The last book you bought was...............

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Silvan

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27th Aug 2008 at 5:01 pm

Silvan - Aurals Velupide!

Aurals Velupide!

 
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Virginia Woolf's 'The Waves'.

To be honest I only bought it because I had to, as it's part of an assignment based on that or another of Woolf's books and the seaside. It doesn't really seem like it's my kind of thing, maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised.

How'd you get on with it?  I f*cking hate Virginia Woolf, as I've probably said before.


Didn't manage to get past the first four pages before becoming very bored, it's now stuck on a shelf.
What can I say? I did it all for the Wookies.

the doc

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28th Aug 2008 at 6:41 pm

the doc - What's a little sin to see us through?

What's a little sin to see us through?

 
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Virginia Woolf's 'The Waves'.

To be honest I only bought it because I had to, as it's part of an assignment based on that or another of Woolf's books and the seaside. It doesn't really seem like it's my kind of thing, maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised.

How'd you get on with it? I f*cking hate Virginia Woolf, as I've probably said before.


Didn't manage to get past the first four pages before becoming very bored, it's now stuck on a shelf.

Wish I'd had the sense to do that with it
Whiskey, painkillers and speed will carry me there.....

Little Blue Fox.

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29th Aug 2008 at 12:49 pm

Little Blue Fox. - Hope is important.

Hope is important.

 
"Miss Wyoming" by Douglas Coupland.
"Harry Potter and the Daethly Hallows" by JK Rowling.
"A snowball in hell" by Christopher Brookmyre.

It hurts too much not to try.
I will see you in another life when we are both cats.
Quod perditum est, in venietur.*Facebook.

the doc

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4th Sept 2008 at 10:47 am

the doc - What's a little sin to see us through?

What's a little sin to see us through?

 
Just bought a really nice copy of the collected poems of Emily Bronte for a quid, and a huge biography of Winston Churchill for two pounds. Both in excellent nick, and both first editions as well
Whiskey, painkillers and speed will carry me there.....

Andrew

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5th Sept 2008 at 7:55 pm

Andrew -

 
No, I'm not lost.

Things The Grandchildren Should Know - Mark Oliver Everett

the doc

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7th Sept 2008 at 8:54 am

the doc - What's a little sin to see us through?

What's a little sin to see us through?

 
A study of Tudor England by John Guy, and Antonia Fraser's book about the wives of Henry VIII, two fifty for the pair. My reading pile is heavier than a ten ton butterfly at the minute
Whiskey, painkillers and speed will carry me there.....

Colin

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7th Sept 2008 at 4:40 pm

Colin -

 
But, pray tell, how heavy is a ten ton butterfly?
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Claire

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10th Sept 2008 at 5:25 pm

Claire - Darren is most certainly not my god!

Darren is most certainly not my god!

 
I went to play.com & Amazon and bought:

Philip K. D*ck (2004 [1968]) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, London: Gollancz.
John Barth (1988 [1968]) 'Lost in the Funhouse' in Lost in the Funhouse, New York: Anchor.
Manuel Puig (1991 [1976]) Kiss of the Spider Woman, London: Vintage.
Angela Carter (1993 [1979]) The Bloody Chamber, London: Penguin.
Salman Rushdie (1995 [1981]) Midnight’s Children, London: Vintage.
Margaret Atwood (1985) The Handmaid’s Tale, London: Vintage.
Jeanette Winterson (2000 [1989]) Sexing the Cherry, London: Vintage.
Pat Barker (1995) The Ghost Road, London: Penguin.
Janice Galloway (1995) Blood, London: Minerva.
Michele Roberts (1998 [1987]), Impossible Saints, London: Virago.

Also Iain Banks' The Wasp Factory and a Sociolinguistics book by Janet Holmes.

£70! And that's only because I am going to raid the library for the rest of the things I need. F*cking Uni's expensive!

Didn't buy Sexing the Cherry, luckily I already have it.
Coloured Lilac And Insults Really Excessively

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Basically, I'm just mangling and regurgitating what everyone's already said.


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the doc

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12th Sept 2008 at 11:36 am

the doc - What's a little sin to see us through?

What's a little sin to see us through?

 
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But, pray tell, how heavy is a ten ton butterfly?

About as heavy as Alice in Chains. It's actually the title of a song by a band called Mindfunk but I can't find a link to it anywhere :-[
Whiskey, painkillers and speed will carry me there.....

Little Blue Fox.

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23rd Sept 2008 at 12:15 pm

Little Blue Fox. - Hope is important.

Hope is important.

 
"Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life" by Brian Lee O'Mailley.



Edited by Little Blue Fox. Sept 2008
It hurts too much not to try.
I will see you in another life when we are both cats.
Quod perditum est, in venietur.*Facebook.

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25th Sept 2008 at 10:42 am

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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by some guy I've never heard of, might be good though.

Little Blue Fox.

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25th Sept 2008 at 10:59 am

Little Blue Fox. - Hope is important.

Hope is important.

 
It is really good!
It hurts too much not to try.
I will see you in another life when we are both cats.
Quod perditum est, in venietur.*Facebook.

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25th Sept 2008 at 11:02 am

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yay

Contrary to popular rumour I do know who Douglas Adams is. I'm a big fan of his writing style and humour but as Sci-Fi isn't something I'm a huge fan of then HHGTTG has never been exactly my cup of tea, though I respect it as a work of genius. This seems much more up my street.

Dr. Harold Shipman

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25th Sept 2008 at 12:13 pm

Dr. Harold Shipman - Old people CLEARLY need more painkillers.

Old people CLEARLY need more painkillers.

 
I found the Dirk Gently books to be really quite uninteresting as I recall. It's not often I don't finish a book I start, but that was one of them.

the doc

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26th Sept 2008 at 8:21 am

the doc - What's a little sin to see us through?

What's a little sin to see us through?

 
Got given a copy of Tropic of Capricorn last night. Chuffed to f*ck with that cos it's one of me favourite books and I misplaced my copy some time ago.
Whiskey, painkillers and speed will carry me there.....


 
 
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