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"Any of you read?"

Seeing as this is the music, tv, movies AND books forum, and seeing as there's very little in the way of book-related topics, what's everyone reading at the mo?

I'm reading Origin by Stephen Baxter, good hard sci-fi, and is the third in a trilogy.

Its just interesting how much feedback your post recieved. I just wondered if you had anticipated this. (Notice the lack of the word comment in my comment .......damn!)

Any of you lot read Damage Done.
Really interesting book about a guy that is put in a Thai prison. True story and a little disturbing but well worth the read.

Rosalind wrote:
> Since you responded to my post quoting what I had said about Harry
> Potter I don't think I was wrong to assume that your attack was aimed
> at me.

Well, I think that is an incredibly silly assumption.

Never assume, it makes an "ass" of "u" and "me"


> Did you think that you would get such comment from people about the
> comment that you made?

This comment, obviously inspired by comments made in response to my own comment, makes little sense as a comment in its own right. Care to comment further?

Mouldy Cheese wrote:
> What you're doing, it's like saying you don't like (say) The Offspring
> for the sole reason that they're punk, or that you don't like beer
> because you don't like alcohol.

Hardly, what I'm saying is that Harry Potter, being an obvious remake of a book to which it offers no credit, is essentially offensive. The feedback I have (yes, I mention the feedback AGAIN - I'm not basing this on the books covers like you all seem to think I am) suggests to me that although it may well be a book a lot of casual readers (and indeed some hardcore ones) can enjoy, it would bore me to tears were I to read more than a few pages.

And as it happens, I do like The Offspring, but I don't like Punk. I'm not judgemental, my opinion of Harry Potter is based upon the accumulation of a number of facts and opinions I have gathered over time. You may enjoy it, but I never will.

I read 1984 again last week

Fantastic

Going to buy books on Wednesday... Fast Food Nation and Post Office

Tyla wrote:
> Am I in the understanding that you read Iain Banks? If so... Wasp
> Factory's lead chracter was an Adolescent, and the lead chracter in
> Fersum Endjin was and adolecent both focusing around their childhood
> etc... Which leads me to assume that you have read books with young
> lead chracters...

I haven't read "Wasp Factory", but Feersum Endjin doesn't really have a "main" character, and the "adolescent" you speak of comes across more as a mentally challenged mid-teens boy. never mind the fact that I despised his character, and wasn't fond of Bank's attempt to immitate the way he talked, as it reminded me of the first few pages of Pygmalion, where the playwright attempts to use phonetics to help grasp the accents.

Yuck.

Pop.

For Insane Bartender.

well, i recently read two of the three books from david pelzer, a child called it, and the lost boy

this is about david pelzer when he was young and his mother gave him child abuse, true story then the second book is about when the cops took david away from his mum and he had like 5 foster parents

Got to be beards, and lots of them. Twinkly fairy ears and my axe.

Stryke wrote:
> 1984 and Animal Farm, both by Orwell, are two of the greatest books of
> the 20th century, in my opinion.
>
> Lord of the Rings is still THE greatest though :o)

Pffft.....C'mon - Beards vs doublethink? No contest.