I need to finish off 'Money' by Martin Amis. I like it, but always seem to read it late at night and can only manage about 15 pages at a time, so it's slow going.
What are you reading right now? Page 157
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ July 21 2012, 8:21 PM BSThttp://blogs.babble.com/strollerderby/2012/07/12/judging-a-book-by-its-cover-a-6-year-old-guesses-what-classic-novels-are-all-about/#the-great-gatsby
I love this.
Aw, how cute is she.
Especially Fahrenheit 451. 
Quote: Ben @ July 21 2012, 8:30 PM BSTI need to finish off 'Money' by Martin Amis. I like it, but always seem to read it late at night and can only manage about 15 pages at a time, so it's slow going.
I've never read any Martin Amis ( have read his father) because I always think he's a bit of a shite. Would you recommend him?
Quote: keewik @ July 21 2012, 8:38 PM BSTI've never read any Martin Amis ( have read his father) because I always think he's a bit of a shite. Would you recommend him?
Well I read 'London Fields' about 10 years ago and didn't enjoy it that much. 'Money' appears to be better, so far, but I am wondering where exactly it's all going.
Is that his newest one about chavs?
Quote: zooo @ July 21 2012, 8:34 PM BSTAw, how cute is she.
Especially Fahrenheit 451.
I think Gatsby is scarily accurate.
Quote: zooo @ July 21 2012, 8:42 PM BSTIs that his newest one about chavs?
Yes!
Stanley Holloway monologues
Quote: lofthouse @ July 21 2012, 9:47 PM BSTStanley Holloway monologues
Ooh! Are they good? I love Stanley Holloway.I particularly enjoyed this anecdote from his IMDB bio:
Holloway appeared with Rex Harrison in the stage production of "My Fair Lady". Harrison had a reputation for being very abrupt with his fans. One night after a performance of the show, Holloway and Harrison left by the stage door. It was late, cold and pouring rain and there was an old woman standing alone outside the door. When she saw Harrison, she asked him for his autograph. He told her to "Sod off", and she was so enraged at this that she rolled up her program and hit Harrison with it. Holloway congratulated him on not only making theater history, but, for the first time in world history, "the fan has hit the shit."
Quote: Ben @ July 3 2012, 10:47 PM BSTCurrently reading Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell. It's an intriguing account of his days living in and just about out of poverty.
Aye. I was given a copy of that during a stint in Paris, where I was reduced to working as a dishwasher to make ends meet. It's his experiences living with tramps in England that I recall most strongly though.
Quote: dellas @ July 7 2012, 9:08 PM BST' Heart of Darkness'- Joseph Conrad.
Always wanted to read this, began on holiday, it is all about slavery in the Belgium Congo. I'm half way through and We are still stranded in the rainforest of the Congo river.
I found this unbearably dull.
Quote: keewik @ July 21 2012, 8:38 PM BSTI've never read any Martin Amis ( have read his father) because I always think he's a bit of a shite. Would you recommend him?
Yes, Money, Dead Babies, Other People and London Fields were all good. His later stuff is apparently less good. I am reading his somewhat pompously self-deprecating autobiography now - or rather, I started it and it's now awaiting my next long weekend or holiday.
Quote: zooo @ July 21 2012, 8:42 PM BSTIs that his newest one about chavs?
Quote: Ben @ July 21 2012, 8:50 PM BSTYes!
No it's not! His new book about chavs is Lionel Abso - State of England. Money was written in the mid-80s and is about people with too much money getting wasted.
Quote: L.E. @ June 26 2012, 1:19 PM BSTFunny blog about badly translated products in to English.
http://fluffybuttsplace.wordpress.com/category/engrish-funny-products-and-packaging/
In China, T-shirts with English slogans are deemed cool, although some manufacturers don't even bother trying to come up with real words:
God Is Not Great by the late Christopher Hitchens...
er nothing, but if u like hhgttg may I humbly recommend a 4th rate book of similar ilk. available entirely free at smash words: the royble, the greatest story ever told badly, contains all the letters of the alphabet even rubbish ones like 'w.'
Penny Hancock's Timeline, whose main character is quite evocative of a much calmer Annie Wilkes from Misery.
Quote: Kenneth @ July 22 2012, 6:30 AM BSTNo it's not! His new book about chavs is Lionel Abso - State of England. Money was written in the mid-80s and is about people with too much money getting wasted.
That's quite right, Kenneth. I completely misread zooo's comment. I think that may be the problem with the book so far, it's just John Self getting drunk so far. It kinds of reminds me of Bukowski novels in that respect, but I am waiting for a bit more to happen. Maybe the mystery crank caller will add new and interesting dimensions.
Quote: KeithyT @ July 22 2012, 9:00 AM BSTGod Is Not Great by the late Christopher Hitchens...
Excellent choice! Hitchens' writing is so concise and effortless.