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    gbougard
    Raw and Unwashed
    Joined: 20 Apr 2010

    I love to read every night and lately I've come across two really nice books and I thought we could have a thread about the books we enjoy and dislike.

    I just finished "Freedom" by Jonathan Franzen. I had read the Time magazine article and thought I'd give it a shot. And I thoroughly enjoyed reading this love story. I felt it could have been my life story, almost.

    Before that I had read "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy. This one was so fucking heavy and intense. A real page turner but in a way I was relieved when the book ended, because it is such a sad story, pure hopelessness and even if the end seems a little more positive it is like saying being 99% desperate is better than 100% desperate…

    Great English on both books, man. Those two guys have it locked.

    Sly Dunbar bigs up IH on YT
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t2OM738mKY
    Sly & Robbie A Run Tings
    Gregory Isaacs Liveth 4 I-ver

    Renault: What in heaven’s name brought you to Casablanca?
    Rick: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.
    Renault: The waters? What waters? We’re in the desert.
    Ric

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      hectic
      Joined: 24 Sept 2009

      Good thread. I read like a librarian on meth.

      Charles Stross is a favourite.

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        gbougard
        Raw and Unwashed
        Joined: 20 Apr 2010

        Yes I got myself a book by Chuck Palahniuk. Its on my pile. Its going to have to wait a bit because I've just started 1026 page "The Border Trilogy" by Cormac McCarthy and it reads more slowly than I thought. Nice prose tho

        Sly Dunbar bigs up IH on YT
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t2OM738mKY
        Sly & Robbie A Run Tings
        Gregory Isaacs Liveth 4 I-ver

        Renault: What in heaven’s name brought you to Casablanca?
        Rick: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.
        Renault: The waters? What waters? We’re in the desert.
        Ric

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          Seul
          Joined: 24 Nov 2009

          Some of my fav authors: Fante, Miller, Céline, Bukowski, London,…

          I'm more into movies nowadays, but used to read about 2-3 books/ week...

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            that_was_easy
            Joined: 3 Feb 2010

            Currently:

            Next:

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              gbougard
              Raw and Unwashed
              Joined: 20 Apr 2010

              @simon626:

              you should read his book if you're looking for something fast and exciting that'll keep you turning pagesss.

              OK, thats my type of read!
              If people read French around here, Dantec is baaaad. Fucked up, violent, sci-fi, war, despair,some philosophy on top…

              Actually if people on this thread can recommend drugged up fuck ups stories, preferably violent, in the middle on nowhere in America in the middle of the 22d century... I'm all ears.

              Sly Dunbar bigs up IH on YT
              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t2OM738mKY
              Sly & Robbie A Run Tings
              Gregory Isaacs Liveth 4 I-ver

              Renault: What in heaven’s name brought you to Casablanca?
              Rick: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.
              Renault: The waters? What waters? We’re in the desert.
              Ric

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                Giles
                IHUK Crew
                Joined: 22 Sept 2009

                @gbougard:

                Fucked up, violent, sci-fi, war, despair,some philosophy on top…

                Try this dude for fucked up and violent:  Andrew Vachss

                "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                  hectic
                  Joined: 24 Sept 2009

                  Actually if people on this thread can recommend drugged up fuck ups stories, preferably violent, in the middle on nowhere in America in the middle of the 22d century… I'm all ears.

                  Heavy Weather by Bruce Sterling fits the brief quite well.

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                    hectic
                    Joined: 24 Sept 2009

                    Also Richard Morgan (esp. Black Man)

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                      hectic
                      Joined: 24 Sept 2009

                      Giles, whats Andrew Vachss all about? Seems very prolific.

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                        Giles
                        IHUK Crew
                        Joined: 22 Sept 2009

                        I have loads here.  All sent to me by a mate in Kentucky.  The first one was so dark, I haven't plucked up the courage to open any of the others.  Pussy - I know…..G

                        "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                          hectic
                          Joined: 24 Sept 2009

                          Ha LOL, pls loan me one 🙂

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                            Giles
                            IHUK Crew
                            Joined: 22 Sept 2009

                            Next shipment, I'll pop one in….

                            "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                              hectic
                              Joined: 24 Sept 2009

                              Cool, thanks.

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                                sergedenimes
                                Joined: 4 Jun 2010

                                Bill Bryson, namely A short history of nearly everything.

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                                  riffblaster general
                                  Raw and Unwashed
                                  Joined: 23 Mar 2010

                                  i always recommend these two…

                                  In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
                                  The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz

                                  PUT DOWN THAT STARBUCKS, PICK UP THAT GNARBUCKS!!

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                                    stever
                                    Joined: 3 Jun 2010

                                    @gbougard:

                                    Actually if people on this thread can recommend fuck ups stories, preferably violent, in the middle on nowhere in America in the middle of the 19th century… I'm all ears.

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                                      riffblaster general
                                      Raw and Unwashed
                                      Joined: 23 Mar 2010

                                      @stever:

                                      @gbougard:

                                      Actually if people on this thread can recommend fuck ups stories, preferably violent, in the middle on nowhere in America in the middle of the 19th century… I'm all ears.

                                      great book.

                                      anything by Jim Thomson also.

                                      PUT DOWN THAT STARBUCKS, PICK UP THAT GNARBUCKS!!

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                                        that_was_easy
                                        Joined: 3 Feb 2010

                                        @riffblaster:

                                        The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz

                                        Hell. Yes. This is possibly the most epic story I've ever read.  Totally a book worth marathoning.  Don't stop reading until it's finished, which isn't all that difficult.  Just…wow.  I was reading "The Gulag Archipelago" by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn at the same time...fucked up in a pretty viceral way.  Great tandem read.

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                                          riffblaster general
                                          Raw and Unwashed
                                          Joined: 23 Mar 2010

                                          the gulag archipelago is great.    not quite as much of an easy read as the long walk but i loved it.  have you read Kolmya Stories?  another great one about the gulag.

                                          PUT DOWN THAT STARBUCKS, PICK UP THAT GNARBUCKS!!

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