What Book Are You Currently Reading ?

[denilson200]

I am astonished that Denilson did not mention

'Things Fall Apart' by Chinua Achebe

Achebe is the most translated African author and is quite well known for his critique of Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' which he discussed Conrad's racism found in that book.



....but perhaps he has read it already

That book (Things Fall Apart) is a novel. I hardly ever read novels.

[El Kabong]

I am astonished that Denilson did not mention

'Things Fall Apart' by Chinua Achebe

Achebe is the most translated African author and is quite well known for his critique of Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' which he discussed Conrad's racism found in that book.



....but perhaps he has read it already

That book (Things Fall Apart) is a novel. I hardly ever read novels.

Well alright then....I guess I'll leave you to reading books authored by the "prince of pan-afrikanism" (yeah he spells it with a k) then


What does Dr. Umar Abdullah-Johnson have to teach us



....well isn't THAT special "I can always tell with the boys, because the mother psychologically castrated them....what do I mean by that mothers? Because you know yall tongue can CUT!"

HAHAHAHAHAHA....is that it Denilson? Were you psychologically castrated?

[Gandalf]

Dr. Umar knows his shit. So that's why I turned gay?

[Nameless]

Dr. Umar knows his shit. So that's why I turned gay?

I prefer the rice cooker incident theory

#onlyoldsaddoschoolerswillgetit.

[Batman]

I've just finished 'La Bete humaine' really good book, its not a long read at 368 pages but you can't just plough through it, you can't help but take your time with it.

The story is really good and whilst you get to like a few of the characters they all show their ruthless side, one woman is the catalyst for everything that happens in it, there is only one character who doesn't do anything wrong although he ends up the one punished for other peoples crimes.

Really good, I might get some more of Zola's books.

Anyway's onto the next book, this one should only take a day or so to get through, looks like a bog standard horror but I need something that doesn't require much thought at the moment.

Amanda loves her husband, her converted loft apartment and her job as an architect. On the surface she appears to have done everything right. So why does she feel so off-balance? There's a strange tapping noise in the apartment but, as Amanda's husband Ed has pointed out, it can't be a mouse because they only hear it when she's around. Much to her husband's disgust, Amanda has also taken up smoking again. Even the friendly dog at the train station shies away from her these days. Could it be something to do with the lustful and violent dreams she's been having recently? We could devote our lives to making sense of the odd, the inexplicable, the coincidental, but most of us don't. Neither does Amanda. After all, what we think is impossible happens all the time...

Rather than adding another post I thought I'd just update this one

Finished come closer this morning barely 12 hours after starting it, bog standard book on demonic possession, full of cliches whilst at the same time trying to put a new sort of spin on it, it was a decent read I suppose but if there was an extra 200 pages it could have been really good, as it is it is just a decent, mindless read.

[smashup]

Gravity - the truth

I can't put it down