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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 1:04 am
by j rock
i just started The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
excellent so far
Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 1:13 am
by Jubz
datura wrote:
About to start Consider Phlebas by Iain M Banks..
Went through a stage in the passed year of reading a few of his books. Always a good read.
Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:22 am
by brklss
Urban Grimshaw and the Shed Crew
Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 2:01 pm
by sybian
edward bunker - little boy blue
Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 2:10 pm
by pk-
will self - great apes
thoroughly unimpressed so far
Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 6:15 pm
by mr. messer
pk- wrote:will self - great apes
thoroughly unimpressed so far
hahaha thats all u can say about will self really...
he is
thoroughly unimpressive
Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 10:55 pm
by bagelator
Mr. Messer wrote:pk- wrote:will self - great apes
thoroughly unimpressed so far
hahaha thats all u can say about will self really...
he is
thoroughly unimpressive
he's a wanker. no offence.
reeding fuh nurdz initt
Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 11:39 pm
by tronman
this man has some fucked up stories and knows about the oil industry. bare jokes
Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 11:56 pm
by pk-
this man has some fucked up stories and knows about the oil industry. bare jokes
i've been meaning to get hold of that, cheers for reminding me!
i read an interview with him in some sunday supplement or other, he recounted the story about the fat american rigger who got impatient waiting for some pipe to be lowered into position and ended up accidently tearing his own stomach off
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 12:42 am
by osiris
j rock wrote:i just started The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
excellent so far
Much respect!
Ofcourse I heard a lot of this book and my parents-in-law have this book at their house and when I found I tried to read it for a bit just to see in what way it was written an what its about, but DAIMN!
Couldn't understand a f*ck what he was talking about. Maybe try it in Dutch, but I don't know if I want to spend any of my time on this one the upcomming 50 years.. maybe try it when I know I only have 10 years to live or so.
Last book I read (&finished): 1984 by good ol' George O. (in English).
Nice, but I enjoyed Animalfarm better.
I should buy myself a reading light an open up a book for when I can't sleep like now. Will start with The Davince Code, an see what all the fuzz was about.
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 7:09 pm
by ikarai
thought i'd resurrect this thread as i recently finished this trilogy:
not read any of her other stuff but on the strength of this i will certainly try, can't get it out of my head. one hell of a twisted future vision. anyone had the pleasure?
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 7:36 pm
by spaceboy
Inspite of the Gods "The Strange Rise of Modern India." Edward Luce -
brilliant journalist - writes for the FT...
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 7:38 pm
by BaronVon
Brilliant really paints a picture in your mind
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 9:47 pm
by tusk
Taking up the Runes - Diana Paxson
Pharmakognosis - Dale Pendel
The Focus of Life - A.O. Spare
Semiotext(e) SF - Short Stories
Plus lots of weird occult stuff, Taoist Sexual Kung Fu Handbooks, Maori Myths
Lovecraftian Comics and whatever else is laying around...
I did read Octavia Butlers Xenogenesis trilogy finding it disturbing and beleivable. Its nice to read quality sci-fi thats not written from a straight white
male perspective.
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 9:54 pm
by rickyricardo
currently reading
Amazing book so far....all the smoke and mirrors spy shit makes it almost like reading a novel.
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 9:58 pm
by bagelator
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 10:33 pm
by ikarai
Tusk wrote:
I did read Octavia Butlers Xenogenesis trilogy finding it disturbing and beleivable. Its nice to read quality sci-fi thats not written from a straight white
male perspective.
Amen. The human 'contradiction' has me lying awake recently. The inexorable possibility that mankind will destroy itself within our lifetime is a weighty thing to come to terms with.
At the mo I'm about halfway through Brave New World, something I've been meaning to read for about a decade. The style is very different to what I was expecting somehow. Good nonetheless.
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 10:54 pm
by dionysiac
Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris
It's about the crazy influence of religion in the ol' US of A
and The Birth of Tragedy by Nietzsche
roughly about comparing greek mythology to art and the different approaches to different kinds of artistic expression.
By the way, this is post #1, so whats up all?
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 11:11 pm
by tusk
Yeah there is indeed a profound pessimism to Butlers work which I dont choose to carry in my day-to-day. Nonetheless its scary and important stuff to think about. Funny how sci fi is often the realm whereby these hugely relevant issues/concepts are experienced and dealt with in the most tangible of ways, yet its the literary realm with perhaps the least credibility.
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 11:12 pm
by tusk
ooops, posted twice.
Dang...
nothing to say.
