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schamotnik · Post by **schamotnik** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 9:36 pm

'post office' by charles bukowski.. found it quite entertaining

datura · Post by **datura** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 9:40 pm

Think I'm gonna source this for when I've finished Player Piano, apparently the inspiration for Brave New World and 1984

'Inside its glass dome the One State is a place of mathematical precision, a community where everything is everyone's and integrity, clarity and unerrring loyalty reign over all. D-503, Builder of the Integral, is an honest Cipher, ashamed of the hairy hands that link him to a barbaric ancestry. And yet he is tormented by the figure a-1, that impenetrable x, the legacy that makes him lust, imagine, that's given him a soul. Consumed by his sickness and obsessed with the mysterious I-330 he escapes outside the Wall, to where the humans are wild and the land is green, and plots to overthrow The Benefactor, and return his civilisation to natural chaos. Only The Operation can return order to the perfect world, and allow reason to win.'

tempest · Post by **tempest** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 4:14 am

datura wrote:Think I'm gonna source this for when I've finished Player Piano, apparently the inspiration for Brave New World and 1984

'Inside its glass dome the One State is a place of mathematical precision, a community where everything is everyone's and integrity, clarity and unerrring loyalty reign over all. D-503, Builder of the Integral, is an honest Cipher, ashamed of the hairy hands that link him to a barbaric ancestry. And yet he is tormented by the figure a-1, that impenetrable x, the legacy that makes him lust, imagine, that's given him a soul. Consumed by his sickness and obsessed with the mysterious I-330 he escapes outside the Wall, to where the humans are wild and the land is green, and plots to overthrow The Benefactor, and return his civilisation to natural chaos. Only The Operation can return order to the perfect world, and allow reason to win.'

shit this is right up my alley, gunna hit the second hand book shops this arvo with a whole lot of hope :p

parson · Post by **parson** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 4:20 am

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

nice one. will keep an eye out for it

dali · Post by **dali** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 5:28 pm

nattynat wrote:the informers by bret easton ellis

i dig all his books.

Love him... Glamarama is my fav I think. His latest is good too... weird, but good... Lunar Park.

I hear he is actually working on a follow-up to Less Than Zero too... even though he was supposedly retired after Lunar Park. Lunar Park and Informers are supposed to be out as films this decade... Informers as soon as Oct this year... some big names too.

corpsey · Post by **corpsey** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 7:29 pm

Jubscarz wrote:I was reading JG Ballard - High Rise until I got to the end of page 48 and the next page was page 97! There are two sections of 97-144 in the book, annoying to say the least. Anyway either gonna get round to Catch 22 (which I have started a couple of times) or start Asimov's The Winds of Change.

LOL postmodern

Catch 22 is fucking great. It looks huge but it's a breeze to read.

Jubz · Post by **Jubz** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 8:01 pm

Yeah I opted for Catch 22, it's not a massive copy but the print is fucking tiny.

corpsey · Post by **corpsey** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 12:42 pm

I don't think High Rise is really worth reading anyway. Read one chapter and you've read 'em all.

tempest · Post by **tempest** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 2:05 am

dali wrote:
nattynat wrote:the informers by bret easton ellis

i dig all his books.
Love him... Glamarama is my fav I think. His latest is good too... weird, but good... Lunar Park.

I hear he is actually working on a follow-up to Less Than Zero too... even though he was supposedly retired after Lunar Park. Lunar Park and Informers are supposed to be out as films this decade... Informers as soon as Oct this year... some big names too.

Holy shit!! I bought 'Less Than Zero' and 'Rules Of Attraction' yesterday, loved American Psycho so I got the local 2nd hand book shop dude to find me some more Ellis and he did, he's such a legend... Really need to find more epic books tho! that "Vintage" looks really interesting, I really like Brave New World so i'll have to try and find that..

jackquinox · Post by **jackquinox** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 2:03 pm

Just finished: Salman Rushie - Midnights Children

Just Started: Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment

Recommend: Phillip Roth - American Pastoral

datura · Post by **datura** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 2:06 pm

Corpsey wrote:I don't think High Rise is really worth reading anyway. Read one chapter and you've read 'em all.

It was quite entertaining, but yes, the recent ballard books are very similar albeit in a different locale.

dali · Post by **dali** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 3:35 pm

Killed Invisible Monsters yesterday... on to Snuff... love Chuck Palahniuk

If you like Ellis give him a try...

I still have yet to start the new David Sedaris... I bought it and got it signed a couple weeks ago when he was in town... that guy is pretty goofy, in a good way though.

I also have the Virgin Suicides and Journey to the Center of the Earth in my stock for the next 2 weeks...

*Oh and for you Ellis fans... the Less Than Zero sequel is rumored to be titled "Imperial Bedrooms" inspired by an Elvis Costello song. The release is on hold as Brett writes the screen play for Downer's Grove—a novel by Michael Hornburg.

paolo · Post by **paolo** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 3:22 pm

Recently finished 'The Naming Of The Dead' by Ian Rankin (Britain's best living author imho), and just started 'Moby Dick'

bandshell · Post by **bandshell** » Sun Jun 29, 2008 3:39 pm

diss04 · Post by **diss04** » Sun Jun 29, 2008 4:00 pm

anyone recommend me any books to get to get started with hunter s. thompson?

bandshell · Post by **bandshell** » Sun Jun 29, 2008 4:02 pm

primate · Post by **primate** » Sun Jun 29, 2008 6:18 pm

and

kins83 · Post by **kins83** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 10:36 am

Just started reading this:

It's funny. Brooker is such an angry and articulate man.

parson · Post by **parson** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 5:41 pm

diss04 · Post by **diss04** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 6:05 pm

Parson wrote:

looks interesting.. whats it like?

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