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i love the whole hicthikers' guide series. i also have the final, 'mostly harmles' :D *reccomended* |
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Yeah, me too, have you read "Dirk Gently's holistic detective agency" and "Long Dark Teatime of the soul" Just finnished the latter some days ago. Not as good as his previous books but still nice to read Adams. Pity he died, he still probably had some good books in his head although he wasn't that prolific... |
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Dirk Gently's holistic detective agency is very good. I think I prefer it to the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy- probably because it's about religion and technology, 2 of my favourite things :) |
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I agree. |
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I read the bible quite often too. But I don't think we should kill deviants :) |
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'Comming up for air' by Orwell. Very underrated text in my opinion. Very close to Englands collective bone perhaps. |
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I like Orwell but have only read his non-fiction (apart from Animal Farm). The Road to Wigan Pier, Down and Out... and Homage to Catalonia are class. |
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Not trying to have a go, but as a communist what do you make of animal farm? I remember a TV program on communism where this communist was singing one of the songs from animal farm to some real animals. I thought, "You idiot, did you not get the point of animal farm AT ALL?" |
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What? You haven't read 1984? Mate, give it a try. Orwell was a socialist but Animal Farm and 1984 are among the best critiques of socialism I have read. |
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Here lies the distinction: I'm a Trotskyist NOT a Stalinist. To me the Soviet Union bared no relation to what I'd call socialism. It was a totalitarian regime run by a beauracracy (I still can't spell that word). Trotskyists see, or saw, it as a 'state capitalist' system where, instead of private companies, a state elite controlled the surplus. To me the Revolution of 1917 was a worker's revolution but due to an attack by 16 (or there abouts) foreign armies and the degeneration of the movement democracy fell. |
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Orwell was a libertarian socialist. What he hated was Stalinist communism, not true socialism. |
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Jonesy: right. Thanx for the info that'll hopefully teach these people that there's more to socialism than they thought... BTW, the correct spelling: bureaucracy. |
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Cheers. My spelling is pretty good but I always forget how to spell that word. I did sociology at uni so I've no excuse; I've used it enough times. |
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Just use your spellchecker, that's how I got it right, mate. |
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Hunter S Thompson... Definately 'Catch22' or 'Something Happened' by Joseph Heller Kurt Vonegut is good fun Catcher in the Rye was good Illuminatus! Trillogy by Robert Anton Willson and Rober Shea |
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my parents got me use of weapons by iain m. banks today. it's supposed to be one of his finest sf novels. well, i love all his other stuuf, you can't really go wrong with iain banks |
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I read Use of Weapons and it was well boring. Its Sci-Fi so not my bag really. He's not that good IMHO. Complicity, the Wasp Factory and the Crow Road were good but all the other I've read were lame. |
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Sci fi ain't my bag either. I used to kind of like it but then just figured when I read I want to expand my mind with more meaningful stuff. I leave the realm of fantasy to my head and film, I know it is lazy but hey....I'm lazy. Has anyone (canadian) read Barney's Version? |
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well! you're the first person i encountered that doesn't like iain banks! you did read a lot of them, then? have you read whit? it's really good fun, dude. and no sci-fi :) |
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I read Walking on Glass - awful, tedious. Also Espedair Street - crap. I gave up after them so I've not read Whit. I have copies of Song of Stone and the one about the cellist but haven't touched them. |
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might as well send them to me then :) anyway i haven't read the ones you mention in your last post, so maybe yer right. feersum endjinn (sf) is also great but you have to have a lot of imagination to grasp it. difficult to read, at times. |
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i think iain banks is crap too -- the wasp factory was bearable, espedair street sophoric. i neglected in my original list, to include h p lovecraft! :( may nyarlethotep strike me down! the book of 5 rings is good - i would hope that Ceri had read it |
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*sophoriphic, soporiphic....hell, sleep-causing! |
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Yeah, may Shub Nigguruth bind your soul. HP Lovecraft is excellent. I was reading it when I was ill before and I was half dreaming/hallucinating characters from it were in my house. I kept on seeing "Brown Jenkins" if you've read that story. They're making a surivival horror game based on the role playing game based on lovecraft's work. It looks very good, you can see the onset of madness affect your character, you see flames and moving shadows etc. What's the book of 5 rings? Who's it by? |
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the book of 5 rings is an ancient samurai text -- just a slim volume, overpriced for westerners naturally -- check out your local bookstore :) i read all the h p lovecraft omnibuses in november/december 2000 -- great atmospheres as i was living in a small attic room at the time |
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I used to watch The Crow Road by Banks on tv, I enjoyed it. |
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I have a freaky lovecraft story. But I am not going to tell it, cause its long. But yeah... it is majik. Make no mistake. I am kinda out of my lovecraft stage now... but it was good for the time. |
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yeah it's a shame i read all his stuff that i could (i know there are a coupla short stories i haven't read) -- i pine for it sometimes when i am in a Lovecraftian mood - i read a stephen king attempt at a "necronomicon" story -- his London dialogue was so cliched it wasn't even funny. it's in that big book of his..."dreamscapes" or something. |
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Did you play Quake 1? There were lots of direct references to lovecraft in it and there was an addon that was set in a town mentioned in one of the short stories... |
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Perfume by patrick suskund lord of the rings (of course) Tolkin Ghostwritten by Dave mitchel |
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no i have never been into computer games that much i'm afraid to say! altho my geeky friends played it! :) |
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Cthulu?? =) Well, i´m more of a comic man myself, but did read lord of the flies and enjoyed it!!! American psycho is very entertaining. and Salman rushdie is not a boring writer, he is a genius! =) |
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salman rushdie, i feel, is too pretentious and his scribblings are contrived. i couldn't finish american psycho - i enjoyed it at first, but eventually it was so samey that i simply could not continue it... same thing happened with wilde's portrait of dorian gray -- really enjoying it and then WHAM! pages and pages of waffle about, i can't remember, furniture and shit like that -- totally lost interest at that point, which was a damn shame. i am a big fan of P G Wodehouse, which i understand is unfashionable -- but his books are fantastic, simply wonderful. |
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"NAKED LUNCH" by William Burroughs. |
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Yeah, Wodehouse is the man. I got into him when my girlfriends mother bought me "Very Good Jeeves". What do you think of the TV adaptions? |
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Is Ghostwritten set in Japan? I think someone recommended this to me. |
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I am about to start " Episode 2: Attack of the clones".... Hopefully there will be different stuff from the movie....There was one cool chapter in EP 1 book that was not in the movie...that kinda shit I DIG...=) |
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Hey ironlung, whither thou? I'm not seeing you much these days. |
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I actually had a schedual change at work for the "tech support" job I am 5-1pm now and under the watch of a supervisor...Kinda sucks, but I can still log in at my second job in the afternoons and here from home...=)....Good to hear and see ya:) |
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Kisses. You'll at least get some night's sleep... |
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ceri, this is getting creepy! you seem to have read everything i have read!!:) i never saw the fry&laurie adaptations -- were they any good? |
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i cant believe none of you have mentioned Neil Gaiman... i thought u lot would be into his stuff |
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well ain't that the domain of the graphic novel? people are probably not thinking of graphic novels -- |
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nope, he's dont books as well the most famous and probably best being "American Gods" |
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hmmm i read some lovecraft short stories years ago.... the style is so slow.... but ok, i guess. not very scary considering it's labelled horror, though :) i saw naked lunch the film a few years back, weird stuff |
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i stil kant reed boks |
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you goddam scumsucker!! "style is so slow"...."not very scary"....JESUS!! so if there ain't a dozen goddam killings in the first page it's a lame horror??? lovecraft stories are beautifully written, with wonderful atmospheres and unwinding plots!! jeepers! we'd be doomed if all readers were you!! *eats rope* |
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*keeps on feeding marlowe rope* say marlowe, you've got a lovely family ps-you wife is hot!"!!! |
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marlowe--cant get hot chics like that we all know that :0) |
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lol! hah that was funny well i don't understand why ye doesn't like iain banks, so there! heh, honestly, horror doesn't really interest me unless it's the psychological stuff. the only horror film that really scared me is in the mouth of madness... which is, granted, very lovecraft-y :) |
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