Read any good books lately? :shrug:

I've had little or no choice...but anyway, here's what I've read the past couple of weeks:

"Naked", "Dress Your Children" (David Sedaris)

"Peace Kills" (P.J. O'Rourke)

"The Partly Cloudy Patriot" (Sarah Vowell)

and I'm almost finished with "The National Lampoon's 1964 Yearbook"

Anthem- by Ayn Rand

Originally posted by Spenser Stone Anthem- by Ayn Rand

Eww...fuck that stupid cunt. Speaking as one who as never read one of her books (not completely, anyway), I say that no one should read Ayn Rand.

I'd recommend Camus, Sartre, and Nietzsche instead. :D

Oh yes...I've been slowly working my way through "Journey to the End of the Night" by Celine, which was graciously sent to me by Mr. Tristan Jayol, Esq.

Next on the list is either "Love in the Time of Cholera" by Marquez, or "Maldoror" by Lautreamont.

Well, actually, I'll probably start in on "The Horror Genre" by Paul Wells, followed by "Horror: The Film Reader" by Mark Jancovich, then "The Dread of Difference" by Barry Keith Grant, and finally "The Cinematic Body" by Steven Shaviro.

The Last Citadel by David L Robbins This really needs to be made into a film.

Originally posted by His Holiness, The Pope > Originally posted by Spenser Stone> Anthem- by Ayn Rand

Eww...fuck that stupid cunt. Speaking as one who as never read one of her books (not completely, anyway), I say that no one should read Ayn Rand.

I'd recommend Camus, Sartre, and Nietzsche instead. :D

David, the South Park episode where Officer Barbrady learns to read popped in my mind when I read that critique.

As for myself, reading The Glory Game, by Hunter Davies, about a year in the life of a professional football (soccer) team, the Spurs in the early 70's.

Also Dave Katz's biography of the crazy man himself, Lee 'Scratch' Perry, and a nonfiction work about an 1824 mutiny on a whaling ship, the Globe, in a book called Demon Of The Waters.

I've been reading Camus's "The Fall." I do wish I could read more, but my job seems to be consuming most of my time.

"1984" by George Orwell, get's better (and more relevant) everytime I read it.

William Boyd's "Any human heart". I read it in English (though it's not my mother tongue) last week and really appreciated it.

33 1/3: Unknown Pleasures was a good read not very big though.

neverwhere by neil gaiman

"John Major"s Biography - not good, and I dont know why I did. "Pioneers of modern typography" - not as good as the (1st edition) version down my local library. "Wild Swans" - good. "Mr Nice" - very readable. Howard marks. "designed by" Peter Saville - my most read (6 times) book. "The Society of the Spectacle" - nothing like a bit of debord, the reason i ever got interested in Factory. "Englands Dreaming" - sex pistols and punk book. still reading it. brilliant book, everyone here should give it a read "design for the real world" - a classic. "hegmony or survival" - chomskys latest, not his greatest, but better than anything else at the moment.

im a pretty big pistols fan, i read englands dreaming a little over 2 yrs ago, lydon's own book is much better in my opinion, lydon even says the author of englands dreaming is a wanker, and wouldnt know the first thing about the reality of the pistols

'eats, shoots & leaves' is pretty good. i'm just finishing it up now.

Jon Savage is an amazing writer. Lydon would say that. I think "englands dreaming" is the best book ive ever read. Theres more to it than the pistols, its more of a cultural analysis of Britain in the late 70s, and a damn fine one too.

I wish Savage would do a factory book.

everyone apart from jamie ried and the band come off as total wankers, espically McLaren

The curious incident of the dog & Mottys National Obession, both quality

Currently halfway through "Love All the People", a collection of Bill Hicks stuff.

Next up, "The Prison House", new novel by John King, author of "The Football Factory".

Tokyo, by Mo Hayder The Distant Echo, by Val McDermid (set in St.Andrews University Christy !) Lost Light, by Michael Connelly

Originally posted by Clockwork C Jon Savage is an amazing writer. Lydon would say that. I think "englands dreaming" is the best book ive ever read. Theres more to it than the pistols, its more of a cultural analysis of Britain in the late 70s, and a damn fine one too. I wish Savage would do a factory book.everyone apart from jamie ried and the band come off as total wankers, espically McLaren

I agree, it's a quality book. Sure, his writing can go overboard at times, as music journos tend to, but it had a lot going on in it. I only wish I'd known about postmodernism, and people like Debord and the situationists, before reading it; that whole first part of the book left me more than a bit confused.

ENGLAND DREAMING is the last book i completed.A BRILLIANT read but as i tend to only read music books these days i cannot recommend anything except STONE ALONE by BILL WYMAN.That guy really knows his facts due to the detailed diaries he kept from the early 60's.A must read even if you don't like THE STONES! Plenty to read yet like TOUCHING and FROM JOY DIVISION...but can't get the TIME. :D

I have been told by a few people that "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown is a good book.

Still trying to read "Zen & the art of motorcycle maintenance" after all these years

highly recommend "any human heart" by william boyd - here's the review: "excise the title page, ditch the jacket, and hope that a century hence, someone will pull a copy of Boyd's book from the stacks, turn to the index, and figure she's stumbled upon the vast, entertaining, melancholy journals of on Logan Mountstart, a minor writer and gallarist who knew everyone. Intimate with ambitions and infidelities, it's very funny, monstrously sad, and amazingly vivid. Any human heart, for all its titular generality, is that rare thing: a book so good that one foolishly hopes - as one does with life - it will never end.

block out a wknd to read the whole thing.

and the curious incident of the dog in the night time by mark haddon - compelling as well

Just re-read Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson - the only novel to mention my second love, BeOS in it.

Also recently read the Monty Python Autobiography (2003 almost A3 sized version) and Michael Moores first book which I can't remember the name of

Oh, and a book on database design... zzzz....

Just finished "Journey to the End of the Night." Recommended if you enjoy pages upon pages of bleak, nihilisitc insights about such things as life in general and other important things. Pleasantly misanthropic, misogynistic, and Left Bank frenchiness. Thanks for the tip, Tristan! Now to go hang myself.... :D

How long does it take to read a book? Where do people find the time to read?

Hey Trevor....

try Stiff by Mary Roach...very interesting.

Umm....it's not about what I think that you think it's about.

Currently I am reading "The girl with a pearl earring" since I missed the movie. Beautifully written gives a very interesting insight on the creation of a work of art. I wholeheartedly recommend it even with if it hasn't god the adorable Scarlett Johansson inside, and that is a BIG MINUS!

Also a book by a Spanish author "The Marquis of Tamaron" on the friendship between a young marxist and two reactionary brothers united by a love of learning and nature inmediately before the Spanish Civil war. A beautiful book.

Just finished a really bad book myself: "Gen X TV"( also just wrote a review of it for Amazon, I think I unleash my bile on it pretty well)

This thing came out in '97, and perhaps is unintentionally hilarious when devoting whole sections of the book to shows no longer on the air (Beverly Hills 90210, Friends, Melrose Place, countless other crap shows). Basically it's just a product of its time, dated the moment it was printed, almost like watching a really funny but bad movie. Utterly worthless but funny

Originally posted by SPone How long does it take to read a book? Where do people find the time to read?

I suppose people find the time to read in the same place other people find time to watch hollyoaks. You have a point though, we dont have enough time to read. Its a pity.