Now Reading

Finished Stoner and By Night in Chile which are both nice brisk reads Stoner being a bit more dense. Stoner comes across as genuinely American with a display of beautiful honesty, I loved it. By Night in Chile is worth it through and through the ending is perfect.

Reading The Map and The Territory by Houllebecq. Brilliant :) I really like this man

Nietzsche - Twilight of the Idols

  On 3/14/2014 at 9:33 AM, Dpek said:

Reading The Map and The Territory by Houllebecq. Brilliant :) I really like this man

Alright, finished it last night. Gotta say, this one is 9/10 which is a miracle in my eyes. Perfectly executed message.

Reading this. It came up somewhere in the AAA if I remember correctly. It's really interesting actually.

Just finished Fahrenheit 451, didn't really care much for it. It had some simple ideas in it that never really engaged me, even the premise of the book was overly simple. The world and characters were flat. Although it was only 160 pages it felt long as hell

Just now starting American Psycho

Yo! Beerwolf in the bookworm thread trying to get back into this wonderful pastime, of which sadly I let go for a long, long time. Hopefully some of you will inspire me to get back into something which should just be natural. Anyway..

I just read Perfume by P Siskind, first book I've read for a long time. Brilliant read, my minor criticism would be that it starts off at such a wonderful pace and stays at this pace steadily throughout. Which is fantastic, but it never put that hook into me over the last third and upped the tempo. Still a fantastic book.

Just started El Narco by Ioan Grillo, a history of the Mexican drug wars/cartels. And halfway through within a few days, so good reading. Though difficult to follow all the Latin American names. Just at the part when the Mexican cartels start employing Special Forces from the Mexican and Nicaraguan armies and creating their own private armies (Zeta's). Crazy shit.

Read Kafka's The Trial and Murakami's A Wild Sheep Chase while visiting Prague. Now reading Burrough's The Soft Machine.

Seiobo There Below by Laszlo Krasznahorkai. It's more a collection loosely related short stories than a novel, but I'm intrigued to read more of his stuff.

Symbols, Signals and Noise: The Nature and Process of Communication

https://archive.org/details/symbolssignalsan002575mbp

T.H. White - The Once and Future King. I once tried reading it a few years ago, but smoking weed + reading didn't pan out for me. It's a pretty funny book. I like it.

Eckhart Tolle - The Power of Now. I'm usually not too big on self-help books, but I caught a video of him on dmt-nexus.com and thought "Hey, he has some pretty radical ideas. I should look into it." It's a good book. Has some valuable advices in it. I don't agree with all, but he did made me aware of the enslaving capabilities of thoughts (or ego), and that your mind is just a tool, instead of your personality. Can't read any further because I lent it to my cousin (because I felt he could use it more at the moment than I do).

Still haven't finished Lolita though. I just finished part 1, and just started part 2. It's a very interesting book. Humbert Humbert is a manipulative bastard, but funny as hell as well. I can't help but feel for him.

George Saunders - Tenth of December

Delillo & DFW-type post modern lols

  On 4/10/2014 at 5:06 AM, Hijexx said:

Symbols, Signals and Noise: The Nature and Process of Communication

 

https://archive.org/details/symbolssignalsan002575mbp

currently reading arthur c clarke's the nine billion names of god

Read Hesse's Siddhartha again after about 10 years. Seems like a completely different book now, lol. Interesting.

And just got this delivered by the postlord.. shit is gonna get heavy.

Never read it! Told myself it was time before I grow too old of "coming-of-age" books :

Because I like large contrasts between the two books I'm reading, this is my bed book :

Clive Barker's Mister B. Gone

Michael Hewwit's Music Theory for Computer Musicians

Matthew Gregory Lewis' The Monk

Palahniuk - Haunted

Pretty mediocre book to be honest, the short stories are pretty meh and the main story is just silly. It's not subtle, it's not that witty, I don't know. It's like he's trying too hard. Don't think I'm gonna finish it

Only the first story was worth it! (The intestine-in-the-pool one)

That was the book that killed Palahniuk for me.

  On 4/24/2014 at 3:07 PM, doublename said:

That was the book that killed Palahniuk for me.

I can see why... I've only read Fight Club, but Haunted is like someone trying to copy Palahniuk's style, poorly

Worth it for Guts, literally the most disgusting thing I have ever read, but yeah I read it a few years back and that's all I remember.

I don't think he is here too often now but thanks zaphod for the The City and The City recommendation, very enjoyable.

Guts is as 9 page story in a 400 page book which you can just read on the internet

Been on a Banks' book bender lately. I returned to Player of Games having never completed them (not sure why - their both fantastic), read The Hydrogen Sonata for the first time and am almost finished Consider Phlebas for the second time. I plan to alternate reading and rereading my wY through the entire "M" collection (only read Culture before) the perchance non "M".

Saw a note way back page 1 (remember page 1? Obviously, I don't as it was before my time but I thoroughly look forward to reading back through it and expanding my book shopping list) about Dawkins. I enjoy his books but can never bring myself to finish them. He annoys me - mostly because of how right he is and how calm he is about his certainty in arguments. He's great on TV (working through that BBC series of the history of science in the UK at the mo).