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# reading Orwell?
(I helped save b3ta! theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>, Tue 16 Feb 2010, 9:10, archived)
# One of my favourite books
Was listening to an article on Radio Bore about him the other day - in a rather delicious irony, he was an absolute posh boy with a desperate fear of the prolitariat.

Still - 1984 is fantastic. Combine it with Huxley's Brave New Woild and you've got pretty well exactly where modern Western capitalism is today.

Sorry - I'll shut up now.
(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 16 Feb 2010, 9:14, archived)
# .....Brave New World is another book on my ever growing list of things to read
(I helped save b3ta! theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>, Tue 16 Feb 2010, 9:28, archived)
# I'm currently on a Bill Bryson hit.
Notes from a small island had me lidderally lolling on the tube on my commute.

I'm currently on A Short History Of Nearly Everything and Neither Here Nor There, the latter of which is having a very similar effect.
(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 16 Feb 2010, 9:30, archived)
# Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, at the moment
It's probably the longest I've taken to read a book, as even with zombies and ninjas, Austin is a tedious author. Reads like a script "Such and such said this, so and so replied with that, such and such retorted with this, and much laughter ensued" ad infinitum.
(I helped save b3ta! theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>, Tue 16 Feb 2010, 9:33, archived)
# Yeah I've never got on with Austen.
To me it seems like it's the original chick lit.
(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 16 Feb 2010, 10:19, archived)
# ASHONE is a fine read
I scored very highly on QI after reading that
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 16 Feb 2010, 9:34, archived)
# It is.
Engaging - but not so lolly as the others.

But bloody hell BB's brain must be the fullest in all of Christendom.
(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 16 Feb 2010, 9:41, archived)
# And if you find all the Fordian goings-on in BNW too much
have a copy of Island (by him as well) close to hand as respite.
(I helped save b3ta! J Peasemould Gruntfuttock Alpha Mike Foxtrot, Tue 16 Feb 2010, 9:31, archived)
# hmmm.. not read that either....
I'm starting to feel poorly read this morning.

nings Grunty
(I helped save b3ta! theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>, Tue 16 Feb 2010, 9:35, archived)
# Morning!
There are so many books I've not yet got round to. The ex used to work at a publishers, so many many freebies ensued.
\o/
(I helped save b3ta! J Peasemould Gruntfuttock Alpha Mike Foxtrot, Tue 16 Feb 2010, 9:40, archived)