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The Stone Cold Truth

A bit of an old book and it goes over his life and I believe it was done around WM19. It was interesting reading about what happened the day before mania.
 
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I read the hilariously awful Chopper - the biography of Australian thug Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read. To say it's appallingly written is a compliment. And don't get me started on his "poetry"!

Currently reading a book about AC/DC which I found at Poundland - yes, for £1!!! Still in shock...
 

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Masters of Cinema: David Lynch - Thierry Jousse (2007) 7.5/10
This would be a good way to introduce Lynch to people not too famlier with him or his work. There are some nice pictures, and the anylsis and depth of writing about his films are good. I feel there needed to be a bit more on Lynch himself regarding his personality and a bit more about his creative process or stories surrounding certain films. Its an engrossing well presented read on the whole.
 

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I read the Bromeliad trilogy, by Terry Pratchett.

Truckers, the first book, is more of a setup sort of book - it sets up the world and the story.
Diggers is similar to The Two Towers - a lighter, fluffier transition book.
Wings is by far the best, as well as the funniest - at points, laugh-out-loud hilarious.

The only thing I found sort of hackneyed is the nomes's origin/backstory...it seems overdone and ill-fitting. Other than that, I recommend it to fantasy lovers. They're short, easy-to-read books, and they're good fun.
 

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Fight Club. 9/10

Almost done. It's almost ridiculous how much superior the novel is to the movie, I'm not kidding. Saving up for hardcover.

The novel has enough depth to be analyzed on so many levels, looking through my classical Freudian lenses it's one of the best reads I've had recently.
 

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I read Nothing New On The Western Front. It's a great novel, haunting, and it stays with you afterwards. So much so that I've been trying to get into the next book (John Grisham's The Brethren), but can't seem to be able to. It's just dull when compared to Western Front.
 

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I'm reading "Extinction Point" right now. Anyone who has a Kindle should get it, it's free. It just came out and is the first book in what I think will be a trilogy. It's basically an apocalyptic story about how it seems the whole human race has died off and only one women lives still. Kinda "I am Legend" like.
 

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