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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 9:36 pm
by schamotnik
'post office' by charles bukowski.. found it quite entertaining
Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 9:40 pm
by datura
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.'
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 4:14 am
by tempest
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
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 4:20 am
by parson
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
nice one. will keep an eye out for it
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 5:28 pm
by dali
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.
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 7:29 pm
by corpsey
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.
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 8:01 pm
by Jubz
Yeah I opted for Catch 22, it's not a massive copy but the print is fucking tiny.
Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 12:42 pm
by corpsey
I don't think High Rise is really worth reading anyway. Read one chapter and you've read 'em all.
Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 2:05 am
by tempest
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..
Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 2:03 pm
by jackquinox
Just finished: Salman Rushie - Midnights Children
Just Started: Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment
Recommend: Phillip Roth - American Pastoral
Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 2:06 pm
by datura
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.
Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 3:35 pm
by dali
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.
Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 3:22 pm
by paolo
Recently finished 'The Naming Of The Dead' by Ian Rankin (Britain's best living author imho), and just started 'Moby Dick'
Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 3:39 pm
by bandshell
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Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 4:00 pm
by diss04
anyone recommend me any books to get to get started with hunter s. thompson?
Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 4:02 pm
by bandshell
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Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 6:18 pm
by primate
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Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 10:36 am
by kins83
Just started reading this:
It's funny. Brooker is such an angry and articulate man.
Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 5:41 pm
by parson
Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 6:05 pm
by diss04
Parson wrote:
looks interesting.. whats it like?