fenton Posted June 22, 2014 Share Posted June 22, 2014 like Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usagi Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 The Monk - Matthew G. Lewis Great book, one of my favourites. Yes! I'm really liking it. Really dark and gothic, and gloomy atmosphere. I just read about this. sounds intriguing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Dylan Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 I have to say every time, house of leaves is incredibly good. Avoid synopsis or reviews , just read the best horror ever.. it's so subtle and a brilliant premise. But avoid all spoilers! Under the dome was good as well FTFY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hello spiral Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 heh, nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lala Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 I have to say every time, house of leaves is incredibly good. Avoid synopsis or reviews , just read the best horror ever.. it's so subtle and a brilliant premise. But avoid all spoilers! Under the dome was good as well FTFY spoiler alert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spratters Posted July 2, 2014 Share Posted July 2, 2014 James Patterson - 9th Judgement. Just randomly bought it to try out a thriller while on holiday and it was pretty good. There's 13 in the series. Pretty odd starting at 9 but I've ordered the first couple and will start from the start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
th555 Posted July 2, 2014 Share Posted July 2, 2014 Michel Houellebecq - The Map and the Territory This is great, I love Houellebecq's stuff, especially The Possibility of an Island. I've just read The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand and now I'm reading several Philip K. Dick short story collections. And Herodotus' Histories (in English translation :P). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 Just finished the Hobbit for the first time: I liked it a lot. It was full off adventure, character growth and wonderful sceneries. Will probably start reading Lord of the Rings pretty soon here after: last time I read it, I was 15 or something, and I read it in dutch. Will be an entire different experience reading it in English and at 28! Currently reading some essays on what encompasses the dutch identity, bundled together in a book. I fetched it from my parents book shelf. It's (quite) an interesting read so far. Started somewhere in the middle. Current topic: "De Grenzen van Gezelligheid" which translates to "The borders of "gezelligheid"". "Gezelligheid" is a dutch term to describe a social feel of cohesiveness, intimacy, mutual care, the ability to enjoy eachothers company by offering each other the space to do whatever wants, and a lot more than these recent descriptions. It could be translated to "cozy" in english (though coziness is an aspect of it; doesn't embody the whole) or "gemütlich" in German (if any of you speak that). You kinda get the idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
th555 Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 Gezellig boek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 haha. yeh it's alright i guess. also have the intense urge to slap dicks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenton Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Just read Burmese Days by Orwell - his first. Great forest larks with enough existential crisis and drama to ruin an empire. 10 notches above CWLP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Dylan Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 (edited) http://infinitesummer.org/ INFINITE JEST ALL SUMMER LONG BITCHES One summer = 90 days = only about 15 pages a day will put you through the book! Edited July 8, 2014 by Philip Glass Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tec Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 Reading this: Was traumatised to discover this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usagi Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 *slashes wrists* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tec Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 I phoned the police. They were not interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenton Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 Can Richard really B James? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremymacgregor87 Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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el_deuterostome Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 The Dialectical Imagination- Martin Jay #$@&! The Official Lloyd Llewellyn Collection- Daniel Clowes 33 1/3 SAW Pt. II- Mark Weidenbaum Recently finished Milligan/Allred's X-Statix Omnibus. Pretty entertaining read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Roksen Creek Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 Great book. Have you read "If on a Winter's Night a Traveler..."? One of my all-time favourites. Calvino was a genius. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poblequadrat Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 I loved that one! I'm reading "Raisons pratiques" by Pierre Bourdieu and am looking forward to a bunch of Henri Lefebvre stuff I'm going to borrow from my girlfriend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremymacgregor87 Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 Great book. Have you read "If on a Winter's Night a Traveler..."? One of my all-time favourites. Calvino was a genius. I have not. This is indeed a beautiful book, I guess I'll move on to that one next I loved that one! I'm reading "Raisons pratiques" by Pierre Bourdieu and am looking forward to a bunch of Henri Lefebvre stuff I'm going to borrow from my girlfriend. I'm due for a refresher on both of them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Radioactive Mind Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 I've got Drugs and the Mind by Robert DeRopp, biochemist. This book's from 1957 but doesn't have any Reefer Madness style vibes to it because the author really looks at things from a professional, acedemic standpoint, but still uses this prose that makes the book a joy to read. Like: Now to add further to the addict's miseries his bowels begin to act with fantastic violence: great waves of contraction pass over the walls of the stomach, causing explosive vomiting, the vomit being frequently stained with blood. So extreme are the contractions of the intestines that the surface of the abdomen appears corrugated and knotted as if a tangle of snakes were fighting beneath the skin. The entire book is replete with such rhetoric that I find appealing, and I feel that many contemporary works are incomplete not being presented in such a fanciful way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
may be rude Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 listened to china and the chinese audiobook today, pretty cool. free from librivox, a great site of free, user-created audio books Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremymacgregor87 Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 Recommendations on where to start with China Meiville? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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