11:47 am

Prufrock wrote::)

What do you reckon to it? Total fraud, Sartre, in my utterly inexpert opinion!

I'm not sufficiently knowledgeable about Sartre to know either way... I did read him for French A level, though - in French... Les Mains Sales - I still have no idea what the feck that was about!

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Post by LeverEnd » Thu Aug 18, 2016 1:04 pm

Grubby mitts.
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Post by thebish » Thu Aug 18, 2016 5:36 pm

LeverEnd wrote:Grubby mitts.
spot on! :D

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Post by thebish » Sat Aug 20, 2016 10:33 pm

tonight I am mostly reading The Tiger who came for a Pint... 8)

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Re: What are you reading tonight?

Post by HMX » Thu Aug 25, 2016 1:45 pm

Currently enjoying 'The Art of Fielding'. I saw it recommended after I finished with 'Friday Night Lights', which is a fantastic read.

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Post by twilight » Fri Aug 26, 2016 8:18 am

currently reading 'The Missing' by C.L. Taylor - I'm not sure, but I think this is a similar story to a drama series that was on TV. I'm enjoying reading the book

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Post by bobo the clown » Fri Aug 26, 2016 9:28 am

twilight wrote:currently reading 'The Missing' by C.L. Taylor - I'm not sure, but I think this is a similar story to a drama series that was on TV. I'm enjoying reading the book
Sounds along the same lines as the James Nesbitt tv series from last year also called "the Missing". In that his son disappeared aged about 3 yrs. So unlike the 15yr old in your book. But the consequent agonies of the affected families seem similar.
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Re: What are you reading tonight?

Post by twilight » Fri Aug 26, 2016 10:51 am

bobo the clown wrote:
twilight wrote:currently reading 'The Missing' by C.L. Taylor - I'm not sure, but I think this is a similar story to a drama series that was on TV. I'm enjoying reading the book
Sounds along the same lines as the James Nesbitt tv series from last year also called "the Missing". In that his son disappeared aged about 3 yrs. So unlike the 15yr old in your book. But the consequent agonies of the affected families seem similar.
Yes that was the series I was thinking about, Bobo

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Re: What are you reading tonight?

Post by Harry Genshaw » Mon Aug 29, 2016 2:31 pm

Just finishing Sams autobiography. Its a load of 5hite if you support a club he's never played for or managed. It's not much better if you do.

His double standards on contracts are breathtaking. It was ok for him to walk out of Notts County knowing he was coming to us and he had support fighting any compo. Newcastle sacked him and he refused to leave until they paid him up (quite rightly imo) but then he's moaning at Blackburn not letting him walk out for nothing when some Arab side shake a few tenners at him. The whole thing reads like a defence of himself to West Ham fans.
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Re: What are you reading tonight?

Post by CrazyHorse » Mon Aug 29, 2016 6:28 pm

Aye. The man's a cock. But who cares? Got us in Europe.. Best. Manager. Ever.

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Post by Bruce Rioja » Mon Aug 29, 2016 8:03 pm

Always was a proper bread-head though. The reason he used to move clubs so often as a player was only to claim a signing on fee elsewhere. Still has the same house that he had on Grange Park as when he was a player for us. No pockets in a shroud, Big Lad.
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Post by Armchair Wanderer » Thu Sep 01, 2016 2:46 pm

When he got the England job I was thinking he'd be able to add a couple of chapters on and re-package.. or just write a new book. I'd be disappointed if he wasn't maximising the potential earnings.
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Re: What are you reading tonight?

Post by TANGODANCER » Thu Sep 01, 2016 3:12 pm

Frederick Forsythe's "The Kill List".......His books are always top reads
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Re: What are you reading tonight?

Post by Harry Genshaw » Fri Sep 02, 2016 10:55 am

Bruce Rioja wrote:
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Bruce Rioja wrote:Got about a third of the way through Little Dribbling today. Written in Bryson's usual entertainingly intelligent style, but up to now the books largely comprised tales of the demise of our town centres and local businesses. I could have told him that!
But not half as well !!
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3/4 of the way through it. Love it. Typically Bryson, in finding the most obscure yet fascinating tales in the most mundane places. Not his best work for me but very funny and a great read
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