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Post by GADGE! on May 1, 2006 2:03:26 GMT
IM A BIG BOOK FAN AND A GOOD SET OF BOOKS ARE PHILIP PULLMANS "HIS DARK MATERIALS TRILOGY" WICH CONSIST OF NOTHERN LIGHTS , THE SUBTLE KNIFE AND THE AMBER SPY GLASS. DONT BE PUT OFF BECAUSE THERE IN THE TEENAGE SECTION BECAUSE THERE MADE FOR TEENAGERS BUT A LOT OF ADULTS LIKE THEM THERE VERY GOOD BOOKS SIMILAR TO THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY IN SOME WAYS. ALSO I RECCOMENED ROSES ARE RED , VIOLETS ARE BLUE , AND POP GOES THE WEASLE THERE GREAT ALTHOUGH I HAVE FERGOT WHO WROTE THEM. IM VERY INTO AUTO BIOGRAPHIES ASWELL HAVE A READ OF SOME OF THEM
GADGE!
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Post by Hyde on Jul 9, 2006 1:38:55 GMT
I cant reccomend the book COMPULSION by SHAUN HUTSON enough!
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Post by RichK on Jul 9, 2006 16:10:38 GMT
My favourite book I think is the Though Gang by Tibor Fischer. It is about a Cambridge Philosopher who teams up in the South of France with Hubert, a one-armed armed robber, to form the thought gang. Bank robberies all done with a different philosophical angle. Robbing a bank in the morning, opening an account with the stolen money in the afternoon, at the same bank. Robbing a bank then walking over to the nearest restaurant to drink through the wine list and watch the police arrive. Avoiding arrest by actually getting arrested for something else entirely. Smashing up a bookshop because the philosophy section is a bit thin. Fighting in bars, where your adversary gives you that "I wish I'd brought the gun out with me" look. Winning fights in bars by hitting yourself over the head with a beer bottle, then announcing to the baddies that you have a very fashionable disease. Always staying one step ahead of the hapless chief of police, who is desperately trying to get it together with the bank teller you're shagging, after she handed you her phone number along with the money during an early raid. And please remember.. "we're not tourists." www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0749395508/026-4474384-9062817?v=glance&n=266239Miguel Street is a close second. A street in Trinidad full of incredible characters. The pyrotechnicist, the boxer, the madman who has perfect control over his dog's bowel movements. The mechanic who dismantles the engines of perfectly good cars, the would-be don who keeps trying to get his name in the paper, the barber who doesn't trust himself with a razor any more. Beautiful. www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0140033025/026-4474384-9062817?v=glance&n=266239 |
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Post by marksherbert on Jul 10, 2006 12:14:01 GMT
I just read "Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung", a compilation of the work of rock critic Lester Bangs. It's a really great book, kind of like Bukowski and Burroughs reviewing records then going off on a million hilarious and insightful tangeants. There is one piece especially where he went on tour with The Clash that is really great.
I'm about to start Kubrick's biography by John Baxter next.
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Post by Hyde on Jul 18, 2006 12:06:44 GMT
Just finished Jarhead, now I'm gonna start A Skanner Darkly.
Anyways that COMPULSION is really something, here's the synopis..
Synopsis
A gang of teenage youngsters is running riot on the streets. Responsible for a number of burglaries and car thefts, the police are at their wits' end trying to put a stop to the gang's activities. Terror and hatred have become part of everyday life for local residents and, just when it seems things cannot get any worse, the gang targets Shelby House - an old people's home. Supervisor Veronica Porter, her two staff and the nine elderly residents become the gang's most vulnerable victims yet as the thugs conduct a hate campaign against them, sending abusive mail, daubing graffiti on walls and shattering windows. The intimidation escalates until Veronica's own father is dragged into the scene of terror when, disturbing some of the gang members burgling his house he is put into a coma. But enough is enough. The senior citizens of Shelby House decide to take the law into their own hands and fight back...
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Post by marksherbert on Jul 18, 2006 13:07:07 GMT
I read Scorsese on Scorsese, where he basically just speaks about all of his films. It was quite in depth in parts, very interesting to find out about his motivations, influences and how he related to the actors he used.
Im now 100 pages into Kubrick's biography. Kirk Douglas summed him up so well when he called him "a talented shit." Being as he was quite an elusive person, it is good to find out more about him.
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Post by jtrodreigez on Jul 18, 2006 16:38:33 GMT
I read lynch on lynch a while back and it was very informative but dont expect any answers. I have just finished paul austers The Brooklyn Follies and id tell everyone to read anything he has read. I have just started to re read not fade away by jim stone who is one of the best unknown writers around, check out stone junction for a wild fucked up book. Not fade away is about a guys journey driving a caddy that was a present for the big bopper before his plane crashed to his grave side to set it a light.......with hilarious consiquences.
the next book i am going to read is the infinate jest. A book bigger than you can stretch one hand.
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Post by Phill on Jul 18, 2006 16:52:19 GMT
Scorsese On Scorsese, Lynch On Lynch and Cronenberg On Cronenberg are all indespensible. I bought Compulsion a while ago and have yet to read it, the Kubrick Biography and Scorsese On Scorsese are probably my most dog eared books and I hate it when I lend people a book and It comes back broken spined and bent!  Infact most of my mates are in fear when I lend them a book  i'm reading a Sid James biography at the moment yak yak yak |
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Post by PatrickCoyle on Jul 18, 2006 17:23:39 GMT
I just read "Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung", a compilation of the work of rock critic Lester Bangs. It's a really great book, kind of like Bukowski and Burroughs reviewing records then going off on a million hilarious and insightful tangeants. There is one piece especially where he went on tour with The Clash that is really great. The only Bukowski book I've read is Ham on Rye (or rhye), and I really liked it. His writing is sort of effortlessly poignant, poetic without being pretentious and effete. I watched Factotum last week, and it's an enjoyable film - definitely an "indie" and in some ways very unsatisfying, but quite captivating if you don't mind that sort of thing. At the moment, I'm re-reading my favourite book, Frank Skinner. By Frank Skinner. |
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Post by RichK on Jul 18, 2006 22:28:12 GMT
"Post Office" by Bukowski is excellent, very funny, wonder if its been made into a film? Here's a mad ninety-six degrees of separation link from Bukowski to Shane.. Shane was once considering making a welsh western (this was around the time of the birth of "Midlands". A journalist picked up on this and sent him two albums by a welsh singer named Rheinallt H Rowlands, and one of these albums was titled "Bukowski" in honour of the writer. On the album is a long ballad for Bukowski, written partly before and partly after his (Bukowski's) death. I've just looked on amazon to check I'm right with all this, and have read that Rowlands himself died last December, aged just 35. What a shame, his music is incredibly inspiring, in a sort of mad, welsh, orchestral way.
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Post by Hyde on Jul 19, 2006 11:02:17 GMT
Just ordered that "Haunted" by Chuck something, the guy who did Fight Club.
Hey Phill is it the Compulsion I was on about you got? nice one! You will like it.
I'm reading A Skanner Darkly just now, anyone else read it? its great. Jarhead was good to, much better than the film. I wouldnt mind reading the short timers (the book that full metal jacket was based on) but it seems out of print. Same goes for the book of The Thing.
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Post by Dave on Jul 19, 2006 13:03:57 GMT
What are a books?
I have Gilliam on Gilliam and Burton on Burton if that helps! They were right good. Loads of words.
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Post by Hyde on Jul 19, 2006 14:45:12 GMT
Wha? I never said "a books".....
you in one of those smart moods again? haha...
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Post by jtrodreigez on Jul 19, 2006 15:39:48 GMT
a scanner darkly is a great a books, i read it ages ago but it is years ahead of its time, not looking forward to the toss film though. I cant stand that shit linklater is doing at the moment,a hybrid actor/amimation wankfest. Fucking hippy scum.
I found the film barfly with mickey rouke better than factotum even if the big man himself didnt quite like the portrayal of him. I find old Buk's poetry to be the best of all his work.
Last week i read the dog of the south by some guy whos name i cant remember but he also wrote the book version of true grit with that guy with a girls name.
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Post by Phill on Jul 20, 2006 23:41:38 GMT
Just ordered that "Haunted" by Chuck something, the guy who did Fight Club. Hey Phill is it the Compulsion I was on about you got? nice one! You will like it. I'm reading A Skanner Darkly just now, anyone else read it? its great. Jarhead was good to, much better than the film. I wouldnt mind reading the short timers (the book that full metal jacket was based on) but it seems out of print. Same goes for the book of The Thing. Haunted is good just not as great as Fight Club or Survivour, there are a couple of stories in Haunted where I felt physically sick ;D A Scanner Darkly is a great novel, read as much Philip. K. Dick as you can I say, the guy was a twisted genius. The Man In The High Castle is another of his classic novels as is Ubik. And yes mate Compulsion is the same as you bought I must get round to reading it, although I still have a stack in my to read pile ;D |
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Infact most of my mates are in fear when I lend them a book 
i'm reading a Sid James biography at the moment yak yak yak 
