Now Reading

  On 8/27/2014 at 2:55 AM, bitroast said:

 

  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.

 

You'll probably have it read in under an hour and it's fucking awesome, beautiful art too.

only just getting into the good, horrible, nasty stuff.

this book.. at page 107 now and as per usual, i slow down reading because it is sinking in.

sinking

sinking

The Chief perspective is really amazing: the memories, connections, experience, Chronics, Acutes, Nurse Ratched and her spider wed, the machinery of the institute, bald-faced PR dude, doc, and the lack of dance of laugther. the horrible music that plays on repeat everyday. it's a direct attack on the human soul and spirit. it's nasty. nasty business

Finished 'Now Wait for Last Year' and 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?'. Excellent Philp K Dick novels as usual. I've yet to be disappointed with any of his novels and short stories. Except maybe the ending for 'The Cosmic Puppets' which felt like a typical 50s 'just wrap it up in a bow' sci-fi ending. I'm planning to read as many novels of his as I can before jumping into the VALIS trilogy.

  On 8/26/2014 at 10:17 AM, tec said:

hello spiral do you work at Waterstones or did I dream that?

Sprillian works at Waterstones.

Meaning I can get 50% off with her staff discount :D

  On 9/1/2014 at 11:00 PM, hello spiral said:

 

  On 8/26/2014 at 10:17 AM, tec said:

hello spiral do you work at Waterstones or did I dream that?

Sprillian works at Waterstones.

 

Meaning I can get 50% off with her staff discount :D

 

you're telling me

*swims in sprill discount books*

  On 9/1/2014 at 11:00 PM, hello spiral said:

 

  On 8/26/2014 at 10:17 AM, tec said:

hello spiral do you work at Waterstones or did I dream that?

 

Sprillian works at Waterstones.

 

Meaning I can get 50% off with her staff discount :D

 

Ah, I was close. Ask her nicely to get you Through the Woods, it'll be like 6 quid, well worth it.

I dived into this recently. Really good :D

Henry Miller - Sexus.

Didnt think I would enjoy it as much as I am, so I already bought Plexus.

Foundation 3 / Second Foundation

HHhH (Himmlers Hirn heißt Heydrich) by Laurent Binet

Blood Meridian

1984

After Duma Key I was meant to read Ubik but ended up starting The Tommyknockers as I was still in a SK binge place.

I really love Tommyknockers. It's one of SK's most reviled books it seems. It's written off as too nihilistic, poor lead characters, overlong, flabby and silly plot.

To me it's SK doing a Lovecraftian Invasion of the Body Snatchers while on enough cocaine to kill an elephant. He's written in On Writing that he can remember writing parts of it with both nostrils plugged with bloody cotton wool. An intervention by his Wife and family followed swiftly afterwards.

It reads that way too, hyper-paranoid tone and rambling digression follows rambling digression.

And I love it. Eat it up.

The super dark tone of the novel I also love. Our hero is a poverty-stricken alcoholic poet who narrowly avoids suicide at the beginning of the book after blowing off his one remaining meal ticket and spends almost all of the rest of the novel in an alcohol induced, blood-vomiting stupor.

The overlong and flabby complaints might wash if you're not enjoying the book to begin with but with this kinda novel I like to be able to stretch out and roam around in it. And King allows this with all the earlier mentioned digressions: the history of the town and various short stories and novellas concerning different people in Haven 'Becoming' which makes up the middle section of the book.

You can tell a lot of work went into it, the dates he always provides at the end of each novel show that it was 5 years from conception to wrapping it up.

So yeah, I recommend. Try it you might like it.

After Tommyknockers I read Ubik and thoroughly enjoyed it also. This is what Inception should've been.

Gonna grab more and more PKD I think. This has been the 5th I've read so far I think.

Next up is Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo

  On 9/11/2014 at 1:13 AM, kokoon said:

Foundation 3 / Second Foundation

I've got to read that again. That series blew my 13 year old mind. Except the two prequels though, those suck

Just got this boxset new for half price (60$!!!), I'm starting this now, it'll take a while LOL

  On 9/12/2014 at 4:43 PM, hello spiral said:

After Duma Key I was meant to read Ubik but ended up starting The Tommyknockers as I was still in a SK binge place.

 

 

 

Next up is Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo

tommyknockers is brilliant. the way it unfolds and opens up is really well done i thought (for a kid, read it when i was 10 or so)

under the dome is really good if you havent read it and even better if you dont know what its about. i didnt and enjoyed it

Yeah, read that one twice so far. Awesome stuff.

I'm total King nerd, I've read everything he's published at least once. More often several times.

On Bag of Bones at the moment. This is probably the 4th or 5th time I've read it.

Is there a thread to discuss manga/comics, or is it discussed here?

http://forum.watmm.com/topic/69872-comic-books-graphic-novels-thread/

  On 9/24/2014 at 12:51 PM, hello spiral said:

http://forum.watmm.com/topic/69872-comic-books-graphic-novels-thread/

Thanks!

House of Leaves is a very interesting book, definitely worth a read, but I doubt I'll pick it up a second time. I'm just not interested in aimless speculation and "open interpretation" books kinda piss me off, especially when there's sooooo much that's just left for the reader to wonder about. The Whalestoe Letters though I didn't finish; corny as all fuck

Cloud Atlas, got it signed too!

I'll try (for the 10th time) to read Eco's Foucault's Pendulum. Fuck it, I'm even scared now, it's a really hard read for me.

  On 9/25/2014 at 6:35 AM, logakght said:

I'll try (for the 10th time) to read Eco's Foucault's Pendulum. Fuck it, I'm even scared now, it's a really hard read for me.

Haha, I really hated reading it. I wanted to throw it out the window so many times. One of the few books I wanted to just fuck off with and not finish. It grated me in so many ways, and I hated the main character. Yet... I love the book. Mainly because its point missed me completely at first. And it's a point I agree with. Looking back, it's weird that a book I hated reading is a book that I really like. Umberto Eco has managed that for me.

My copy of Foucault's Pendulum still has a bookmark in it around 50 pages in I think, from 5 years ago. I'll get back to it one day.