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  On 11/17/2022 at 8:33 AM, prdctvsm said:

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how do you like it? I've read most all his stuff, will give this a shot at some point.

  On 11/23/2022 at 7:01 PM, zero said:

how do you like it? I've read most all his stuff, will give this a shot at some point.

p f decent; an unresolved post modern tragedy. q different from the little 've of read of him but w his usual flair for language, description & story telling. sorta reads like dfw x'd w. tim wynton. 8/10. a companion novel/addendum 'stella maris' ft. same characters is 2b published sn

Currently reading Against The Day by Thomas Pynchon, 400 pages in and fascinating so far.

Edit: wow just noticed the first post of the thread contains Against The Day as well, ha. Weird.

Curious to see the top 5 or so fav books from members on here if anyone feels up to sharing?

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yuo tube review 

Cool short article

https://dangerousminds.net/comments/pinups_pvc_pipes_the_vintage_bathing_beauties_of_the_ridgid_tool_company_ca

i just finished Ray Nayler's The Mountain in the Sea and it was really good. i know at least a few of y'all around here had read Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith a few years ago and this is incorporating a lot of the wonder and curiosity of that but amplified and fictionalized. this story has a lot to do with other stuff too, and the ending felt a little rushed/too buttoned up for me, but overall i really liked it.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/child-eater-bern?

Doing a little Chrimbo reading 

https://animanoir.notion.site/Ocean-of-Sound-Ambient-sound-and-radical-listening-in-the-age-of-communication-58a55d56255349058da2ea686062efa7

looking for an annotated Comprehensive philosophy book on the Greeks. Plato, basically, But it gets way too abstract for me. Some down to earth laymen stuff to help bring it together would be amazing.Really want something good If you know of something . Thank you

Read the three body problem.

Very disappoint, no idea what the hype is about.

I'll of course continue on to read the next part of the trilogy.

Finished the three body problem trilogy, I felt it's the da Vinci code of SF.

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just put down Notes From The Underground. yikes/10. it was good in that it made me feel bad. the occasional lines in which I could see myself in the underground man were alarming. ugh. not exactly an enjoyable read, but worth it, particularly if you're a pensive, introverted individual with an air of intellectual superiority, which, reading this on an idm forum, i imagine you must be.

just prior to that was Lilith by George MacDonald. Pretty much the polar opposite philosophy from Mr. Underground there. I really enjoyed this. Starts off like a weird Lewis Carroll adventure (turns out MacDonald was an IRL "mentor" to Carroll) with a very strong dash of Narnia (he was also a huge influence on CS Lewis), then goes into more philosophical territory, mostly musing on the nature of death of the individual self, the unity of existence and its goodness, love as purpose... but be warned: it does not at all try to hide the fact that it is a Christian allegory. It stays away from being preachy, though (I'm not a card carrying Christian and still liked the message -- GM was a universalist and very unorthodox).

  On 1/22/2023 at 11:19 PM, luke viia said:

just put down Notes From The Underground. yikes/10. it was good in that it made me feel bad. the occasional lines in which I could see myself in the underground man were alarming. ugh. not exactly an enjoyable read, but worth it, particularly if you're a pensive, introverted individual with an air of intellectual superiority, which, reading this on an idm forum, i imagine you must be.

testament of solomon was mind-blowing

One of the holiest. You can jump from saint to saint and read some bits of what those institutions of will and wisdom incarnated in flesh have to tell you

https://www.holybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/Philokalia.pdf

You should read this if you like ambient music:

https://animanoir.notion.site/I-of-the-vortex-7afcce44e8ac4cceb02bdc9024444c56

  On 1/17/2023 at 8:12 PM, Nebraska said:

 

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I just picked up the Grimorium Verum, a 16th century french/italian text (English translation by Joseph Peterson, but it includes the French, Latin and surviving Italian manuscripts too). "one of the most notorious handbooks of black magic" though it's 13 centuries newer than the Testament of Solomon. Nice to see some crossover interest between occult and idm fanbases lol

halfway through atm. I was unaware that there was even a “grim dark” genre but I needed something to scratch the itch after finishing Fire and Blood and a little research led me to the first book in a trilogy. Based on how it’s going I see myself reading the other two soon.