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Post by McBain on Jul 22, 2010 0:23:33 GMT
Surely I'm not the only freak who reads before they go to bed. Right?
What are you all reading before slipping into the land of nod? I've just started "Quite Ugly One Morning" by Christopher Brookmyre. All doubts as to whether or not I'd enjoy his first novel as much as his others were dispelled when I read this passage:
"What this situation had needed, what it had been audibly crying out for, was a glaikit, baw-faced, irritating, clumsy, thick, ginger-heided bastard to turn up and start cracking duff jokes, and here was PC Kieron Cardigan Gavin Skinner to answer the call."
It's not unheard of for me to cast peole I know as characters in a book, but never has one required so little imagination.
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Post by Spidey on Jul 22, 2010 0:33:42 GMT
I was reading bits of The Stand before sleeping, but then I started having dreams about Randall Flagg standing over my bed, and various sorts of apocalypses, and stuff. So I only read that during daylight hours now.
Current book-I-can-read-at-night: To Kill A Mockingbird. It helps that I was never forced to read it in secondary school, I think.
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Post by McBain on Jul 22, 2010 0:36:04 GMT
Forced to read it in High School. Would go back and read it again if I hadn't recently acquired a heap of books. It's bloody good.
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Post by Niggle on Jul 22, 2010 1:27:44 GMT
Tried to read it voluntarily in high school and found it excessively dull...
Anyway. I attempted War Of The Worlds but this was at about 3am and really wasn't the best time to read something new. So I've been re-reading Good Omens while my sleep pattern is still screwed.
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Post by thecatcher on Jul 22, 2010 3:41:39 GMT
I've got the 'Cat's Cradle' beside my bed at the minute. Very good and odd! Usually read fairy tales before bed, hoping for like dreams! Anyone else read fairy tales much?
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Post by McBain on Jul 22, 2010 8:30:32 GMT
I read the tale of Rumplestiltskin to further my knowledge of Shrek Forever After. It's a good story, but completely unrelated to the movie so I'm now going to claim I read it for the sake of capturing my lost childhood.
Sadly it got away from me. Next time, childhood, next time!
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Post by Someguy on Jul 22, 2010 9:47:01 GMT
Cat's Cradle? The Vonnegut one?
Currently reading Pullman's 'The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ'. It opens with how Mary met Joseph and ended up in that stable in Bethlehem and it's all familiar right up until the birth. Mary has just had twins...
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Post by Fire Bear on Jul 22, 2010 11:43:42 GMT
That sounds like an incredible book!
However, I haven't recently been able to read when I go to bed due to my sister already being in the dark and asleep. Now she's gone, though, I'm going to bed at 1 in the morning due to watching animes and, thus, I've just been trying to get to sleep rather than reading.
But I'm reading Nation by Terry Pratchett at the moment...
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Post by Someguy on Jul 22, 2010 12:46:02 GMT
On fairy tales, I encountered an author during my degree called Angela Carter who writes fairy tales based on the older ones. The book I read was Bloody Chamber, which is a short story collection; it's a little dark and psychological, though (but then most fairy tales are; these are just a little more obviously so).
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Post by McBain on Jul 22, 2010 12:51:09 GMT
Sounds like a damn good book. Perhaps I shall purchase a copy and read it to orphans.
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Post by Someguy on Jul 22, 2010 15:28:32 GMT
Oh God, do. It'll put them off sex and marriage for life.
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Post by thecatcher on Jul 22, 2010 21:39:01 GMT
yeah vonnegut, he's awesomeeee! slaughterhouse 5 is one of my fav books! nice to see lots reading fairy tales! the hans christian anderson ones are actually really dark. i got this really nice copy of his stuff before boarders closed. *sniff* R.I.P boarders
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Post by Spidey on Jul 22, 2010 23:54:47 GMT
I read Cat's Cradle for my reading diary in first semester English (since I'd already read Slaughterhouse 5 a few years ago so it felt like cheating to use that for an entry...). It was weird. Good, but weird. I need to read more Vonnegut.
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Post by kerzv on Mar 21, 2011 21:32:41 GMT
Wow. I'm about to try and get a book recommended by Stewart... Yet again I scare myself.
At present before bed I am reading the adventures of Sherlock Holmes or the Time Machine depending on which I can find.
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Post by Someguy on Mar 23, 2011 23:44:55 GMT
You can borrow mine if I find it. Haven't looked at it for a year or so.
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