th555 Posted June 12, 2015 Share Posted June 12, 2015 I just finished The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect. Pretty cool. But I came here to ask: what Lovecraft should I start with? Pickman's Model is a great, quick introduction. The Colour Out of Space is great; Shadow Out of Time and Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family are personal favorites. Those are more middle of the road selections...if you're interested in his dreamier stuff, or the more hardcore weird/horror, say and I can make some suggestions there as well. :) Sent using magic space waves Thanks, I'll check those out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jellyrajah Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 how to draw manga vol 1 it's probably the most useful in the whole series are you planning on drawing a manga? I'd like to read it if that's the case Yeah! I've got a script for the first 15 pages or so and am working on the storyboard right now. It's about a delivery girl that ends up delivering documents and stuff for someone who is trying to force the way the town they live in is going to be redeveloped, but the delivery girl doesn't really know so it's basically an excuse to draw people on bicycles and elaborate backgrounds. And to go out on field trips and not feel like I should be doing something else lol. I wanted to do something like Taniguchi's Aruku Hito but less contemplative and less boring and "younger" and with something resembling an actual plot if only vaguely, if that makes any sense. It's gonna suck because my drawing skills are rather pants but I'll post it when I'm done! Thanks! : D Sounds like it could be pretty good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markedone Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 Was right in the middle of reading (and quite enjoying) PKD - The Man in the High Castle Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture David Graeber - Debt: the first 5000 years when.. My kindle 3's screen broke while on vacation Anyone like to recommend an e-reader that does pdf / ebooks well? Currently trolling craigslist for another e-ink kindle, i like their screen and longer battery life rather than going the tablet / lcd screen route. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QQQ Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 (edited) Finished American Psycho recently. Some of the passages of him killed the girls were fucking grusome. I felt really awkward reading through them at work (skull fucking dead girl's heads after he cut out their tongues. Ooooohhh boyy). Nearly as awkward as reading about little boys fucking each other in William Burroughs' The Place Of Dead Roads whilst surrounded by my colleagues. Thank god nobody decided to read over my shoulder. Moved on to To Have And Have Not by Hemmingway. Edited June 13, 2015 by QQQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twelvetrees Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 (edited) I finished From Hell by Alan Moore a few hours ago. I enjoyed it, but like with all Alan Moore books I read I found myself over analysing everything on my first read and as a result finding it difficult to just let the story flow. I'll probably analyse it twice as much on my second read. Starting Post Office next to let my brain relax a bit. Edited June 14, 2015 by Twelvetrees Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drillkicker Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 I've been kind of in between books at the moment. I started reading Remembrance of Things Past, but realized that it should be read in its original language. So I've been improving my French vocabulary by working through a bit of Le Comte de Monte Cristo. Most recently, I acquired a few old books (an 1880 collection of William Cowper's poems, an 1895 copy of Vicar of Wakefield, and an original 1925 copy of Tree of the Folkungs), so I'm not really sure what to read now. The most recent books I finished are The Brothers Karamazov, which I loved on a personal level, and Dubliners, which I enjoyed though not extremely so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drillkicker Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 PKD - The Man in the High Castle How is it? I thought about reading it, but was kind of cautious about getting too interested as books like that have a tendency to be very biased or otherwise inaccurate. The Second World War is a subject that I try to avoid for those reasons. It's a subject filled with a lot of opinions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baph Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 Like nazis being bad? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drillkicker Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 (edited) Like nazis being bad? Pretty much, yeah. Historians like to write about that war by just saying "the Germans were bad." Nobody seems to want to write an objective history of the Third Reich without either focusing on the Holocaust or, conversely, glorifying everything the National Socialists and Hitler did. All I want is to read a book about the political system of the Third Reich and how it functioned, but nobody wants to do that, it's just a battle of stupid opinions that I don't care about and don't want to read. So I'm just going to wait a few decades for the rest of the dust to settle before I try to do research on it. Edited June 14, 2015 by drillkicker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auxien Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 I just started PKDs VALIS trilogy, curious to see how trippy it's gonna get. Sent using magic space waves Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bechuga Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 Like nazis being bad? Pretty much, yeah. Historians like to write about that war by just saying "the Germans were bad." Nobody seems to want to write an objective history of the Third Reich without either focusing on the Holocaust or, conversely, glorifying everything the National Socialists and Hitler did. All I want is to read a book about the political system of the Third Reich and how it functioned, but nobody wants to do that, it's just a battle of stupid opinions that I don't care about and don't want to read. So I'm just going to wait a few decades for the rest of the dust to settle before I try to do research on it. There ARE books from objective viewpoints, such as Rise and Fall of the Third Reichand more books by William Shirer, among a few others I can't name right now. My grandad was in the war, hated the Nazis, but he himself wished to know what made his enemies tick and read a good few books on the subject, interested in the reality of their system than propaganda. He even read Mein Kampf, liking parts of it but finding it overlong by a third. If I can remember other names, I'll come back to you. Have not read them myself so I cannot say whether they're objective enough. Also--I'm not intending to start a debate, even if it sounds like it--but if you're waiting for a book / series to appear about the Third Reich without mention of the Final Solution, you may well be waiting a long time. That'd be like wanting to read a book about Elvis that doesn't mention music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drillkicker Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 Like nazis being bad? Pretty much, yeah. Historians like to write about that war by just saying "the Germans were bad." Nobody seems to want to write an objective history of the Third Reich without either focusing on the Holocaust or, conversely, glorifying everything the National Socialists and Hitler did. All I want is to read a book about the political system of the Third Reich and how it functioned, but nobody wants to do that, it's just a battle of stupid opinions that I don't care about and don't want to read. So I'm just going to wait a few decades for the rest of the dust to settle before I try to do research on it. There ARE books from objective viewpoints, such as Rise and Fall of the Third Reichand more books by William Shirer, among a few others I can't name right now. My grandad was in the war, hated the Nazis, but he himself wished to know what made his enemies tick and read a good few books on the subject, interested in the reality of their system than propaganda. He even read Mein Kampf, liking parts of it but finding it overlong by a third. If I can remember other names, I'll come back to you. Have not read them myself so I cannot say whether they're objective enough. Also--I'm not intending to start a debate, even if it sounds like it--but if you're waiting for a book / series to appear about the Third Reich without mention of the Final Solution, you may well be waiting a long time. That'd be like wanting to read a book about Elvis that doesn't mention music. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich seems pretty contraversial. Although I don't suppose it's possible to write about that period of history without contraversy from some group of people. All I was really looking for is something that explains the political system of the Third Reich: how it functioned, how it was managed, how the resources and logistics of the war were carried out, the philosophy of the party, etc. I couldn't find any books that focus on that aspect of the country. Most of them are just about the Holocaust and the war, or how the goverment of the Allied powers functioned. If the book you recommended goes into detail about the topics that interest me, then I'll definitely look into reading it. The Man In the High Castle interested me for these reasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KovalainenFanBoy Posted June 15, 2015 Share Posted June 15, 2015 (edited) The Man in the High Castle was the first PKD book I read without even knowing who PKD was, and as with many of his books, the alternative history thing is mostly the background for the trippy story of the characters more than the main focus of the book. So if you're looking for plausibly accurate historical fiction, this isn't the book for it btw it's spelled controversy and controversial Edited June 15, 2015 by ThatSpanishGuy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkaholic Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 finished this, was wicked: http://www.zero-books.net/books/Creepiness recomend all his books finishing off earthsea book 4, absolutely delightful! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthsea might read this after http://www.versobooks.com/books/1901-the-happiness-industry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muflontillah Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 Computer Crimes and Capers by Isaac Asimov Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jellyrajah Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 The most recent books I finished are The Brothers Karamazov, which I loved on a personal level Man this one was so good. Have you ever read Dead Souls by Gogol? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lala Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 just read some sci-fi: Enjoyed it. Makes you feel good about your life without being depressing. Short story, can get through in one sitting. enjoyed it as well. currently reading: Its chinese, and apparently very good. The translation makes it a bit wooden, I dont think ive ever read a chinese translated novel before. things like (if i remember correctly) 'went to the criminal division to find ......' it just sounds weird. and another guy was talking about him becoming a monk to get away, and stayed for 5 years 'down in south china somewhere' <like you would stay 5 years somewhere and not know the name...? im sure it reads perfect in its native language tho story is really really cool so far tho, so im sticking with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lala Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 oh yeah 'im just a lackadaisical guy' was another one that just made me wince a bit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baph Posted June 27, 2015 Share Posted June 27, 2015 that is an impressively hideous cover it's so bad it could spawn an entire postmodern microgenre of cover design Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
el_deuterostome Posted June 27, 2015 Share Posted June 27, 2015 The Complete Eightball- Daniel Clowes 33 1/3 Wowee Zowee- Bryan Charles Crime & Punishment- Fyodor Dostoevsky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lala Posted June 27, 2015 Share Posted June 27, 2015 that is an impressively hideous cover it's so bad it could spawn an entire postmodern microgenre of cover design I completely agree. terrible fonts, terrible title. enjoyable little action-sci-fi romp tho. I did not go into a books store, or even know about the hideousness of the cover until it was too late and my interest was piqued. if it was a book store i would have cried it kinda looks like the designer did it over his morning coffee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lala Posted June 27, 2015 Share Posted June 27, 2015 Check out this badbwoy then: Good Story as well! Poser has a LOT to answer for Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
th555 Posted June 27, 2015 Share Posted June 27, 2015 (edited) Poser lol. There's an awful lot of hideous shit coming out of that program. OT: just finished another Murakami novel, Dance Dance Dance. Very very good. Before that I read a short story collection about an earthquake by him. Now I'm back to reading my usual mishmash of a fantasy series, old chinese criminal saga, PKD and Douglas Adams. I will check out Cixin Liu btw, looks pretty good. Edited June 27, 2015 by th555 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lala Posted June 27, 2015 Share Posted June 27, 2015 Which PKD are your faves? i should read more of his, i usually go for modern stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
th555 Posted June 27, 2015 Share Posted June 27, 2015 Flow my tears the policeman said Valis Do androids dream of electric sheep And just started reading Ubik a while ago. His short stories are great too, obviously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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