What are you reading?

metalboxproducts · Post by **metalboxproducts** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 1:03 pm

spaceboy · Post by **spaceboy** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 1:06 pm

Life of Pi - picked it up at the airport 3 for 2 price bizniss.

looks and sounds amazing...but been reading it here there and everywhere so not really got into it proper, this weekend tho

metalboxproducts · Post by **metalboxproducts** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 2:10 pm

unlikely · Post by **unlikely** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 3:36 pm

never realised they were making a movie of a skanner darkly, my favourite PKD book too

i see its in the style of waking life

hope it doesn't end up too wanky

tusk · Post by **tusk** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 4:29 pm

Seidways, shaking swaying and serpent mysteries-Jan Fries
Taking up the Runes-Diana Paxson
Last Light of the Sun-Guy Gavriel Kay

Just the finished the ultra-amazing Famished Road by Ben Okri

Faves:

Lovecraft, Nietchze, Hakim Bey, Antonin Artaud, Crowely, Phil Pullman
Ayn Rand

obiwan · Post by **obiwan** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 4:35 pm

Robert Harris- Fatherland
Anthony Summers- Confidential, The Secret Life Of J Edgar Hoover
I liked the Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons, call me bait but they're big time holiday page turners

corpsey · Post by **corpsey** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 4:43 pm

I've just finished:

Which I'd recommend to anyone. I'm going to read ''Glue'' by Irvine Welsh and then move on to ''Anna K.'' by Tolstoy...

tusk · Post by **tusk** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 7:29 pm

Big Up Bass Culture

Probably the best book about music Ive ever read
although I also really liked Ocean of Sound by David Toop

datura · Post by **datura** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 8:03 pm

Spaceboy wrote:Life of Pi - picked it up at the airport 3 for 2 price bizniss.

looks and sounds amazing...but been reading it here there and everywhere so not really got into it proper, this weekend tho

I really enjoyed it..good story, but also really well written..nice view on religion.

Good to see a other Murakami fan onsite, can't do any wrong in my eyes, also the end of Kafka left me a bit disapponted..

Forensix - i've heard good things about Houellebecq, he's on my to read list..Where do you live in Manc - don't think i've met you?

nirz · Post by **nirz** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 10:31 pm

Ive just finnished a scanner darkly, I cant wait for the film! Im currently rereading dark eye the films of david fincher. Seeing as people have been mentioning Foucault, has anyone read any Baudrillard?

DeepThought · Post by **DeepThought** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 11:02 pm

man this is one dense, & weighty novel.. and its just the 1st of the trilogy!

boomnoise · Post by **boomnoise** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 3:10 am

NirZ wrote:Ive just finnished a scanner darkly, I cant wait for the film! Im currently rereading dark eye the films of david fincher. Seeing as people have been mentioning Foucault, has anyone read any Baudrillard?

I've read Baudrillard. Too real for me.

spaceboy · Post by **spaceboy** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 2:05 pm

i studied baudrillard at soas...right when 9/11 happened. very very interesting times. opened my eyes to alot of the working of the world.

sybian · Post by **sybian** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 2:22 pm

obiwan · Post by **obiwan** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 6:22 pm

Tusk wrote:Big Up Bass Culture

Probably the best book about music Ive ever read
although I also really liked Ocean of Sound by David Toop

I second that, I have read both of these as well, I liked the Lee Scratch Perry section in the latter.

rickyricardo · Post by **rickyricardo** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 6:34 pm

boomnoise wrote:
NirZ wrote:Ive just finnished a scanner darkly, I cant wait for the film! Im currently rereading dark eye the films of david fincher. Seeing as people have been mentioning Foucault, has anyone read any Baudrillard?
I've read Baudrillard. Too real for me.

Hehe...or do you mean hyperreal?

I've only read Baudrillard through his more recent essays, and references to him by other scholars. Seems to be very fascinating stuff, though I get the sense that he revels a bit too much in the postmodern condition, rather than offering much critique of it...

...of course like I said, my experience w/ Baudrillard is admittedly limited.

boomnoise · Post by **boomnoise** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 8:51 pm

Yeah that was just a joke. i've studied Baudrillard extensively. I find him hugely entertaining to read but, like the majority of postmodern critical theory he's inherently flawed.

spaceboy · Post by **spaceboy** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 9:06 pm

explain thyself boomnoise: I'm intrigued to hear your version.

pk- · Post by **pk-** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 1:18 am

George Orwell - Homage to Catalonia; i didn't know anything about the spanish civil war so i thought i'd have a read of this, it's his accounts & musings on his experiences fighting in it. it's as tragic as it is fascinating.

postmodern critical theory

i could never get on with the stuff i read at uni on postmodernism; it all seemed so self indulgent

chances are it just went over my head though, i'm not the brightest of sparks

boomnoise · Post by **boomnoise** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 11:34 am

Spaceboy wrote:explain thyself boomnoise: I'm intrigued to hear your version.

don't get me wrong, i like baudrillard's ideas a lot but there are some issues with his approach. here isn't really a place for a baudrillard critique essay but the main criticisms you can level at him are that:

i) He doesn't define all his concepts rigourously enough, leaving them open for (mis)interpretation. ii) like a lot of postmodernism his syle is very in your face and full on; bold statements preferred over clarification of ideas and iii) he places far too much emphasis on the role of images in society at the expense of other things.

that's just off the top of my head and i have to admit i haven't read baudrillard for a good while now. he's just not as fashionable as he was four or five years ago. where'd my D&G hardback go??

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