Books 2nd Edition, Foreword by m0r1arty Options

[Zoe]

I'm reading 'Bad Blood' by Lorna Sage, which is an autobiography so good it makes you wish you remembered you own life in such beautiful and poetic detail.

I only really posted this to say, I just learnt that after the ban on the relatively mundane 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' was lifted, it sold 3.3 million copies (UK only I think) in the first two years proceeding - outselling even the bible.

I now plan to write a book so filthy it gets banned - then thirty years after my death, sit back and reap the benefits.

[Sostie]

The End Of Alice by A M Homes
Anyone who has read This Book Will Change Your Life, do not read this and expect more of the same. Where This Book.. was a light, sometimes funny, sometimes uplifting book, Alice is the opposite.
A story about a convicted child killer and his correspondance with a 19 yr old girl who wants to seduce a 12 year old. It is sometimes a little confusing, with the story jumping between reality, fantasy and memory. It is also very very explicit - violently and sexually - probably the most explicit I have ever read.
I don't know how I feel after reading it - it was sometimes difficult to get through, it was an unpleasent story - yet I'm glad I did. Does that make sense?
What I do know is that after only two books that I have read by her I have found Homes to be, at least, a very interesting writer, and to take on this subject the way she has, a very daring one.
Not recommended and recommended in equal measure.

[Zoe]

*hands up*

Please can I borrow it?

I'll swap you for 'Music for Torching', which was bleaker than 'This Book will Save your Life', but apparently not as bleak as 'The End of Alice'.

[Sostie]

*hands up*

Please can I borrow it?

I'll swap you for 'Music for Torching', which was bleaker than 'This Book will Save your Life', but apparently not as bleak as 'The End of Alice'.

I'll put it your next parcel. Trust me nothing is as bleak as Alice. Or with as much disturbing sexual violence. Moreso than American Psycho. But what Ellis did was construct a great book shifting between mudanity and horror...the violence was almost necessary. Alice is evil expressing his desires and relaying his experiences. It's sometimes too real.

This could have either killed or enhanced Homes' career, and I can't think of many books that would do that.

[curtinparloe]

Today I bought some textbooks:
The Avid Digital Editing Room Handbook
The Avid Handbook
Flash 4
D.W. Griffith: The Years at Biograph
and The Color Purple.
All for 50 pence.

Yesterday I bought the Dragonlance Chronicles: Volumes 1-3 for 60 pence. I can't help feeling I've been had.

[Jubei]

Today I bought some textbooks:
The Avid Digital Editing Room Handbook
The Avid Handbook
Flash 4
D.W. Griffith: The Years at Biograph
and The Color Purple.
All for 50 pence.

Yesterday I bought the Dragonlance Chronicles: Volumes 1-3 for 60 pence. I can't help feeling I've been had.

Dragonlance, dragonlance.. Does that include Dragons Of Autumn Twilight? Or os that the Dragon...something else chronicles.

[curtinparloe]

Dragonlance, dragonlance.. Does that include Dragons Of Autumn Twilight?  Or os that the Dragon...something else chronicles.

Yeah, them's the ones: Autumn Twilight, Winter Night, and Spring Dawning. At the same jumble sale they had loads of Dragonlance sets.
It's probably a little early to tell, but it seems a little corporate-written so far.

[sweetbutinsane]

I bought myself The Twilight War (Act 1 of the Broken Sky series) by Chris Wooding today with money I got for doing well in my exams. I'm already three-quarters of the way through it - I haven't been able to put it down!

[GundamGuy_UK]

Just read His Dark Materials. What can I say but "wow".

My sister brought them to me to give me something to do while I was in hospital, and I ended up reading all 3 in practically 1 sitting. They'd been on my "I really should read...." list for a long time, and now that I've read them I really wish I had done sooner.

At least I got them out of the way before seeing the film, or indeed really hearing about the plot in the media, so I won't be influenced by it when it comes out. I'm not saying it'll be bad, in fact it looks quite good, but I always like to imagine things myself rather than be influenced from seeing a film imagining of it.

I also want a model alethiometer. Now that so many companies make professional movie props of all sorts of things, I'm sure one can be made easily enough (though obviously not working).


I'm also about halfway through The Da Vinci Code now. I can't see the problems everyone I know seems to have with it. It's a real page-turner, albeit one that tends to lecture a bit at times.

[maian]

Finished The Child In Time by Ian McEwan yesterday. Wonderful book which was spellbinding from the very beginning. Much more experimental than the other books of his that I have read and all the better for it. I really loved it.

I'm now on to The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett. A good change of pace.

[Zoe]

Finished The Child In Time by Ian McEwan yesterday. Wonderful book which was spellbinding from the very beginning. Much more experimental than the other books of his that I have read and all the better for it. I really loved it.

It's the best.

I have finished 'Bad Blood' by Lorna Sage and am now reading 'On Writing' by Stephen (Stevie) King. It's possibly the most entertaining thing I've read since, 'Which Lie did I Tell' by William Goldman. The autobiographical sections are fascinating and funny, the advice on writing invaluable.

"To write adverbs is human, to write he said or she said is divine"

Take note Ms Rowling.

[maian]

King has the best Rowling quote ever. It's something like ''She never met a superlative she didn't like''. Terrifically accurate appraisal of her style.

[Zoe]

He said cuttingly.

[Chapman Baxter]

He opined scathingly.

[Jessopjessopjess...]

The Dreaming Void

I've bought it but haven't started reading in earnest. I'm finishing World War Z first.

He disagrees with everyone, though.

No I don't.

I just think the Night's Dawn Trilogy is more original, and despite the dull-in-places second book, keeps the attention more than a be-afroed scientist walking around for 600 pages.