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Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 11:21 pm
by spooKs
uncle bill wrote:Since Christmas:
Big list! How'd you find The Road - can't wait to have time to read it.

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 12:40 am
by BLAHBLAHJAH
Can't really say I read... On a year out from a chemistry degree, reading about all those asshole atoms and bastard bonding theories has really ruined the pleasure of reading. Kind of made me unable to ever read a fiction type print again

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 8:56 am
by Phyalow
Exciting stuff.... :cry:
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Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 10:38 am
by leebass
Pistonsbeneath wrote:Image
Philip k dick is a genius.

Just finished Ubik. He had so many cool ideas.

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 6:07 pm
by magma
uncle bill wrote:Image
I'm going to have to get that.

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 9:21 am
by paolo
'Beyond Black' by Hilary Mantel. Starts slow but then has some genuinely creepy bits.

This thread>>>>>>>>>>>>the rest of the SNH

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 4:33 pm
by limb
currently reading

selected dylan thomas

and the day of creation by J G Ballard.

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 1:21 am
by parson
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Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 1:26 am
by CreepTotsBrizzle
david icke at the moment!
Deep man

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 1:30 am
by Pistonsbeneath
parson wrote:Image
that looks interesting man!

i spent £70 on books the other day in waterstones and i have this to get to after ive finished altered carbon..

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heard about it?

religion and science intertwined

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 1:31 am
by parson
never heard of it but that looks dope! and this let there be light book is real good so far.

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 1:36 am
by Pistonsbeneath
parson wrote:never heard of it but that looks dope! and this let there be light book is real good so far.
there was a documentary over here..


Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 9:12 am
by snuff
How The Dead Live by Will Self....

christ it's depressing

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 10:40 am
by Pi-Krust
picked up for 50p from a charity shop and part of my failing ongoing efforts to become semi self sufficient-ish :D
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Another bargain picked up for a quid from Borders on it's final day of trading,not quite as good as Krautrocksampler but still pretty entertainingly interesting.
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Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 2:18 pm
by uncle bill
spooKs wrote:
uncle bill wrote:Since Christmas:
Big list! How'd you find The Road - can't wait to have time to read it.
Stunning. Best contemporary novel I've read in years. I might avoid watching the film for a bit because I don't want to ruin it.
snuff wrote:How The Dead Live by Will Self....

christ it's depressing
I didn't find it depressing. I thought it was really funny. My favourite of his actually, although My Idea Of Fun is pretty fucking great.

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 12:14 pm
by dreamizm
Getting into these...

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And just ordered this on someone's recommendation (cld of been off of here!)..

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Wana read Siddartha again before the Summer too

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 4:00 pm
by Sterling Mastif
Never been a reader until recently, have just finished The Story Of Muse, great read as my faveourite music ever. Lots of recomendations for mad books Matt Bellamy has read to work through. Currently reading The World According To Clarkson. The way his mind works is class, seems to have the right idea about everything.

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2010 1:47 am
by fuagofire
CreepTotsBrizzle wrote:david icke at the moment!
Deep man
:u:

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2010 2:33 pm
by limb
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Towards the D.M.Z. Later, as he sat in the cabin of the helicopter, Talbot looked down at the
motorway below them. The speeding cars wound through the cloverleaves. The concrete
causeways formed an immense cipher, the templates of an unseen posture. The young woman in
the white dress sat beside him. Her breasts and shoulders recapitulated the forgotten contours of
Karen Novotny’s body, the motion-sculpture of the highways. Afraid to smile at him, she stared
at his hands as if they held some invisible weapon. The flowering tissue of her mouth reminded
him of the porous esplanades of Ernst’s ‘Silence,’ the pumice-like beaches of a dead sea. His
committal into the authority of these two couriers had at last freed him from his memories of
Koester and Catherine Austin. The erosion of that waking landscape continued. Meanwhile the
quasars burned dimly from the dark peaks of the universe, sections of his brain reborn in the
island galaxies.

Re: What are you reading?

Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 6:58 pm
by leebass
limb wrote:Image

Towards the D.M.Z. Later, as he sat in the cabin of the helicopter, Talbot looked down at the
motorway below them. The speeding cars wound through the cloverleaves. The concrete
causeways formed an immense cipher, the templates of an unseen posture. The young woman in
the white dress sat beside him. Her breasts and shoulders recapitulated the forgotten contours of
Karen Novotny’s body, the motion-sculpture of the highways. Afraid to smile at him, she stared
at his hands as if they held some invisible weapon. The flowering tissue of her mouth reminded
him of the porous esplanades of Ernst’s ‘Silence,’ the pumice-like beaches of a dead sea. His
committal into the authority of these two couriers had at last freed him from his memories of
Koester and Catherine Austin. The erosion of that waking landscape continued. Meanwhile the
quasars burned dimly from the dark peaks of the universe, sections of his brain reborn in the
island galaxies.
What did you think of this? tried reading it a few months ago and got about half way through. Apart from Naked Lunch this is the hardest book i've tried reading, in terms of wtf is going on. Will pick it up again soon.