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when i read Bend Sinister a few weeks ago, i couldn't help but imagine Krug as Zizek. big burly hairy Krug-Zizek.

hart crane is a fucking name.

I just spent 25 minutes lookin for a SF books-related thread, couldnt find any, seeking for guidance

I finished Sirens of Titan by Vonnegut. Probably one of my favorite books by him. 9.5/10

  On 2/19/2011 at 6:36 AM, huzur said:

I just spent 25 minutes lookin for a SF books-related thread, couldnt find any, seeking for guidance

especially the Culture novels:

Consider Phlebas

the Player of Games

Use of Weapons

(State of the Art)

Excession

Look to Windward

Matter

Surface Detail

Just recently read the Johnny Mnemonic short story and watched the movie. Quite possibly the worst adaptation of anything I have ever seen, in any medium. At least they had the cyborg dolphin.

  On 2/19/2011 at 6:39 AM, Capsaicin said:

I finished Sirens of Titan by Vonnegut. Probably one of my favorite books by him. 9.5/10

love this book, seriously seriously underrated, as far as his oeuvre goes.

our power was out for most of the day and i read cormac mccarthy's the road for the first time, and walter m. williams a canticle for leibowitz for the third time. the road was pretty good. incredibly visceral, bawled at the end. a canticle for leibowitz might be my favourite post-apocalyptic novel ever, though.

it's actually pretty sad how many of miller's points stand, despite the fact that it was written pretty much at the height of cold-war paranoia (1959)

i don't really doubt that we'd have an era akin to the simplification (in which hordes of unwashed idiots burn books and bookish people alike whilst reveling in being deemed 'simpletons') if any sort of worldwide cataclysm were to happen...

dang, a woman who has read canticle for leibowitz? I think i'm in love lol

some Kerouac has lovely SF scenes....but i dont think theres any book thats focused entirely there

really just a fantastic book. an american goes to work for japans leading newspaper on the vice beat. you learn all sorts of stuff about the yakuza and japansese culture. it gets quite gripping towards the end.. the yakuza are ruthless.

  On 2/22/2011 at 6:58 PM, baph said:

That's a big one. Good luck!!! :sup:

Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius.

Daddy Long Legs by Jean Webster.

Ran through about 60 pages of "Licensed to Kill, Hired Guns in the War on Terror" today. Robert Pelton does a great job of telling the story of an industry which has had an resurgence since 9/11 through anecdotes and interviews with guys like Erik Prince, the former Navy SEAL and founder of Blackwater, Billy Waugh, a (then) 70 something former Green Beret who came from nearly dying in Vietnam to running operations in Afghanistan two months after 9/11 under guidance of the CIA. I left off with Pelton at a remote American outpost (which may or may not have been inside Pakistan) manned by a small group of CIA contractors, Army Delta Force and a team of Green Berets from the 20th Special Forces Group.

Highly recommended so far.

  On 2/27/2011 at 7:23 AM, Gbiscuit said:

Ran through about 60 pages of "Licensed to Kill, Hired Guns in the War on Terror" today. Robert Pelton does a great job of telling the story of an industry which has had an resurgence since 9/11 through anecdotes and interviews with guys like Erik Prince, the former Navy SEAL and founder of Blackwater, Billy Waugh, a (then) 70 something former Green Beret who came from nearly dying in Vietnam to running operations in Afghanistan two months after 9/11 under guidance of the CIA. I left off with Pelton at a remote American outpost (which may or may not have been inside Pakistan) manned by a small group of CIA contractors, Army Delta Force and a team of Green Berets from the 20th Special Forces Group.

 

Highly recommended so far.

colour me intrigued.

Just finished Sir Ranulph Fiennes' 'The Feather Men' and have no started on Artyom Borovik's 'The Hidden War'. Seem to be on a bit of a military/war flex at the moment.

Aleister Crowley- Konx Om Pax, not sure about it yet.

  On 2/24/2011 at 7:56 PM, Philip Glass said:

  On 2/22/2011 at 6:58 PM, baph said:

 

 

That's a big one. Good luck!!! :sup:

This is among my 'next to buy', thoroughly enjoying "White Noise" which I'm almost finished with

Once you get to the point in Underworld where Marvin remembers his bowel movements becoming increasingly foul-smelling as he traveled deeper into the Eastern Bloc, you know you're in the presence of a true masterwork.

Underworld is all about garbage and waste.

I wrote a huge research paper on the Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island back at university, so some of this stuff is dear to my fetid little heart.

Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis (of RHCP) it's his memoirs of being in the band over the years

Now reading every single thing Lovecraft wrote about Chtulhu.

This is incredible.

  On 3/2/2011 at 10:22 PM, StocKo said:

Now reading every single thing Lovecraft wrote about Chtulhu.

This is incredible.

never get sick of lovecraft; i own everything he's ever written

currently reading this

http://enterthepassage.com/

it's schlocky postapocalyptic horror, but surprisingly good for what it is.