kaen Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 jeff somers - electric church michael marshall smith - one of us neil gaiman - american gods Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nacmat Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 brooklyn follies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cichlisuite Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 both at the same time: g.i. gurdjieff - meetings with remarkable men & beelzhebub's tales to his grandson the guy is a genius!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kichiguy Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 currently reading two of em actually...depends on my mood. aldous huxley - doors of perception/heaven and hell hunter s thompson - kingdom of fear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kichiguy Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 H.P Lovecraft Collection, just finished At The Mountains of Madness. Also, on the side, On Ugliness by Umberto Eco. HP Lovecraft is brilliant! Many audiobooks freely available online... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pylonbitch Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 (edited) a thousand splendid suns by the dude that wrtote the kite runner. grim but really good. Edited November 4, 2008 by loganfive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beneboi Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 "I will shoot at him" said the cyberdemon and he fired the rocket missiles. John plasmaed at him and tried to blew him up. But then the ceiling fell and they were trapped and not able to kill. "No! I must kill the demons" he shouted The radio said "No, John. You are the demons" And then John was a zombie. rofl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perunamuusi Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 Tove Jansson "the summer book" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Etch Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 Right now I am reading these. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perunamuusi Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 one of my all time favourite books Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Etch Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 one of my all time favourite books I havn't finished it yet but it is already quite remarkable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 Just finished: Salman Rushdie - Fury Umberto Eco - The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loanna now reading: Mark Twain - Tom Sawyer. When I finish that I've got Huckleberry Finn to move onto. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Iain C Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 one of my all time favourite books I havn't finished it yet but it is already quite remarkable. It is absolutely fantastic, and you'll want to read it again and again. Meanwhile I'm reading Crystal Frontiers by Carlos Fuentes, and I'm rekindling my love affair with the poetry of Dylan Thomas after picking up an excellent biography of him in a junk shop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Z_B_Z Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 a fascinating and entertaining read. Amazon.com Review Scientist, poet, and self-proclaimed Antichrist, Jack Parsons was a bizarre genius whose life reads like an implausible yet irresistible science fiction novel. Sex and Rockets looks at his short life and dual career as cofounder of Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and leader of the Agape Lodge of Aleister Crowley's Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO). Author John Carter scours primary documents and interviews surviving friends and contemporaries to deliver an intriguing portrait of a dreamy, driven man equally interested in rocketry and magick. From his early childhood and deep attachment to his mother (who killed herself hours after he died) through his nonacademic research and brilliant innovations in solid fuels to his mysterious 1952 demise in a garage-laboratory explosion at the age of 37, the reader gets the impression of a man whose obsession with explosives and propellants was nearly single-minded. Yet this same man found spiritual fulfillment through Crowley's Law of Thelema, conducted magickal operations with L. Ron Hubbard, and signed an oath asserting himself to be the Antichrist--clearly Parsons wasn't a boring guy in a white coat. Carter pulls off the difficult task of integrating Parsons's disparate drives into one compelling story; though there are some rough spots and awkward transitions, one gets the sense that this illuminates the man's life better than a smooth, flawless work would. Robert Anton Wilson's introduction is smart and funny as always, initiating the uninformed into the basics of Crowleyanity while placing Parsons in the context of his times. While it might not be possible to read universal themes into Parsons's life, Sex and Rockets is an excellent study of a passionate life fully lived. --Rob Lightner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Iain C Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 I bought my own fucking weight in second-hand books this weekend. Amongst others: The complete verse of Edward Lear The complete John Clare Old Angel Midnight by Jack Kerouac The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell Ways of Seeing and And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos by John Berger The Iron Man by Ted Hughes Some Beatrix Potter stuff and a book of ghost stories set on the Norfolk Broads And it just goes on and on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dese manz hatin Posted November 29, 2008 Share Posted November 29, 2008 (edited) I've just finished reading The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway what a great book, wondering wether to read Islands in the Stream now aswell as both are bundled in one book (borrowed it from the library) but I know that it is widely considered to be one of his weaker efforts what does WATMM think? Edited November 29, 2008 by dese manz hatin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyster Posted November 29, 2008 Share Posted November 29, 2008 Screwjack by Hunter S Thompson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Iain C Posted November 29, 2008 Share Posted November 29, 2008 I've just finished reading The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway what a great book, wondering wether to read Islands in the Stream now aswell as both are bundled in one book (borrowed it from the library) but I know that it is widely considered to be one of his weaker efforts what does WATMM think? Definitely stick with Hemingway, try Fiesta/The Sun Also Rises for a great, short, beautiful novel. I'm reading Ulysses as ever, loads of Dylan Thomas, In The Heart of the Country by JM Coetzee, and If On A Winter's Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino. I'm meant to start on Padre Paramo by Juan Rulfo soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest atropa Posted November 29, 2008 Share Posted November 29, 2008 some jeanette winterson (the passion), some recent galeano, carole pateman's participation and democratic theory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Drahken Posted November 29, 2008 Share Posted November 29, 2008 Biomedical Bestiary: An Epidemiological Guide to Flaws and Fallacies in the Medical Literature A friend recommended it to me after a discussion about the overzealous use of prescription drugs by lazy or uninformed doctors. Its a pretty interesting read thus far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Benedict Cumberbatch Posted November 29, 2008 Share Posted November 29, 2008 reading all the pretty horses (then the other two border triology books by cormac mccarthy) all the pretty horses was good but i knew the crossign was goign to be better from the first few pages. it drew me straight in. it made me so sad at the end of part one when » Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... « he shot the wolf part 2 kinda feels tacked on so far. should have been a short story of the freidnship between a wolf and a boy. but he probably couldnt end it on such a bad note. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Iain C Posted November 29, 2008 Share Posted November 29, 2008 I've not read those, I probably should. I like McCarthy from what I've read. The Road (as everyone says) was a starkly beautiful work, and I read Blood Meridian a few weeks ago and really enjoyed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Benedict Cumberbatch Posted November 29, 2008 Share Posted November 29, 2008 I've not read those, I probably should. I like McCarthy from what I've read. The Road (as everyone says) was a starkly beautiful work, and I read Blood Meridian a few weeks ago and really enjoyed it. i've heard 'cities of god' is one of his best and look forward to that next. sounds like you have enough on already though. the road is great. its so stripped down. he avoids the distractions he sometimes takes pages and pages on which make me sleepy. they'll have to make it more action based for the movie though i imagine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pylonbitch Posted November 29, 2008 Share Posted November 29, 2008 just finished 'one big damn puzzler' by john harding. funny, salient, timely. pretty well written, though not the best book i've ever read. a bit of a page turner though. regardless of recent perusals, i'd like to say, in this thread in particular... fuck j k rowling and her talentless ramblings for children. fuck her and her books right up the sphincter. fuck them hard and ruthlessly. i have now read four harry potter books in an attempt to understand the furore, and i finally understand. the furore relates to an attempt by illiterate aduts to appear literate. these are childrens' books. poor quality and derivative childrens' books. (i've nothing against adults reading good childrens' books. i do it myself... narnia.. phantom tolbooth, nicholas and the gang... etc. . harry potter...? give me a fucking break.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Iain C Posted November 29, 2008 Share Posted November 29, 2008 Ah the Phantom Tollbooth. my dear Auntie Pauline gave me a copy when I was very young. Loved it. Roald Dahl was my favourite when I aws a boy, though. fuck Harry Potter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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