Absolutely immense book. Can't recommend it enough.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 3:43 pm
by mugger t
Just finished that. Had some great one liners to think about.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 4:35 am
by BaronVon
For the third time. Easily the greatest novel of all time.
Call Me Ishmael
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 5:45 am
by bright maroon
I just finished...
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Haruki Murakami
and after years of hype - I have finally started with...
Call of the Cthulu and Other Weird Stories - H.P. Lovecraft
- and so far (I'm about 5/7 stories in)..
I think it is just fantastic - Well exceeds my expectations and I am enjoying the book immensly.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 12:07 pm
by 64hz
mugger t wrote:
Just finished that. Had some great one liners to think about.
I read this recently too, enjoyed it alot.
I just read On Being by Peter Atkins, fairly shit all round tbh.
Its not got alot at all to do with 'being' and the author comes across as a pretentious prick.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 12:08 pm
by ahier
FUCK YEAH
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 10:52 pm
by bigfootspartan
+1 for "House of Leaves". Brilliant book. Paired up with "The Whalestoe Letters" it's just unbelievable. Those two are the books that got me back into reading. It was something insanely fresh for me. Check out his other book "Only Revolutions." At first I couldn't get into it, but in the right mindset it's a glorious book.
Lately I've been on a Jose Saramago binge. He has a fresh pessimism that keeps me interested. But he also brings up ideas and motifs that blow me away every time I read one of his books. For him my favourite is "The Cave." Although slow, it's actually an amazing book. It goes from gentle to violent irony in just a few pages... a true masterpiece!
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 10:56 pm
by 64hz
rereading the Dark Tower series by Stephen King, this time im gonna read on and find out whats at the top
also something by henry james.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 11:04 pm
by christophera
ahier wrote:
FUCK YEAH
terence puts ulysses in the context of timewave zero
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 1:48 pm
by murky21
Bret Easton Ellis - The Infomers
read it many times but going thru it again, makes me laugh out loud on the tube
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 1:51 pm
by wub
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 1:58 pm
by lloydnoise
awesome short story, really worth a go if you're into chess in anyway. brilliant writing
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 5:41 pm
by 64hz
wub wrote:
i got this the other day. i love the direction the artist took with it.
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 7:46 am
by wub
64hz wrote:
wub wrote:
i got this the other day. i love the direction the artist took with it.
It's downright trippy the first time you read it. Plus rebranding Mad Hatter as a paedo
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 7:48 am
by 64hz
yeah it wasnt what i was expecting at all, i didnt really know anything about it before i bought it. wasnt expecting it to be that daaarrk!
read The Old Man and The Sea cover to cover last night as i couldn't sleep now i am fucking nackered and have work in an hour
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 7:50 am
by christophera
dave mckean took his visual style to the big screen with The Mirror Mask. i'm into it.
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 9:09 am
by budsteq
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Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 10:16 am
by murky21
^^^^^^ yes mate! American Psycho is the one...well Bret Easton Ellis is in general! Read Glamorama next (you might need to read it twice) and make sure you check Less Than Zero (my favourite), Rules of Attraction, Lunar Park, The Informers as well all fucking classic
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 10:48 am
by nclpad
Re: What are you reading?
Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 9:36 am
by budsteq
murky21 wrote:^^^^^^ yes mate! American Psycho is the one...well Bret Easton Ellis is in general! Read Glamorama next (you might need to read it twice) and make sure you check Less Than Zero (my favourite), Rules of Attraction, Lunar Park, The Informers as well all fucking classic