Books - What Are You Reading?

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over 16 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Is The Diceman that book about a chap who roles a dice and commits terrible crimes in accordance with the number he roles? I read a brief synopsis about it a few months ago and it sounded great but I never got round to looking for the book to read.

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Frankie Mac wrote:

How can anyone hate the Diceman????? It is a classic early - mid 20's read, along with American Psycho (pretty good, but no less than zero), Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance (complete sh*t, but maybe I was just not smart enough) and the beach (alright, but not as great as everyone seemed to think it was).

I also loved the detainees by Sean Hughes, and also enjoyed the books by Hugh Laurie and David Baddiel. Ben Elton books are always pretty funny, especially Stark, Gridlocked and the big brother and pop idol ones.

I have just finished the Red Riding series by David Pearce (oooooh - the damned united was really good) and I haven't got a f**king clue what was going on. Really - not a scooby.

Totally agree with Brett's Easton Ellis, I remember a guy actually almost offering me out for a fight because I was reading American Psycho on a bus, I actually think Rules of Attraction is his best. Zen I found boring. The Dicemen offended me in a way that American Psycho didn't I found it deeply unpleasant, dunno why.

If we are into classic weird books that must be read then there has to be The Illuminatus! http://www.amazon.com/Illuminatus-Trilogy-Pyramid-Golden-Leviathan/dp/0440539811/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1251257390&sr=8-1

The number 23!!! watch the fnords!!!

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ForteanTimes wrote:

If we are into classic weird books that must be read then there has to be The Illuminatus! http://www.amazon.com/Illuminatus-Trilogy-Pyramid-Golden-Leviathan/dp/0440539811/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1251257390&sr=8-1

The number 23!!! watch the fnords!!!

My girlfriend is pretty much obsessed with that trilogy at the moment, she'll probably make me read it at some point

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robbwatson wrote:

ForteanTimes wrote:

My girlfriend is pretty much obsessed with that trilogy at the moment, she'll probably make me read it at some point

best to just take it as a detective/fantasy novel pre Dan Brown. If you start reading to much into it, you can find yourself on the conspiracy train and you won't know what station you'll end up on!

I read way to much into it when I was a lad.
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Cosimo wrote:

sanday wrote:

London - Edward Rutherfurd nearly finished.

Netherland -Joseph O'Neill.

Homecoming- Bernhard Schlink.

Lottery- Patricia Wood.

A case of exploding mangoes - Mohammed Hanif

Is that the London autobiography? the really long non-fiction one? If so, do you like it? I thought it had some great bits but was really unfocused...

It is fiction.It can be boring in parts.I do like it. I treat each chapter as a separate story.Some chapters are better than others. Might try Sarum next.

London follows six different families from the Roman settlement to the dockland development of today. Real-life characters and events of British history are found in London as well, but it is the period details and the stories of ordinary Londoners, whose daily lives are affected by events that have shaped the city over two thousand years, that bring the novel to life. In London Rutherfurd provides more than just the familiar sights and revelations, he gives a voice to a city whose history is one of the most remarkable in the world.

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