Now Reading

I'm a good way through Electric Eden by Rob Young, it's a history of British music, mainly folk-based stuff. It really digs into the old pagan origins of folk tunes and stuff, it's pretty fascinating. Comes recommended. Also reading a bunch of classic short stories on the side... Sherlock Holmes and MR James mainly. I ordered From Hell by Alan Moore, it arrived yesterday. Haven't started reading it yet but it's fucking enormous, so I'm psyched for that. Got the collected writings of Hunter S. Thompson pretty cheap (not Fear and Loathing/Campaign Trail, other bits and pieces) and that's going down very nicely indeed. Also about 30 issues into an excellent comic series called Fables.

Pretty messed up.

Peter Pan.

I run the kids section at the bookshop I work at, figured I should read some of the titles I recommend so frequently.

^^^ I went on a children's literature kick a few months back, mostly stuff I never read as a kid: Tarzan of the Apes, the Prince & the Pauper, Treasure Island, etc. The Wind in the Willows is one I'd like to revisit, & perhaps the Pooh stories as well.

Just finished Heinlein's the Moon is a Harsh Mistress (gift from my brother) which I irked him by finding mostly bland, & occasionally infuriating. I could rant about this one, but I won't.

Am now about 75 pages into Infinite Jest & enjoying it. My first experience of DFW's work; it reminds me of DeLillo a bit, though perhaps more linguistically deliberate(?)

  On 8/2/2013 at 12:03 AM, tec said:

 

Pretty messed up.

curious

^I've got the second volume (I think). Awesome stuff.

  On 8/6/2013 at 7:28 PM, doorjamb said:

^^^ I went on a children's literature kick a few months back, mostly stuff I never read as a kid: Tarzan of the Apes, the Prince & the Pauper, Treasure Island, etc. The Wind in the Willows is one I'd like to revisit, & perhaps the Pooh stories as well.

 

Just finished Heinlein's the Moon is a Harsh Mistress (gift from my brother) which I irked him by finding mostly bland, & occasionally infuriating. I could rant about this one, but I won't.

Am now about 75 pages into Infinite Jest & enjoying it. My first experience of DFW's work; it reminds me of DeLillo a bit, though perhaps more linguistically deliberate(?)

One of my favourite's to reread was The Iron Man and The Happy Prince. Awesome books. I'm also planning on getting hold of all of Anthony Browne's picture books. They're exquisite.

Hate to admit it, but I gave up on Infinite Jest about halfway through. I don't know why exactly, it wasn't a deliberate choice, because I found it very enjoyable to read when I got the chance. I guess I still get put off by very big books which I put down to being a very poor, slow reader as a kid. Also, finding enough time to read a decent chunk of it was difficult- it's not a book to dip in and out of.

I like to think it will lose it's current place as coaster atop the radiator (apologies DFW, your masterpiece of modern literature is a little wine stained) and I'll manage to finish it.

Inherent Vice because of PTA. I can't imagine the hardwork of adapting something so confounding to a script. It's quite hilarious and hopefully the film will be too. The book will make PTA go back to the Boogie Nights/Magnolia style of multiple characters directing Scorsese style.

just finishing up the second book in the hyperion cantos by dan simmons. good stuff.

Reading classic Tales From The Crypt related series comics (Tales From The Crypt and The Crypt Of Terror). So good. But cheezy and retarded, though, which really pushes for suspension of disbelief necessity. It is this quality which brings to life a sense of "fantasy" for me. I feel modern works (video games, tv, film, etc.) are too concerned with the idea of portraying some sort of "real-reality", which is bullshit. I bought a Tales From The Crypt comic compilation in elementary school after enjoying the HBO series and was just blown away. The full classic stuff has some crap stories in it, but I suppose it can't all be gold. Love the twisted angle on the human condition (as opposed to just pointless violence, gore, etc.). Also totally dig the high contrast style illustrations. Good shit, yo. Highly recommended.

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(4/5 decapitated wolf heads)

Continuing the kids books kick. Finished Peter Pan, then read Wonder by Palacio, and this morning finished The Railway Children.

The Phantom Tollbooth is prob next on the list.

Bought Stephen King's Nightmares And Dreamscapes, which are some short stories.

  On 8/15/2013 at 8:49 AM, logakght said:

Bought Stephen King's Nightmares And Dreamscapes, which are some short stories.

I recently got the DVD of the tv series from a local charity shop, seriously hideous crap I don't wanna give any of the plots away if they follow the book.... but man, howlers..... probably a good book though knowing Mr. King?

Currently reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Started off well, be interesting to see where it goes.

That series is fucking awful but the book is one of my favorites.

I've just started rereading SK's Dreamcatcher. It's one of his more maligned books but I quite enjoy it. But then I am a huge fanboi.

halfway thru The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi, It's good but I'm loosing interest in it.

just finishing Fellowship Of The Ring again.....

Also keep having a go at Cosmic Consciousness - A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind by Richard Maurice Bucke, very interesting stuff!

  On 8/15/2013 at 9:30 AM, feltcher said:

 

  On 8/15/2013 at 8:49 AM, logakght said:

Bought Stephen King's Nightmares And Dreamscapes, which are some short stories.

 

I recently got the DVD of the tv series from a local charity shop, seriously hideous crap I don't wanna give any of the plots away if they follow the book.... but man, howlers..... probably a good book though knowing Mr. King?

 

 

 

Currently reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Started off well, be interesting to see where it goes.

 

  On 8/15/2013 at 1:53 PM, hello spiral said:

That series is fucking awful but the book is one of my favorites.

 

I've just started rereading SK's Dreamcatcher. It's one of his more maligned books but I quite enjoy it. But then I am a huge fanboi.

thanks guys for the warnings. I bought it very very cheap so It wouldn't be a lost at all :)

Getting an iphone fucked up my reading big time. I usually get three hours in a day: an hours commute to work, my lunch hour and an hours commute home.

Now I just play with my fucking phone.

I looked back through this thread and saw that I started Vonnegut's Galapagos on the 8th of July. I finished it today. That book should have taken two days to read, at most!

  On 8/15/2013 at 9:30 AM, feltcher said:

Currently reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Started off well, be interesting to see where it goes.

That's nice, I've starting this as well as one of my summer read. Good page turner. Since I only read 2 book at the same time (one at home, one on the subway), I've decided to read "Ready player one" as another summer easy read. I don't like it, I'm at page 200 but I'll go until the end. It's a great idea, but the guy can't write.

  On 8/16/2013 at 12:47 AM, Philip Glass said:

 

  On 8/15/2013 at 9:30 AM, feltcher said:

Currently reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Started off well, be interesting to see where it goes.

 

That's nice, I've starting this as well as one of my summer read. Good page turner. Since I only read 2 book at the same time (one at home, one on the subway), I've decided to read "Ready player one" as another summer easy read. I don't like it, I'm at page 200 but I'll go until the end. It's a great idea, but the guy can't write.

 

I was going to start American Gods next, too. But I don't know now. I don't want to seem, you know. :makes incomprehensible noise and hand gesture: You know.

I read a few pages of Ready Player One and the prose was horrifyingly bad. I don't got time for none of this shit.

It feels like an Active Worlds or Second Life fanfic.

Just finished From Hell by Alan Moore, it was awesome. I really want to get the rest of his stuff now and go on a reading bender but I'm too skint fwp

read promethea, very underrated comic

those newer reprints of jung are significantly cooler looking than the other ones.

Pretty lulworth and depressing at the same time.