UKRM Book Club

That would be a revelation too far.

 

And you see familiar things from a completely different viewpoint.

 

I keep meaning to, and every time I go zooming past the entrance.

 

Fair assessment.

 

Because it's interesting to peer into other people's lives.
Because it's relaxing.
Because I want to be less stupid.

And everything else that was mentioned more articulately in this
thread.

 

both smashing books, though the last 15-20% of "The End of My Teather"
starts to lose it, IMO. "...Bird Chronical" is definitely IMO
Murakami's best work, though I enjoyed both "Sputnik Sweetheart" and
"Dance Dance Dance". Didn't get on with "Norwegian Wood" at all,
really.

I'm expecting the first one from Amazon any day now. In terms of books
"with a lot of both in", it is a rare balance.

I like Ballard's "Super-Cannes" but I know it wouldn't be to
everyone's taste. Vikram Seth's "A Suitable Boy" is good. Patrick
Suskind's "Perfume" is sublime, but suffers in that slight way that
all translated lit. does from cultural reference mismatch. Ditto
Victor Pelevin's "Babylon" and (even more so) "The Clay Machine Gun".
Both very good, though.

What else? Hardly any Sci-fi manages to be particularly well written,
though I do like the word-craft in older stuff like Bester's "The
Demolished Man".

Do you have a "favourite book"? I don't really think I do.

 

A lot of what has already been mentioned, but for me, mainly,
ideas. Which is why I like scifi.

 

it stops my brain rusting.

 

I read Pratchett when I want something light but I'd disagree with
brain dead, I think he does a good job of slipping moral and ethical
dilemmas into main stream fiction and thus raises the level of
thinking in people who otherwise wouldn't do so.

 

I thought I'd grown out of it until the caff suggested 'Ender's game'.
Can I just complain at this point that due to this thread I've
weakened and gone book shopping. Mostly light stuff for escapism

Joanne Harris - Jigs and reels.
Oliver Postgate's autobiography
Orson Scott Card - Speaker for the dead
Mike Gayle - His n Hers
Alain de Botton - The Romantic Movement.

 

That's a harder question to answer than it first appears, and is no
easier for reading other people's replies.

I like to read for a good story. I think we all like a story. Films
give better stories than short programmes, but neither come close to the
story telling in a good book. I like being caught up in a book: the
best ones are hard to put down. The problem arises when late in the
evening you realise you are within strike range of the end of the book
and feel compelled to finish it This can lead to some very late nights :-(

I also like to read because I can learn things that way, so a good
proportion of what I read is not fiction.

It's also a very cheap from of entertainment!


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Black it is
and naked

 

Sounds like a very complicated approach. Me, I just think he's dead
funny, like.

 

Paris Trance by Geoff Dyer.

 

'twas okay for ideas, but the style was too minimal for me.
"Childrens' book" is the best way to describe it...

Which is why I didn't start that one...

 

**** right off imagining me waddling around naked.

Oh, you didn't mention naked? Ho hum.

 

What about imagining you covered only by chocolate sauce, is that
allowed?

 

<Homer mode>

Ummmm chocolate buns

 

I enjoyed it, but did spend time thinking "no, well, you don't
want to do that. No, just walk away, no, No, NO!" at the main
character.

 

Chocolate orange.

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