Books

zefa · Post by **zefa** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 11:17 pm

Some of you must read!! Any recommendations in the literary world?

Ive just started John Peel's autobiography, so far so good!!

Before that i was reading From Hell by Alan Moore - wicked read and good illustrations, properly sinster stuff tho...am really digging the darkness of the Victorian era at the mo.

dubmugga · Post by **dubmugga** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 11:42 pm

just read

going inside - John Mc Crone
exploring a moment in the working life of a human brain with regards to consciousness and processing data to form a personal worldview

enduring love - Ian Mc Ewen
a study on the effects of stalking and disbelief explored in the myriad of interactions between those involved in a random accident

re reading

Song of Waitaha - histories of a nation
chronicling the oral traditions of the first settlers to NZ who were of chinese, polynesian and white descent

http://www.songofwaitaha.co.nz/

RubiconMan · Post by **RubiconMan** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 1:48 am

tell ya straight alan moore is the shit.
add to thatbryan talbot.
making a film of v for vendetta n all...quality dark stuff that.

3507321c · Post by **3507321c** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 2:20 am

Running On Emptiness by John Zerzan.

Never heard of John Zerzan

Well now you have

http://www.primitivism.com/future-primitive.htm

dq · Post by dq » Mon Jan 23, 2006 3:30 am

Miles Davis autobiography
If you didn't have reason enough to worhip the man, this will leave no doubt that Miles is a complete bad-ass.

Rem Koolhaas - Delirious New York
An architectural history of the city, with the city itself a constantly transforming character subject to the conflicting wills and agenda of those who happen to occupy it at any given time.

Mark Z. Danielewski - House of Leaves
Creepy book where the words on the page themselves become abstracted and warped and figuring out how to read the book is part of the mystery.

kuma · Post by **kuma** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 3:50 am

Peter Ackroyd's London: the Biography

Kenzaburo Oe's Somersault..

Two huge tomes that are taking me a while..Ackroyd for sheer size and Oe for depth of philosophy..

brett · Post by **brett** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 6:15 am

I read lots...I couldn't even begin to make a recommendation. I have way too many books.

[b]racket · Post by **[b]racket** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 9:08 am

Zefa wrote: Ive just started John Peel's autobiography, so far so good!!

Awesome book...so much better than that tripe Mick Wall put out not long after he passed.

Really intretesting to know that the last track ever played on Radio 1 by John Peel was by Klute.

[b]racket · Post by **[b]racket** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 9:23 am

Are-K142 wrote:tell ya straight alan moore is the shit.
add to thatbryan talbot.
making a film of v for vendetta n all...quality dark stuff that.

Heard rumours of a 'Watchmen' movie as well....

joseph-j · Post by **joseph-j** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 10:34 am

I've just finished 'Hurricane' - the biography of Rubin Carter, a boxer jailed for triple murder.

Half way through 'Under The Volcano' by Malcolm Lowry. Nothing seems to be happening and its eye-wateringly difficult to read. You know a book's going to be tricky when the introduction is split into chapters....

After that going to re-read 'Invisible Man' by Raplh Ellison - my favourite book, about growing up in Harlem in the 30s/40s.

freestylethumbwars · Post by **freestylethumbwars** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 10:40 am

veronica decides to die and the alchemist by paulo coelho are wicked books.

also ive not read the last 2 he has written but chuck palahniuk has always really impressed me with the books ive read by him.

he's the guy who wrote the book fight club (david fincher made a film with brad pitt and edward norton) the films real good and so's the book coz its got a completly different ending.

[b]racket · Post by **[b]racket** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 10:42 am

Im just about to start 'Rip it Up and Start Again' by Simon Reynolds...have heard good things.

[b]racket · Post by **[b]racket** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 10:46 am

freestylethumbwars wrote:also ive not read the last 2 he has written but chuck palahniuk has always really impressed me with the books ive read by him.

he's the guy who wrote the book fight club (david fincher made a film with brad pitt and edward norton) the films real good and so's the book coz its got a completly different ending.

Have you ever read 'Guts' by Chuck Palahniuk. So fuckin wrong.....

http://www.chuckpalahniuk.net/books/haunted/guts.php

peripheral · Post by **peripheral** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 12:05 pm

jus started the illuminatis trilogy (Shea/Anton Wilson). don't anticipate finishing this decade, but proper jokes so far.

dubmugga u shld get out more m8. s'no wonder....

joseph-j · Post by **joseph-j** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 12:24 pm

Mr Hyde wrote:A million little pieces: James Frey

I've never felt as physically sick reading a book as I did with that one.

amen-ra · Post by **amen-ra** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 12:45 pm

"Understanding Media"- Marshall Mcluhan
"Prometheus Rising"- Robert Anton Wilson
"Hagakure"
"Finite and Infinite Games"- James P Carse

joseph-j · Post by **joseph-j** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 12:49 pm

Mr Hyde wrote:
Joseph-J wrote:
Mr Hyde wrote:A million little pieces: James Frey
I've never felt as physically sick reading a book as I did with that one.
yeah- not gonna forget the tooth bit or the story about his girlfriend

Yup. The tooth bit. Euw.

tronman · Post by **tronman** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 12:54 pm

Jonathan Lethem - Fortress of Solitude. neckle story

first book i read since school. apart from Fear & Loathing...

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