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Benjamin
01-07-2011, 02:06 AM
I need a new book to read, but I'm not seeing anything that is striking my interest. Any suggestions? :)

King Gizzard
01-07-2011, 02:07 AM
Jeremy Beadle's autobiography

Benjamin
01-07-2011, 02:09 AM
No autobiographies, "real-life childhood trauma/I had such terrible parents and upbringing" books or soppy romance books.

King Gizzard
01-07-2011, 02:11 AM
Ohhh ok I get you.

http://www.retroactionfigures.com/images/CIMG1189.JPG

Kerry
01-07-2011, 02:13 AM
Was just about to launch into SuperTed music then, but realised it was Dangermouse in my head :sad:

Shaun
01-07-2011, 02:14 AM
all of TiBB. Every single post. Ever.

Lee.
01-07-2011, 02:14 AM
All of Conn Iggulden's books

Kerry
01-07-2011, 02:16 AM
The Memory Keepers Daughter

Iceman
01-07-2011, 02:17 AM
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas or The Rum Diary.

Benjamin
01-07-2011, 02:17 AM
all of TiBB. Every single post. Ever.

LOL. Could you imagine? I wonder how long it would take.

Shaun
01-07-2011, 02:19 AM
-seconds Fear and Loathing-

Brave New World is amazing too if you haven't read that. A more human, less...authoritarian... 1984.

King Gizzard
01-07-2011, 02:20 AM
Fear and loathing, how very apt ;)

Iceman
01-07-2011, 02:21 AM
-seconds Fear and Loathing-

Brave New World is amazing too if you haven't read that. A more human, less...authoritarian... 1984.

Did you get round to seeing the movie yet? :nono:

(although the book is far superior)

Shaun
01-07-2011, 02:21 AM
no not yet LOL - I'll get it when I'm next in HMV

Fetch The Bolt Cutters
01-07-2011, 02:21 AM
my tumblr

Iceman
01-07-2011, 02:22 AM
no not yet LOL - I'll get it when I'm next in HMV

You really wont be disappointed, should be quite cheap too!

GypsyGoth
01-07-2011, 02:24 AM
http://i.imgur.com/nzc0h.jpg

Chuck
01-07-2011, 02:38 AM
http://i.imgur.com/aHzWS.jpg

Ramsay
01-07-2011, 02:39 AM
http://kalafudra.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/cirquedufreak.jpg

Benjamin
01-07-2011, 03:01 AM
http://kalafudra.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/cirquedufreak.jpg

Hmmm, a good horror book would be nice. I've not read a good one in a while. Is it good?

EDIT: Oh, it has vampires in it? I'm not Vicky. :bored:

Vicky.
01-07-2011, 04:15 AM
Mystical realms :love:

Locke.
01-07-2011, 10:34 AM
A Song of Ice and Fire

A nice long book series for you

Ammi
01-07-2011, 11:01 AM
Alexander McCall Smith Scotland Street series if you want a really light summer read

Stu
01-07-2011, 11:19 AM
http://kimbofo.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451bcff69e201157212d3b7970b-300wi

Palahniuk's audacious ninth novel tells the story of Cassie Wright, an aging porn queen who intends to put an exclamation point on her career by having sex with 600 men in one day on film. The story begins with Mr. 600—the pornosaur who introduced Cassie to the business—as he describes the other 599 actors awaiting their moment on screen. The perspective then shifts to Mr. 72, an adopted Midwestern 20-something who is one of the many young men claiming to be Cassie's long-lost son. Mr. 137, a has-been television star hoping to revive his career, wants to ask Cassie's hand in marriage so that the two can star in a reality TV show. But for a novel centered around a gargantuan gangbang, there's surprisingly little action; the small amount of narrative movement takes place backstage, where the characters attempt to get a sense of one another while waiting for their number to be called. There are sharp moments when Palahniuk compassionately and candidly examines the flesh-on-film industry, but mostly this reads like a cross between the Spice Channel and Days of Our Lives.



He wrote Fight Club. This one is getting made into a movie next.

Shaun
01-07-2011, 03:45 PM
that looks amazing :amazed: -runs to...**** we don't have a bookstore-

InOne
10-07-2011, 01:12 PM
Has anyone read On The Road by Jack Kerouac. I've heard it's an American cult classic and meant to be good.

I'm not sure though :suspect:

Shaun
10-07-2011, 01:14 PM
I keep meaning to get it :(

Smithy
10-07-2011, 01:16 PM
The Da Vinci Code :amazed:

InOne
10-07-2011, 01:17 PM
I keep meaning to get it :(

I know me too, might go look in Waterstones or see the prices online lol I only heard about it after I saw that Russell Brand doc on it

Kate!
10-07-2011, 04:43 PM
Hi InOne. Don't know if biographies are your thing but I recently read Dannii Minogues and am now onto Michael McIntyres. I have varied tastes in reading. Fave fiction authors include Louise Bagshawe,Adele Parks, Mike Gayle, Jill Mansell and I have read nearly all Agatha Christies.

Tom4784
10-07-2011, 04:48 PM
The Hunger Games.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Ml0zGv4Wd8Y/S8WGi9ZgaRI/AAAAAAAABiM/BnvpSJkr01g/s1600/hunger.jpg

Katniss is a 16-year-old girl living with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of Panem, the remains of what used be the United States. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called, "The Hunger Games." The terrain, rules, and level of audience participation may change but one thing is constant: kill or be killed. When Kat's sister is chosen by lottery, Kat steps up to go in her place.

It's excellent, imagine Battle Royale with a reality TV angle.

Niamh.
10-07-2011, 04:53 PM
The Hunger Games.



It's excellent, imagine Battle Royale with a reality TV angle.

That sounds interesting actually, sounds a bit like that film Game

Jarrod
10-07-2011, 04:54 PM
The Recruit - Robert Muchamore. Very cool novel! Its a series of novels though. Like the next one is called Class A

Black Dagger
11-07-2011, 05:20 PM
Room- Emma Donoghue is a good book...

Jack isn't very likable though... IMO anyway but due to his backstory etc, I could understand his situation.

Shaun
17-08-2011, 05:15 AM
http://kimbofo.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451bcff69e201157212d3b7970b-300wi

Palahniuk's audacious ninth novel tells the story of Cassie Wright, an aging porn queen who intends to put an exclamation point on her career by having sex with 600 men in one day on film. The story begins with Mr. 600—the pornosaur who introduced Cassie to the business—as he describes the other 599 actors awaiting their moment on screen. The perspective then shifts to Mr. 72, an adopted Midwestern 20-something who is one of the many young men claiming to be Cassie's long-lost son. Mr. 137, a has-been television star hoping to revive his career, wants to ask Cassie's hand in marriage so that the two can star in a reality TV show. But for a novel centered around a gargantuan gangbang, there's surprisingly little action; the small amount of narrative movement takes place backstage, where the characters attempt to get a sense of one another while waiting for their number to be called. There are sharp moments when Palahniuk compassionately and candidly examines the flesh-on-film industry, but mostly this reads like a cross between the Spice Channel and Days of Our Lives.



He wrote Fight Club. This one is getting made into a movie next.

omg... I bought a Chuck Palahnuik novel on Amazon thinking it was this because I suddenly remembered this post, and it turns out I got it wrong :bawling: I bought 'Choke'.