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Old beatnik from a subway on 2002-01-05 15:32 [#00066422] | |||||||||
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you know.........like books, mmmmmmm hunter s thompson, jack kerouac, joseph heller more, probably...can't remeber at the moment.. any of you read?? |
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The_Funkmaster from Newfoundland, Canada on 2002-01-05 15:33 [#00066423] | |||||||||
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Stephen King and Robert Jordan... |
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Quoth from Lincoln on 2002-01-05 19:15 [#00066465] | |||||||||
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Kurt Vonnegut & Mr. Edgar Alan Poe |
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dingle berry from on a small plastic chair breathing fire on 2002-01-05 19:22 [#00066471] | |||||||||
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J.P.DONLEAVEY realy funny american/irish author! LESTER BANGS totaly wild druggy rock critic who met all the greats has a great book called "psychotic reactions and carburetor dung" ENID BLYTON "the magic faraway tree" is a well trippy childrens series about a load of freeks who live in a massive tree! is that enough? |
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Ceri JC from My house in Pontypridd, Wales, UK on 2002-01-05 19:24 [#00066472] | |||||||||
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Hunter S. Thompson is probably my favourite, but Dalton Trumbo comes a close second. Kurt Vonnegut and J.K. Rowling come in pretty high too. |
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dingle berry from on a small plastic chair breathing fire on 2002-01-05 19:25 [#00066473] | |||||||||
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oh yeah edgar allen poe is the shit! pit and the pendulum and the rave fucking wicked! |
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dingle berry from on a small plastic chair breathing fire on 2002-01-05 19:25 [#00066475] | |||||||||
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i meant ravan! doh! |
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Ophecks from Nova Scotia on 2002-01-05 19:26 [#00066476] | |||||||||
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I almost never read. But I guess I'll say Anne Rice, or Bram Stoker. |
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dingle berry from on a small plastic chair breathing fire on 2002-01-05 19:33 [#00066477] | |||||||||
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anne rice and bram stoker! i take it you dont like GARLIC then! |
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Ophecks from Nova Scotia on 2002-01-05 19:34 [#00066479] | |||||||||
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I'm also pale as fuck, and that's the truth. |
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dingle berry from on a small plastic chair breathing fire on 2002-01-05 19:38 [#00066485] | |||||||||
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please say you dont like poppy z brite or is it bright! |
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Jarworski from Wales on 2002-01-05 19:42 [#00066488] | |||||||||
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Bret Easton Ellis Chuck Palahunuick Danny King Peter Straub H.P. Lovecraft John Irving Clive Barker Thomas Harris Alex Garland Ira Levin Ramsey Campbell Mario Puzo Douglas Adams William Hope Hodgson And J.K. fucking Rowling! |
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jizzah from the innercity on 2002-01-05 20:51 [#00066504] | |||||||||
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phillip k. dick |
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zmalloc from road is land on 2002-01-05 20:55 [#00066506] | |||||||||
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Douglas Adams is wicked funny, but someone told me their is someone who does that kind of nerdy humor much better... but, i can nawt ruh mem buh |
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james from england on 2002-01-05 22:16 [#00066521] | |||||||||
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what other than Fear and loathing... has thompson done thats worth reading? george orwell is great - 1984, animal farm, down and out in paris and london. ive just started reading lord of the rings. i know its a bit obvious but i was planning to read it before i had even heard of the film cos i liked the hobbit so much...and john buchan's the thirty nine steps is a cool book...... |
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Jarworski from Wales on 2002-01-06 00:18 [#00066533] | |||||||||
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The Rum Diary is maybe worth skipping... FALILV is definitely the highlight And the Hobbit is better than LOTR |
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Aktium from bat country on 2002-01-06 04:25 [#00066577] | |||||||||
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irvine welsh by far |
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The_Funkmaster from Newfoundland, Canada on 2002-01-06 05:30 [#00066590] | |||||||||
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yeah, the LOTR books, are pretty boring... The Hobbit is much better... but The Wheel of Time series is a hundred times better then The Hobbit... check it out if you like Fantasy, or even if you've never read any fantasy... it's a great series... long, but worth it... |
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SiNaI on 2002-01-06 06:13 [#00066598] | |||||||||
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For Fantasy also pick up the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind, also long, but good |
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elizabeth on 2002-01-06 06:42 [#00066610] | |||||||||
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i couldn't really name off any favorite authors of mine--except for maybe aldous huxley...BUT i'm reading this really cool book right now (about synesthesia) called "the man who tasted shapes" anybody know about synesthesia? it's a rare condition. some people with it will see the colour orange when they hear certain music or see the letter a or e. some people experience other effects, like having their food taste like squares. i'm a big nerd, but i find it really interesting. there you go. |
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AMinal from toronto on 2002-01-06 06:54 [#00066614] | |||||||||
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ya i love auldus huxely too and BF Skinner (Beyond Freedom and Dignity by BFS should be required reading for... well, everbody) but ya ive heard of this condition, i just didn't know what it was called sounds cool, i wonder if it is heredotary it would be cool to interpret things as different colours, images has anyone else experienced that in dreams? i have.. whenever i have the flu, i feel a specific texture and shape that is very hard to describe.. more when i was younger than now though what about you guys? |
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AMinal from toronto on 2002-01-06 06:54 [#00066616] | |||||||||
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reg: my prev. post sorry bout the bad spelling |
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teapot from brisbane on 2002-01-06 09:40 [#00066633] | |||||||||
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http://www.slowlydownward.com i worship this guy. |
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nonane on 2002-01-06 12:13 [#00066641] | |||||||||
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James Joyce. A lot of people don't like him, but he wrote (prob.) the greatest novel of the 20th cent. |
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Ceri JC from My house in Pontypridd, Wales, UK on 2002-01-06 15:56 [#00066668] | |||||||||
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Hell's angels by H.S. Thompson is Great. Orwell and Henry Miller are great too. |
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Ceri JC from My house in Pontypridd, Wales, UK on 2002-01-06 15:59 [#00066669] | |||||||||
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RE:synesthesia I've often thought it would be brilliant if someone made a realtime VR headset thing that turned sound into images and your visual input into sound. A kind of geiss/coagula hybrid, but in hardware form. It would also be cool if it turned taste into sound/visa versa. |
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Ceri JC from My house in Pontypridd, Wales, UK on 2002-01-06 16:05 [#00066670] | |||||||||
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I think my girlfriend suffers(?) from Synethesia, she is left handed, female with poor spatial awareness/co-ordination, but with excellent memory. She also frequently claims to be able to "smell" snow the evening before it snows. I believe she interperates the "touch" sense message given by the change in air pressure as a smell.Her mother can also "smell" snow. |
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Ceri JC from My house in Pontypridd, Wales, UK on 2002-01-06 16:08 [#00066671] | |||||||||
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I'm convinced she has it now, I just read the following: {{{{{ 2.9 Within their overall high intelligence, synesthetes have uneven cognitive skills. While a minority are frankly dyscalculic, the majority may have subtle mathematical deficiencies (such as lexical-to-digit transcoding). Right-left confusion (allochiria), and a poor sense of direction for vector rather than network maps are common<2>. A first-degree family history of dyslexia, autism, and attention deficit is present in about 15%. Very rarely, the sensual experience is so intense as to interfere with rational thinking (e.g., writing a speech, memorizing formulae). }}}} This describes her perfectly, she used to write right to left (perfectley mirrored) quite a lot when she was younger and couldn't see any difference between it and normal writing (which she also used to do). |
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they call me... Tim on 2002-01-06 20:15 [#00066688] | |||||||||
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Philip K DICK- VALIS Fyodor Doestoyevsky - Crime and Punishment Jim THOMPSON- The killer Inside ME JG BALLARD -crasH Franz KAFKA- Castle |
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they call me... Tim on 2002-01-06 20:16 [#00066689] | |||||||||
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J R R Tolkien too... i was on the bandwagon long before the movie... so there |
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they call me... Tim on 2002-01-06 20:18 [#00066690] | |||||||||
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wILLIAM S bURROUGHS...I dare you to TRY and read his stuff |
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AMinal from toronto on 2002-01-06 20:34 [#00066696] | |||||||||
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Gabriel Garciq Marquez This guy won a nobel prize for literature, hes fucking briliant, or at least this book is: One Hundred Years Of Solitude |
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Ceri JC from My house in Pontypridd, Wales, UK on 2002-01-06 21:12 [#00066704] | |||||||||
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Oh yes, I've just read "Filth" by Irvine Welsh (wrote trainspotting) best thing I've read in a while! |
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Ouakha from an old tin of grapefruit segments on 2002-01-07 11:47 [#00066868] | |||||||||
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For fantasy : Lord of the Rings (topical but I read this eons ago , when elves ruled... Shadow of the Torturer series by Gene Wolfe blows all other fantasy / SF out of the sky Thomas Covenant series by Stephen Donaldson is excellent too, a rival to LOTR. Lots of hard sci-fi & cyber punk stuff currently reading The Moor's Last Sigh by S Rushdie & How the Dead Live by Will Self Try "A Life Full of Holes" by some guy, translated from Mogrebi (an arab language). Quarantine, another really good book. All of Iain Banks culture stuff, Use of Weapons etc plus The Wasp Factory & The Bridge. At work so can't glance at my bookshelf to see what else is lying there... so hard relying on memory... |
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