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Decided to start a topic on books. So discuss which ones are good, which ones you've read, are reading, and are planning to read. I'm currently on the book Visions by Michio Kaku, it's pretty damn interesting how it talks about what the future holds for civilization. |
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check David Toop's - Ocean of Sound Aether Talk, Ambient sound and imaginary worlds, there's also an interview with aphex and other very very interesting infoa about him. i just can recommend it. |
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Last 5 I read: Stupid White Men - Michael Moore Lucky Man - Michael J Fox Magic Terror - Peter Straub The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks Lullaby - Chuck Palauhusdugsdijdoluivk Next 5: Bonfire Of The Vanities - Tom Wolfe Hotel New Hampshire - John Irving Billy - Pamela Stephenson Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky Some massive horror omnibus Best 5: American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis The Beach - Alex Garland It - Stephen King Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh Harry Potter Series :D |
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Favourite Book: Ada or Ardor: A family Chronicle by Vladimir Nabokov. I'm reading at the moment: Iain Banks - The Bridge Nick Leeson - The Rogue Trader Various - Stories for Tommorow P.G. Wodehouse - Very Good Jeeves Hunter S. Thompson - Collected Letter Vol. 2 |
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Jar the Wasp factory was tops wasn't it? :) |
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the last good book i read was Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte... its old, but a classic classic........ \ hi map~ how are you? do you have an icq number?.... i am sitting at a new computer now~ finally~... |
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there is already one: neettas book suggestion! anyways: anything by wodehouse :D its wodehouse season |
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Excellent book... I was surprised at how influential it's been, I could see it in a ton of other books. Nice ending too :) |
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books i've read recently: George R R Martin - a clash of kings Angela Carter - the bloody chamber Neil Gaiman - neverwhere (anything by him is brilliant) Terry Pratchet - the colour of magic (my first discworld read. I thought it was good but not as good as his reputation leads you to believe) Currently reading: nothing, trying to decide wether to read the crow road by Ian M Banks or Philip K Dick book (not sure which one, never read his stuff before) |
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K Dick - You may as well start with 'Do Androids Dream...' first, or the 'Minority Report' collection. I finally read the whole trilogy of your user name's origins too, t'was rather good. :) |
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yeah very good, i read somewhere that the company that did the LOTR trilogy (new line cinema?) were making it into a film after Return of the King, it would be interesting to see how they handle the special effects in that one, especially the shape changing of the daomon's. |
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have you read stardust? that book is amazing |
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Yeah they've signed it up, Total Film did an interview with Nicole Kidman and they told her that they wanted her to play Ms Coultier and Russell Crowe to play Lord Azriel... she laughed and said she'd look into it :) Not bad choices tho |
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nip the bud shoot the kids, kenziburo Oi good book. another by him a personal matter. |
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not yet, i'll read it soon though! have you read american gods? what did you think? |
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Oops, sorry, didn't see it. Jarworski - I loved trainspotting the movie, is the book good? I'm gona check it out. |
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nicole kidman would be good, not sure about crowe though... maybe trent reznor lol :) |
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It's brilliant - I much prefer it to the film. If you've read 'American Psycho' it's kind of like that, but with a VERY heavy scottish dialect (and less murders!). Superb reading. |
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Nope haven't seen/read american psycho either, damn I better get started on all these! |
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"Billy - Pamela Stephenson" I STILL have that to rread. I just bought The Yearrs Of RRice And Salt by Kim Stanly Robinson and I just began Anti-Bodies which is an X-Files book by some guy. I just finished The Shining by Stephen King and i want to rread The Satanic Verrses by Salman Rushdie. |
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just finished: We Are the Poors - Community Struggles in Post-Apartheid South Africa by Ashwin Desai (good read, but I couldn't reccomend it to everyone, only read it if you like to read about true happenings and problems that people have faced) for english class im reading Hamlet and on my own time i finally got around to starting a clockwork orange. nice bungle avatar there jarworski :) |
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I need to get around to finishing the last Tom Clancy novel... |
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im reading Animal Farm right now, i just found it while digging through boxes in my garage im only on like page 3. Im in 8th grade and my reading level is like 7.4 through as high as it can go so basically i can read any book at the middle school and high school.. |
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i'll excpet an essay on comminusm on my desk my the morning then ;) |
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I just started Crash by JG Ballard. Pretty insane to say the least. I'm also addicted to reading Chuck Palaniuk, they're just so good! |
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Wondering if You heard about one Polish writer - Valdemar Baldhead? "The ship" is aaaaaawesome!!! |
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I have Choke by him, although I didn't read it yet. |
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i've kinda wanted to write a book but i wonder if i should make it a comic sadly i'm reading any boox at the moment.. =( |
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right now I'm reading Mary Shelly's 'Frankenstein' I'll finish it tomorrow probably, and plan to read Chuck Palahnuik(?)'s 'Choke' |
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i wrote little comics in like 3rd grade.. nothin special :-D |
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Luke Rheinhart - the diceman. It changed my life and it can still change yours too. |
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Crash is good isn't it? Asche: Choke is great- one of Palahnuick's best.. Bill Hicks: The Diceman is good, I hear the sequel(s) weren't much cop though? |
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I just read 'the Alchemist' by Paulo Cohelo. Wow, what a spiritual book man. |
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about everything by erik satie |
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Asche: I've read hypersapce by Michio Kaku as well. its all about how the universe has 10 dimensions. very interesting. at the moment i am reading soulcatcher by frank herbert (who wrote all the dune books). its about an native american who kidnaps a rich white mans son, and it shows the conflict between the 'seen world' and the 'spirit world'. great book so far. almsot finished it. |
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and for you in sweden: "adams bok" by adam Inczèdy-Gombos and Åsa moberg |
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im lovin bill bryson's books at the moment, im about half way through 'walk in the woods'. down under was one of the funniest books i've read. for a complete head fuck try aldous huxley 'doors of perception/heaven and hell', about his experiments with mescalin. |
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I have that on ebook (huxley). Might give it a shot. |
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its not any easy read, and he refers to a lot of art and music i have never heard of, but his main points come through very well |
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