remy marathe Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 (edited) this is kind of beyond review. i'm still forming an opinion of it, but it probably contains beckett's best writing. also his most tedious work. which is saying something, since all of his prose is tedious. Edited August 19, 2010 by remy marathe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 A fun, re-read of a book during my vacation. General science with a touch of humor : should given to every student of science when they hit first year in secondary school maybe because he's a travel writer - and this is a sort of travelogue - he explains stuff so well anyone could understand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HerculesCzar Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 Thanks to whoever recommended "White Noise" by Don Delillo. I'm about halfway through it right now and it's absolutely fantastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spratters Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 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. I've been looking for 'with the old breed' for a while after seeing a documentary which mentioned it. Is it worth the purchase? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dese manz hatin Posted October 29, 2010 Share Posted October 29, 2010 time to resurrect dis thread bredbins my list of the last weeks would be: Thukydides - History of the Peleponnesian War (very, very dry) Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno - Dialectic of Reason Patrick Süßkind - The Dove J.P. Sartre - The Age of Reason Fjodor Dostoyevski - The Brothers Karamazov F. Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baph Posted October 29, 2010 Share Posted October 29, 2010 I'm rereading Dune, for some reason. FH's prose is so extremely inconsistent, but I'm still having fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest beatfanatic Posted October 30, 2010 Share Posted October 30, 2010 Jonathan Franzen's Freedom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Dylan Posted October 30, 2010 Share Posted October 30, 2010 (edited) Non-fiction : The Music of The Lord of the Rings Films: A Comprehensive Account of Howard Shore's Scores Fiction : The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet: A Novel Edited October 30, 2010 by Philip Glass Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capsaicin Posted October 30, 2010 Share Posted October 30, 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eggs Posted October 30, 2010 Share Posted October 30, 2010 I like what I'm reading so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest analogue wings Posted October 30, 2010 Share Posted October 30, 2010 (edited) ^ holy shit. i waited FIFTEEN YEARS for this book. i was worried that either ellroy's heart would no longer be in this type of novel and he'd phone in the last one, or that my own tastes would have deviated over such a long period of time. neither worry was in any way founded. this is esily the best of the Underground USA trilogy, and possibly his best novel. thats big talk for me as I consider White Jazz the best book ever written biographies of larger than life nutbars never fail to entertain (can't wait for the decent michael jackson ones to come out). this one is tinged with a bit out disbelief and outrage as you realise there are still people out there literally worshipping this prick also, gets you thinking that if the founders of other religions had lived recently enough to have well documented lives so a researcher could go to the record and contradict all their bs, there'd probably be a book like this about every one of them another part 3 i've been hanging out for. not quite for fifteen years tho. if you're going to read some big dumb escapist space opera, dont just pick up the first book in the sale bin with a spaceship on it, go straight to the King of this shit. Edited October 30, 2010 by analogue wings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dese manz hatin Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 picture of dorian gray, economic and philosophical manuscripts (marx), various by fromm, freud Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spratters Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 Just getting into it. Good read so far Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCONES TO DIE FOR Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Iain C Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 metamorphoses and amores by ovid, human chain by seamus heaney, and an old favourite - crow by ted hughes. Thanks to whoever recommended "White Noise" by Don Delillo. I'm about halfway through it right now and it's absolutely fantastic. i stole a copy of this from a bar (no, really) a few months ago, but i couldn't really get into it. i don't have much time for novels these days, i'm mostly a poetry reader. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Z_B_Z Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 easily one of the most fucked up, depraved and haunting crimes ive ever read about. just heartbreaking and scary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 and just started Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halisray Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tapeghoul Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 About to start Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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kaini Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 wow, i just found neal stephenson's notes and acknowledgements on anathem (which i fucking adored). while pretty dense stuff, if you liked that book - you'll probably like this too: http://www.nealstephenson.com/anathem/acknow.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Coalbucket PI Posted December 5, 2010 Share Posted December 5, 2010 Thanks to whoever recommended "White Noise" by Don Delillo. I'm about halfway through it right now and it's absolutely fantastic. Word, think I heard about tha in this thread, read it a few months ago. Brilliant. Just did Herman Hesse's Siddhartha and now I'm trying to get into The Glass Bead Game/ Magister Ludi, very different and I'm not getting into it yet... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted December 5, 2010 Share Posted December 5, 2010 the glass bead game is brilliant. recommend john fowles' 'the magus' (which i mentioned earlier in the thread) as a follow-up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Franklin Posted December 5, 2010 Share Posted December 5, 2010 im about 400 pages into "the history of the World" by J.M. Roberts. it's basically all about the political and religious formations of all the major civilizations to date. it's vacillates between super boring and totally awesome. great perspective on life the universe and everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dese manz hatin Posted December 5, 2010 Share Posted December 5, 2010 i read siddharta and steppenwolf too recently, what a brilliant writer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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