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What are you currently reading? v2

That one and Awakenings are the only Oliver Sacks I've read so far. He's definitely one I'd pick up anything of his I came across though. Fascinating stuff. Saw an interview with him about his new one Hallucinations where he talks about his own experiences induced by a cocktail of speed, acid and weed. Nice to see he has some personal experience at least to an extent. Some of the cases in the mistaken wife one are just insane though 8o
 
^ I have read "The Man.." - loved it! Really fascinating stuff. The brain is a strange and wonderous thing. I've not read "Awakenings" or "Hallucinations" though. Only just started "Musicophilia" but so far it's very good indeed :)

That's pretty cool about his drug use haha! I know he's really into synaesthesia... maybe I'll contact him recommending mescaline and 2C-I, best combo for that IME :D
 
Infinite Jest said:
Same story, yeah.
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God knows why I thought that was Maribou. I'm currently just reading a Hunter Thompson letters collection so will probably put it down for Maribou Stork Nightmares when it gets delivered. Mad to think it must have been about 15 years since I read it.

I ordered this the other day as well.

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His first book, Kill Your Friends, is easily one of my favourite books. Steven Stelfox is an outstanding character. Apparently going to be played by that Rafe Spall dude in the movie next year.
 
Shambles said:
Thanks for the linkee, Slaughter. Been meaning to check out Mr Beckett at some point :)
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Waiting for Godot is a great play worth seeing on a theatre stage if possible

Sean O'Casey is another playwright worth checking out most notable for The Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock, & The Plough and the Stars
 
th3 s1aught3r said:
Waiting for Godot is a great play worth seeing on a theatre stage if possible

Sean O'Casey is another playwright worth checking out most notable for The Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock, & The Plough and the Stars
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i went to see the plough and the stars the other month. it was very good- very sad though.

but ructions, we don't want easons to go the same road as hmv. is there still golden discs in ireland...in fact i can see hmv living on in ireland more than here.

ructions, you are so lucky that the gear is shit in dublin, i bet that you have more time as well as cash and more alertness...the alertness terrifies me a bit because ido be very very alert. (off topic)

marabou stork: must read. ecstasy must read. our library has just moved all its books to the new library. i'm feeling nostalgic about birmingham central library and its orange carpet. how i love books.
 
effie said:
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High expectations for this one.
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Ohhhhhh, nice one Effie. I'd not come across that one before. Oliver Sacks FTW! You've probably seen this but he pops up at the end of the video discussing music and memory. Figured he'd just been dragged out as the star turn to endorse what http://musicandmemory.org were doing, I'd not realised he had something along those lines out himself. I blubbed like a girl watching it. :\

Man In Nursing Home Reacts To Hearing Music From His Era
 
I mentioned recently that the only bookshop in town closed a while back. It appears I lied. Had to walk to t'other side of town earlier and we have three. Observant fucker me sometimes 8)

In my defence, one is uberspecialist (hunting, shooting, fishing only) and I've never even thought of going in (although I kinda forgot one of me brother's has worked there for the last two years 8)). Another I've been in a coupla times but is also a bit specialist (Welsh language, local history and the like), very expensive and essentially a tourist trap. Third one has only recently opened and actually looks really good. Again a bit specialist (mostly art books) and insanely pricey though. Must have a browse sometime cos it looks like they have some great stuff (albeit stuff you need to remortgage yer house to do more than browse in).
 
I got Marabou Stork Nightmares & The Second Coming by John Niven delivered today. Can't decide what to read first.

I'd forgot what The Second Coming was about, other than the obvious thing from the title. The description on the back of the book is excellent.

God takes a look at the Earth around the time of the Renaissance and everything looks pretty good - so he takes a holiday. In Heaven-time this is just a week's fishing trip, but on Earth several hundred years go by. When God returns, he finds all hell has broken loose: world wars, holocausts, famine, capitalism and 'fucking Christians everywhere'. There's only one thing for it. They're sending the kid back.

JC, reborn, is a struggling musician in New York City, trying to teach the one true commandment: Be Nice! His best chance to win hearts and minds is to enter American Pop Star. But the number one show in America is the unholy creation of a record executive who's more than a match for the Son of God... Steven Stelfox.
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I've somehow managed to avoid reading any Dostoevsky, any suggestions which novel I should start with?

Crime & Punishment?

The Idiot?

Something else altogether?
 
Good, I bought that in a secondhand bookshop earlier :) I just wasn't sure whether to save that and read something else of his first.


To get back on topic, I'm currently reading this:
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I wanted to read it when I was going through a 'beat generation' phase in my teens but it was out of print at the time and just found it in my library recently.

It's interesting as it was the first published novel from the 'beat' affiliated people, and seems quite a lot more conventional in form than more well known books, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone unless they were particularly interested in 'the beats' or America during that era.
 
I still need to finish "Watching The English" but I've started The Invisible Man which seems fucking ace!

Tale of woe - I've lost 4:48 Psychosis!!!
Really annoyed. But I'm more annoyed that there haven't been any perfect play that has tried to be carved by the manuscript.

Reading it I can totally see that it was practically a suicide note by Sarah Kane. But Jeeeeeez! There's so much potential to create a brilliant play - even a short film - out of it.
 
ColourfulKronos said:
Also i'll keep advocating this series until i die, fantastic books and by far best ones i've ever read, and i usually hate fantasy type stuff:
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Really want to get into this series, its just a bit daunting at the size and number of books !
I saw an interview with Martin where he said that he was working on a different sci-fi book in the early 90's when suddenly the image of the Dire Wolves in the summer snow came to him and he started to write Game of Thrones. Amazing stuff
 
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