why you read them
did you like them?

3) 'goodbye dearest holly' - kevin wells
sadly Maddie is still missing after been abducted last week, I was talking to my mum baout it and she had this book about the Soham murders so I borrowed it to read on a train journey the other day. I cried about 20 times. I thought I already knew how messed up the world was, but this makes it even clearer.

2) 'the lovely bones' - alice sebold
I read this on holiday 2 weeks ago, it's really really lovely and beautifully written. By pure coincidence on the sames topic of the above book - child murder, although this time fictional and from the murdered childs perspective looking down from heaven. I feel like she kind of ran out of plot at the end though and wrote about peoples feelings a bit too much rather than having an actual story.

1) 'this book will save your life' - a.m.home
another holiday read, a totally random purchase from WH Smith but I'm glad I bought it. About a lonely rich man who has a health scare and has to re-evaluate his whole life. It made me laugh out loud a few times, highly reccommended!

3) Veronika Decides to Die - liked it up til the end

2) Doctor Who,"I am a Dalek" - it was a kid's book. but good

1) Doctor Who,"THe Stone Rose" - A little convoluted, but good

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1.welcome to the monkey house- Kurt Vonnegut- He is my favorite author and I like re-reading the stories because they're sort of like therapy to me.

2.Fight Club- I never got around to reading it so I decided to finally do so, it was a good read but nothing special I guess.

3.Steal This Book- Abbie Hoffman- This man is everything to me, and the book was pure wit. He is one of the most important influences in my life.

1. Vanity Fair

2. Tale of Two Cities

3. The Cossacks - Leo Tolstoy

The book, I assume, is better than the movie??

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I guess that depends on what you want.

If you want to see her run off to India with fatty, the movie.

If you don't mind an ending that is so dark that it's heavily implied that she kills him off and inherits his money, the book.

Also, there's no bellydancing musical number in the book.

a play, but im still counting it = the glass menagerie
the great gatsby
song of solomon

1. Tapu- Judy Corbalis. I liked her writing style, not much happened, though there were some good moments.

2. Be Near Me- Andrew O'Hagan. The story of a mildly paedophilic old priest. Not very good.

3. The Crimson Petal and the White- Micheal Faber. This book was perfectly readable but by god was the ending the most frustrating ending I have ever come across. It literally felt like the last few chapters were missing from my printing of it.

I'm currently reading "What the Birds See" which is supposed to be a children's book, but I'm enjoying it far more then any of the last few adult books I've read. Its also fucking dark to be read by children...

but the movie was really really awful?

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cosmos, broca's brain, and comet - all by carl sagan

i'm a fucking nerd, blah.

next up is gonna be a stephen hawking's a brief history of time. i'm excited.

cosi - louis nowra
the picture of dorian grey- oscar wilde
1984-george orwell

girl with a pearl earring - tracy chevalier

i really liked this!

extremely loud and incredibly close - jonathon safron foer

this. can't wait for his next book!

three dollars - elliot perlman

pretty good, but i prefer the other book i've read of his.

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Rimbaud biography
very good.
i re-read my Germs bio
a fav.
The root of the revolution years
im intrested in the 18th and 19th century i guess.

1) Abo Rasul - Macht und Rebel
(oh, god, crazy book about sick scandinavians. But I liked it)

2) Jens Bjørneboe - Frihetens Øyeblikk (the moment of freedom)

3) George Orwell - 1984

i've been on a music kick, re - reading my old bios and band stuff.

1. long hard road out of hell - marilyn manson/neil strauss

2. heavier than heaven - charles cross (nirvana)

3. freak unique - pete burns/?

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1. For Whom The Bell Tolls, Hemingway
It was small and I was travelling and it was about time I gave him another chance.
Romance the way I like it. TRAGIC.

2. Frankenstein, Shelley
Once upon a time I was in a book club long enough to read one book.
I never really got into it. Maybe because I knew the story already and the particulars of the writing weren't amazing? I don't know. I do appreciate the metaphor of the monster, but really Son of Frankenstein, the movie, is more enjoyable.

3. A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens
Two of my best friends had gone on and on about how much they loved it. Then I found out one of them was lying and never read it in the first place.
I didn't really love it all that much. Don't lie about books.

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niall ferguson - empire. i dislike ferguson intensely, he's the jeremy clarkson of the academic world (read: A TWAT) and this book is basically an apologist history of the british empire, skimming over the aspects of mass murder and barbarism in tiny passages and instead dedicating inordinately long passages to cecil rhodes' purported sexual deviancy (well. deviancy in that he purposefully never had sex in order to dedicate more of his drive into expanding the empire). ferguson states trivialities such as the architecture of madras as the benefits of empire, and really emphasises them, but skims over the negative aspects such as genocide and civil war justifying those with exorbitant interest in the liberal critique at home. i dunno, i just cant handle this neo-liberal bullshit. so really i found this book fascinating because i like it when im driven to throwing the book across the room with frustration at how much i absolutely disagree with his central thesis - that the british empire was essentially a good thing.

jostein gaarder - sophies world. i think my philosophy was just getting a bit rusty so i bagged this from the library i mean it was weird but all i wanted was the basic introduction aspect. i like to think.

f scott fitzgerald - the great gatsby so im only rereading it because when gatsby lies about going to oxford he says trinity <3.

and im about to start reading simon sebag montefiore's court of the red tsar because im BASICALLY a massive history geek?

Twelve Books That Changed The World - Melvyn Bragg
The Motorcyle Diaries - Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
Barca: A People's Passion - Jimmy Burns

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