I like your "meh" expression, Liam
It certainly doesn't encourage me to read the book!
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It certainly doesn't encourage me to read the book!
Ibsen's Hedda Gabler. RUN FAR FAR AWAY. 2/10, was VERY disappointed.
Actually, this expression just makes me want to read the book.
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The Real Inspector Hound - Tom Stoppard. I actually really enjoyed this. Great parody of the crime writing genre, great use of absurdism and Stoppard's trick of recycling old texts hadn't grown old by this point. 8.5/10
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It's fucking shite. I didn't even bother reading the other three plays, because that one was so fucking boring! I would have given a thumbs down but I need a mouse for my webcam.
Or you just need one that has a short timer. I can get mine to wait 2 seconds before taking a picture.
This is excellent picspam, by the way. I'm tempted to join in.
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So, Axver, how's your chocolate?
Chocolatey. Tastes like an excellent bargain.
Julius Vogel: Business Politician by Raewyn Dalziel. 9/10.
I reviewed this for university - some of you saw a sentence from it that I was having trouble phrasing decently. I've read this before, actually. Just as good the second time around. It's perhaps a better history than it is a biography, but Dalziel is an extremely accessible writer; this is academic history written with the tone and liveliness of a public history and it gives a fantastic sense for 1860s-80s New Zealand.
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee. Better than The Zoo Story, darker, funnier. 8.5/10
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Brecht's Life of Galileo. A great allegorical portrayal of Nazi Germany through the Inquisition. Not THAT entertaining though. 5/10
New Zealand's Burning: The Settlers' World in the Mid 1880s by Rollo Arnold. 7/10.
Not quite sure what Arnold's going for here. Some of the book and the general topic feel more like popular history, but there are some serious moments of academic history here that would lose the lay person very quickly. But I'm not a lay person so I don't mind. My quibble is that Arnold only briefly touches on some rather important things, but then again if he'd sat down and written a gigantic thesis on them, then I wouldn't be able to do my Honours thesis!
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Arthur Conan Doyle's Hound of the Baskervilles. I'm not a fan of Sherlock Holmes, to be honest. This was boring, badly written and I couldn't even finish it. Meh. 4/10
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Ax needs to read more fiction. XD
And I think we've bored everyone out of the thread.
And I think we've bored everyone out of the thread.
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard. FUCKING KILL TO GET A COPY OF THIS. IT'S FUCKING AMAZING. Stoppard utilises two minor characters from Hamlet to create an incredibly dark, funny and sad story about life. 10/10, five stars, two orgasms, whatever.
In Command Of History: Churchill Fighting And Writing The Second World War by David Reynolds. 8/10.
Fantastic popular history. You wouldn't expect this to be so good. It basically chronicles how Churchill wrote his six volume history of WWII (which I haven't read because WWII really doesn't interest me much). But Reynolds is extremely engaging and this is actually a bit of a page-turner, talking relatively here of course.
C'mon people, contribute your own books.
Next book will be fiction!
One problem I do have is that a number of books I've read came from the university library and I've already taken them back.
Next book will be fiction!
One problem I do have is that a number of books I've read came from the university library and I've already taken them back.
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Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange. Very difficult to read, due to the language Burgess utilises. Disturbing at points. Concise, though. And very dark and chilling. 9/10
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People take books back to libraries? Half of these books are books from the school library I couldn't be arsed to take back.
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One of my favourites. If I didn't have a splitting headache, I'd lob some nadsat at you.
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One of my favourites. If I didn't have a splitting headache, I'd lob some nadsat at you.
Okay, that was scary. XD
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. 6/10.
I enjoyed reading this, but I don't recommend you read this unless you actually want to. The story itself is very compelling, but Hugo just goes on one random essay after another. They're tedious, they disrupt the rhythm, and sometimes they're just flat-out boring topics to begin with. Also, he takes about 50 pages to describe some bloody bishop. We get the point.
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Good movie, better book. Gave me an anxiety attack. Not easy to do.
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Last one. 
This one scared the fuck out of me. Seriously. 9/10. Capote's a great writer who's detail simply amazes me.
This one scared the fuck out of me. Seriously. 9/10. Capote's a great writer who's detail simply amazes me.
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Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. 6/10.
I enjoyed reading this, but I don't recommend you read this unless you actually want to. The story itself is very compelling, but Hugo just goes on one random essay after another. They're tedious, they disrupt the rhythm, and sometimes they're just flat-out boring topics to begin with. Also, he takes about 50 pages to describe some bloody bishop. We get the point.
I'd heard good things about this, too!
If you have overdue books at the university library, you can't check any more out. I go through a lot of books in one year. I'm a historian - checking out what other historians have written is my bread and butter.
But! I have come up with a solution. Wait and see.
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Where did Ashley, Chass and Charlotte go?
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Astronomy nerd. Is anyone surprised?
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