Now Reading

  On 5/4/2018 at 12:01 AM, RSP said:

I just ordered some Hammond project enclosures and a Georges Bataille book on Amazon, what kind of government watch lists am I on now?

not sure, but get 'the turner diaries' and you'll be on the correct government list

  On 5/4/2018 at 1:18 PM, azatoth said:

Currently reading the fourth book (The Citadel of the Autarch) in Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun saga. Apparently a classic science-fantasy novel which somehow had eluded me. Dying Earth type of setting, set millions of years in the future where forgotten tech is to the narrator like magic. It's good stuff and definitely has me considering another read through because it has layers and the narrator doesn't really seem reliable. Great use of archaic words to add some spice and strangeness to the language.

 

I am also in the process of reading the 4kg omnibus of Jack Kirby's Fourth World comics that came out last year. 70s comics silliness <3

Good stuff! Gene Wolfe is awesome, & those Kirby collections are solid gold.

  On 5/10/2018 at 9:41 PM, Nebraska said:

 

  On 5/4/2018 at 12:01 AM, RSP said:

I just ordered some Hammond project enclosures and a Georges Bataille book on Amazon, what kind of government watch lists am I on now?

 

not sure, but get 'the turner diaries' and you'll be on the correct government list

 

I'm in a spot looking for a few different things to read atm, is this actually worth a go or is it just racist drivel?

fuck no dude

Fucking lol

edit -

Oklahoma City: The Turner Diaries - http://www.pbs.org/video/american-experience-oklahoma-turner-diaries/

  On 5/13/2018 at 7:59 PM, spratters said:

 

  On 5/10/2018 at 9:41 PM, Nebraska said:

not sure, but get 'the turner diaries' and you'll be on the correct government list

 

I'm in a spot looking for a few different things to read atm, is this actually worth a go or is it just racist drivel?

 

it's basically a white supremacists wet dream- and even though it's incredibly racist, it's so over-the-top to the point of almost being cartoonish. it's also not written well (it's more fanatical and maniacal in it's fetish for genocide and warfare)- but the treatment is rather simplistic not to mention there are almost no flaws to any of the white characters in the book (except for maybe a minor moment of tension betwix our "hero?", his girlfriend and another dude).

read Brave New World again, it was like reading it for the first time, I don't know was I doing when I first read it cause everything I remembered about it was wrong

Anyway, it's a much more ambiguous book than I remember. Well, not ambiguous but rather not as obvious as say 1984.

^ Yeah I slept on BNW and didn't read it till last year. Waaay more prescient than 1984.

Karl Marx - Fragment on Machines, 1858

It annoys me that BNW and 1984 get compared so much - they are nothing like eachother. I blame all those "guise Trump just got elected, look at all these dystopian books!" buzzfeed lists

Just started The Sheep Look Up, the second John Brunner I've read. About two minutes after I started it I saw a news ticker in the corner of my eye saying that Indian police had just mown down some anti-pollution protesters. So it's depressingly relevant

started reading Catch-22 but it's ill suited for my current method of reading (20 pages a night before nodding off) so i'm reading Consider the Lobster instead

Catch-22 has never done much for me.

Snagged a paperback Mason & Dixon for ¢15 today. Even if it sucks, I can use it to finally see what’s on top of the fridge.

lmao. "we're disrupting books". i hate tech people so much.

lol what a goon.

Imagine that thought being applied to film. It'll be the directors commentary whilst a friend constantly elbows you to say a good bit is coming up.

lol

My copy of "Room to Dream", David Lynch's memoir, came in early, so now I'm devouring that on the couch. I could read this man's rambling all day.

Amazing book so far, it's very personal and full of little anecdotes that serve as a key to Lynch's work and its atmosphere. 

  On 6/6/2018 at 4:51 AM, zaphod said:

 

lmao. "we're disrupting books". i hate tech people so much.

tl;dr I have no ability to form and process thoughts and opinions of my own

Sounds like some former coworkers of mine...

I blasted through this thing. It may be because I relate so strongly to his psychology. The next few books supposedly deal with his youth, which doesn't sound like it would appeal to me as much as the minutiae around his marriage/writing. I am not sure if there is a single sentence I could pick out that is formally impressive yet the whole thing flows so seamlessly from scene to scene.

Now reading a book about Bowie's days in Berlin, to coincide with my move to the city. Should be fun to visit the landmarks.

  On 6/7/2018 at 11:01 PM, gnarlybog said:

Now reading a book about Bowie's days in Berlin, to coincide with my move to the city. Should be fun to visit the landmarks.

Nice, what's it called, and is it any good? Love Berlin-period Bowie (mind you, I think everyone does)

Slaughterhouse-Five.

Not sure what I'm getting myself into but it was recommended to me on goodreads.

"Dreamworld & Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East & West" by Susan Buck-Morss

this is great; a history of communism & capitalism as both being sides of the same coin; industrial modernity. 

free .pdf

  On 6/8/2018 at 7:45 PM, dumplings said:

Slaughterhouse-Five.

 

Not sure what I'm getting myself into but it was recommended to me on goodreads.

so it goes

May have been posted already, but anyway...(edit: Romanticdude already did.)

Room To Dream - David Lynch / Kristine Mckenna

out June 19th. An excerpt can be found here:

http://www.randomhousebooks.com/books/545016/

Pierre et Jean by Guy de Maupassant

  On 6/12/2018 at 10:47 PM, prdctvsm said:

"Dreamworld & Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East & West" by Susan Buck-Morss

 

this is great; a history of communism & capitalism as both being sides of the same coin; industrial modernity. 

 

free .pdf