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What book are you currently reading?

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alasdairm said:
have you read 'lamb'? it's good.

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"Cal" is the only other book by the same man that I have read so far. It was given to me as a 13 year old by one of my sisters and tells the story of a man/boy roped into helping a certain Northern Ireland paramilitary organisation carry out a hit and his subsequent affair with the dead mans widow.

I still have it. As I lived in the south I imagine it was given to me for a reason. Very powerful read.
 
Riklet said:
Just started "Down and Out In Paris and London" by George Orwell, which i'm enjoying so far, makes me imagine 1930s Paris pretty well, n makes me want to go back to France! There's this ace argument on the first page with a landlord and a tenant, who's infuriated them by squashing bugs on the walls repeatedly... :D =D
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That book is dope, along with pretty much everything else George Orwell wrote (before the thought police got him, lol) There's a glossary at the back of London slang terms where he describes the latest slang term to hit the streets: the word "fuck".

I'm currently reading Nick Davies' "Flat Earth News". Interesting subject matter but hard going as it's written (inevitably, I suppose) in a very dense, "journalistic" style which makes it heavy going in places. Basically it's about the decline of the journalistic profession: the reasons behind it, what's actually happening and what it's effects are/will be.

He also has a website here:

http://www.flatearthnews.net/

(EDIT: some of you will probably be particularly interested in this section: http://www.flatearthnews.net/footnotes-book/page-28-heroin/whats-wrong-war-against-drugs)

Just read Ismail Kadare's "Broken April", which is also worth a look too.
 
I still haven't finished Choke. :|

But as I saw the film last week, chances of me finishing it now are pretty slim.

I might start 'Sarah' by JT Leroy instead. It's short enough to hold my attention...I think.
 
Ahem. Yes, I have almost sent that book down to you, tribal... but not quite. Soon, though :).

Na Boa said:
I'm currently reading Nick Davies' "Flat Earth News".
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I have an audiobook of that somewhere that I've been meaning to get around to listen to. Will dig it out :).

But I'll send that book to tribal first... probably.
 
Evad said:
fear and loathing to me is much more coherent than a random splurge of thoughts, certainly more meaningful than your nonsense stimulant induced bluelight posting ;) why are you describing it as arrogant? thompson actually learned to write by typing out the great gatsby over and over again on his typewriter to get a feel for it.

I've just got count zero by william gibson and hemmingway - the collected stories out of the library and will dive into them a bit later. have been reading a lot of sci fi lately and feel like breaking the streak.
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Have you read the rest of the Sprawl trilogy by Gibson?

I'm overdosing on Baudrillard atm, French theorist and the "high priest of postmoderism":

The illusion of desire has been lost in the ambient pornography and contemporary art has lost the desire of illusion. In porn, nothing is left to desire. After the orgies and the liberation of all desires, we have moved into the transsexual, the transparency of sex, with signs and images erasing all its secrets and ambiguity. Transsexual, in the sense that it now has nothing to do with the illusion of desire, only with the hyperreality of the image.

The same is true for art, which has also lost the desire for illusion, and instead raises everything to aesthetic banality, becoming transaesthetic. For art, the orgy of modernity consisted in the heady deconstruction of the object and of representation. During that period, the aesthetic illusion remained very powerful, just as the illusion of desire was for sex. The energy of sexual difference, which moved through all the figures of desire, corresponded, in art, to the energy of dissociation from reality (cubism, abstraction, expressionism). Both, however, corresponded to the will to crack the secret of desire and the secret of the object. Up until the disappearance of these two powerful configurations -- the scene of desire, the scene of illusion -- in favor of the same transsexual, transaesthetic obscenity, the obscenity of visibility, the relentless transparency of all things. In reality, there is no longer any pornography, since it is virtually everywhere. The essence of pornography permeates all visual and televisual techniques.

If I had to characterize the current state of affairs, I would say that it is "after the orgy." The orgy, in a way, was the explosive move¬ment of modernity, of liberation in every domain. Political liberation, sexual liberation, liberation of productive forces, libera¬tion of destructive forces, women's liberation, children's liberation, liberation of unconscious drives, liberation of art. The assumption of all models of representation, all models of anti-representation; It was a total orgy: of reality, rationality, sexuality, critique and anti-critique, growth and growth crises. We have explored all the paths of production and virtual overproduction of objects, signs, messages, ideologies, pleasures. Today, if you want my opinion, everything has been liberated, the dice have been rolled, and we are collectively faced with the crucial question: WHAT DO WE DO AFTER THE ORGY?
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I'm not really reading this as such, more thumbing through it.

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It's a really nice collectors item for fans.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Wow3gm9kGA
 
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. More relevant to the shitey dangerous world of my job than I ever could have imagined. At least I've got money for food and beer though eh! ;)
 
Iain Banks - Excession.

It's one of the Culture SF books. I've not read his SF stuff before but I'm a big fan of his. This is different - good, but odd.
 
I need something good to read.....I want the new George P Pelecanos book, but i think the missus has bought it for me for Xmas.
 
whoremoaning said:
I've been reading that also, although I'm only a few pages in :) I like all the interactive fold out pictures/flyers/polaroids etc :D
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It's great ain't it?!. :D

I think they should have made his diaries more like this book, it would have been a lot more interesting to look through. Courtney's diaries were slightly more creative in terms of layout and the way it was put together. I much preferred hers to his in that respect.

Here's some vids relating to this book.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wvITER3OnU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPCORNlDlpc
 
Kali's Odiyya : A Shaman's True Story of Initiation by Amarananda Bhairavan

A rare and exciting true story of worship and initiation in an culture that still exists today. Bhairavan writes of his experience of initiation into the world of Kali's odiyyas shamans of the goddess. We learn the goddess tradition first-hand and experience and exorcism, Kundalini training, astral travel, shape-shifting, healing, how to deal with the death of a shaman, and how this matriarchal society governs the devotees

Fantastic read. Not for the faint hearted, or close minded though.

http://www.amazon.com/Kalis-Odiyya-...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1228950394&sr=1-1
 
I've nearly finished reading "Hoods : The Story Of The Nottingham Gang Wars" the main story line is about the estate I grew up on which made it a little bit more interesting to me.
 
Audio Terrorist said:
I've nearly finished reading "Hoods : The Story Of The Nottingham Gang Wars" the main story line is about the estate I grew up on which made it a little bit more interesting to me.
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Is it a good book? I've been thinking about buying it myself.
 
kate66 said:
Iain Banks - Excession.

It's one of the Culture SF books. I've not read his SF stuff before but I'm a big fan of his. This is different - good, but odd.
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Ian Bank's sci-fi is amongst the very best modern sci-fi in my opinion.

His fiction is amongst the very best modern fiction as well.

Personally i love the ideas behind his culture novels. If i could live in any fictional setting it would be on a culture ring world somewhere nice and peaceful.

Excession is one of his better sci-fi books as well, but it is also one of the harder to get into.
 
Pingu said:
is The Prince -machiavelli worth reading?
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I've not read it myself, but it's on my To Read list. Quite possibly interminably dull, but has that bone fide classic thing going on so I'd go for it if I were you, Pingu :).

Kate: Iain Banks is one I've only read a smattering of, but I like what I have read very much. The only Culture stories I've read are from a short story anthology of his. Excellent stuff - great imagination and storytelling. Another on my To Read list :).
 
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