What are you reading?

tempest · Post by **tempest** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 5:08 am

Sqwol wrote:finished ' the long walk' such a good read It was done in about 3 days.

Who's that written by???

OH and massive SMH @ dystopian lit course without Brave New World or 1984..

datura · Post by **datura** » Sun Sep 14, 2008 11:28 pm

this thread can't get lost in all the shit..

Finished Birdsong the other week, good war bits, otherwise a bit poor.

Currently reading Robert Heinlein - Stranger in a Strange Land

'Stranger in a Strange Land is the epic saga of an earthling, Valentine Michael Smith, born and educated on Mars, who arrives on our planet with psi powers—telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, telekinesis, teleportation, pyrolysis, and the ability to take control of the minds of others—and complete innocence regarding the mores of man.

After his tutelage under a surrogate-father figure, Valentine begins his transformation into a messiah figure. His introduction into Earth society, together with his exceptional abilities, lead Valentine to become many things to many people: freak, scam artist, media commodity, searcher, free-love pioneer, neon evangelist, and martyr.

Heinlein won his second Hugo award for this novel, sometimes called Heinlein’s earthly “divine comedy.” '

number10 · Post by **number10** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 11:30 am

life is elsewhere - Milan Kundera.

Quite heavy going and not as good as The Unbearable Lightness of Being, but still better than most authors i have read.

jah pat · Post by **jah pat** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 11:45 am

Anyone read any Fante?

menacetosobriety · Post by **menacetosobriety** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 11:59 am

Jah Pat wrote:

Anyone read any Fante?

No, sounds like a good read though

I'll pick myself up a copy

jah pat · Post by **jah pat** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 12:04 pm

menacetosobriety wrote:
Jah Pat wrote:

Anyone read any Fante?

No, sounds like a good read though

I'll pick myself up a copy

Yeah man do it. Get that compilation book above, it's The Bandini Saga. Ask The Dust is my favourite book ever (don't watch the awful film with Colin Farrell in though). Try that. Considering all the popular acclaim a lot of quite sub-standard America writers get Fante is relatively unknown. Pity.

spooKs · Post by **spooKs** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 12:08 pm

i just finished Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. crazy, crazy book, takes place over 12 hours and flits in between the minds of various Londoners. Partly an amazing insight into wild, hallucinatory manic-depression. Goes on like a proto-Pulp Fiction in its style

EDIT: by the way has anyone seen The Hours, with Nicole Kidman? Really want to see it now, because apparently it's the film adaptation of a sort of 're-writing' of Mrs. Dalloway.

badger · Post by **badger** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 12:12 pm

spooKs wrote:i just finished Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. crazy, crazy book, takes place over 12 hours and flits in between the minds of various Londoners. Partly an amazing insight into wild, hallucinatory manic-depression. Goes on like a proto-Pulp Fiction in its style

i had to do that for A level english lit and i absolutely hated it. might enjoy it more if i read it now but i doubt it

spooKs · Post by **spooKs** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 12:39 pm

just read the sections with Septimus Warren Smith and his wife Rezia then. Amazing.

stanton · Post by **stanton** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 12:52 pm

I just re-read all of The Invisibles, again.

diss04 · Post by **diss04** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 4:42 pm

this book is seriously fucking brilliant

Jonathan Shaw "Narcisa: Our Lady of Ashes”

here's johnny depp's (!) review: "If Hubert Selby Jr., Charles Bukowski, Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Neil Cassady, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, the Marquis de Sade, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Joao Gilberto, Edward Teach, Charley Parker, Iggy Pop, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, R. Crumb, Robert Williams, Joe Coleman, Dashiell Hammett, E.M. Cioran and all of the Three Stooges had all been involved in some greasy, shameful, evil whorehouse orgy, Jonathan Shaw would surely be its diabolical, reprobate spawn."

blurb: This first novel by Shaw, the internationally acclaimed tattoo artist and son of jazz legend Artie Shaw, unfolds in the wild backwaters of Rio de Janeiro and New York, where narrator Cigano attempts in vain to curb the unhinged habits of his lover Narcisa. As they navigate the chaos of her spiraling life of drugs, burglaries and violent mood swings, Cigano records a love affair doomed by sociopathy. With a fan base that includes Lydia Lunch (who provides an introduction), Depp, Jim Jarmusch and Iggy Pop, it is already a much-anticipated debut.

linedamage · Post by **linedamage** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 6:15 pm

Great novel on the A&R biz, very dark, very funny.

Gonna get through some more Burroughs next with

If you've not read "Cities of the Red Night" grab a copy if you get the chance, best read I've had in years

wurge · Post by **wurge** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 1:41 pm

Principles of Geographic Information Systems- Spatial information systems and geostatistics

nousd · Post by **nousd** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 4:54 am

^ye but don't give away the ending.
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 2007...beautiful writing from the point of view of the angel of death in Germany during WW2.

puhatek_kurva_macz · Post by **puhatek_kurva_macz** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 6:37 am

Lodown Magazine No. 62

Finished reading... The Jasons: The Secret History of Science's Postwar Elite.

triky · Post by **triky** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 3:21 pm

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome. Fucking Hilarious. Loving it

spooKs · Post by **spooKs** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 4:01 pm

Graham Greene - The Ministry of Fear. Superb.

Coppola · Post by **Coppola** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 4:31 pm

Brighton Rock - Graham Greene

spooKs · Post by **spooKs** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 12:55 am

BEN? wrote:Brighton Rock - Graham Greene

thats sick

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