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What are you currently reading? v2

lol, it's had a few slaps, a few turns on and off taking the cover off, peering about and poking things, putting the cover back on...

I can get hot water, as long as i keep the pressure extremely low, and ONLY if the heating is on. The heating works all the time and is fine, so it's not the pump.

The boiler man is inevitable, It's in my nature though to spend at least one, maybe two days of my weekend swearing prodding and getting the arsehole about this sort of thing, before swallowing my pride and phoning the boiler man.

Sorry for thread derail, I don't see how i can help it.

Any good book suggestions for mending combi boilers? =D
 
Just finished:Cosmic Trigger: Final Secret of the Illuminati
This was recommended to me on a different thread..
Very enjoyable read - Wilson is an agnostic psychic/psychedelic explorer who discovers there's a lot more going on than he thought... healthy scepticism and humour throughout

Reading: John Lennon & The FBI files
Halfway through, and it seems like the authors have believed everything they read on the web...

Reading: All You Need to Know About the Music Business
Good overview of the distasteful but necessary business end of Music
 
Glasshouse - Charles Stross

More of my sci-fi cyber punk type stuff, quite likin this one
 
SamhainGrim said:
Oh, he was. Sometimes. Just like many a piss-taking egomaniac. ;)

Get this poem, from The Book Of Lies:

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Crowley should not be read in isolation - he's willfully perverse and will attempt to fuck with your head. Try Robert Anton Wilson alongside, or if you're that way inclined (magick etc.) I can suggest other things. Though you'd like RAW if you like PKD.

Again, all bollocks if you choose to believe so. If you do, fine, but remember the stock market exists.

Which bollocks do you prefer?
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Could you, please? What are your opinions on Israel Regardi? Can you recommend any of his publications?

I'm very interested in the Quabbalah actually, and I hear IR is exceptionally well at explaining some of its more elaborate concepts to the layman - something I haven't found to be the case with Crowley. However, I do find Crowley to be quite an interesting fellow all the same and I'm enjoying 'Diary of a Drug Fiend' at the moment. I also have his entire bibliography right here on my hard drive with the exception of 'Magick in Theory and Practice' - which I desperately seek but am of the understanding that its been out of print for sometime. Copies available online appear to fetch as much as 50pounds...so it would have to be really worth it...but to be honest, if you were to tell me its worth a read then I'd absolutely buy it. Liber 777 has been recommended to me multiple times so I might just start that this week.

I must say I very much like RAW, and was surprised to learn he's Irish. I always thought that if Homer Simpson existed as an actual life form, he'd look rather like him.


I recently picked this off my bookshelf; figured it was time for a re-reading:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394836.Collected_Ghost_Stories

I own this very edition too in fact, which my Uncle bought for me when I was seven or so. The painting upon the sleeve is entitled "The Moonlight Walk" by John Atkinson Grimshaw and was one of the (if not the actual) first paintings I developed an appreciation for. Unfortunately, by the time my appreciation of Art in terms of Literature and Painting matured to a level where I was even semi-comfortable discussing it, he had developed alzheimer's and so I never got a chance to properly thank him for an introduction that faired to be a such a pinnacle influence on my personality.

Anyway - highly recommended.
 
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Just finished reading 'Vulcan 607' about the effort to bomb Port Stanley airfield during the Falklands war. Real 'boys own' stuff - real life Biggles types, only flying fuck off sized delta wing V bombers instead of biplanes...
 
Recently finished
Diggin The Vein by Tony o Neil.

I was aware of his work from a blog that i follow but thanks to a kind BLer i was lent a copy .
I'm looking forward to reading more of his stuff.
If your into or curious about the junkie lifestyle tehn you can't go wrong with this guy .
He paints a excellent picture of is time in California in this book .
Go get it i'm hooked on his style already & looking forward to reading more of his stuff
 
brimz said:
Recently finished
Diggin The Vein by Tony o Neil.

I was aware of his work from a blog that i follow but thanks to a kind BLer i was lent a copy .
I'm looking forward to reading more of his stuff.
If your into or curious about the junkie lifestyle tehn you can't go wrong with this guy .
He paints a excellent picture of is time in California in this book .
Go get it i'm hooked on his style already & looking forward to reading more of his stuff
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Thanks for the ups on that one pal - exactly the ilk of lit I've been looking for recently. I think I've also read a blog by the same name in the past. Currently reading the incredibly erudite:

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I can understand it wont be for everyone, however I just cannot recommend it enough none the less. Its also available in audio-book format (which you can likely get online) should you find you don't fancy the 650 pages of the paperback edition. I originally came across the PDF on iPhone I found in an unmistakably empty park in the inner city a couple of years ago it blew me away so I eventually went ahead and picked up a copy last Christmas passed. Easily makes my top 5 of all time.
 
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Snow Blind - a brief career in the cocaine trade. True crime books are my favourite, especially stories about drugs and prisons, find them fascinating. Although i really dont like the way this book is written, and it is taking a while to read compared to the time it has taken me to read other books like this that i have gotten into really quickly.
 
Hotel K for example, i read in two days. its the story of a very corrupt prison, and several of its inmates, again a true story. crazy to read about the corruption and goings on in some of the foreign prisons.
 
Sorry to keep re-posting, but keep forgetting things! My all time favourite book has to be Marching Powder however. it is so interesting and would recommend it to anyone. even recommended it to my mother, who absolutely loved it. just fascinating, funny, sad at times, just an enthralling read.
 
I am currently reading this:

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Which is great, loads of random knowledge about interesting people and events all vaguely associated with Sunderland and Lewis Carroll/Charles Dodgson.

Is anyone else into 'graphic novels'*/comics or whatever? I recently read some of Joe Sacco's 'comic journalism'* and I would really recommend finding some to leaf through at a library.

* I'm not sure how comfortable I am with these names so have used the inverted commas to feel slightly less pretentious.. ;)
 
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but also <3

That aside, am torn between Crime & Punishment or Don Quixote for my next thrilling pageturner. I know both are classics but am yet to decide cos the former is printed in really, really small font in my copy and makes my eyes a bit wibbly and the latter would break my leg if I dropped it mid-read. Will be sure to let y'all know which I go for as and when.
 
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Shantaram. Had three separate unrelated conversations lately about the awesomeness that is this book. Beautifully written, fast-paced adventure, captures India perfectly, brim full of philosophy and deep thoughts without you even realising they are there half the time. LOVE LOVE LOVE.
 
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