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  On 2/13/2015 at 3:59 PM, ThatSpanishGuy said:

Gödel, Escher Bach - 50 pages in, 700 to go, and if the first 50 pages are representative of the whole book, this is going to be one of those books you have to read with pen and pencil besides you

It is. There's a section in the middle where he goes pretty far into the TNT stuff. Helped me to actually write and transcribe some of it.

Just finished Murakami's Hard Boiled Wonderland....good, quick novel. First book of his I've read.

Finished 'The Three Stigmata if Palmer Eldritch'. It's probably my least favorite PKD read at this point. I didn't really feel connected with any of the characters or the plot. Very pseudo-religious, which isn't out of the ordinary for PKD, but it didn't hit the existential soft spots hard enough compared to other PKD novels.

Three Stigmata is one of my favorite PKD novels. Probably top 3. Then again I think Ubik was my least favorite so far and that seems to be up there with the best for a lot of dudes.

It also has the best book covers. Examples:

Genshiken. Love it <3

Already know I'll need a character map because I'm really poor in remembering who's who in any book :

Since I'm always reading one fiction / one non-fiction at a time, this is really a fun book, makes me want to pack up and waste a year doing the AT too! :

Finally finished Stephenson's Reamde. It was a nifty thriller yarn and the endings shoot-out was fun. Then I read Hugh Howey's Sand. Didn't like it as much as his Wool series, but was decent enough. It was basically about salvage divers, but in sand. Didn't bother me that the reason why the world was as it was wasn't really explained.

Now I might finish Daniel Dennet's Consciousness Explained properly, that's been my bog reading material until now.

I read The Heart of Darkness for college English. A really interesting novel, albeit racist as fuck. I like the movie more, haha.

Looking forward to Kim Gordon's book "Girl in a Band", apparently she doesn't pull any punches.

Obtained a new 2nd hand kindle (touch, even!) and have put onto it that notorious tome Gravity's Rainbow. Current status: a craving for bananas.

  On 2/16/2015 at 9:33 PM, kymppinetti said:

Genshiken. Love it <3

Very good indeed. Hato is one complicated character.

Blasted through Less Than Zero in a couple of days. Wasn't digging it at the beginning but it got better. Almost overly dark in some places, especially when you consider that it was wrote when Bret Easton Ellis was 19... Although that's probably also why it got so edgy. The book captured the feeling of and depersonalization well which resonates with me. Overall good book, makes me want to read more. Think I have American Psycho queued next.

Paulo Coelho's Brida.. I'm finding it a bit painful.

Satantango by Laszlo Krasznahorkai

I feel like I need a bath every time open this.

Just finished The Saga of The Volsungs and I'm now starting The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki. Getting a feel for Norse mythology and Tolkien influence.

Just started The Game of X, an obscure 60s spy parody that would eventually become the legendary film Condorman!

Reading an interesting book on the "lost" subject of rhetoric, and how to put it to use ("Thank You for Arguing"). Probably not for everyone, but I'm really enjoying it.

Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz. It's quite good.

Discographies by Ewan Pearson (aye that EP),,,,,

Superb investigation of dance music with just the right blend of theory and insane human activity. Plenty to think about and although its 1999 if anyone is writing about music/culture its highly recommended. Each chapter covers an era/scene and its been rinsed in a few days which is rare for (usually dry) non-fiction. Only £20 too.

having nvr read alain badiou's philosophy b4, now slowly absorby his 'ethics: an essay on the understanding of evil' (2012), & 'in praise of love' (2009, w. nicolas truong). thought4food /10

William the Conquerer

free audio book at librivox

this was the best of around a dozen non-fiction audio books i grabbed from that site this week as im painting a room. pretty great, true story game of thrones type stuff.

short version:

Tales from Development Hell, an easy read with amazing insight inside the craziness of Hollywood :

Anthony Bourdain's first hit book :

check out "the cosmic serpent" & "intelligence in nature" by jeremy narby.. very interesting reads!

Got 100 pages into Moon Palace by Paul Auster but I wasn't getting into it. Its the 2nd of his I've read/tried to read, I like what he writes about but really don't like his style, gave it a try but gonna give up on him.

Moved on to The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath) which is a better read so far.

Nearly halfway through Gravity's Rainbow taking my time. I only read at work during lunch, so it might be some time before I completely finish it.

Enjoying every page though and the gorgeous language. Maybe one of the best books ever written? I believe it so far...

2066 by R.Bolano read it over the space of a month. Five parts to this and all very different, Bolano is so honest when he writes. Includes glorious depiction of european social behaviour and some truly great ideals that in this public led time would be very hard to accomplish, his romantic view of Archimboldi being an outsider to it all is really interesting to read.

Also read the Bolano short about Return of the Living Dead 3 called The Colonel's Son. Now really want to see this Yuzna classic. Bolano says that the film is closest thing to his own biography he ever saw. As an insomniac and writer of such unique stories I can't stop reading all his stuff.