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Post by Phoebe on Aug 5, 2003 18:04:30 GMT -5
I need recomendations!!
Now that i am going to Tafe in the city 3 days a week, i have a 2 x 45 minute train ride in which i need to kill time on.
I could do my homework but it's too hard trying to balance my folder and belongings on a packed peak hour train.
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Post by sarah on Aug 6, 2003 2:54:43 GMT -5
hey phoebe, don delillo is great... try 'libra' or 'white noise'. a friend of mine has read heaps of his books though and reckons they're all good, so whatever you can find... it's cliched and predictable but if you haven't read 'high fidelity' by nick hornby then you must, it's funny as shit and just generally an awesome read. 'post-mortem' by patricia cornwell is good too. hope the tafe deal goes well  |
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Post by kelly on Aug 6, 2003 4:16:29 GMT -5
tully by paulinna simmons is awesome
also, jodi picoult writes awesome stuff
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Post by slushpup on Aug 6, 2003 5:03:22 GMT -5
my favourite author is jeffery eugenides...so id recommend "the virgin suicides" by him..but hes written a new one called "middlesex"..it won the recent novel prize for novels! (haha..a minor achievement...) might not be your cup of tea..but hey..give it a try anyway. umm if you havnt read any of these yet id really recommend them too: catcher in the rye, the belljar, one flew over the cuckoos nest, the colour purple. um yeah the classics basically  if i think of any more ill give you a holler... |
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Post by TLCM on Aug 7, 2003 2:24:24 GMT -5
I haven't read any fiction lately, there is no time to read these days. The last books I've looked at were Damned Whores and God's Police by Anne Summers and A Convict History of Australia (or something along those lines) by Lloyd Robson, if I was you I wouldn't bother reading either of them.
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Post by heiny on Aug 8, 2003 0:17:15 GMT -5
check out kate atkinson, some of her stuff is prety good. also arthur goldens book: "memoirs of a geisha" is really very god. and... theres this japanese author i cant remember his name but he wrote "when we were orphans and a whole bunch of other good books. ill post his name later. if your goig for trash try agatha christie. old clasics goo fun etc. also try the ghost world comic, its pretty good. iuf you really want a big book try "shogun" i cant remeber who its by but its an absolute other of a book. its not fantastic but it take a lot of time. "gone with the wind" is the awesoemest book and its areally big too. so itll last youa c ouple of days. atonement by.... shit ive forgotten. well that and his other books re good and pretty highly acclaimed. if you want other books recommeneded try www.readings.com.au theyre a good bookshop and they always have recommended reading. btw, i love reading. in case you hadnt noticed. ooh slow burn by victor kelleher is good too.. and his other stuff is good and.. some of this is stuff i havent read for years and so it might be a bit of kids books but lots of it is klike..adultly acclaimed. oh, i capture the caslte is a reall sweet book. yes, the mocvioe recetnally came out. i would also suggest reading bigraphies, they take a bit of time and you increase your knowledge. awesome. |
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Post by agent pondscum on Aug 8, 2003 21:44:02 GMT -5
I haven't read any fiction lately, there is no time to read these days. The last books I've looked at were Damned Whores and God's Police by Anne Summers and A Convict History of Australia (or something along those lines) by Lloyd Robson, if I was you I wouldn't bother reading either of them. sounds like the shit i just read 4 uni, boring as hell, phoebe i recommend any dean koontz, especially 'false memory',its a big enuf book to keep u goin for ages, but its a thriller that actually fucks with ur head a bit, brilliant writing, other than that i'd say anything tim winton, dirt music or cloudstreet are awesome! |
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Post by malloy on Aug 9, 2003 0:22:14 GMT -5
What type of books do you enjoy?? Crime? Fantasy?
I been reading "Magician" by Raymond E.Feist. Major fantasy, imagination book. Lots of wizards, dwarfs, goblins, other life forms etc etc. I found it really stimulates your imagination and can really picture in my head whats going on in the book..
So yeh. If you're into that kinda stuff, Raymond E.Feist is a great author.
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Post by Mediel on Aug 9, 2003 1:40:18 GMT -5
tully by paulinna simmons is awesome i hate to say it but i hated that book...  if you like fantasy the wheel of time series by robert jordan is good, and there's 10 books in it so it'll take you a while, lol... if not... mm the bell jar is good, yes, and for some reason I've taken a recent liking to Tim Winton  |
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Post by panga on Aug 9, 2003 4:18:04 GMT -5
Harlan Coben is good, you should check that out.
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Post by Lauzza on Oct 11, 2003 8:43:29 GMT -5
i thought i'd resurect this coz books really are the shiznit aren't they? well they're my solace at the moment, good break from the study. for my b'day i got a book of the ghost world comics, which is, of course, tres cool i also got 'less than zero', brett easton ellis' (of american psyco and the rules of attraction fame) first novel. i liked it, the narration (even though it's in first person) is quite detatched - i mean there's no real emotional attachment, there's two shocking incodents but the rest of the sex drugs etc doesn't really shock because of they way it's just casually natural for the characters. i'm about to start 'choke' by chuck palahniuk (fight club), heard it's good - anyone read it? so peoples....post your recomendations, comments etc... |
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Post by Heath on Oct 12, 2003 0:57:17 GMT -5
I am reading a book called Rouge Nation which is about the reasons why the US really shouldn't have been surprised about Sept 11th. It's a bloody good book, I wish it could be given free to everyone that reads the Sunday Times.
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Post by Bree To Blame on Oct 12, 2003 4:55:18 GMT -5
I am reading a book called Rouge Nation which is about the reasons why the US really shouldn't have been surprised about Sept 11th. It's a bloody good book, I wish it could be given free to everyone that reads the Sunday Times. ...and Today Tonight...  I'm currently between two books. "Survivor" ~by Chuck Palahniuk and the brilliant, "Ian Curtis: Touching From A Distance" which is written by his widow, Deborah Curtis. Bloody fantastic read with anecdotes and snippets from his friends and fellow Joy Division members. |
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Post by panga on Oct 12, 2003 8:44:57 GMT -5
I am reading a book called Rouge Nation which is about the reasons why the US really shouldn't have been surprised about Sept 11th. It's a bloody good book, I wish it could be given free to everyone that reads the Sunday Times. ... or the west, to me they are both the same damn thing, this city really lacks a good newspaper. |
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Post by Lauzza on Oct 13, 2003 0:33:34 GMT -5
... or the west, to me they are both the same damn thing, this city really lacks a good newspaper. what are you talking about? in the paper on sunday i learnt how important pink is this season, and in the tv guide from the west i learnt that having your bra straps showing is very modern...isn't that what papers are for? |
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