Look like, but definitely not sound like.

Lev wrote:

thrashduck wrote:

Lev wrote:I work in Waterstones now. Which means I've read every book.

You can't read and you look like a thug! How the frig did you wrangle that?!

I really have no idea. Everyone in there is incredibly well spoken and has a hair cut.

They didn't fucking employ me and I'm like some kind of hair cut, lingual deity.

Bastards.

You think too much of your haircut. You do actually look like a pikey, I'm not just saying it for japes.

Nah nah, I've ventured away from the 'horn in recent times but it's back with a vengeance now.

I've been reading alot of Edgar Allan Poe lately, aswell as a book on Sigmund Freud. What an odd man.

I don't know what to read next. I'm tempted to take on Lord of the Rings again, in the spellbound wake of The Silmarillion.

I have various other unread fantasy and SF books on the shelf, but I tend to grind to a halt with some of them unless they really grab me. I also need to finish HPL's Dreams in the Witch House (compilation) - I think Lovecraft is best taken in concentrated but sporadic doses, but I really need to read The Dream Quest..., Mountains Of Madness, etc.

Metal Iain wrote:It's not as long as War and Peace, is it? Some prick bought that for me a couple of Christmases ago and I've not even attempted to read it. 1, 000+ pages? Nah.

that's coming up on my list. It looks pretty intimidating to say the least.

meluaz wrote:

boovidge wrote:i've just finished Crime and Punishment. I highly recommend it.

is it sci fi?

no and it's not a gay book about elves and pixies either. The only sci fi i've ever read is The Time Machine which is just brilliant.

boovidge wrote:

meluaz wrote:

boovidge wrote:i've just finished Crime and Punishment. I highly recommend it.

is it sci fi?

no and it's not a gay book about elves and pixies either. The only sci fi i've ever read is The Time Machine which is just brilliant.

Did you wish you had a time machine so you could have not moved to Ireland where everyone hated you?

boovidge wrote:

Metal Iain wrote:It's not as long as War and Peace, is it? Some prick bought that for me a couple of Christmases ago and I've not even attempted to read it. 1, 000+ pages? Nah.

that's coming up on my list. It looks pretty intimidating to say the least.

I've read longer books, it's not even hard.

Dian Wei wrote:

boovidge wrote:

Metal Iain wrote:It's not as long as War and Peace, is it? Some prick bought that for me a couple of Christmases ago and I've not even attempted to read it. 1, 000+ pages? Nah.

that's coming up on my list. It looks pretty intimidating to say the least.

I've read longer books, it's not even hard.

How long did it take?

Like ten days, but i read fairly quickly.

War and Peace is mental though, and none of it makes sense. I also got it bought for my birthday by one of my friends at uni the year before last, I read a few pages and then though 'you can fuck right off'. I'll probably try again in a few years or something.

Keep in mind, Tolstoy's target audience was Russians. They're all bat-shit.

Yeah there might be something dodgy in the translation. When i was reading Crime and Punishment i didnt bother looking up the russian words which were explained at the back. I just guessed what they meant. I've probably got the plot completely wrong