spunktronics Posted August 15, 2013 Share Posted August 15, 2013 halfway thru The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi, It's good but I'm loosing interest in it. just finishing Fellowship Of The Ring again..... Also keep having a go at Cosmic Consciousness - A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind by Richard Maurice Bucke, very interesting stuff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geosmina Posted August 15, 2013 Share Posted August 15, 2013 Bought Stephen King's Nightmares And Dreamscapes, which are some short stories. I recently got the DVD of the tv series from a local charity shop, seriously hideous crap I don't wanna give any of the plots away if they follow the book.... but man, howlers..... probably a good book though knowing Mr. King? Currently reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Started off well, be interesting to see where it goes. That series is fucking awful but the book is one of my favorites. I've just started rereading SK's Dreamcatcher. It's one of his more maligned books but I quite enjoy it. But then I am a huge fanboi. thanks guys for the warnings. I bought it very very cheap so It wouldn't be a lost at all :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VIII Posted August 15, 2013 Share Posted August 15, 2013 Waiting for "Sword & Citadel: The Second Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'" to ship I don't care enough to read the rest of "a song of ice and fire," I've been unmotivated tor read for the past two weeks for some reason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hello spiral Posted August 15, 2013 Share Posted August 15, 2013 Getting an iphone fucked up my reading big time. I usually get three hours in a day: an hours commute to work, my lunch hour and an hours commute home. Now I just play with my fucking phone. I looked back through this thread and saw that I started Vonnegut's Galapagos on the 8th of July. I finished it today. That book should have taken two days to read, at most! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Dylan Posted August 15, 2013 Share Posted August 15, 2013 Currently reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Started off well, be interesting to see where it goes. That's nice, I've starting this as well as one of my summer read. Good page turner. Since I only read 2 book at the same time (one at home, one on the subway), I've decided to read "Ready player one" as another summer easy read. I don't like it, I'm at page 200 but I'll go until the end. It's a great idea, but the guy can't write. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baph Posted August 15, 2013 Share Posted August 15, 2013 (edited) Currently reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Started off well, be interesting to see where it goes. That's nice, I've starting this as well as one of my summer read. Good page turner. Since I only read 2 book at the same time (one at home, one on the subway), I've decided to read "Ready player one" as another summer easy read. I don't like it, I'm at page 200 but I'll go until the end. It's a great idea, but the guy can't write. I was going to start American Gods next, too. But I don't know now. I don't want to seem, you know. :makes incomprehensible noise and hand gesture: You know. I read a few pages of Ready Player One and the prose was horrifyingly bad. I don't got time for none of this shit. Edited August 15, 2013 by baph Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Dylan Posted August 16, 2013 Share Posted August 16, 2013 It feels like an Active Worlds or Second Life fanfic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leon Sumbitches Posted August 18, 2013 Share Posted August 18, 2013 Just finished From Hell by Alan Moore, it was awesome. I really want to get the rest of his stuff now and go on a reading bender but I'm too skint fwp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zaphod Posted August 18, 2013 Share Posted August 18, 2013 read promethea, very underrated comic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadameChaos Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alcofribas Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 those newer reprints of jung are significantly cooler looking than the other ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hello spiral Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 Pretty lulworth and depressing at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadameChaos Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 those newer reprints of jung are significantly cooler looking than the other ones. thanks man. nice to see another person who appreciates the small differences. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alcofribas Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 when jung first saw the design for the collected works published by Princeton he said it looked like they put his work in a coffin lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadameChaos Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 Oh really? What a card. Have you read memories, dreams and reflections? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alcofribas Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 Yes, quite good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 30equals Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadameChaos Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 Yes, quite good. I love that dream he had about a giant anus taking a dump on a church, that was bonkers. And he's so matter of fact about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alcofribas Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 it was God's anus in particular lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadameChaos Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 Yeah. Ha! Like some Monty Python animation or something. Hilarious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hello spiral Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 Trio of short books from my to read pile: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doublename Posted September 8, 2013 Share Posted September 8, 2013 Sort of Pynchon for dummies. NS has never been a great fiction writer, but his books are always brimming with cool ideas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SR4 Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 Arthur Danto- Analytical Philosophy of History Never in my life have I read something so dense to explain something relatively simple. Christ in a chicken basket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apriorion Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 Arthur Danto- Analytical Philosophy of History Never in my life have I read something so dense to explain something relatively simple. Christ in a chicken basket. Danto? I never really cared for his style; not what I would consider "analytical philosophy" proper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baph Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 Ol' Pynchon's new one, Bleeding Edge, is coming out next week, apparently. Like Inherent Vice, only different? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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