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Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 2:27 pm
by kingldub
Just finished
Ok, so I've never read anything by the man before and thought I'd give him a chance. I feel like there is truth to be found in parts but some just left me feeling.....
Anyways, I'm currently half way through this
Interesting stuff so far.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 3:15 pm
by leebass
paolo wrote:'The Crimson Petal and the White' by Michel Faber
leebass wrote:Anyone into David Foster Wallace? Been reading Girl With Curious Hair and it's so unusual and inspiring.
Recently finished reading 'Infinite Jest' for the third time. One of my favourites
Have you read Under the Skin by Michel Faber? Amazing, extremely unsettling book.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 7:09 am
by deranger
Just finished "Horseman, pass by" by Larry McMurtry. Such a great book. I highly recommend it. Very moving.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 9:04 pm
by alphacat
Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics."
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 12:19 am
by deranger
Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics."
I tried to read that, and failed
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 9:17 am
by dubduck
Recently finished reading 'Infinite Jest' for the third time. One of my favourites
Is that the one which is about the size of the bible? so you recommend it then, cause Ive been thinking about picking it up...
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 9:29 am
by leebass
dubduck wrote:Recently finished reading 'Infinite Jest' for the third time. One of my favourites
Is that the one which is about the size of the bible? so you recommend it then, cause Ive been thinking about picking it up...
Yeah it's over a 1,000 pages. Pick up one of his books of short stories if you're daunted by the size of it: Girl With Curious Hair, or Oblivion: stories.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 3:11 pm
by onique
silent storm {the slow poisoning of the arctic} - Marla Cone
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 3:48 pm
by alphacat
deranger wrote:Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics."
I tried to read that, and failed
I can see it being challenging in a few different ways: the pace of discussion is so measured and slow, yet the subject is kind of... huge. Stuff you really need to stop and absorb periodically.
Also, the translation version can make a huge difference since Greek can be tricky when it comes to understanding what people several millennia ago actually 'meant.' There's a literalist school of thought and then there's a more poetic/touchy-feely school of thought. The latter's harder to pull off, but works better when done well.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2010 5:08 pm
by *grand*
The excel 97 bible.
Grand
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 7:35 pm
by gwa
beyond the occult - colin wilson
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 9:54 pm
by ashen
Just finished this. Amazing book, prefer it to The Outsider.
Still not made my mind up about Burroughs. Thought Naked Lunch was better.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 12:05 am
by alphacat
ashen wrote:Still not made my mind up about Burroughs. Thought Naked Lunch was better.
Try "
Cities of the Red Night."
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 8:08 pm
by WhosZena
Well sunk into this.
Amazing.
Unfortunately I have the tenancy to believe alot of things I read
Although some parts are
I have written this book as the result of orders received and which I have obeyed. Further, it is an account of events that happened to me personally - this I affirm.
I imagine that, to some extent, this extraordinary story will appear to some readers as science fiction - a story entirely invented - but I do not have the imagination that such a fabrication would require. This is not science fiction.
The reader of good faith will be able to recognise the truth in the message I transmit from my new friends to the people of the planet Earth.
This message, in spite of numerous references to races and religions, reflects neither racial nor religious bias on behalf of the author.
Michel Desmarquet,
January, 1989
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 2:53 pm
by cogidubnus
Just broken my Kurt Vonnegut virginity by cracking into Slaughterhouse Five & Breakfast of Champions. Great stuff, I will most definitely be reading more from him
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 3:43 pm
by kingldub
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 8:50 pm
by iamallthings
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2010 3:28 pm
by bRRRz
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2010 5:10 pm
by johnkimble
cogidubnus wrote:Just broken my Kurt Vonnegut virginity
by hocus pocus.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2010 5:38 pm
by contakt
DRTY wrote:anyone into science fiction? want to read some but have no idea where to start
Anything by Iain M Banks. His Culture novels are amazing. The guy has a giant imagination and the writing skills to back it up.
Get to know.
