Milwaukeeeee Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 (edited) The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch is nice. PK Dick being cooler and imaginativier in this bitch Edited March 23, 2020 by Milwaukeeeee 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milwaukeeeee Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 https://holybooks-lichtenbergpress.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/The-Whirling-Ecstacy.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muflontillah Posted April 13, 2020 Share Posted April 13, 2020 Shirley Jackson - The Haunting of Hill House Andrew Keen - The Internet is not the answer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshuatxuk Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 been blowing through The Looming Tower, lot of fascinating insights and details about 90s build up to 9/11 I wasn't aware of Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whosebrian Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 The Catcher in the Rye. I wanted to read it after watching a bio-pic about J.D.Salinger, and I wanted to see if I could power through it without falling asleep. Seems I can only read the newspaper without dozing off. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweepstakes Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 On 3/23/2020 at 6:55 PM, Milwaukeeeee said: The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch is nice. PK Dick being cooler and imaginativier in this bitch I don't know whether he wrote it around the same time, but Martian Time Slip was fucked up in a similar way and it quickly became one of my favorite PKD novels. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muflontillah Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 (edited) Jozef Karika - Priepasť (Abyss) - slovak story about mountains and places in mountains where strange forces operate near cliffs that make people jump from them Edited April 18, 2020 by Muflontillah 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milwaukeeeee Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/causation-backwards/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Limo Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 Just polished of another novel by Adolfo Bioy Casares (one of Borges’ buddies): Dormir al Sol. Starts off innocently enough: middle aged man has unhealthy relationship with wife and with housekeeper (no sexytime, sorry). In-laws not to great either. Just regular slice of life boring meandering stuff. But there’s some weird sprinkled in. Things that seem reasonably normal only a little bit off. Maybe. This is a good thing because it keeps you reading to ... ... the end, which is gloriously twisted, unsettling and makes all of the preceding 180 pages worth it I hindsight, 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tec Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 On 3/8/2020 at 7:16 PM, hello spiral said: I'm reading Andrew Niederman's PIN. I've been a fan of the 1988 movie for about 15 years (it was weird going back to it and recognising Locke from Lost, as the dad. Because when I first saw it Lost didn't exist) I recommend the movie too, it's weird af I watched this a few nights ago, genuinely great. Locke was a surprise but even more so Mike from Breaking Bad doing the voice! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ropprecht Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 I am currently reading two books. Kafka - Trial - I love the style of that era from Europe (and Russia too). So weird and twisted as most of the authors couldn't write about politics openly because they would risk their life. The other book is Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Highly recommended. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Limo Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 1 hour ago, ropprecht said: I am currently reading two books. Kafka - Trial - I love the style of that era from Europe (and Russia too). So weird and twisted as most of the authors couldn't write about politics openly because they would risk their life. The other book is Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Highly recommended. Kafka is one of my favorite authors. With you on the style of that time period, too. My favorite works of Kafka are not his novels, however, but his short stories. Some of which he himself thought were good enough to publish during his lifetime. There also very funny, but that part only becomes clear when you read them aloud to someone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ropprecht Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 4 hours ago, rhmilo said: There also very funny, but that part only becomes clear when you read them aloud to someone else. I am from eastern europe so I think that somewhat helps tuning into this type of humour. Super dark and twisted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ropprecht Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 4 hours ago, rhmilo said: ith you on the style of that time period, too Just found this ebook today as well: Best Russian Short Stories Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Limo Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 1 hour ago, ropprecht said: Just found this ebook today as well: Best Russian Short Stories Cool. Any other favorites from dark and twisted (Eastern) European 1910-1920 you can recommend? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ropprecht Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 1 minute ago, rhmilo said: Cool. Any other favorites from dark and twisted (Eastern) European 1910-1920 you can recommend? Uh, I mostly read the Russians from that time period, would definitely recommend Bulgakov - you might know about him already. Master and Margarita is my favourite book. Also my other favourite authoris Boris Vian, although he was more like 1930's and 40's and was French but super surreal and fun. enjoy ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Limo Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 8 hours ago, ropprecht said: Uh, I mostly read the Russians from that time period, would definitely recommend Bulgakov - you might know about him already. Master and Margarita is my favourite book. Also my other favourite authoris Boris Vian, although he was more like 1930's and 40's and was French but super surreal and fun. enjoy ! Yes, the Master and Margerita was great. I liked Babel’s short stories as well (roughly the same time period, yes?). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ropprecht Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 4 hours ago, rhmilo said: Babel’s short stories Oooh, not heard of him, putting it on my list Yeah, seems like the same era. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Dylan Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 Read the entire Walking Dead comics, all 193 issues. Good stuff in these days... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcom Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 6 minutes ago, Bob Dylan said: Read the entire Walking Dead comics, all 193 issues. Good stuff in these days... The full run of the series is currently available in digital from Humble Bundle for 16,5 €/$18, four days left to get them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willochill Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol It's really hilarious in a cynical way and I love it, weird how humor is so immune to time 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Limo Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 3 hours ago, willochill said: Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol It's really hilarious in a cynical way and I love it, weird how humor is so immune to time Dead souls is, indeed, hilarious. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dingformung Posted June 9, 2020 Share Posted June 9, 2020 Bernd Ladwig: Politische Philosophie der Tierrechte (political philosophy of animal rights) A rather academic read Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Limo Posted June 9, 2020 Share Posted June 9, 2020 11 minutes ago, dingformung said: Bernd Ladwig: Politische Philosophie der Tierrechte (political philosophy of animal rights) A rather academic read You turning into some sort of animal rights activist or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dingformung Posted June 9, 2020 Share Posted June 9, 2020 Oh, I've always been interested in that topic. I find most forms of activism intrusive but I do think that animal rights are an issue. Intensive industrial life stock farming is not only a huge environmental damage but is also immoral in terms of animal cruelty and that on a very large scale and I'm interested to hear a sober voice on the political and moral philosophical implications of this issue instead of some highly emotionalised animal rights activist. Therefore I'm reading this book That kebab though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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