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- bono
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- Panama
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Haven't read any of the Baroque cycle, though I plan on it. Aren't there recurring characters from Cryptonomicon in it?
Just read:
The Torturer's Apprentice: Stories by John Biguenet
Oyster by John Biguenet
Just read:
The Torturer's Apprentice: Stories by John Biguenet
Oyster by John Biguenet
"I believe the common character of the universe is not harmony, but hostility, chaos and murder." - Werner Herzog
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- Mr. Beast
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I have Dobyn's Pallbearers Envying the One Who Rides but haven't read it. I'll check it out now.
"I believe the common character of the universe is not harmony, but hostility, chaos and murder." - Werner Herzog
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- Push Comes to Shove
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Just recently finished All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren. It's absolutely fantastic. The book I was most strongly reminded of was Heart of Darkness, both in terms of subject matter and also the visceral styles of each of the books, in that I really felt inside the book, as opposed to merely reading it.
Working on Lolita, Nabokov is hilarious.
Working on Lolita, Nabokov is hilarious.
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- Beat It
- Posts: 5331
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- Submitting as: Heuristics Inc. (duh) + collabs
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Right now I'm reading the diary of Brian Eno from 1995 ("A Year with Swollen Appendices") which is really pretty interesting as it alternates between philosophical musings on music, composing, etc. and talking about hanging out with his kids, so you can see he's a normal guy. Pretty cool.
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Just finished:
Soft! by Rupert Thompson
Soft! by Rupert Thompson
"I believe the common character of the universe is not harmony, but hostility, chaos and murder." - Werner Herzog
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- Ice Cream Man
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- Ice Cream Man
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- roymond
- Beat It
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I read that as an unedited proof before it was released. Very fun.HeuristicsInc wrote:Right now I'm reading the diary of Brian Eno from 1995 ("A Year with Swollen Appendices") which is really pretty interesting as it alternates between philosophical musings on music, composing, etc. and talking about hanging out with his kids, so you can see he's a normal guy. Pretty cool.
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"Any more chromaticism and you'll have to change your last name to Wagner!" - Frankie Big Face
"Any more chromaticism and you'll have to change your last name to Wagner!" - Frankie Big Face
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- Ice Cream Man
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- Panama
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I also recommend Ubik.j$ wrote:I am a huge K Dick fan, but I am left a little cold by 'Scanner' - it's good, but read Valis next. Read Valis! Read Valis! Now that book actually hurt my brain a little. In a good way.
Steve
"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture" -Unknown
"Seems to me this is the point of Songfight" - Max The Cat
"Seems to me this is the point of Songfight" - Max The Cat
I also recommend Divine Invasions, a P. K. Dick biography by Lawrence Sutin, who also wrote the only worthwhile Aleister Crowley bio around. Philip K. Dick is one of the most interesting people I've ever heard of and a great writer to boot.
"I believe the common character of the universe is not harmony, but hostility, chaos and murder." - Werner Herzog
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- Ice Cream Man
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I just got to the end of Murakami's Wind Up Bird Chronicle - although, I've still got the final chapter to come, I hate finishing a book on a train and not having anything else to read - so I've started the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. It's really easy going and I'll be done by Friday but it is great so far on a number of levels and I've only read half of it.
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- Panama
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- JonPorobil
- Beat It
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Pale Fire is the very thing I always hope to find when I first peek into a new book.a bebop a rebop wrote: Working on Lolita, Nabokov is hilarious.
I also recently read an early Nabokov, called Invitation to a Beheading. He claims he composed it before he'd ever read any Kafka, but the resemblance with The Trial is remarkable. As is the book in general.
Just yesterday I finished reading a book called The Comforters, by Muriel Spark, who just recently died this past April. It's a remarkable book about a woman who realizes she's a character in a book. Crazy stuff.
Now I'm reading Philip Roth - The Ghost Writer. I'll tell you what I think of it once I get far enough in.
"Warren Zevon would be proud." -Reve Mosquito
Stages, an album of about dealing with loss, anxiety, and grieving a difficult year, now available on Bandcamp and all streaming platforms! https://jonporobil.bandcamp.com/album/stages
Stages, an album of about dealing with loss, anxiety, and grieving a difficult year, now available on Bandcamp and all streaming platforms! https://jonporobil.bandcamp.com/album/stages
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- Ice Cream Man
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the path to the spiders' nests by italo calvino. i'm about 3/4 of the way through this, and it's a really cool novel. it's calvino's first, and the first i've read of his. i'm having a hard time understanding why calvino didn't become better known outside of the academic world.
next, i hope to get my hands on a copy of calvino's cosmicomics.
next, i hope to get my hands on a copy of calvino's cosmicomics.
Girl with Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace
Metamagical Themas by Douglas Hofstadter
and I'm re-reading Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis and Darrick Robertson.
I also recently re-read Less than Zero and The Rules of Attraction, both by Bret Easton Ellis.
Metamagical Themas by Douglas Hofstadter
and I'm re-reading Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis and Darrick Robertson.
I also recently re-read Less than Zero and The Rules of Attraction, both by Bret Easton Ellis.
"I believe the common character of the universe is not harmony, but hostility, chaos and murder." - Werner Herzog
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