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Just finished two short stories from Robert Louis Stevenson
'Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' - Really dark and I loved the language in this.
'Bodysnatchers' - together with dr J in a short stories book, this again is very grim and gothic with murderous undertones. very cool.
Started 'The Island of Dr Moreau' (h.g. wells) this morning and loving it.
vikram chandra - sacred games
good in parts, but should have been 300 pages instead of 950 pages. christ it's a relief to have finished it.
after 200 pages i thought... i can't give up now, i've read 200 pages. i should have given up.
waiting list:
john cheever - falconer
philip k dick - ubik
niccolo ammaniti - i'm not scared
halldor laxness - independent people & under the glacier
a collection of Philip K. Dick stories...very nice stuff
Clark Ashton Smith - Lost Worlds
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
niccolo ammaniti - i'm not scared
just finished, really good.
Foundation by Asimov 
I just started reading High-Rise by JG Ballard and it's so good I completely missed my tram stop & had to catch another one all the way back to my house
alexandre dumas - the queen's necklace
william gibson - spook country
waiting : ballard - crash
fragments of an anarchist anthropology by david graeber
This shit's tight. Anarchy brass tacks and genocidal europeans of the 16th and 17th centuries
arthur schnitzler - reigen
Is it good?
I re-read Traumnovelle and Casanovas Heimfahrt a while back which I enjoyed a lot.
@ Scarface
"Is it good?"
-> it's about how sexual contact can break up class boundaries but also about power games between the different social classes.
it tells you a lot about society at the end of the 19th century. a nice quickie in between... i liked it a lot.
"Traumnovelle"
-> yeah, enjoyed that one too!
"Casanovas Heimfahrt"
-> thanks for reminding me! i was reading geschichte meines lebens by casanova a while back which was pretty interesting.
but first i have to finish the marie antoinette romances by dumas (5 books and i only started reading number 2).
O.k. so "reigen" also has a sexual theme. Sounds interesting with the social classes etc. One to remind when I'm in a bookstore again. Have bought no new books in a while so I'm re-reading some. Couldn't help but to remind some images of "Eyes Wide Shut" while reading Traumnovelle. I would like to see that movie again also.
http://www.djhistory.com/books/disco-files
this is just a must read (not really a book more like a collection of magazine articles) but if you like 70's disco
Aletti just saw it all in the right light back then, sometimes I'm just amazes to see how corect he was
with the record reviews. And the charts really do give you a picture of what people were dancing to in each club.
not to mention the opertunity to view the new releases week by week - so you get an idea what came out before
what, and who influenced who
recomended and i'm the last person that would want to do pr for Brewster&co
"Down and Out in Paris and London". Reminds me of uni days when I'd spent too much on grog.
Fascism: a History by roger eatwell
objective look into factors such as plutocratic governements, reaction against romanticism, italian non-identity etc
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Dune, again...
Bruce Mazlish - The Fourth Discontinuity. The Co-Evolution of Humans and Machines
Great!
Iain M Banks - Matter
Currently reading:
Michio Kaku - Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
Neal Stephenson - The System of the World (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 3) - To wrap it all up
Kaku loves to be on tv
Yeah...it's good subway reading physics.
Michio Kaku - Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
many cool worlds in the title, but very speculative stuff (maybe too speculative to be called "physics"). be warned 
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