Be Excellent To Each Other

Didn't I talk about that already?

I did somewhere. If it wasn't here, where the Hell was it?

I think there's a Dark Tower thread. Where people who like shit books go.

Yeah, but I mean recently. Like, in the past week.

Also:

I think you may have mentioned it. I mentioned it better

Casino Royale done. Was alright. I'd never bothered with the Bond books before. The whole thing got a bit redundant after the baccarat bit. Meh. Also, it was a dodgy ebook from some website, and was full of typos and weird characters where accented French letters should've been. Another argument for paying money for your electronic reading material I suppose.

Not sure what to read now. Don't want to start the next Ice and Fire book just yet. Hmm.

Decided on Catcher in the Rye...

Unlucky. It's shit.

I IMd you about it. Belm.

I wish. I've had several Kindle books full of typos. I've even had refunds on a couple.

Skagboys is out today. The first book I've looked forward to release date for ages. Even pre-ordered it on Kindle, which I picked up as I left the house as it will have been autodelivered overnight, so I could read on the train to work. I never do that.

Forgot to update my credit card on Amazon. No autodelivery overnight, Wifi only Kindle. Arse.

Bit late now, but can't you do a wireless hotspot with the iPhone 4?

Bah! But at least then I'd have a valid avenue of complaint!

Just finished Cormac McCarthy "outer dark". He's very much in my favorite writers category now, even though i only read 3 of his books. "Blood Meridian" is mindblowing by the way. Now for the weak of stomach though.

I've started reading Machine of Death again now that I have a magic reading box. I started reading the free pdf when it came out, but I cannae be arsed reading books off a monitor. The stories are a bit morbid, but they make me laugh loads

Also, they've recorded the stories as podcasts so that you can enjoy them even if you're a spacker or a blindo on your commute or something.

Yes, yes you can.

So much so, that you can watch streaming TV on your laptop/ipad whatever.

Malc

I've started Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. It's beautifully written so far (about 30 pages in).

EDIT: As MrsA did English or soemthing at Uni, she's constantly amazed at how little I've actually read compared to her, so she's been recommending books to me. it's most useful.

the art of fielding... great coming of age story
http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Fielding- ... 0316126691

Zone One by Colson Whitehead is a top-notch zombocalypse book. It's not the storyline which sets it apart (although that is interesting) nor the motifs (consumer-culture-as-lifeless-as-zombies goes back to the Dawn of the Dead). No, it's the prose. Whitehead is a Serious Literary Writer who happens to be slumming in genre fiction and it shows. The guy can write, and many, many times the book had a turn of phrase or clever metaphor that had me chuckling darkly.

Highly recommended. I read it in a day, almost in one sitting.

Ooh, haven't heard of that one. I'll pick that up.

Listening to the Partridge audiobook. mazin. Simply mazin.

I'll be interested in your thoughts. It's worlds away from most zombie novels.

Man, that book turned sad real quick.

Currently reading 'Hull Zero Three' by agreg Bear for some science fiction craving. Will let you know howit goes.

Massive recommendation for Paulo Bacigalupi's "Shipbreaker". The man has Hugo, Nebula and other such awards coming out of his ass. The book is ostensiblyYoung Adult fiction, but it is absolutely superb. He writes near future fiction hitch tends to be based around the world after ongoing ecological disaster changes a few things. But not as preachy as that sounds.

Top writer; I'm devouring everything he's written. Also, great name!

So Catcher in the Rye.

Caulfield asks a lot of people where the ducks go in the winter. But then he describes going to the museum and a display of birds flying south for the winter. So he knows where the ducks go. What's the deal with that? Anyone?

I'm starting Ex-Patriots soon. A chum has said that once it gets going it's really good.

MrsA's 'somehow' bought has almost finished "50 shades of Gray". The S&M erotic novel developed from Twilight Fan fiction. It's 'not great'. I'm most amused.

She should really tell people that she was looking for an S&M book and accidentally got Twighlight fan fiction. It's less embarrassing that way round.

I'll be getting those, ta.

I accidentally got a porn book the other month - I think I tweeted about it, as it taught me the phrase "shuttle-fucked".

Is that when you get 7 up?

Or something about re-entry?

Is it when you get cocked by 100 bad men?

Is it about being bummed on a small bus between the airport and the plane.

Is it when you're a poorly funded government lass with problematic ablative shielding on your undercarriage?

Is it a niche badminton fetish?

I've already done that one. DURRR!

Fail.

I'm not reading one atrociously laboured pun.

Then you're definitely on the wrong forum.

And I was expecting at least one answer to my question.

Then you're definitely on the wrong forum.

Is it about flying on the space shuttle? #statingthingsobviouslywithoutoneiotaofmirth

What question?

It's because he's an annoying prick, and it's a shit book.

It's a great book, shut your cake hole!

Okay. "The South" is an incredibly vague answer. Akin to asking your neighbour where the nearest chippy is and getting "Britain" as the answer. Also not all birds migrate to the same place. Here we get Barnacle geese from Iceland/Greenland/North America, Arctic Terns from Antarctica, Swallows and Shrikes from Africa, etc etc. Fecking loads of them. Asking where a particular bird migrates to is a valid question. You are hearing me talk.

What's good about it? I just didn't understand why it was considered so marvellous. For me it's just an annoying, whining kid going around being miserable, offering no more a view on the world than any one of a million emo blogs.

Wooooo!

That's just bollocks.

I concur.