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Clubland: The Fabulous Rise and Murderous Fall of Club Culture - Frank Owen
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 - Hunter S. Thompson |
The Horror in the museum - H.P Lovecraft and others
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i just read "a wonderful tale" again last night
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have any of you guys read VALIS by phillip k dick?
its my favorite book right now ;o |
Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Chabon.
I wanna go back to Pittsburgh because of this book. |
Just finished The Pirate King by R.A Salvatore. Moving back to Don Quixote again.
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i think you should read thismdick immediately if you really love it
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Reading "Such is my Beloved" right now, even though I was supposed to have it finished a while ago.
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digital Knight by Ryk E Spoor
Baen.com has some free digital books so the price is right and available right away unlike Metzer's Book of Lies where I am 93rd in line for at the library. |
http://ddstranslation.blogspot.com/2...uction_16.html
The translation of Digital Devil Story by Aya Nishitani. It's... alright. But I don't feel the need to not read it, so I think I'm good. |
Hogfather. Tis the season...
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God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
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nostromo by conrad
very slowly |
Conrad has that effect on humans. I dislike him intensely.
We have to read The Heart of Darkness this year. He takes "saying lots about nothing at all" and turns it into "says nothing about nothing". every line in the book is utterly pointless. |
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
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And right before that I read Snuff by Chuck Palahnlahalnananiuk :rolleyes
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Reading the Shining right now, but a buddy lent me Needful Things, and I have yet to finish that :(
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matthew ritchie: more than the eye
stelarc: the monograph [/artfag] |
The Further Chronicles of Conan by Robert Jordan
AND The Lurker in the Lobby: A Guide to Lovecraftian Cinema |
I'm reading Tommy Sheridan's book Imagine.
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right now I'm re-reading Skeleton Crew one of Stephen King's many short story books. Also going through the Dark Tower series back to back since I bought the seventh just recently
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also, read radio free albemuth, it is not officially part of the VALIS trilogy but it the precursor and where the idea of VALIS came from
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i liked flow my tears, the policeman said :( philip dick has great story titles
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i have been meaning to read that. but i don't order books off the internet, and i haven't seen it at any bookstores in town.
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The Mysteries of Pittsburgh... wasn't satisfying. It didn't have a point and meandered about for no reason. The ending was underwhelming and wouldn't have made a difference if it ended fifty pages earlier or later.
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Still reading Further Chronicles of Conan and debating Nightwatch or Monster Island.
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The Shining was one of the best books that I've ever read :O
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my local library has two pkd novels and i bet you can guess which two
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Bookstores often have a way of ordering books. When they need a book, they leave the title on a piece of paper at night and the book gnomes get to work on it as soon as possible. Sometimes it takes a week though.
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i only go to used bookstores, in fact i only get books at bookmans it is the single best book store ever.
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Asimov's Guide to the Bible
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yeah how dare a store only stock 43 of pkd's 44 novels :rolleyes
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what kind of faggits is they? :rolleyes
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obviously pretty large ones :rolleyes
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I just started getting into The Walking Dead. On Book 2. I like it so far. Depending on the pace, I can see it continuing to be good.
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Right now I'm browsing between Doctor Who books, House of Mystery and I just started reading Hellblazer.
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Essential Bill Hicks: Love All the People
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My favorite thing about VALIS besides all the HILARITY is when he talks about gnosticism and philosophy. its awesome ;o
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ordering books online is the bees knees! just order more than one ;o
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Finished another chapter in Don Quixote. I blame the internet for me progressing through at a snails pace.
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Atlas shrugged, not as boring as I thought it would be but I've made it half way through and I don't think I'll finish it, I don't see any reason to. I think I got the gist of what Ayn Rand was all about. For her, people came in only two varieties; herculean heroes of industry and horrible parasites. I'd say more about the book but right now I've got to go pick up my unemployment check and not pay my income taxes.
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Sounds like you should be reading Steinbeck.
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DEATHTRAP DUNGEON
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Finished Frankenstein today, starting a book that contains all of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories next
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I was going for laughs, I didn't mean to make it sound quite so brutal. I don't have to pay income taxes because I haven't had an income in a long time and I don't actually get unemployment checks, I mooch off family rather than the government. The life of a parasite ain't all bad, you meet lots of interesting people, mostly mexicans:\
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just skip ahead to the end of the book when John Galt gives his 50 page speech and you can get the gist of the entire book. |
if you're reading the centennial edition it starts at the bottom of page 923
i liked the fountainhead way better, personally. but i think that's because its not as dry and you can appreciate its literary value -- or something. |
also its better if you don't think of there being only two types of people but that there are just two types of ideologies which she is dealing with. Namely, "communism"/socialism and capitalism.
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And usually when they do things for each other, note that its more for their own benefit than for their "Bros." Almost everytime they help somebody out its because they believe that it will help their business out. Like rearden sells the railroad industry a bunch of rearden metal for rails or something, right? But not only is he making a small profit but he's: Improving the transportation network which will let him transfer more resources at a faster rate (allowing him to produce more products faster), and move his products to sell easier -- improving his own industry. Dagny in return gets a high quality rail that won't degenerate. Also, it put his product out there and showed how useful it can be. Most times they help eachother its under conditions like that. Eventually they start helping each other out because they know that the economy is getting fucked and they are the only productive ones in society, and the more of them that crumble the more the economy is destabilized and their own industries would eventually crumble as well. Especially since many of these industries were co-dependent. The ones that were helping their "Bros" were all the anti-dog-eat-dog people who thought they should be able to keep their industries open while not being productive. |
Your right about the co-dependency thing, there's no reason they wouldn't be chummy with each other but something still rackles me about the Capitilist characters. I guess it's cause they didn't have any real faults (at least none by my standards). On the other hand I really liked the pro-socialist assholes, I'm not good with verbatim or I'd quote that one part where that young engineer tells Dagney off for suggesting he had to be good at engineering to get a job as an engineer.
Maybe I'll pick it up again and read just the last hundred pages. |
how far did you get into it? the last 100 pages really aren't that worthwhile, the speech by John Galt is though... the middle is pretty important though because that's when the economy starts to collapse. its pretty interesting, and if you like the pro-socialist bastards then I would recommend reading the whole thing really. They start to really fuck things up in the middle of the book. you should read the fountain head :O that book is awesome. although the main character is again faultless ;] |
I stopped reading after Dagney's number one peon realizes his also in love with her. At the end of the chapter he tells the mysterious stranger in the cafeteria about Rearden and Dagney's affair and the stranger, distressed, books it out of there (I assume his in love with Dagney as well).
I guess I'll just have to show some true world grit and finish the damn thing. You see I got side tracked with something else and when I got back to it I saw it's hugeness with fresh eyes. The pages are enormous and the print is so tiny. If this was in paperback I bet it would be more like 2000 pgs long. If it was non-fiction I wouldn't be having this problem but at some point in my life I picked up a lot of weird rules on when it is and isn't okay to read a book. |
oh yea that's pretty far in. My paperback edition is like 1300 pages i think.
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That's not too bad. I think I'll pick this back up after I finish what I'm reading right now. In reality I stopped reading Atlas Shrugged a few months ago. I use these "What are you ___ right now" threads as pretext to talk about whatevers on my mind.:\
At this very moment in time I'm reading Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham. |
i dunno how i made it through atlas shrugged so quickly. I think it was cause some asshole basically challenged me to read it :rolleyes
what happened to preechr anyway? |
Just finished reading Watchmen
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that one and fight club pretty much ;\ I've thumbed through others, though. his writing style is always the same and douchebaggerly as well.
he's the new steven king :( |
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Read Invisble Monsters. From what I know about you(That you look sexy in stockings....sorry, I'm drunk) you'd like it. I've read a few of his others: Diary, Lullaby and wasn't impressed either. Invisible Monsters is one of my favorite books though. |
yea I've heard about invisible monsters. Maybe I'll try reading it, but the way he writes just makes me angry.
To be honest I have this self-loathing hatred for anything involving other trannies usually ;\ identifying with things makes me feel like an ass. |
I think it was the first book he wrote, just not the first published. It's the reason I read his other work....which wasn't as good.
!!!Don't read any of the synopsis about it though, from what I've read of them they usually divulge way too much info. Stuff you don't get into till later in the book!!! |
I ordered "I am legend" roughly a week ago. It's supposed to arrive next week. Can hardly wait.
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everything?
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Just because there's not a "Book you're looking forward to" thread
http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2009...r-mash-up.html Pride and Prejudice and Zombies |
I'm finishing up the ultimate x-men run. great run until Colossus went for the dick. now it's just a massive boner kllr.
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Just finished James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. It was wonderful, and I found the ending quite moving.
Am currently halfway through Bram Stoker's Dracula, Samuel Johnson's A History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse. Will be aiming to start Tom Woolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities and David Simon's Homocide: A Year on the Killing Streets soon, but they are both HUGE. I need to start compiling ideas for my English Lit dissertation so I'm aiming to read as wide a variety of material as I can. |
For my own part I'm currently reading a collection of the first Legion of Superheroes comics. It's marvellous. The best thing is how they're all completely crazy about sacrificing their lives for one another. As soon as one legionnaire finds out that there's some kind of mortal danger ahead, his/her first impulse is always to say nothing to the rest of the bunch, so that he/she can go on a solo suicide mission unhindered by the others. When the legion learn that there's a way to revive a slain buddy, which involves one of the others dying instead, they're all manipulating and scheming like crazy since everyone wants to have the honour of sacrificing his/her life for this.
I'm completely amazed that this is an american comic book... you'd think it was japanese or something, from the WW2 era. |
I'm about 150 pages away from finishing A Game of Thrones, which is the first in the A Song of Ice and Fire series by this nerd. I think it's pretty good, and for a fantasy novel it's not too gay. They sometimes say shit like "I will wed her and bed her, sir!", but I'm definitely buying the next one (which is 1200 pages, like I'm made of time >:)
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Finished Richard Matheson's I am legend today, i loved it. I've been thinking of reading Hell house next.
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Harry Potter and Leopard-Walk-Up-to-Dragon. Really.
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The Once and Future King. Totally rad. Wish i read it sooner.
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I finished Pratchett's "Making Money". I liked it. I'm always going to though so nothing new there.
I just ordered "Angels and Demons". |
Motley Crue's The dirt. I don't really like their music nor do I think they have anything positive to say but it seems like it would be interesting at the least.
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You've never met Vince Neil then.
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Not yet anyway. I think I meet him sometime in chapter 2.
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He came to buy appliances at a Sears I was working at. He acted like he was at Sharper Image :lol
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Anyway, I just finished reading Abarat. First book I've ever read b yClive Barker, and I have to say that I like it, and will probably be getting more of his books in the future. |
Button, button: Uncanny stories
A small collection of Matheson's short stories. |
Clifford D. Simak's City.
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Death From The Skies! by Philip Plait, Ph.D.
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The R. Crumb Handbook.
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Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
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That's a good one, I should probably read it again soon :eek
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It's my favorite. Bar none.
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im reading the republic :(
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is that plato's republic, or dan brown's
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lol plato's.
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you just read plato for fun?
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People said the same thing to me. I would be reading the old long classics for fun and they all hated it because they were forced to in school.
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Arabian Nights
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Mr T - The Man with the Gold, by Mr T
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I have officially started Bonfire of the Vanities and Ulysses, and have my sights set on The Awakening and Other Stories by Kate Chopin next.
I'm surprised that I'm enjoying Ulysses more than Bonfire of the Vanities; the latter has all the ingredients I look for in a novel, but Tom Wolfe's style is starting to grate on me. Maybe the internet has ruined ellipses for me, but he uses them far too much. I feel like I'm reading some horrifying 13 year old's blog when I see sentences like "he turned the corner... there are a lot of black faces here he thinks... the Bronx sure is scary..." IT IS A GRAMMATICAL NIGHTMARE. |
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