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Man I really need to get another Kindle, I want to read more Dick

(lol)

Lel

Finally got around to reading some more PK Dick after Sean was talking about him in the AAA thread - "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch". It was alright. I feel like it's going to be a while before I really get the point but I think it's something to do with drugs, egotism, and how you can't go home.

  On 8/8/2014 at 2:26 AM, ej23 said:

Have you read this one yet?

 

My favorite Murakami book, and essential if you're a fan of him. Impossible to put down!

  On 8/14/2014 at 1:46 PM, tec said:

Decent book, not too keen on that cover though.

Stephen King: Under The Dome & Cell (both rereads)

PKD: Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said. This is only the third PKD I've read after The Penultimate Truth and Do Androids Dream... Starting to see (or imagine) a pattern or style emerge now. Will def keep grabbing his stuff whenever they pop up in the charity shops I grab my books from.

Martin Amis: Time's Arrow. Was very impressed by this. Had no idea he wrote experimental novels. Shades of Vonnegut.

Now I'm just about to start Andrew Davies: Dirty Faxes.

Time's Arrow looks nice.

I'll be spending this coming week in the White Mountains of New Hampshire doing community service/trail building, and during my stay I'll be starting Capote's Other Voices, Other Rooms. Figured it would be a bit more fitting to the environment than my other current read (Burroughs cut up trilogy) xD

Besides those, I'm also reading Dubliners and Portrait of the Artist for the first time, as I found a beautiful old hardcover edition for 7 bucks.

Speaking of Murakami, I need this

Andy Hertzfeld's "Revolution in the Valley: The Insanely Great Story Of How The Mac Was Made"

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Revolution_in_the_Valley.txt

Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki 10/10

Solid Murakami, all the things you wanted wrapped up nicely and plenty left out in the open for you to ponder forever, along with that melancholy he does so uniquely. And it's shorter than 1Q84 so double plus!

Not sure if this is allowed but a book I wrote is currently free on Amazon should you want a free kindle book about a detective trying to rescue a child held hostage without being able to tell anyone. Should be free for another day or so, and even when not free is under a £1/$1.

Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00IDVR0ME/ref=docs-os-doi_0

Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/Rescue-Children-That-Dont-Exist-ebook/dp/B00IDVR0ME

It should also be free in whatever you're country you're in, but I don't want to jam up the thread with a hundred + links so apologies.

Going by reviews alone, my book was better received in America than the UK. I prefer the American review myself.

  On 8/15/2014 at 1:47 PM, hello spiral said:

Stephen King: Under The Dome & Cell (both rereads)

 

 

i loved under the dome. cell any good?

i realised i never finished kurt vonnegut - breakfast of champions, so i might do that one. i remember quite a few lols (read the first quarter)

  On 8/24/2014 at 2:55 AM, lala said:

 

  On 8/15/2014 at 1:47 PM, hello spiral said:

Stephen King: Under The Dome & Cell (both rereads)

 

 

 

i loved under the dome. cell any good?

 

i realised i never finished kurt vonnegut - breakfast of champions, so i might do that one. i remember quite a few lols (read the first quarter)

 

I need to read this. slaughter house five was a fun read.

Nah, cell is fucking awful. Still an ok read if you're an SK obsessive (yup) and don't mind the novel eq of a £ shop horror DVD.

Currently rereading Duma Key. THIS one IS worth your time.

Breakfast of Champions may well be my favorite Vonnegut novel. Yes, you need to.

Oh John Cage, you were but a crazy youngin' looking for love in both men and women.

  On 8/23/2014 at 6:18 PM, Bechuga said:

Not sure if this is allowed but a book I wrote is currently free on Amazon should you want a free kindle book about a detective trying to rescue a child held hostage without being able to tell anyone. Should be free for another day or so, and even when not free is under a £1/$1.

 

Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00IDVR0ME/ref=docs-os-doi_0

Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/Rescue-Children-That-Dont-Exist-ebook/dp/B00IDVR0ME

 

It should also be free in whatever you're country you're in, but I don't want to jam up the thread with a hundred + links so apologies.

Going by reviews alone, my book was better received in America than the UK. I prefer the American review myself.

Thanks, I'll give that a go. I tend to forget about my Kindle.

  On 8/24/2014 at 8:07 AM, hello spiral said:

Nah, cell is fucking awful. Still an ok read if you're an SK obsessive (yup) and don't mind the novel eq of a £ shop horror DVD.

 

Currently rereading Duma Key. THIS one IS worth your time.

 

Breakfast of Champions may well be my favorite Vonnegut novel. Yes, you need to.

I'm into sci-fi so I already know breakfast of champions is the best choice for me.

You know SK doesn't know the endings of his stories, he just creates characters & a predicament & describes them worming their way out of it. 'if I dont know how it ends how will my readers?' . Genius

Tempted to read 1408. I've seen the film with 2 different endings and it's a good film...

Oh, house of leaves if you haven't . It's like my mantra

Well acquainted with house of leaves

1408 the story is one of the best things he's done (the film is shiiiit)

Yeah, SK takes the intuitive thing to the extreme. That's why we have the phenomenon known as 'Stephen King Ending Syndrome'

1408 it is then.

house of leafs

Has anyone read Through the Woods by Emily Carroll yet? I might spam this thread until at least one person does, hello spiral do you work at Waterstones or did I dream that?

Currently reading The Picture Of Dorian Gray, i'm 36 pages into the book.

Still slogging through The Kindly Ones

  On 8/26/2014 at 10:17 AM, tec said:

Has anyone read Through the Woods by Emily Carroll yet?

no!! I want to!! have too many things to catch up on as it is.