 |
|
You are not logged in! F.A.Q Log in Register |
 |
|
 |
 Now online (1)belb ...and 171 guests Last 5 registered Oplandisks nothingstar N_loop yipe foxtrotromeo Browse members... |
 |
Members 8025Messages 2613408 Today 0 Topics 127499 |
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Recommendation: A lovely piece of weird fiction reminiscent of Borges, Kafka, and a heaping tablespoon of Lovecraft. Very Good. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Jerusalem by Alan Moore would be a good book to start with. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Have just started part one! It's very wordy. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
1300 pages lol |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
:D peeps Oh nice one, Indeks; book club is on! It’s good though. I hope I manage to finish it. I had to start again as I put it down for too long. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Has anyone here got kindle unlimited? What's the book selection like if so? |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
did anyone get around to reading the klf book? |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I had kindle unlimited but I didn't use it very often, not enough books came up that I was interested in (until I ditched it, when I'd see a few books that I wish I'd noticed beforehand) - I have prime though, and each month there is a new selection of books free to read, some of which are quite interesting. hyperflake, I've read the KLF book, if you're referring to , and it is very good, a worthwhile read. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
i forgot all about that, would be interested to hear people's reviews too. i don't read as much as I should, fucky cyclops that i am now, but just finished listening to the audiobook of arthur c clarke - childhood's end. must be about 10 years since i read it and i had a free credit at audible, every bit as engrossing the second time around |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
(typed that as you were posting marlowe) |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I bought the Kindle edition, I'd be happy to upload it to dropbox if anyone would like to read it. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
That "The Twenty Days of Turin" looks good, I've (hey) bookmarked it. I've been reading Borges and Cortázar again lately, and Lovercraft's never far away. Hyperflake: if the KLF book you're refering to is "2023" I got exactly half-way through before I thought "You know, I probably should read the Illuminatus! Trilogy if I am to get the maximum benefit of this book", which is then what I did but it took me about 6 weeks. I've now re-started 2023 (what I've read so far is great if you're a fan of the sort of thing Drummond writes). I've got Anthony Horowitz's Bond book "Trigger Mortis" which I am saving for reading on a plane, and I've also got Paul Auster's "4 3 2 1" though I've got three books "on the go" which I need to finish before I get on to it. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
2023, not heard of that, going to investigate, thanks. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Haven't read Cortazár, will check him out. I just got the big Andrew Hurley translated Borges short story compendium from the library, sadly the translations seem smoother and more readable than my old sun face cover edition of Ficciones. There's a Twenty Days epub banging around in the usual places if you can stomach ebooks. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I have just been handed down an unwanted Dell Windows tablet and I will indeed stick a toe into the ePub world, but I will get this in physical form - looks ace. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
love childhoods end Belb would make an excellent film if it had the right script/director |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
yeah, I was planning to read the illuminatus trilogy, I will definitely have a read before the klf book |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
yeah I should probably read that one too! |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Currently reading/ looking at the first volume of inside Moebius which was release this month, great stuff |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I have just been handed down an unwanted Dell Windows tablet Finding it difficult to imagine a more cursèd, goblin haunted inheritance. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
It's some paradox where they're only ever passed on, no one ever remembers buying one, they just show up, tempting you to crack the enigma of why the battery only lasts two hours in sleep mode. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
lol keep it coming |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
interesting but it sounds like a rip off of foucaults pendulum |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
your life is the book |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
tell me RD, what that book says about Jerusalem? What kind of narration it has? i dont want to google it, i want to read what you have to say about it |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
It takes place in the Burroughs, a neighbourhood of Northampton, a place the authors lives and breathes. It takes place throughout time, it’s kinda centred around artist Alma Warren and her family, and more so her younger brother (who nearly died choking on a cough sweet). One third of the book is about him choking, and where he goes, and who he encounters while being pronounced clinically dead. It’s a wordy book, it has entire chapters written in different styles. If a character is a bit dim witted, the writing changes; you feel the accent changes. It’s actually not too pompous though, and pleasant to read, I do wonder if the author, who does have a chip on his shoulder (rightly or not), wanted to prove something. Luckily he’s a fantastic writer and storyteller so it’s not that much of a bad thing. It’s a work of massive scope I hope I finish. Lately (months of “lately”) I can’t get into that cosy place to read a book. And I don’t meann a physical space. Plus I have too many things on the go, including comics, which I don’t think is the right thing to do. So yeah, nothing to do with the town we know as Jerusalem. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
thanks |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I read comics more than books these days. Sad, i know. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
So do I lately. Back when you weren’t around I made a comics thread that failed miserably. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
To paraphrase Finley Peter Dunne, as I believe Banksy did; Art should disturb the comfortable, and comfort the disturbed. And I think that's terribly important and worth bearing in mind. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Yes, soothing words for my disturbed little mind. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
any of u guys read steven millhauser |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I'm trying to read a biography of Humboldt but it's too boring. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I’m reading Fisk, and whatever AMPI suggests next for me, as I deserve better. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
im reading xltronic |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I recently read the first two books of Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation trilogy. Totally different than the film, equally enjoyable if not more so. I found them fascinating and utterly compelling. Refreshingly different. Page turners. The first book is written from the perspective of a "recovered journal" account of an expedition into a mysterious wilderness, the second in traditional third person as a different perspective on the events which unfold during and after the first book. I can't overstate how different they are from the movie, for those who may have seen that. I haven't begun the final book in the trilogy as I've been told by a friend it explains "almost too much" of the mystery of the first two novels, and as much as I want answers, I also want to remain in that sense of wonder of the unknown. At least for now. 4.5/5 |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
im reading palace walk by naguib mahfouz ive about 100 pages remaining and its good 2 read. its kinda episodic in a way it seems like a sequence of events but it has alot of funny and also kinda sad and surprising moments. i read the part 2day where yasin buys a box of matchs for a soldier cuz he asked 4 a match which i found illustrative of his tragic character |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
‘Summertime Vibes”, and “How to be a Funny Bully’’ by Theodore “AMPI” Maxwell. Ok come back AMPI, I miss you! |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
the audio book series "let yourself go: don't resist passion" 10/10 very gay |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
I've got the first one, not read it though. It's moved up my list thanks to you though. I really enjoyed the movie and did read it was more of an interpretation of the themes of the book rather than am adaptation |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Bye the way, let’s each take a moment to say hi to fleetmouse: Hi fleetmouse! You see he’s forgotten his password, the silly sausage, and as we know can’t register a new account! It’s a bummer. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Xltronic: lose your password and you can never go back again! |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
hi fleetmouse |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
salutations to the Invisible Presence Of Fleetmouse |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
Missa reading: but because i'm tired and lazy, mostly just this sf/fantasy: |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
hey fleetmouse - big is readin noam chomsky and naomi klein over here. ur gonna wanna log in |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
a HEAPING tablespoon of lovecraft? omg take my upvote |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
me grabbing fleetmouse by the pussy |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
just ask phobiazero to get the password from the sql database there stored in plaintext |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
| |||||||||
|
|
He’s tried it all. Recovering his password, contacting the site etc. Maybe as a mod in training you could find a way? |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
Messageboard index
|
|||||||||
