What are you reading?

[bandshell]

Mr. Nice by Howard Marks

[james fox]

japrocksampler

[kay]

A World Out of Time, Larry Niven. Quite good so far!

[aspect-dubz]

Mr. Nice by Howard Marks

read this a while back, the hash making process in the middle east sounds interesting doesn't it

[cr1tt3r]

ha, nice timing, just picked this up used for 2 bucks the other day, I opened it up on some random page and fell in love with what I was reading, read lots of Burroughs (like 10 years back), but had never even heard of this one...

You'll love it, I guaranty you.

Do you have any other suggestion for Burroughs? I have Naked Lunch that I already read, Soft Machine that I'll soon read, and the place of dead roads (will need the first and third book of the trilogy before I start reading it).

Don't really trust my perceptions from 10+ years back, but I enjoyed Junky and Queer, quick reads, mostly coherent unlike naked lunch fare. Read first half of Ghosts tonight, it's right up my alley.

[phrex]

Big up yourself Vulva.

If you're interested in Aesthetics you should read 'Mikhail Bakhtin and Walter Benjamin' by Tim Beasley-Murray, who is a badman that taught me political philosophy and German philosophy at university. Proper intelligent bloke.

He compares Bakhtin and Benjamin focussing on the forms that make experiences. He uses the same method as Kant does when he argues the Transcendental Aesthetic [that in itself is elaborated from Kant's Critique of Pure Reason].




I finished Germinal and now reading a book on Jah Rastafari himself by the Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuściński. It's a really interesting book about the workings of Selassie-I's central court and government and what lead to the end of the Ethiopian empire.

Kapuściński is a superb author, I've already read his books on the last Shah of Iran and on the Angolan Civil War.

i'm getting it next week mate!

[tr0tsky]

What, the Selassie-I book or Bakhtin and Benjamin?

[kins83]

Mr. Nice by Howard Marks

Met him the other night. Did you know he owns 'Azuka', the Tapas place in Leeds?

[firky]

A badly photocopied transcript of: Khmers Stand Up! A History of the Cambodian Government, 1970-1975 - Justin Corfield. I might just buy the book.

[bandshell]

Mr. Nice by Howard Marks

read this a while back, the hash making process in the middle east sounds interesting doesn't it

Haven't got that far yet but I'm sure I'll find it interesting when I read it.

Mr. Nice by Howard Marks

Met him the other night. Did you know he owns 'Azuka', the Tapas place in Leeds?

Ha sick, I didn't know that. Did he live up to his name?

[mawltea]

Just got this in the mail today, looking forward to reading it;

[daddy mchectic]

Eats, shoots & Leaves, The book seller of Kabul and I'm at the moment taking a break from skimming through 'Critical thinking skills'. FunFunFun.

[drokkr]

All The Pretty Horses by Cormac Mc Carthy which will be followed by The Crossing. These are volumes 1 & 2 of his "border trilogy". I can't get enough of his writing at the moment.

[spooKs]

Nice DROKKR, not read anything by him but wanna get round to doing The Road soon.

This evening:

[Coppola]

Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk

[Sephirot]

aaaaaaargh i need to change my life



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Aspects_of_Life

[Sephirot]

also bizarrely Mr Marks is a friend of my family...

[spooKs]

My dad went to university with him - he remembers him from the rugby team

[magma]

aaaaaaargh i need to change my life



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Aspects_of_Life

Looks good! I've got a toy penguin on top of my mixing desk named after Roger Penrose!

[kay]

aaaaaaargh i need to change my life



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Aspects_of_Life

Oo looks interesting, might have to look that up!