Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 12:39 pm
Got this one for chrimbo, started it yesterday and I'm already halfway throughMisk wrote:the road - cormac mccarthy
it's like fallout 3, the book!
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Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 1:38 pm
about halfway through 'cities of the red night' by william s. burroughs
Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 10:46 pm
finished "the informers" by bret easton ellis a few weeks back...twas awesome like all his books
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 7:33 am
just finished reading "the way of lif" by lao tzu
very good book
very good book
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 10:25 pm
your sister's diary, she left it round mine
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 11:28 pm
anyone read anything by harry crews or kenneth gangemi?
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 8:23 pm
on the road- Jack Kerouac
31 Songs- Nick Hornby
The ragged Trousered Philanphropists- Robert Tressel
but recently finished Catch 22. best book ever? quite possibly
31 Songs- Nick Hornby
The ragged Trousered Philanphropists- Robert Tressel
but recently finished Catch 22. best book ever? quite possibly
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 9:42 pm
Tom Robbins is the man for tripped out fiction I reckon.
Start with "Even cowgirls get the blues" - roughly every 3 pages there's a sentence that makes you stop & think "this man's a genious!".
Apparently it's been made into a shit film, I've not seen it, but there's no way you could do a screenplay that would do the book any sort of justice without making the film 5 hours long, so if you've seen it don't let it put you off the book.
Start with "Even cowgirls get the blues" - roughly every 3 pages there's a sentence that makes you stop & think "this man's a genious!".
Apparently it's been made into a shit film, I've not seen it, but there's no way you could do a screenplay that would do the book any sort of justice without making the film 5 hours long, so if you've seen it don't let it put you off the book.
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 9:46 pm
Currently reading "Neuromancer" by Williams Gibbons.
hard to believe it was written back in 1984.
hard to believe it was written back in 1984.
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 9:47 pm
More tripped out than Pynchon? I couldn't get through Gravity's Rainbow, despite moments of genius (the sweets tasting had me in fits).Non_Typical wrote:Tom Robbins is the man for tripped out fiction I reckon.
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 10:42 pm
datura wrote:More tripped out than Pynchon? I couldn't get through Gravity's Rainbow, despite moments of genius (the sweets tasting had me in fits).Non_Typical wrote:Tom Robbins is the man for tripped out fiction I reckon.
Not especially more so, just different. I prefer Tom personally, but it's all good - as long as you're reading something instead of vegging out on some mindless TV you're onto a winner I reckon.
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 12:58 pm
Got this for Christmas from my father-in-law. Being a post-graduate student who specialises in eighteenth-century history, this was a good choice for me!
It's fairly easy going, and reads somewhat like a novel. However, the standard of scholarship is excellent, with Rubenhold readily acknowledging the limitations of the sources without majorly disrupting the general narrative.
Thumbs up so far!
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 4:13 pm
Terry Pratchett - Jingo.
Light reading, but still, a hell of a book.
Light reading, but still, a hell of a book.
Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 8:52 pm
good choice.jasonk1234 wrote:just finished reading "the way of lif" by lao tzu
very good book
i just started this. hoping it will get my mind/body back into lucid dreaming after a lazy few months. plus always good to know some of the roots to concepts adopted or made famous by the west
Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 9:30 pm
Great book, there. Haven't read the rest of the trilogy, but I probably will get to that some time or other...Wolf Hood wrote:about halfway through 'cities of the red night' by william s. burroughs
Currently reading Hemingway's To Have And Have Not and the Swedish author Peter Englund's Stridens skönhet och sorg.
Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 9:56 pm
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 7:15 pm
catching up on the TPBs of 'Y: The Las Man'
Picked up a couple of Raymond Carver books so those are next in line.
Picked up a couple of Raymond Carver books so those are next in line.
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 7:20 pm
I've just finished reading "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" by Friedrich Nietzsche, probably going to start reading "Candide" by Voltaire now.
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 7:56 pm
Been saying i'll get around to more burroughs but only read queer and junky so far, this good?Wolf Hood wrote:about halfway through 'cities of the red night' by william s. burroughs
Amazingly honest, account of a hard time in a mans life. I read it in one go without eating as it was too interesting and saddening.
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 11:56 pm
genius!