Now Reading

  On 11/6/2016 at 7:25 PM, mokz said:

I bought Pattern Recognition yesterday from a bookshop but I have lots of other books in queue also so I don't know when I'll get to that.

it's quite good

Just started reading hard-boiled wonderland again and I'm feeling a bit underwhelmed. Was much better in my memory

  On 11/6/2016 at 8:18 PM, darreichungsform said:

 

  On 11/6/2016 at 7:25 PM, mokz said:

I bought Pattern Recognition yesterday from a bookshop but I have lots of other books in queue also so I don't know when I'll get to that.

it's quite good

 

 

Just started reading hard-boiled wonderland again and I'm feeling a bit underwhelmed. Was much better in my memory

 

i enjoyed pattern recognition a lot. it made me feel a little displaced and sleep deprived.  

i skipped a few of his books because they were like spy novels or something and i just wasn't feeling it.  but Gibson's last one.. "The Peripheral" i liked a lot.

finished Darkmans by nikola barker.. i think she could've let that book go on for another 50 pages easy and let it just get weirder and weirder.  it wraps up so quickly.  enjoyed it a lot. been thinking about it all day.. 

not sure what to read next. there's a big pile of stuff i'm anxious to get to. 

Yeeeuah Max Ernst

Nice webpage
https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/01/06/alan-watts-wisdom-of-insecurity-1/

I have a semi-on for this book, I may just have to buy it.

http://www.abbeville.com/bookpage.asp?isbn=9780789212672

Old trees photographed at night is an idm concept if I ever heard one.

Pattern Recognition was fucking lush, will grab the other two in the 'trilogy'

Now started Jim Crace's Quarantine. I've only ever read Being Dead by Crace (which I highly recommend). Have a bunch more books by him that have accumulated from seeing his name on a book in a charity shop and bringing them home.

Off to a great start so far.

  On 11/13/2016 at 7:41 PM, hello spiral said:

Now started Jim Crace's Quarantine. I've only ever read Being Dead by Crace (which I highly recommend). Have a bunch more books by him that have accumulated from seeing his name on a book in a charity shop and bringing them home.

Off to a great start so far.

I read Harvest after seeing it in the gothic exhibition in the British Library, couldn't really get into it but I was hoping for some kinda Wicker man weirdness so the fault may have been my own.

Reading some Ted Chiang, in between Jerusalem (page 800...)

Just finished the first Hitchhiker's Guide book in the series, hilarious read. Took me a while to get through because I've been too busy with schoolwork to bother reading most nights.  Now on to The Restaurant at the end of the Universe...

Robert Graves - The White Goddess.......indigenous British and Irish myths, archaeology, poetry, analysis, questions, translating metaphors....

twelfty/10

love your taste man....

I need to read that book on Ernst...

Re-reading Crime & Punishment, cuz this Oliver Ready translation is new to me.

Ghettoside by Levoy - The end gets bogged down in the specifics of a few murder cases, which is a lot less interesting than the broader study of unsolved/ignored urban crime.

Poor People by William T. Vollmann - In which the author travels the globe asking poor people why they're poor. I think he smokes crack with a Filipino prostitute in this one.

  On 11/26/2016 at 5:41 PM, Atop said:

love your taste man....

 

I need to read that book on Ernst...

Yeah absolutely

cwmbrancity man, you might consider making a blog post or something about what you've been reading/learning;

I know there's at least a handful of us that would drool over every bit of it

Or maybe a thread for stuff like this

I'd be hella down for that

  On 11/26/2016 at 6:05 PM, LimpyLoo said:

 

  On 11/26/2016 at 5:41 PM, Atop said:

love your taste man....

 

I need to read that book on Ernst...

Yeah absolutely

cwmbrancity man, you might consider making a blog post or something about what you've been reading/learning;

I know there's at least a handful of us that would drool over every bit of it

 

Or maybe a thread for stuff like this

I'd be hella down for that

 

Hell yes, +1. Always glad to see new cwmbran posts, I've got into a lot of cool stuff off the back of them. I live pretty much right beside my uni library as well, so I can get a lot of stuff from there, for free; that Idea Of Order book springs to mind

Be blessed
http://bepresentfirst.com/myth-higher-centers-lower-centers-and-madness/

Finished Jerusalem, all 1174 pages of it (and the four page acknowledgements). Review: quite good. Fairly long, but worth it, sort of like Pynchon but instead Moore happily explains to you his references rather than expecting you to go down to the library yourself. Offers a nice alternative idea of the afterlife, which I've found I now consider to be my preferred form of it.

Also continuing to read Ted Chiang, and he is pretty good too. Story of your Life deserves its praise.

Reading Laird Barron's The Croning after keanu reeves recommended him as a deece new author of horror. Quarter of the way in and definitely liking the vibe, you can feel a noose going around the main character's neck that is only going to tighten. I'll get this done then move onto an M.R James re-read for the festive season. 

Let The Right One In, already know the plot from seeing the film in '08 but this is still a very pleasant read.

Very much indebted to King and he acknowledges it (Oskar starts reading Firestarter at one point). Also being set in the 80's I couldn't help but think of Stranger Things, though this was originally published in '04. I like that the paedophilia thing is a lot more overt in this, I can see why they kinda glossed over it in the film.

Will keep an eye out for LTROI Spi, see what it's like.

Reading Brief Interviews with Hideous Men on my kindle and I already like it much more than I did anything in Oblivion. The stories felt like they were trying too hard to be difficult in Oblivion but BIWHM seems totally natural, wonderful prose and funny, despite the often morbid / heinous topics.

In real world books: after the hugeness of Jerusalem, I am reading Oranges are not the only fruit by Jeanette Winterson, which is very small (the size of a pocket bible!).

Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich

- a lush series of series of interviews w/ men & women who lived through the Soviet Union's collapse + their reflections on what's been lost/gained in the transition to, like, gangster capitalism.

Thanks for reminding me of her, I should add some of it to the pile.

to whom it may concern

Verso end-of-year sale! 50% off ALL our books!
some good stuff there..f.i. https://www.versobooks.com/books/662-musica-practica

^Bless

Just finished The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth, great novel set after the 1066 invasion of England, written in a pseudo-version of Old English. Recommended.

the wake is cool. riddley walker is probably the obvious influence on its style, that's a must read.