Bob Dylan Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 (edited) The Last Policeman, it reads super fast and it's entertaining, I hate Crime fiction but this is awesomely mixed with end-of-the-world scenario. There's two other books after that getting rave reviews on amazon, the trilogy will be my Christmas read. Edited December 5, 2014 by Philip Glass Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lala Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 im trying to get through Sátántangó by László Krasznahorkai, but its not gelling with me. I knew it was going to be odd, and i like odd,but im getting the feeling im just going to be left with no questions answered in the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twelvetrees Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 (edited) The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - Philip K. Dick It's always the same with Dick for me, the first chapter confuses me absolutely, but then there's some little moment that clicks and I can't stop. Great writer. Edited December 8, 2014 by Twelvetrees Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bechuga Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 (edited) A little bit of self-promotion: my digital book, How To Rescue Children That Don't Exist is free for download from amazon for two days should you wish to read a detective story involving missing children and cakes. Here's the link to US amazon + UK Amazon, but should be available from whatever country you live in. It was released to rave reviews: boring. One of the most uninteresting books ever read and scanned a lot - Jackie Trayner I read the first chapter and then deleted it. What a load of nonsense. - Ali1958 It was a little confusing. Even once I finished the book, took a bit to figure it all out. - Tracy Cearlock Sounds tempting doesn't it? It's free, so what could you lose?[/promotion] And not talking of promotion, I finally finished reading Briefing for a Descent Into Hell by Doris Lessing. I seriously need to get a new kindle, my book reading has gone to pot since it died. :¬| Edited December 8, 2014 by Bechuga Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebraska Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 bout to dip into this *ish. what sold me was this review: "Trina is low down and nasty bitch and that nasty ass Terrence the pm hoes could not be my sister or brother at all them hoes need to be dead real talk I am loving some des and rell great read" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doublename Posted December 19, 2014 Share Posted December 19, 2014 No Worse Enemy by Ben Anderson Recounting all manner of Anglo-American fuckery in Afghanistan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryptowen Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Last book I read was The Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley. I feel like this would have been more impactful in the 1940s, in the days before the new age movement & western interest in Buddhism brought all the YOU ARE THE UNIVERSE stuff into the mainstream Currently reading Heretics of Dune. Glad that Herbert stepped off the gas a bit with the uncomfortable sexual commentary & returned his focus to space adventure & abstract philosophizing about time. Also it's fun how he's generally pretty restrained with the fantastical sci fi elements, but once in a while he'll casually throw in something like living chairs made of genetically altered dogs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auxien Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Heretics was pretty good, a big jump in quality over God Emporer imo... It mostly pays off in Chapterhouse though. Sent using magic space waves Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Toffer Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Started reading the Harry Hole series by Jo Nesbo. It's tight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patternoverlap Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 Started reading the Harry Hole series by Jo Nesbo. It's tight I see what you did there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hello spiral Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 Finished Stross' Singularity Sky yesterday. Since I started to dip my toe into scifi a few years ago this one has met my preconceptions about the genre the most (along with Neuromancer and Stephen Baxter's Evolution) Just drops you into these scenes where there's a lot of stuff going on, some of it fairly impenetrable, and you have to work out what the hell is going on from the various crumbs thrown to you. No overview or explanation to why the human race is like it is now until about 200 pages in. Enjoyed it a lot, will def catch the follow up: Iron Sunrise. Slow day at work today so I managed to read Peter Carey's The Fat Man in History from start to finish. Never read any Carey before. Really, really good. Surreal and literary short stories. Reminds me in places of Will Self. I grabbed these recently so may start one tomorrow: But I also have a bollock load of books I need to read just so I can get rid of them, including about ten pretty deece looking scifi ones. So.............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zkom Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Aces Posted December 26, 2014 Share Posted December 26, 2014 Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. It's my second attempt at reading it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jellyrajah Posted December 30, 2014 Share Posted December 30, 2014 Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino This is a good one - have you ever read any Borges? Finished Remains of the Day a few weeks ago and now in the process of reading Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which is great so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VIII Posted December 30, 2014 Share Posted December 30, 2014 Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. It's my second attempt at reading it. i like the part about the junkie, without punctuation. ... "and everything like that" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auxien Posted December 30, 2014 Share Posted December 30, 2014 He Who Shapes by Roger Zelany. It's good, Zelany is a talented writer, but seems to be a little too 60's sci-fi: a dog who talks, trippy 'mind exploration' sequences, blindspinning (going out in a car that drives itself, setting a random coordinate for it to go to, getting drunk in-car...), witty urban suicide jokes, all sorts of kind of cliché shit. But it's good no matter, about halfway through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QQQ Posted December 30, 2014 Share Posted December 30, 2014 I'm hoping work gets quiet later so I can continue reading Catch-22. Took me too long to get around to reading it. Clever, funny and dark. Fantastic characters and dialogue (then again it should be, the book is 90% dialogue). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Aces Posted December 30, 2014 Share Posted December 30, 2014 Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. It's my second attempt at reading it. i like the part about the junkie, without punctuation. ... "and everything like that" I really like it, I've found it to be very funny a lot so far. The only reason I gave up the first time was I left it a bit too long between readings and lost the flow. It's the kind of book that requires attention. I can't wait for the pay off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zkom Posted December 30, 2014 Share Posted December 30, 2014 Invisible Cities by Italo CalvinoThis is a good one - have you ever read any Borges? Yeah, I've read the Imaginary Beings. Enjoyed that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tricone RC Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Just finished Singularity Sky by Charles Stross. I think Spiral said he was reading it? I'm a huge fan of Banks-style sci-fi, so this was instantly one of my fav books. It hilariously pitches a "conventional", Star Wars style military force and ideology against a civilization that's utterly incomparable in every way. All against a background where superluminal travel and communication almost inherently invoke time-travel paradoxes (which kinda makes sense from the modest physics I studied). Wonderful stuff that really transcends the derivative Napoleonic space-operas that litter the genre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenton Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 finished The Last Policeman, was OK, enjoyed reading Heart of Darkness now, bleak opening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auxien Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 I'm on to John Langan's The Wide, Carnivorous Sky. It's a short story collection, horror/weird type stuff. Good so far. Decent takes on zombie and vampire stories, but goddamn am I nonetheless bored with those no matter. Sent using magic space waves Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hello spiral Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 ^ I hear that. Reading Peter Straub's Lost Boy, Lost Girl and despite it not being terrible I'm feeling that ennui with the pulpy horror genre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryptowen Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart A very odd novel. I'm honestly not sure how I feel about it. The concept is interesting to me, and I respect the author's decision to practice what he preached (he let a die determine major aspects of his writing, and it shows). But having a tone that veers from philosophy to soap opera to satire to greasy porno to horror story makes for a schizophrenic experience. It's never entirely clear if he's condoning or condemning the dicelife, and in fact I came out of it feeling as if the case had been made equally for both. The title character did come across as a psychopath, though. I was expecting a slow decay, but nope, very first question he puts to the die is "hey should I go rape this lady??". He consistently manipulates people for his own gain, and seems wont to give the die an abundance of socially destructive options to choose from. For the record, I only found out about this book because for the last month or so I've been reaching most of my decisions via coin flips and randomly generated numbers. It was mentioned in passing in another book I'd been directed to read from a randomized pile, and I thought to myself "THE FATES HAVE SPOKEN" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KovalainenFanBoy Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 Gotta catch up on non-fiction literature, I've read fiction almost exclusively over my 20 years in this plane of existence. Gonna start with Nietzsche's Zaratustra book... Let's see how that goes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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