Guest KY Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 "blah blah blah i was on ecstasy blah blah blah the darkness is getting more darkly blah blah blah tits" -johnny truant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Dylan Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 continue reading man, you will understand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baph Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 Actually, re: Truant, it probably helps to read the appendices when referenced in the main text so as not to hate him up until the very end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Iain C Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 continue reading man, you will understand No, I think he already understands pretty well. House of Leaves is one of the most overrated books of our generation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Iain C Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 I think everyone should return to Vonnegut at least once a year. It's good for the soul. Ha, fair enough, that was a pretty dumb way of expressing myself. I find a great deal of consolation in Vonnegut's novels, though. He reminds me that you can be a cynic and still keep your humanity. He's such an incredibly moral writer, and after a few hours stuck in Slaughterhouse Five I feel stronger and reinvigorated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Dylan Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 continue reading man, you will understand No, I think he already understands pretty well. House of Leaves is one of the most overrated books of our generation. Johnny is just an unreliable narrator. Reading all the appendices that he references (Whalestoe Letters) is essential. But to be fair, the Navidson report is really the main thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dese manz hatin Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 Reppin some Beckett appreesh up in this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capsaicin Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 I rebought The Third Policeman (my old english teacher borrowed my copy and forgot to return it) and I also picked up a copy of For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Iain C Posted June 30, 2011 Share Posted June 30, 2011 I rebought The Third Policeman (my old english teacher borrowed my copy and forgot to return it) and I also picked up a copy of For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway. Great novels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest KY Posted June 30, 2011 Share Posted June 30, 2011 (edited) I think everyone should return to Vonnegut at least once a year. It's good for the soul. Ha, fair enough, that was a pretty dumb way of expressing myself. psh just a joke, and it's good advice—breakfast of champions has always been one of my favorites. and regarding house of leaves, i feel like the ergodic literature style in this book comes off as a bit gimmicky at times. i don't think i've read too far through the book to hate truant yet, he's just pretty overindulgent. Edited June 30, 2011 by KY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doorjamb Posted July 2, 2011 Share Posted July 2, 2011 as we're discussing Vonnegut I'll mention that I'm currently reading Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds (Charles Mackay) which I discovered through Slaughterhouse V Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capsaicin Posted July 2, 2011 Share Posted July 2, 2011 Discussing Vonnegut, I bought Bluebeard off Amazon the other day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Iain C Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 as we're discussing Vonnegut I'll mention that I'm currently reading Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds (Charles Mackay) which I discovered through Slaughterhouse V Yeah, I've actually got a copy of that on my desk at work that I flick through in idle moments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delet... Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 Michael lewis - the big short ... worth a read cause it's quick and reveals the dirty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest KY Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 that just reminded me that i have a paperback copy of this book somewhere: lol pretty rad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremymacgregor87 Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 I like Vonnegut's "Armageddon in Retrospect" currently reading this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan C Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Iain C Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 About time. This novel knocks House of Leaves into a cocked hat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremymacgregor87 Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 The Aesthetics of Disappearance - Paul Virilio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Dylan Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 really good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Dylan Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 It's really good, ended it last week. Can't beat Infinity Jest, but that's natural. It was a really sad read, because I knew this was the finality of his oeuvre. There will never be anything else after that, what a life wasted... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaen Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 Darren Shan's The City Trilogy - He usually writes children's horror which i actually enjoy but this series is quite different. & Neil Ansell - Deep Country: Five Years in the Welsh Hills Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Yegg Posted July 9, 2011 Share Posted July 9, 2011 The Parallax View by Slavoj Zizek for a summer book club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremymacgregor87 Posted July 9, 2011 Share Posted July 9, 2011 The Parallax View by Slavoj Zizek for a summer book club. hell yeah! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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