What are you reading?

datura · Post by **datura** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 10:18 pm

The Naked & The Dead - Norman Mailer

Just finished Count Zero by William Gibson top class cyberpunk.

LEQ · Post by **LEQ** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 8:42 am

datura wrote:The Naked & The Dead - Norman Mailer

Just finished Count Zero by William Gibson top class cyberpunk.

Are they still making neuromancer into a film? Heard it was on/off?

seckle · Post by **seckle** » Fri May 11, 2007 5:12 am

just started...

BaronVon · Post by **BaronVon** » Fri May 11, 2007 10:44 am

Best book ive read in a very long time.Makes me want to pack up and flee to India.

jah pat · Post by **jah pat** » Fri May 11, 2007 11:18 am

Yip,

Bass Culture is a top read....

"When the sweet smells of jerk chicken, bougainvillaea and collie weed swirled around your head, you could fell the hottest R&B jump-up vibrate through a cold bottle of beer, and cut some steps with a big-eyed daughter. . . it was enough to overwhelm anybody. To the point at which it didn't really matter what you didn't have for the rest of the time, because right there, right then, at the sound-system dance, you had it all."

LEQ · Post by **LEQ** » Fri May 11, 2007 11:35 am

drgk · Post by **drgk** » Fri May 11, 2007 3:46 pm

right now i'm reading:

illuminatus - robert anton wilson
1984 - george orwell
the grapes of wrath - john steinbeck
lilith - george macdonald

just finished:
idoru - william gibson
inhuman condition - clive barker

drgk · Post by **drgk** » Fri May 11, 2007 4:41 pm

Audiopie wrote:

is good, but try:
much thicker read but well worth it.

insine · Post by **insine** » Fri May 11, 2007 4:42 pm

drgk · Post by **drgk** » Fri May 11, 2007 4:43 pm

Jah Pat wrote:Yip,

Bass Culture is a top read....

"When the sweet smells of jerk chicken, bougainvillaea and collie weed swirled around your head, you could fell the hottest R&B jump-up vibrate through a cold bottle of beer, and cut some steps with a big-eyed daughter. . . it was enough to overwhelm anybody. To the point at which it didn't really matter what you didn't have for the rest of the time, because right there, right then, at the sound-system dance, you had it all."

8)

that gives me goosebumps. i'll check that one out mos def.

jah pat · Post by **jah pat** » Sat May 12, 2007 10:24 am

Yes mate, it's written very very nicely...... The guy can obviously write as well as being a reggy anorak. Good combination innit....

On the National Express up to New Cross today i will mostly be reading:

misk · Post by **misk** » Sat May 12, 2007 5:25 pm

looks all self-helpy, but it actually kicks ass.

its always a good read... i understand more every year...

drgk · Post by **drgk** » Mon May 14, 2007 3:59 am

Jah Pat wrote:Yes mate, it's written very very nicely...... The guy can obviously write as well as being a reggy anorak. Good combination innit....

On the National Express up to New Cross today i will mostly be reading:

if you like joyce you'll probably like illuminatus, joyce is one of robert anton wilson's major influence, or so he says.

tempest · Post by **tempest** » Tue May 15, 2007 1:19 am

'grug goes swimming'

-blade- · Post by **-blade-** » Tue May 15, 2007 1:51 am

return from the stars by Stanislaw Lem

drgk · Post by **drgk** » Tue May 15, 2007 2:27 am

anyone who prostelitizes

ana · Post by **ana** » Tue May 15, 2007 2:50 am

The internets.

pk- · Post by **pk-** » Tue May 15, 2007 6:35 am

Jah Pat wrote:Yip,

Bass Culture is a top read....

"When the sweet smells of jerk chicken, bougainvillaea and collie weed swirled around your head, you could fell the hottest R&B jump-up vibrate through a cold bottle of beer, and cut some steps with a big-eyed daughter. . . it was enough to overwhelm anybody. To the point at which it didn't really matter what you didn't have for the rest of the time, because right there, right then, at the sound-system dance, you had it all."

just bought the book on the basis of that extract

cheers

grievous_angel · Post by **grievous_angel** » Tue May 15, 2007 8:10 am

Bass Culture IS fantastic and indispensable...

... but Lloyd is utterly down on ragga and dancehall.

I'm just getting into "What the DJ Said: A critique from the street" by William Henry - better known as eighties fast chat don LEZLEY LYRICS!!! He's now a sociology lecturer and PHd. Brilliant book, half oral history of Brit dancehall culture (the roots of dubstep and grime) and half academic ethnomusicological analysis.

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