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Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex

"Let the Right One In" by John Ajvide Lindqvist

Twilight. I actually really like it but I bet the film is rubbish.

And I just finished reading His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman, amazing! again film was rubbish.

Am currently reading futureproof. I got it today and I've already read more than half the book. So far I love it =]

New Moon, now I want her to go out with Jacob instead...I'm so fickle!

Eclipse.

THE BOWIE LETTERS.


SPLENDID

A Paul Jennings book. I can't remember which..Unbelievable or something.

I love P.Jennings, he is an actual hero.

Just finished "Dead and Gone". Can't wait for season 2 of True Blood. Started "Haunted" by Kelly Armstrong today

Chapterhouse: Dune, Frank Herbert's last Dune book.

Reading it is like walking through neck high custard. It takes forever, but it's damn good.

Dolores Claborne-Stephen King.

It's so weird, and I am only 10 or so pages in........

Peter Andres autobiography =P

I just finished K-Pax, and am still struggling my way through Chapterhouse: Dune.

But I need something light to read along side it, so I'm thinking....

Casino Royale by Ian Fleming.

Currently reading [b:1khiaopz]Life of Pi[/b:1khiaopz] by [i:1khiaopz]Yann Martel[/i:1khiaopz] and [i:1khiaopz]Russel Brand's[/i:1khiaopz] [b:1khiaopz]My Booky Wook[/b:1khiaopz]. No idea why the second as I can't really stand the hype about him, but I was given it and it's always good to have reading material, so can't really complain.

Storm Front by jim butcher

Nothing. My book challenge target has failed miserably

Live and Let Die by Ian Fleming

New Moon again.

Moonraker by Ian Fleming

re-reading 'the bell jar' (sylvia plath) and reading 'a natural history of human emotions' by stuart walton

'new moon'
its pretty boring so far

Cobain Unseen

From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming.

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Cobain Unseen
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I love that book!
It's so brilliant and cool with all the extra fold out bits and stickers and stuff.


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That book seems interesting.
I wanna read the book Hitler wrote, 'Mein Kampf', not cos I wanna be like him or anything, but cos I'm interested in how he was be such a vile person.

It's a good book, not really got into the Hitler bits yet. He's just talking about how he's started to hear about Jews being killed.

It's made me want to buy another book about it, though.

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I love that book!
It's so brilliant and cool with all the extra fold out bits and stickers and stuff.
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yeah i like it a lot =)
it was kinda weird/surreal holding the piece of paper with his handwritten "smells like teen spirit" lyrics

Doctor No by Ian Fleming.

It's excellent - the first time I read it, I actually quite disliked it. This time around, though, I'm very much enjoying it.

Eclipse.

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yeah i like it a lot =)
it was kinda weird/surreal holding the piece of paper with his handwritten "smells like teen spirit" lyrics
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I know!
And the mask and the stickers and the VIP pass.
And I really liked seeing all the heart shaped boxes.
It was just brilliant.

yeah its really great.
i checked out the book from the library and i'm thinking about taking the stickers XD

I wanna buy Cobain Unseen but Ј30? Psht.

I'm actively reading [i:3tufv7bc]Sikalat/Svinalдngorna[/i:3tufv7bc] by Susanna Alakoski.
Which is a wonderful book but the content is horrifying. Stories based on real events are always freaky.

I'm "passively" reading so many books that I cannot even remember them all. Maybe I should finish that Hermann Hesse book I began reading two years ago..

just finished " Kill Your Friends" written by John Niven.
I think thats a really good book still my tastes are pretty weird.



[b:2jj9mr3v]Kill Your Friends[/b:2jj9mr3v], by John Niven

The discordant sound of an industry that lacks heart and soul

Reviewed by Jonathan Gibbs



Should Guy Hands, the beleaguered owner of EMI, need some bedtime reading, I heartily suggest he gives this debut novel a try. If he's not sick of the industry he finds himself foundering at the top of when he picks it up, he will be by the time he puts it down. To call John Niven's Kill Your Friends a satire on the music industry is a wicked understatement. It is an all-out assault, a withering, scabrous and often repulsive attack on every part of the filthy machine: from the musicians who churn out rubbish and expect adulation to the corrupt labels and idiotic consumers who lap it up.

The novel runs from January to December 1997 – the year Britpop died. Its narrator is Steven Stelfox, a British A&R man who justifies the relentless hedonism of his lifestyle (the book is chock-full of drugs, booze, sex and swearing) with a few desperate gambles on new signings: a German techno "choon" called "Why Don't You Suck My Fucking Dick?", and a bunch of talentless Spice Girl-copies called Songbirds.

Stelfox is a creation of unparalleled awfulness, chronically sexist, racist, and everything else-ist. He is funny, too, but only in that toxic style of humour that laces every laugh with jags of self-recrimination. You laugh, though you know you shouldn't. Take the Songbirds' dance rehearsal Stelfox attends: "It was like watching CCTV footage of the tail end of a 12-hour hen night in Liverpool". Or drum'*'bass DJ Rage, laden down with bling: "He looks like he's covered himself in glue and charged headlong through an outlet called Rich Black Bastard." Did I laugh? I'm afraid I did.

For all that he is despicable, you can't help feeling that, when it comes to the music business, Stelfox is on the money. Most people, he rants, don't care about musicianship, or integrity. "Real people... buy four albums a year and they want to be able to hear all the words." Having worked for a decade in the industry, Niven clearly knows his stuff. There's a great running gag in the chapter heads giving little snippets of buzz from each month – all those forgotten bands: Echobelly, Ultrasound, Superstar.

Stelfox's ranting does eventually pall, as The Brits merge into Glastonbury, and Niven's attempt to up the ante by pushing him towards Patrick Bateman-esque monstrosity frankly doesn't work. As an eye-watering self-evisceration on the part of The Man, though, this takes some beating.

I just got The Graveyard Book. It's a children's book, but it's Neil Gaiman, so it balances out.

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I just got The Graveyard Book. It's a children's book, but it's Neil Gaiman, so it balances out.
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I forgot all about that one. How is it?

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I forgot all about that one. How is it?
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I just started it, but so far it's not bad.

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It would really would be worth it.
The book has so many amazing pictures of Kurt and a lot of his art work as well. If you don't already see him as a really neat, likeable guy, you will after you see it.
Maybe check the prices on ebay and amazon (or whatever your thing may be) before you get it at a store.

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I just started it, but so far it's not bad.
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I'm trying REAL hard to read Neverwhere right now but ho-ly shit is it boring.

i'm reading 'to the nines' by janet evanovich, for about the 50th time. anyone read her books?

also roots, by alex haley but not having my luck, it's so hard to read.

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I loved Neverwhere.

A Clockwork Orange.

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I loved Neverwhere.
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My eyes are reading the words but nothing is being absorbed. I honestly can't remember anything I've read in it so far, other than two guys snooping about, one of them eating rats.

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My eyes are reading the words but nothing is being absorbed. I honestly can't remember anything I've read in it so far, other than two guys snooping about, one of them eating rats.
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that's basically the way i am am with Roots. i'll be reading a page and then my mind will trail off but i'll still be looking at the words and then i'll finally come back to the book and i've finished the page. it's rather annoying, actually.

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A Clockwork Orange.
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Great book, better movie.

Andy Taylor-Wild Boy, my life with Duran Duran.

DIdnt know members of DD did COKE.

omgah.