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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 8:40 pm
by audiopie
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 10:18 pm
by datura
The Naked & The Dead - Norman Mailer
Just finished Count Zero by William Gibson top class cyberpunk.
Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 8:42 am
by LEQ
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?
Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 5:12 am
by seckle
just started...

Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 10:44 am
by BaronVon
Best book ive read in a very long time.Makes me want to pack up and flee to India.
Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 11:18 am
by jah pat
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."

Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 11:35 am
by LEQ
Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 3:46 pm
by drgk
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
Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 4:41 pm
by drgk
Audiopie wrote:
is good, but try:
much thicker read but well worth it.

Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 4:42 pm
by insine
Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 4:43 pm
by drgk
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.
Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 10:24 am
by jah pat
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:

Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 5:25 pm
by misk
looks all self-helpy, but it actually kicks ass.

its always a good read... i understand more every year...
Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 3:59 am
by drgk
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.
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 1:19 am
by tempest
'grug goes swimming'
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 1:51 am
by -blade-
return from the stars by Stanislaw Lem
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 2:27 am
by drgk
anyone who prostelitizes
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 2:50 am
by ana
The internets.
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 6:35 am
by pk-
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
Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 8:10 am
by grievous_angel
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.