I didn't like scar tissue either. I think I got about half way through it and ended up returning it to the library. Read many books on famous people and their drug habits such as Kurt Cobain and River Phoenix. Its a wonder this guy is still alive. Sure Scar Tissue is pretty raw and honest but I sometimes wonder if he was more bragging about his heroin habit.
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What are you reading now? vers. "So I don't end up being a fucking waffle waitress"
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PsYcHoAcTiViSt
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Chuck Palahniuk's "Snuff"
m4dd0g
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Just finished The Steel Remains by Richard Morgan
I read his first book a few years ago by accident (desperation + tiny 2nd hand book store) and was flawed. In his very short career he has cleaned up awards all over the place and this is likely his best work yet.
I read his first book a few years ago by accident (desperation + tiny 2nd hand book store) and was flawed. In his very short career he has cleaned up awards all over the place and this is likely his best work yet.
miasma
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having trouble reading surrender by sonya hartnett.
just can't really get into it.....tho i recently read her book all my dangerous friends in an afternoon.
just can't really get into it.....tho i recently read her book all my dangerous friends in an afternoon.
lostpunk5545
Bluelighter
Recently I've read Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. I think the first half of the book was better than the second but it was still a great read, very poetic at times.
Then I read My Steve by Terri Irwin. Only because me Dad wanted me to. It fucking sucked. I mean if you can't write, don't try. She could have recorded a video tribute or something. And I still think the same of Steve, great efforts towards conservation and that's highly commendable but all in all, still a hyperactive douche bag.
Now I'm reading Cloudstreet by Tim Winton on recommendation by UAN. Really brilliant and enjoyable so far. It's the second novel of his I've read and this one is much more accessible. Beautiful prose, even if it is Aussie as fuck. And by that I mean you wouldn't think Aussieisms to be able to be pulled off in a way that makes you think anything more than "bogan." But if you assumed that, you'd be wrong. Pour example:
Men looked at her the way they look at horses. They were bolder now they knew her old man was a crip. She was fed up with this town. She knew it was time to make her own luck and piss off, but she just couldn't get started. It'd be better when the summer was over, when the war was over. There'd be a better time, she knew.
No money came in. No compo. Sam didn't go on the dole. At night she lay beside him in bed, sensed his wiry weight spilling her towards him, and she tilted guiltily his way every time to scramble astride him and pull him into her, watch the harbour lights rise and fall through the window as she remembered the girlhood colour of moonlight on a paddock of stubble and the grind of dirt beneath her buttocks.
Then I read My Steve by Terri Irwin. Only because me Dad wanted me to. It fucking sucked. I mean if you can't write, don't try. She could have recorded a video tribute or something. And I still think the same of Steve, great efforts towards conservation and that's highly commendable but all in all, still a hyperactive douche bag.
Now I'm reading Cloudstreet by Tim Winton on recommendation by UAN. Really brilliant and enjoyable so far. It's the second novel of his I've read and this one is much more accessible. Beautiful prose, even if it is Aussie as fuck. And by that I mean you wouldn't think Aussieisms to be able to be pulled off in a way that makes you think anything more than "bogan." But if you assumed that, you'd be wrong. Pour example:
Men looked at her the way they look at horses. They were bolder now they knew her old man was a crip. She was fed up with this town. She knew it was time to make her own luck and piss off, but she just couldn't get started. It'd be better when the summer was over, when the war was over. There'd be a better time, she knew.
No money came in. No compo. Sam didn't go on the dole. At night she lay beside him in bed, sensed his wiry weight spilling her towards him, and she tilted guiltily his way every time to scramble astride him and pull him into her, watch the harbour lights rise and fall through the window as she remembered the girlhood colour of moonlight on a paddock of stubble and the grind of dirt beneath her buttocks.
up all night
Bluelight Crew
^ Whenever I recommend that book to someone I always get a little bit stressed they won't like it because it's so important to me. I can't remember if I warned, but about 3/4 of the way through a lot of people start losing interest, but it's really important you get to the end. The book feels like it could finish about 50-100 pages before it does but I found a few weeks/ months after finishing it, I started to understand why it went as far as it did. You'll probably pick it up much faster than I did.
I'm reading The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood but I'm only about 100 pages in. She's my favourite author of all time and because of that, or perhaps despite that, I can't give an opinion yet.
I'm reading The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood but I'm only about 100 pages in. She's my favourite author of all time and because of that, or perhaps despite that, I can't give an opinion yet.
lostpunk5545
Bluelighter
I read books I hate until the end. I don't think I've ever discarded a book I've started. Ok, there was that one time when I tried to read Rainbow 6 by Tom Clancy. I'm still having nightmares. Or boremares anyways...
anna!
Bluelight Crew
I'm reading The Memory Keeper's Daughter. It is sad and very well written (in a fluidity way more than a literary way) and I'm spending my day on the couch with it.
lostpunk5545
Bluelighter
I'm reading The Two Gentleman of Veronia by one William Shakespeare. I bought a complete works collection and I meant to read a play in between each novel I read but it fell by the wayside. Lo and behold, for the first time since 2005 I've reached the end of my ever expanding pile of books and I'm just feeling much more in a Shakespearean mood. I'm actually surprised at how immediately accessible it is because Shakespeare usually takes me a while to break a borderline of understanding every time I pick him up again. Maybe I broke that border permanently last play I read...
Although He Died With a Felafel in His Hand by Birmingham arrived in the mail today, a book I've been wanting to read ever since seeing the brilliant movie a few years ago.
Although He Died With a Felafel in His Hand by Birmingham arrived in the mail today, a book I've been wanting to read ever since seeing the brilliant movie a few years ago.
psycosynthesis
Bluelighter
^That's an awesome read (he died with...), so many laugh out loud moments there. Enjoy!
up all night
Bluelight Crew
HDWAFIHH is seriously hilarious. 
I'm about to finish Things The Grandchildren Should Know by Mark Oliver Everett, better known as the magic behind The Eels. I've never been a big Eels fan, but this book came highly recommended, and what an awesome juxtaposition it is to the crap that was Scar Tissue. Here's a guy who's had an interesting life, who's a critically acclaimed musician and has managed to write an autobiography that is entertaining, candid, heart-breaking and well-written. It doesn't matter whether you're an Eels fan or not, this book is worth reading as a lesson in how to deal with tragedy, loss and life. (Yes, I realise that's a dramatic sentence, but I think the book warrants it.)
I'm about to finish Things The Grandchildren Should Know by Mark Oliver Everett, better known as the magic behind The Eels. I've never been a big Eels fan, but this book came highly recommended, and what an awesome juxtaposition it is to the crap that was Scar Tissue. Here's a guy who's had an interesting life, who's a critically acclaimed musician and has managed to write an autobiography that is entertaining, candid, heart-breaking and well-written. It doesn't matter whether you're an Eels fan or not, this book is worth reading as a lesson in how to deal with tragedy, loss and life. (Yes, I realise that's a dramatic sentence, but I think the book warrants it.)
BREAKaBEAT
Ex-Bluelighter
Some of their music is so amazing, and some of it so absolutely not. I might have to check out the book.
kryalkastleE
Bluelighter
Stupid White Men by Michael Moore
Great great read, esp. with the upcoming election.
Great great read, esp. with the upcoming election.
Ooh, EAP. I memorised The Raven when I was younger and used to recite it endlessly to shit my family.
I read this crappy but somehow compelling book called "The M.D." by Thomas M. Disch. Its one of those horror books were a horrible little boy continues to be horrible throughout his life and then it ends horribly.
I read this crappy but somehow compelling book called "The M.D." by Thomas M. Disch. Its one of those horror books were a horrible little boy continues to be horrible throughout his life and then it ends horribly.
up all night
Bluelight Crew
^ Doesn't make it a bad read.
breaka: I think you might like it. I finished it tonight and was slightly disappointed until I realised that noone's autobiography is ever going to be entertaining or provide closure.
breaka: I think you might like it. I finished it tonight and was slightly disappointed until I realised that noone's autobiography is ever going to be entertaining or provide closure.
lil angel15
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About to start History of Western Philosophy - Bertrand Russell
It should be a good introduction to philosophical ideas and concepts in general. I have heard it's a good read to provide a broad understanding of pre-socratic philosophers through to those of influence in the early 20th century.
It should be a good introduction to philosophical ideas and concepts in general. I have heard it's a good read to provide a broad understanding of pre-socratic philosophers through to those of influence in the early 20th century.
lostpunk5545
Bluelighter
If that's your interest as of now hunt out a movie called Waking Life.
A great look at little snippets from lots of different fields of philosophy. It's fun too. May be a little rough on the head if you watch whilst coming down and drinking like I did.
Sweet as fuck animation as well (same style/director of A Scanner Darkly).
A great look at little snippets from lots of different fields of philosophy. It's fun too. May be a little rough on the head if you watch whilst coming down and drinking like I did.
Sweet as fuck animation as well (same style/director of A Scanner Darkly).