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nothing exciting yet, just wanted to get this thread going.

I just got Crazy Streak by John Gilmore in the mail yesterday. I'm going to start reading it on the way home. I'm excited to read a novel, I've been reading a tone of stuff on photography and am burned out.

Amazon Discription:
CRAZY STREAK is a twisted excursion into seething sexuality, desperate alienation, incest and conscienceless violence; a book destined to be as controversial as Nabokov's "Lolita." The wreck that really begins the novel is also what ends it. Long past the settling of steel and rubber, the bodies and brains of the travelers are beaten and twisted by hate, lust, booze and the sick heat of the Southern California desert wasteland. This story is brutal in its realism. No fairy-tale romance or overly convoluted plots needed. It's not ironic or kitschy; it's certainly not begging to be loved. CRAZY STREAK is as believable as some of your worst, most confused and visceral moments.

EDIT:
OK yeah that book really sucked.

Just got through with Eyes of Prey by John Sandford.  I've decided to read the entire Prey series in order.

two things:

charcuterie - brian polcyn and michael ruhlman
it's a cook book about the art of charcuterie which is sausage making, hams, dried, cured, and smoked meats, pates and terrines, etc...


a collection of stories by ray bradbury.  pretty cool but very long.  it's 1,000 pages and i'm halfway thru so i might put it down for awhile and read something else before coming back to it.  bradbury's hit or miss for me.  some of his stuff is really cool and creepy and some of it does nothing for me.

Paul Bowles - The Sheltering Sky

My reading list is on The Obelisk forum, this is so confusing
???

Currently reading Phillip Jose Farmer's "Riverworld: Including To Your Scattered Bodies Go & The Fabulous Riverboat".
Just finished Stephen R. Donaldson's Gap Saga (5 books).
Next up is Stephen King's "Under The Dome".

Quote from: db3jed on December 07, 2010, 11:12:20 PM
Currently reading Phillip Jose Farmer's "Riverworld: Including To Your Scattered Bodies Go & The Fabulous Riverboat".
Just finished Stephen R. Donaldson's Gap Saga (5 books).
Next up is Stephen King's "Under The Dome".

Old school fantasy & sci-fi are the shit!

Was the Gap any good? I've finally gotten around to reading the covenant series. I'm on the 3rd book from the 1st trilogy.

Stephen King - The Dark Tower series. Life changer.

The publishing industry is royally fucked - the mediashare blogs have RAR files with 1000's and 1000's of eBooks in the ePub format.  Oops.

Those eReaders scare me. I get that they're convenient but there is nothing compared to cracking open a real, paper book. I bet a used book smells a lot better than a used Kindle.

I'm a life longer reader, I've read a couple books a month since I was in 5th grade - and a hell of a lot more when I used to travel.  I lugged all those damn things around from apartment to apartment - with great devotion and caring - I used up half my living space in my tiny apartments housing all those books... so that I could read my favorites over and over.

However.

Paper books can kiss my ass, electronic books have two dozen features that make them super awesome superior.  I carefully outlined those 2 dozen features in the book forum at the pre-hacked stonerrock.com website.


The only thing they can't do is sit on your shelf for guests to think you're cool, which I am too old for now.  Or read in the bathtub.   I still have 4000 paper ones if I want to, though every month I am donating away the least-loved slowly but surely. 

I have a couple paper ones going now and just bought a few yesterday ("Little, Big" for me and something for my kid) , cause they weren't ePub yet.

Quote from: demon gal on December 08, 2010, 12:01:40 PM
Those eReaders scare me. I get that they're convenient but there is nothing compared to cracking open a real, paper book. I bet a used book smells a lot better than a used Kindle.

agreed, i love nothing more than grabbing a older copy of whatever i'm into from half priced books and enjoying the scent and intimacy








that being said, i'm reading "at the mountains of madness" for the 100th time



was in the middle of a chomsky outing, but for some reason, unlike zinn, he is actually better heard and seen rather than read, he is really dry:)

Quote from: MadJohnShaft on December 08, 2010, 11:43:14 AM

The publishing industry is royally fucked - the mediashare blogs have RAR files with 1000's and 1000's of eBooks in the ePub format.  Oops.

speak english man.

Through the Dark Continent - Henry M. Stanley

I just finished "The Rational Optimist" by Matt Riley. It was kind of disappointing but it did make me think about the future of the global economy in a new way.

Next up, Steven Johnson's latest book "Where Good Ideas come From". I really like Steven Johnson so I have high expectations for this one.

I've actually run out of things to read. It got to the point where I read Catch 22 4 times in this year alone, which I guess is testament to how readable the book is!

I don't want to buy more books (got way too many as it is) so I've been going round to my Dad's place and raiding his library.

You want to know anything about the history of the Chullora railway worksops, ALCO locomotive production or Lola racing cars, I'm your man.

Im currently reading "White Line Fever" by Lemmy.. Awezome!  :D
Just finished "Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal and Grindcore" Good stuff

Burmese Days by George Orwell

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Next, this is coming in the mail. Can't wait.

Entertainment weekly has that book on their 2010 best of list, DG. 

I'm currently reading Husker Du: The Story of the Noise-Pop Pioneers Who Launched Modern Rock.

just finished ~Hand me down world
And started ~ eat pray love

I need to add that Patti Smith book to my wish list  :)

"The Grand Design" by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mladinow

Gettin' my quantum physics on!

You may also enjoy Michio Kaku's "Physics of the Impossible".

Patti Smith's Just Kids is the best memoir I've read in years. A really touching, very sweetly written story. I highly recommend it, even if you're not a fan girl like me, and/or boy.

re-reading dostoevsky's crime and punishment for the first time in years.  i've read the constance garnett translation before but now i'm reading the peaver and volokhonsky translation.  i love their translations; i've read their versions of several dostoevsky novels, some tolstoy, and some gogol.  you can't beat the russians and peaver and volokhonsky are great translators.

i'm also reading the river cottage meat book. it's written by hugh fearnley whittingstall - chef, farmer, writer.  it's a philosophical tome/cookbook about our relationship to the meat we eat.  he explores the extensive, "organic", good husbandry farming practices that he espouses and the intensive, mass procuction animal farming that supports the global hunger for cheap, shitty meat produced by unethical practices in horrific conditions.  just started it but it's got the hook in me.

Gotta get hold of that Patti Smith book--thanks for posting, DG!

Came across Ethan Coen's (of the filmmaking Coen brothers) "Gates of Eden" this weekend, while checking out the thrift store for old wooden picture frames.  Looks good--link below:

http://www.amazon.com/Gates-Eden-Ethan-Coen/dp/0385334389 (http://www.amazon.com/Gates-Eden-Ethan-Coen/dp/0385334389)

hmm interesting find yiyiyi ..let me know how that Ethan Coen book is? he's one of my favorite filmmakers.
Was going through a top 100 books you should read list and decided to start with ~The Shadow of the wind

just finished milan kundera's identity.  i had never read him before and figured it was about time.  verdict - you can have it.  at least i gave him a shot.  i seldom read contemporary stuff and if this is the best the contemporaries have to offer i'm not missing much.  next up is a collection of stories by carson mccullers.  that ought to wash the bad taste out of my mouth just fine.

we're not getting much action over here in the books forum, are we?  just finished no country for old men.  i gotta say that's one helluva read.  i've seen the movie 3 or 4 times and it has become one of my faves.  the book is every bit as good.  it's a rarity for me to have seen the movie before reading the book.  didn't spoil it at all.  it was a compulsive page turner that i finished in a couple of days.  it's interesting to see what the coen's chose to leave out.  i think they did a stellar job adapting it for the screen.  they hardly changed anything.  just a few lines here and there.  they left out a good bit but they changed very little.  it's a damn good book though.  i enjoyed the fuller character development.  especially moss there toward the end.  he said some scary shit.  muddies the water a little bit.  highly recommended. 

i'm starting genet's a thief's journal now.  total shift of style from mccarthy.

my favorite music mag..
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I just bought There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya.

Ya Basta! 10 years of the Zapatista Uprising. Still reading through the introduction. Has writings by Subcomandante Marcos.

Life - Keith Richards

has anyone finished this yet? It's taking me a while. I find I have to be in the mood for it, alot of it is written kinda the way he talks in interviews, great stories but can be disjointed and scattered.

The Real Frank Zappa Book - very, very slowly.

Life - Keith Richards has anyone finished this yet? ...

Got it for Xmas and finished it in about a week. I was actually surprised at his lucidity and thought it was a fairly easy read. But then I'm kind of a dork for musician bios. Just started the Ozzy one last night. Like Keith's book, I'm pleasantly surprised at how articulate it/he is. (unlike the Steven Adler bio. it was weak and only took me a day and a half to slog through)

Just finished the John Joseph autobiography "Evolution Of A Cro-Magnon".  That guy has been through some insane shit in his life.  Just started the Mike Edison book, "I Have Fun Everywhere I go", so far, so good.

Quote from: black on March 01, 2011, 02:26:23 PM
Life - Keith Richards has anyone finished this yet? ...

Got it for Xmas and finished it in about a week. I was actually surprised at his lucidity and thought it was a fairly easy read. But then I'm kind of a dork for musician bios. Just started the Ozzy one last night. Like Keith's book, I'm pleasantly surprised at how articulate it/he is. (unlike the Steven Adler bio. it was weak and only took me a day and a half to slog through)

Was really disappointed by the Ozzy book, but that's on me since he's been disappointing me for years now.

Now that I finished it, I understand what you mean,deaner33 (about both the book and the man of late). It did rapidly descend into him whining about rehab and never really dished anything that wasn't already known.

hey black, I saw your post and did some thinking about the musician bios I've read. Slash, Ron wood, Grace Slick and now Keith Richards. And I have come to a conclusion.

you are correct.

I just can't get into these things. The reviews of those bio's were mostly positive, yet it took me forever to grudgingly finish the damn things.

I guess it's back to D&D crap for me. 

Quote from: black on March 07, 2011, 05:49:47 PM
Now that I finished it, I understand what you mean,deaner33 (about both the book and the man of late). It did rapidly descend into him whining about rehab and never really dished anything that wasn't already known.

And NO insight into his music.  Which really isn't surprising if you think about it.

Indeed. I guess I was hoping for more 'behind the scenes' kind of stuff--be it gossip or more insight to recording and touring. Instead the last third of his book seemed to focus on being a clueless crybaby and repeated stories of shitting himself.

peoplething--I too get hyped by the reviews on these bios and yeah, more times than not, disappointment-ville.

I guess it's back to D&D crap for me.

Haha!

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All 3 books are kinda in the same vein so I can keep cycling through and not be totally lost when I come back to them.

I read Say You Love Satan, but I have no memory of it at all.  How is the Ramirez book?

Quote from: deaner33 on March 15, 2011, 04:22:02 PM
I read Say You Love Satan, but I have no memory of it at all.  How is the Ramirez book?

Eh, I don't know what I was expecting, its a little Biography Channel, honestly. But I just started it, hopefully it gets a little better and delves a little deeper.

I'm hoping some badass biker stories come up too, I'm in the early days right now.

This is my 2nd time on Say You Love Satan, I really liked it even though its kinda cheesy as hell.

I originally bought it because of this...

Acid King
The band's name was inspired by the book Say You Love Satan by David St. Claire. It is based on the crimes of Ricky Kasso (nicknamed 'The Acid King') who committed a murder in Northport, New York during 1984.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_King

Quote from: deaner33 on March 15, 2011, 04:22:02 PM
I read Say You Love Satan, but I have no memory of it at all.  How is the Ramirez book?

I gave that book to Lori S. before she moved to San Francisco from Chicago and yes it is where the name came from. She called me and said you know that book you gave me? I'm gonna name my band Acid King. I thought it was a groovy name. (My little claim to stonerrock fame).

Quote from: demon gal on March 16, 2011, 05:49:49 PM

Quote from: deaner33 on March 15, 2011, 04:22:02 PM
I read Say You Love Satan, but I have no memory of it at all.  How is the Ramirez book?

I gave that book to Lori S. before she moved to San Francisco from Chicago and yes it is where the name came from. She called me and said you know that book you gave me? I'm gonna name my band Acid King. I thought it was a groovy name. (My little claim to stonerrock fame).

haha, thats great

I just finished Patrick Rothfuss Wise Man's Fear which was pretty good.

I also read Electric Don Quixote: The Definitive Story of Frank Zappa which was really interesting.  Man led an interesting life and did a lot of weird shit.  He also had some interesting views on stuff.  In parts he kinda came out like a jerk though but you get a real picture of what the man himself is like.

Guerillas: Journeys in the Insurgent World by Jon Lee Anderson

oil! - upton sinclair
the inspiration for the film there will be blood.  i gotta say the book only bears a very vague resemblance to the film.  very vague.  good book.  good film.  completely different stories.  i think paul thomas anderson read the book and then made up a completely different story based around some of the characters from the book.  whatever.  it's a compelling read.

tropic of capricorn - henry miller

i think miller has become my favorite writer.  i guess.  if i have a favorite.  when he's on fire there's nothing close.  when he's on fire there's more for me in one paragraph than there is in all the other books i've ever read put together.

"Notes from the Underground and The Gamber" By Fydor Doechevsky.

Pretty good so far, I hate that I am so much like the Man from Underground. Speaking of the book I really need to get back to it.

white noise- love it!

Michael Crichton's Next.  Not one of his better works.

Just finished The Passage by Justin Cronin. Pretty good read, if you're into that The Stand/Swan Song kind of epic horror, only in this case the apocalypse is caused by a virus that turns people into a sort of vampires. Yes, the echoes of Matheson's I Am Legend are pretty loud. Not a bad read at all, and too well written to be pulp, but in the end it's not much more than an adventure story that would make a pretty good action movie. Compared to a truly devastating apocalypse story like Cormac McCarthy's The Road it doesn't do much.

I'm slowly reading A Clockwork Orange.  The full version.

expelled from eden - a william t. vollmnann reader.

never read him before.  got a buddy who's a big fan and loaned me this as an introduction.  we'll see...

reading some stuff out of Larry Niven's The Draco Tavern

It's kinda like alien bar stories..  like the mos eisley cantina type shit

I'm embarrassed to say.

^I know the feeling!^

I read a lot of mindless fiction for the escape factor and often take a lot of flak for it.
Oh well.

Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

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under the volcano - malcolm lowry

1493, by, uhhh, Mann?

Sorry, brand new cat on my lap, so I can't go check.

Just finishing book 3 of the dark tower series.  This is a really cool series I gotta say its really imaginative.  Its a little cheesy in parts but its so trippy it works. 

Read em all years ago.  Killer series.

Just about finished with To Have and Have Not-Hemingway

Manhunt - The 12 day chase for Abraham Lincoln's killer by James Swanson

Just finished reading that this morning. I give it a strong recommendation.

The Sun Also Rises-Hemingway

Handling the Undead by John Ajvide Linqvist, the dude that wrote Let the Right One in. This one is about Zombies. I just started, so far so good.

taras bulba - nikolai gogol

Quote from: demon gal on October 07, 2011, 09:22:06 PM
Handling the Undead by John Ajvide Linqvist, the dude that wrote Let the Right One in. This one is about Zombies. I just started, so far so good.

Good God I have to get that!

I'm reading Thinking In Pictures: My Life With Autisim by Temple Grandin.

I have to warn you Deaner it's not a horror book per se,  it's more about how people deal with their loved ones coming back from the dead.

Quote from: demon gal on October 08, 2011, 12:25:58 PM
I have to warn you Deaner it's not a horror book per se,  it's more about how people deal with their loved ones coming back from the dead.

Still sounds interesting, thanks!

lord of the rings. 2nd attempt

I dig the D&D type stuff, but only one time before gave lotr a shot... right after the movies. at the time I only got thru the first book. I thought it was terrible, and really couldn't understand how this foundation led the way for so much influence of the D20.

This time around I'm approaching it with a much more critical eye. I've realized that it's really, really dense. Just started Two Towers, and entire plot holes/points are mentioned and sorta explained or resolved in a sentence or two, albeit buried in a large chuck of brit speak.

Also, as far as battle sequences so far, there's squat.

But I think this time around I finally appreciate Tolkien as a 'world crafter' using med-evil europe as a model, rather than the typical sci-fi futuristic worlds of the day.

I've read the first 2 books twice. The 3rd book zero times. I give up.

in the past 4 or 5 days Ive read The girl with the dragon tattoo (which was minorly interesting, and silly), and the girl who played with fire (which wasnt very interesting, and very silly) I suppose i'll read the final book in the series next. I expect it will be horrible, and tremendously silly.

Might grab the newest Neal Stephenson as well.

just finished:

barabbas - par lagerkvist
tremendous read.  serious fucking writing.


next up:

the gulag archipelago (volume 1) - alexander solzhenitsyn

Just finished 'two towers', whew, that was an exercise in tedium.... until the last 25 pages.

why couldn't Tolkien right the rest of the trilogy at least with a hint of the writing he displayed in the battle with shelob? for all intensive purposes, that writing, the way he depicted the battle/emotion/intensity would stand up to today's fantasy stuff. it's brilliant.

but it was 25 pages out of, what 300 or so? oooph

onward to 'return of the king'

"intents and purposes"

just trying to help out.

Quote from: gritty_fingers on September 24, 2011, 11:46:45 PM
Manhunt - The 12 day chase for Abraham Lincoln's killer by James Swanson

Just finished reading that this morning. I give it a strong recommendation.

I just finished reading Manhunt as well. Great book

Working on book three of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series.  11 to go.   :-\

ive been getting into a bunch of 'wire' magazine back issues that i picked up at a record show..

europe central - william vollmann

If there is a contemporary British historian who's the chronicler of World War II, it might be Maximum Hastings. In book following guide, he has zoomed within on individual movie theaters and arenas in the worldwide turmoil, that is constantly on the captivate experts as well as visitors a lot more than Sixty five years following it finally came to a close.

If you want to understand by pointing out Battle of Great britain or even the United Kingdom's Bomber Command or Winston Churchill's pivotal role in the war, Hastings' studies are the ones to go for. If you want a detailed accounts from the Normandy Invasion, there's his definitive "Overlord." How do the actual Partners finally conquer Germany as well as Japan? "Armageddon: The Fight for Indonesia, 1944-1945" and "Retribution: The actual Fight with regard to Japan, 1944-45" may every give you a comprehensive accounts of how these monumental feats were accomplished.

Quote from: I,Galactus on November 22, 2011, 09:48:06 AM
Working on book three of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series.  11 to go.   :-\

Finished book 8 last night.  Why must someone always be kidnapped?

Finished this a while back:

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Now about 3/4ths done with this, which I've been planning on reading for years:

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I'm back into books for 2012 after a fairly long hiatus. 

Just got done with The Book Of Skulls by Robert Silverberg.  Enjoyed it very much.

I'm on a run of Cormack McCarthy as of late. I just finished Blood Meridian preceded by All The Pretty Horses. I started Suttree last night at work. I should have started reading this guy's books a long time ago.

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Just started "The Chronology of Water" by Lidia Yuknavitch.  Highly recommended by Chuck Palahniuk

A few chapters into The Gendarme by Mark T. Mustian. Liking it so far.
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"In The Heart of The Sea", it's about a Nantucket whaleship that was battered and sunk by a sperm whale off the coast of Chile in 1820. Twenty crewmen drifted in three small whaleboats for almost three months before being rescued, most of them died and were eaten by the remaining few...

Quote from: Metal and Beer on January 21, 2012, 09:26:35 PM
"In The Heart of The Sea", it's about a Nantucket whaleship that was battered and sunk by a sperm whale off the coast of Chile in 1820. Twenty crewmen drifted in three small whaleboats for almost three months before being rescued, most of them died and were eaten by the remaining few...

Funny, just finished this book last week.  Epic Doom.  Also a very cool period piece.

I've actually read it before, but wanted to re-visit it.  Pretty brilliant.  Almost done.

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Quote from: Metal and Beer on January 21, 2012, 09:26:35 PM
"In The Heart of The Sea", it's about a Nantucket whaleship that was battered and sunk by a sperm whale off the coast of Chile in 1820. Twenty crewmen drifted in three small whaleboats for almost three months before being rescued, most of them died and were eaten by the remaining few...

Shifter and I are big fans of this book.


I'm reading Gone To Texas & The Vengeance Trail of Josey Wales.

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Quote from: Metal and Beer on January 21, 2012, 09:26:35 PM
"In The Heart of The Sea", it's about a Nantucket whaleship that was battered and sunk by a sperm whale off the coast of Chile in 1820. Twenty crewmen drifted in three small whaleboats for almost three months before being rescued, most of them died and were eaten by the remaining few...

Need to pick this up.  right now I'm reading "The girl with the dragon tattoo"  Kinda reads like a Harlen Coben thing.  meh.

Nearly finished The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson ( the guy that did that Men who Stare at Goats thing) it's great, he interviews psychopaths, psychiatrists and CEO's of multinationals who reputedly score high on the psychopath test. Very interesting insight into approx 1 per cent of the population who's thought processes work in a completely alien way to the rest of us.

^^That sounds interesting^^

Finished it last night, I'd recommend picking it up. It's thrown up a couple of other titles; "Without Conscience" and "Snakes in Suits" both by Dr. Robert Hare that go into the phenomenon in greater detail but still in lay mans terms. Hare is the man who developed the test in the title of ronsons book.

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Quote from: I,Galactus on November 22, 2011, 09:48:06 AM
Working on book three of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series.  11 to go.   :-\

Killed book three on Friday.  Shit jus' got real.

I read maybe half of the novels in the late 90's early 00's (one few things I've read in Swedish and every novel is split in two so there are over twenty, heh). I actually just read the Mistborn trilogy as well as the latest book by Brandon Sanderson, the guy who helped finish Wheel of Time after Robert Jordan died. Decent fantasy, some fresh ideas. Now I'm reading Stonewielder by Ian Esslemont, it's a spinoff of Steven Erikson's Malazan series, 10 books of epic, gritty world building at 800-1100 pages each. 

I'm in book 5 now.  Thus far I've only had to say "who the fuck is this again?" twice now.  That cast of characters / list of terms compendium at the back comes in handy.

Tolkien aside, I'm not very well versed in fantasy books at all.  I'm getting a little burned out and may have to take a break at some point, but I'm afraid that if I do I'll lose interest completely.

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good stuff..thanks BA..

just finished John Dies At The End, which was incredibly silly, but enjoyable.

got this kindle thing loaded up with 500+ books, and I'm not sure where to go next. maybe re-read some Vonnegut, or a China Mieville book I haven't read yet.
i love having choices.

ended up reading ' talking to girls about duran duran' by Rob Sheffield, which was annoying.

Reading "An Object of Beauty" by Steve Martin.  First book I've read by Martin.  I like his writing style.  I imagine him narrating the story.  I'm a little more interested in paintings now that I'm reading this.  Especially Aivazovsky, Rockwell Kent, and Milton Avery.

I Just got that too - his really old book Cruel Shoes had tons of art in it too. I liked that.

just finished Reamde by Neal Stephenson.
Not nearly as dense as some of his more recent books. Decent, but not one of his best.

Haven't decided what to read next.....

How to Be Black is funny

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^Ha! Just finished it.

Just recently finished The Hunger games which i enjoyed before that I read The Gendarme which I ended up thinking meh. It had a very disappointing ending and when it was in the present day it was boring. Right now I'm reading Let the Right One In.

I am going back through and reading James Herriot's somewhat autobiographical tales of a Yorkshire veterinarian in the 1930's and on..

these are really excellent books especially if you are an animal lover.  I'm pointing to you Black....

Probaby the 4th time through reading these.  i just sit and chuckle the entire time while reading.

Today I finished Let the Right One In. Liked it almost as much as the movie I think that's one of the few times I preferred a movie to a book but still the book was great. Movie adaptation was kind of faithful to the book one very important aspect was only hinted at in the movie (understandable) but in the book it's made very clear relating to Eli's gender probably why I prefer the movie.

Now I'm going to start The Gunslinger book 1 of the Dark Tower series.

just finished F Paul Wilson's The Tomb probably gonna read the next one in the series, now.
Light pointless fiction, easy fast reading.

Continuing with the Dark Tower series I very much enjoyed the first book so I'm now reading The Drawing of the Three.

Quote from: RAGER on March 01, 2012, 12:47:56 PM
I am going back through and reading James Herriot's somewhat autobiographical tales of a Yorkshire veterinarian in the 1930's and on..

these are really excellent books especially if you are an animal lover.  I'm pointing to you Black....

Probably the 4th time through reading these.  i just sit and chuckle the entire time while reading.

I've read them over and over as well.  They're extremely interesting about a way of life which disappeared a very long time ago as well being gently humourous.  What's the name of the knacker?  Can't remember now: but I can replay a vision in my mind of him sitting among a rotting pile of animal remains eating his lunch with filthy hands.

I am guilty of reading more than one book at a time if I have a pile of books in the reading-queue.  At the moment I am on "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" which I acquired a while ago but couldn't start it until I had volumes II and III lined up; an omnibus of Jeeves & Wooster plus the first omnibus of the Ellis Peters "Cadfael" novels, current one is "A Morbid Taste For Bones".  All bought second-hand.

I think that's enough to be getting on with for the moment; there's a stack waiting about two feet high.  So many books to read, so little time.

^^ Jeff Mallock.  Also an expert at diagnosing the demise of animals in a brief glance.  Glad to know another fan of Mr. Herriot (Alf White).

First three Dark Tower books are in my opinion some of Steven King's finest work.

"Before the poison" by Peter Robinson.

Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky

It's set in Moscow after a nuclear war, where survivors went underground into the subway system and formed communities. They have to survive against mutants, Neo-Nazis, warfare between different factions, etc. Played the game a few years ago and I really liked the setting and atmosphere and the book is very well-written and immersing. 

Quote from: Beerjerk on March 16, 2012, 12:42:21 AM
Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky

It's set in Moscow after a nuclear war, where survivors went underground into the subway system and formed communities. They have to survive against mutants, Neo-Nazis, warfare between different factions, etc. Played the game a few years ago and I really liked the setting and atmosphere and the book is very well-written and immersing. 

I got that book too because of the game yet to read it though. The sequel to the game is supposed to come out sometime this year
I think I read somewhere that it's not based on the book's sequel.

Quote from: diasdegalvan on March 16, 2012, 02:31:26 AM

Quote from: Beerjerk on March 16, 2012, 12:42:21 AM
Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky

It's set in Moscow after a nuclear war, where survivors went underground into the subway system and formed communities. They have to survive against mutants, Neo-Nazis, warfare between different factions, etc. Played the game a few years ago and I really liked the setting and atmosphere and the book is very well-written and immersing. 

I got that book too because of the game yet to read it though. The sequel to the game is supposed to come out sometime this year
I think I read somewhere that it's not based on the book's sequel.

The game's events vary alot from the original story in the book. I heard Metro: Last Light isn't based on the book's sequel, but it's a whole different story written in collaboration with Glukhovsky and uses characters from the first story (including Artyom), but you play a new character.

Quote from: Beerjerk on March 17, 2012, 07:50:44 PM
The game's events vary alot from the original story in the book. I heard Metro: Last Light isn't based on the book's sequel, but it's a whole different story written in collaboration with Glukhovsky and uses characters from the first story (including Artyom), but you play a new character.

Yeah that's what I read too the trailer shows Artyom as the character didn't know about a new character. Supposed to have multiplayer as well don't really care for that.

Did you get the "good" ending. I beat the game twice the second time somewhat trying to get the good ending (giving ammo to poor not accepting reward for helping kid) but didn't manage to get it. Oh well if "if it's hostile you kill it."

Quote from: diasdegalvan on March 18, 2012, 01:54:44 AM

Quote from: Beerjerk on March 17, 2012, 07:50:44 PM
The game's events vary alot from the original story in the book. I heard Metro: Last Light isn't based on the book's sequel, but it's a whole different story written in collaboration with Glukhovsky and uses characters from the first story (including Artyom), but you play a new character.

Yeah that's what I read too the trailer shows Artyom as the character didn't know about a new character. Supposed to have multiplayer as well don't really care for that.

Did you get the "good" ending. I beat the game twice the second time somewhat trying to get the good ending (giving ammo to poor not accepting reward for helping kid) but didn't manage to get it. Oh well if "if it's hostile you kill it."

Yeah it seems that you will be playing Artyom again on this one, and the sequel picks up from the bad ending.

If you do all the good deeds and explore everything for additional karma, you still have to choose whether to kill the Dark Ones or spare them. At the end, instead of shooting the Dark One, shoot the missile guiding device instead. That will trigger the good ending.

just finished 'looking for jake'- by china mieville, and 'breakfast of champions' - by kurt vonnegut.

next up is 'city of saints and madmen' - by jeff vandermeer

Quote from: Mr Neutron on March 20, 2012, 05:16:30 PM
'breakfast of champions' - by kurt vonnegut

This is my absolute favorite of his.  Sig'd

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Finished The Drawing of the Three now starting The Children of Hurin by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Enjoyed The Drawing of the Three not as much s The Gunslinger but still very good. I have a suspicion I'll like the third book more as now Roland has called up his two new companions.

Picked up "God Bless You Mr Rosewater" 2nd hand walking into town today, now have that, "Sirens of Titan" and "Galapagos" in my "to read" pile.

Just finished The Children of Hurin written by Tolkien I think I read shortly after WWI revised it several times later but never completed it before he died. Finished by his son Christopher using his manuscripts. If you enjoyed Lord of the Rings I think you would like this. It's set 6500 years before the War of the Ring and is about this curse Morgoth laid upon Hurin and his kin for having defied him. Most of the book deals with Turin his son (seen on cover of book). No happy ending in this one.

Current book I'm reading.
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recently finished volume 2 of solzhenitsyn's gulag archipelago.  then i tried to read proust's in search of lost time, volume 1.  i got about 30 pages in and said, "fuck this pansy-ass bullshit.  now i'm about to start henry miller's the oranges of hieronymus bosch.

The Zapata book was a great informative account on maybe the most revered man in Mexican history and deservedly so. Since he was elected to protect his villages' land rights he always stayed true to them and the Morelos country people through those turbulent times until he was betrayed and killed.

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Just finished Less Than Zero.
horrible. one of the worst books i can remember reading.

starting on The Gone Away World by Nick Harkaway

Less than Zero was good but very dated!

Reading some new Bukowski's short stories. So far, so good!

Just finished The Waste Lands book III of the Dark Tower series by Stephen King. Ties up some loose ends with the first and second book and delves further into Roland's world but I didn't like how it ends on a cliffhanger. Really cool action-adventure series highly recommended think of the man with no name of the Sergio Leone films with a fellowship of three other pilgrims from our own world journeying with the gunslinger in his and theirs quest for the Dark Tower in his world that has "moved on."

Now I'm starting Cain by Jose Saramago.

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I finished reading Cain as well as The Hobbit now I'm continuing on with the Dark Tower series in Wizard and Glass book IV.

just started freud's interpretation of dreams.

Personal Narrative Of A Pilgrimage To Al-Madinah And Mecca : Volume 2 by Sir Richard F Burton.


I'm digging this, but sure is damn long - we finally got out of Medinah and are going on to the Haj to Mecca on our camels. Written in 1850, I have some of his other books now, they are all public domain.



I better go back to White Teeth by Zadie Smith before I forget what was going on.  And started that Frank Langella bio.

I just finished Wizard and Glass book IV of the Dark Tower series. This one didn't really move the quest much further on as 90% of the book was Roland telling the story of his first love and ka-tet. The story had been told previously only in parts and short on details so it was nice reading the story in full. Thought it was great much more of a western than the previous books.

I also read the first two Harry Potter books fast easy reads.

Had a hard time choosing what to read next but I'm going with Dune by Frank Herbert.

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The Information:  A History, A Theory, A Flood by J. Gleick
A fantastic book thus far.  Information theory is revolutionizing the way we think of the Universe, physics, and history and this is a book to help illuminate the public on this new paradigm.  I'm only in the beginning stages, but his treatment on the invention of logic being born from the code of the alphabet has been fantastic.  He argues that consciousness itself and what we mean in the modern sense by the word "thinking" was not in existence until language was shaped by the creation of symbolic written words.  My favorite quote so far, "In the long term, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself."  Great stuff founded in legitimate science and presented by a talented writer.

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Just finished Quantum Man by Lawrence Krauss, a book about Richard Feynman.

Now I'm on Hitch-22, the memoirs of Christopher Hitchens.

Quote from: black aspirin on July 07, 2012, 04:51:39 PM
Just finished Quantum Man by Lawrence Krauss, a book about Richard Feynman.

Now I'm on Hitch-22, the memoirs of Christopher Hitchens.

how was quantum man. sounds interesting..  

Quote from: mortlock on July 08, 2012, 08:29:39 PM

Quote from: black aspirin on July 07, 2012, 04:51:39 PM
Just finished Quantum Man by Lawrence Krauss, a book about Richard Feynman.

Now I'm on Hitch-22, the memoirs of Christopher Hitchens.

how was quantum man. sounds interesting..  

It was really good, although there's only so much of the technical science stuff that I could understand.  I'm fascinated by Feynman, so anything about him is interesting.

finally finished the freud.  now i'm into a collection of tolstoy's short novels.

Just finished this a few days ago and loved it.  It's a perfect beach read.  If you're into video game nerdery and 80's pop culture references it will be right up your alley.

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Finally finished Moby Dick. The climax certainly pays off but I'm never reading that one again. Waaaaaay too much whaling shit.

Now reading David Mitchell - The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

Just started on "The Great and Secret Show" by Clive Barker. Just finished a trashy true crime thing about a Mafia hitman called Tommy "Karate" Pitera who bore all the hallmarks of a serial killer and is claimed to have killed over 60 people.

Just finished Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.

Currently reading A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin only on page 80 or so but I've noticed the HBO series is pretty loyal to its original source material.

just began one hundred years of solitude by gabriel garcia marquez.  i'm also reading rustic italian food by marc vetri.

Just finished this one:

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and have started with...:

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Cloud Atlas, before The big movie comes out

Clash Of Kings by George R.R. Martin. About 500 or so pages into it. I really dig this series so far.

Quote from: themusketking on October 02, 2012, 07:07:10 PM
Clash Of Kings by George R.R. Martin. About 500 or so pages into it. I really dig this series so far.

Just wait until you finish the next book.   My jaw was hanging open by the end of that one.

I'm really pumped about it.  It's not a challenging read, but there's so much to take in. I love HOW the books read.  Good stuff, indeed.

the complete works of isaac babel - isaac babel

on food and cooking - harold mcgee

I'm on a roll. Finished yesterday The Circle... A teenage book about witches (My daugthers)

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Today I'm reading Metro 2034 by Dmitry A. Glukhovsky.

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Mo Yan, the Chinese writer best known for his 1987 novel "Red Sorghum," has won the 2012 Nobel Prize in literature.


When someone gets that - is it awarded for the book they just wrote? Or is it just for being a good writer.... I bought the new one but maybe I should have got Red Sorghum instead...

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I'm reading Cloud Atlas and now that it's a movie, as I am progressing in reading it, each subsequent airing of the same commercial makes a little more sense.

All books should have that - a kick ass marketing campaign.

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Reading Battle Royale by Koushun Takami, translated by Yuji Oniki. I'm a little late picking up this book, but truth be told I only recently learned about it from reading Amazon reviews on The Hunger Games by Collins. I really don't intend to read THG only because it seems a bit too rated G for a story that should be more explicit in its narration. I'm liking BR so far. Just finished reading the chapter where Takako gruesomely kills Kazushi after he attempts to kill/rape her. I found it a just killing. The others, I disapprove.

And oh, I also picked up a free copy of Eat, Love, Pray by Elizabeth Gilbert. I sort of know what type of reading I can expect from this book, but something compels me to read it. Please don't judge me.

 The Destitutes of Lodz by Steve Sem-Sandberg. (I think it just has been translated into english this fall)

It's about a jewish getto in Poland during WW2. Fantastic book, but of course quite cruel and heavy.

Recommended!

Meat Eater: Adventures from the Life of an American Hunter

This went down like a smoke bear ham.... interesting book.  He has a hunting show on the Sportsman's channel and is an interesting guy. I will keep following him.


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I bailed on Cloud Atlas, I wasn't following it so at the 50% mark I am out.

I need a more easier straight forward read so I am starting a classic

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Quote from: MadJohnShaft on November 30, 2012, 09:52:17 AM
I bailed on Cloud Atlas, I wasn't following it so at the 50% mark I am out.

I need a more easier straight forward read so I am starting a classic

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Hey I read that one (my dad is a big scifi fan).  Isn't it part of a series?

Poopy, Hunger Games is most definitely not G rated.  The book is much more graphic than the movie.

Currently reading  Haunted: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk.  Interesting structure to it.   

A macho selection

MJS...I try to avoid about 95% of the gibberish you usually post, but with that Enders Game post, and your occasional good food post, I'll roll it back to 50%.

ender's game is a fun one, for sure. i'm a fan of speaker for the dead and xenocide, too...

mjs - consider reading ender's shadow next. same story from bean's p.o.v. interesting to counterpoint. the later ones in the 'shadow' series were alright but...earthbound. geopolitics? boring.

Am reading the top moody talk.. Why DO I LOVE YOU!!!! increadible fentastical journey!!!

Reading is not as good as typing

 As I recently started goofing around in aikido, a Japanese martial art, I googled some related stuff and among the many things one could found I found this story of a kid who wants to do a martial art in California and goes from gym to gym, or rather from "dojo" to "dojo", trying the free classes and reviewing the whole thing.

He studies electrical engineering at Berkeley, and in this thread

http://www.bullshido.net/forums/showthread.php?t=12882&s= (http://www.bullshido.net/forums/showthread.php?t=12882&s=)

he tells the story of how he attends the 4 free introductory classes  (guess his engineer thing is why they cut him some slack in the first place ) at a certain "elite of the elite" dojo. Really entertaining, and the comments in between add up to the fun. Also, the spaces between posts, give the feeling of wait, as in it's monday and he's attending his next class on wednesday, so there are several posts from other people in between the stories, not the whole thing...  I don't know, but with this and other threads I've been going to sleep really late lately !`


I'm not the only one, here's some critic from reader:

QuoteMan, I should have been in bed two hours ago, but no way could I crash without reading the latest installment of this saga!
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Game of Thrones still put it down for about a month but I'm close to finishing it. Also reading The Wind Through the Keyhole which is book 4.5 in the Dark Tower series. Starts off right after Wizard and Glass and it also involves Roland telling a story about him in his youth.

^^^
Never heard of that one, big fan of the Dark Tower series. Thought they lost steam in the last few, as if King was trying to be done with it already. But the very end of the very last book was pretty awesome.


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Reading  "A tree Grows in Brooklyn".  If you read this and you are still a wasteful asshole then fuck you.

Finished reading The Wind Through the Keyhole
It's a Dark Tower novel that takes place in between book 4 and 5 although most of it is stand alone. For about 1/3 of the book it takes place in Roland's youth like Wizard and Glass. One half of the book Roland's youth self tells a story from where the name of the book comes from. A story within a story within a story hehe. I really enjoyed the Wind Through the Keyhole story the Roland in his youth story was okay.
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Also read today while at Target Darth Vader and Son. Cute little book.
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Started reading today Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell.

Finished Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell which is about Orwell's experience fighting in the Spanish Civil War was on the Republican side serving in the POUM militia on the Aragon front. He also gives his take on the politics on the Republican side of the war through what he saw. Survived getting shot in the neck by a fascist sniper and the witch hunt on anyone related to the POUM.
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Right now I'm almost done reading The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes On A Latin American Journey by Ernesto Che Guevara
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MAXIMUMROCKNROLL
http://maximumrocknroll.com/ (http://maximumrocknroll.com/)
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You only look at the pictures


I am reading another of the Enders books, good call on switching to Enders Shadow second. 

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
I read previously Heart of a Dog by the same author and enjoyed that. The book I'm reading now is regarded as his classic. I'm enjoying it thus far immensely.
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Quote from: diasdegalvan on January 05, 2013, 12:57:12 PM
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
I read previously Heart of a Dog by the same author and enjoyed that. The book I'm reading now is regarded as his classic. I'm enjoying it thus far immensely.
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Such a great book.

No kindle version, poopers

Death with Interruptions by José Saramago
Midnight January 1st new year nobody dies this continues on in an unnamed country who have to deal with the effects of no one dying.
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After Walk this way about Aerosmith (a good one acctually) I've been throwing myself over A feast for crows. Finally! I've been putting it on hold for quite some time now...

Ah, awesome!  ;D Cerise, Brienne, Sansa, The wall, dragons, Lord Stark etc. Like a long lost friend!

Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen
About the legend and murder of Edgar J. Watson. I'm about 90 pages into it and the book so far is incredibly good it's being told here in book 1 by the perspective of friends and family.
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And

Continuing withe the Dark Tower series with Wolves of the Calla book V by Stephen King
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Kurt Vonnegut - God Bless you Mr Rosewater - like it very much!

since i've moved here to bumfuckville PA i've been reading a lot.  Got through-

The Teachings Of Don Juan
At The Mountains Of Madness
America (The Book)
I Am Legend
The Greatest Show On Earth/The Evidence For Evolution
Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Fall
A Very Short Introduction To...Atheism
and probably 10 others I can't remember.

I finished each book and felt nothing for them, engrossed while reading, yet completely free of opinion once finished.  I wasn't like this before lithium.  I've since slowed down on the reading after the fall about 3/4 days ago; it's hard to pick a book up after that one I suppose.  But I took a reading break because I wanted to try to let the knowledge contained in each just sit with me, if any was gained, it's fighting to make new memories but i'm not who I used to be and it's hard.  I want to read a book and absorb it's knowledge, not just read it, wait awhile, and start the next one.  It's frustrating, but the reading itself has been calming, nothing heavy emotionally in any direction post lithium, so it's odd. 

I really enjoyed Dawkins' latest work; their wasn't a finality to it, but I for one feel that that book is the On the Origin of the Species of my generation, or my parent's I suppose, but this time, this channel...it expounds detailed yet understandable concepts using Darwin's idea as a basis, yet using all of the knowledge gained up to time of writing as well, making for a thorough tool for the naturalist, yet still the grandiostity of nature lay in itself not in his pages, and once read, one understands how massive, complex and beautiful life itself is, or comes that much closer to the grandeur in any respect. 

I've been trying to read disparate things and really open myself up to new things, reading my brother/his fiances books, or my dads (I stole the don juan teachings, 4 realz).  It's interesting.  They keep you occupied well when it's quiet and you can really get into it,

Man, Cloud Atlas sucks. Full that.  I am finally finishing up White Teeth, but reading the Enders game books is getting in the way.


Serious Books are starting to really piss me off, so many things that come highly recommended are either impenetrable or hard to follow.

The Way of Shadows. Book 1 of the Night Angels series by Brent Weeks.  Aboot 300 pages in...love it so far. Will be starting A Storm Of Swords, book 3 of the Game Of Thrones series after I finish this one. Reading essentially ANYTHING else is easy reading once you've read 2 George RR Martin books in a row. 2000 pages of Game Of Thrones, lol.

Quote from: themusketking on January 29, 2013, 12:21:56 AM
The Way of Shadows. Book 1 of the Night Angels series by Brent Weeks.  Aboot 300 pages in...love it so far. Will be starting A Storm Of Swords, book 3 of the Game Of Thrones series after I finish this one. Reading essentially ANYTHING else is easy reading once you've read 2 George RR Martin books in a row. 2000 pages of Game Of Thrones, lol.

Night Angel series is pretty good but the Black Prism series or w/e it's called is a bit better.  Night Angel was a little predictable.  I'm surprised more of you guys don't read Brandon Sanderson (and don't hear much about Joe Abercrombie here either).  Both of those two are just as good sa George RR Martin and I'd be inclined to say Mistborn is better then Game of Thrones but it's awfully close. 

Just finished The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart by Jesse Bullington. Hilarious 14th Century black comedy.

And The Wasp Factory by Ian Banks.  I haven't read any of his Sci-Fi but, after this, I will.

Starting on We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson.

I am reading the third Song of Ice And Fire novel, A Storm Of Swords.  I'll probably start some non-fiction book soon as well, I like to read a fiction and non-fiction book at the same time.

We live in Water- Jess Walter
Collection of short stories, highly recommended.

Right now I'm reading Roadside Picnic and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
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I read two of the previous Harry Potter books and The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King recently. I really enjoyed Eyes of the Dragon it's a fantasy book set I think in the same world as the Dark Tower books but in a past medieval period has a familiar antagonist one Randall Flagg. Taking a break from Shadow Country and Wolves of the Calla.

Quote from: Dylan Thomas on February 19, 2013, 07:34:03 AM
I am reading the third Song of Ice And Fire novel, A Storm Of Swords.  I'll probably start some non-fiction book soon as well, I like to read a fiction and non-fiction book at the same time.

If you want a good non-fiction book, I recommend Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken. A very good account of a WWII POW, Louie Zamperini, who was stranded at sea for 28 days and then endured horrible brutality by his Japanese captors.

TSOIAF books are aces. Well, the first three are anyway. I've read those twice now.

I know its a kids book but I'm really enjoying the "His Dark Materials" series of books.

Slowly finishing Childhood's End.  Sci-fi isn't really one of my genres in literature, I like some movies fine, but i feel like stuff like this just takes too many liberties.  i don't think it's clear enough how the overlords manage within a century to stop all negative behaviors or whatever.  It just sort of happens, like everyone, and I mean everyone, just said "okay" and changed.  I don't see that it works that way, but again, I don't know what I would do if some overlords came to town; certainly I'd try to talk to them and see if they wanted me to do anything differently, etc. but to completely stop being who you are if you're a evil person or whatever?  I don't think the sight of 10,000 saucers would do that to all man, but I don't know.  I didn't write an international smash seller.

Finished The Way Of Shadows. Loved it.  Just started Storm Of Swords. Cannot wait to knock it out so I can finish the Night Angel trilogy.

Quote from: MadJohnShaft on November 20, 2012, 10:28:18 AM
Meat Eater: Adventures from the Life of an American Hunter

This went down like a smoke bear ham.... interesting book.  He has a hunting show on the Sportsman's channel and is an interesting guy. I will keep following him.


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I really dig this so I read it again - I read the free part of his Buffalo book and may read the rest.

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I'll probably read lots more Steinbeck later because holy shit do I ever wish my life actually meant something.

Previously read Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (Book II in Hunger Games trilogy), Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick and Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen

Boneshaker by Cherie Priest is the book I'm reading right now first book in the steampunk genre for me pretty good so far.
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I have Boneshaker but haven't cracked it open - any good?



Finally reading this....

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Quote from: MadJohnShaft on March 08, 2013, 10:51:42 AM
I have Boneshaker but haven't cracked it open - any good?

I'm midway through and it's ok so I can't really recommend it. It has a good premise/ideas (post-apocalyptic down town Seattle with zombies/airship pirates) promising a fun read but the actual plot is rather boring but my main problem with it is I don't care too much for the two main characters. I could probably think of more bad things to say than good things.  

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov - the kindle edition is not available and I suspect it's because it is messed up like the iBooks edition, the reviews mention missing chapters and formatting issues.  Guess I will have to read the stupid paper edition.  Ours has got a big old crack in it so I would need to go to booksbythepound and purchase it.

I got The Tunnel to read eventually


Thirty years in the making, William Gass's second novel first appeared on the literary scene in 1995, at which time it was promptly hailed as an indisputable masterpiece. The story of a middle aged professor who, upon completion of his massive historical study, Guilt and Innocence in Hitler's Germany, finds himself writing a novel about his own life instead of the introduction to his magnum opus. The Tunnel meditates on history, hatred, unhappiness, and, above all, language.


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Just finished reading Blindness by José Saramago. It's a great book, however, I wish I have read it in the original Portuguese version... Apparently the translator died while he was working on this particular book, and unfortunately, the switch of translator becomes quite apparent. Asked my mom to send me the original and will give it a second try.

Dancers at the end of time, Michael Moorcock. I have to be in the mood for him but he is a genius. Very funny.

So many many fantasy novels read here.



I'm thinking of The Company - I am in the mood for a spy novel and this one gets amazing reviews


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just finished some murakami.  started petersburg by andre bely today.

I'm sad the massive 1Q84 got a cold reception. I like his writings so I didn't mind that not much happened, that book got in me.



When is Scarlett Thomas going to write new book?  (Apparently Sept or so) The last one was poor



I ordered a copy of this, after reading a bit online:

Elements of Algebra
Book by Leonhard Euler
Elements of Algebra is a mathematics textbook by mathematician Leonhard Euler, originally published circa 1765. His Elements of Algebra is one of the first books to set out algebra in the modern form we would recognize today.

Currently reading Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy.

Just started and have to finish my sunday night An Unquiet Mind.  An intern who runs a group handed it to me.  Hits home in many ways, in others not at all.

This ridiculousness:

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Then I will be done with fantasy forever.  Except now I'm watching Game of Thrones, too.  :-[

Finished An Unquiet Mind.  Very interesting.  The author's and my experiences with manic depression were very different, and her answer doesn't answer it for me, but I keep on chuggin for my own reasons now.  Love and Lithium are two very different things, and while I have one I feel like i can't feel the other.  I've tried.  It's overly poignant that lithium compliance and love are all that are necessary to keep on ealive; as in it's nice that lithium worked for her, but love is not something I think needs to be there for wanting to live.  love isn't what keeps me going.  My heart and mind are very much broken, and I know that without lithium i would be dead.  The elemental salt isn't entirely why i want to live, but it is the bulk of the reason why i have the ability to want to live at all.  Interesting read from the perspective of a doctor's life on lithium, past struggles with manic depression, and a life affected by this gene variation.

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Brain Food.

the dwarf - par lagerkvist

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.

Finally Metro 2033.

Had to stop reading Blood Meridian because it was actually depressing me, which is weird since it's the first time I've actually felt forced to stop reading a book for my own sake. Not sure exactly what book I should pick up now... Everything I have on my book queue is leaning towards the depressing side. Any "feel good" book suggestions?

Bukowski.  Tales Of Ordinary Madness.  Very uplifting :D

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Bukowski.  Tales Of Ordinary Madness.  Very uplifting :D

that's a great collection of stories.  i haven't read any buk in a very long time.  i may need to revisit soon. as for me, i've just begun

the gulag archipelago, 1918-1956, an experiment in literary investigation
volume 3

aleksandr solzhenitsyn

Women is always a good read.

I have a thing for Ham on Rye.

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This ridiculousness:

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Then I will be done with fantasy forever.  Except now I'm watching Game of Thrones, too.  :-[

I used to be a huge fan but I read them in Dutch and then I wanted to switch to English to keep up with the books but they had changed names of characters and the amount of characters is such a clusterfuck I kinda gave up.

Quote from: alfie on April 05, 2013, 04:30:42 PM
Dancers at the end of time, Michael Moorcock. I have to be in the mood for him but he is a genius. Very funny.

Awesome trilogy, read it in my teens. Lent it to my Dad, who surprisingly also enjoyed it. I knew he liked the odd bit of sci-fi but I honestly thought it would be too "far out" for him.

I'm currently reading The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, which needs no introductions.

I picked up Chuck Palahniuk's survivor this weekend and started it last night. I'm only like three chapters in so I can't come close to giving it a proper critique just yet

Decided to pluck Jack Vances Emphyrio off the shelf to mark his passing, few pages in and looking good.

Quote from: RAGER on May 17, 2013, 04:15:17 PM
Bukowski.  Tales Of Ordinary Madness.  Very uplifting :D

I actually read that not too long ago!!
Went to the bookstore last week and scored these goodies:

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Against better judgement, I'm currently reading Dostoyevky's Crime and Punishment, but only because I know there's a shipment of Zoloft on its way here.
Also ordered House of the Dead (another Dostoyevsky) and Os Maias (by Portuguese writer, Eça de Queirós) on Amazon yesterday.

My advice on the Nietzsche: read The Genealogy of Morals first. The Birth of Tragedy is quite dense and without some secundary literature next to you, you're gonna miss a lot of the references.

Finished and enjoyed The Company - I bought a DVD of the book that was a TNT miniseries too.


Moving on to something next - maybe
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This is supposed to be a masterpiece, might be too much for me to stay on top of though...I had to read the first sample chapter twice.

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Asimov's I, Robot.  It's a great book and absolutely unrelated to the movie.
Next in line is either Philip k. Dick's Martian Time Slip or Vulcan's Hammer.

the counterfeiters - andre gide

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Asimov's I, Robot.  It's a great book and absolutely unrelated to the movie.
Next in line is either Philip k. Dick's Martian Time Slip or Vulcan's Hammer.

The Martian Time Slip is great, though I haven't read Vulcan's Hammer.


Currently re-reading Ursula K LeGuinn's The Left Hand Of Darkness.  Great book, blew me away when I first read it, though that was years ago and I felt the need to revisit it now that I have a different perspective on life.  She's one of my favorite authors of all time.

I read that a couple years ago too - I read it at 13 or so and didn't remember much. Masterpiece.


I am trying to decide between:

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and then I just noticed that I bought but did not start reading....

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So much classy stuff to read and so much classy time to do something else..

under the volcano is great.  i haven't read the other three.

Just finished reading I Am Legend by Richard Matheson I enjoyed it haven't watched the movie adaptation starring Will Smith but I hear it's a lot different than the book. Don't know yet what I'll read next.

Very focusedly,

Rat Salad right now.

Finishing up the chapter on vol 4, 8 I think? 

I like that it approaches the love for the riffs from a musician's standpoint, it's just hard for me to appreciate his appreciate in that way because I'm not really a musician, always more an artist, but I feel his love for the classic sabbath years as he calls them, and the book deserves its place with the good sabbath biographies that are available.

I'm a few chapters from finishing A Dance with Dragons p1 which is awesome, can't wait to get back to Cersei!

Today I read most of Say you love Satan, fucking great read!!

I've just started "touching from a Distance" by Deborah Curtis, Ian Curtis' widow. So far she's not painted a pretty picture of him. Jealousy, controlling and very self centred seem to be the main character traits she remembers.

Read 2001: A Space Odyssey found it to be great I know the film by Kubrick is supposed to be a classic but after 40 minutes I stopped watching too boring weird I'll try again later.

Right now midway through Sabriel fast paced fantasy read.
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Started/finished Love's Executioner.  Will begin delving deeper into Dr. Yalom's work.

4th Harry Pooter - Goblet of Fire - and Dan Browns new one... Inferno. Also been dipping into Drood by Dan Simmons - but - I've been nursing that read forever - and Quantum Psychology by Robert Anton Wilson

Read Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke which was excellent now I'm reading Solaris by Stanislaw Lem. midway through and it's really interesting reminding me of Event Horizon being in deep space and past loved ones who should be dead start appearing in the spaceship.

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'tis a classic

I read this on a plane cause it was on my kindle... interesting, she knows a lot of the 70s-80s people well
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For a few years now, I've been trying to think why the fuck to still buy paper books so I started buying books that are 'weird', art objects, underground, or otherwise strangely plotted so that the physical makes more sense, and as a collection taken together is something worthwhile to still have in paper format. I sure do not want to own many more paper books unless there's a real reason. (In fact, this month I finally re-stumbled into French Oulipo novels, which is something I looked into a bit when I was a kid, but unlike in the 80s where each purchase took years of looking in every used book store diligently, you can buy this shit on the internet easily - so I am using restraint to avoid getting too many.)



Tloth

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The imagination runs wild in this book -- rather like a chariot with a wheel slipping from its axis. A maddening read -- I couldn't finish this book in one sitting , as someone commented above. One chapter a night was all I could handle, and with the plot and locales veering all over the map, I had a hard time remembering what I had read the night before. And yet, I knew that I absolutely HAD to finish Tlooth, and when I did, I was glad; the end reveals what this book is about (and it is about something after all). Erudite, staggeringly digressive, subversive, dreamlike, pansexual: TLOOTH gives mainstream fiction a rousing slap on the behind. (Expand that metaphor into something more knuckle-y, and you'll get the gist of what I really mean.) It's not a book in the usual sense of the world. It's a disorientation. Either you are up to it, or you aren't. NOT an Oprah Book Club selection (thank God)!





Hopscotch

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Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of bohemian friends who call themselves "the Club." A child's death and La Maga's disappearance put an end to his life of empty pleasures and intellectual acrobatics, and prompt Oliveira to return to Buenos Aires, where he works by turns as a salesman, a keeper of a circus cat which can truly count, and an attendant in an insane asylum. Hopscotch is the dazzling, freewheeling account of Oliveira's astonishing adventures.




Building Stories

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*Starred Review* Ware has been consistently pushing the boundaries for what the comics format can look like and accomplish as a storytelling medium. Here he does away with the book format—a thing between two covers that has a story that begins and ends—entirely in favor of a huge box containing 14 differently sized, formatted, and bound pieces: books, pamphlets, broadsheets, scraps, and even a unfoldable board that would be at home in a Monopoly box. The pieces, some previously published in various places and others new for this set, swarm around a Chicago three-flat occupied by an elderly landlady, a spiteful married couple, and a lonely amputee (there's also a bee bumbling around in a rare display of levity). The emotional tenor remains as soul-crushing and painfully insightful as any of Ware's work, but it's really insufficient to talk about what happens in anything he does. It's all about the grind and folly of everyday life but presented in an exhilarating fashion, each composition an obsessively perfect alignment of line, shape, color, and perspective. More than anything, though, this graphic novel (if it can even be called that) mimics the kaleidoscopic nature of memory itself—fleeting, contradictory, anchored to a few significant moments, and a heavier burden by the day. In terms of pure artistic innovation, Ware is in a stratosphere all his own. --Ian Chipman



The Quincunx

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"The Quincunx" is an epic Dickensian-like mystery novel set in 19th century England, and concerns the varying fortunes of young John Huffam and his mother. A thrilling complex plot is made more intriguing by the unreliable narrator of the book - how much can we believe of what he says? First published in 1989, "The Quincunx" was a surprise bestseller and began a trend for pastiche Victorian novels. It remains one of the best.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.



Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

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One of the most famous books in the world, the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, read by every Renaissance intellectual and referred to in studies of art and culture ever since, was first published in English by Thames & Hudson in 1999.

It is a strange, pagan, pedantic, erotic, allegorical, mythological romance relating in highly stylized Italian the quest of Poliphilo for his beloved Polia. The author (presumed to be Francesco Colonna, a friar of dubious reputation) was obsessed by architecture, landscape, and costume—it is not going too far to say sexually obsessed—and its 174 woodcuts are a primary source for Renaissance ideas on both buildings and gardens.

In 1592 an attempt was made to produce an English version but the translator gave up. The task has been triumphantly accomplished by Joscelyn Godwin, who succeeds in reproducing all its wayward charm and arcane learning in language accessible to the modern reader. 174 black-and-white illustrations



I Wonder

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Quirky, poignant, astute, funny—this beautiful book presents a compelling collection of observations on visual culture and design, written and illuminated by world-renowned typographic illustrator Marian Bantjes. In Stefan Sagmeister's telling words, Bantjes's work is his  "favorite example of beauty facilitating the communication of meaning."




Tree of Codes

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Tree of Codes is a haunting new story by best-selling American writer, Jonathan Safran Foer. With a different die-cut on every page, Tree of Codes explores previously unchartered literary territory. Initially deemed impossible to make, the book is a first — as much a sculptural object as it is a work of masterful storytelling. Tree of Codes is the story of an enormous last day of life — as one character's life is chased to extinction, Foer multi-layers the story with immense, anxious, at times disorientating imagery, crossing both a sense of time and place, making the story of one person's last day everyone's story. Inspired to exhume a new story from an existing text, Jonathan Safran Foer has taken his "favorite" book, The Street of Crocodiles by Polish-Jewish writer Bruno Schulz, and used it as a canvas, cutting into and out of the pages, to arrive at an original new story told in Jonathan Safran Foer's own acclaimed voice.


A Humument (I have a couple of these and some signed plates I framed)

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"A 'treated Victorian novel'—treated with humor and poetry, and a feeling for the 'ghosts of other possible stories' lurking in the original text. It may be the closest a paperback book has come to being an art object."—New York

In the mid-1960s, Tom Phillips took a forgotten nineteenth-century novel, W. H. Mallock's A Human Document, and began working over the extant text to create something new. The artist writes, "I plundered, mined, and undermined its text to make it yield the ghosts of other possible stories, scenes, poems, erotic incidents, and surrealist catastrophes which seemed to lurk within its wall of words. As I worked on it, I replaced the text I'd stripped away with visual images of all kinds. It began to tell and depict, among other memories, dreams, and reflections, the sad story of Bill Toge, one of love's casualties."




Blast!    Since I'm a fan of the futurists and the vorticists, although they are sort of Nazis.

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Blast was the short-lived literary magazine of the Vorticist movement in Britain. Two editions were published: the first on 2 July 1914 (dated 20 June 1914, but publication was delayed)[1][2] and published with uncharacteristic and shockingly bright pink cover art, referred to by Ezra Pound as the "great MAGENTA cover'd opusculus"; and the second a year later on 15 July 1915. Both editions were written primarily by Wyndham Lewis. [3] The magazine is emblematic of the modern art movement in England,[4] and recognised as a seminal text of pre-war 20th-century modernism.








These are sitting in my wish list until someone gets me an Amazon gift card....



Exercises in Style

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"A work of genius in a brilliant translation by Barbara Wright....Endlessly fascinating and very funny." —Philip Pullman

The plot of Exercises in Style is simple: a man gets into an argument with another passenger on a bus. However, this anecdote is told 99 more times, each in a radically different style, as a sonnet, an opera, in slang, and with many more permutations. This virtuoso set of variations is a linguistic rust-remover, and a guide to literary forms.




Pataphysics

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Of all the French cultural exports over the last 150 years or so, 'pataphysics--the science of imaginary solutions and the laws governing exceptions--has proven to be one of the most durable. Originating in the wild imagination of French poet and playwright Alfred Jarry and his schoolmates, resisting clear definition, purposefully useless, and almost impossible to understand, 'pataphysics nevertheless lies around the roots of Absurdism, Dada, futurism, surrealism, situationism, and other key cultural developments of the twentieth century. In this account of the evolution and influence of 'pataphysics, Andrew Hugill offers an informed exposition of a rich and difficult territory, staying aloft on a tightrope stretched between the twin dangers of oversimplifying a serious subject and taking a joke too seriously. Drawing on more than twenty-five years' research, Hugill maps the 'pataphysical presence (partly conscious and acknowledged but largely unconscious and unacknowledged) in literature, theater, music, the visual arts, and the culture at large, and even detects 'pataphysical influence in the social sciences and the sciences. He offers many substantial excerpts (in English translation) from primary sources, intercalated with a thorough explication of key themes and events of 'pataphysical history.


Lesabendio

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First published in German in 1913 and widely considered to be Paul Scheerbart's masterpiece, Lesabéndio is an intergalactic utopian novel that describes life on the planetoid Pallas, where rubbery suction-footed life forms with telescopic eyes smoke bubble-weed in mushroom meadows under violet skies and green stars. Amid the conveyor-belt highways and lighthouses weaving together the mountains and valleys, a visionary named Lesabéndio hatches a plan to build a 44-mile-high tower and employ architecture to connect the two halves of their double star. A cosmic ecological fable, Scheerbart's novel was admired by such architects as Bruno Taut and Walter Gropius, and such thinkers as Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem (whose wedding present to Benjamin was a copy of Lesabéndio). Benjamin had intended to devote the concluding section of his lost manuscript "The True Politician" with a discussion of the positive political possibiliti<\h>es embedded in Scheerbart's "Asteroid Novel." As translator Christina Svendsen writes in her introduction, "Lesabéndio helps us imagine an ecological politics more daring than the conservative politics of preservation, even as it reminds us that we are part of a larger galactic set of interrelationships." This volume includes Alfred Kubin's illustrations from the original German edition.
Paul Scheerbart (1863-1915) was a novelist, playwright, poet, newspaper critic, draftsman, visionary, proponent of glass architecture and would-be inventor of perpetual motion, who wrote fantastical fables and interplanetary satires that were to influence Expressionist authors and the German Dada movement, and which helped found German science fiction.

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Lie down in darkness by William styron.  I read it many years ago and loved it.  Interested to see how my opinion of it may have changed.  Or not.

Building Stories - not the kind of thing you can bring to the beach though

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This book is pretty dang awesome. It's about the Soviet space program and the first man in space Yuri Gagarin.

Oh, summer, reading and swimming and salty tits (my penis can be salty too!)

I just read Darkness Visible by the Lord of the Flies guy...damn weird book. Reads like something Alan Moore could have done in comic. I didn't like but didn't dislike it. Books are pyschotropic aren't they? this ones that have a lot of description of mental states specially, it's too easy to look up around you and start viewing the world like you have been reading...

But that was all for letters (this book I picked it up from a garbage container in the street, when I saw it was by Golding) I went to the local library in Menorca and borrowed at a rate of three comics / day.

Ones that you might find around:
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A 90's vibe to it, tastes like grunge. I liked it

And Return to the Sea. http://www.anymanga.com/kaikisen-return-to-the-sea/

An d many other comic books, from Spanish authors, and italian, stuff not translated into English ... but now I gotta work :(

@MJS

Roberto Bolaño is some overrated ball of hype, they've been trying to sell him (he's dead already btw) like he's the new South American genious, but I have not been able to finish a single of his novels, (started 3 of them) It's only good to put you to sleep.

On the other hand Julio Cortázar is good. But Hopscotch might not be a good choice. Cronopios and Famas or any other short story compilation from him are best.

Yeah - the NYT bestseller lists promote a lot of stuff like Savage Detectives that I don't find all that engaging. Maybe the people in NY are so busy yelling and complaining that every book is a nice break.....I still will take a shot at it.




I started reading a 1902 diary by this 19 year old from Montana that is a very famous book - I Await the Devil's Coming by Mary MacLane....

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Mary MacLane's I Await the Devil's Coming is a shocking, brave and intellectually challenging diary of a 19-year-old girl living in Butte, Montana in 1902. Written in potent, raw prose that propelled the author to celebrity upon publication, the book has become almost completely forgotten.

In the early 20th century, MacLane's name was synonymous with sexuality; she is widely hailed as being one of the earliest American feminist authors, and critics at the time praised her work for its daringly open and confessional style. In its first month of publication, the book sold 100,000 copies — a remarkable number for a debut author, and one that illustrates MacLane's broad appeal.

Now, with a new foreward written by critic Jessa Crispin, I Await The Devil's Coming stands poised to renew its reputation as one of America's earliest and most powerful accounts of feminist thought and creativity.


I wonder if any of the reviewers made it to the latter 2/3 of the book - the language is heavy and beautiful. I don't really care what she's typing and it's certainly not a feminist genre novel,  it's just perfect. 

Rereading "The Music Lesson" by Victor Wooten again


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Quote from: berrugal on August 07, 2013, 09:50:59 AM
@MJS

On the other hand Julio Cortázar is good. But Hopscotch might not be a good choice. Cronopios and Famas or any other short story compilation from him are best.

I love Hopscotch. LOVE IT. I will check out some short stories though. Have not read anything else of his.

Reading Cloud Atlas. Huge fan of the film and really enjoying the book so far. Of course, I have not made it to the Apostrophe Fest yet....we'll see how that goes.

Cosa Nostra by John Dickie, a history of the Sicilian Mafia.

It's an interesting read, posits some plausible theories regarding the origins of the organisation, argues that the fledgling Italian state was too weak and did not have a significant enough monopoly on violence to prevent the mafia growing the way it did.

You would like the multi-part national geographic show that's been on.



I am excited for Night Film that comes out Tuesday - a seven year wait since Calamity Physics and it's getting good reviews


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Ms Pessl left her man in the interim too, so there's that.

Quite the page-turner, about the Sexual Revolution, pre-Aids (published in 1981).

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Good lord, why?

Because it's an excellent book, douche.  Probably the most fascinating sections for me focus on the evolution of First Amendment law in reaction to the persecution of 'obscene material' from the 1900s to the 1970s.

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Short story collection most being from the 1960s. Arthur C. Clarke is so far my favorite SF author.

Just finished a Thin Lizzy trilogy by Martin Popoff. Not bad at all...

And right now Hillary Jordan's Mississippi.

"Douche"?   You too with that infantile Massachuettes teenslang CD reviewers favorite word.




Night Film is excellent. She's speaking here next week maybe I'll go see her - it's at a luncheon called the Woman's Writers Series which may be scaring me a little.

Amazing, comprehensive, exhausting:

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confederacy of dunces - william kennedy toole

The new Thomas Pynchon novel, Bleeding Edge.  It's actually a really fun, engaging read.

Last Book: Vulcan's Hammer by Philip K Dick
Current: Martian Time Slip by PKD.  Not really far into the book, but man o man, this is so damn good so far.
Next up: Either Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughter House five, Michel Foucault's Madness and Civilization, PKD's Our friends from Frolix 8 or Clans of the Alphane Moon or PKD short stories.

A Pulitzer winner, so far so good

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Update: ka-Ching!   It's all about North Korea and it's perfect.  It's at sea in a creaky fishing boat.

Quote from: johnny problem on October 14, 2013, 03:16:33 PM
Last Book: Vulcan's Hammer by Philip K Dick
Current: Martian Time Slip by PKD.  Not really far into the book, but man o man, this is so damn good so far.
Next up: Either Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughter House five, Michel Foucault's Madness and Civilization, PKD's Our friends from Frolix 8 or Clans of the Alphane Moon or PKD short stories.

Cool, man.  Big fan of PkD here.  Read Martian Time Slip and Clans of the Alphane Moon, both awesome.  How's Vulcan's Hammer treating you

This box of books series on AV Club is interesting - he's got a lot of SF in it

http://www.avclub.com/articles/box-of-paperbacks-neutron-star,8414/ (http://www.avclub.com/articles/box-of-paperbacks-neutron-star,8414/)


Next, I'm reading The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton that won the Man Booker Prize 2013 - it gets great reviews and I like long ass books.

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Quote from: johnny problem on October 14, 2013, 03:16:33 PM
Last Book: Vulcan's Hammer by Philip K Dick
Current: Martian Time Slip by PKD.  Not really far into the book, but man o man, this is so damn good so far.
Next up: Either Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughter House five, Michel Foucault's Madness and Civilization, PKD's Our friends from Frolix 8 or Clans of the Alphane Moon or PKD short stories.

Cool, man.  Big fan of PkD here.  Read Martian Time Slip and Clans of the Alphane Moon, both awesome.  How's Vulcan's Hammer treating you

Vulcan's Hammer was entertaining, however, I found it to be kind of weak compared to other PKD stories.  It almost seemed rushed and details that PKD would normally indulge the reader in, were non existent.

Reading "Hocus Pocus" by Kurt Vonnegut, as ever with him very enjoyable, almost pacing myself with it in an attempt not to finish it too quickly.

Picked up "Gravity" by Thomas Pynchon in a charity shop today, not read anything by him, and at 600 odd pages long a bit daunting - anyone read it?

Rereading The Witching Hour by Ann Rice. It's the first book in the Mayfair Witches trilogy, which is her best work, imo...

Quote from: lowdaddy on October 05, 2013, 07:53:16 PM
confederacy of dunces - william kennedy toole

Hey-o, me too!  Probably been 25 years since I last read it.  I started reading a newish Toole biography (Butterfly in the Typewriter) and realized I needed to revisit Dunces first. Classic

Quote from: alfie on October 21, 2013, 04:27:19 PM
Reading "Hocus Pocus" by Kurt Vonnegut, as ever with him very enjoyable, almost pacing myself with it in an attempt not to finish it too quickly.

Picked up "Gravity" by Thomas Pynchon in a charity shop today, not read anything by him, and at 600 odd pages long a bit daunting - anyone read it?

Gravity's Rainbow is the book your referring to I believe and maybe not the best Pynchon novel to start with. V might be a better starting point. It took me a long while to get through Gravity's Rainbow, which was my first Pynchon novel, wouldnt mind rereading it as I have a better grasp on his style now

Gravity's Rainbow is a battle.

If you dig Pynchon, you might enjoy Lawrence Norfolk. Somewhat similar writing style (particularly his 2nd book 'The Popes Rhinocerous'.)

Gravity's Rainbow is impenetrable and I am open to tough reads.


I'm reading loving Orphan Masters Son.  In that tradition I am going onwards to The Luminaries next, the one that's been getting great reviews and a lot of attention.

I too could not get through Gravity's Rainbow.  The last 2 Pynchon books are easy reads, however.

I am almost done with Lords of Finance, amazing book about the cause of the Great Depression that presciently came out in 2009 as the economy once again collapsed:

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I'm a bit of a Somerset Maugham fan, his writing and observations just speak to me. His most autobiographical novel 'Of Human Bondage' is still my favorite book of all time, partly due to the similarities between myself and the main character. This one -like Of Human Bondage- is about a young man struggling to find his place in the world and although they are both very different, I really like this one as well. As it is probably his most American novel, I find some his findings to be truly interesting such as the feeling they had in the 1920s that the US would become an economic superpower in the next decennia. While most of the characters speak of adventure and hope, the main character is just trying to find his place in a world like that.

Recommended.

Now I'm onto the 2nd book in the Mayfair Witches trilogy, "Lasher."

Year Zero, by Ian Buruma.  A riveting history of 1945, the traumatic transition that took place after WWII.  I'm only 40 pages in and I've already read some insane shit.

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Just finished 'Blackwater' by Jeremy Scahill.  As maddening as you would imagine

Didn't bother with Gravity's Rainbow, back on the shelf for a while, thanks for the tips.

Read "Mockingbird" by Walter Tevis instead, fantastic book, had no idea he also wrote the Hustler.

This list of 15 dystopian novels is a revelation. 

Now im reading MadAddam. Good as far as Im concerned. After reading the first two, im pretty invested, so even if it does suck, im going to finish it.

And now I'm into the 3rd & final novel in the Mayfair Witches trilogy: Taltos.

A book about Yngwie Malmsteen written by a swedish author... Quite interesting acctually.

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they finally put someone on the cover worth reading about..

Is that your address? I am in the bushes.

no, its a pic I lifted off the internet. im not really sure whos bushes youre in, but they aint mine..

reading the Dark Prism by Brent Weeks. After I finished the Night Angel trilogy he wrote I went to this. Love his stuff.

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Pretty good, some early Manson history. I've read "Helter Skelter" a few times, and this is a decent complement to it.

Jesus Carrasco - Intemperie

This is a Spanish book, I read the Dutch translation. Couldn't find anything about an English translation.. Anyway, best book I read in 2013. It gets a lot of comparisons with The Road by McCarthy but I found the setting to be more special and the ending is definitely more action oriented than the Road.

Finished a well reviewed novel with an animal rights theme ' we are completely beside ourselves'.  Very good.

Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew by Shehan Karunatilaka.

A novel about Sri Lankan cricket, seemingly unlikely to appeal to anyone here, but actually more about corruption, drinking and obsession so actually very apt. Best book I read last year, well worth a try if looking for something different.

Started 'Homo Zapiens' (was Gen P) which was a best seller in Russia ten tears ago and deals with the years after the Soviets fell before the dictatorship took hold. The main character is involved in the advertising industry.


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Just started 'The Unwinding'.

It's about individuals living in a country that decided to shred and burn the social contract thirty years ago in lieu of organized money. There's four individuals the author interviews, who, through no fault of there own, find themselves slowly drifting to the far left of the economic bell curve. One gal is from Youngstown. He also combines quotes and news stories from mega huge celebrities to get 'an interview' with them (and presumably demonstrate their enormous hypocrisy).   

Quote from: peoplething on January 14, 2014, 08:28:06 AM
Just started 'The Unwinding'.

It's about individuals living in a country that decided to shred and burn the social contract thirty years ago in lieu of organized money. There's four individuals the author interviews, who, through no fault of there own, find themselves slowly drifting to the far left of the economic bell curve. One gal is from Youngstown. He also combines quotes and news stories from mega huge celebrities to get 'an interview' with them (and presumably demonstrate their enormous hypocrisy).   

Great book, I read that a few months ago.  Very readable history.  The Youngstown shit is insane.

I bought a couple of books in Amsterdam and first up is Miles The Autobiography. Funny as hell, great information and just allround very inspiring. The story about Charlie Parker high on heroin, eating fried chicken while a "white bitch" is sucking his dick in the back of a cab is hilarious. Recommended.

'hilarious' doesn't mean what you think it means

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Quote from: mortlock on December 10, 2013, 11:52:25 PM
no, its a pic I lifted off the internet. im not really sure whos bushes youre in, but they aint mine..

Applauded for enticing MJS into shrubbery.

I'm reading Mean Deviation, Four Decades of Progressive Metal by Jeff Wagner. It was an Xmas present from my wife (one of my cooler presents)

What?

I am tempted to read "the secret history" next. I'm not happy about it, it's long and requires a little concentration.  Thinking of bailing on Gen P


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Starting with part two of 1Q84 any day now.  :P

I'm a big fan of HM but disappointed by 1Q84 - I've read wind up and sheep and holding off in Kafta and Norwegian for some nice sitting around beach time.

I personally love The Secret History. In a moment of "I don't know what to read anymore" when I was 15, my sis gave me that book in English. Not only did I love the story, the characters, etc, its main contribution was I learned my English was good enough to read books in original version, not translated and butchered.

I bought a collection of Lovecraft stories since the copy I borrowed from a friend went missing in the abyss  ;D

Music speaking, I'm workin' on Vince Neil's book and Duff McKagen's book. I'm a sucker for all the debauchery stories. Love 'em

I picked up an HP Lovecraft anthology recently so I've made a start on that. Can't believe it's taken me until my 42nd year to get round to reading his work.

Of course, to Azathoth that's not even the blink of an eyelid.

 :D :D :D

I'm reading "Economics for Dummies"

Since I am looking for work, I have been paying more attention to the business sections of the news websites. I wanted to understand more and get a clearer understanding of which way this country is going.

I'm thinking of bailing on The Secret History at 25%, it's okay but I'm not hooked.



I looked in those best SF lists and there are three books I haven't read mentioned. I should read the PK Dick (Ubik) - I read many of his books but that was 30 years ago.

Old Man's War, Ubik, Hyperion

Shit if I bailed on giant The Secret History I probably won't even bother trying to read really long The Luminaries.

Ubik is great. And I hear the movie is coming, so, better read it unpolluted.

My daughter brought them home, so I spent the last 4 days reading the Hunger Games trilogy. Surprisingly engaging!

I read the Hyperion Cantos a few years ago, prepare to be amazed.

I'm not going to say what I'm reading just now because I don't want any spoilers. Suffice to say that 130 pages into a 200 page novel, shit done get fucked up. I should finish it this evening, then I'll tell you what book it was.

Illusions by Richard Bach?

It was Legends of a Suicide by David Vann. Have you read it Shaft?

The UK edition (including the cover blurb) makes the book seem weirder than it actually is. Thats all I'll say for now in case you havent read it.

I'm now moving on to some political reading; "Chavs,The Demonisation of the Working Class"

Ubik was great, loved it.

I'm going to read The Old Mans War or The Forever War next.

The Forever War is fantastic, I've read it a number of times

I'm reading Forever War and The Secret History simultaneously and it's confusing the hell out of me

The Forever War is a classic.  Crazy thing about it is it doesn't feel dated at all when you read it especially when you consider how long ago it was written thats nuts.  A good one that people don't often mention too is Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress which is a pretty unusual book.  Some other really good ones that you don't see mentioned often are Zelazny's Lord of Light, Steakley's Armor, and Hintz' Liege-Killer (although I never read the other 2 books in that series).  Only problem with sci-fi is I've been reading it for so long I feel like I'm approaching the end of new books until people write more.  At least for the good ones.

Hey Giantchris please do share your list of good ones.  3rd floor at the university library is DEVOTED to sci-fi, I can get pretty much everything that's not so obscure. There are comics, books and films... all sci-fi all the time. I even got scared.

As for me, I illegally downloaded "Bike Snob" by Christopher Koelle, it's about the current trend in bycicles, it tries a bit too much to do jokes and be funny, but it's funny overall and a light, entertaining read.

Update on this bike book: I'm really liking it, I usually do not read non-fiction and it's a surprise, it's deeper than I thought in the first place too, some segments have a "modern philosophy essay" ring to them

Quote from: berrugal on May 05, 2014, 12:49:37 PM
Hey Giantchris please do share your list of good ones.  3rd floor at the university library is DEVOTED to sci-fi, I can get pretty much everything that's not so obscure. There are comics, books and films... all sci-fi all the time. I even got scared.

As for me, I illegally downloaded "Bike Snob" by Christopher Koelle, it's about the current trend in bycicles, it tries a bit too much to do jokes and be funny, but it's funny overall and a light, entertaining read.

Update on this bike book: I'm really liking it, I usually do not read non-fiction and it's a surprise, it's deeper than I thought in the first place too, some segments have a "modern philosophy essay" ring to them

Ok I'll throw down a couple more good ones off the top of my head.  

A really exceptional author that you don't see mentioned much is Paul Linebarger/Cordwainer Smith who had a fascinating real-life being in military intelligence during WW2.  He even wrote a classic reference book on psychological warfare in the late 40s.  His short stories and the novel Nostrilla are pretty damn good.

But on to a random list of good sci-fi

Ira Levin's This Perfect Day
Walter Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz
Samuel Miller's Babel-17
Barry Hughart's The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox
Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep & A Deepness in the Sky
David Brin's The Postman (please ignore the movie)
Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle
Ursula Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness
John W. Campbell Jr's Who Goes There?  (The movie The Thing is based off this)
Tim Powers' The Anubis Gates
L. Ron Hubbard's Battlefield Earth
Harry Turtledove's Worldwar series
Hugh Howey's Wool/Shift
Asimov's Foundation Series

Here's the obvious ones that everybody should read -

George Orwell's 1984
Heinlein's A Stranger in a Strange Land
William Gibson's Neuromancer
Frank Herbert's Dune
Asimov's I, Robot
Phillip K Dick's Ubik, A Scanner Darkly
Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
Heinlein's Starship Troopers
Dan Simmons' Hyperion Series
Joseph Heller's Catch 22
Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game

Books I should have read already but keep putting off that I know are really good because people have told me so over the years.

Larry Niven's Ringworld
John Scalzi's Old Man's War
Edgar Rice Burrough's books
Any Lovecraft books
Gregory Benford's In the Ocean of Night

I haven't read much modern sci-fi mostly because nothing has really interested me from reading reviews.  I did buy The Rho Agenda which is pretty newish but haven't read it yet.  I HAVE read a ton of obscure and good modern fantasy though but that is a seperate list.

Thanks!

I see classics here... (read some but not many)  I'm going to check out several names... I read most of LeGuin though, but no or just one (a door through summer? by Heinlein and i think I might like Heinlein.
Got to chek also this Wool MJS wrote about before too. But I'm very fond of "life is a simulation", time travel, paranoid kind of stuff K Dick style, probably your list is a lot wider.

I think I read many Asimov's as a child, but I can't remember, and I don't like it because anytime I pick up one of his books sooner or later I have the feeling I already read that.

Anyways I won't be reading  much before summer so I'll come back later when in need of ideas.

Just remembered one of the authors I'd liked most in sci fi (was also a sr.com recommendation), Greg Egan - Permutation City ... I'd like some more stuff in this vein !

Half way (I think..) through Danielewski's House Of Leaves.

If Doctor Sleep comes out in paperback before I finish this then that's it for this book. It's a nice story with an admittedly pretty awesome, albeit slightly gimmicky presentation, but I think I've had enough of it at this point.


I liked The Secret History, but I think you need to be in your late teens or early twenties to enjoy it.

Quote from: berrugal on May 08, 2014, 05:00:43 AM
Thanks!

I see classics here... (read some but not many)  I'm going to check out several names... I read most of LeGuin though, but no or just one (a door through summer? by Heinlein and i think I might like Heinlein.
Got to chek also this Wool MJS wrote about before too. But I'm very fond of "life is a simulation", time travel, paranoid kind of stuff K Dick style, probably your list is a lot wider.

I think I read many Asimov's as a child, but I can't remember, and I don't like it because anytime I pick up one of his books sooner or later I have the feeling I already read that.

Anyways I won't be reading  much before summer so I'll come back later when in need of ideas.

I bought Wool based off of MJS' thread and its totally worth it.  It's one of the best book series I've ever read from start to finish.  Asimov is good but more because his concepts were so out there but personally I like Heinlein overall his work is consistently good throughout his entire career. 

I'll check out that Egan guy you mentioned as well.

I was worried WOOL would be wonky but it got such good reviews.  I didn't read the prequel yet.


Walter Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz - yes

How about Day of the Triffids?



I read all of the Heinlein when I was in college - all of the Harlan Ellison too. I must have 25 of his books back when I was scouring church rummage sales as a full time hobby.

Halfway through Dean Wareham's autobiography. Not bad, scary how self-aware he was with some of the decisions he made.

I read most of giantchris's items, guess I will try  Hyperion next.

Giantchris,  you must read Ringworld and it's sequel Ringworld Engineers if you can find copies anywhere.

I've just started World War Z, I think I'm going to have problems putting it down.

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I've just started World War Z, I think I'm going to have problems putting it down.

Read that, and then never ever ever ever ever watch the fillum.

That's what I've heard.

The book is terrifyingly plausible (apart from the whole rising from the dead bit of course  ;) ) but the depth of detail regarding govt reactions, how international relations are affected etc makes it seem very real.

Quote from: Dunedin on May 19, 2014, 05:17:21 PM
Giantchris,  you must read Ringworld and it's sequel Ringworld Engineers if you can find copies anywhere.

I've just started World War Z, I think I'm going to have problems putting it down.

Yeah Ringworld is next after I finish the book I'm on and the new Joe Abercrombie book that comes out very soon if it didn't come out already. 

Well if you guys/gals read any fantasy books I could throw the following recommendations in no particular order

Chris A. Jackson's Weapon of Flesh Trilogy
Miles Cameron's The Traitor Son series
Django Wexler's The Thousand Names
Jeff Wheeler's Legends of Muirwood and Whispers from Mirrowen
Marie Lu's Legend series
Scott Lynch's Gentleman Bastards
Mark Lawrence's The Broken Empire series
Peter V. Brett's The Daylight War
Keyes's The Briar King

(Here's where we get obvious)
Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen
Patrick Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind
Brandon Sanderson's Anything he Ever Wrote
Brent Weeks' Black Prism
David Edding's First couple Series
Joe Abercrombie's First Law series
Jordan's Wheel of Time if you can get past the horrible dredge of Winter's Heart without killing yourself.
Robin Hobb's Assasins books
Raymond Feist's First 2 series were very good
Weis/Hickman's Death Gate Cycle and the first three books in Dragonlance
Elizabeth Moon's The Deed of Paksenarrion (don't read the new ones)

I would strongly recommend the Django Wexler and Miles Cameron books as they were surprisingly good and very different.  

Also I could recommend as being entertaining but not really amazing M. R. Mathias' books and David Daglish's later books are pretty entertaining as is Michael J. Sullivan's Crown Conspiracy and the series Empires of Moth.    I also forgot to add Steakley's Armor to the sci-fi list.

I can't make myself choke down any of the fantasy genre.

I would add Earth Abides by George R. Stewart  to the first page SF list

Quote from: MadJohnShaft on May 21, 2014, 12:26:31 PM
I can't make myself choke down any of the fantasy genre.

I'll tell you it's gotten a lot better.  The Joe Abercrombie/Brandon Sanderson/Patrick Rothfuss books are as good as anything I've ever read in any genre and those authors are all pretty new.  You'd probably like Abercrombie's books MJS its completely "adult" and pretty damn gritty and grim.  The Erikson series the Malazan Book of the Fallen is very unusual and the writing is top notch.  When you compare those books to the earlier non-Tolkien fantasy from the 70s and 80s they are a huge step up in quality of writing and plot.  If you haven't read any of the newer stuff you might find you like it.

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This is a must read..

Guess I'm reading the post human series because that's what's on my Kindle (my kid logged in to mine so I can grab any books he has over to my account and it stays there when I log back in)

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This is a must read..

Where did you score that?
I couldn't find it on Amazon and the googles says it doesn't exist (other than a link to blabbermouth saying it's due out this summer).

Quote from: MadJohnShaft on May 21, 2014, 12:26:31 PM
I can't make myself choke down any of the fantasy genre.

Yeah, it's been a long time since I read any fantasy novels. I think I'll take giantchris' recommendation on a couple though and give them a try.

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This is a must read..

Where did you score that?
I couldn't find it on Amazon and the googles says it doesn't exist (other than a link to blabbermouth saying it's due out this summer).

I didn't score it yet. I should have said an 'upcoming' must read.

Did anyone mention "More than Human" by Theodore Sturgeon? Has to be an all time favourite of mine.

With regards to Fantasy, have always had reservations, but recently found myself reading Gene Wolfe's "Book(s) of The New Sun", having loved  The Fifth Head of Cerberus. Anyway, struggled through the first one before ending it on a positive, now close to the end of the 2nd, and it is great, just when you get lost in "fantasy" jargon he comes up with some great ideas and trippy scenarios.

Yes I remember More Than Human being a well loved classic.

Just finished Sonny Barger's autobiography.  Pretty cool read.

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The Book of the New Son is very "out there" but pales into insignificance compared to the follow up, The Urth of the New Sun. I've posted about it before, mostly about the fact I could barely understand what it was about.

Jesus?

Quote from: MadJohnShaft on May 29, 2014, 09:34:16 AM
Jesus?

Possibly, my spelling mistake might have been synchronicity in action.

I've just started The Time Machine by Wells. Fancied a classic as I dont read enough of them.

the count of monte cristo

you can tell dumas got paid by the line.

Ok Shaft, based on your recommendation earlier in this thread I bought a copy of Wool today.

Reading 'The Futurological Congress" by Stanislaw Lem, brilliant.

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Reading 'The Futurological Congress" by Stanislaw Lem, brilliant.

Oh how I love Lem. An absolute God, Solaris is just gob-smacking.

Just started on Peake's "Titus Groan". Never read the trilogy before but picked up this book for a few dollars in a second-hand book store. Hope it lives up to the hype. Also thinking of getting Julian Copes debut novel "One Three One" (on Faber and Faber!!). Getting remarkably good reviews.

When I have the time to be sober, it's been: To Save Everything, CLICK HERE [Evgeny Morozov]
...heavy intellectual read, bit verbose at times but great diatribe about the 'folly of Technological Solutionism'.

SO, to balance it off a righteous read of Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion [Martin A. Lee and Bruce Shlain]

I read the Post Human trilogy which was great. Now I'm half done with Day of the Jackal,  thriller spy novel which is pretty good and I'm enjoying.

Reading this on paper: https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/book/19-key-essays-on-how-internet-is-changing-our-lives/

and more Greg Egan, but I'm really annoyed by the translation. I read also "you are your own gym" in españolo and this one was like someone google translated, then had about 1 hour to fix it.

I'm near the end of the latest Game of thrones book. Which is kind of sad. But it seems that he's writing again at least.

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Bought this for 5 bucks. Easy summer reading.

Dune

Was about time I got around to this.

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Bought this for 5 bucks. Easy summer reading.

I love Michael Moorcocks work. And your right, a lot of his Eternal Champion stuff is fairly fast paced, easy to read stuff.

I finished Wool pretty quickly. Loved every page of it.

Just started Stonemouth by Iain Banks. Some of his recurring motifs are there, a young slightly edgy main character who is forced into a homecoming. I've yet to see how the rest of it pans out.

"Johnny Cash" by Robert Hilburn


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Quote from: vonzombie on July 17, 2014, 12:17:19 PM
He's been writing the next one for about 4000 years. I think it's going to be a two-fer now? Or a three-fer?

What pisses me off is he seems to spend a ton of time on stuff other then writing and he's trying to convince them to do 7 seasons of the show and have the last book be a movie....TO GIVE HIM MORE TIME TO FINISH.  That and he had some butthurt interview where he is complaining that people being worried about him dying before he finishes is offensive.  What exactly are we supposed to think at this point hell hes over 60 and still a fatass.  I mean I'm overweight but I have no illusions about my life expectancy if I don't lose weight which is why I've lost 40 lbs so far this year.  Hell I work in healthcare and if this guy doesn't have CHF he's going to very soon.  I wouldn't be particularly surprised if he has obesity-related hypo-ventilation as well and I GUARENTEE you he has sleep apnea which also means he has hypertension.  /End Rant

But yeah I am reading my strange uncle's book and then I'm going to read Ringworld finally.  Glad that I saw some people read Wool what an awesome story that is.  There are some reports that Ridley Scott is going to make it into a movie which should be pretty cool.

Picked up the comic book Footnotes from Gaza, the library had all their stuff on the conflict showed off on a table. I skipped it many times, I guess I'll read it now. Also went to "world comics" table and there were Israeli authors, picked up one called Shrapnel, and one Chinese, Li Kunwu, "The Bandaged Feet", which is the one I actually feel like reading... the others were more of a, ok, let's get some easy insight on the matter.

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Read Spin, nice SF

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This comes out tomorrow Aug 12  - I hope it's better than 1Q84, which I liked but was just too tedious

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Just started "Home Fires" by Gene Wolf. I'm hoping for less of the dense impenetrability this time.

Picked up Dave Mustaines and Jeff Turners (cockney Rejects) autobiographies from the library today. A bit of light reading.

To be honest I was pretty surprised to find them in my local library.

I read a couple not worth commenting on. Of the Manbooker pix awards nominees I had only read We Are Cmpletely which I mentioned previously.

I am hunting around for something to read next - I am thinking about that recent book about hijacking or Ingredient #9 that sounds interesting.

Random Acts of Senseless Violence by Jack Womack, can't believe how good it is, gutted to gave nearly finished it so quickly and think I' d better slow down. Anyone read anything else by him?

Futurlogical Congress by Stanislaw Lem

I don't know, funny SF usually isn't that funny (hitchhikers guide). I'm going to give it a go though but mad I bought it.

Lem has many way better books but im not sure how many were released in English...

I bailed on it, too cutesy.

Reading Sweetness #9 instead.

Other Lem's books are much more serious.

I'm currently reading this:

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Just started on Terminal World by Alistair Reynolds. Ive mentioned him before, he's one of the UK's best recent talents in SF. Most of his stuff would classify as hard SF, but this has a touch of steam punk to it.

Quote from: giantchris on May 20, 2014, 11:50:50 AM
Well if you guys/gals read any fantasy books I could throw the following recommendations in no particular order

Chris A. Jackson's Weapon of Flesh Trilogy
Miles Cameron's The Traitor Son series
Django Wexler's The Thousand Names
Jeff Wheeler's Legends of Muirwood and Whispers from Mirrowen
Marie Lu's Legend series
Scott Lynch's Gentleman Bastards
Mark Lawrence's The Broken Empire series
Peter V. Brett's The Daylight War
Keyes's The Briar King

(Here's where we get obvious)
Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen
Patrick Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind
Brandon Sanderson's Anything he Ever Wrote
Brent Weeks' Black Prism
David Edding's First couple Series
Joe Abercrombie's First Law series
Jordan's Wheel of Time if you can get past the horrible dredge of Winter's Heart without killing yourself.
Robin Hobb's Assasins books
Raymond Feist's First 2 series were very good
Weis/Hickman's Death Gate Cycle and the first three books in Dragonlance
Elizabeth Moon's The Deed of Paksenarrion (don't read the new ones)

I would strongly recommend the Django Wexler and Miles Cameron books as they were surprisingly good and very different.  

Also I could recommend as being entertaining but not really amazing M. R. Mathias' books and David Daglish's later books are pretty entertaining as is Michael J. Sullivan's Crown Conspiracy and the series Empires of Moth.    I also forgot to add Steakley's Armor to the sci-fi list.

How about some recommendations for post-apocalyptic books, thanks.

I read and loved

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And now I am reading this and it is terrific. It's an odd meta format for a novel -  it's a series of recommendation letters written by a professor in the English department at a fictitious University. They build on each other over time and it's the only way that you get to meet the speaker in the novel. and they are all hilarious.

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Quote from: CanookieWookie on October 05, 2014, 12:46:13 PM
How about some recommendations for post-apocalyptic books, thanks.

Glukhovsky's Metro 2033. 2034 is not so great.

There are also lots of books of other authors set in Metro universe but didn't read any of them... yet.

Also, Roadside Picnic, obviously.

Finished Terminal World. Some of the concepts in the book are great, some of the storytelling drags however. The initial setting is Spearpoint City, a vast spire 30-40 miles across at it's base which rises miles high and pierces the atmosphere. The city is built on a ledge which winds it's way up and around the spire. The city is split into different technological zones, technology from one zone doesn't always work in other zones. I loved this setting but unfortunately the book doesn't actually spend a lot of time there. Apparently Reynolds wrote this as a one off and has no intention of revisiting so unless another author picks up the idea I guess I'll not see the idea fleshed out as well as it could have been. Shame.

Quote from: Omlet on October 10, 2014, 04:33:32 PM

Quote from: CanookieWookie on October 05, 2014, 12:46:13 PM
How about some recommendations for post-apocalyptic books, thanks.

Glukhovsky's Metro 2033. 2034 is not so great.

There are also lots of books of other authors set in Metro universe but didn't read any of them... yet.

Also, Roadside Picnic, obviously.

Thanks.

Currently reading..

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Hey wookb, I just picked up The Passage from the library. Am I in for a treat?

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Finished this one... a university professor of architecture, egocentric to the max, culture too much, gets dumped and it's really well drawn and somehow like woody allen movies but if they were really good and not boring. Really good really ... The best together with PLUTO that I have read in months

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which is quite an engaging read too. robot sci fi.

Quote from: Dunedin on October 13, 2014, 03:41:24 AM
Hey wookb, I just picked up The Passage from the library. Am I in for a treat?

Yes.  It is quite long, but I found I couldn't put the book down.   Just be patient at the beginning.

Quote from: Dunedin on September 21, 2014, 02:57:25 PM
Just started on Terminal World by Alistair Reynolds. Ive mentioned him before, he's one of the UK's best recent talents in SF. Most of his stuff would classify as hard SF, but this has a touch of steam punk to it.

I bought one of this guy's books based off your post "House of Suns" it was pretty damn good.  Very unusual plot twists and its a mystery if anything.  For some weird reason "Ringworld" is not available on my kindle which is pretty annoying.

To whomever mentioned the post-apocalyptic sci fi list I might not be the best for that but off the top of my head I'll throw some out there but they were mentioned before probably.

The Postman - an underrated book terrible movie
A Canticle for Lebowitz
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
The Road (everyone loves this book but I didn't like it it reminds me of a sci fi book for people unfamiliar with sci fi who are blown away by the concepts)
Wool & Sand by Hugh Howey which are both great
George R R Martin's House of Worms or w/e it's called is good but pretty damn weird.

The Road sucked. There are so many real end of world novels that rule.

J comes out today, a well anticipated distopian novel.



I'm reading a Korean spy novel and enjoying much....it's about an undercover North Korean spy undercover in South Korea that's recalled back to North Korea. I wish it had more weird North Korean stuff but not yet.

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Quote from: MadJohnShaft on October 16, 2014, 07:57:28 AM
The Road sucked. There are so many real end of world novels that rule.

J comes out today, a well anticipated distopian novel.



I'm reading a Korean spy novel and enjoying much....it's about an undercover North Korean spy undercover in South Korea that's recalled back to North Korea. I wish it had more weird North Korean stuff but not yet.

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Like?

The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein.

Only a few chapters in.

I love Stranger In Strange Land so I've been looking forward to getting right into this!

Quote from: ThisHairyGuy on October 17, 2014, 06:23:41 AM
The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein.

Only a few chapters in.

I love Stranger In Strange Land so I've been looking forward to getting right into this!

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is my favorite Heinlein book.  Just really well written and the characters are interesting I also really liked the ending.

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Good shit. Just finished it.

^^ this looks good, how does it compare to the half-dozen other Allman's books out there?

Currently halfway thru Neil Young's Waging Heavy Peace bi-op - I'm not even a fan, just happens
my vinyl distributer had this for $15 hardcover at his shop...if you enjoy reading aboot model trains
and vintage cars ad naseum, this read might be for you...I barely never finish a book so I will stick
w/this to the end, but utterly underwhemling at this point.

Also, I can respect Neil wrote this himself w/o ghostwriters or anyone else but his prose/writing process
is lagged-out - probably should of wrote it when he was still on the WEED.

I like this book but saw the big reveal coming a mile away. At 78%. It's very classical in its writing.

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She wrote the famous short story  The Lottery which everyone alive has read.



Reading Deployment now.

Short stories by Brian Aldiss.

CWook; you were right about that Justin Cronin book, it's hard to put down. And just crying out to be made into a film (or mini-series at the very least)

Makeup to Breakup: My Life In and Out of Kiss by Peter Criss.

Wow. Just wow.

What a turd.  What a stupid turd.  What a stupid druggie turd.  A surprisingly entertaining book about a poor little drummer boy who got really lucky & pissed it all away.  He's a self-absorbed, lucky little pissant that attached himself to the KISS machine, realized he's the musical equivalant of a retarded Ringo Starr & his have his ego Kurt Cobain his career.

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Few things are more entertaining to read than a man with a hella-axe to grind.  And he weilds it on everyone from girlfriends, wives and especially so to fellow band members.  I recognize that the 70's rock scene was some super-special, extra-weirdo world where party like a rock star was serious business.  However, I still felt like I needed to shower after reading about his debauchery & idiocy. 

All entertainers on the cusp of stardom should read this cautionary tale. Because a fool & his millions will soon be parted.  I would like to think that I would feel some sympathy for someone who looses so badly.  But with this clown shoe,  I am incapable of it.

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Quote from: Dunedin on November 23, 2014, 11:32:23 AM
CWook; you were right about that Justin Cronin book, it's hard to put down. And just crying out to be made into a film (or mini-series at the very least)

I swear I read that Ridley Scott, or someone of that ilk, has bought the rights to it.

Quote from: CanookieWookie on December 02, 2014, 01:09:00 PM

Quote from: Dunedin on November 23, 2014, 11:32:23 AM
CWook; you were right about that Justin Cronin book, it's hard to put down. And just crying out to be made into a film (or mini-series at the very least)

I swear I read that Ridley Scott, or someone of that ilk, has bought the rights to it.

Yeah, I read that online somewhere as well. After posting that I thought I should try and find out if it was likely to happen!

I read a spy thriller 'Non-official Assets' and the Amy Poehler book. Now reading some Singularity themed short story SF book called 'Accelerando'.

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So far I'm really enjoying it, He seems pretty truthful, but what the hell do I know?

"This Is A Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl" by Paul Brannigan

Digging so far, but only a few pages in.

Quote from: Danny G on December 16, 2014, 03:15:00 PM
"This Is A Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl" by Paul Brannigan

Digging so far, but only a few pages in.

Wonder how different that is now since everything he has done since the writing of that book?

The way the book is written actually lends itself to Sonic Highways.

The book is about Grohl but the writer goes off on lots of fascinating tangents about the people/bands he came up with. Lots of history lessons and lineages

Quote from: Danny G on December 17, 2014, 10:07:00 AM
The way the book is written actually lends itself to Sonic Highways.

The book is about Grohl but the writer goes off on lots of fascinating tangents about the people/bands he came up with. Lots of history lessons and lineages

Sounds intriguing...what's the name of it? I missed the name.

The Prince - Niccolo Machaivelli

now.. Slaughterhouse Five - K. V.

Got this for Christmas

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This Is A Call - The Life and Times of Dave Grohl

The Great Gatsby - FSF

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The Grapes Of Wrath - JS

'5 Billion Years of Solitude: The Search For Life Among The Stars' by Lee Billings

Very fascinating read so far about the history/scientists of those searching for life on other planets

The Dave Grohl book was awesome. Highly recommended. My only gripe was it ended too soon.

I am reading this because Dunedin hooked me up with it..
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Quote from: vonzombie on December 30, 2014, 05:06:32 PM
I am re-reading this, because it is fucking nasty

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That looks pretty good, VZ, I'll see if our library system has it. The cover art is reminiscent of symbols used in a dark-ish religion similar to voodoo, called Palo. Intriguing.

I've just finished this, which was pretty well-written, and if the statistics and studies were cited accurately, shows some astonishing potential for MDMA in healing PTSD. One early study demonstrated that at two-months and a year follow-up, 12 of 16 female survivors of sexual assault continued to test negative for PTSD, after initially scoring high for it, then just two MDMA therapy sessions. Very exciting stuff, and some interesting personal tales told within.

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Not much reading. Mostly looking at the pics.  ;D

Quote from: vonzombie on January 07, 2015, 09:27:33 PM
It's loosely based on the Cthulhu mythos, and I believe it's one of a trilogy. He also wrote 'Lucky's Girl' which I'm reading right now. So far pretty good.

I'm curious to check The Immortal Body out, but my library doesn't have it. Apparently I can buy a used copy on Amazon for $147.

'1493: Uncovering The New World Columbus Created' by Charles C Mann

Jailbird - Kurt Vonnegut, the man never lets you down. Would be good to have him around now to get his take on things.

Blue Remembered Earth by Alistair Reynolds. Oh god it's boring. This is the second stinker in a row of his that I've read which is majorly disappointing because his earlier work is far superior and I've been on here singing his praises.

Dull characters, dull settings, terrible plot (so far at least)

I don't think I'll finish it.

I've got a copy of Justin Cronin's "The Twelve" waiting to get stuck into so that should be a better bet.

Edit; just started "The Twelve". More has happened in the first 20 pages than the first 120 of B.R.E. I won't be going back to that snoozefest.

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Just started it at lunch, I have already lol'd 3x's this will be a good time.

Flash Boys by Michael Lewis. Its about how High Frequency Traders rigged Wall Street. 
Its a great follow up from his last book on the 2008 financial meltdown.

Catch 22 - JK

I just read Star Wars: Darth Plagueis.  It was okay, it was written at a really low reading level and I cruised through it.  First Star Wars book from the "expanded universe" that I've read.  I do have a lot of the comics, and the Jedi and Sith books, though those aren't actual novels.


I need something new to read.  Thinking about re-reading all my old Michael Moorcock novels yet again....

Quote from: Dylan Thomas on January 29, 2015, 09:33:17 PM

I need something new to read.  Thinking about re-reading all my old Michael Moorcock novels yet again....

Oooh,  which ones?

Quote from: Dunedin on February 01, 2015, 01:54:57 PM

Quote from: Dylan Thomas on January 29, 2015, 09:33:17 PM

I need something new to read.  Thinking about re-reading all my old Michael Moorcock novels yet again....

Oooh,  which ones?

Fabulous harbours is a favourite of mine

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Funny and easy to read, a good book for a beginner brewer like myself.

Michael Morcocknis the only book I've ever thrown out. (Well I threw out The Road too).


(Nice! I'm addicted to brusospohy and home brew talk website

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I'm enjoying Bone Clocks and about half done. .

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Thinking of reading something old next - Eric Ambler
For those not familiar with his work, Ambler was to the modern British spy novel what Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett were to the American detective novel. Ambler transformed the spy novel from a simplistic black and white world of perfect good guys versus nefarious bad guys into a far more realistic world where sometimes the difference between good and evil is not all that great.



Oh wait - there's a follow up to King Dork (which is awesome) - I believe the author is the dude from the punk band Mr T experience - it's very rock n roll.

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Finished "This is a Call" the life and times of Dave Grohl - lots of interesting hardcore/punk ref's at the beginning, some
cool side-notes here and there, ultimately I just don't get the popularity of such an insipid group of mediocre songs, but hey, that's me.
I mean fucking selling-out Wembley stadium two-nite's in a row, in addition to HUGE stadium shows around the globe.
He's worth apparently about $250-million US net, not bad for a punk I guess.
He does have one fucking hard-on for Josh Homme - big bro praise there.

Also read Heart's "Kicking and Dreaming" story of Heart, Soul and Rock & Roll.
Groovy read, it reads between takes from each sister, so Nancy will say her stuff and Ann will say hers as it alternates
in the book. I've always LOVED and had a hard-on for Nancy, even now she is such a fucking HOT guitar slinging' babe.
So, some cool footnotes, like her banging two guys in the original band, her over-the-top romanticism, the completely
outta left field of hooking-up and marrying dweeb Cameran Crowe (totally not rock!)...y'know both sisters have adopted
kids since they were not able to bear children/become pregnant themselves - talk about lucky fucking children!
Also for me it's all bout the original band members, best form of that group, they have since stuck w/their 80's
output of players and are way inferior IMO - just checkout the Hall of Fame awards between the two clans, man,
the original cats sound WAAAAY better and got the shit-end of the deal, I'm surprised they even went ahead w/it.
You can see Nancy/Ann's uncomfortableness w/the original band.

So - in about 1/4 of the way thru Dennis Hopper's "the wild ride of a Hollywood rebel" Peter L. Winkler.
Digging the shit out of it right now - great read, and nice fat book how I like.
Dennis was a fucking madmen right outta the gate, just getting to the part about Easy Rider as he and Peter Fonda
try to get funding for the film and he (Dennis) is in Taos Mexico....doing insane amounts of LSD/Blow Weed & whiskey.
Fucking entertaining read fo' shure!

Quote from: Bro. Righteous on February 06, 2015, 03:45:54 PM
...the completely
outta left field of hooking-up and marrying dweeb Cameran Crowe (totally not rock!)...

Cameron Crowe may behave been/is dweeby, but he's more Rock-And-Roll than most any of us could hope to be.

Growing up in the American Southwest, Hopper (or as the locals called him, Denny) was a fixture on many scenes and usually out of fucking control.
He was awesome and usually did not give a single fuck.

I am now reading a short story collection by Thomas Ligotti. He's a great writer but not exactly a fun guy if you catch my drift. Maybe I should read something fun on the side. Still got that latest David Mitchell novel..

the Sabbath bio was fantastic. I really like mick walls writing. thanks again Dunedin.. inspired by that I just picked up the metallica bio 'enter night' by walls..looking forward to it..

Quote from: Bro. Righteous on February 06, 2015, 03:45:54 PM
Finished "This is a Call" the life and times of Dave Grohl - lots of interesting hardcore/punk ref's at the beginning, some
cool side-notes here and there, ultimately I just don't get the popularity of such an insipid group of mediocre songs, but hey, that's me.
I mean fucking selling-out Wembley stadium two-nite's in a row, in addition to HUGE stadium shows around the globe.
He's worth apparently about $250-million US net, not bad for a punk I guess.
He does have one fucking hard-on for Josh Homme - big bro praise there.

Also read Heart's "Kicking and Dreaming" story of Heart, Soul and Rock & Roll.
Groovy read, it reads between takes from each sister, so Nancy will say her stuff and Ann will say hers as it alternates
in the book. I've always LOVED and had a hard-on for Nancy, even now she is such a fucking HOT guitar slinging' babe.
So, some cool footnotes, like her banging two guys in the original band, her over-the-top romanticism, the completely
outta left field of hooking-up and marrying dweeb Cameran Crowe (totally not rock!)...y'know both sisters have adopted
kids since they were not able to bear children/become pregnant themselves - talk about lucky fucking children!
Also for me it's all bout the original band members, best form of that group, they have since stuck w/their 80's
output of players and are way inferior IMO - just checkout the Hall of Fame awards between the two clans, man,
the original cats sound WAAAAY better and got the shit-end of the deal, I'm surprised they even went ahead w/it.
You can see Nancy/Ann's uncomfortableness w/the original band.

So - in about 1/4 of the way thru Dennis Hopper's "the wild ride of a Hollywood rebel" Peter L. Winkler.
Digging the shit out of it right now - great read, and nice fat book how I like.
Dennis was a fucking madmen right outta the gate, just getting to the part about Easy Rider as he and Peter Fonda
try to get funding for the film and he (Dennis) is in Taos Mexico....doing insane amounts of LSD/Blow Weed & whiskey.
Fucking entertaining read fo' shure!

These all sound excellent!

I'm now reading Stephen King's 11/22/63

Quote from: mortlock on February 19, 2015, 11:07:13 PM
the Sabbath bio was fantastic. I really like mick walls writing. thanks again Dunedin.. inspired by that I just picked up the metallica bio 'enter night' by walls..looking forward to it..

Glad you enjoyed it morty!

Read on here (thanks) that Ben Wheatley had made a film of it, so reading High Rise by JG Ballard, had it on the shelf for a while, but his slightly repetitive themes put me off starting it. Anyway, quite enjoying it, and will look forward to the film.

Really liked High Rise.

Currently on this:
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Guy decides he doesn't want any kind of serious relationship/girlfriend, so he starts paying for sex. Really difficult as a lot of the themes covered hit pretty close to home.


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I remember Chester Brown

Philip K. Dick - Clans of the Alphane Moon

Just finished an autobiography by Paul Stanley. Very well-written, and pretty interesting.

Before that, Mick Wall's book on Metallica. Also very interesting. I knew that people mocked Lars for his drumming, but I learned that before many albums were recorded, early and later on, Lars had to take drum lessons. Heh.

Now, about to dive into an "unauthorized" biography of Axl Rose, also by Mick Wall. And got a newer Stephen King book of novellas (usually some of his best work) as well as some Charlie Huston I read once but totally dig him. If you dig gritty fiction, sort of crime noir (and he has a badass vampire series) then check him out.

This among books on play therapy, cognitive defusion, and Compassion Focused Therapy.

Just finished these two.

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I read No Angel last year.
I was thinking of it and so I just started the Sonny Barger bio last night.

Have to check that book out. Could be interesting!

It's a great juxtaposition to Jay Dobyns and a couple other similar undercover cop's books.
Old Sonny paints a picture that seems a bit tamer than reality, but so far it's fun and interesting.

Since I heard there is going to be a Deadpool movie I'm gonna read his comics to get more familiar with him.

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Just picked this up.


Fuck you!

I'm reading The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.  Great novel.  I've read a bunch of her others, and I've had this for awhile.  I'm just getting around to reading it, and it's pretty much what I expected - dark, dystopian tales told from a really unique, interpersonal perspective.

TV Guide

^^^ they still make those?

Almost done: Twenty Thousand Roads - the ballad of Gram Parsons and his Cosmic American music - David N. Meyer

Your typical 60's/70's tome of overthetop sex, droogs & RNR etc...but very fascinating detailed backstory of his grandparents/parents/step-parents
and assorted fighter-pilot, uber-alcoholic, super-rich industrialists, Southern brawling associated w/it.
The Keef Richards and Parsons buddy-buddy heroin worship is interesting and all the Flying Burrito Brothers shit, lots of lap-steel talk...
(fuzz-pedals and phasors thru a kicking lap-steel/player - fuck yaz!).
In general dude, was a super-stud/alckie/major drug-fiend/child genius/trust-fund baby musical prodigy.

Close to the end of the book, might be kinda sad when I read how he kicked the bucket from a heroin OD at 26yrs.

Super-detailed at over 500+pages in small print.
...so far...a recommended read.

He's buried in the same cemetery as my grandmother. 


Fuck you!

A good read for sure.

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My kid swears I read that.

I'm reading a pretty good middleast spy novel.

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And a pretty good medical book on gut health which was a German best seller and is very enlightening.


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If you hadn't sworn off print form media, I would send you a copy.
Your son's right. You would dig it.
It appeals to Science Fiction fans, Adventure fans and is tiotally  a good read for someone with any kind of engineering/technical degree/background.

It's also fun for the rest of us too.
Throw it down on your Kindle/A-Watch/e-reader/whatever.

Fucking awesome so far (600 pages in):

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I read her excellent 'my year of meats' and she wrote a new book that got excellent reviews,


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Scarlett Thomas new one isn't on kindle yet

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I just finished the Ian Cormac Polity series or w/e it's called.  Started off kinda cheesy but got better I liked the endings they were well thought-out.  The author seemed like he improved as a writer as the series progressed.  Right now I'm reading the newest book in the series that begins with "The Warded Man" I don't recall the name of the newest one.  So far it's really good, a very unusual dark fantasy novel. 

Quote from: JkFlesh on June 23, 2015, 02:31:28 PM
Fucking awesome so far (600 pages in):

Just started this last week.  Big fan of Neal Stephenson.

I love older Neal Stephenson, but he lost me around the time his editor apparently ceased working.

Also read the first couple "Warded Man" books, decent enough fantasy read with some interesting ideas. Writing hopefully will get better.

Just finished "Project X" a really good Catcher in the Rye style high school book with killer writing. From around 2005.

Quote from: agent of change on July 16, 2015, 04:47:41 PMAlso read the first couple "Warded Man" books, decent enough fantasy read with some interesting ideas. Writing hopefully will get better.

Seems like it's improving the story is finally advancing.  The best newer fantasy I've read though is the Mark Lawrence's Prince of Thorns, Miles Cameron's Traitor Son Cycle, and the Django Wexler's Thousand Names series if anyone is looking for any modern fantasy recommendations. 

If anyone has any modern/newish Sci-Fi preferably of the series/epic kind as a recommendation please share I could use some more I only have 2 more new books on my kindle.       

Cool, I'll check those out. I haven't found a good modern scifi series in a while. You probably know them, but William Gibson's series(ish) of novels, starting with Neuromancer, is my personal favorite. A few clunkers in there, but that happens.

A bio of Oscar Wilde and a Black Sabbath fax book writ by Martin  Poppoff. His 70's, 80's, 90,s metal bks taught me a bunch and gave me a better view of the genre as is was just to fracture into a1000 micogenres. I mean "cornfield slam"? 

"The Goldfinch" by Donna Tartt

Holy shit. What a roller coaster ride. Not quite done. Wow


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I've been reading mostly biographies and autobiographies.  I like how they bring the people I respect and admire to "life."

Finished two this week.  I read Andre Agassi's autobiography, "Open", which is most excellent.  It's very honest, human, and moving.

I also read "Crooked Cucumber", Shinryu Suzuki's biography.  That was REALLY moving, I cried uncontrollably four times during the course of my reading: once from laughter, once from sadness, once from joy, and once from the sheer depth and breadth of emotional response I experienced during a particularly moving section.  It lends an inside perspective on the history of both Japanese and American Buddhism....

Just finished "Sarah Canary" by Karen Joy Fowler, what a brilliant, funny and clever book, would recommend it to anyone.

Read "The Martian" which a few folks recommended here. It was pretty good. Skipped some of the never-ending challenges that he always figured out.

Just finished all 7 books of the Death Gate Cycle by Weis & Hickman, old Dungeons & Dragons series. I'd read the first few when I was a kid but didn't follow up as they finished book after book. It was underwhelming but I just wanted to see what happened. Anybody else read any of the old Dragonlance stuff? It doesn't seem to hold up so well now that I'm an adult.  :D

I couldn't get into 11/22/63 (I liked it, but if it's not Autobiographies, biographies or true crime I lose interest quick) so I started this one:

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So far i'm digging it

Love this kind of book. Except for the plug from Nickelback, it looks pretty cool.

Quote from: agent of change on August 27, 2015, 05:37:50 PM
Read "The Martian" which a few folks recommended here. It was pretty good. Skipped some of the never-ending challenges that he always figured out.

Just finished all 7 books of the Death Gate Cycle by Weis & Hickman, old Dungeons & Dragons series. I'd read the first few when I was a kid but didn't follow up as they finished book after book. It was underwhelming but I just wanted to see what happened. Anybody else read any of the old Dragonlance stuff? It doesn't seem to hold up so well now that I'm an adult.  :D

I haven't re-read the Death Gate Cycle since I was a little kid but I remember the first two books were just OK.  Actually the second book was pretty terrible if I recall nothing happens until the end when the titan guys finally do something.  Into the Labyrinth was the best book in the series by far.

Dragons of Autumn Twilight through Winter's Heart still hold up.  Any of the later stuff in the main series is terrible though.  I really liked some of the Dragonlance Villains series as well the book Lorde Toede is ridiculous and kinda stupid but great fun.  I always thought the Legends series was by far the highlight of all of Dragonlance books though, it stays pretty intense throughout it's length and has a lot of good plot twists.  It also seems to have a darker overtone then some of the other work.  I also always liked the Darksword trilogy for Weis/Hickman's work but the ending is a bit of a letdown (I ignore the crappy book they wrote in 97 for Darksword).

The best fantasy books of that era are either the first couple Raymond Feist books or the Eddings' Elenium trilogy I always felt.  Or maybe the Deed of Paksenarrion but that's all highly debatable.  I haven't re-read any of those in awhile I also decline to include Terry Goodkind because his series is terrible after Darken Rahl dies and it just keeps plodding along.  He's still publishing new books in that same god-awful series. 

I remember some Feist books I really dug, Magician: Apprentice, etc. His "Faerie Tale" was pretty good too. Reading them now though (at least the first few pages) they don't hold up. Maybe I'll revisit the Darksword Trilogy and some of the Dragonlance spinoffs - I too remember them being kinda dark.

Right now I'm reading "50 Mice" which has some pretty poetic language for a mystery/thriller. Dude is abducted by Feds and put in a witness protection program but he's pretty sure they've got the wrong guy. Somewhat Kafkaesque and pretty good so far.

Just finished "The Heart Does Not Grow Back" which was labeled Sci-Fi but wasn't really. It was a teenage growing up Catcher in the Rye kinda book, pretty well-written, and the main character (spoiler alert) discovers that his body will regenerate organs and fingers and such. It was pretty good.

Can you believe I'm just getting round to reading Dune for the first time? 200 pages in and I'm wondering what took me so long.

I am too lazy to read books. I love them but am too stupid to make time... Now reading No Friends Zine.

Quote from: Dunedin on September 14, 2015, 03:17:20 PM
Can you believe I'm just getting round to reading Dune for the first time? 200 pages in and I'm wondering what took me so long.

Only read it myself for the first time about six months ago, don't know what had put me off before, probably the image of Sting from promotion for the film, which I had also avoided.

Finished Dune a while back and just gone through Hugh Howey's "Shift" in record time. Is it weird that I'd quite like to live in a silo?

Quote from: agent of change on September 08, 2015, 05:26:43 PM
Right now I'm reading "50 Mice" which has some pretty poetic language for a mystery/thriller. Dude is abducted by Feds and put in a witness protection program but he's pretty sure they've got the wrong guy. Somewhat Kafkaesque and pretty good so far.

That actually is a pretty awesome premise.  Normally I don't read mystery/thrillers but I'm intrigued.  I'm always a fan of government incompetence stories after working at TSA years ago when I saw 6 FBI agents get into a fistfight with 5 ATF agents over who was going to arrest a gun smuggler and by the time they broke it up and their management agreed to jointly arrest the guy the suspect had already made his flight and was gone.

Right now I'm reading a book called Mort(e) it's about a race of hyper intelligent ants who've lived underground on Earth and unleashed their revenge on humanity by making wildlife and house pets sentient.  Humanity's response was to unleash a deadly super-virus called emSAH and the main character is a cat who is a former war hero who is in charge of investigating a deadly emSAH outbreak. 

Quote from: Dunedin on November 18, 2015, 03:11:49 PM
Finished Dune a while back and just gone through Hugh Howey's "Shift" in record time. Is it weird that I'd quite like to live in a silo?

Totally dug that silo series. Not so well-written, but really interesting ideas, and nicely expanded book to book.

Just finished "Bone Clocks" by the guy who wrote "Cloud Atlas" (which I haven't read) and it was all right. Kept switching to different characters' perspectives as time went on, which got kind of annoying, but worth a read. Got into some mystical multi-dimensional secret society shit which was pretty good.

Right now reading an autobiography supposedly written by a diagnosed sociopath. "Confessions of a Sociopath." Man it's good to be out of grad school and reading for pleasure. Probably getting through several books a week. Perhaps I'll blog them here more often.

Well, if you enjoy bloated sword & sorcery series, that originally were supposed to be a trilogy but keep expanding, with more characters added each book so you have a hard time keeping track of who is who, you may enjoy...

The Warded Man series by Peter V. Brett. The premise is actually pretty cool, a world where demons come up from the ground at night and slay humans, who have a very basic knowledge of warding sigils which, when drawn properly, protect spaces from the demons. One of the main characters eventually realizes that if he tattoos the wards upon himself, it gives him greater power and he can actually fight the demons.

Lots of cool ideas, mediocre writing. I just finished the fourth book The Skull Throne, which actually got pretty fucking brutal at the end. If you're looking to get lost in a series of epic tomes, check it out. The next book is still being written though, so prepare to not know what the fuck happens next.

I read at lunch everyday now but I find it hard to read any serious books like I used to so I'm reading lots of lighter faire these days, instead of tackling those NYT literature novels. Somehow they are all too academic and focused on making us feel bad. I'm eyeing those My Struggle novels or that French pervert Michel Houellebecq - this shit is really negative

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I'm reading my way through the Jack Reacher thriller books and am on number 6.

I might keep reading the spy series set in the contemporary Middle East - John Wells series.

This has been pretty cool so far, this guy is incredibly brave doing this journey.


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In between other books, reading a graphic novel called Promethea. It's by Alan Moore of Watchmen and Swamp Thing and From Hell fame, and is pretty good. He obviously knows a lot about ritual magic, as it contains lots of occult elements and teachings. Promethea is a goddess who manifests through (mostly) women over time, as the connection to imagination and creativity, but a secret cult of other magicians are bent on destroying her out of the fear that if she is allowed to live she will destroy the stability of the material world. Lots of female nudity for all your pervs as well.

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Quote from: agent of change on December 04, 2015, 06:23:13 PM
Well, if you enjoy bloated sword & sorcery series, that originally were supposed to be a trilogy but keep expanding, with more characters added each book so you have a hard time keeping track of who is who, you may enjoy...

The Warded Man series by Peter V. Brett. The premise is actually pretty cool, a world where demons come up from the ground at night and slay humans, who have a very basic knowledge of warding sigils which, when drawn properly, protect spaces from the demons. One of the main characters eventually realizes that if he tattoos the wards upon himself, it gives him greater power and he can actually fight the demons.

Lots of cool ideas, mediocre writing. I just finished the fourth book The Skull Throne, which actually got pretty fucking brutal at the end. If you're looking to get lost in a series of epic tomes, check it out. The next book is still being written though, so prepare to not know what the fuck happens next.

Yeah I like that series kinda weird.  A little too preachy on the we must all work together stuff thats obviously mirroring the Muslim world + everyone not a Muslim. 

If you want to read a really, really, odd series try Alan Campbell's Deepgate Codex.  The finale God of Clocks is really weird.  Exceptionally weird.  Which is funny because the series starts relatively normal for a fantasy series then keeps taking odd left turns until it gets pretty out there.

Quote from: vonzombie on December 16, 2015, 04:57:22 PM
Hostage to the Devil by Malachi Martin. It's about contemporary cases of demonic possession. The author is a Jesuit so there's a lot of interesting theology going on in there too, and discussion regarding modern pathways to becoming possessed. Christ- heavy, but thought provoking.

LOVED that book. Saw a more recent edition with a modern foreword, but didn't drop the $ to buy it again.

Quote from: giantchris on December 17, 2015, 01:33:17 AM

Yeah I like that series kinda weird.  A little too preachy on the we must all work together stuff thats obviously mirroring the Muslim world + everyone not a Muslim. 

If you want to read a really, really, odd series try Alan Campbell's Deepgate Codex.  The finale God of Clocks is really weird.  Exceptionally weird.  Which is funny because the series starts relatively normal for a fantasy series then keeps taking odd left turns until it gets pretty out there.

Thanks, I'll check it out!

I was more interested in the demonic possession subject matter than him as an author. Books on the nature of evil are intriguing to me. Another one (though again you gotta wade through some religion, which I guess is almost inevitable given the topic of "evil") is People of the Lie by M. Scott Peck.

Speaking of the nature of evil, just finished "Fortunate Son" the John Fogerty autobio.

Talk about getting screwed by a record label. Fuck. Good read tho


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Now on to Elvis Costello "Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink"

Don't know much about him other than MTV.

Very conversationally written, less straight forward narrative and more like he's just telling stories. Jumps around a lot. But like his writing style and the subtle miss-if-you-weren't-paying-attention jokes.

Digging so far. 


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Both of the aforementioned books are signed copies as well, which is cool. Gifts from my lady.


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Currently reading a drug rock message board.

How does it end?


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Quote from: giantchris on December 17, 2015, 01:33:17 AM

If you want to read a really, really, odd series try Alan Campbell's Deepgate Codex.  The finale God of Clocks is really weird.  Exceptionally weird.  Which is funny because the series starts relatively normal for a fantasy series then keeps taking odd left turns until it gets pretty out there.

Dude, just finishing Scar Night and it is indeed a strange tale. It's unusual to feel confused about what's happening, but I like it. No obvious plot recipe in this book. I haven't full on identified with the main characters yet but have been intrigued enough to finish the book, and will be getting the next one. Our library system has them all, excellent.

And the next one, Iron Angel, is even better. This series is crazy and I've never read anything like it. Fucking intense!!!

Consumed by David Cronenberg. Reads like the script of one of his movies actually. All of his pet obsessions are here.

The Genius of Dogs

A much much more expanded upon book version of the PBS show of the same name.

Totally fucking fascinating. Dogs are awesome


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Quote from: agent of change on January 22, 2016, 11:26:43 AM
And the next one, Iron Angel, is even better. This series is crazy and I've never read anything like it. Fucking intense!!!

Sweet I'm glad you liked it.  I thought the same thing about the first book it was interesting but mostly weird but then the 2nd and 3rd books it goes incredible.  I've been so tired from work lately I haven't been able to really read much I'm about halfway through a sci-fi book called Mort(e) which I do really like but right when I get in bed I'm exhausted and just crash out. 

"Death By Black Hole" by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Title is a bit of a misnomer. It's a general book about the Cosmos, astrophysics, and related discoveries and how they were made.

Fascinating read.


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Sounds cool. He is super smart yet very down to earth and has a way of getting things down to levels anyone could understand if they paid attention. I have trouble reading... Not that I can't, I am very easily distracted. But I'll add this to my should read list.

I'm switching between three great spy/thriller series - Jack Reacher (10), Mitch Rapp (2) and Grey Man (3) - all are really good.

I never really read this kind of stuff but SF and the NYT books got boring to me.

Devouring the Walking Dead graphic novels again, working through the 3 large compendiums that I just discovered at our library. Brutal.

Just re-read Watchmen for about the 3rd time. So good. And randomly saw that the library has a deluxe edition of Killing Joke, I believe the old Batman graphic novella where Joker kills Robin. Got it on hold.

In the meantime, read some great books by Benjamin Percy. First was Deadlands, a pretty good post-Apocalyptic tale. Then Red Moon, which posited an alternate history where lycanthropes are a segregated section of the human race, with their own "homeland" and rights being stripped by the American government, developing terrorist factions... good read. Percy uses similes/metaphors better than anyone I've previously read, making them relevant to the context of the paragraph (not random and artistic) and often visceral. Totally flipped my understanding of metaphor and provided good reasons to use them other than showing off what a creative writer you are.

Out of new books and wanting to read, so re-reading the Hobbit.

Started yesterday and already halfway done with it.


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Quote from: Danny G on December 28, 2015, 01:13:29 AM
How does it end?


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In tears.

Just started "Let the Right One In". Think I'm going to devour it over the weekend.

Loved that book! Movie was pretty good too - European one.

Reading Joe Hill's newest book The Fireman. Really good so far. Apocalyptic and interesting where he goes with it.

Edit: just finished it. Really good but a touch too long. Kinda like his dad's books but not that bloated. Lots of little shout-outs to his dad's characters etc.

David Vann - Dirt

A family drama, sort of. Goes into some pretty dark territory.

Miles Davis autobiography

Awesome. I thought Samuel L Jackson went back in time and invented the word "motherfucker" but it was clearly Miles.

Very inspiring.

Always interesting reading musician bios as a working musician. His general attitude is def lighting a fire under my ass. And while it can be disappointing to read what others have done and compare it to what I've done, this book is different. I feel empowered by, as Miles would say, that I play with some of the baddest motherfuckers in town.


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 I've been reading a lot this year, trying to expand my horizons, my favorites I've read this year are Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, Perfume by Patrick Susskind, and Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

I've been doing a reading challenge from Book Riot to force me to try some new stuff, plus I've been attempting to read books from authors around the world. I've added Germany, Colombia, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Vietnam to my "list" this year.

Sometimes its a huge freaking chore though, and I think I need a big dumb adventure book next.

The past 4 books I've read:Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History Of Metal - Great book on the genre from the early days of Sabbath, Alice Cooper to the Nu-Metal of Korn & Disturbed

Ready Player One - Birthday gift from Elderboy, excellent book, can't wait for the Spielburg film next year.

The Gunslinger (book #1 of The Dark Tower series), This was a difficult read, quite confusing, but I wanted to read it before the film comes out.

The Drawing Of The Three (book # 2 of The Dark Tower series) - This was 10xs better than book 1, had me on the edge of my seat a few times.

Just started Waste Lands (book #3 of The Dark Tower series)

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Just finished

The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower book #3)

Just finished book 3

Didn't enjoy it as much as book 2, 2nd part of book about I didn't care for, it was interesting, I just didn't care about the character I wanted to keep reading about Roland, Eddie and Susanna.

Once that part was over though it became interesting again and man what a cliffhanger!!!

Onto book 4

I have a neat idea, let's all add our Goodreads names, so we can follow/recommend/encourage each other....What'd say?

Mine is

Mickey Tompkins

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Book #3 of the Bobverse just came out. Pretty good so far.

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You guys haven't read anything since 2017 huh. Thanks Trump!

Since I got my eyes fixed, I read a bit more than I used to.

Playing the Bass With Three Left Hands-Will Carruthers(Spacemen 3 bio) not bad, love that band and there isn't a lot written about them.
Necronomicon #5-Andy Black(editor)-a collection of essays analyzing horror and erotica movies-mixed bag, depending on who writes the analysis, mostly enjoyable and informative, if that's your thing.
Cured-Lol Tolhurst(Cure bio) it was ok, kind of one big apology to Robert Smith et al. Didn't have a lot of depth or wild stories of debauchery.
Wasteland:The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror-W. Scott Poole- About 20% in, still mostly centering around the German early horror movies.   Good read, I'm not a history guy, so a lot of new info for me.  Very well researched.

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

Fuck this bitch: Elizabeth Holmes. I hope that psychopath goes to prison.

Very Good. Reads like fiction. I feel bad for the employees and supporters that got duped, but c'mon man, that fake voice, wannabe Steve Jobs act?... so phony & telling.

"Her smoke rose up forever" James Tiptree jnr (Alice Sheldon in reality). A fantastic collection of short stories, highly recommended to anyone who has not read her work, like me up until recently.

https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/857362-you-get-so-alone-at-times-that-it-just-makes-sense

Recently finished Suttree, by Cormac McCarthy, First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong, by James R. Hansen, One Man's Wilderness (50th Anniversary Ed.) by Dick Proenneke.

Currently reading Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance by Robert Gildea and Kim, by Kipling.

Finna dig into this shortly

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It's been awhile since i've dropped in this thread but I know a lot of you guys like fantasy/sci fi so I wanted to share.

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/38608575-the-quantum-magician
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This is an excellent and fun book.

https://www.marthawells.com/murderbot.htm
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Despite the incredibly stupid name the Murderbot diaries is one of the best new sci-fi series I've read, EXTREMELY entertaining and very funny.  Lots of good action and the main character is basically a security android who becomes self aware who becomes obsessed with soap operas and watching schlocky TV and is trying to hide being self-aware so he doesn't get erased. 

Thanks man

Stephenson's latest is one of his best. What a fuckin ride. Unfortunately it is also his most self-referential and so you should read The Baroque Cycle, Cryptonomicon, and Reamde first.

I used to read non stop. Usually a Yale books going. Then about 8 years ago I abruptly stopped. Until now. No idea why I haven't read this already but I'm just finishing Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain. Fucking love it.

Not sure you'd enjoy it much if you've never worked in a kitch or you're not into food.

Rob Halford- Confess (audiobook).  It's pretty good.

The Steve Gorman book "Hard to Handle: The Life and Death of the Black Crowes" is a really great rock memoir.

I might pick that up. I like listening to him talk.

Got Jeff Tweedy's How To Write One Song.  So far it reads like a self starter inspiration, but not very far into it.  Also got his memiors with Wilco Let's Go (So We Can Get Back).  Haven't started it yet. 

Adrift - Steven Callahan

Reading Stephen King's It now.  I'd never read... um It before.  It's a slog getting through the character development and man, the introspective details he's so famous for, I'm all get on with it. 

Huh, never knew this forum, let alone thread, existed. Looks dead so I guess I might quickly forget it ever existed....but n the meantime, guess I will contribute.

Reading the The Dog Stars by Peter Heller. The 3rd book I have read from him, all of which are good. This one is a pre-pandemic book but about a flu that wipes out civilization, minus a few lone survivors. Similar in theme to his post=pandemic books I have read (The Guide, The River). Unique writing style, like he's generally a poet who started writing novels or something...I know that makes it sound crappy, but it definitely isn't.

just finished The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

I keep starting books without having finished others, a recent habit. I started these all before Ministry:
The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub
Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson <-- normally I devour his books but this one's pretty weak in my opinion
Worm on a Hook by Vern
Pacific Edge by Kim Stanley Robinson

Just finished Steve Gorman's Life and Death Of The Black Crowes.  Enjoyed it.  Listened to the audiobook while reading the Kindle and the Big Brother aspect would pick up where I left off of the other.  Kinda cool and alarming at tge same time. 

Anyways, hearing him speak about all that stuff gets across the feeling of the tumultuousness very well.  To the point that his tell all can come off as something close to but not quite petty.  Bitchy I guess. 

But I never had to deal with the Robinson brothers either.  I did meet Johnny Colt once.  Seemed like a good guy. 

I think the high point for me was to hear hom tell of Jimmy Page getting turned down for offering to help Rich write some stuff.  Dude was all "No thanks, me and Chris have tons of stuff.  No need to have Jimmy Page contribute anything ".   

Finished The Dog Stars, probably my least favorite of the novels I have now read from Peter Heller. Decent book, for sure, and maybe if I read it prior to The River and The Guide I would have enjoyed it more. But those other books followed the same writing style, story type, and are improved versions...so going backwards might not have been the best approach.

Just started The Escape by David Baldacci. 3rd book of a series with the John Puller character and storyline. Straight up popcorn novel, but I have enjoyed the 2 books prior to this.

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just finished The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

I keep starting books without having finished others, a recent habit. I started these all before Ministry:
The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub
Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson <-- normally I devour his books but this one's pretty weak in my opinion
Worm on a Hook by Vern
Pacific Edge by Kim Stanley Robinson

The moment I open another book, I will never return to the book I had been reading.

Now onto some non-fiction, The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer by Dean Jobb.

The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream was fair, wouldn't recommend it. Now reading The Atomic Anna, by Rachel Barenbaum. I read another book of hers earlier this year, A Bend in the Stars, which I enjoyed a lot more than I expected to, so have high hopes for this one, which is her most recent novel.

Atomic Anna was good, but not as enjoyable as A Bend in the Stars.

Now reading a book my sister must have given to me maybe 15 years ago that I never got to, The Skull Mantra by Eliot Pattison. It's been a way slower read than I expected it to be, even as I read it it feels like it should read much faster than it is.

Finally made it through The Skull Mantras, which while I did enjoy it was an incredibly slow read. Now onto The Force by Don Winslow.