caze Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 It's about a man who trepanated himself. A trepanation is an operation where a little hole is drilled into the skull. He seeked to expand his mind and get to a higher level of consciousness by doing that - and it worked no it didn't Well, some would consider his mental state a neurological problem - but for him it worked, he feels high all the time now You don;t think that could be down to the massive amounts of LSD he had taken? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dingformung Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 It's about a man who trepanated himself. A trepanation is an operation where a little hole is drilled into the skull. He seeked to expand his mind and get to a higher level of consciousness by doing that - and it worked no it didn't Well, some would consider his mental state a neurological problem - but for him it worked, he feels high all the time now You don;t think that could be down to the massive amounts of LSD he had taken? Yeah, it's probably because of the LSD. But still a fascinating story Just imagine yourself drilling a hole into your own head, eww Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bechuga Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 (edited) Finished Mao II by Don Delillo. Pretty great, eerie to see how accurate he was about the current culture 26 years ago, especially terrorism. And it was nice to read a book that isn't 500+ pages for once. Next is Those Who Leave And Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante. Which is a 400+ page book. Edited March 24, 2017 by Bechuga Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auditor Posted April 1, 2017 Share Posted April 1, 2017 Norm Macdonald's book is hilarious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doorjamb Posted April 2, 2017 Share Posted April 2, 2017 I finally got around to reading some Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky & have thus far found it exceedingly enjoyable. Next on my bucket list is to try (yet again) to make it through Tristram Shandy in one go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QQQ Posted April 2, 2017 Share Posted April 2, 2017 fin: Yukio Mishima - Forbidden Colours begin: J G Ballad - The Drowned World Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auditor Posted April 2, 2017 Share Posted April 2, 2017 fin: Yukio Mishima - Forbidden Colours begin: J G Ballad - The Drowned World Mishima is excellent. Have you read xThe Temple of the Golden Pavillion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QQQ Posted April 2, 2017 Share Posted April 2, 2017 fin: Yukio Mishima - Forbidden Colours begin: J G Ballad - The Drowned World Mishima is excellent. Have you read xThe Temple of the Golden Pavillion? i haven't yet. so far i've read The Sailor That Fell From Grace With The Sea, Spring Snow, Runaway Horses and Forbidden Colours (read in that order). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auditor Posted April 2, 2017 Share Posted April 2, 2017 Oh nice. I only read Sailor and Pavillion, the latter is one of the best books I've ever read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dingformung Posted April 2, 2017 Share Posted April 2, 2017 Antonio Damasio - Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain Very good and as easy as possible explanation of how the body (especially the brain) manages to create an experience of the outer and inner world. Very enlightening. Did you know that even single-celled organisms have a rather complex mind? They don't know though. We know and we even know that we know and we know that we know that we know and we can watch us knowing that we know that we know that we know that we have a rather complex mind. We call this process "self". I can recommend this book Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QQQ Posted April 2, 2017 Share Posted April 2, 2017 funny you say that because Sailor is one of my favourite books. none of his others have hit me as hard, though they are all very good. i might go for that one next, though Confessions of a Mask has my interest and i still have the final 2 books of the Sea of Fertility tetralogy to read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doublename Posted April 9, 2017 Share Posted April 9, 2017 Fire & Blood: The European Civil War 1914-45 by Enzo Traverso Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bechuga Posted April 9, 2017 Share Posted April 9, 2017 Svetlana Alexievich's Chernobyl Prayer. Quite bleak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dingformung Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia We are writing this book as a rhizome. It is composed of plateaus. We have given it a circular form, but only for laughs. Each morning we would wake up, and each of us would ask himself what plateau he was going to tackle, writing five lines here, ten there. We had hallucinatory experiences, we watched lines leave one plateau and proceed to another like columns of tiny ants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QQQ Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 fin: The Drowned World (J.G. Ballad) this was disappointing. a nice idea but poor execution. flat characters, too much repetition and a waste of a good world. begin: The Outsider (Albert Camus) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bechuga Posted April 19, 2017 Share Posted April 19, 2017 Satoshi Kon's Opus is a great comic, just as intriguing as his films were. That the ending chapter was found after his death and somehow makes sense of an unfinished story (sort of) makes it even greater. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doublename Posted April 19, 2017 Share Posted April 19, 2017 The North Water by Ian McGuire It's well savage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keanu reeves Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 i'm trying to read j r by gaddis but holy fuck is it tedious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auxien Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 I started The Dream Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kik Johnson, who can do some great short stories. This is a short novel/novella and so far the premise and writing are good but I'm wait to see what sort of book it's really gonna be...especially since it's set in Lovecraft's dream lands. Should be interesting at least. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hello spiral Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 After months of neglect I've picked up Mason & Dixon again, I was about halfway. Just got to the mention of the invention of the sandwich and the shaggy dog story about an exiled French Chef and a Mechanical Duck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebraska Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Those_Who_Trespass Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lada Laika Posted April 21, 2017 Share Posted April 21, 2017 About halfway through this so far, really informational, will be using it as a resource for a long I time I think.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marf Posted April 21, 2017 Share Posted April 21, 2017 Amarna letters. Egpyt's correspondence with Cannan found on Clay tablets. tale of sinuhe ancient Egyptian tale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bechuga Posted April 22, 2017 Share Posted April 22, 2017 A cheap bookshop sold a hardcover copy of Adam Sisman's John le Carré biography, which I am tucking into while at home. Sure is nice reading a huge book again, kinda missed doing that after Moore's Jerusalem and Pynchon (keep going Spiral! It's worth it!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doorjamb Posted April 22, 2017 Share Posted April 22, 2017 (edited) i'm trying to read j r by gaddis but holy fuck is it tedious. Yeah? I enjoyed A Frolic of His Own. Been meaning to get around to JR or Recognitions. Right now it’s Graham Greene’s End of the Affair & random poetry to decompress from a couple endless editorial slogs. I discovered Zbigniew Herbert recently via this collection & some of it makes me very happy. I definitely prefer watching an artist fail in hopeless, naïve earnesty & being able to relate over the alternative of being successfully razzle-dazzled but coming away feeling more or less empty. Edited April 22, 2017 by doorjamb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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