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Right now, I'm reading "We Need To Talk About Kevin" by Lionel Shriver, it's really good so far, but I've only read a quarter of it.

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What's it about

Its written in letters from a wife to a husband about her feelings towards their son, Kevin. It starts at the very beginning before Kevin was born and follows into his childhood and teens and how she felt about those times and how she feels now (they are separated). The reason for her doing this is because Kevin murdered 7 of his peers and 2 adults a day before his sixteenth birthday and this is two years on looking back.

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Right now, I'm reading "We Need To Talk About Kevin" by Lionel Shriver, it's really good so far, but I've only read a quarter of it.

:confused:

What's it about

Its written in letters from a wife to a husband about her feelings towards their son, Kevin. It starts at the very beginning before Kevin was born and follows into his childhood and teens and how she felt about those times and how she feels now (they are separated). The reason for her doing this is because Kevin murdered 7 of his peers and 2 adults a day before his sixteenth birthday and this is two years on looking back.

Sounds very interesting. Perhaps I'll look for it when I'm at the book store.

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Random recent reads...

Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex. Not one of my absolute favourites, nor amongst the best novels I've ever read, but compelling, well-written and based on an idea that is both interesting and would be amazingly difficult for a lesser author to handle.

Helmut Krausser - The Great Bagarozy. Wonderful. And depressing when you realise it's one of the maybe three Krausser works freely available outside Germany. *Cries*

Isaac Asimov - Azazel. Stylistically downright shockingly different from anything else Asimov has ever written, but quite wonderful almost Wilde-esque light-hearted comedy about helping people ruin their lives. :heart:

Roger Zelazny - Damnation Alley. Very good at what it aims to do, which is unfortunately quite a shallow goal. For fans of Hell's Angels and post-apocalyptic pulp fiction. And books you can read in three hours.

Robert Silverberg - The World Inside. Intriguing idea, but the stylistic choices were subtly alienating and almost inappropriate to the book at odd intervals. All in all, worth a read, but not a recommendation. If that makes sense.

James De Mille - A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder. Very Edgar Allan Poe meets typical desert island adventure novel. Zany fun.

Stanislaw Lem - Memoirs Found in a Bathtub. Reinstates my opinion that Lem is one of the funniest men ever, even though his comedy stems from otherwise quite absurd and depressing angles. :heart:

Pearl S. Buck - Sons. Reinstates my opinion that the Pulitzer Prize people temporarily lost their sanity in 1932, and the Nobel Prize people in 1938.

Two of those were chosen for Oprah's book club at some point, it turns out. I know this because they have this horrible lettering larger than the title saying "Oprah's Book Club" on the book cover. It's amazingly annoying.

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Stanislaw Lem - Memoirs Found in a Bathtub. Reinstates my opinion that Lem is one of the funniest men ever, even though his comedy stems from otherwise quite absurd and depressing angles. :heart:

that sounds exquisite. :kiss:

Lem is the man. Whether it's focused around his speculative fiction (such as Solaris, Eden), his zany comedy (The Ijon Tichy series, the Pirx series), his satire (A Perfect Vacuum) or his absurdist streak (Memoirs, The Investigation), each and every book manages to be somehow captivating. ^_^

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Stanislaw Lem - Memoirs Found in a Bathtub. Reinstates my opinion that Lem is one of the funniest men ever, even though his comedy stems from otherwise quite absurd and depressing angles. :heart:

that sounds exquisite. :kiss:

Lem is the man. Whether it's focused around his speculative fiction (such as Solaris, Eden), his zany comedy (The Ijon Tichy series, the Pirx series), his satire (A Perfect Vacuum) or his absurdist streak (Memoirs, The Investigation), each and every book manages to be somehow captivating. ^_^

I'm just finishing up Western Lands by Burroughs. You should definitely check some of his stuff out if you're into extreme satire. In fact I might just pm you a reading of his...

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Sabate, Guerilla Extraordinary by Antonio Tellez

It's a biography of Francesc Sabaté (March 30, 1915 – January 5, 1960), also known as "El Quico". He was a Catalan anarchist involved in the resistance against the fascist regime of Franco. During the Civil War he also fought against the Stalinists. Amazing book.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Sabate

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A Man Without a Country - Kurt Vonnegut

YES!

I love Kurt Vonnegut.

Slaughterhouse 5, Breakfast of Champions and Cats Cradle :heart:

Reading The Bloody Chamber - Angela Carter at the moment, a damn good read!

Planning on reading Fitzgerald's Tender Is The Night when I'm done - is it good?

xDSGx

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Planning on reading Fitzgerald's Tender Is The Night when I'm done - is it good?

F. Scott doesn't really resonate with me, but if you're one of the people who are hardcore fans of The Great Gatsby, chances are you'll love this one even more.

I had a young love affair (blush) with a certain Beatrice from This Side of Paradise. I always recommend that, even though it is perhaps the most lopsided of his novels.

Tender is pretty cool. Lots of indulgence in that one, a lot more than Gatsby- it was later and so part of the French Riviera mode of FS's life.

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Considerations on the assassination of Gerard Lebovici by Guy Debord.

In 1984, French film producer Gerard Lebovici was found dead in his car, the victim of an apparent assassination. An immediate media frenzy ensued, with much of it surrounding Lebovici's close friendship with Guy Debord, one of the founders of the Situationist International, and a highly controversial public figure. In this book, Debord offers his in-depth analysis on the still unsolved crime, as well as a scathing critique of the mass news media.

"A nice touch is where he mentions that he actually has no higher opinion of the consumers of the media that he does of the disseminators of it" - Richard Hell.

"It is a fascinating document. Passionate Debord, sometimes self-aggrandizing, sometimes reflective, and always illuminating" - Sadie Plant.

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Any other Tom Robbins people around these parts? I'm always re-reading something of his, Still Life with Woodpecker presently. His books are like a security blanket to me. :heart:

Nobody? He's delightful! "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues"? "Skinny Legs and All"? *pouts*

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I've been on a James Bond binge, in the past three weeks i've read:

Devil May Care (New Bond written by Sebastian Faulks)

Hurricane Gold (One of Charlie Higson's excellently written Young Bond novels)

Moonraker

Goldfinger

You Only Live Twice

Diamonds Are Forever

I'm gonna try and get hold of The Man With The Golden Gun, one of the few 007 books I haven't read.

Maybe I should look for a book to get me off this tangent, any suggestions?

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I've been on a James Bond binge, in the past three weeks i've read:

Devil May Care (New Bond written by Sebastian Faulks)

Hurricane Gold (One of Charlie Higson's excellently written Young Bond novels)

Moonraker

Goldfinger

You Only Live Twice

Diamonds Are Forever

Awesome. Over the last few weeks I've read Dr. No, Casino Royale and Goldfinger. Also got the new one given to me, is it any good? I love the Bond books, I'll have to get my hands on some more. Maybe I'll even join a library :o!

I need other books though apart from them, I've run seriously dry.

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I'm a sucker for Bernard Cornwell books. Currently re-re-re-re-re-reading The Last Kingdom.

Thats cool dude. I'm coming to the end of my Sharpe Marathon, halfway through Waterloo at the moment and have read all the previous titles back to back for the second time. Thinking of doing the Starbuck Chronicals after this do you know anything about them?

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Other than Stonehenge these are the only Cornwell books I haven't read yet. I have Stonehenge but I should get the Starbuck series on Friday when I get paid. If it was me, I'd just read the Warlord Chronicles again.

Haven't read them, what are they about?

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