prdctvsm Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Some longer articles about this and that. NYTIMES: The Wreck of the Kulluk BBC: The Twisted World of Sexual Organs VICE: Chopping Houses - Fears of Witchcraft Leave Trail of Dismembered Bodies in Buenaventura New Republic: My Terrifying NIght with Afghanistan's only Female Warlord The New Yorker: The Mission - A Last Defense Against Genocide Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwmbrancity Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 Austin Osman Spare/The Occult Life of London's Legendary Artist - Phil Baker & Alan Moore........proper! not too many of his illustrations, but the complete break-down of his techniques and their provenance The Magical Universe of WIlliam Burrough - Steven Levi.......bit like the above, very well researched & teases out the roots of Burroughs's's's obsession w/Control. Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy .....3rd reading and its like a whole other universe unto itself. My favourite book, ever. Would recommend The Man In The High Castle by Philip K Dick, along w/A Scanner Darkly (ignore the film), VALIS & The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch if you havent read already. Makes Arthur C Clarke (sp?) & every other sci-fi boffin look like a kid playing with its own shit (imho). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QQQ Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 A Scanner Darkly (ignore the film) No way dude! Both the book and film are amazing. The book is possibly my #1 and the film might be in my top 10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hello spiral Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Still not read Cryptonomicon and I just found it in a 'to read' pile, so here goes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoggy Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 A Scanner Darkly (ignore the film) No way dude! Both the book and film are amazing. The book is possibly my #1 and the film might be in my top 10. Yes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwmbrancity Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 The film is a perversion of the book. It doesnt even come close to capturing the absolute sadness of the story, the desparate paranoia and the betrayals that lead to Arctor's fall. Neither does it get at the cosmic irony at the very heart of the film, or relate to the casualty list that PKD included in the book. So theres no context, no depth and PKD must've turned in his grave. RDJ's character is a case in point. Instead of being the complete c*nt the book describes, he lampoons this wise-arse quick-talking stereotype. And how can you justify Keanu in the lead.....WTF???????? This wasnt the Matrix, where the special fx underpin the story. Its an absolute disgrace of a film. Shame on any1 for liking this "adaptation" ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwmbrancity Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 and i only argue this because the book is in my own top-3. this is sacrilegious material and while i can accept it took some balls and love of the story to even want to try adapting it....i'm sorry but the end result is some stoner joke slap-stick-fest. Just imagine if David Lynch had made it......or consider what Ridley Scott did w/Blade Runner which was adapted ffrom 1 of PKD's weaker books, see what i'm getting at? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 The Quran What a piece of shit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwmbrancity Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 i think you alluded to yourself there mate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 (edited) i will slay you, infidel Edited January 9, 2015 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capsaicin Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 I finished Dune by Frank Herbert and it was stupidly ridiculously good. Way better than I hoped, and I had high hopes going into the book. Some of the best sci-fi I've read in a long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
may be rude Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 (edited) yeah dune is amazing picked up david lynch's "catching the big fish." patton oswalt recommended it as a primer to transcendental meditation on the "you made it weird" podcast. of course it's awesome. Edited January 11, 2015 by very honest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwmbrancity Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 yeah dune is amazing picked up david lynch's "catching the big fish." patton oswalt recommended it as a primer to transcendental meditation on the "you made it weird" podcast. of course it's awesome. cheers for the heads-up on this, ta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auxien Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 (edited) Finished up Langan's The Wide, Carnivorous Sky. It was good, I especially liked the 'story notes' he included at the end. I wish more authors did that sort of thing. Starting on Catherynne M. Valente's Myths of Origin: Four Short Novels. Her style of writing borders on (occasionally crossing over to) pretentious wankery, but it's at least unique. Each of the stories/novellas are a retelling of some myth or another, and I love that sort of stuff, so I had to pick it up (only $2.99 on Kindle!). Just barely into it, but it's keeping me interested. Curious how it's going to go from here. Edited January 12, 2015 by auxien Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perunamuusi Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 The Little Friend by Donna Tartt I love everything I have read by this woman (which so far is The Secret History and half of this one) She seems to put out a book every ten years unfortunately :( (1992,2002,2013) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hello spiral Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 picked up david lynch's "catching the big fish." patton oswalt recommended it as a primer to transcendental meditation on the "you made it weird" podcast. of course it's awesome. Picked this up years ago in a charity shop but only ever flicked through it. Recently I've been clearing out my flat and keep seeing it in odd corners as I sort through stuff, might have to give it a proper perusal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamgreg Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 The Little Friend by Donna Tartt I love everything I have read by this woman (which so far is The Secret History and half of this one) She seems to put out a book every ten years unfortunately :( (1992,2002,2013) I read the Secret History just before coming to University, it's a pretty sweet book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
logakght Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 http://marcelm.nl/How%20to%20Talk%20to%20Anyone%20-%2092%20Little%20Tricks%20for%20Big%20Success%20in%20Relationships.PDF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwmbrancity Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 could anyone recommend anything similar to Blood Meridian or The Man in the High Castle? bought a copy of Dune for about 50p from Cardiff market earlier,,,,,,but the above titles have been a huge influence to the point that writing fiction has become almost impossible due their scarily high standards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny O Flannagin Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 Now reading: textbooks for school :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oh2 Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 just finished Letters to a Young Poet by Rilke, really beautiful stuff. started on Niels Lyhne by Jens Peter Jacobsen as per Rilke's praises in Letters; a nice read so far, very classical and elegant. also attempting to get through Gravity's Rainbow but school starting up will likely shit all over that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
logakght Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 (edited) Now reading: textbooks for school :( lel I'm reading alsos some stuff like that.... Programmiing: Head First series (Python, C#, Java). Those books are amazing! And in the recreative world The Monk (a gothic love story). Edited January 16, 2015 by logakght Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KovalainenFanBoy Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 Now reading: textbooks for school :( Same here... Currently reading Patterson and Hennesssy's "Computar Organization and Design" at sanic speed, exam's in 2 weeks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QQQ Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 Bukowski's Ham On Rye Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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