beneboi Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 reading Roadside Picnic again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perunamuusi Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 the late hector kipling by david thewlis islam in history by bernard lewis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
takeshi Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck All Tomorrows Parties - William Gibson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beneboi Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 (edited) William Gibson, Pattern Recognition half price book has NO gibson or pkd Edited June 7, 2008 by beneboi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zaphod Posted June 8, 2008 Share Posted June 8, 2008 All Tomorrows Parties - William Gibson be interested to hear what you think...most people dislike the bridge trilogy but that's my favorite gibson book by far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted June 8, 2008 Share Posted June 8, 2008 I really love ATP and Idoru, I haven't read virtual light yet... However, I also really enjoyed Pattern Recognition just cause it was something different from him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zaphod Posted June 8, 2008 Share Posted June 8, 2008 yeah that's a fantastic book. reminds me of this place sometimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Thisket Posted June 8, 2008 Share Posted June 8, 2008 The Love Machine by Jacqueline Susann Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ezkerraldean Posted June 8, 2008 Share Posted June 8, 2008 some old book i stole from a pub - "discovering modern china" - from 1934 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lumpenprol Posted June 8, 2008 Share Posted June 8, 2008 the late hector kipling by david thewlis david thewlis the actor? how is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest analogue wings Posted June 8, 2008 Share Posted June 8, 2008 I really love ATP and Idoru, I haven't read virtual light yet... However, I also really enjoyed Pattern Recognition just cause it was something different from him. yeah that's his best book imo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest elliot Posted June 8, 2008 Share Posted June 8, 2008 Seems like P.K.D is ultra electronic music - radio free albemuth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
takeshi Posted June 8, 2008 Share Posted June 8, 2008 William Gibson, Pattern Recognition half price book has NO gibson or pkd That's weird. The one nearest me always has a few Gibson books but PKD never stays in there for very long. Haven't read Pattern Recognition yet. But I read Spook Country a few months ago and was pretty disappointed with it. All the threads in the story don't really start to come together until the end and it was a bit underwhelming. All Tomorrows Parties - William Gibson be interested to hear what you think...most people dislike the bridge trilogy but that's my favorite gibson book by far. Yeah, I'll let you know. From what I've read so far I really like it. I didn't know, before I started reading, that ATP had main characters from Virtual Light. I knew it was following up Idoru though, which is one of my favorites of his. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest analogue wings Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 william burroughs - the place of dead roads i read a bunch of his stuff when i was 15/16, but i hadn't really been able to get back into him since, but this just great. really funny at points too... you've got to imagine him reading it in that drawly accent. his stuff is really more like a surreal stand-up routine than a novel. That's the middle one in the trilogy. Cities of the Red Night comes before and The Western Lands comes after. Definitely my fave Burroughs. VERY interesting to compare those books to the film Dead Man. Hmmm.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest atropa Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 waiting 'til the midnight hour by peniel e. joseph; márquez's memories of my melancholy whores; women writing resistance, collection of essays Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essines Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 on the road and this huge ass book called A Century of War that covers basically every war of the past century, with pictures and such. it's fascinating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest awkward Posted July 19, 2008 Share Posted July 19, 2008 (edited) even though i said i wasnt going to, i am now reading camus's the fall. i didnt go looking for it but it was there on the shelf on the library and it was either that or the yiddish policeman and i just don't know enough about chabon to read that. the fall is big font and pretty short to so why not. sent me right off to sleep last night after about 30 pages too. i'm not even sure why i considered chabon, i just heard the name also and not sure if in a good way or bad. one book i really enjoyed was 'down and out in paris and london'. i really like the bum/poor type stories, thats why i like kerouac also i think. can anyone recommend more similar works? Edited July 19, 2008 by awkward Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest telikan Posted July 19, 2008 Share Posted July 19, 2008 Currently in the midst of For Whom The Bell Tolls, plan on doing Warren Ellis' Crooked Little Vein tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triachus Posted July 19, 2008 Share Posted July 19, 2008 Edgar Allan Poe - Tales Of Mystery And Imagination Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest awkward Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 even though i said i wasnt going to, i am now reading camus's the fall. i didnt go looking for it but it was there on the shelf on the library. the fall is big font and pretty short to so why not. sent me right off to sleep last night after about 30 pages too. i didnt get it. i'd read it again but i don't think there was much to get Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Betty Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 even though i said i wasnt going to, i am now reading camus's the fall. i didnt go looking for it but it was there on the shelf on the library and it was either that or the yiddish policeman and i just don't know enough about chabon to read that. the fall is big font and pretty short to so why not. sent me right off to sleep last night after about 30 pages too. i'm not even sure why i considered chabon, i just heard the name also and not sure if in a good way or bad. Dude, The Yiddish Policeman's Union is my favorite book ever. Give it a go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian trageskin Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Coalbucket PI Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 (edited) trying to read The Aspern Papers by Henry James but I'm not sure I know whats happening EDIT: oh and i read that book of Charlie Brooker articles when I'm on the toilet Edited July 31, 2008 by Coalbucket PI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest awkward Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 even though i said i wasnt going to, i am now reading camus's the fall. i didnt go looking for it but it was there on the shelf on the library and it was either that or the yiddish policeman and i just don't know enough about chabon to read that. the fall is big font and pretty short to so why not. sent me right off to sleep last night after about 30 pages too. i'm not even sure why i considered chabon, i just heard the name also and not sure if in a good way or bad. Dude, The Yiddish Policeman's Union is my favorite book ever. Give it a go. lol i went to the library today and once again nearly got it but the blurb makes it sound boring as does the one before about comic writing. i'll get it next time i go. luckily the library is across the street Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Betty Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 So you're trying to avoid boring by reading an existentialist instead? Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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