Heartland

BORN TO BE WILD

I have just finished "Steppenwolf" by Herman Hesse. I rather enjoyed it, but I am not sure I fully understood it. I got a bit mixed up with what was dream and what was reality.
If the message was "Life is A trree of possibilities" then Marc Bolan told me that some time ago with a lot less drama.
What I was impressed with, bearing in mind it was written in 1927, was the prediction of the rise of the Right and that there would be another World War.

I have now made a start on "Slash the Autobiography" - I am not a big fan of G n R but the book is quite entertaining.

Nick Kent's Apathy for the Devil

C/R The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins.

I do prefer his writing on evolutionary biology to his atheist polemic

Just about to start this



I have made my own discovery however, conspiracy theorists = cider drinkers and I am fed up of having the same old conversations - I need more back up hence the purchase

tbh i'm only reading the 3 culture short stories in it

Quiff Boy wrote:

tbh i'm only reading the 3 culture short stories in it

Read the others too. Definitely worth it.

The illuminated version of Peter Pan!

Just finished The City & The City by China Miéville. Awesome book. I only started it on Saturday, sometimes I wish I didn't read so damn quickly!

Not a bad read, and there's a few tongue-in-cheek references to other sci-fi landmarks (five rounds rapid!), but I much prefer Commissar Gaunt.

Lustrum by Robert Harris. The second part of his trilogy (Imperium was the first) about the life of Cicero.

(The conceit is that it's Tiro's lost biography of his master.)

a bit boring to some folks I know,but this rocks my boat

Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world, by Haruki Murakami

Use Of Weapons -- Iain M Banks

markfiend wrote:Use Of Weapons -- Iain M Banks

starting the series again?

me:


which is shaping up to be a bit like the culture vs 2001: a space odyssey

Quiff Boy wrote:

markfiend wrote:Use Of Weapons -- Iain M Banks

starting the series again?

Not particularly, although I might change my mind

I've noticed something that telegraphs the "twist"...but I'm not going to mention it in case I post a spoiler by accident.

markfiend wrote:

Quiff Boy wrote:

markfiend wrote:Use Of Weapons -- Iain M Banks

starting the series again?

Not particularly, although I might change my mind

I've noticed something that telegraphs the "twist"...but I'm not going to mention it in case I post a spoiler by accident.

the twist in use of weapons, excession, or in banks' stuff generally?

An old fave:

Quiff Boy wrote:the twist in use of weapons, excession, or in banks' stuff generally?

The twist in "Use of Weapons"... I'll say no more.

markfiend wrote:

Quiff Boy wrote:the twist in use of weapons, excession, or in banks' stuff generally?

The twist in "Use of Weapons"... I'll say no more.

Ah yes

Jean Paul Satre - Nausea

(I don't go looking for this stuff they are just on the bookshelf - leftovers from the daugther's degree course)

Anyway, it could have been funnier, but at least I think I understood it.

Lord Of The Rings. It's that time of year again.

Robert D. Kaplan: Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus.
So far very good book. Great inside/outside point of view. I was about to buy "Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History" but when it's not avaliable this is kind repleace when it also,partly, aboutBalkan.

IZ.

Very nice for the Pratchett book.

I am currently reading Kate Mosse's Labyrinth - can't bring myself to finish it, though, cause it's my travel abroad reading and I haven't travelled for a while.