What are you reading now?

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Re: What are you reading now?

Postby Gozu » Tue Aug 10, 2021 4:53 pm

Kingdom of Fear by Hunter S. Thompson

It's funny I bought this Hunter S. Thompson book around the time I moved into my new place and it ended up in a pile of books that went untouched for about five years. A few months ago I stumbled across it to my surprise not even remembering buying it in the first place and excitedly began reading.

I have to admit despite my limited reading of Thompson's work I rate Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas as probably my favourite movie and my brother and I spent years quoting lines from the movie at each other. Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro were fantastic in it. Now I realise Depp was playing a somewhat exaggerated version of Thompson but it was hilarious none the less and the real person became a fascination to me.

This book which was released in 2003 a couple of years before his death is more a loose collection of letters and stories from his life acting somewhat as a memoir with a focus on his rebellion against authority.

It was an interesting read but perhaps not essential reading for a HST fan but one story near the end about paranoid hallucinations he was having later in his life was quite sad.
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Re: What are you reading now?

Postby Jimmy_041 » Wed Aug 11, 2021 11:42 am

An Awkward Truth: The Bombing of Darwin, February 1942

by Peter Grose

Interesting read following my visit and Dad served in Darwin during WWII
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Re: What are you reading now?

Postby Magellan » Thu Sep 09, 2021 10:20 am

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Re: What are you reading now?

Postby Jimmy_041 » Thu Sep 16, 2021 7:39 pm

Just beautiful :heart:
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Re: What are you reading now?

Postby Magellan » Fri Sep 17, 2021 4:40 pm

Jimmy_041 wrote:Just beautiful :heart:

I'm sure one of those 'recently discovered' poems was 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud'.
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Re: What are you reading now?

Postby Magellan » Fri Sep 17, 2021 4:48 pm

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Re: What are you reading now?

Postby Wedgie » Tue Feb 01, 2022 8:59 pm

The inspirational story of my favourite athlete in the last 20 years.

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Re: What are you reading now?

Postby mighty_tiger_79 » Wed Mar 02, 2022 5:12 pm

Mark Seymour
Thirteen tonne theory

Life inside Hunters.
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Re: What are you reading now?

Postby mighty_tiger_79 » Thu Mar 31, 2022 7:07 pm

George Orwell
1984
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Re: What are you reading now?

Postby Corona Man » Fri Jun 10, 2022 6:48 pm

Got about a quarter of the way through this belter on the way to Singapore. Cracking read!
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Re: What are you reading now?

Postby DOC » Wed Jun 15, 2022 12:26 pm

Only played 22 games for West Coast. An entire book is a bit over the top.
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Re: What are you reading now?

Postby DOC » Tue Feb 07, 2023 8:15 pm

The English Girl by Daniel Silva.

So glad I found this author and this series of books (Gabriel Allon).
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Re: What are you reading now?

Postby Jimmy_041 » Wed Feb 08, 2023 11:08 am

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Re: What are you reading now?

Postby Pseudo » Sun Aug 20, 2023 10:16 pm

I'm learning some new swear words!

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Clowns OUT. Smears OUT. RESIST THE OCCUPATION.
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Re: What are you reading now?

Postby DOC » Sun Aug 20, 2023 11:12 pm

Putain me.

Any good or merde?
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