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Hello, I was a-wondering, does anyone have any favourite, or could recommend any good books?
Cheers.
Cheers.
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<IMG alt="image" SRC="biggrin.gif" border="0"> Fuckin' amazin'! <IMG alt="image" SRC="biggrin.gif" border="0">
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'the tesseract' by alex garland (bit confusing but once you get it, its pretty damn good)
or
'a child called it'/the lost boy/ a man called dave' by dave pelzer - these books are the true stories about a child who survived his abusive mother - then about his life in foster care and afterwards: its really heart wrenching
bound feet and western dress - Pang-Mei (fantastic read)
the bridget jones books are funny
bill bryson ones are cool too
hope this helps
Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Chiang, Wild Swans - if you have time.
Dickens - most are "recommended", but I like David Copperfield best.
Conan Doyle, the Holmes stories.
Clancy, but ONLY the Jack Ryan/John Clark ones, the Netforce ones aren't worth it, the Power Plays are dire, and the Op Centre ones are only just readable.
Forsyth - Day of the Jackal.
Can't think of any more off the top of my head.
Thank for the suggestions <IMG alt="image" SRC="smile.gif" border="0">
Despise chick-lit, Emily Bronte and The catcher in the rye.
Erm, can't think of any more of the top of my head.
Despise chick lit. Hm.
Okay, you like Naomi Klein. Have you tried David Harvey? Klein talks about capitalism in terms of MNCs, Harvey tends to take a more holistic approach, and is fundamentally Marxist. That said, the books are well written, and quite readable, if you like that sort of thing.
I've had the honour to meet Professor Harvey at a lecture series he gave - the guy is a living legend.
Ian M Banks Stuff and anything by Robert Rankin for a start, depends on what kind of stuff you like to read about!
The Macdonaldisation of society (I can't remember off hand who it is by but the name is on my web site)
The Bell Jar- Silvia Plath
Man and Boy- Tony Parsons
I'm gonna have a gander at 'The condition of Postmodernity' (David Harvey)
Iain banks - he did the wasp factory? I read that at it school, it was pretty cool. I'll have a look at his others.
The dicworld series is fab <IMG alt="image" SRC="biggrin.gif" border="0">
Had a look at your site KT, I'll check out the George Ritzer book - The Bell Jar is an old fave.
Thanks Again <IMG alt="image" SRC="smile.gif" border="0">
Victoria Beckham - Learning to fly - enlightening.
Borderliners - Peter Hoeg
Wide Open - Nicola Barker
The Dumb House - John Burnside
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Alsso, with a slightly lighter tone to them, most of the ben elton books are good.
Discworld rulz ok!
Good taste in books. Loved The Secret History.
Discworld does indeed rock, though I think Pratchett may be running short on ideas now........
I think a member of TheSite staff wrote it. I think it might have been me. Shameless plug? Could be. <IMG alt="image" SRC="smile.gif" border="0">
Wisdom of insecurity - Alan Watts (all about faith and belief)
More than Human - Theodore Sturgeon (bit sci-fi bit psychology)
The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
Fall on your Knees- Ann-Marie Macdonald (absolutely amazing but about 2 inches thick)
Once in a house on fire - Andrera Ashworth (True life in the 70's/80's in Manchester with abusive stepfather - great story)
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OK, to make Matt's shameless plug slightly less shameless, lets have a competition around this. The prize will be... a copy of Matt's new book (4 stars in Heat blah blah blah...).
Just tell us who you think the three characters on the front of Matt's book coould be based on. The funniest answer wins the book.
And if no one enters, then we'll use it as a door stop.
Oh, and there's a bigger pic of the cover
HERE
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Who wants to go to a show home anyway?
Susie <IMG alt="image" SRC="rolleyes.gif" border="0">
They're all having a video conference on the proposed building of Columbia Road, a new residential area for alien invaders, criminal scum and sanitised pop nymphettes to be built on a US Government experimental weapons testing area.
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I have heard of Matt Whyman, aren't you an agony uncle or something?
ignore all the other horrible photos and scowl at Dom for taking them!
http://www.thesite.org/about/staff.html
Brilliant brilliant books. Recommend those.
William Golding - Lord Of The Flies. Read it at school earlier this year. Done all the symbolism etc, written pages of notes and still like it.
Douglas Adams - Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy (and series). Read these a while ago. Alot of people liked these...
*Tries to think of funny thing to say about book cover* *fails* <IMG alt="image" SRC="rolleyes.gif" border="0">
Whoa, never realised how many TheSite writers/workers there are. So many eyes watching... <IMG alt="image" SRC="eek.gif" border="0">