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The slightly pissed,existential thread
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 8:39 pm
by Rugby Gooner
Day off today.Spent the morning doing the shit that needs to be done on your day off,bill paying,laundry,getting a haircut etc.Got home about 1pm,had lunch,then cracked open the first cold one.Quoffed several more while watching England win the Test Match,then listened to some music.
I am now chilling with a coffee and about to pick up my latest "read."
This has got me thinking,lets do a "snapshot" of the Forum.
What is the book that you are currently reading?Not your best ever,or the one that "changed your life." Just the one you are reading at the moment.
Mine is,"Magnificent Desolation,The long journey home from the Moon."
It is Buzz Aldrins autobiography,and details the difficulties he had coping with life after walking on the Moon.
Re: The slightly pissed,existential thread
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 9:06 pm
by AA23Northbank
Rugby Gooner wrote:Day off today.Spent the morning doing the shit that needs to be done on your day off,bill paying,laundry,getting a haircut etc.Got home about 1pm,had lunch,then cracked open the first cold one.Quoffed several more while watching England win the Test Match,then listened to some music.
I am now chilling with a coffee and about to pick up my latest "read."
This has got me thinking,lets do a "snapshot" of the Forum.
What is the book that you are currently reading?Not your best ever,or the one that "changed your life." Just the one you are reading at the moment.
Mine is,"Magnificent Desolation,The long journey home from the Moon."
It is Buzz Aldrins autobiography,and details the difficulties he had coping with life after walking on the Moon.
I was at the Test Match today, and am now back home sobering up
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 9:09 pm
by SWLGooner
I am reading a fantastic book, "The Shadow of The Sun", by Ryszard Kapuscinski.
It's not for everyone but obviously as someone with an interest in Africa I find it absolutely fascinating. Really opens your eyes to the independence period ("winds of change" etc.) and how that has affected Africa from hereon in and shaped the continent we see today.
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 9:10 pm
by Chips and Chocolate
I'll get your thread going. I've just started The Soul Sylists, 40 years of modernism by Paolo Hewitt
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 9:18 pm
by HashKads
I'm reading Biff and Chip at the moment.
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 9:31 pm
by Rugby Gooner
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 9:33 pm
by Chips and Chocolate
Yes... And he's a ****
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 9:36 pm
by marcengels
I'm reading this...and it's shit.
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 9:41 pm
by Rugby Gooner
marcengels wrote:I'm reading this...and it's shit.
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 10:03 pm
by frankbutcher
Just finished Alan Sugar's Autobiography.
(Quite a good read though. Venables mugged him right off at Spurs.
)
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 10:26 pm
by Number 5
Last Human by Doug Naylor.
Read all the Red Dwarf books about 15 or so years ago and have been re-doing them these last few months.
Probably will assist many of you in finding out where my fucked up sense of humour comes from.
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 10:30 pm
by Henry Norris 1913
frankbutcher wrote:Just finished Alan Sugar's Autobiography.
(Quite a good read though. Venables mugged him right off at Spurs.
)
Emmanuel Petit got sugar to pay for his fare up to arsenal when he signed for us
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 10:36 pm
by frankbutcher
Henry Norris 1913 wrote:frankbutcher wrote:Just finished Alan Sugar's Autobiography.
(Quite a good read though. Venables mugged him right off at Spurs.
)
Emmanuel Petit got sugar to pay for his fare up to arsenal when he signed for us
Yeah, that is funny. Spurs had him come down to WHL. Petit got Sugar to pay for a taxi home. That taxi was actually to Highbury, so he could sign for The Arsenal.
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 12:40 am
by QuartzGooner
Chips and Chocolate wrote:I'll get your thread going. I've just started The Soul Sylists, 40 years of modernism by Paolo Hewitt
Excellent book, you'll enjoy that. Read Robert Elms's "The Way We Wore" if you want more on a similar subject.
I am reading "Check The Technique" by Brian Coleman, a book about the recording process of Hip Hop records.
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 7:39 am
by DB10GOONER
If only we had a book thread...
