What are you reading?

j rock · Post by **j rock** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 1:04 am

i just started The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

excellent so far

Jubz · Post by **Jubz** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 1:13 am

datura wrote:
About to start Consider Phlebas by Iain M Banks..

Went through a stage in the passed year of reading a few of his books. Always a good read.

brklss · Post by **brklss** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:22 am

Urban Grimshaw and the Shed Crew

sybian · Post by **sybian** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 2:01 pm

edward bunker - little boy blue

pk- · Post by **pk-** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 2:10 pm

will self - great apes

thoroughly unimpressed so far

mr. messer · Post by **mr. messer** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 6:15 pm

pk- wrote:will self - great apes

thoroughly unimpressed so far

hahaha thats all u can say about will self really...

he is

thoroughly unimpressive

bagelator · Post by **bagelator** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 10:55 pm

Mr. Messer wrote:
pk- wrote:will self - great apes

thoroughly unimpressed so far
hahaha thats all u can say about will self really...

he is

thoroughly unimpressive

he's a wanker. no offence.

reeding fuh nurdz initt

tronman · Post by **tronman** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 11:39 pm

this man has some fucked up stories and knows about the oil industry. bare jokes

pk- · Post by **pk-** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 11:56 pm

this man has some fucked up stories and knows about the oil industry. bare jokes

i've been meaning to get hold of that, cheers for reminding me!

i read an interview with him in some sunday supplement or other, he recounted the story about the fat american rigger who got impatient waiting for some pipe to be lowered into position and ended up accidently tearing his own stomach off

osiris · Post by **osiris** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 12:42 am

j rock wrote:i just started The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

excellent so far

Much respect!

Ofcourse I heard a lot of this book and my parents-in-law have this book at their house and when I found I tried to read it for a bit just to see in what way it was written an what its about, but DAIMN!

Couldn't understand a f*ck what he was talking about. Maybe try it in Dutch, but I don't know if I want to spend any of my time on this one the upcomming 50 years.. maybe try it when I know I only have 10 years to live or so.

Last book I read (&finished): 1984 by good ol' George O. (in English).
Nice, but I enjoyed Animalfarm better.

I should buy myself a reading light an open up a book for when I can't sleep like now. Will start with The Davince Code, an see what all the fuzz was about.

ikarai · Post by **ikarai** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 7:09 pm

thought i'd resurrect this thread as i recently finished this trilogy:

not read any of her other stuff but on the strength of this i will certainly try, can't get it out of my head. one hell of a twisted future vision. anyone had the pleasure?

spaceboy · Post by **spaceboy** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 7:36 pm

Inspite of the Gods "The Strange Rise of Modern India." Edward Luce -

brilliant journalist - writes for the FT...

BaronVon · Post by **BaronVon** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 7:38 pm

Brilliant really paints a picture in your mind

tusk · Post by **tusk** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 9:47 pm

Taking up the Runes - Diana Paxson
Pharmakognosis - Dale Pendel
The Focus of Life - A.O. Spare
Semiotext(e) SF - Short Stories

Plus lots of weird occult stuff, Taoist Sexual Kung Fu Handbooks, Maori Myths
Lovecraftian Comics and whatever else is laying around...

I did read Octavia Butlers Xenogenesis trilogy finding it disturbing and beleivable. Its nice to read quality sci-fi thats not written from a straight white
male perspective.

rickyricardo · Post by **rickyricardo** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 9:54 pm

currently reading

Amazing book so far....all the smoke and mirrors spy shit makes it almost like reading a novel.

bagelator · Post by **bagelator** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 9:58 pm

ikarai · Post by **ikarai** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 10:33 pm

Tusk wrote:
I did read Octavia Butlers Xenogenesis trilogy finding it disturbing and beleivable. Its nice to read quality sci-fi thats not written from a straight white
male perspective.

Amen. The human 'contradiction' has me lying awake recently. The inexorable possibility that mankind will destroy itself within our lifetime is a weighty thing to come to terms with.

At the mo I'm about halfway through Brave New World, something I've been meaning to read for about a decade. The style is very different to what I was expecting somehow. Good nonetheless.

dionysiac · Post by **dionysiac** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 10:54 pm

Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris

It's about the crazy influence of religion in the ol' US of A

and The Birth of Tragedy by Nietzsche

roughly about comparing greek mythology to art and the different approaches to different kinds of artistic expression.

By the way, this is post #1, so whats up all?

tusk · Post by **tusk** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 11:11 pm

Yeah there is indeed a profound pessimism to Butlers work which I dont choose to carry in my day-to-day. Nonetheless its scary and important stuff to think about. Funny how sci fi is often the realm whereby these hugely relevant issues/concepts are experienced and dealt with in the most tangible of ways, yet its the literary realm with perhaps the least credibility.

tusk · Post by **tusk** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 11:12 pm

ooops, posted twice.
Dang...

nothing to say.

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