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  On 3/15/2017 at 1:36 PM, sweepstakes said:

 

  On 2/21/2017 at 3:01 AM, keanu reeves said:

i think of herbert like asimov, attempting to change his work to fit the fashion of the time as classic sf slowly became obsolete during the sixties. dune has a lot of great ideas in it, really strong imagery and world building, but it's a product of a fifties imagination

 and I couldn't put my finger on why I couldn't get past page 12 

 

The main character of s sci-fi epic being called Paul always done it for me. 

Mere Christianity (CS Lewis).

Bore Hole

It's about a man who trepanated himself. A trepanation is an operation where a little hole is drilled into the skull. He seeked to expand his mind and get to a higher level of consciousness by doing that - and it worked

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It's about a man who trepanated himself. A trepanation is an operation where a little hole is drilled into the skull. He seeked to expand his mind and get to a higher level of consciousness by doing that - and it worked

no it didn't

  On 3/22/2017 at 12:37 PM, Sally Vingoe said:

 

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It's about a man who trepanated himself. A trepanation is an operation where a little hole is drilled into the skull. He seeked to expand his mind and get to a higher level of consciousness by doing that - and it worked

 

no it didn't

 

Well, some would consider his mental state a neurological problem - but for him it worked, he feels high all the time now

  On 3/22/2017 at 4:30 AM, darreichungsform said:

Bore Hole

 

It's about a man who trepanated himself. A trepanation is an operation where a little hole is drilled into the skull. He seeked to expand his mind and get to a higher level of consciousness by doing that - and it worked

I'm now reading an interview with the guy and it's making me kinda nauseous, so thanks for that

  On 3/22/2017 at 6:54 PM, darreichungsform said:

 

  On 3/22/2017 at 12:37 PM, Sally Vingoe said:

 

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It's about a man who trepanated himself. A trepanation is an operation where a little hole is drilled into the skull. He seeked to expand his mind and get to a higher level of consciousness by doing that - and it worked

 

no it didn't

 

Well, some would consider his mental state a neurological problem - but for him it worked, he feels high all the time now

 

  On 3/22/2017 at 6:54 PM, darreichungsform said:

 

  On 3/22/2017 at 12:37 PM, Sally Vingoe said:

 

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It's about a man who trepanated himself. A trepanation is an operation where a little hole is drilled into the skull. He seeked to expand his mind and get to a higher level of consciousness by doing that - and it worked

 

no it didn't

 

Well, some would consider his mental state a neurological problem - but for him it worked, he feels high all the time now

 

You don;t think that could be down to the massive amounts of LSD he had taken?

  On 3/22/2017 at 8:36 PM, caze said:

 

  On 3/22/2017 at 6:54 PM, darreichungsform said:

 

  On 3/22/2017 at 12:37 PM, Sally Vingoe said:

 

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It's about a man who trepanated himself. A trepanation is an operation where a little hole is drilled into the skull. He seeked to expand his mind and get to a higher level of consciousness by doing that - and it worked

 

no it didn't

 

Well, some would consider his mental state a neurological problem - but for him it worked, he feels high all the time now

 

 

You don;t think that could be down to the massive amounts of LSD he had taken?

 

Yeah, it's probably because of the LSD. But still a fascinating story

Just imagine yourself drilling a hole into your own head, eww

Finished Mao II by Don Delillo. Pretty great, eerie to see how accurate he was about the current culture 26 years ago, especially terrorism. And it was nice to read a book that isn't 500+ pages for once.

Next is Those Who Leave And Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante. Which is a 400+ page book.

Norm Macdonald's book is hilarious

I finally got around to reading some Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky & have thus far found it exceedingly enjoyable. Next on my bucket list is to try (yet again) to make it through Tristram Shandy in one go.

fin: Yukio Mishima - Forbidden Colours

begin: J G Ballad - The Drowned World

  On 4/2/2017 at 3:01 PM, QQQ said:

fin: Yukio Mishima - Forbidden Colours

 

begin: J G Ballad - The Drowned World

Mishima is excellent. Have you read xThe Temple of the Golden Pavillion? 

  On 4/2/2017 at 3:18 PM, Auditor said:

 

  On 4/2/2017 at 3:01 PM, QQQ said:

fin: Yukio Mishima - Forbidden Colours

 

begin: J G Ballad - The Drowned World

Mishima is excellent. Have you read xThe Temple of the Golden Pavillion?

Oh nice. I only read Sailor and Pavillion, the latter is one of the best books I've ever read.

Antonio Damasio - Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain

Very good and as easy as possible explanation of how the body (especially the brain) manages to create an experience of the outer and inner world. Very enlightening. Did you know that even single-celled organisms have a rather complex mind? They don't know though. We know and we even know that we know and we know that we know that we know and we can watch us knowing that we know that we know that we know that we have a rather complex mind. We call this process "self". I can recommend this book

funny you say that because Sailor is one of my favourite books. none of his others have hit me as hard, though they are all very good. i might go for that one next, though Confessions of a Mask has my interest and i still have the final 2 books of the Sea of Fertility tetralogy to read.

Fire & Blood: The European Civil War 1914-45 by Enzo Traverso

Svetlana Alexievich's Chernobyl Prayer. Quite bleak.

A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

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We are writing this book as a rhizome. It is composed of plateaus. We have given it a circular form, but only for laughs. Each morning we would wake up, and each of us would ask himself what plateau he was going to tackle, writing five lines here, ten there. We had hallucinatory experiences, we watched lines leave one plateau and proceed to another like columns of tiny ants.

fin: The Drowned World (J.G. Ballad)

this was disappointing. a nice idea but poor execution. flat characters, too much repetition and a waste of a good world.

begin: The Outsider (Albert Camus)

Satoshi Kon's Opus is a great comic, just as intriguing as his films were. That the ending chapter was found after his death and somehow makes sense of an unfinished story (sort of) makes it even greater.

The North Water by Ian McGuire

It's well savage

i'm trying to read j r by gaddis but holy fuck is it tedious.