Redruth Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 thomas ligotti - the conspiracy against the human race Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doublename Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 (edited) The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell Finished in the last month or so: Whatever and The Map & The Territory by Michel Houellebecq - I'm definitely a fan of his now. What should I read next? The Hot Zone by Richard Preston - Even though it's nonfiction, it was so enjoyable it felt like junk food. listened to china and the chinese audiobook today, pretty cool. free from librivox, a great site of free, user-created audio books This sounds really interesting. *downloads* Edited July 24, 2014 by doublename Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ej23 Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 (edited) Currently reading "Child of God" by Cormac McCarthy BTW. My interest in this book, has absolutely nothing to do with the incredible jerk off, known publicly as "James Franco" and any of his horse shit movies, or anything else attributed to him for that matter. Fuck James Franco! Now that I got that of my chest.... Cormac McCarthy books are F'n disturbing and creepy, and pretty real, -but hard to put down! One of the greatest writers in contemporary american literarature ( well in my own humble opinion....) Anyone else in to this dude? Edited July 25, 2014 by ej23 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Verdant Hickies Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 dirk gently's holistic detective agency Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Leon Sumbitches Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 Recommendations on where to start with China Meiville? Perdido Street Station probably, gives you a good idea of his weird, baroque style. Maybe Railsea I guess, although it's aimed a borderline young-adult audience. Still a good read. If you want something more sci-fi oriented, try Embassytown. I'd still go with PSS though, probably because it's the first one I read meself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hello spiral Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 Finished Dr Sleep. Unfortunately it was pretty lame. Late SK seems to fall into a pattern of hit, hit, miss. The misses tend to read like the book equivalent of the high budget horror B-movies released by lionsgate (see 'Cell') Read Blaze after that. The unpublished Bachman novel. That was really good, read it in a day. Then I read Arthur Schnitzler's Dream Story. The one that Eyes Wide Shut was based upon. Very satisfying read. Now I'm rereading Lisey's Story which is definitely a late period SK 'hit'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Dylan Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 (edited) The one about JFK/time-travelling was the most interesting SK I've read in a decade, since his memoir. Perhaps because I think that when he goes away from pure horror he's at his best (The Stand, Different Seasons, Misery, etc..) Edited July 29, 2014 by Philip Glass Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doublename Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 Currently reading "Child of God" by Cormac McCarthy BTW. My interest in this book, has absolutely nothing to do with the incredible jerk off, known publicly as "James Franco" and any of his horse shit movies, or anything else attributed to him for that matter. Fuck James Franco! Now that I got that of my chest.... Cormac McCarthy books are F'n disturbing and creepy, and pretty real, -but hard to put down! One of the greatest writers in contemporary american literarature ( well in my own humble opinion....) Anyone else in to this dude? I'm generally a big fan of his. I reread, The Road and All the Pretty Horses Last Year, and found they were even better than I'd remembered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenton Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 With King novels, the formula is - if it is really long, which they most are, it's going to decline rapidly. It's a shame, because most of them start off so good, that it\s almost enough to carry them for another 800 pages, but if they'd just wrapped things up nicely a quarter of the way in, they would have been the best books ever - unfortunately he starts ending them about half way through, then peters out and rambles for another few million pages and forgets the hole plot. Even with The Stand, IT, and Under the Dome, they suffer from this but I guess the pay off of the first 100 chapsters of those books is enough to warrant ready the other billion bits of crap. Salems Lot, Pet Cemetary, Christine and his plethora of Short Stories / Novellas, all don't have enough time to go fucking balls out shit. Still one of my favourite authros ever, but does he know wtf he is doing or does he just black out and come to with a massive fuck off manuscript, read the first section and go 'it's a masterpiece!!' then send it off for binding? Editors and publisher prob do the same. All hail the King. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zkom Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 Some books I read in the last five or so weeks.. Haruki Murakami - Dance Dance Dance Yann Martel - Life of Pi Vladimir Bartol - Alamut Haruki Murakami - Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman Haruki Murakami - South of the Border, West of the Sun Thomas Pynchon - Bleeding Edge Now reading Oliver Sacks' Hallucinations and Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction by Annalee Newitz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azatoth Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 Half way through the last volume of Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle. Even if I am partial to sci-fi, this historical fiction is good and has kept me interested even if Stephenson's verbose descriptions of things can get a bit long. Good swash-buckling fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baph Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 (edited) Half way through the last volume of Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle. Even if I am partial to sci-fi, this historical fiction is good and has kept me interested even if Stephenson's verbose descriptions of things can get a bit long. Good swash-buckling fun. I want to do a re-read of the Baroque Cycle as it's been almost a decade since I read it, but I can't find the time. Love it, though. Have you read Cryptonomicon? Edited July 29, 2014 by baph Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guest Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 So I thought what I'd do was to pick up A Catcher in The Rye again, and finish the hardships of Holden Caufield. Boy, let me tell you, the amount of phoneys poor Holden spots every waking minute of the day. It's a nice book, al right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azatoth Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Half way through the last volume of Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle. Even if I am partial to sci-fi, this historical fiction is good and has kept me interested even if Stephenson's verbose descriptions of things can get a bit long. Good swash-buckling fun. I want to do a re-read of the Baroque Cycle as it's been almost a decade since I read it, but I can't find the time. Love it, though. Have you read Cryptonomicon? Yes, I've read it, but a few years ago, remember liking it. Sort of "continuing" (even if it came out before) the themes of the Baroque Cycle along with the having the descendants of some of the characters. And Enoch Root. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Dylan Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Because now is an awesome time to read this : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sergeantk Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 Reading LotR for the first time (I know right?) via audiobook on my long commutes. Tis quite the tale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Dylan Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 bad image URL... Because now is an awesome time to read this : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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xox Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 hegel, my least fav of great philosophers but this one is an interesting read. have fun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guest Dr of Quantization Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Alan Watts - The book on the taboo against knowing who you are Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ej23 Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Currently reading "Child of God" by Cormac McCarthy BTW. My interest in this book, has absolutely nothing to do with the incredible jerk off, known publicly as "James Franco" and any of his horse shit movies, or anything else attributed to him for that matter. Fuck James Franco! Now that I got that of my chest.... Cormac McCarthy books are F'n disturbing and creepy, and pretty real, -but hard to put down! One of the greatest writers in contemporary american literarature ( well in my own humble opinion....) Anyone else in to this dude? I'm generally a big fan of his. I reread, The Road and All the Pretty Horses Last Year, and found they were even better than I'd remembered. I would strongly recommend Blood Meridian, if you like his work. I haven't read all his books, so I can't say, but it's considered to to be his best. One my favorite books ever! Heavy ass shit, with some characters you'll never believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ej23 Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Some books I read in the last five or so weeks.. Haruki Murakami - Dance Dance Dance Yann Martel - Life of Pi Vladimir Bartol - Alamut Haruki Murakami - Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman Haruki Murakami - South of the Border, West of the Sun Thomas Pynchon - Bleeding Edge Now reading Oliver Sacks' Hallucinations and Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction by Annalee Newitz. Have you read this one yet? My favorite Murakami book, and essential if you're a fan of him. Impossible to put down! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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