"I don't read club" (2 Viewers)

[HazzRat]

I've been looking over at the book club forum but as I haven't read a book in about a year I really can not relate. What are some good recommendations from my fellow illiterates out there? I'm talking movies, shows, youtube videos. My recommendation is Beef, on Netflix. I haven't finished it (am up to about ep 5) but I can say it is very good. For a brief synopsis, it's about a failing handyman and a well-to-do housewife who meet each other in a road rage incident that brings chaos into their lives. It's classic A24, being deeply personal, having themes of inequality and failing relationships, and is very funny.

 

[xoNat]

You should read Fahrenheit 451

 

[HazzRat]

You should read Fahrenheit 451

Ironically enough I actually have read it. I clearly didn't learn much from it...

 

[xoNat]

Did you get a book for common mod?

 

[HazzRat]

Did you get a book for common mod?

Kenneth Slessor's poems so not really a book.

 

[xoNat]

Kenneth Slessor's poems so not really a book.

Lucky you

 

[HazzRat]

same and its making me struggle so hard to read 1984. you should definitely watch now you see me movies, its so good but they have been saying a third movie will come out for the past 8 years or so...

I've read 1984 and I think I'd have to place it at one of my all time favourites. The way it messes in the end with the torture and eventual conforming of Winston you really makes you think. Now that I'm thinking about it I've read more books this year than I initially thought. In retrospect I've actually read Prince Harry's Biography, the Big Short - Inside the Doomsday Machine, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Norweigan Wood and Animal Farm (a prescribed text) since this time last year.

 

[Masaken]

I've read 1984 and I think I'd have to place it at one of my all time favourites. The way it messes in the end with the torture and eventual conforming of Winston you really makes you think. Now that I'm thinking about it I do read more books than I think. In retrospect I've actually read Prince Harry's Biography, the Big Short - Inside the Doomsday Machine, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Norweigan Wood and Animal Farm (a prescribed text) within the span of a year.

I can't believe you read the biography I read Norwegian wood, it was alright, but I still don't get the hype surrounding murakami

 

[mmmmmmmmaaaaaaa]

Applied Economics and australian business by RAYMOND Bennett and introductory macroeconomics by trevor stegman and bill junor

 

[HazzRat]

I can't believe you read the biography I read Norwegian wood, it was alright, but I still don't get the hype surrounding murakami

Spare lived up to all the memes. Norweigan Wood was ok but a little mid. That's the only Murakami book I've read and if they all have weird ass protagonists like Norweigan Wood then I think I'll have to pass. Most of these books I read in my America trip in the mid-year holidays so that's why I kind of forgot I read them.

 

[xoNat]

Spare lived up to all the memes. Norweigan Wood was ok but a little mid. That's the only Murakami book I've read and if they all have weird ass protagonists like Norweigan Wood then I think I'll have to pass. Most of these books I read in my America trip in the mid-year holidays so that's why I kind of forgot I read them.

Have you watched Past Lives?

 

[HazzRat]

Applied Economics and australian business by RAYMOND Bennett and introductory macroeconomics by trevor stegman and bill junor

Cambridge SORII is my favourite work of fiction.

 

[HazzRat]

Have you watched Past Lives?

No. Googling it just now it looks very similar to Beef. What's it about?

 

[xoNat]

These twelve year old kinda besties who actually like each other that go one date and then the girl emigrates to the US and they randomly start video chatting when they're like 24

 

[xoNat]

I kind of hated the movie I'm ngl

 

[ExtremelyBoredUser]

"Descriptive Theory of Sets by H. B. Griffiths, P. J. Hilton" is certainly a banger, you can't go wrong with that, just make sure you don't have any schedules/meetings/tests etc. in the next 4 years because you're going to get hooked

 

[HazzRat]

These twelve year old kinda besties who actually like each other that go one date and then the girl emigrates to the US and they randomly start video chatting when they're like 24

Ok. I'll add it to the list (if it's on Netflix).

 

[HazzRat]

"Descriptive Theory of Sets by H. B. Griffiths, P. J. Hilton" is certainly a banger, you can't go wrong with that, just make sure you don't have any schedules/meetings/tests etc. in the next 4 years because you're going to get hooked

I'm quite a stan of One Million Digits Of Pi: Decimal Places from 1 to 1,000,000 - The Ultimate Book For Math

 

[xoNat]

reallyy? i saw so many vids of people crying abt it

I found it so shallow

 

[xoNat]