What are you reading?

AFL · Post by **AFL** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 8:53 am

One of the best books I have ever read is Blindness by Jose Saramago. It's fucking intense. Contagious blindness strikes the world.....

also mentionable are Life of Pi, and Battle Royale.

victor liechtenstein · Post by **victor liechtenstein** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 9:00 am

Ah, literature. This seems like a good place to make my first post.

mohan · Post by **mohan** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 6:02 pm

reading this:

and a book on photography assisting.

last book I finished was this;

stanton · Post by **stanton** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 6:16 pm

As I've just posted a few pictures of myslef in the biggest gurner thread I should probably post in here to give a more balanced view of myself.

I am currently reading

I'm also re-reading the turnkey catalogue.

datura · Post by **datura** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 7:43 pm

AFL wrote:One of the best books I have ever read is Blindness by Jose Saramago. It's fucking intense. Contagious blindness strikes the world.....

also mentionable are Life of Pi, and Battle Royale.

Funnily enough i've just started this!

ifp · Post by **ifp** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 9:38 pm

stanton wrote:As I've just posted a few pictures of myslef in the biggest gurner thread I should probably post in here to give a more balanced view of myself.

I am currently reading

seen · Post by **seen** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 10:33 pm

stanton · Post by **stanton** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 10:06 am

ifp wrote:
stanton wrote:As I've just posted a few pictures of myslef in the biggest gurner thread I should probably post in here to give a more balanced view of myself.

I am currently reading

ah, the english translation, not the german.

ifp · Post by **ifp** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 12:44 pm

still though, pretty heavy going. got to start madness and civilization soon, not relishing the prospect

stanton · Post by **stanton** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 12:48 pm

I know what you mean Fuckault is heavy. The Deleuze book on him is ace though, pretty easy going. You should check some of the Deleuze & Gutarri stuffs too, A thousand plateaus is sick. Changed my life, man... (no, really)

jah pat · Post by **jah pat** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 4:23 pm

Top stuff boys, top stuff.....

Bukowski

These days i am mostly reading:

ikarai · Post by **ikarai** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 4:35 pm

misk · Post by **misk** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 4:43 pm

havent read that one yet ikari, but gaiman is amazing. really dug American Gods as well as Neverwhere.

ikarai · Post by **ikarai** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 11:54 am

Yeah man, American Gods is amazing. I need to read his new novels too, Anansi Boy and Fragile Things. He never disappoints, his writing is always inspired and delirious.
Cant get enough of the sandman at the moment tho. Fables & Reflections is excellent, but the preceeding volume (A Game Of You) was really something pretty special.

sizzla · Post by **sizzla** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 10:45 pm

ok i just went through the whole thread in an hour, can't believe i hadn't seen it b4.

hells yeah, dub steppaz got their mind right..i'd like to thank all yall for some ill recommendations. heres mine

Junkie....William S. Burroughs...first hand account of a junkie in nyc-1940s
Naked Lunch.....William S. Burroughs...continuation of Junkie's theme but this time the madness gets more unreal
A Place of Dead Roads....William S. Burroughs...gunslingin opium headz
City of Red Nights...William S. Burroughs....what if history was taken over by the regular mad-max rogue
The Western Lands......William S. Burroughs...another hallucinatory episode through the afterlife

As you can see I'm a big fan of Burroughs, he exploded literature wide open which allowed others to continue where he left off like Pynchon, Gibson, Chomsky, Mclullhan, even K. Dick

I also like Blanchot's The Siren's Song....makes you understand Kafka more than Kafka could understand himself
Dostoevsky's Letters from the Underground...how can you forget bout Dos?

Crime and Punishment....Foucault....you have to love to read philosophers like Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, Lacan, to be able to pick up all this stuff, otherwise it'll leave you numb.

props again on all the recommendations lookin forward to many of these titles. peace

diss04 · Post by **diss04** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:32 pm

glitz by elmore leonard. i cant recommend it enough if ya like tarantino movies then you'l love this cos its a QT movie in a book! bit of a sicko storyline however tho lol

barryhercules · Post by **barryhercules** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:53 pm

nice bit of non-fiction for you....' the god delusion', richard dawkins. only read the preface so far but its looking good already. poo poos on the whole religion thing, which is always good as far as i'm concerned. only £3.70 in your local Asda too.

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