What are you reading?

12 Aug 2018

All Our Wrong Todays: Elan Mastai

Quite honestly the best prose fiction I’ve read in a long time. And it’s got time travel. It’s making me not want to write again. Which is fine. Got no time anymore anyway. But seriously. Great fucking Shit. To the point I may buy it for my own collection.

13 Aug 2018

Quote by MadMartigan
It’s making me not want to write again. Which is fine.

Well that's no good. I suggest you stop reading it then! Lol

26 Aug 2018

This book is a real eye-opener. Highly recommended.

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30 Aug 2018

Not my favorite Palahuniuk book... Very weird...

30 Aug 2018

Monogram Murders - Sophie Hannah

1 Sep 2018

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
- Bob Dylan

Consistent, Persistent and Bullshit Resistant!
- Trinket

4 Sep 2018

This is a sociological book that pretty makes the argument that humans are biologically programmed to desire multiple partners.

Here's the bit from Wiki....

Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality is a book dealing with the evolution of monogamy in humans and human mating systems. First published in 2010, it was co-authored by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá In opposition to what the authors see as the "standard narrative" of human sexual evolution, they contend that having multiple sexual partners was common and accepted in the environment of evolutionary adaptedness. Mobile self-contained groups of hunter gatherers are posited as the human norm before agriculture led to high population density. According to the authors, before agriculture, sex was relatively promiscuous, and paternity was not a concern, in a similar way to the mating system of Bonobos. According to the book, sexual interactions strengthened the bond of trust in the groups; far from causing jealousy, social equilibrium and reciprocal obligation was strengthened by playful sexual interactions.

Thus far, I haven't been impressed. It seems the authors are stuck between writing something for academics and pleasing the general population. They should probably adapt this into a documentary. I think it would work quite well.

4 Sep 2018

Actually, someone could break new ground with something like this, docuporn. A new genre combining scientific documentery and hardcore pornography, educational and wankable.

As for what you copied, l do think humans have a instinctual desire for promiscuity, but also possess jealousy.

5 Sep 2018

At the moment, this post. Seriously, the latest Daniel Silva. I've been waiting a long time for it to come out.

5 Sep 2018

Oh, I'm reading something very erotic at the mo. I'm reading the instruction manual to our new vacuum cleaner. I can't unclip the dirt container to empty it. Grrr

6 Sep 2018

Quote by AmyWoo
Oh, I'm reading something very erotic at the mo. I'm reading the instruction manual to our new vacuum cleaner. I can't unclip the dirt container to empty it. Grrr

Amy! Such dirty reading. Did you get to the part about suction yet? giggles

13 Sep 2018

I'm currently reading.....or trying to get through Stephen King's Christine.

I seen the movie years ago before reading the book and I think it ruined me.

13 Sep 2018

Finished (and loved) Portnoy's Complaint. Funny, angry, insightful, if occasionally dated - it WAS published in the 60s.

Now reading more Megan Abbott. One of my favorite currently writing authors. I guess you could call the genre "suburban noir." Crime and mystery set in suburban America, usually with tween/teen girls involved, and with really fascinating insighs into the scary world girls of that age are encountering. This, and her others--Dare Me, The End of Everything, Thee Fever--are just excellent.

13 Sep 2018

Quote by Soleil_Rouge
I'm currently reading.....or trying to get through Stephen King's Christine.

I seen the movie years ago before reading the book and I think it ruined me.

Book was much better than the movie, IMHO. One of King's better ones from that period. Not to say the movie's bad. It's John Carpenter, and his "bad" is better than many directors' "good".

For my part, I've been reading a graphic novel series compiling the Planet of the Apes comic series published by Boom Publishing c. 2011-12. It's set in the universe of the 1968 Charlton Heston movie and its sequels, not the current reboot universe, but takes place several centuries before Heston's character arrives when humans are still intelligent and (mostly) able to speak.

The story is about an explosive conflict between apes and humans in a city called Mak after a human assassin kills the ape known as The Lawgiver (who is referenced in almost divine terms in the movies). The main viewpoints are The Lawgiver's two adopted "grand-daughters", a human and a chimpanzee who both lost their families in an earlier ape-human conflict and are now leaders in their respective communities. Touches on a lot of contemporary themes almost allegorically (terrorism, racial conflicts). Good series. I've got a few chapters left to go.

After this, Boom did a couple other PotA series that are set closer in time to the movies and featuring Dr. Zaius (played by Maurice Evans in the 1968 PotA) as a character.

13 Sep 2018

Quote by seeker4

Book was much better than the movie, IMHO. One of King's better ones from that period. Not to say the movie's bad. It's John Carpenter, and his "bad" is better than many directors' "good".

Thank you, I am determined to finish this book. I have read many books by King and seen the movies in which I like both. However, this was the first time I watched the movie first and read the book afterward.

13 Sep 2018

Just finished "Revenent" one Kat Richardson's "Greywalker" tales which are always good.

14 Sep 2018

Baghdad Express - Joel Turnipseed

The Cellist: Glissando | Lush Stories

16 Sep 2018

Have read many things but reading Lady Chatterley's Lover for the millionth time...It's my fav.
Gets me so wet...

17 Sep 2018

The Passage by Justin Cronin

17 Sep 2018

Quote by Gillianleeeza

Good book.

If you haven't had your fill of psychopaths then check out:

17 Sep 2018

American and the World: A Diplomatic History

17 Sep 2018

The Armored Saint is the first book in The Sacred Throne epic fantasy trilogy, a story of religious tyrants, arcane war-machines, and underground resistance.

In a world where any act of magic could open a portal to hell, the Order insures that no wizard will live to summon devils, and will kill as many innocent people as they must to prevent that greater horror. After witnessing a horrendous slaughter, the village girl Heloise opposes the Order, and risks bringing their wrath down on herself, her family, and her village.

The second book releases tomorrow so I will be reading it next.

In this epic fantasy sequel, Heloise stands tall against overwhelming odds—crippling injuries, religious tyrants—and continues her journey from obscurity to greatness with the help of alchemically-empowered armor and an unbreakable spirit.

No longer just a shell-shocked girl, she is now a figure of revolution whose cause grows ever stronger. But the time for hiding underground is over. Heloise must face the tyrannical Order and win freedom for her people.

Kissing your lips while straddling your lap.

21 Sep 2018

i re read orwell1984 the impact today is even more important than it was when i read it the first time years ago...........................

5 Oct 2018

In the Cut. An erotic thriller. Dark, well-written, a little dated. It was made into a movie with Meg Ryan, but I haven't seen it.

30 Oct 2018

MKUltra: Inside the CIA's Cold War mind control experiments

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
- Bob Dylan

Consistent, Persistent and Bullshit Resistant!
- Trinket

3 Nov 2018

The Authorised Sequel to The War of the Worlds

4 Nov 2018

The Outsider
by
Stephen King

4 Nov 2018

I have had this book for a while. I finally read and finished it. I say that because I deliberately read it slowly and reread parts of it. It is one of the most beautifully written books I have ever read.

I am now reading a previous effort of his, kind of a journal of a year spent on a fellowship in Rome with his wife and newly born twin boys. Nonfiction, but just as well written.

5 Nov 2018

I just finished "Sharp Objects" by Gillian Flynn.

I have to say... The recent TV mini-series was actually better.

I'm also just finishing up "Black Potatoes" about the Irish potato famine.

10 Nov 2018

Self-help book