What are you reading now?

[Dogwatcher]

[Magpiespower]

After putting it down several times.

Before resorting to reading it on the ten-minute train ride to work each morning.

Finally finished On the Road.

Painful.

Now on The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner...

[Dogwatcher]

And....

[FlyingHigh]

After putting it down several times.

Before resorting to reading it on the ten-minute train ride to work each morning.

Finally finished On the Road.

This is one book I want to read, but not highly recommended by you MP?

[FlyingHigh]

D H Lawrence: Lady Chatterley's Lover.

No, really.

Dare I suggest, so am I??

[Pseudo]

D H Lawrence: Lady Chatterley's Lover.

No, really.

Dare I suggest, so am I??

No kidding? What do you think?

Currently halfway through it myself. It's really not bad at all. More literature than smut. DH Lawrence has some fairly incisive comments to make about love, sex and relationships.

[Magpiespower]

This is one book I want to read, but not highly recommended by you MP?

All 'pi$$ and wind'.

Mate is a big Kerouac fan and he reakons Big Sur is his best.

Know a-lot of people that read On the Road when they were younger and loved it.

Ditto for others who read it when they were travelling.

Just hope you're not as disappointed as I was...

[Q.]

This is one book I want to read, but not highly recommended by you MP?

All 'pi$$ and wind'.

Mate is a big Kerouac fan and he reakons Big Sur is his best.

Know a-lot of people that read On the Road when they were younger and loved it.

Ditto for others who read it when they were travelling.

Just hope you're not as disappointed as I was...

At least you got through it MP, I put it down permanently after several attempts to get into it.

[Pseudo]

This is one book I want to read, but not highly recommended by you MP?

All 'pi$$ and wind'.

Mate is a big Kerouac fan and he reakons Big Sur is his best.

Know a-lot of people that read On the Road when they were younger and loved it.

Ditto for others who read it when they were travelling.

Just hope you're not as disappointed as I was...

I tried On The Road a long time ago. Didn't get more than a quarter of the way into it before I cast it aside, and believe me I really try to finish any book that I start. Nothing happens. To call this book boring would be an understatement.

[Dogwatcher]

Haven't read it yet.
Have read Hell's Angels and a book of Hunter S Thompson's letters - pretty funny stuff.

Maybe you needed to drop a tab while reading it Su-Su-Pseudo

[Magpiespower]

At least you got through it MP, I put it down permanently after several attempts to get into it.

Wasn't easy.

A war of attrition.

Not sure if I emerged victorious from battle?

Have read Hell's Angels and a book of Hunter S Thompson's letters - pretty funny stuff.

Great book.

[FlyingHigh]

D H Lawrence: Lady Chatterley's Lover.

No, really.

Dare I suggest, so am I??

No kidding? What do you think?

Currently halfway through it myself. It's really not bad at all. More literature than smut. DH Lawrence has some fairly incisive comments to make about love, sex and relationships.

Just over half way through, struggling a bit with motivation. Certainly not straight smut, but understandable why it may have caused an outcry when it was first published. Was it banned, or was it another of his books?

Also has some interseting insights into the English social system at the time.

Got a couple of chapters into it assuming the author was a female, only to find out it was by a bloke but written from a female's perspective - which makes it all the more insightful and intimate (and probably courageous to even attempt it).

[JAS]

D H Lawrence: Lady Chatterley's Lover.

No, really.

Dare I suggest, so am I??

No kidding? What do you think?

Currently halfway through it myself. It's really not bad at all. More literature than smut. DH Lawrence has some fairly incisive comments to make about love, sex and relationships.

Just over half way through, struggling a bit with motivation. Certainly not straight smut, but understandable why it may have caused an outcry when it was first published. Was it banned, or was it another of his books?

Also has some interseting insights into the English social system at the time.

Got a couple of chapters into it assuming the author was a female, only to find out it was by a bloke but written from a female's perspective - which makes it all the more insightful and intimate (and probably courageous to even attempt it).

Not the pornfest you boys were hoping for??? It's a good read despite Sean Bean's awful portrayal on tv as Mellors.

It is the one that was famously banned...this will give you a bit of info about the court case and some of the countries that banned it...including yours...don't forget the F-word has only come into common usage in very, very recent times.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Chatt ... %99s_Lover

Hope you enjoy it...but don't let the servants read it

Rgards
JAS

[bayman]

i've just started to read 'harpo speaks' (harpo marx's autobiography honk honk !!!!)

[FlyingHigh]

Not the pornfest you boys were hoping for??? It's a good read despite Sean Bean's awful portrayal on tv as Mellors.

It is the one that was famously banned...this will give you a bit of info about the court case and some of the countries that banned it...including yours...don't forget the F-word has only come into common usage in very, very recent times.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Chatt ... %99s_Lover

Hope you enjoy it...but don't let the servants read it

Rgards
JAS

Au Contrair JAS, that it not why I picked it up.
Has more than just the "f" word too
And I am a servant....

[JAS]

Not the pornfest you boys were hoping for??? It's a good read despite Sean Bean's awful portrayal on tv as Mellors.

It is the one that was famously banned...this will give you a bit of info about the court case and some of the countries that banned it...including yours...don't forget the F-word has only come into common usage in very, very recent times.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Chatt ... %99s_Lover

Hope you enjoy it...but don't let the servants read it

Rgards
JAS

Au Contrair JAS, that it not why I picked it up.
Has more than just the "f" word too
And I am a servant....

Well it's been a fair few years since I read it.
You might have seen an adaptation of another of his books without realising...the film Women in Love...famed for its nude wrestling scene with Oliver Reed and Alan Bates.

Don't know if you've heard of them before but also found these which might be of interest as they're set in Australia...no idea if they were a good read but might be worth tracking down if you're enjoying Lady Chat

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaroo_(novel)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_in_the_Bush

Regards
JAS

[Strawb]

Hookesy and Remembering Hookesy

[crackers]

joe dimaggio biography

[Rik E Boy]

The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Hitman by Philip De Carlo. Kuklinski was one sick ****.

regards,

REB

[Strawb]

The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Hitman by Philip De Carlo. Kuklinski was one sick ****.

regards,

REB

Sounds like a good read to me is it a perfect bedtime read REB?