Currently Reading? (contd......)

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the doc

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1st Oct 2011 at 3:56 pm

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

What's a little sin to see us through?

 
Old one's hit 150 pages. Took six years to get there with the looks of it. Given the current amount of traffic through here, we'll probably all be old and grey by the time this one gets filled, if it ever gets filled at all.

Anyways, I've just finished reading Robert Services' A History of Modern Russia as discussed in the old thread. Good overview, like I said. Wasn't really holding my attention by the end, but I think that's cos mentally I'm not quite all there this week rather than it being a fault with the book or the writer.

Next up is going to by My Childhood by Maxim Gorky, I think.

Any of you mods going to sticky this, or do we not do that any more?
Whiskey, painkillers and speed will carry me there.....

Puffalump

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2nd Oct 2011 at 12:14 pm

Puffalump - Bunny love

Bunny love

 
[http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1315022879l/11072325.jpg]

Promising so far

Wife of the lovely Alice

Claire

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2nd Oct 2011 at 1:09 pm

Claire - Darren is most certainly not my god!

Darren is most certainly not my god!

 
Stickied I don't often visit this board so I didn't know that a new thread was needed until I saw you'd made it
Coloured Lilac And Insults Really Excessively

Quote: Claire, Jun 2005
Basically, I'm just mangling and regurgitating what everyone's already said.


Joint best Mod 2009. Officials.

the doc

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8th Oct 2011 at 9:37 am

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

What's a little sin to see us through?

 
[quote="Lilac_Leopard|Claire|1317484588|844393|1317560977"]Stickied I don't often visit this board so I didn't know that a new thread was needed until I saw you'd made it [/quote

Nice one gaffer ]
Whiskey, painkillers and speed will carry me there.....

the doc

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16th Oct 2011 at 10:07 am

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

What's a little sin to see us through?

 
Read the first volume of Maxim Gorky's autobiography. Very good it was too, although it's basically written in the style of a novel so much of it reads like fiction. Extremely atmopshieric in any case and he draws the characters beautifully, especially his granparents.
Whiskey, painkillers and speed will carry me there.....

Puffalump

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22nd Oct 2011 at 11:18 am

Puffalump - Bunny love

Bunny love

 
The Night Circus was awesome, though I fear the film will be garbage.

Now reading

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Wife of the lovely Alice

Captain Stupendo

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22nd Oct 2011 at 1:09 pm

Captain Stupendo - snarf!

snarf!

 
I'm reading the new Bernard Cornwell book, Death of Kings. So far it's exactly the same as the last one , think he may be writing just for the cash now instead of writing a good story.
Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway

the doc

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22nd Oct 2011 at 1:47 pm

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

What's a little sin to see us through?

 
On Hobos and Homelessness by Nels Anderson.

Anthology of writings by pioneering American sociologist, renowed for his studies of those on the margins of American society. Very good it is too.
Whiskey, painkillers and speed will carry me there.....

Puffalump

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30th Oct 2011 at 6:53 pm

Puffalump - Bunny love

Bunny love

 
Now reading [http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181333822l/1139322.jpg]

The Incubus book was actually really good.

Wife of the lovely Alice

Puffalump

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12th Nov 2011 at 5:55 pm

Puffalump - Bunny love

Bunny love

 
Since Ralph's Party I've read The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake - Aimee Bender (it was ok, not amazing)

Now reading

[http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1279481110l/6744240.jpg]

Wife of the lovely Alice

Maeby

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13th Nov 2011 at 1:30 pm

Maeby - Marry me?

Marry me?

 
Still reading Pilcrow by Adam Mars-Jones.

Ping!

Wife of Amy, Sex Goddess

the doc

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14th Nov 2011 at 10:52 am

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

What's a little sin to see us through?

 
Read Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien on the plane over to the States. Powerful, hallucinatory stuff and probably the best novel about the Vietnam war that I've read.
Whiskey, painkillers and speed will carry me there.....

Puffalump

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18th Nov 2011 at 10:29 pm

Puffalump - Bunny love

Bunny love

 
Finished The Ice Cream Girls - good but a bit predictable.

Now reading:

[http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1277033306l/8482928.jpg]

Wife of the lovely Alice

Maeby

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19th Nov 2011 at 8:52 pm

Maeby - Marry me?

Marry me?

 
The Night Circus (see Wifey's post!)
Ping!

Wife of Amy, Sex Goddess

the doc

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21st Nov 2011 at 4:49 pm

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

What's a little sin to see us through?

 
Some Bukowski poems I've given to the readers group at work. Be funny as f*ck to see what they make of these.

Sh*t on the world.
Whiskey, painkillers and speed will carry me there.....


 
 
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Penn: Butt Penis.... Haha... Good times....
Rayanne Graff: What a disturbing sentence.

 

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