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what is it about? liked it? why or why not? me: 'master and margarita' by mikhail bulgakov, who's a very exuberant storyteller and very comic, in a caustic way.. the devil comes to moscow one spring day, and.. does a variety show at the moscow theatre, and generally causes havoc walking around town with his assistant and an enormous hypercivilized black cat that walks on its hind-legs.. highly recommend. |
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I've heard that's good.. my last was 'four for tomorrow', a set of 2348178 just kidding 4 short stories, by Roger Zelazny. It must be by far the best set of sci-fi short stories (or short stories of any kind) I've heard read. Lots of detail, introspection, etc. Before that I read look to windward by Iain M banks; I highly recommend him to sci-fi lovers who hate sci fi. I would rather read sci-fi than anything, but most others turn their tales into jerk-off fantasies of improbable nonsense (by improbable I mean within the context established in the book (ugly loser defeats all odds and gets chick, etc)). I'm getting 'Human use of Humans' [Norbert Wiener] in the mail tomorrow and am pretty excited. |
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haven't read all of it, cos its a reference book, i have been studying "animals without backbones," volumes 1 & 2. the last novel i read was lord of the rings, i'm a sucker for big screen books. |
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Hells Angels Hunter Thompson |
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Clive Barker's Abarat... It's a fantasy/mythical story (very well-written by the way, with great illustrations) about a young girl that lives in the most boring town in the world. One day, while researching facts about her town for a school assignment, she is told an infamous ghost story at her local hotel, and is soon cast into a different world called the Abarat, where every hour of the day is represented by an island. There are 24 islands in the Abarat plus the 25th Hour (The Time Out Of Time, Odom's Spire). Soon during her travels when she meets with the most imaginative characters and foes ever put to paper, she realises that she has been there before. It's the first book in the trilogy. Highly recommended. |
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we listing references as well? OpenGL red book. I can't imagine why everyone loves that book so much--it sucks. It's written so simplistically that I really feel insulted just getting near it. I got it because of said supposed awesomeness, but .. oh well. Nowadays I'm really anal about references. You'd think that if everyone (including respectable people!) say it's good, it's not going to be atrocious.. infidels. |
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Oh yeah! The guy in my avatar is one of the illustrations, as you'll see if you go to the website.... (His name is Rojo Pixler, under "characters") |
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i heard he got along with them pretty well until he got beaten within an inch of his life by a group of them.. |
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yeah its crazy, he blended in for so long and one night of drinking almost cost him his life...If I remember right it was a petty argument over a patch on a jacket,..... |
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well, all the drugs and fights took their toll one way or another.. if you read recent interviews with him, dr. gonzo is a half-coherent, paranoid wreck.. but yeah, when he starts hysterically railroading prose in desperate knock-out gonzo wrecklessness it never fails to grab me. |
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Thompson rulez! |
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today's newspaper, I don't read that many books |
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Andrey Krylov, "My Memories". Dull. |
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Barney's Version by Mordechai Richler. First book I have read by a Canadian and looks as though it coudl be the first of many. Can any Candians reccomend other stuff in this vein? |
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'Lyra's Oxford' by Phillip Pullman, before that a Bill Hicks sketch collection. Just started 'A Prayer For Owen Meany' by John Irving. |
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Ringworld |
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richler is a fiesty anomaly in a literary scene that is (in my humble opinion) ruled by quietism and orthodoxy. but michael ondaatje is certainly a brilliant writer, and carol shields is (was) not bad at all.. |
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Cheers for the tips. WHich of the two would fit the crumpy old bastard model. What I really love about Richler is his comic misanthropy. Class. |
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... He's ALWAYS been a half-coherent paranoid wreck. Ironlung, you should consider reading Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test as a companion piece to HST's Hell's Angels. |
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Philip K Dick : The World Jones Made, concerning a young man who can see precisely one year into the future ... but only things that he WILL come to know in the course of that year. |
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House of leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski Jeez, this book is fucked up. I cant even describe it. Truly weird!! I wont even try... just say that this is an evil book... Abarat is good by the way =) |
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