Books

you should. mark anderson’s political book “all the power” is also very good.

ps. noobs / lurkers: this is how you start a post-count boosting thread! midnight barber, i salute you!

nope, had a flick through it a couple times.

That “Kindly Ones” I just finished is the best thing I’ve ever read re:nazism etc, and I’ve read a shitload. Planning on reading a fairly conclusive Hitler bio at xmas, and there’s a few others I need to look at as well. I think it can all be summed up by: Hitler was a dick with Jewish heritage who took advantage of Europe’s latent and simmering anti-semitism to power his dreams of a master race. or something.

I’ll lend you the Kindly Ones if you want.

is it true that he didn’t like salt and vinegar chips?

It really is a terribly written book. I can understand how you would want to read it though, some of the most thought provoking non fiction work is about the world’s most evil people. The biography of Richard Kuklinski (the Ice Man, killed over 200 men as a contract killer/ for fun) is really interesting, but if you want to read about Hitler you should read his biography written by Ian Kershaw. Kershaw’s version is written much better and the librarian/checkout chick at the bookstore wont give you such a weird look.

Awesome thread!!

The Vitners Luck- Elizabeth Knox

one of the better cycling books around…

reread these recently

damn, I guess it’s like good actor playing a bad person: if you hate them they are doing a good job… It gave me the most unmistakably negative, forlorn outlook on life I experienced in my teenage years

That’s the one I’ll be reading at xmas.

anything by hemingway…the ending to a farewell to arms, fucking cold



Ah irvine welsh - so hit’n’miss… i re-read trainspotting/ecstasy/porno earlier this year. when he’s good, he really good, when he is showing the effects of his hard partying he is pretty abysmal

xBBx - i enjoyed all ages (and had it listed) but the revelation records book is better IMHO. i’ve been putting off ordering the book on 90s hardcore (burning fight) for some reason. i have heard some good stories about it.

Dishwasher: One Man’s Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States - Pete Jordan is great for fans of aaron cometbus and al burians listless wandering and travelogueing (but more upbeat).

was thinking about some other australian classics and remembered ‘the glass canoe’ by david ireland which came highly recommended from an old housemate.

nexus - have you read ‘white line fever’? i’m interested in how that differ from a ‘lemmy in his own words’. in the same ‘out of control rock’n’roll’ vein is ‘the dirt’.

blakey - i’ll show you mine (library) if you show me yours.

It’s a picture book. Lemmy doesn’t know many words.

^ he knows how to spell amphetamines I bet

finished the road by cormac mccarthy not long ago and thought it was absolutely brilliant

this is probably a massive latepass but right now im delving into the wind-up bird chronicle by haruki murakami

about 3/4ths of the way through, pretty good so far…

murakami is bloody great. only a couple of dud books in the whole lot.

Snow Crash; Diamond Age; Quicksilver - Neal Stephenson
Huck Finn; Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
A Long Way Gone - Ishmael Beah
A Fortunate Life - A.B. Facey
World War Z; The Zombie Survival Guide - Max Brooks

At the moment/recently:
One day in the life of Ivan Denisovitch - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Master and Margherita - Aleksander Petrovic
One flew over the cuckoo’s nest - Ken Kesy
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

Cloudstreet - winton
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
Leave it to Psmith - P.G. Wodehouse

bible