Guest Iain C Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 (edited) HEY LOOK I'VE GOT BODILY FUNCTIONS AND STUFF. HEY HAVE I SHOCKED YOU YET? LOL, I'd hoped this would be ammended to my last post Edited April 7, 2009 by Iain C Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lumpenprol Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 i'm rereading the brothers karamazov. only book you need, really. and here i thought i couldn't get any more gay for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Yegg Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 (edited) Ugh, Russian literature, so bloodless and depressing. Edited April 7, 2009 by Yegg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lumpenprol Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 huh? it's anything but? Depressing maybe, though I don't think so with Karamazov. But Russians are hardly passionless (if that's what you mean by bloodless). That's also a bit of a funny critique coming from one of the board's more detached-seeming members. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essines Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 i'm rereading the brothers karamazov. only book you need, really. love it right now i'm reading classic english lit for exams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest analogue wings Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 Cryptonomicon by Neal Stevenson it's kinda vonnegut-ey so far :undecided: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gary C Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 McCarthy - The Road I haven't read anything in a long time in honesty... and I've got at least 5 unfinished books on my shelf, so hopefully this one can keep me entertained and ease me back into it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Iain C Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 Reading The Black Album by Hanif Kureishi. It's not bad, but I've really got to read the whole thing in the next 24 hours for university work, and I hate rushing novels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alcofribas Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 Ugh, Russian literature, so bloodless and depressing. depressing? most certainly; bloodless? most certainly not. it's no accident that nietzsche, the philosopher of blood*, was a great admirer of dostoyevski. but perhaps i have no idea what you mean by "bloodless." *Of all that is written I love only what a man has written with his blood. Write with blood, and you will experience that blood is spirit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dese manz hatin Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 Tortilla flat by John Steinbeck enjoyable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest EDGEY Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 Don't laugh... Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames, Thich Nhat Hanh There's actually some very amusing stuff in there, like "happy eggs come from happy chickens". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Dylan Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 His Master's Voice, Stanislaw Lem. Half-way through. It's quite intellectually fucked up. I wasnt ready for that much philosophy, but I gladly accept it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Shockerbrown Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capsaicin Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino I just finished Blood Meridian a couple days ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian trageskin Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 steppenwolf by herman hesse. it's been like 2 years i've started it. i fucking suck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest all_purpose_sandpaper Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 (edited) Harlot's Ghost--excellent i'm in your head/politics CIA novel by Norman Mailer. White Jacket Giles Goat Boy / Chimera by John Barth. Barth is awesome--check it if you are out of American lit. Edited April 22, 2009 by all_purpose_sandpaper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Iain C Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino I just finished Blood Meridian a couple days ago Calvino's the daddy. I'd always had this knowlege at the back of my mind that I should have read If On A Winter's Night A Traveller, then I found a first edition in an Oxfam bookshop on Portobello Road. It was £60 but worth every penny, for charity as well which made it easier to justify. Since then I've become obsessed with him! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capsaicin Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 (edited) Slightly offtopic, but I just found out like a month ago that my uncle has the first american edition of Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce. But yeah, invisible cities is really great. this is the first book i've read in a while where i don't just read it in the bathroom or before i go to sleep Edited April 22, 2009 by Capsaicin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atop Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 The Illuminatus Trilogy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Iain C Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 Slightly offtopic, but I just found out like a month ago that my uncle has the first american edition of Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce. That's amazing and brilliant. I've got a couple of other first editions but nothing special or valuable, just minor editions of poetry and stuff like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atop Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 Joyce is a god...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
takeshi Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest abusivegeorge Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 watmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Iain C Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 Reading The Black Album by Hanif Kureishi. It's not bad, but I've really got to read the whole thing in the next 24 hours for university work, and I hate rushing novels. Finished it. Pretty enjoyable, not as good as it could have been, too tired to give full opinion, still trying to digest it, have to write 2000 words on it tomorrow, FML. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mr Salads Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 I just finished Professor of Desire by Philip Roth. Fucking great book! Roth is so funny and intelligent. Currently reading The Sermon on the Mount. Digging it a lot. I bought the audio book version of this on a long drive to san francisco. It was so fucking perfect! Bryson narrates himself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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