A Novel You've Always Intended to Read.
 

I know there must be loads, but name one.

i don't like novels really
i like non fiction

tristam shandy.

ive always intended to read knots by r.d.laing since i have the hardcover first edition. never got around to it yet.

also deleuze - the fold

Da Vinci Code.

60 million people can't be wrong.

Yeah, Tristam Shandy's a good one. Feel slightly bad that I've never even flicked through it.

I keep meaning to read something by Philip Roth.

Knots is a great book. I'm a big fan of Laing.

Deleuze leaves me feeling confused and slightly exhausted. Have never managed to finish anything I've read by him.

I wouldn't bother.

The Naked and the Dead

what he means is "watch the movie instead"

Really? Why so?

pookie's love for books is no more

it was mercenary, and meretricious, after all.

If you want to see a dirty old man living out his sexual fantasies in his books.

Nothing short of old man porn.

actually i always intended to read animal farm or 1984

eh, you won't forever be a spring chicken.

better star learning the ropes.

But aren't most authors just dirty old men living out their sexual fantasies in book form anyway?

dirty old men and frigid women, that's what i thought too!

There are a lot of them. I tend to avoid them, dirty bastards.

And more power to them, I say.

someone tell me if i should bother reading these

bother

just in case you ever think stalinism would be a good idea.

you could also read brave new world but it's a bit crap.

Oh, a book I always seem to enjoy while I'm reading it, but have never actually managed to finish is Conrad's Nostromo. Have never worked that one out.

bother to read them.

Bother, but there are Orwell books I'd recommend over those two.

down & out in paris & london is fucking awesome

okay then, i will get them from the library when i go home

As is Road to Wigan Pier. I recently re-read A Clergyman's Daughter, which I wouldn't recommend.

why do that when you can read them here:



mmmmmmmmmm........... delicious...................

where is that?


i love the library
i've gotten so much music and so many dvds there...for free!

Cool, but I wouldn't go to too great a length. They aren't really that great, and you probably know the story of 1984 anyway. Big Brother, Room 101, and all that.

jeezus woman i thought you knew your whereabouts

http://www.bl.uk/

I have to study there a couple of times a week. One of the most fascistically run places on earth.

did you sit in marx's chair, commie?

not really
isn't it kind of a statement against communism or totalitarian forms of government?

i typically don't go to libraries when i go to other countries.

no, it's a fable, with walking pigs, very funny.

your loss!!

LOL. There are people that ask to see it and have to be informed that it's no longer the same building, but that they do have the chair. Oh the heartbreak on their naively utopian little faces.

ha ha ha.

a friend of mine from bolivia who used to live in london sighs at the mention of such chair.

Did he visit Marx's grave at Highgate cemetary? That tends to attract a sizable gathering of simpletons too.