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Books
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 11:17 pm
by zefa
Some of you must read!! Any recommendations in the literary world?
Ive just started John Peel's autobiography, so far so good!!
Before that i was reading From Hell by Alan Moore - wicked read and good illustrations, properly sinster stuff tho...am really digging the darkness of the Victorian era at the mo.
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 11:42 pm
by dubmugga
just read
going inside - John Mc Crone
exploring a moment in the working life of a human brain with regards to consciousness and processing data to form a personal worldview
enduring love - Ian Mc Ewen
a study on the effects of stalking and disbelief explored in the myriad of interactions between those involved in a random accident
re reading
Song of Waitaha - histories of a nation
chronicling the oral traditions of the first settlers to NZ who were of chinese, polynesian and white descent
http://www.songofwaitaha.co.nz/
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 1:48 am
by RubiconMan
tell ya straight alan moore is the shit.
add to thatbryan talbot.
making a film of v for vendetta n all...quality dark stuff that.
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 2:20 am
by 3507321c
Running On Emptiness by John Zerzan.
Never heard of John Zerzan
Well now you have
http://www.primitivism.com/future-primitive.htm
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 3:30 am
by dq
Miles Davis autobiography
If you didn't have reason enough to worhip the man, this will leave no doubt that Miles is a complete bad-ass.
Rem Koolhaas - Delirious New York
An architectural history of the city, with the city itself a constantly transforming character subject to the conflicting wills and agenda of those who happen to occupy it at any given time.
Mark Z. Danielewski - House of Leaves
Creepy book where the words on the page themselves become abstracted and warped and figuring out how to read the book is part of the mystery.
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 3:50 am
by kuma
Peter Ackroyd's London: the Biography
Kenzaburo Oe's Somersault..
Two huge tomes that are taking me a while..Ackroyd for sheer size and Oe for depth of philosophy..
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 6:15 am
by brett
I read lots...I couldn't even begin to make a recommendation. I have way too many books.
Re: Books
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 9:08 am
by [b]racket
Zefa wrote:
Ive just started John Peel's autobiography, so far so good!!
Awesome book...so much better than that tripe Mick Wall put out not long after he passed.
Really intretesting to know that the last track ever played on Radio 1 by John Peel was by Klute.
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 9:23 am
by [b]racket
Are-K142 wrote:tell ya straight alan moore is the shit.
add to thatbryan talbot.
making a film of v for vendetta n all...quality dark stuff that.
Heard rumours of a 'Watchmen' movie as well....
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 10:34 am
by joseph-j
I've just finished 'Hurricane' - the biography of Rubin Carter, a boxer jailed for triple murder.
Half way through 'Under The Volcano' by Malcolm Lowry. Nothing seems to be happening and its eye-wateringly difficult to read. You know a book's going to be tricky when the introduction is split into chapters....
After that going to re-read 'Invisible Man' by Raplh Ellison - my favourite book, about growing up in Harlem in the 30s/40s.
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 10:40 am
by freestylethumbwars
veronica decides to die and the alchemist by paulo coelho are wicked books.
also ive not read the last 2 he has written but chuck palahniuk has always really impressed me with the books ive read by him.
he's the guy who wrote the book fight club (david fincher made a film with brad pitt and edward norton) the films real good and so's the book coz its got a completly different ending.
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 10:42 am
by [b]racket
Im just about to start 'Rip it Up and Start Again' by Simon Reynolds...have heard good things.
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 10:46 am
by [b]racket
freestylethumbwars wrote:also ive not read the last 2 he has written but chuck palahniuk has always really impressed me with the books ive read by him.
he's the guy who wrote the book fight club (david fincher made a film with brad pitt and edward norton) the films real good and so's the book coz its got a completly different ending.
Have you ever read 'Guts' by Chuck Palahniuk. So fuckin wrong.....
http://www.chuckpalahniuk.net/books/haunted/guts.php
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 12:05 pm
by peripheral
jus started the illuminatis trilogy (Shea/Anton Wilson). don't anticipate finishing this decade, but proper jokes so far.
dubmugga u shld get out more m8. s'no wonder....
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 12:24 pm
by joseph-j
Mr Hyde wrote:A million little pieces: James Frey
I've never felt as physically sick reading a book as I did with that one.
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 12:45 pm
by amen-ra
"Understanding Media"- Marshall Mcluhan
"Prometheus Rising"- Robert Anton Wilson
"Hagakure"
"Finite and Infinite Games"- James P Carse
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 12:49 pm
by joseph-j
Mr Hyde wrote:Joseph-J wrote:Mr Hyde wrote:A million little pieces: James Frey
I've never felt as physically sick reading a book as I did with that one.
yeah- not gonna forget the tooth bit or the story about his girlfriend
Yup. The tooth bit. Euw.
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 12:54 pm
by tronman
Jonathan Lethem - Fortress of Solitude. neckle story
first book i read since school. apart from Fear & Loathing...