Forsyth's finished, now it's time for some Polish classic - "Ludzie bezdomni" (The Homeless People) by Stefan Żeromski.

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I just finished reading this. It was pretty creepy and confronting, especially since it was based on a true story and especially with the Amanda Berry case happening fairly recently in the US...

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I've decided to read Shakespeare. ALL of Shakespeare.

Read it n weep:
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Filth by Irvine Welsh

I've kind of skipped post-90's Irvine Welsh books because I found many of them to be not very good. Porno was okay in parts but it lacked the same anarchic spark that made Trainspotting so important to my adolescence or the pure absurdity that made The Acid House so enduring. I only managed to get maybe 200 pages into Glue before I gave up and Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs was just dead on arrival for me.

I just found out that Filth is actually being adapted into a movie and the idea of a tapeworm narrating the events of the unlikeable protagonist feels much closer to the anarchic humor that made me fall in love with this author, so I'm hoping it will renew my faith in him and go back out and finish reading his other novels.

edit: derp, just found out this was written in 1998, no wonder it sounds more interesting.

Do you like it so far? I can't wait for the movie to come out, but James McAvoy isn't who I'd pictured for Bruce, I'd pictured something more like Uncle Vernon from Harry Potter :laughing:

It's okay but really nothing special. So far there's nothing to say that Bruce is a good cop,or even a competent one and I'm just not drawn to misanthropic pricks the same way I was when I was a teenager misanthropic prick.

But yeah I'm not really seeing Professor X as Bruce though.

Game of thrones...
A storm of Swords

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Based on 1/3 of this, and A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease, Jonathan Safran Foer may be one of my favourite writers. In everything I love is a balance of humour/tragedy, absurdity/disturbia, and his writing is not only stunningly beautiful, but it's like each sentence is composed of these elements balanced like rocks.

My co-worker JUST gave me that book as part of a collection of unwanted items she found while moving. She said it was awesome and she was giving it away for that simple reason. Now I'm really interested!

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