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« Reply #360 on: October 18, 2009, 03:51:27 AM » |
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Neuromancer, finally!
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« Reply #361 on: October 20, 2009, 03:15:06 PM » |
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Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. I'm still on the first quarter, and I hate that Roark guy.
I need to compile a list with all the books I really need to read. I have missed so many good shit.
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« Reply #362 on: October 20, 2009, 03:37:52 PM » |
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I saw this graphic novel at Hastings called Persepolis. It is a graphic memoir by Marjane Satrapi. It details growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution and other turbulent periods. I just bought it on a whim because Hastings was having a buy two get the third for a dollar deal on books so I picked it up. I read the first two parts of it and I have to say that so far it seems very honest and personal. I also grabbed Ice Haven by Daniel Clowes as well, which I have read before but I decided I wanted to start collecting his stuff in hardcover (which, by the way, I saw an excellent Special Edition of Ghost World on the Fantagraphics website). Trying to get into starting to read the Dune series, Lord of the Rigns and The Wheel of Time right now as well. I bought a really nice hardcover edition of The Hobbit that I have been wanting to crack open. Sometime I have been really meaning to get around to reading Herman Hesse's The Glass Bead Game (which I have had sitting around for a two plus years now  ). |
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« Reply #363 on: October 20, 2009, 11:49:55 PM » |
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Persepolis is really good. The ending is so sad  I picked up another Iain Banks novel today, The Wasp Factory. I really admire him not just for the quality of his writing but the variety. |
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« Reply #364 on: October 21, 2009, 12:57:33 AM » |
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Persepolis is really good. The ending is so sad Yeah, I figured that there would be a fair amount of tragedy. Actually, I was flipping around and spoiled a little bit of the story and saw someone get killed (I hate it when I do that but I like to flip and look at the art before I read stuff sometimes). I looked up Iain Banks on Wikipedia and The Wasp Factory sound pretty interesting. I might have to add it to my long, long list of books to read. I was going to say who knows when I'll get around to it but I thought about how I usually end up reading a recommendations eventually. One time this random guy who gave me a ride while hitch-hiking recommended that I read Kim by Rudyard Kipling. I didn't read Kim for a few years after that but it was definitely worth it when I eventually did. It always happens when you least expect it too. I'll probably be at a thrift store or some such place and see The Wasp Factory glaring at me from the shelf tugging at my faint recollection of this thread... |
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« Reply #365 on: October 21, 2009, 12:47:39 PM » |
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« Reply #366 on: October 21, 2009, 02:10:36 PM » |
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If you find Persepolis to be good, you should watch the film. It was done by the same artist who created the comic book, and is very well done indeed.
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« Reply #367 on: October 21, 2009, 05:12:28 PM » |
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Generation A, so far, it's pretty ace.
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Madness takes its toll please have exact change.
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« Reply #368 on: October 21, 2009, 06:51:30 PM » |
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2666 by roberto bolaño, not as much as I'd wish tho'...
and lots of "e-literature" and theory behind it for my final project at uni.
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« Reply #369 on: October 21, 2009, 07:35:42 PM » |
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see the film of persepolis in french (with subtitles) though. it's no good in the english voiceover.
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« Reply #370 on: October 22, 2009, 10:02:20 AM » |
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Awareness By Anthony De Mello
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« Reply #371 on: October 22, 2009, 11:05:29 AM » |
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"Algorithmic Architecture" by Kostas Terzidis. I'm just at the start thus I cannot say much about the book yet.
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« Reply #372 on: October 22, 2009, 11:08:52 AM » |
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I've been on a reading spree lately. Just finished the following:
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
The Great Perhaps by Joe Meno
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Now I'm working on The Favorite Game by Leonard Cohen and have a couple more books lined up for after it.
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« Reply #373 on: October 22, 2009, 12:13:53 PM » |
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Neuromancer, finally!
I actually started Mona Lisa Overdrive about a month ago. If you really enjoy Neuromancer, you gotta read Count Zero, then Mona Lisa Overdrive. The story gets very mad-max ish in Count Zero, then Mona Lisa Overdrive dives right back into the awesome cyberpunk from Neuromancer. Besides awesome cyberpunk, I recently finished "Masters of Doom", which is the story of John Romero and John Carmack. Its interesting but the writing is TERRIBLE. It reads like a heavy metal fanfic written by a 6th grader. But the facts all come from interviews so thats good. Also my brother lent me this book back in July, I have yet to open it but I'll give it a shot after I finish Mona.  Don't know much about it except that its a Warhammer 40k story book. |
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« Reply #374 on: October 24, 2009, 03:20:33 AM » |
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Just finished The Sun Also Rises, currently reading Valis (Philip K. Dick) and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (Murakami), and then I'm going to move on to 100 Years of solitude (Garcia)
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"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." -Carl Sagan
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« Reply #375 on: October 25, 2009, 07:54:49 AM » |
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Currently reading: George Orwell - 1984
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« Reply #376 on: October 25, 2009, 08:36:35 AM » |
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That's one awesome book, read it again some time ago.
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« Reply #377 on: October 25, 2009, 11:49:30 AM » |
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If you read 1984, also read Huxley. It's a more, hmm, accurate description of modern society.
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« Reply #378 on: October 25, 2009, 12:13:38 PM » |
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Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Two great books. I haven't read any Vonnegut for awhile. I have been meaning to finish Player Piano someday... |
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« Reply #379 on: October 25, 2009, 03:59:18 PM » |
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Finished reading Catcher in the Rye recently, was an amazing, touching little read. Now I'm on some dark Nancy Huston book.
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