hello spiral Posted May 14, 2018 Share Posted May 14, 2018 ^ Yeah I slept on BNW and didn't read it till last year. Waaay more prescient than 1984. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prdctvsm Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 Karl Marx - Fragment on Machines, 1858 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tricone RC Posted May 23, 2018 Share Posted May 23, 2018 (edited) It annoys me that BNW and 1984 get compared so much - they are nothing like eachother. I blame all those "guise Trump just got elected, look at all these dystopian books!" buzzfeed lists Just started The Sheep Look Up, the second John Brunner I've read. About two minutes after I started it I saw a news ticker in the corner of my eye saying that Indian police had just mown down some anti-pollution protesters. So it's depressingly relevant Edited May 23, 2018 by Tricone RC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KovalainenFanBoy Posted May 23, 2018 Share Posted May 23, 2018 started reading Catch-22 but it's ill suited for my current method of reading (20 pages a night before nodding off) so i'm reading Consider the Lobster instead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doorjamb Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 Catch-22 has never done much for me. Snagged a paperback Mason & Dixon for ¢15 today. Even if it sucks, I can use it to finally see what’s on top of the fridge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaphod Posted June 6, 2018 Share Posted June 6, 2018 lmao. "we're disrupting books". i hate tech people so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tec Posted June 6, 2018 Share Posted June 6, 2018 lol what a goon. Imagine that thought being applied to film. It'll be the directors commentary whilst a friend constantly elbows you to say a good bit is coming up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hello spiral Posted June 6, 2018 Share Posted June 6, 2018 lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romanticdude Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 My copy of "Room to Dream", David Lynch's memoir, came in early, so now I'm devouring that on the couch. I could read this man's rambling all day. Amazing book so far, it's very personal and full of little anecdotes that serve as a key to Lynch's work and its atmosphere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lada Laika Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 lmao. "we're disrupting books". i hate tech people so much. tl;dr I have no ability to form and process thoughts and opinions of my own Sounds like some former coworkers of mine... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnarlybog Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 I blasted through this thing. It may be because I relate so strongly to his psychology. The next few books supposedly deal with his youth, which doesn't sound like it would appeal to me as much as the minutiae around his marriage/writing. I am not sure if there is a single sentence I could pick out that is formally impressive yet the whole thing flows so seamlessly from scene to scene. Now reading a book about Bowie's days in Berlin, to coincide with my move to the city. Should be fun to visit the landmarks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leon Sumbitches Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 Now reading a book about Bowie's days in Berlin, to coincide with my move to the city. Should be fun to visit the landmarks. Nice, what's it called, and is it any good? Love Berlin-period Bowie (mind you, I think everyone does) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dumplings Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 Slaughterhouse-Five. Not sure what I'm getting myself into but it was recommended to me on goodreads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prdctvsm Posted June 12, 2018 Share Posted June 12, 2018 "Dreamworld & Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East & West" by Susan Buck-Morss this is great; a history of communism & capitalism as both being sides of the same coin; industrial modernity. free .pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwmbrancity Posted June 12, 2018 Share Posted June 12, 2018 Slaughterhouse-Five. Not sure what I'm getting myself into but it was recommended to me on goodreads. so it goes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olo Posted June 13, 2018 Share Posted June 13, 2018 (edited) May have been posted already, but anyway...(edit: Romanticdude already did.) Room To Dream - David Lynch / Kristine Mckenna out June 19th. An excerpt can be found here: http://www.randomhousebooks.com/books/545016/ An unprecedented look into the personal and creative life of the visionary auteur David Lynch, through his own words and those of his closest colleagues, friends, and family In this unique hybrid of biography and memoir, David Lynch opens up for the first time about a life lived in pursuit of his singular vision, and the many heartaches and struggles he’s faced to bring his unorthodox projects to fruition. Lynch’s lyrical, intimate, and unfiltered personal reflections riff off biographical sections written by close collaborator Kristine McKenna and based on more than one hundred new interviews with surprisingly candid ex-wives, family members, actors, agents, musicians, and colleagues in various fields who all have their own takes on what happened. Room to Dream is a landmark book that offers a onetime all-access pass into the life and mind of one of our most enigmatic and utterly original living artists. With insights into . . . Eraserhead The Elephant Man Dune Blue Velvet Wild at Heart Twin Peaks Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me Lost Highway The Straight Story Mulholland Drive INLAND EMPIRE Twin Peaks: The Return Edited June 13, 2018 by olo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berk Posted June 13, 2018 Share Posted June 13, 2018 Pierre et Jean by Guy de Maupassant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doorjamb Posted June 13, 2018 Share Posted June 13, 2018 "Dreamworld & Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East & West" by Susan Buck-Morss this is great; a history of communism & capitalism as both being sides of the same coin; industrial modernity. free .pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dumplings Posted June 17, 2018 Share Posted June 17, 2018 Slaughterhouse-Five. Not sure what I'm getting myself into but it was recommended to me on goodreads. so it goes A running theme it seems, and I'm only a quarter of the way through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eryngi Posted June 17, 2018 Share Posted June 17, 2018 Currently reading the fourth book (The Citadel of the Autarch) in Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun saga. Apparently a classic science-fantasy novel which somehow had eluded me. Dying Earth type of setting, set millions of years in the future where forgotten tech is to the narrator like magic. It's good stuff and definitely has me considering another read through because it has layers and the narrator doesn't really seem reliable. Great use of archaic words to add some spice and strangeness to the language. thanks for mentioning this, i'd not heard of it but been way into scifi-ish zone lately so i grabbed these. i love them.. so very excellent. i'm halfway through The Urth of the New Sun now. before these i was reading every CJ Cherryh book i could get my hands on. some of them much better than others but there's something about her stuff i really like.. the emphasis on communication/translation between different modes of thought that runs throughout all her books.. some standouts for me from her 'Alliance-Union' megaseries: Cyteen, and the Chanur sub-series (Pyanfar Chanur must now be my favourite spaceship captain ever). also, the setting of Heavy Time (1991), set early on in her Alliance-Union timeline... well, The Expanse was surely heavily inspired by this. it's straight up almost the same in so many ways, right down to the hairstyles of belters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usagi Posted June 18, 2018 Share Posted June 18, 2018 this is so alien to me. I'm now wondering how many other dickheads there are out there who think like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auxien Posted June 18, 2018 Share Posted June 18, 2018 I breezed past the first time this was brought up, but Amazon/Goodreads basically already has that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TubularCorporation Posted June 30, 2018 Share Posted June 30, 2018 (edited) I just started "We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy - and the World's Getting Worse" by James Hillman and Michael Ventura and so far it's really good. Hillman was a Jungian so of course his ideas oscillate between amazingly insightful and completely ludicrous but even the ludicrous once are pretty interesting. Edited July 5, 2018 by RSP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azatoth Posted June 30, 2018 Share Posted June 30, 2018 Finished Wolfe's Urth of the New Sun a while back. Nice ending to Severians story and weird. Some scenes on the starship made me laugh with glee how neat it was. Read LeGuin's Left Hand of Darkness, liked it too. Now thought to continue with Wolfe's Solar Cycle, with Book of the Long Sun and eventually Book of the Short Sun. BOTLS has a different feel to it than the BOTNS, but the prose somehow captures me and makes me want explore the odd far future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TubularCorporation Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 Hey Azatoth, I don't think I've ever mentioned how happy it makes me every time I see the old Oolong/goatse GIF in your signature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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