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What book are you currently reading?

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Chronik Fatigue said:
I'm doing 'Mr Nice' for a second time, picked it up at a second hand book store the other day. My Howard Marks is such a genial chap :D

Speaking of HST, does anyone have the book with his essays as an early writer? Can't remember which one it was bjut there was a wonderful essay he wrote when Hemingway shot himself, would be a poignant read now I'd imagine.
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I'll take a l;ook I think I have most of his stuff , except Songs of the Doomed , which I lent out & the guy left work and so.........
 
Boomeritis by Ken Wilber. It's an introduction to Integral Philosophy done in a loose novel type structure. It pretty much pisses all over the baby boomer generation and suggests structure of thinking beyond the 60's liberal ideals. oh and its got sex and robots in. Interesting but quite hard work!
 
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Got The Heroin Diaries started. IDK I'm always internested in other people's lives...

"Insanity runs deep in
the company that I keep
Insanity runs deep in everyone but me
My padded walls you call my eyes
My dreams that you call my lies
Around my wrists my shackles lay
razorblades and cocaine to pass
the time away"
 
Hermann hesse, siddhartha.

Ulysses is up next on my list of books i've been meaning to read and putting off.

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Also Zig zag zen and Effective psychotherapy: the contribution of hellmuth Kaiser.
 
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Just finished 'Zen and the art of motorcycle maintincence' and it's a damn good read! I'd recommend it to anyone.

Was thinking of getting the Senior nice where he goes to south america as I've read the 1st one, anyone read it?
 
Just finished 'Dracula' (Bram Stoker) which was brilliant. Cannot believe I have never read it before! Would really recommend this. It is gripping from the word go.

Now reading 'A Year in Marrakeche' (Peter Mayne) - good so far, but a 1950s travel journal rather that novel.
 
Neuromancer by William Gibson.

Getting this along with the final cut of Blade Runner has made this festive period one of grimy, neon-lit, rain-soaked dystopia for me.

Best Christmas ever! %)
 
'The Possibility of an Island' by Michael Houellbecq the very controvertial French writer. I think he's the new Camus, and that is saying something (well, to those who read & enjoy Camus). My French is rusty...
 
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Just finished "Diary" by Chuck Palahnuik.

Bit dark and twisted, tells the story of a woman keeping a coma diary for her vegetative husband as she slowly wakes up to the fact she is the central figure in a cursed cycle.

Worth a read.
 
^ Funnily enough, I recently read Haunted, by Chuck Palahnuik. I've never read any of his other stuff, but my golly he's a bit of a twisted puppy. I'll have to check out some of his others. Haunted is kind of like a short story anthology embedded into a survivial horror tale. A writer's group board themselves up in an abandoned theatre, tell each other stories and go completely bat-shit nuts. My favourite has to be the one about how the skinny guy got to be so skinny (I think it's the first one). I almost pissed the sofa laughing- one of the nastiest/funniest stories I've ever read, and most of the rest are pretty good too. A little pretentious in places, but well worth checking out.

The book that I've just finished is Confessions of an English Opium Eater, by Thomas de Quincey. I tried to read it years ago during my junky years, but could never get into it. Having just read it properly I can kind of see why. It's beautifully written, but can be tortuous to read to the modern eye. It was written in the age where punctuation was pretty much made up as you went along so sentences can sprawl over more than one page and it's entirely possible to get lost in footnotes, digressions and notes. It's worth sticking with though because once you get into the rhythm of it, it really does show the working of the opiated mind - and his mind was deeply opiated. You can taste the laudanum soaking through every meandering aside and in the way he lurches from one idea to another only to tie himself in verbal knots before finally returning to the subject. It's like reading one of my old diaries, only well written. Part travelogue, part memoir and part opium dreams and all good.

PinholeStar said:
Neuromancer by William Gibson.
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One of my all time favourites :) , but perhaps an acquired taste.
 
The Red Dragon / Silence of the Lambs by ................ I can't be arsed to go get the book !!8)

OOOOOoooooo !!!
And I'm currently listening to Disc World by Terry Pratchett on radio 7.
I was nicely surprised as to how good it is so this will be my next read no doubt !!;) ;) ;) =D =D =D <3
 
haribo1 said:
'The Possibility of an Island' by Michael Houellbecq the very controvertial French writer. I think he's the new Camus, and that is saying something (well, to those who read & enjoy Camus). My French is rusty...
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I havent read any Michael Houellbecq but Camus is great :)
 
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy.

I found this in Holborn Tube station while waiting for a central line train on Tuesday:)

Fantastic detail and prose.

McCarthy wrote Blood Meridian while supporting himself with money from his 1981 MacArthur Fellows grant. It is his first novel set in the American Southwest, making a move from the Appalachian settings of his earlier work.

Awash with extreme violence, McCarthy's prose is sparse yet expansive, with an often biblical quality and frequent religious references. The book also features McCarthy's somewhat unusual writing style – there are, for example, many unusual or archaic words, no quotation marks for dialogue, and no apostrophes to note dropped letters. The notoriously publicity-shy McCarthy has not granted interviews regarding the novel, and the work is open to several interpretations.

McCarthy conducted a considerable amount of research in writing the book, and critics have repeatedly demonstrated that even brief, and seemingly inconsequential passages of Blood Meridian rely on enormous historical evidence. The Glanton gang segments are based on Samuel Chamberlain's account of the group in his book My Confession: The Recollections of a Rogue, which he wrote during the later part of his life. Chamberlain rode with John Joel Glanton and his company between 1849 and 1850, but his book has been criticized as embellished and historically unreliable. The novel's antagonist Judge Holden first appeared in Chamberlain's account, though his real identity remains a mystery. One curiosity, however, is that Chamberlain himself does not appear in fictionalized form.
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