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paolo · Post by **paolo** » Sat Dec 27, 2008 12:39 pm

Misk wrote:the road - cormac mccarthy
it's like fallout 3, the book!

Got this one for chrimbo, started it yesterday and I'm already halfway through

wolf hood · Post by **wolf hood** » Sat Dec 27, 2008 1:38 pm

about halfway through 'cities of the red night' by william s. burroughs

nattynat · Post by **nattynat** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 10:46 pm

finished "the informers" by bret easton ellis a few weeks back...twas awesome like all his books

jasonk1234 · Post by **jasonk1234** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 7:33 am

just finished reading "the way of lif" by lao tzu

very good book

dunkno · Post by **dunkno** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 10:25 pm

your sister's diary, she left it round mine

diss04 · Post by **diss04** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 11:28 pm

anyone read anything by harry crews or kenneth gangemi?

45 inches · Post by **45 inches** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 8:23 pm

on the road- Jack Kerouac
31 Songs- Nick Hornby
The ragged Trousered Philanphropists- Robert Tressel

but recently finished Catch 22. best book ever? quite possibly

non_typical · Post by **non_typical** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 9:42 pm

Tom Robbins is the man for tripped out fiction I reckon.

Start with "Even cowgirls get the blues" - roughly every 3 pages there's a sentence that makes you stop & think "this man's a genious!".

Apparently it's been made into a shit film, I've not seen it, but there's no way you could do a screenplay that would do the book any sort of justice without making the film 5 hours long, so if you've seen it don't let it put you off the book.

djsolace72 · Post by **djsolace72** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 9:46 pm

Currently reading "Neuromancer" by Williams Gibbons.

hard to believe it was written back in 1984.

datura · Post by **datura** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 9:47 pm

Non_Typical wrote:Tom Robbins is the man for tripped out fiction I reckon.

More tripped out than Pynchon? I couldn't get through Gravity's Rainbow, despite moments of genius (the sweets tasting had me in fits).

non_typical · Post by **non_typical** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 10:42 pm

datura wrote:
Non_Typical wrote:Tom Robbins is the man for tripped out fiction I reckon.
More tripped out than Pynchon? I couldn't get through Gravity's Rainbow, despite moments of genius (the sweets tasting had me in fits).

Not especially more so, just different. I prefer Tom personally, but it's all good - as long as you're reading something instead of vegging out on some mindless TV you're onto a winner I reckon.

bass_culture · Post by **bass_culture** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 12:58 pm

Got this for Christmas from my father-in-law. Being a post-graduate student who specialises in eighteenth-century history, this was a good choice for me!

It's fairly easy going, and reads somewhat like a novel. However, the standard of scholarship is excellent, with Rubenhold readily acknowledging the limitations of the sources without majorly disrupting the general narrative.

Thumbs up so far!

djelements · Post by **djelements** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 4:13 pm

Terry Pratchett - Jingo.

Light reading, but still, a hell of a book.

d-T-r · Post by **d-T-r** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 8:52 pm

jasonk1234 wrote:just finished reading "the way of lif" by lao tzu

very good book

good choice.

i just started this. hoping it will get my mind/body back into lucid dreaming after a lazy few months. plus always good to know some of the roots to concepts adopted or made famous by the west

drak · Post by **drak** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 9:30 pm

Wolf Hood wrote:about halfway through 'cities of the red night' by william s. burroughs

Great book, there. Haven't read the rest of the trilogy, but I probably will get to that some time or other...

Currently reading Hemingway's To Have And Have Not and the Swedish author Peter Englund's Stridens skönhet och sorg.

alfie · Post by **alfie** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 9:56 pm

datura · Post by **datura** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 7:15 pm

catching up on the TPBs of 'Y: The Las Man'

Picked up a couple of Raymond Carver books so those are next in line.

azair · Post by **azair** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 7:20 pm

I've just finished reading "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" by Friedrich Nietzsche, probably going to start reading "Candide" by Voltaire now.

thomas · Post by **thomas** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 7:56 pm

Wolf Hood wrote:about halfway through 'cities of the red night' by william s. burroughs

Been saying i'll get around to more burroughs but only read queer and junky so far, this good?

Amazingly honest, account of a hard time in a mans life. I read it in one go without eating as it was too interesting and saddening.

danny bwoy · Post by **danny bwoy** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 11:56 pm

genius!

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