Books

[tup]

do you generally read the same kind of books all the time? sticking to mysteries? or romantic novels? or sci fi? or somesuch?

 

maybe you need to expand your range of experiences, so that they don't seem so familiar?

if you always go to the same places, do the same things -- and always read the same genre of books -- it's bound to happen.

 

my advice is to change things up a bit, Tup.

 

 

I'm nothing like that. I read a wide variety of books.

 

My problem is that it feels as if I've read them before once I get to a certain stage in the book.

[Henry]

Also got this in the to read pile:

 

[robbojunior]

 

 

I'm nothing like that. I read a wide variety of books.

 

My problem is that it feels as if I've read them before once I get to a certain stage in the book.

 

Its your inner rage coming out. You are clearly a clinical psychopath.

[Bluto10]

Also got this in the to read pile:

 

[Henry]

do you generally read the same kind of books all the time? sticking to mysteries? or romantic novels? or sci fi? or somesuch?

 

maybe you need to expand your range of experiences, so that they don't seem so familiar?

if you always go to the same places, do the same things -- and always read the same genre of books -- it's bound to happen.

 

my advice is to change things up a bit, Tup.

 

 

I agree Tup, maybe give the Razzle a rest, try a Readers' Wives or a Fiesta.

[tup]

 

Its your inner rage coming out. You are clearly a clinical psychopath.

 

It's either that, or this has all happened before sometime, and we are stuck in a loop.

[Bluto10]

It's either that, or this has all happened before sometime, and we are stuck in a loop.

Aye the highlands must feel like that min.

 

Just wait till they open a Starbucks min, that'll keep you amused for a decade or two.

[tup]

It's nothing to do with that either.

 

It's a serious point. I sometimes feel a real sense of deja-vu in certain situations, even though I could not possibly have done them before.

 

I may have dreamt it however, and not remembered about it.

[StandFree1982]

I read a book a week.

Mills & Boon books don't count.

[Bluto10]

Classics actually.

Like Dostoyevsky

[360]

Classics actually.

Like Dostoyevsky

 

Good taste, bluto. +1

 

The Brothers Karamazov- possibly one of the finest books ever to grace the vellum.

[buchanskii]

Classics actually.

Like Dostoyevsky

 

You're wasting your time bloots, bet these lot haven't read a book between them. Bloody college boys

[Bluto10]

[buchanskii]

Has anyone read the chimp paradox?

 

Read the first 20 pages but can't take it seriously reading the word chimp every other sentence.

[Ke1t]

 

It's either that, or this has all happened before sometime, and we are stuck in a loop.

It's nothing to do with that either.

 

It's a serious point. I sometimes feel a real sense of deja-vu in certain situations, even though I could not possibly have done them before.

 

I may have dreamt it however, and not remembered about it.

Books usually follow the same Three Act formula, so by the time you hit the 'Setback' (James Bond is dangling over a pool of sharks with Lazer attached to their foreheads), you know you're on the verge of the Overcome Obstacle/Resolution phase of the book.

 

You feel Like you'be read it before because you'be read the exact same formula in almost every book you'be ever read (assuming you read fiction).

 

If you read bios and informational books you don't get that formulaic blueprint.

[Ke1t]

Why the fuck is this phone autocorrecting you've to you'be?

[granite sheep]

Currently reading this:

 

Good shout. Carl Hiaasen books are aye funny as fuck and good stories to boot.

[golden72]

 

My all time favourite book is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, it was the first one I read cover to cover, and I recently read it to my daughter, magnificent story.

 

 

I would love to read this book, because the movie is fantastic!

[tup]

I'm reading this:

 

 

Picked it up in a charity shop. Set in weegieland.

 

The author has a real bellend's name but apart from that it's OK.

[golden72]

 

Been reading quite a few works to do with Soviet History recently, including:

 

Bulgakov- The Master and Margarita

Shalamov- Kolyma Tales

Zamyatin- We

Serge- The Case of Comrade Tulayev

Scott- Behind the Urals

Hindus- Red Bread

Mochulsky- Gulag Boss: A Soviet Memoir

Bogdanov- Red Star

 

[golden72]

 

Been reading quite a few works to do with Soviet History recently, including:

 

Bulgakov- The Master and Margarita

Shalamov- Kolyma Tales

Zamyatin- We

Serge- The Case of Comrade Tulayev

Scott- Behind the Urals

Hindus- Red Bread

Mochulsky- Gulag Boss: A Soviet Memoir

Bogdanov- Red Star

 

 

 

I can recommend to you an -Idiot- if you really like soviet literature.

[golden72]

Does anybody here can recommend some criminal? Really good one

[Bluto10]

I read a book a week.

[King Street Loon]

I read a book a week.

[StandFree1982]

He's obviously not read the last one.

[Clydeside_Sheep]

 

Just finished this book by Ben Kane.

 

Its about the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, in 9 AD, where the germanic tribes united to spectacularly f*ck the roman army in the ass.

 

(I never really like it when the invincibles manage to lose - be it the Romans, the British, or the Imperials out of Star Wars).

 

its historical fiction so the main events and some characters are real, but other characters and the sub-plots are the authors own.

 

It was very enjoyable and interesting I give it 8/10.

 

(I got a good deal on the hardback in tesco - was about £7 - about half the cover price)

 

Kelt - you may well enjoy this, I remember you mentioning this battle before - and boy you were right, it is a quite amazing story

 

[Bluto10]

I read a book a weekk

[Ke1t]

 

Just finished this book by Ben Kane.

 

Its about the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, in 9 AD, where the germanic tribes united to spectacularly f*ck the roman army in the ass.

 

(I never really like it when the invincibles manage to lose - be it the Romans, the British, or the Imperials out of Star Wars).

 

its historical fiction so the main events and some characters are real, but other characters and the sub-plots are the authors own.

 

It was very enjoyable and interesting I give it 8/10.

 

(I got a good deal on the hardback in tesco - was about £7 - about half the cover price)

 

Kelt - you may well enjoy this, I remember you mentioning this battle before - and boy you were right, it is a quite amazing story

 

 

The non-fiction, historic book pertaining to Teutoburg is 'The Battle That Stopped Rome'. I last read it a while ago, but strongly recommend it.

 

The shit the Germans did to the Romans during and after that battle...

 

 

Three entire legions, cavalry units, and several Auxiliary Limitanei regiments, not to mention logistics... wiped out.

 

Germans have always had a knack for war.

[Clydeside_Sheep]

 

The non-fiction, historic book pertaining to Teutoburg is 'The Battle That Stopped Rome'. I last read it a while ago, but strongly recommend it.

 

 

I will check it out thanks for the tip!

[ChutneyLove]

I read a book a weekk

 

List the books you have read this year, Blurts. There should be 22 of them.