Now Reading

And now I'm halfway through Dune Messiah. So far, It's better than I expected. I've heard some about the sequels being sub-par when compared to Dune, but this one is keeping me interested plenty so far. I really like Scytale, and especially liked the chapter of him and the old Fremen who he killed at the end.

With Doctor Sleep King seems to have taken a lesson from the James Patterson/Dan Brown school of writing and begins a new passage/chapter(?) on every other page, it kills any suspense and is complete bollocks.

Michel Houellebecq - The Map and the Territory

Great, write about your experience with it after you read it, I'm interested :) Personally I loved it, it is one of the most contemporary pieces I came across in recent times. Really pins down what it means to be an artist in the 21st century.

Any good recommendations for horror or sci fi from the last year or 2?

Just started incarnate by Ramsey campbell. It's a horror about dream experiments or something

^noice

Something I've been meaning to reread for ages is Spawn by Shaun Hutson.

Not read it since I was a kid but what I do remember involves levitating, telepathic, evil, aborted fetuses.

I have to say every time, house of leaves is incredibly good. Avoid synopsis or reviews , just read the best horror ever.. it's so subtle and a brilliant premise.

But avoid all spoilers!

Under the dome was good as well

yeah, both are pretty great.

What's your favourite books?

that's a fucking difficult question man.

I will recommend this anthology I just finished reading though:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Weird-Compendium-Strange-Stories/dp/0765333627

Shitloads of stuff got added to my To Read list after finishing this.

Yeah, safe man. Next on my kindle list then !

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  On 5/19/2014 at 8:12 PM, logakght said:

 

  On 5/19/2014 at 10:20 AM, tec said:

 

  On 5/18/2014 at 6:08 PM, logakght said:

The Monk - Matthew G. Lewis

 

Great book, one of my favourites.

 

Yes! I'm really liking it. Really dark and gothic, and gloomy atmosphere.

 

I just read about this. sounds intriguing.

  On 6/21/2014 at 10:54 PM, lala said:

I have to say every time, house of leaves is incredibly good. Avoid synopsis or reviews , just read the best horror ever.. it's so subtle and a brilliant premise.

 

But avoid all spoilers!

 

Under the dome was good as well

FTFY

heh, nice.

  On 6/23/2014 at 6:21 AM, Philip Glass said:

 

  On 6/21/2014 at 10:54 PM, lala said:

I have to say every time, house of leaves is incredibly good. Avoid synopsis or reviews , just read the best horror ever.. it's so subtle and a brilliant premise.

 

But avoid all spoilers!

 

Under the dome was good as well

 

FTFY

 

spoiler alert

James Patterson - 9th Judgement.

Just randomly bought it to try out a thriller while on holiday and it was pretty good. There's 13 in the series. Pretty odd starting at 9 but I've ordered the first couple and will start from the start.

  On 6/19/2014 at 12:20 AM, doublename said:

Michel Houellebecq - The Map and the Territory

This is great, I love Houellebecq's stuff, especially The Possibility of an Island.

I've just read The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand and now I'm reading several Philip K. Dick short story collections. And Herodotus' Histories (in English translation :P).

Just finished the Hobbit for the first time: I liked it a lot. It was full off adventure, character growth and wonderful sceneries. Will probably start reading Lord of the Rings pretty soon here after: last time I read it, I was 15 or something, and I read it in dutch. Will be an entire different experience reading it in English and at 28!

Currently reading some essays on what encompasses the dutch identity, bundled together in a book. I fetched it from my parents book shelf. It's (quite) an interesting read so far. Started somewhere in the middle. Current topic: "De Grenzen van Gezelligheid" which translates to "The borders of "gezelligheid"". "Gezelligheid" is a dutch term to describe a social feel of cohesiveness, intimacy, mutual care, the ability to enjoy eachothers company by offering each other the space to do whatever wants, and a lot more than these recent descriptions. It could be translated to "cozy" in english (though coziness is an aspect of it; doesn't embody the whole) or "gemütlich" in German (if any of you speak that). You kinda get the idea.

Gezellig boek.

haha. yeh it's alright i guess. also have the intense urge to slap dicks.

Just read Burmese Days by Orwell - his first.

Great forest larks with enough existential crisis and drama to ruin an empire.

10 notches above CWLP

http://infinitesummer.org/

INFINITE JEST ALL SUMMER LONG BITCHES

One summer = 90 days = only about 15 pages a day will put you through the book!

Reading this:

Was traumatised to discover this: