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Will Self

I liked Liver and Psychogeography. I'll be picking up more by him. Self is cool, there are youtube things involving him that are good fun as well, you may want to look at the room101 one.

Currently still working through "The Passion of Michel Foucault" by James Miller. It's absolutely great (well, if that's your kinda thing...) but slow going. Heavy but good, kinda like Christmas deserts.

Also started with Ballard's Kingdome Come, which I have high hopes about. On "the stack"; a popular(ish) science book that I think is about the mind-body division in cognition science or something along those lines. Got it for my B-day and it's supposed to be good.

I also really want to read this book on the Cyrenaic schoof of Greek thought. They were the guys who came up with the whole hedonism idea, Epicurianism (I mean that in the original sense) grew from it, but with a angle on experience&perception that seems to foreshadow Foucault.

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im a big fan of ballard aswell. High Rise and concrete island being a couple of favourites. Still haven't got round to crash yet.

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If you like those you should like Crash, some people see those as a sort of thematic trilogy.

Crash is closely related to a chapter in Atrocity Exhibition (as far more challenging read), I knew that but what I didn't know is that there is this whole chapter in "The kindness of women", one of his autobiographical works, that describes a series of events that must have been the inspiration for the book.

I was quite surprised by that as the whole thing seems such a conceptual, almost abstract, idea. Then again, I suppose that books can be both a conceptual work about the fetishation of objects as well as based on true events at the same time.

Reading that back it looks a bit clumsy, but I was trying to avoid spoilers. I recommend all of the above, as well as the Kronenberg movie. Atrocity Exhibition is probably my favourite. Then again; not everyone will be into literary experiments that are also quite pornographic in a very abstract way.

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Earth Abides..

post apocalyptic novel (disease) ...  I love post apocalyptic books ..

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For Whom The Bell Tolls

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just read the 2nd twilight book. now waiting to get the 3rd from my workmate, hope tomorrow.
not sure yet, but i might even go to the cinema watch the movie, haha.

.."this world`s a bubble"..

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Love this guy.

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jack london - the sea-wolf

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The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google - Nicholas Carr

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no such creature by gilles blunt

his books about cardinal and delorme are real good
forty words for sorrow is a favorite

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3.1 of 5
not as good as his previous books

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Psychic Confusion: The Sonic Youth Story

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Finally got around to reading The Name of the Rose...loved it

about to start Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Looking for a good recent non-fiction...any recos?

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just started Ayn Rand -  Atlas shrugged

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Dreams of Freedom: a Ricardo Flores Magon Reader

finished his biography now reading his various writings taken from his newspaper [i]Regeneraci

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Philip Roth - Exit Ghost (finally made it after a year when I started. It gets much better in the second half, although the setting does not change at all, very minimal indeed)

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James Clavell - Shogun
1000+ pages brick

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ok "adventure"

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this thread.

Monkey see, monkey do.

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coae wrote:

James Clavell - Shogun
1000+ pages brick

how is it?

i've read noble house by the same author.

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David Peace - GB84

A fictional account of the miner's strike in 80s Britain by the guy who wrote the Red Riding books. Very well written but a tad intense for the xmas/new year period.

Detective Toni Maiovvowitz: Homicide and assorted other projects

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ytz wrote:
coae wrote:

James Clavell - Shogun
1000+ pages brick

how is it?

i've read noble house by the same author.

only 50 pages in, so far it

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I strongly doubt that Lapidus will deliver in 3rd part of Stockholm Noir.
First one was brilliant but didnt like the second part that much anymore...

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@meschi I loved Sophies World as a teenager, and I read again recently. Reminds us not just to drink the wine but to look at our reflection in the bottle.  The Road, pretty haunting - you seen the film yet?

Just finishing:  Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray again " We only regret the things we don't do not the things we do" love the attitude of character Basil Hallward.

About to start: Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen - gloom, love, loss, sex, religion & dry humour - just another day!

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not seen the film but it looks amazing.

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coae wrote:
ytz wrote:
coae wrote:

James Clavell - Shogun
1000+ pages brick

how is it?

i've read noble house by the same author.

only 50 pages in, so far it

cuties don't exert

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