can we turn this into a "what are you reading" thread?
What are you reading?
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 20:54, 3 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1186190
( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 20:55, Reply)

smart arse

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 20:56, Reply)

haha
this.
( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 20:59, Reply)

A history of London

( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 20:57, Reply)

is everyone all about the history at the moment
between you and K, it's like the history channel here
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:00, Reply)

I like that about us.

( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:01, Reply)

I'm kind of reading history
www.amazon.co.uk/World-War-Z-Max-Brooks/dp/0715637037/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1304020993&sr=8-1

it's so much better than it sounds
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:03, Reply)

I saw that in the library
already had my quota of books though
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:06, Reply)

it was my third in a 3 for 2
www.amazon.co.uk/Our-Tragic-Universe-Scarlett-Thomas/dp/184767089X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1304021319&sr=1-1
mainly because The End of Mr Y had someone remarkably like me as a main character

www.amazon.co.uk/City-China-Mieville/dp/0330493108/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1304021342&sr=1-1
because it's China Meiville. Not read it yet...
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:10, Reply)

I didn't actually want to read that but I got into about 10 pages of les miserables and wanted to kill myself
so that is what my roommate had just read and she was all YOU HAVE TO READ IT IT'S SO GOOD
( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:01, Reply)

was she right?

( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:02, Reply)

I don't know, I got about 30 pages in and then her girlfriend took it to her room.
Just as well, it was quite technical and not very interesting to me.
( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:08, Reply)

find another book
what's next?
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:10, Reply)

I've read all my books.
Next will probably be Sweet Surrender
( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:20, Reply)

porn?

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:21, Reply)

hehe
yes
( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:23, Reply)

I always liked those ones we had in our bookshop which were american imports
they'd have some painting of some woman in a posh frock and some dude in a suit, then a kind of secondary front cover in which the woman had her frock off her shoulder and the guy's shirt was undone or even off, shocking! They always made me laugh
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:30, Reply)

oh i hate those
I've grown into the ones with better covers, megan hart has some excellent covers

example
( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:41, Reply)

heh
nearest thing I read to porn was probably Poppy Z Brite, but that's just a vampire book with a lot of sex in it
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:45, Reply)

heard of her but haven't read her
i suppose i am a bit particular about my porn
sounds stupid
but most of them actually do have great stories, especially Megan Hart
( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:52, Reply)

You know I'm going to say it
But I'll say it because I can.

I've stood on the grassy knoll, you know. Three times.

Because Dallas is my second favourite US city after Portland, Oregon.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:06, Reply)

You can say it. Doesn't mean I understand it.

( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:07, Reply)

It's where Zapruder was standing
And the alledged "other assassins" fired from.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:10, Reply)

oh!

( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:19, Reply)

It's a strange place
Kennedy was killed five years before I was born, and five thousand miles away, but it's an incredibly moving place to be.

Maybe because I expected to be moved. I don't know. Maybe it's where the concept of the media circus was born out of tragedy.

I'll go there again, and I suppose I'll feel the same sensation of a time and place again.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:35, Reply)

Which one?
There are quite a few.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:02, Reply)

its by Steven Inwood
www.amazon.co.uk/History-London-Stephen-Inwood/dp/0333671546/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1304021048&sr=1-1
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:03, Reply)

Don't think I've read that one
It's a good history, though.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:09, Reply)

Product brochures from various chemical companies.
Thrilling stuff, I know.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:07, Reply)

what ones?
Fisher has nice pictures but Sigma Aldrich has more choice
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:09, Reply)

Look! Look! He's one!
He'd do a Leeds bash!
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:11, Reply)

I so would

( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:12, Reply)

Not you..Grypy...Woodside.

( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:13, Reply)

Of course, we met at the Ponte bash

( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:15, Reply)

do they have a good plot?

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:26, Reply)

Not really

( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:29, Reply)

Its mostly just chemicals

( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:30, Reply)

the connections between the characters are quite good though?

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:31, Reply)

Only if you go for the covalently bonded ones

( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:34, Reply)

sounds quite charged

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:35, Reply)

only the the ones that can stabilise a localised electron surplus/deficiency

( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:40, Reply)

OK
you have now hit my limit of chemistry knowledge that isn't just about mixing up developer from a bottle
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:46, Reply)

Its where compounds are able to maintain a constant charge

( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:49, Reply)

will discussing this with boys be more or less likely to get me laid
than discussing how Tesco club cards only exist because of a blackmailer?
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:53, Reply)

I met my current partner of three years when I sold her a fag for 50p
So yeah you probably cant do much worse.
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:57, Reply)

not bad going
I met my stupid ex while dressed as a zombie
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 21:59, Reply)

I figured I would never see her again
so I needed to be compensated for the loss of one of my last two fags.
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 22:01, Reply)

PROFIT

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 22:02, Reply)

I gave a fag to a tatty old dosser yesterday
Oh bugger...
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 22:03, Reply)

congratuations

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 22:03, Reply)

An act of Charidee, mate
Tatty old dosser was content, I felt a degree of capitalistic empowerment, end of transaction.

Hang on, there's someone at the door...oh bugger x 2.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Thu 28 Apr 2011, 22:14, Reply)