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Wanderlust by Elizabeth Eaves I get and have the love of traveling but she came off shallow and selfish.. she might grow up into something but I'm breathing.
The Institute by King mellows with age
Lady Chatterleys Lover DH Lawrence Must have been racy as fuck back in the day. I enjoyed this a great deal and fell for the writing.
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol by Andy Warhol dug it even though his mind is so extremely different from mine.
Midnight in Mexico Great first hand write up of recent history of the narco state that is Mexico.. what a fuckn nightmare tragedy.. go drug war!!
West With the Night Beryl Markham Very cool and written so solidly from another time
Its What I Do Lynsey Addario Wild Story, Crazy profession good read.
Blood Diamonds Greg Campbell fucking the human race is insane
 
ブラム!, by Tsutomu Nihei
Le Lama Blanc, by Alexandro Jodorowsky and George Bess
 
I lost my entire collection of books. Only thing that's left is a bunch of Robert anton wilson, which I grew very bored of halfway thru each book during a bout of discordian obsession :'(
 
My use of "failed entertainment' when describing infinite jest previously was an attempted low-grade sardonic-ironic wordplay, using the books original working title. Ive come to realize the novel Infinite Jest is simply too next-level for my education level. Hopefully someday I will be able to appreciate the brilliance of the book in a manner DFW would've respected. a failed post about a fialed entertainment. Apologies.

I read "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom" a while back and I am trying to be impeccable with my word moving forward and trying to refrain from sarcasm or self-deprecating humor.


Next book - Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor

A New York Times Bestseller

A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2020

Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR

“A fascinating scientific, cultural, spiritual and evolutionary history of the way humans breathe—and how we’ve all been doing it wrong for a long, long time.” —Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Big Magic and Eat Pray Love

No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you’re not breathing properly.

There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat twenty-five thousand times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences.

Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. The answers aren’t found in pulmonology labs, as we might expect, but in the muddy digs of ancient burial sites, secret Soviet facilities, New Jersey choir schools, and the smoggy streets of São Paulo. Nestor tracks down men and women exploring the hidden science behind ancient breathing practices like Pranayama, Sudarshan Kriya, and Tummo and teams up with pulmonary tinkerers to scientifically test long-held beliefs about how we breathe.

Modern research is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can jump-start athletic performance; rejuvenate internal organs; halt snoring, asthma, and autoimmune disease; and even straighten scoliotic spines. None of this should be possible, and yet it is.

Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head. You will never breathe the same again. < Amazon Book description
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what are some good novels you’d classify as pop? like Fight Club, Goodbye Columbus, and American Psycho? bonus points if the author is female. thanks!
 
schizoinfective said:
I lost my entire collection of books. Only thing that's left is a bunch of Robert anton wilson, which I grew very bored of halfway thru each book during a bout of discordian obsession :'(
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Man, that is such heavy sorrow, losing books. I had to ditch three or four moving boxes a few years ago, and some of the books I had, are out of print and I can't find any fucking copies. Losing my books was worse than losing my job. I can't cry at funerals, but I honestly wept when I realized those were gone.
 
hydroazuanacaine said:
what are some good novels you’d classify as pop? like Fight Club, Goodbye Columbus, and American Psycho? bonus points if the author is female. thanks!
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I call it transgressive fiction, but tomato/tomto.
I haven't found that many female authors roaming those waters, which is a fucking shame.

Here are some suggestions;

"Geek Love" by Katherine Dunn - it was excellent. I haven't read it in a while, but I remember enjoying it immensely.

"Grotesque" by Natsuo Kirino. Two sisters grow up to be prostitutes and murdered by the same man. Cults and dense darkness.

"My Year of Rest and Relaxation" by Ottessa Moshfegh to have a slight "Less Than Zero"-feel to it, although not as cold and callous.
"Eileen" by her was very much more Bret Easton Ellis.

The Phineas Poe-trilogy ('Kiss Me, Judas', 'Penny Dreadful', 'Hells Half Acre') by Will Christopher Baer. Just. Amazing.

"The Contortionists Handbook" by Craig Clevenger - like Chuck and Craig spends a weekend on coke and roofies
and decides to write a book about genius larency.

"Bright Lights, Big City" by Jay McInerney. He got in Ellis shadow, but that book is so good.

"Knock'emstiff" by Donald Ray Pollock - mud and blood.

"The Ones That Got Away" by Stephen Graham Jones- short story collection with sentences that will tie intestines into knots.

"Filth" by Irvine Welsh, which became a movie as well not long ago, is brillant - corrupt, lewd cop on drugs, mindfucking coworkers
and regular fucking anything that moves.

"The Fuck-Up" by Arthur Nersesian - dark humour, utterly depraved and decadent. Fantastic.
"Suicide Casanova" by him is also really good, if you don't mind a bit of sadistic eroticism.

That's what I can come up with now at least.
 
I still have yet to find my matriarch both in life and in letters .. she is out there.. can’t wait

On Pills and Needles by Rick Van Warner. A really solid take here.

Thirty Days a Black Man by Bill Steigerwald Gets to the real deal by the real deal
 
neversickanymore said:
Bartleby the Skrivener Melville
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This is a story that a lot of left wingers are familiar with for some reason. Zizek and Negri are two I know for sure did commentaries on it, plus others who I can’t remember. It gets referenced frequently in left wing writings/discourse.

Personally I like it...but I definitely think it’s a story one can draw multiple interpretations from. Melville was a pretty good author but didn’t really make shit as an author during his life, in fact he basically died a pauper and only became famous decades after his death


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My year of rest and relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh.
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Is this one actually good? I remember reading about it and thinking the premise sounded interesting, but also thought that it may have come off as the druggie ramblings of a pretentious hipster and decided against investigating further
 
Burnt Offerings said:
Is this one actually good? I remember reading about it and thinking the premise sounded interesting, but also thought that it may have come off as the druggie ramblings of a pretentious hipster and decided against investigating further
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Plot wise, pretty flat - some interesting characters, but if you like stories propelled forward by action, not monologues and talk, it might bore you.
The protagonist has a fucked up psychiatrist that prescribes like russian RC-drugs not yet allowed, but she writes them out anyway.
So she does drugs in an attempt to hibernate for a year, or the better part; she gets blackouts, she sleep-walks, she is utterly shameless and
apathetic, broken and slathered with antipathy.

I like the way Ottessa writes. She's got that tinge of Ellis with the disillusionment from "Less Than Zero" / "Rules of Attraction" / "The Informers".
She's not as crude and blunt, but she describes that feeling of capitulation and surrender when facing life, the hopelessness of privilege.

"the druggie ramblings of a pretentious hipster" - I can't argue that this isn't completely wrong, but I found it quite interesting.
I like fucked-up and damaged people in my books. This girl, she's broken. I read it in one go, so it's not exactly a time consuming endeavor.

I'd say, if you like the earlier mentioned Ellis books and his whole niche, especially his early stuff, it's worth a couple of hours.

But "Eileen" was much better by her. If you haven't read "Geek Love" yet, I highly recommend that one aboved "My Year.." and "Eileen".
 
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Ah, shit - I forgot Vladimir Sorokin. His dystopian novel "Day of the Oprichnik" is fucking brilliant, not to mention "Blue Lard", which shot him into infamy for its pornographic scene between Josef Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev - yes, old, dead Stalin lives in this novel, Dostojevskij too.
I'm surprised he didn't die in some kind of "accident" during this turbulent period.

Fantastic author. He really pushes the boundaries of the written word into physical sensations at times, much like Palahniuk, even if their themes differ.
 
有害都市, by Tetsuya Tsutsui.

And i'mma reread all his mangas, this man is a true artist
 
Joko Fête Son Anniversaire, by Roland Topor

An absurd tale about work, family, money, love, and a fall into the hell from the riches and powerfulls, by the master of dark humor
 
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