Queue on 27/5/2009 at 16:30
Didn't Biggles invent pedophilia?
Danius on 27/5/2009 at 17:18
I'm currently reading "This gaming life" by Jim Rossignol, a reporter at PC Gamer.
It is an interesting book about PC gaming. He writes about many different aspects of gaming. From why we play and how it affects us to Korean gaming culture and large in-game corporations in EVE.
Matthew on 27/5/2009 at 17:21
I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on that when you've finished, as I have been planning to hunt down a copy myself.
st.patrick on 27/5/2009 at 17:51
Just re-read How To Be a Little Sod (plus Look Who's Walking! and Not Another Little Sod) for, like, seventeenth time; I read it to my gf as bedtime stories, it has great contraceptive effect :D
I'm trying to hunt down the TV series of the books but no luck so far.
Queue on 27/5/2009 at 17:52
That would be incorrect.
N'Al on 27/5/2009 at 18:26
I'm currently re-reading Joseph Heller's Catch-22. Whilst I definitely enjoyed it when I read it first time round, I'm also realising how I'd just skim-read it; I'm discovering quite a few details I hadn't noticed before, which is pretty cool.
Toxicfluff on 27/5/2009 at 18:33
Quote Posted by Danius
I'm currently reading "This gaming life" by Jim Rossignol, a reporter at PC Gamer.
It is an interesting book about PC gaming. He writes about many different aspects of gaming. From why we play and how it affects us to Korean gaming culture and large in-game corporations in EVE.
He's still in the biz, huh. I always hated his articles when I read them in PC Gamer as a kid. Which means they're probably not bad. Then again, I liked Gillen.
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Balzac waffles on
Hmm, sounds similar to a guy I read, who was originally part of the naturalist lot but then broke all ties and herded his instinct for all things prolix into a obsessive, perverse and utterly indulgent opposite direction, J K Huysmans. You'd sometimes get 3-4 pages of description for a single painting or perfume. I did start to skip them after a while. That said, the style was magnificent and there was a few passages I could run off by heart long after, which is rare for me.
I'm currently reading Montaigne's essays. Impressions so far, not good, really. The one on death was alright as a sort of Renaissance self help guide on thanatophobics, the one on the education of children is just too discursive for me. He's constantly wandering out of sight. One second he's talking about something pertaining to instruction in the young, then he's chuntering on for a few paragraphics in some tangential direction. It might just be the edition I'm reading, it is from the early 20s... Anyway, I might drop it and go for Tropic of Cancer.
Nice thread, btw. Already added some of those mentioned to the list.
thefonz on 27/5/2009 at 19:40
Hustler.
