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  On 10/6/2015 at 8:55 PM, triachus said:

I just started reading Aphex's "Interests:", don't know if I'll be able to finish it one day.

lmao just realised that I put it in the wrong area, cheers for pointing it out

William Gibson - Virtual Light

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tolstoy - resurrection

The Shadow-Line by Conrad

Almost done with Radio Free Albemuth

more coherant than Valis which I need to reread since I only made it half way through last time round. PKD pumping on all the good pistons for sure. Will be watching the film afterward.

What's the general consensus on Edgar Allan Poe? Just finished the first volume of a complete short stories compendium and don't feel like reading the second one tbh, feel like I've already read all the good ones

In Praise of Slowness by Carl Honore

Never thought I'd be reading a self-help book, but I'm on the verge of a new approach on life.

  On 10/24/2015 at 4:01 PM, ThatSpanishGuy said:

What's the general consensus on Edgar Allan Poe? Just finished the first volume of a complete short stories compendium and don't feel like reading the second one tbh, feel like I've already read all the good ones

really? i read the penguin popular classics compilation and i really loved it. some of the tales were a bit odd, such as the duc de l'omelette or monos and una, but the rest was classic.

which ones have you read?

  On 10/26/2015 at 9:00 PM, poblequadrat said:

 

  On 10/24/2015 at 4:01 PM, ThatSpanishGuy said:

What's the general consensus on Edgar Allan Poe? Just finished the first volume of a complete short stories compendium and don't feel like reading the second one tbh, feel like I've already read all the good ones

 

really? i read the penguin popular classics compilation and i really loved it. some of the tales were a bit odd, such as the duc de l'omelette or monos and una, but the rest was classic.

 

which ones have you read?

 

I think I posted a number of weeks ago, I'm reading Cortazar's translation/edition. He arranged the tales thematically so all the horror/paranormal ones are at the beginning, a whole lot of them, which I really enjoyed, highlights being the Eleonora/Morella/Berenice trilogy, the Usher house one, Metzengerstein... All of them were pretty good really

But then came the metaphysical tales/dialogues, which read like a load of crap imo, not really interested in pseudo-philosophy (talking about Monos and Una, Eiros and Charmion, etc). Now I'm making my way through the "analytical" ones: the golden bug & the morgue house ones, which are pretty formulaic and kind of... I dunno, it's like reading a puzzle from a math games magazine instead of an actual piece of literature, so I'm struggling to continue. I guess it's understandable considering the period this was written in, it's like proto-Dan Brown or something

Then volume 2's themes are 'explorations about the past and the future', 'contemplative tales', 'grotesque' and finally his attempts at satire, none of which I'm really interested in tbh

Finished a book by Thomas Ligotti, it was awesome but fucking hell it was nihilistic, on to The Book of English Magic next, might become a druid and move to the woods.

  On 10/29/2015 at 11:11 AM, tec said:

Finished a book by Thomas Ligotti, it was awesome but fucking hell it was nihilistic, on to The Book of English Magic next, might become a druid and move to the woods.

Which Ligotti did you read? I'm not sure which of his to work on next...

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  On 10/29/2015 at 2:11 PM, auxien said:

 

  On 10/29/2015 at 11:11 AM, tec said:

Finished a book by Thomas Ligotti, it was awesome but fucking hell it was nihilistic, on to The Book of English Magic next, might become a druid and move to the woods.

Well IDM m8

 

Which Ligotti did you read? I'm not sure which of his to work on next...

 

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Teatro Grottesco, I'd recommend it if you haven't read it already, his Songs of a Dead Dreamer has just been released in the Penguin Classics range which is quite an honour.

Schismatrix Plus by Bruce Sterling

Finished The Pale King, pretty good for a book that is basically a 500 page introduction to a novel that will never be written. Shame.

Onto the Corrections, which had me laughing within five pages. I have high hopes.

double-checking statto referencing required plenty of this today

genius research on a scene that only really lasted 5/6 years and produced some of the finest records known to mankind

I'm re-reading the Fellowship of the Ring and enjoying it thoroughly. That's the advantages of having an absolutely awful memory, I can re-read a book and still be surprised by the contents.

I've been reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, and this is completely different from that I was expecting. Of all of the things I was prepared for, this just came out of nowhere, and it's incredible. So far, I'm enjoying this vastly more than Dubliners. For something that started out so innocent, it's getting dark as hell (literally).

Also I got a big stack of really nice philosophical books at a book sale for dirt cheap, so I've been reading a bit of The Critique of Pure Reason, which is also getting very interesting in a different way.

  On 11/5/2015 at 2:45 PM, Aphex said:

I'm re-reading the Fellowship of the Ring and enjoying it thoroughly. That's the advantages of having an absolutely awful memory, I can re-read a book and still be surprised by the contents.

Yeah, that's something I've wanted to do for a while, since it's been a long time and I wasn't aware of all the theological themes the book had the first time I read it. Joyce is keeping me really interested at the moment, though.

  On 11/5/2015 at 6:00 PM, drillkicker said:

 

  On 11/5/2015 at 2:45 PM, Aphex said:

I'm re-reading the Fellowship of the Ring and enjoying it thoroughly. That's the advantages of having an absolutely awful memory, I can re-read a book and still be surprised by the contents.

Yeah, that's something I've wanted to do for a while, since it's been a long time and I wasn't aware of all the theological themes the book had the first time I read it. Joyce is keeping me really interested at the moment, though.

 

Going through the Council of Elrond again keeps me from ever re-reading that one.

  On 11/5/2015 at 6:41 PM, tec said:

 

  On 11/5/2015 at 6:00 PM, drillkicker said:

 

  On 11/5/2015 at 2:45 PM, Aphex said:

I'm re-reading the Fellowship of the Ring and enjoying it thoroughly. That's the advantages of having an absolutely awful memory, I can re-read a book and still be surprised by the contents.

Yeah, that's something I've wanted to do for a while, since it's been a long time and I wasn't aware of all the theological themes the book had the first time I read it. Joyce is keeping me really interested at the moment, though.

 

 

Going through the Council of Elrond again keeps me from ever re-reading that one.

 

The Council of Elrond isn't too bad, I read quite fast though so I guess I get through it quickly. You can always skim-read it or whatever, if it bores you. The Fellowship of the Ring has some great bits in it, like Tom Bombadil and the Barrow-Downs.

  On 11/5/2015 at 6:41 PM, tec said:

 

  On 11/5/2015 at 6:00 PM, drillkicker said:

 

  On 11/5/2015 at 2:45 PM, Aphex said:

I'm re-reading the Fellowship of the Ring and enjoying it thoroughly. That's the advantages of having an absolutely awful memory, I can re-read a book and still be surprised by the contents.

Yeah, that's something I've wanted to do for a while, since it's been a long time and I wasn't aware of all the theological themes the book had the first time I read it. Joyce is keeping me really interested at the moment, though.

Going through the Council of Elrond again keeps me from ever re-reading that one.

Tom Bombadil and the Entmoot are the two parts that I remember as being particularly dreadful to read through. The Ent part has a really great payoff at the end, though.

But it's been years, so I don't know how accurate my memory is.

Finished We Were The Mulvaneys, good stuff.

Cults of the Shadow by Kenneth Grant...... as thorough and compelling as it is absurd and "wtf", if you like a bit of the olde sorcery & left hand path headfuck its ace

similarly, 2 Alejandro Jodorowsky texts: Psychomagic - The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy & Way of the Tarot/The Spiritual Teacher in the Cards

heaviness

J.M. Coetzee - Disgrace

Didn't know anything about this, just a book that's been hanging around my flat for the last few years. Started out like a literary character piece or whatever and then suddenly gets heavy as fuck. Enjoyed it, but damn.

Now Jenny Diski - Like Mother.