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Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 5:39 pm
by bellybelle
paolo wrote:bellybelle wrote:for some reason, I've had a really *reeaaaalllly* rough time getting into House of Leaves but I've heard it was really worth the effort. Sorry I didn't scan the previous entries so I don't know if its been reviewed or not but...if anyone's read it, is it worth it? I try...I really do.....but for some reason, every time I get to around page 70 or so, I completely lose interest. But I've heard it was brilliant...and I'm lookin for something to do this weekend. Is it worth the trek? Thanks!
Yes, in my opinion. I agree it's not exactly the easiest but I reckon your perseverance will be rewarded (it usually is with books)
thanks for that!
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 1:31 pm
by dj fidelity
Food Of the Gods...
ChristopherA wrote:his primary contention is that shrooms are the missing link though and i'm fundamentally not down with that. still i am reading on to see if he can change my mind.
Yeah. That seemed like a prevailing idea 30 odd yrs ago...
Terrance Mckenna believed the shroom came to him in a vision, and said they had been surfing the Galactic highways for Millenia lookin for Planets to Settle on, and Symbiot's to connect with... NUTTA...
Reading 'History of the World in 10 and a 1/2 steps' by Julian Barnes...
Tres Bonne.
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 1:54 pm
by LEQ
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 4:11 pm
by BLZDub
Stephen Fry is a legend
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 7:48 pm
by LEQ
[quote="BLZDub"]
Stephen Fry is a legend[/quote
I thought that was wicked, hilarious in places, insightful in others,and ultimately very well written. Might read it again actually..
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:01 pm
by corpsey
I'm reading 'Money' by Martin Amis. It's fucking great.
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:10 pm
by diss04
Corpsey wrote:I'm reading 'Money' by Martin Amis. It's fucking great.
"[John] Self is an archetypal hedonist and slob; he is usually drunk, an avid consumer of pornography and prostitutes, eats too much and, above all, spends too much, encouraged by Goodney."
i like the sound of this book, 'ere!
also anyone read anything by jack kerouac?
Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 10:22 am
by BLZDub
LEQ wrote:BLZDub wrote:
Stephen Fry is a legend
I thought that was wicked, hilarious in places, insightful in others,and ultimately very well written. Might read it again actually..
The man can write amazingly well and you understand why when you read this, his knowledge about language is insane!
This is the first i've read of his stuff, bu HMV have got them all at about £4 so going to invest.
Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 10:25 am
by LEQ
Defintiely get The Liar and Making History.
Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 10:31 am
by frebentos
Diss04 wrote:Corpsey wrote:I'm reading 'Money' by Martin Amis. It's fucking great.
"[John] Self is an archetypal hedonist and slob; he is usually drunk, an avid consumer of pornography and prostitutes, eats too much and, above all, spends too much, encouraged by Goodney."
that IS you though corps. Also Id check out London Fields by Amis, another good novel.
Diss04 wrote:
also anyone read anything by jack kerouac?
Iv read "On The Road" but found it to be pretty pretentious, boring and stale. Kerouac was defintely the worst of the beatnik generation.
Just finished
a look at the life and works of the literary genius that IS Gogol by Russias leading contemporary author Vladimir Nabokov.
Currently reading
"Barefoot and Preganant", a collection of fictional shorts from Shinie Antony dealing with some of the more hard hitting aspects of human nature including the loss of a child through a natural disaster, a doomed womans last fling and the "alleged" victim of a gang rape.
Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 11:03 am
by badger
ive finally got round to reading nineteen eighty four and it's really good. i'm so glad i've got into reading again, it's been a while
Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 11:35 am
by deamonds
im reading sleepers again, one of my most favourite books
Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 1:40 pm
by jonnyrebel
dubstep forum the novel
Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 2:19 pm
by triky
badger wrote:ive finally got round to reading nineteen eighty four and it's really good. i'm so glad i've got into reading again, it's been a while
its a great book
if u liked it and havent read this, try also brave new world by Aldous Huxley... another classic along the same lines set in London 2540. ace book.
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 2:31 pm
by d-T-r
the teachings of the 'toltec warrior' don juan.
some pretty decent visual descriptions and accounts of a lot of weird things/reality-perceptions he taught Carlos Castaneda
You think about yourself too much and that gives you a strange fatigue that makes you shut off the world around you and cling to your arguments.
A light and amenable disposition is needed in order to withstand the impact and the strangeness of the knowledge I am teaching you. Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy, and vain. To be a man of knowledge one needs to be light and fluid.
One has to reduce to a minimum all that is unnecessary in one's life.
Once you decide something put all your petty fears away. Your decision should vanquish them. I will tell you time and time again, the most effective way to live is as a warrior. Worry and think before you make any decision, but once you make it, be on your way free from worries or thoughts; there will be a million other decisions still awaiting you. That's the warrior's way.
A warrior thinks of his death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.
To be a warrior you have to be crystal clear.
Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 3:35 pm
by jasonk1234
insomnia by steven king is a great book, but a must read is "lateral thinking"
Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 6:15 pm
by tapir
at the moment:
Stephen King - Hearts in Atlantis
Phillip K Dick - Flow my tears
Robert E Howard - Conan the Cimmerian
Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 9:59 pm
by psyolopher
dTruk wrote:
the teachings of the 'toltec warrior' don juan.
some pretty decent visual descriptions and accounts of a lot of weird things/reality-perceptions he taught Carlos Castaneda
You think about yourself too much and that gives you a strange fatigue that makes you shut off the world around you and cling to your arguments.
A light and amenable disposition is needed in order to withstand the impact and the strangeness of the knowledge I am teaching you. Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy, and vain. To be a man of knowledge one needs to be light and fluid.
One has to reduce to a minimum all that is unnecessary in one's life.
Once you decide something put all your petty fears away. Your decision should vanquish them. I will tell you time and time again, the most effective way to live is as a warrior. Worry and think before you make any decision, but once you make it, be on your way free from worries or thoughts; there will be a million other decisions still awaiting you. That's the warrior's way.
A warrior thinks of his death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.
To be a warrior you have to be crystal clear.
Now thats what im talkin about!
im gonna go get his book!
Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 7:49 pm
by a man called dave
Just finished the cement garden by Ian Mcewan i thought it was really good.
Been reading some Jame Bond as well.
And finally for those that havent its all about...
Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 9:06 pm
by RubiconMan
All about WATCHMEN
- wonder how that film is coming on?
and Aldous Huxley
aaand even Don Juan - been reading art of dreaming for about 6 months haha
just gonna have a spliff n tea and give JB Ballard - High Rise a go
