Len Cnut Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 On 6 April 2016 at 7:39 PM, mishan said: Just finished Velvet Glove, Iron Fist: A History of Anti-Smoking. Surprisingly good read. I'd've completely misunderstood that title without the sub-heading! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mademoiselle aka jessica Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 I'm reading game of thrones once more. and also a book about the jersey island orphanage " hauts de la garenne" written by a man who has been a child victim as well as his brother. Its called " nobody came" by Robbie Garner and Toni Maguire. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 23 hours ago, mademoiselle aka jessica said: I'm reading game of thrones once more. and also a book about the jersey island orphanage " hauts de la garenne" written by a man who has been a child victim as well as his brother. Its called " nobody came" by Robbie Garner and Toni Maguire. Oh i think you'll find a few definitely did 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mademoiselle aka jessica Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 1 hour ago, Len B'stard said: Oh i think you'll find a few definitely did I'm hopeless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulMonster Posted April 21, 2016 Share Posted April 21, 2016 15 hours ago, Len B'stard said: Oh i think you'll find a few definitely did Hahahaha, that's horrible! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amir Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 Read a book for the first time in a while: Masters of Doom. All about the history of id Software and their development of games like Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Quake, before co-founders John Carmack and John Romero fell out with each other and went their separate ways. Great stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulMonster Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 10 hours ago, Amir said: Read a book for the first time in a while: Masters of Doom. All about the history of id Software and their development of games like Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Quake, before co-founders John Carmack and John Romero fell out with each other and went their separate ways. Great stuff. I remember when Doom, the original game, was released back in 1993. What a shock it was to see true 3D on a 486 or whatever computer it was my buddy had. AMAZING! It was a true game-changer. Computer games were never the same after Doom. And then, when the Internet speed picked up, and we could star playing games against eachother, like Descent, it was like a whole new world had opened itself before us. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 Doom was great, Duke Nukem 3D was better tho! I used to like games in them days cuz they were simple. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 I finished that Pakistani book. Pakistani cricket has some chippiness on its shoulder. The Imperialistic MCC/English (Anglo-Pakistani cricketing relations are dreadful, Rana and Mike Gatting etc). The wanker Aussies (well I will concede them that!). The evil Indians who have robbed Kashmir (Pakistan-Indian test series are always fraught). Even the West Indians and Kiwis have held unsportsmanlike behaviour such as chucking. 'Out Ta Get Me' should be the Pakistan motto. And how corrupt is Pakistan cricket? Jesus, endless captaincy changes and (government affiliated) nepotism, bribarary, ball-tampering etc etc. And there a team in exile. A whole generation of cricketers have never played test cricket in Pakistan!! Pakistan sort of reminds me of Argentina at football. ''Yes, we are dirty as hell but we do not appreciate you imperial white wankers telling us''. I'm reading a lot of old copies of Wisden incidentally. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dontdamnmeuyi2015 Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 Psycho Sanitarium by Chet Williamson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted May 1, 2016 Share Posted May 1, 2016 Cobban's History of Modern France 1715 - 1962 Bit dated (''the bourgeois driving the Revolution of 1789'' is a bit of an oversimplification) but still a very reliable multi part work on this subject which I have returned to on a number of occasions. French history does go a trifling dull after Waterloo (some may say following 9th Thermidor), endless bewildering cabinet reshuffles between Republicans, Bonapartistes, Legitimists, Orleanists and Radicals, a general mediocrity and malaise, the 'clerical' debate (Gallicanism vs Papal control) which takes up so much of French history until a surprisingly modern date. Cobban finds Napoleon and his empire tremendously dull and stodgy and is somewhat of a Robespierre apologist so he is not without his prejudices is old Alfred (Alfred Cobban of course, the great historian of the French Revolution and the age it inspired)!0. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted May 4, 2016 Share Posted May 4, 2016 I'm currently re-reading The Sun King by Nancy Mitford, the sister who was neither a fascist nor a commie that is. Louis XIV, doubling up as a history of Versailles, the magnificence and finery of the late 16th - early 17th century French state. It is a very traditional historical biography of kings and queens, palace gossip, mistresses with the obligatory ''heaving bosoms'' bursting out and hanky panky in the chamber with the king - good old fashioned stuff before all of that socialist drivel in the 1960s destroyed the discipline altogether. I'm also reading Wisden (150th edition from a year or so ago - I have not obtained the latest edition yet). Truly sports writing on a whole different plateau from other sports writing, only Wisden - and perhaps the sport of cricket itself - could litter their articles with classical allusions and quotations from Nietzsche! Wisden elevates sports journalism to poetry! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 Hunter S Thompson did the same! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-W.A.R- Posted May 6, 2016 Share Posted May 6, 2016 (edited) The Stranger Beside Me about Ted Bundy. Ive read about 370 pages or so im about finished i don't want to sound crude saying this, but i was kinda let down at his "method". I always thought he sweet talked the girls into the car...but instead he played hurt and took advantage of them being helpful or he'd just kill them while they were asleep which isn't as interesting though still tragic although its still interesting how evasive he was considering how ballsy he was to try to pick up several different women in public places who could all identify him, his car, his method of how he picked girls up and even his NAME but only by chance and a stupid decision to run from police did it all catch up with him Edited May 6, 2016 by -W.A.R- 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted May 6, 2016 Share Posted May 6, 2016 4 hours ago, -W.A.R- said: The Stranger Beside Me about Ted Bundy. Ive read about 370 pages or so im about finished i don't want to sound crude saying this, but i was kinda let down at his "method". I always thought he sweet talked the girls into the car...but instead he played hurt and took advantage of them being helpful or he'd just kill them while they were asleep which isn't as interesting though still tragic although its still interesting how evasive he was considering how ballsy he was to try to pick up several different women in public places who could all identify him, his car, his method of how he picked girls up and even his NAME but only by chance and a stupid decision to run from police did it all catch up with him The point of Bundy wasnt that he lured them in some kind of amazing unique way, more that he was, when not murdering and all that, someone with such a normal demeanour and such a easy going nature and good bluff that he was like, the least likely suspect. I mean the bird that wrote that book used to work with him at a suicide crisis call center of all places, Bundy was like, saving lives. I suppose it gave the sick bastard some kinda insight into the mind of the vulnerable and what to play on, same reason he did law, so he could learn about police protocol and proceedure when looking for people like him. Plus he was so plain looking and so 'regular' in his appearance that he could easily change his look. But really none of these motherfuckers were geniuses, they just lived at a time when police proceedure was not as well developed and sophisticated as it is now, if Bundy were around nowadays he wouldnt last 4 days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-W.A.R- Posted May 6, 2016 Share Posted May 6, 2016 (edited) 10 hours ago, Len B'stard said: The point of Bundy wasnt that he lured them in some kind of amazing unique way, more that he was, when not murdering and all that, someone with such a normal demeanour and such a easy going nature and good bluff that he was like, the least likely suspect. yeah i get the main point was that he was the least likely guy to commit these crimes on the outside which still makes him interesting but not as interesting if he was able to go somewhere and sweet talk a girls ear off to make her go home with him is what i was getting at i agree that he would be caught way sooner nowadays Edited May 6, 2016 by -W.A.R- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dontdamnmeuyi2015 Posted May 9, 2016 Share Posted May 9, 2016 Just finished: Private Vegas and 15th affair by James Patterson up next: Hide away by Iris Johanson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gracii Guns Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 My current read is a book on medical ethics, which makes for well-oiled and diplomatic dinner party conversation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 (edited) 4 hours ago, Gracii Guns said: My current read is a book on medical ethics, which makes for well-oiled and diplomatic dinner party conversation. Grace at a dinner party GRACE: Medical ethics are a fascinating subject, don't you think? Why i was just reading last night about the Umboko tribe of sub-saharan Africa and a rather rare and crippling strain of worms over there. There was a particularly enlightening chapter about the administration of mebendazole and the anal endoscopy that precedes it and whether or not it is ethical to grease the rim before insertion or just go raw, i mean it's the third world, if there's one thing they're used to it's discomfort. GUESTS WIFE: Uh, y'know what? I think I've uh, left something on, I'm so sorry to cut the evening short! GRACE: Oh no, what have you left on? GUESTS WIFE: Uh...a negligee! We have to go now, goodbye! Sound of footsteps running down the drive, car starting and zooming off, Graces husband looks at her and sighs. Edited May 11, 2016 by Len B'stard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 ''aye oop, just reading 'bout this hear Hippocrates blethering on about summit'' 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gracii Guns Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 The tragic reality is that I'm closer to Dies' suggestion than Len's. I hate small talk, and don't engage in controversial topics with strangers, so I must come across as the most boring woman there is. My last dinner party, everyone was having a go at Trump, and I just saw that as an irrelevant and lazy attempt at creating common ground. Which I suppose is better than me making everything sound a bit final with my advocacy of quality end of life care (and therefore complete opposition of physician-assisted suicide). As I said, all these ideas remain in my head, and I'll just be sure to keep bringing the best wine so I still get invites in spite of my personality. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted May 16, 2016 Share Posted May 16, 2016 On 14 May 2016 at 11:39 PM, Wagszilla said: Reading Nietzsche so you know I'm a hoot at dinner parties. Which book? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted May 16, 2016 Share Posted May 16, 2016 12 minutes ago, Wagszilla said: Beyond Good and Evil right now, then I'm going to jump into On The Genealogy of Morals. That ones my favourite behind Zarathustra. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
netcat Posted May 17, 2016 Share Posted May 17, 2016 The Secret History by Donna Tartt. how come they still didn't make a movie out of it? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lio Posted May 17, 2016 Share Posted May 17, 2016 51 minutes ago, netcat said: The Secret History by Donna Tartt. how come they still didn't make a movie out of it? True. I have to reread that one day. I read it ages ago and loved every minute of it, much more than The Little Friend. Haven't read the last one yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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