What are you reading?

phurious · Post by **phurious** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 11:24 pm

I work in Waterstones in Piccadilly so by rights I should read shitloads, but since I bough a DVD player for my bedroom, I've hardly read anything:

Last few things I read include:

Sirens of Titan - Kirk Vonnegut. Quite simply brilliant. Hilariously funny - sort of Philip K. Dick meets Douglas Adams

Put down Infinite Jest - David Foster Willims after the first 30 pages........again!

Currently reading Junk Mail by Will self who is quite possible the greatest ever short story writer. Junk Mail is tidbits of his journalsim, and rather good it is too.

boomnoise · Post by **boomnoise** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:29 am

Currently enjoying

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rickyricardo · Post by **rickyricardo** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 1:08 am

boomnoise -- are you one of those people who read like 3 books at a time? I can't even think about starting another book until the one I'm in is over and done with.

My girl, on the other hand, not only reads multiple books at a time, but she can finish about 100 pages a day

misk · Post by **misk** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 7:44 pm

The shadow out of time - Lovecraft
American Gods - Gaiman
Magick without tears - Crowley
Laptop Music Power - Von Seggern

yeah, i need my lovecraft fix every once and a while, as well as gaiman.
crowley goes without saying, the more i practice the occult, the more i glean from his writings. Magick without tears is his best work i think, because he actually relates practical information regarding magick in one's daily life.

Oh, tusk, i admire anyone reading AOS, i read all of peter carrol's works at one point, but then my house burned down and i have yet to replace the books.

tusk · Post by **tusk** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 8:50 pm

P J Carroll is indeed a very good writer, totally respectable, though I find his severe tone a bit much sometimes. AOS is ultra dense. I can see why some referred to him as "the incomprehensible mystic" but his written work (and illustrations) are clearly very potent. If I remember correctly "shadow.." is my favourite Lovecraft story, although I may be confusing it with "the colour out of time". Speaking of Lovecraft/occult check out John Coulhart's new Lovecraft graphic novel compendium "The Haunter of the Dark". It contains the Kabbalistic attributions of the Great Old Ones and their evocations by Alan Moore. Intense stuff.

narcossist · Post by **narcossist** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 9:51 pm

Recently read:

Seize the Day - Saul Bellow

Anyone else read this? Couldn't understand how it won a Nobel Prize..

Hells Angels - Hunter Thompson

Noam Chomsky - 9/11
Noam Chomsky - Hegemony or Survival

Mixing and Mastering in Cubase SX

m9918868 · Post by **m9918868** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 10:50 pm

For leisure:

Still don't know what to think about it though.

On a much lighter note:

For in between:

boomnoise · Post by **boomnoise** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 11:52 pm

RickyRicardo wrote:boomnoise -- are you one of those people who read like 3 books at a time? I can't even think about starting another book until the one I'm in is over and done with.

My girl, on the other hand, not only reads multiple books at a time, but she can finish about 100 pages a day

i always like to have one fiction and one non fiction on the go. plus i dip into loads of nonfiction stuff along the way. perhaps it's a bad habit!

it's great when you confuse your fiction plot with your non ficiton ideas

adruu · Post by **adruu** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 12:23 am

pynchon also! i havent run out to buy a new book like that for maybe 10+ years.

also reading the mitrokhin archives...

corpsey · Post by **corpsey** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 12:44 am

Lolita and assorted books about it

hi-def · Post by **hi-def** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 2:05 am

I am reading 'Nothing Special' at the moment, it's a non-fiction book about Zen Buddhism. I now realise that I am this forum.

hornblas · Post by **hornblas** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 4:00 am

Ali Rap. The best of Ali, his quotes, interviews and one liners!!

Essential...

paolo · Post by **paolo** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 5:21 pm

lots of stuff about darfur and the african union peacekeeping mission there for my dissertation. just don't have time to read novels these days

corpsey · Post by **corpsey** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 6:14 pm

Going out on a limb here but does anyone know any good books about Hip-Hop that link it to the Blues?

Doing an essay on the Notorious B.I.G. as blues figure (lol) and need some research material.

docdoom · Post by **docdoom** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 10:32 am

Corpsey wrote:Going out on a limb here but does anyone know any good books about Hip-Hop that link it to the Blues?

Doing an essay on the Notorious B.I.G. as blues figure (lol) and need some research material.

Not specifically about hiphop but have u checked houston baker's 'blues matrix' stuff?

docdoom · Post by **docdoom** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 10:33 am

just read 'arthur and geroge' by julian barnes.

pretty good.

joseph-j · Post by **joseph-j** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 1:54 pm

m9918868 wrote:

Saw it the other day and almost wet myself. Given that his last one took my 2 years to read, and this one is at least 33% bigger, I'm in no rush to buy it.

elgato · Post by **elgato** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 2:01 pm

Corpsey wrote:Going out on a limb here but does anyone know any good books about Hip-Hop that link it to the Blues?

Doing an essay on the Notorious B.I.G. as blues figure (lol) and need some research material.

thats a sick essay title. what course do you study?

valid point too i reckon, especially looking at Ready To Die, you should post it up when its done! i fucking love biggie

ive got a few books at home which link hip-hop to its US black-music heritage, but its mainly in terms of masters of ceremonies at dances, bebop and suchlike, rather than blues per se. ill try to remember to have a look in the next few days though

corpsey · Post by **corpsey** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 4:22 pm

It's a module in American Studies, ''Approaches to the Blues''. I'm doing an essay on ''Suicidal Thoughts''- can connect it to blues through religion, individual as a community representative, psychological trauma etc. Just need some books to back me up/shout me down really.

datura · Post by **datura** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 8:54 pm

narcossist wrote:Recently read:

Seize the Day - Saul Bellow

Anyone else read this? Couldn't understand how it won a Nobel Prize..
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I read it about a month back, I enjoyed it. I didn't think he received the Nobel Prize for this book though..

I'm reading a Raymond Chandler Philip Marlowe trilogy with The Big Sleep/Farewell My Lovely/The Long Goodbye, classic noir. Some great lines in these, and the plots are great.

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