I am sure that we have a few avid readers in this group. I thought that I would let you know of a couple of great books that I have read since the start of this year.
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanigan.
We are all completely beside ourselves. by Karen Joy Fowler.
Both books I will highly recommend loved both of them.
Good Books read!
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I personally like matthew reilly. Australian author, writes in the style of an 80's action movie, non stop wow. me like.
Today i made myself sit down for a while and started reading a comic series, ""Injustice, Gods Amongst us"..
For those familiar with the superheroes in the DC universe (Superman, Batman etc) the basic premise is that stuff happens and Superman flips his shit and decides no more working within the system, from now on what he says goes. Worldwide.
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I dunno who said that but I'm enjoying the read on several different levels.
People who disparage comics, kindly go become fornicated. I remember in yr 6 at school when it was quiet reading time and I went and grabbed 10 kids books and started plowing through them. The teacher ( who was also the principal) came over to me and said to me that i should be reading much higher level stuff. I just looked at him and said "yeah, but I enjoy reading these". So shove that up ya arse sideways ya old turd.
Today i made myself sit down for a while and started reading a comic series, ""Injustice, Gods Amongst us"..
For those familiar with the superheroes in the DC universe (Superman, Batman etc) the basic premise is that stuff happens and Superman flips his shit and decides no more working within the system, from now on what he says goes. Worldwide.
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I dunno who said that but I'm enjoying the read on several different levels.
People who disparage comics, kindly go become fornicated. I remember in yr 6 at school when it was quiet reading time and I went and grabbed 10 kids books and started plowing through them. The teacher ( who was also the principal) came over to me and said to me that i should be reading much higher level stuff. I just looked at him and said "yeah, but I enjoy reading these". So shove that up ya arse sideways ya old turd.
Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.
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Barry Oakley - A Salute to the Great McCarthy
Brilliant satire on Melbourne and footy, which makes us seem (certainly in the 1960s, but the lessons are applicable today) incredibly and irrevocably provincial.
William Nagle - The Odd Angry Shot
SAS troops in the Vietnam War. Short, repetitive, and not as interesting as it could have been, seeing as it talks about people who actually chose ti go to war rather than conscripts. Joe Haldeman's sci-fi novel The Forever War is a much better effort (and Haldeman was also a Vietnam war veteran).
Richard Ford - The Sportswriter
A bloke in his late 30s is in a bit of a midlife crisis. Frank Bascombe is a pretty boring, overthinking, over talking kind of person, and I couldn't figure out why a lot of the characters interacted the way they did. I wasn't a fan of this, but I can see why others would adore it.
Yukio Mishima - The Temple of the Golden Pavillion
An ugly, stuttering apprentice Zen Buddhist monk struggles to overcome his obsession with the beauty of his temple. Amazing allegory of immediate post-war Japanese society, as well as a journey into the state of obsession.
Gore Vidal - Myra Breckenridge
Myra, a female transsexual causes mayhem in a small corner of Hollywood. Pioneering analysis of sleaze, pop-culture, gender. Not my kind of humour, but this is essential reading for anyone doing gender or media studies.
Brilliant satire on Melbourne and footy, which makes us seem (certainly in the 1960s, but the lessons are applicable today) incredibly and irrevocably provincial.
William Nagle - The Odd Angry Shot
SAS troops in the Vietnam War. Short, repetitive, and not as interesting as it could have been, seeing as it talks about people who actually chose ti go to war rather than conscripts. Joe Haldeman's sci-fi novel The Forever War is a much better effort (and Haldeman was also a Vietnam war veteran).
Richard Ford - The Sportswriter
A bloke in his late 30s is in a bit of a midlife crisis. Frank Bascombe is a pretty boring, overthinking, over talking kind of person, and I couldn't figure out why a lot of the characters interacted the way they did. I wasn't a fan of this, but I can see why others would adore it.
Yukio Mishima - The Temple of the Golden Pavillion
An ugly, stuttering apprentice Zen Buddhist monk struggles to overcome his obsession with the beauty of his temple. Amazing allegory of immediate post-war Japanese society, as well as a journey into the state of obsession.
Gore Vidal - Myra Breckenridge
Myra, a female transsexual causes mayhem in a small corner of Hollywood. Pioneering analysis of sleaze, pop-culture, gender. Not my kind of humour, but this is essential reading for anyone doing gender or media studies.
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stui magpie wrote:I personally like matthew reilly. Australian author, writes in the style of an 80's action movie, non stop wow. me like.
Today i made myself sit down for a while and started reading a comic series, ""Injustice, Gods Amongst us"..
For those familiar with the superheroes in the DC universe (Superman, Batman etc) the basic premise is that stuff happens and Superman flips his shit and decides no more working within the system, from now on what he says goes. Worldwide.
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I dunno who said that but I'm enjoying the read on several different levels.
People who disparage comics, kindly go become fornicated. I remember in yr 6 at school when it was quiet reading time and I went and grabbed 10 kids books and started plowing through them. The teacher ( who was also the principal) came over to me and said to me that i should be reading much higher level stuff. I just looked at him and said "yeah, but I enjoy reading these". So shove that up ya arse sideways ya old turd.
Yep good on ya, I have heaps of old comics still read them from time to time, good stuff!
Cheers big ears
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Not a book as such but just been reading some Banjo Patterson poems.
Looking at photos online of the Murray in flood at the moment and after 30 years living in Melbourne after being raised in the bush, I can appreciate his stuff all over again.
Next book will be Matthew Reilly's latest due out this month. Gotta download it onto the Kobo so I can sit by the pool or on 4 mile beach at Port and have a reason to sit back and do nothing but read.
Looking at photos online of the Murray in flood at the moment and after 30 years living in Melbourne after being raised in the bush, I can appreciate his stuff all over again.
Next book will be Matthew Reilly's latest due out this month. Gotta download it onto the Kobo so I can sit by the pool or on 4 mile beach at Port and have a reason to sit back and do nothing but read.
Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.
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I'm part way through the second book in Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle series. For what is essentially autobiography (a six-part autobiography, no less!), it's absolutely engrossing and brilliantly written.
"Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence." – Julian Assange