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56% through Infinite Jest (7% of that is footnotes)...and the plot is about to begin I think!

The shaggiest of dogs

jumped from Metro 2033 onto Metro 2034

I went to a bookstore in Liverpool today and got a book of myths from around the world and one about Indian music. These I can actually read, so they've been keeping me entertained.

I still keep my old myth books from my childhood... I was all over it those days... Lately I caught The Secret History Of the World by Jonathan Black... quite a read...

Unfortunately it isn't a very in-depth collection of tales. It just gives an overview of certain characters or concepts from legends and theologies from around the world (with an odd bias toward Indian theology).

 

I also saw another book yesterday of a Medieval Welsh legend, but I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to fit it in my luggage (and it was also rather expensive), so I had to reluctantly pass on it.

I don't imagine there are many writers on a music forum. Anyway, I just finished my first fiction novel.

You can pre-order it here if you're interested.

 

Apologies for the shameless plug.

  On 8/3/2015 at 2:35 PM, fumi said:

I don't imagine there are many writers on a music forum. Anyway, I just finished my first fiction novel.

You can pre-order it here if you're interested.

 

Apologies for the shameless plug.

 

There's a WATMM writers thread

 

http://forum.watmm.com/topic/86949-watmm-writers-thread/

Decided to read the Song of Ice and Fire books.

 

If the show is moreish like crack is moreish, the books are chocolate-covered crack. Finished the 1st one in under a week, on the 2nd one now.

summer pap - The Bones of Avalon & The Heresy of Dr Dee (by Phil Rickman), simply cos Dr John Dee is the lead, i'm a sucker for magic/bs & the 2nd title is set around the landscapes of the Welsh borders i know so well....fuckin loathe crime fiction but the 1st of these has started excellently......

 

Musicophilia - chippin away at this mind blowing opus by Oliver Sacks, guy writes so eloquently for a clinician, if you live for music these tails are simply staggering

 

The Buried Giant - Kazuo Ishiguro's flawed but still entertaining delve into the frontiers of Britain during the Anglo-Saxon invasion. Lots of parallels with UKIP today, collective historical amnesia and broader/shared values/cultural heritage. Just wished he'd trusted that weirder tone he strikes at times a bit more fully.

 

plus some archaeology toss, but no-one deserves any summaries of that brain rot

The Shining. I really don't like King's prose, it's very bland.

Maybe it isn't and you are just too critical....

 

 

 

Well played sir.

  On 8/3/2015 at 2:35 PM, fumi said:

I don't imagine there are many writers on a music forum. Anyway, I just finished my first fiction novel.

You can pre-order it here if you're interested.

 

Apologies for the shameless plug.

Synopsis is interesting, let me know when you get some samples up. I'm picky about enjoying the style of writing and pacing before I can get into a novel.

 

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  On 8/4/2015 at 12:17 PM, Twelvetrees said:

The Shining. I really don't like King's prose, it's very bland.

Agreed. I've only ever read 'Salem's Lot, but I've tried others as well...his style is very straightforward, pushing the plot and characterization along. Some people love that, and for some stories it's the perfect approach, but for the genres he tends to I don't think his authorial voice and story subject work together to my taste.

 

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Making Music: 74 Creative Strategies for Electronic Music Producers
Good stuff so far. Lots of nice ideas that seem like common sense but are well detailed without being too prescriptive or preachy.

  On 8/3/2015 at 2:35 PM, fumi said:

I don't imagine there are many writers on a music forum. Anyway, I just finished my first fiction novel.

You can pre-order it here if you're interested.

 

Apologies for the shameless plug.

I write a lot of poetry though. I don't see why anyone wouldn't think that music and writing go well together. They're the same thing but on different mediums. All art comes from the same fundamental source, and that is the soul.

 

 

  On 8/4/2015 at 12:17 PM, Twelvetrees said:

The Shining. I really don't like King's prose, it's very bland.

Can't be as dry as Verner von Heidenstam's. For a speculative fiction writer, he had an extremely objective and utilitarian way of describing things.

Edited August 4, 2015 by drillkicker

  On 8/4/2015 at 3:47 PM, auxien said:

 

  On 8/4/2015 at 12:17 PM, Twelvetrees said:

The Shining. I really don't like King's prose, it's very bland.

Agreed. I've only ever read 'Salem's Lot, but I've tried others as well...his style is very straightforward, pushing the plot and characterization along. Some people love that, and for some stories it's the perfect approach, but for the genres he tends to I don't think his authorial voice and story subject work together to my taste.

 

Sent using magic space waves

 

 

sometimes he can get a bit long-winded sure, but when he nails it, he absolutely nails it. and he has done that a fair few times.

 

i like him because hes all over the place, with his ideas, and sometimes so simple, but extrapolated - he could write a good horror story about a teacup.

 

 

nearly finished the southern reach trilogy

 

actually, can anyone recommend any really amazing supernatural stuff?

  On 8/3/2015 at 2:35 PM, fumi said:

I don't imagine there are many writers on a music forum. Anyway, I just finished my first fiction novel.

You can pre-order it here if you're interested.

 

Apologies for the shameless plug.

 

Pre-ordered, if the first sentence sucks I'm getting a refund

 

J/k, I look forward to seeing what it's like. Congrats on finishing it!

Just bought Sputnik, My Love from Murakami.

  On 8/4/2015 at 10:58 PM, logakght said:

Just bought Sputnik, My Love from Murakami.

 

lol well Supûtoniku no koibito in japanese

began with The Second Messiah by Glenn Meade...

  On 8/4/2015 at 11:08 PM, logakght said:

 

  On 8/4/2015 at 10:58 PM, logakght said:

Just bought Sputnik, My Love from Murakami.

 

lol well Supûtoniku no koibito in japanese

 

 

My favourite Murakami! If you're talking about Sputnik Sweetheart, that is.

  On 8/5/2015 at 7:29 PM, Bechuga said:

 

  On 8/4/2015 at 11:08 PM, logakght said:

 

  On 8/4/2015 at 10:58 PM, logakght said:

Just bought Sputnik, My Love from Murakami.

 

lol well Supûtoniku no koibito in japanese

 

 

My favourite Murakami! If you're talking about Sputnik Sweetheart, that is.

 

 

yeah here in my country is called "Sputnik, mi amor" so I thought it was literally the same in english, lel

Anybody reading The Gentleman Bastard Sequence? I'm on book one at the moment, hopefully will be able to finish it before book four comes out next month.