Guest The Vidiot Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 (edited) I'm (still!) currently reading Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day but took a break in between to read Don DeLillo's Great Jones Street and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, the first gothic horror novel. Anyone reading anything cool at the moment? Don't even say it's the fuckin' Kite Runner Edited February 2, 2008 by The Vidiot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest cardan Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 this thread and selected writings of antonin artaud and confessions of a crap artist by phil dick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goonstock Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 i read that one cardan let me down in ways defo not dicks best to me quantum psychology - robert anton wilson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest cardan Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 ah, ye it isn't really what i expected... what do you recommend i read next by pkd? and, RAW! spectacles, testicles, brandy and cigars! "I would hate to be taken seriously. Serious people are always so grim and uptight that they make me want to dance naked on the lawn playing a flute. Of course, as Mavis says in the first volume of the trilogy, nothing is true unless it makes you laugh, but you don't really understand it until it makes you cry. The basic situation of humanity is both tragic and comic, since we are all domesticated apes with marvelous 30-billion-cell brains, which we seldom use efficiently because of domination by the older mammalian parts of the back brain. I mean, we're living on the Planet of the Apes, man. Is that funny or serious? It depends on how broad your sense of humor is, I guess." mwahaahaaa!! praise bob! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goonstock Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 valis radio free albemuth the man in the high castle dr bloodmoney Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Moss Acid Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 The Long Walk by Stephen King (Richard Bachman) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zzz Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 last great book i read "with the old breed: at peleliu and okinawa" by eugene sledge (wwII) just finishing "baseball between the numbers: why everything you know about the game is wrong" awesome stat/geek book looking for something conspiratorial next. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Vidiot Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 looking for something conspiratorial next. You want Don DeLillo's Libra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pylonbitch Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 reading is sooo like passe. why can't you just watch big brother like everyone else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zzz Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 looking for something conspiratorial next. You want Don DeLillo's Libra oh thanks! but actually looking for something non fiction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siegecow Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 House of leaves and visions by michio kaku Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mrx Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 Abnormal by Michael Foucault/musicophila by Oliver Sacks/textbooks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest endangered betche Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 First Man by James Hansen. It's a biography of Neil Armstrong; slightly meandering but very interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dpek Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Porno by Irvine Welsh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 The Complete Sherlock Holmes: Volume 1 Filth One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Porno was alright...Trainspotting is better by miles though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 im trying to start reading "The Richest Man in Babylon" was referred to me by a good friend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atop Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 Faust by Goethe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Yegg Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich How deeepressing. I'm currently reading Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction for class, it's almost too dense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Moss Acid Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 Plato - The Republic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest AugmaticDisport Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 Just finished Michel Houellebecq's "Atomised". Now i'm chipping away at War and Peace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Enter a new display name Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siegecow Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich How deeepressing. I'm currently reading Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction for class, it's almost too dense. haha i read that too. Dense, but some interesting shit. I wrote a couple response pages about the aura in the age or virtual reproduction Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest epsy Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 god is not great by christopher hitchens. Pretty decent read. Guy has at least a rational viewpoint if not a bit after the topic at hand. tho I guess it's to be expected with the title and all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest petr Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 HEMINGWAY - "THE SHORT STORIES" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Yegg Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich How deeepressing. I'm currently reading Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction for class, it's almost too dense. haha i read that too. Dense, but some interesting shit. I wrote a couple response pages about the aura in the age or virtual reproduction His writings on aura is pretty digestible, it's the role of the new art in Marxism/Fascism that I have to go through several times over again. P.S. Photography blows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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