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I enjoyed it a lot. Picked it up randomly from one of those discount bookshops and read it in a pub last summer.

Hadn't heard of it when I got it.

never heard of it. perhaps i'll keep an eye out for it.

not reading anything atm... have a few things could read sitting on bookshelf but haven't really decided on anything. been reading a lot of moebius (as per recent posts in this thread http://forum.watmm.com/topic/69872-comic-books-graphic-novels-thread/)

waiting for chris ware comics to arrive... tried starting some Hemmingway today but got distracted.

hahaha i can't read

i went from not reading books to reading books pretty recently.

this is honestly the most perfect portrayal of not being able to read i've ever seen.

Yevgeny Zamyatin - We

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel)

I have no idea what is is going on and I don't really understand it

for Clive Barker fans, The Scarlet Gospels FINALLY has a release date. This is the novel where Harry D'amour meets Pinhead of the Cenobites.

http://www.clivebarker.info/newsscarlet.html

friends kept pushing me to read something called quantum thief. struggled through the first chapter half of which was incomprehensible. finally started making a little sense but the bath water was getting cold

Murakami - colorless tsukuru tazaki

Lafcadio Hearn - Kwaidan

Masanobu Fukuoka - the one straw revolution

PKD - short stories collection 5

Donald Teeter - herb of immortality

The Skies Belong to Us by Brendan I. Koerner

Plane hijackings have never seemed so sexy!

What's the saddest and loneliest book you've ever read? I want to feel, like, alone and shit.

  On 11/10/2014 at 10:22 PM, logakght said:

What's the saddest and loneliest book you've ever read? I want to feel, like, alone and shit.

Cormac McCarthy - The Crossing

  On 11/10/2014 at 10:22 PM, logakght said:

What's the saddest and loneliest book you've ever read? I want to feel, like, alone and shit.

Too Loud A Solitude

  On 11/10/2014 at 10:22 PM, logakght said:

What's the saddest and loneliest book you've ever read? I want to feel, like, alone and shit.

Peter Handke - The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick

I just finished Douglas Adams' "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" and started its sequel "The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul"

very nice little story so far.

Finished Confederacy of Dunces. Awesome book, very funny. I was wondering if Ignatius would count as an early example of what we now call a neckbeard.

Such a shame about the author.

Now onto Vonnegut's The Sirens of Titan.

I just finished Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation, based off of Clarke's recommendation. Not a bad read. Not sure if I'll jump onto the next in the series straight away

I bought some stories from herman hesse

I've just started reading Dune. Looks immense but might be difficult for me since I didn't get the translated version and the english somehow seems... broken at times. Funny.

Preacher Book 3- Garth Ennis, Steve Dillon

Nemesis- Mark Millar, Steve McNiven

Ongoing series: Multiversity, Terminal Hero, Trees, Annihilator

At some point soon, Zenith Phase 1.

And, some bookmarked fic and non-fic to finish off (not much luck there).

I'd like to read Crime & Punishment this winter.

It's the third time I've tried to read Neuromancer. Look, I'm a big reader, I've actually read Gravity's Rainbow FFS, but I just can't get pass page 50 or so from Neuro. It's not bad, it's just that all those texture definitions, it leaves me cold. And the context of the book, the cyberpunk mumbo jumbo, it feels like I'm reading Jules Vernes (sci-fi that didn't age that well) but without the same writing quality.

  On 11/20/2014 at 5:29 AM, Philip Glass said:

It's the third time I've tried to read Neuromancer. Look, I'm a big reader, I've actually read Gravity's Rainbow FFS, but I just can't get pass page 50 or so from Neuro. It's not bad, it's just that all those texture definitions, it leaves me cold. And the context of the book, the cyberpunk mumbo jumbo, it feels like I'm reading Jules Vernes (sci-fi that didn't age that well) but without the same writing quality.

I love it, I was also blessed to get a signed copy with a heartfelt message from the man himself too.

  On 11/20/2014 at 5:29 AM, Philip Glass said:

It's the third time I've tried to read Neuromancer. Look, I'm a big reader, I've actually read Gravity's Rainbow FFS, but I just can't get pass page 50 or so from Neuro. It's not bad, it's just that all those texture definitions, it leaves me cold. And the context of the book, the cyberpunk mumbo jumbo, it feels like I'm reading Jules Vernes (sci-fi that didn't age that well) but without the same writing quality.

Same here, I've never been able to finish any Gibson.

  On 11/7/2014 at 6:59 PM, juiceciuj said:

friends kept pushing me to read something called quantum thief. struggled through the first chapter half of which was incomprehensible. finally started making a little sense but the bath water was getting cold

It's great. Sci-fi for the 21st century. No fuss and very little exposition, just got to figure it out yourself. Haven't done it, but think the Quantum Thief trilogy is something that could be better with a second read through. Still waiting for the last book to appear as a paperback. I is poor.

dorian gray

A Thousand Lives - A really interesting piece of longform journalism on the Jonestown massacre

A Brief History of Seven Killings - Politics, violence and drugs in 1970s Jamaica. Good shit.