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I can't guarantee that other people will like it, and maybe you'd still want to punch Eco in the face over it. Personally I want to highfive Eco and say "good job, bro dude bro"

Well, I loved The Name of the Rose, so I'm willing to give him a chance. I'm not even sure why I stopped reading it, I think I got distracted by other stuff.

One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest

quite good. really good, actually.

everytime it goes into detail describing mcmurpheys twitchy mannerisms I cant help but imagine jack nicholson acting it out. with red hair.

it's weird.

just finished blood meridian

this video sums up the character of judge holden pretty well:

Exit Through The Gift Shop - At first I was wondering how did they manage to orchestrate all of this thing and thought it was great, great satire. Then I read it all really happened and it just blew my mind. Not saying that I think Mr. Brainwash is or isn't a hoax; just that I thought this was all made for the movie. 9/10

So you've read the insert of the DVD?

Can anyone recommend a really mind-melting/brain-expanding sci-fi? ive just read excession by Iain M Banks for about the 10th time.. totally love that book

Just started 'Postsingular' by Rudy Rucker. enjoyably cool so far. Hard sci-fi about nanotech.

Tried 'origin' by JA Konrath - supposed to be creepy but I found it corny. Gave up halfway through

Update: can't put 'postsingular' down... 59% in & really like it. It's never too corny but hi-tech, colourful , psychedelic...

And free from his website: http://www.rudyrucker.com/postsingular/cc_downloads/

He's a computer scientist or mathematician from silicon valley & a bit of a dude

Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky

update: really liked postsingular! its hyper-colourful & futuristic, it does go into cartoony tripped out style but i still enjoyed it. not hard-sf per se but still a good read, so much so ive just bought hardcover of the sequel, Hylozoic which was the reason i read PS in the first place - apparently the sequel is even weirder.

He's a bit like Hunter S Thompson meets Iain M Banks

  On 10/2/2014 at 8:51 PM, Philip Glass said:

So you've read the insert of the DVD?

It took me this long to realize I posted in the wrong thread

Oh well. Now reading A Confederacy Of Dunces. It's fun

I want to buy A History Maker by Alasdair Gray - just read Lanark, truly powerful book - and I've just seen on Amazon that something called BetterWorldBooks is selling it for 0,26 euros... That business is said to be selling students' used books, which sounds fair, but that price does strike me. Has anyone here bought from this ? Is it reliable ?

They make it back in delivery?

I've just bought a hardcover for 69p, but delivery was 2.50

The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie. This is as immersed as I've ever been in a book, his style of developing his characters is astounding.

  On 10/9/2014 at 1:44 PM, lala said:

They make it back in delivery?

 

I've just bought a hardcover for 69p, but delivery was 2.50

Oh yeah I've just seen it, seems less suspicious. I'm giving this a shot then. That book would have cost me 12 euros otherwise lol.

  On 10/6/2014 at 11:44 PM, ThatSpanishGuy said:

 

  On 10/2/2014 at 8:51 PM, Philip Glass said:

So you've read the insert of the DVD?

 

It took me this long to realize I posted in the wrong thread

 

Oh well. Now reading A Confederacy Of Dunces. It's fun

 

Just picked this up by chance in a charity shop, will start it next.

  On 10/9/2014 at 11:38 PM, hello spiral said:

 

  On 10/6/2014 at 11:44 PM, ThatSpanishGuy said:

 

  On 10/2/2014 at 8:51 PM, Philip Glass said:

So you've read the insert of the DVD?

 

It took me this long to realize I posted in the wrong thread

 

Oh well. Now reading A Confederacy Of Dunces. It's fun

 

 

Just picked this up by chance in a charity shop, will start it next.

 

Confederacy of dunces is hilarious, yes yes yes.

It's fun reading about all the planned films that were never realised. wiki mentions different attempts with leads john belushi, john candy, chris farley. and later will farrell, john goodman, stephen fry. there was also one with john waters directing with divine as ignatius?? ridiculous. either way. the book holds up on its own as a goofy comedy.

So I've just finished Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami.

Great read, with some introspective moments and the unique loneliness I always seek with Murakami. It's a book I would recommend to young adults, not just because it's an "easy" read, but 'cause it has some issues most people confront around those times.

Recommend me my next Murakami. I've already read Hardboiled Wonderland...

  On 10/20/2014 at 2:03 AM, logakght said:

So I've just finished Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami.

 

Great read, with some introspective moments and the unique loneliness I always seek with Murakami. It's a book I would recommend to young adults, not just because it's an "easy" read, but 'cause it has some issues most people confront around those times.

 

Recommend me my next Murakami. I've already read Hardboiled Wonderland...

Kafka on the Shore

  On 10/21/2014 at 12:20 AM, malaria said:

 

  On 10/20/2014 at 2:03 AM, logakght said:

So I've just finished Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami.

 

Great read, with some introspective moments and the unique loneliness I always seek with Murakami. It's a book I would recommend to young adults, not just because it's an "easy" read, but 'cause it has some issues most people confront around those times.

 

Recommend me my next Murakami. I've already read Hardboiled Wonderland...

 

Kafka on the Shore

 

Thanks. Gonna buy it then.

Though I want to finish some books I haven't, uh, finished yet. The Monk is one, also Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, though it's quite big.

Ayoade on Ayoade - his song for There Will Be Blood is a highlight. I'll put it up there with Rik Mayall's autobiography in books about someone where you finish and know even less about them than when you started.

Sputnik Sweetheart is my favourite Murakami. Super tragic!

I got a hardcover of the massive 1Q84 for 16p on amazon. Even with the 2.80 shipping it was a steal!

do graphic novels count?

started and finished "my friend dahmer" and "blankets"

...meh

I finished My Friend Dahmer recently too, didn't really have that much depth to it right?