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Post by thiswineisold on Jun 27, 2011 19:39:16 GMT -5
From there I would read Slaughterhouse Five. Yeah, it's what everyone has read by him, but I don't care, it's fucking good. I'm actually rereading this right now. Kind of awesome how 13+ years and a slightly different frame of mind can make such a dramatic difference regarding comprehension. Just picked up some random stuff from a free box. Most of it's crap, but I did grab a ravaged copy of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, an old dictionary, and Funny Misshapen Body by Jeffrey Brown. It seems the older I get the less interested I am in doing a whole lot of heavier reading. When I was 15, 16 you probably couldn't have paid me to read a graphic novel. I felt like I had to read nothing but Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, psychology/medical textbooks, etc. I'm pretty glad I grew out of that, I was missing a lot of the big picture. I'll still indulge from time to time, but I feel pretty douchey reading stuff that may invite conversation if I'm caught in public...which actually seems to be any book at all. Why the fuck do people do that? See someone reading, interrupt them to talk. ffff
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Post by thrasheaderek on Jun 27, 2011 22:48:31 GMT -5
Currently enjoying A Fine Dark Line by Joe R. Lansdale. My favorite author hands down.
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Post by grinchx on Jun 28, 2011 0:07:40 GMT -5
It seems the older I get the less interested I am in doing a whole lot of heavier reading. When I was 15, 16 you probably couldn't have paid me to read a graphic novel. I felt like I had to read nothing but Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, psychology/medical textbooks, etc. I'm pretty glad I grew out of that, I was missing a lot of the big picture. i can dig it. the last really dense thing i worked through was brothers karamazov a couple years ago. my attention span has apparently nosedived and i am really jaded, so the philosophical stuff doesnt sink in like it used to. im working on the Silmarillion now, but i can always buckle down for tolkien stuff i havent read yet.
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Post by manticoreisthebastard on Jun 28, 2011 0:18:12 GMT -5
Still saying Dostoevsky is a win. Go for Notes for Underground if you need a shorter work, though I wouldn't call it any less dense than his other work. Whenever I feel I can't complete a piece, like I am stuck now with Lolita, I go for some of Kafka's short stories to feel accomplished as they as extremely intense and as powerful as a novel with a relieving brevity.
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Post by thelampincident on Jun 28, 2011 0:38:39 GMT -5
I apparently still haven't found what types of books I like to read yet... I tried checking out Walden from the library and am having trouble choking it down. I think philosophically all the time, it's why I go out for so many late night walks. What the hell do I need to read about it in a book for?
That book I read recently about the crew journeying through the Arctic for their own survival, that was really cool. I think I should read more stuff like that.
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Post by thiswineisold on Jun 28, 2011 2:03:13 GMT -5
I think philosophically all the time, it's why I go out for so many late night walks. What the hell do I need to read about it in a book for? Well, I would agree with this somewhat...but I'll have to say that for me, reading philosophy was helpful in that it put into direct, concise terms exactly what I was thinking and feeling in some abstract manner. It just saved me a lot of time and frustration to hear someone say what I was thinking but couldn't verbalize precisely.
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Post by thelampincident on Jun 28, 2011 2:41:11 GMT -5
Either way... This has been my reading the last couple nights: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing_hoaxInteresting stuff. And I say this because of the Wikipedia article having debunkings of all the claims in favor of the moon landing being a conspiracy, so anyone looking to give me shit should do some clicking. I had always wondered about this.
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Post by smokegrindsleep on Jun 29, 2011 15:37:55 GMT -5
If anyone is in the mood for some fiction I highly suggest The Fortress of Solitude by Johnathan Letham, great novel about a young white boy growing up in a primarily black neighbourhood in brooklyn during the 80's. Lots of punk and hip hop references, and just a really great story in general.
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Post by absurdexposition on Jun 30, 2011 17:48:03 GMT -5
started reading Game of Thrones. i had the book before the show but never read it, seen the first season and started the book the other night.
also every now and then reading parts of Alan Lomax - Selected Writings 1934-1997
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Post by thelampincident on Apr 9, 2012 5:45:33 GMT -5
Time for a bump.
I bought Sam McPheeters' new book last week called The Loom of Ruin and just finished reading it. Holy hell, it was fairly twisted. The main character in the book was a completely rage filled owner of nine gas stations in LA and without revealing too much, let's just say the rage eventually built to catastrophic levels. There were a couple loopholes that didn't get closed in the book, and at times it was detail oriented almost to the point of being ridiculous (though this lessened as you got farther into the book), but overall it was a pretty enjoyable read. There were a lot of different characters in the book and I thought they would intersect with each other more, but it was funny how a lot of the detail work was centered on making average people seem so bizarre.
I've been in the process of reading another book for a long while called Son of the Revolution. This one is a non-fiction first hand account of growing up under Mao Ze-dong in China during the Cultural Revolution back in the 60s and 70s and even as not really all too far as I've gotten (I want to say maybe 120 pages in by now), it seems pretty turbulent. The writing in the book is really drab though (as you would expect from a communist, har har), so it's only been as exciting as the events that have unfolded thus far.
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Post by thelampincident on Apr 9, 2012 5:48:42 GMT -5
That book I read recently about the crew journeying through the Arctic for their own survival, that was really cool. I think I should read more stuff like that. This book still was awesome to me. Before the other two books I had read Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer (same guy who wrote Into the Wild, I really like this guy's books a lot and Into the Wild was basically THE book that got me into travel at the level that I like it now). A personal account of climbing with an expedition team up Mt. Everest and how a blizzard turned everything to shit on the descent. I blazed through that one pretty fast.
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Post by yeastydeath on Apr 9, 2012 8:56:46 GMT -5
Reading some H.P. Lovecraft stories now. Currently The Dunwich Horror.
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Post by thelampincident on Apr 9, 2012 9:29:25 GMT -5
I should get on reading some Lovecraft some day, because... well, you know...
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Post by cokskar on Apr 9, 2012 10:25:25 GMT -5
Currently reading: Just started Stephen King's Dark Tower series. First book Gunslinger is pretty rad so far. Reading Majipoor books by Robert Silverberg. Epic sci-fi/fantasy. Just read Counter-Clock world by Philip K. Dick and wasn't that impressed. I've read some shorts by him that I really liked but this book wasn't as wacky as I wanted it to be. Waiting for the third book from the Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss. Pretty promising epic fantasy-ish stuff. Very fun to read. yo lampincident: I suggest looking up an Anthology of short stories by different authors in a genre you may be interested in. Good way to turn you onto new stories or writers you may like. Kinda like a comp or split tape. Comp book. I've read all the Dune books and love that series. First book is definitely worth a read if you like Sci-fi. The later books get real crazy and are enjoyable for that reason. I've read all the Fire and Ice books too (george r.r. martin, ie. game of thrones). I really liked the first four books. For some reason, maybe having to wait so long for the newest one, I was not diggin' the newest book. It had most of my favorite character's POVs in it but it was lacking something. I don't know anymore. Oh and of course can't top off my list of epic series without The Wheel of Time (robert jordan). I really loved the books (14 total, last one coming out next year) but I can definitely argue that some large parts of a couple books are pretty damn boring. I guess I overlooked it for the sake of the whole storyline.
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Post by thelampincident on Apr 9, 2012 10:31:26 GMT -5
yo lampincident: I suggest looking up an Anthology of short stories by different authors in a genre you may be interested in. Good way to turn you onto new stories or writers you may like. Kinda like a comp or split tape. Comp book. At this stage I would say I'm more concerned with the subject matter than the person writing it. But reading books is definitely way better than watching TV or movies or any of that crap. I can't even remember the last time I watched TV. Gonna take a couple cues from this thread when I can unfuck my sleep schedule and get to a library...
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Post by cokskar on Apr 9, 2012 10:38:44 GMT -5
I'm more concerned with the subject matter than the person writing it. I still think it helps. I love sci-fi and fantasy but I've definitely read stories that are in those genres that I just didn't like. Or don't like how the author writes. yeah, fuck TV.
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Post by pep on Apr 9, 2012 15:55:54 GMT -5
About 1/3 of the way through The Backwoods by Edward Lee.It's definitely entertaining so far. I wanna check out his Lovecrafty stuff.
I haven't been reading as many comics as I used to. I quit buying them altogether but still snag a few from the library when one grabs my attention. Al Columbia is amazing and I hope Daniel Clowes keeps up a steady flow of cartooning.
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Post by pep on Apr 9, 2012 15:57:04 GMT -5
I also just grabbed a few copies of Weird Tales. Not too impressed with the first story I read out of it but hopefully there is some good reads in there somewhere.
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Post by yeastydeath on Apr 9, 2012 17:55:11 GMT -5
I had my buddy download all of Alejandro Jodorowsky's comics, but haven't gotten to reading them yet. Supposed to be pretty wild shit.
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Post by flesheater on Apr 9, 2012 23:35:36 GMT -5
At Water's Edge by Carl Zimmer
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Post by pep on Apr 10, 2012 10:53:36 GMT -5
I had my buddy download all of Alejandro Jodorowsky's comics, but haven't gotten to reading them yet. Supposed to be pretty wild shit. Damn, I'll have to look those up. I wondered why he did an introduction for one of the Bone TPBs.
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Post by olegrinder on Apr 10, 2012 12:01:22 GMT -5
About 1/3 of the way through The Backwoods by Edward Lee. It's definitely entertaining so far. I wanna check out his Lovecrafty stuff. Luv me some Edward Lee horror... Just read Shelter by Maynard & Sims, and it kinda reminded me of Edward Lee style horror. Which makes me want to re-read a couple of his books... Currently enjoying A Fine Dark Line by Joe R. Lansdale. My favorite author hands down. Can't think of a better author. I read his new novel last month, it's a young adult title set in the Dust Bowl era. Was still a very awesome read. I've read a ton of books in the past month or so cuz I'm always at the library looking for work on cl or monster or jobnet... Rot & Ruin, and Dust & Decay, and Dead of Night - all three by Jonathan Maberry were kick ass zombie novels... The Enemy was abother good z-novel. Night Train by Clyde Edgerton was a cool 60's slice of life/ rock and roll novel. Reminded me a bit of Joe R. Lansdale. Hunger Games got lended to me, that was fun, I'd read the other two books. Seemed like a commercial version of the Japanese movie Battle Royale. Read a couple westerns, the best was The Wolfer by Loren D. Estleman. Read an awesome funny crime novel last week, damn if I can remember the title or first-time author tho... And finished the last three Repairman Jack novels by F. Paul Wilson. Right now I'm reading the new John Shirley novel Everything Is Broken, then I've got the three 'young adult' Jack (pre-Repairman) novels by F. Paul Wilson, and the latest Change novel by S.M. Stirling, Tears of the Sun. (life is boring and weird without a dog to walk, a granny to take care of, and a garage to make noise in, and the interwebs. but i sure as hell get a lot of reading done.)
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Post by thelampincident on Apr 10, 2012 16:32:22 GMT -5
We miss you Sean. Keep on hanging in there, man.
Just checked out The Best Mysteries of Issac Asimov from the library. A collection of short stories. Read the first one in there while waiting for my laundry to dry... prettaayyy prettaayyyy pretty good.
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Post by swilliam on Apr 10, 2012 18:54:34 GMT -5
I love Isaac Asimov. Foundation rules!
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Post by thelampincident on Apr 10, 2012 23:06:44 GMT -5
I actually went into my town's library today to find Foundation, but they only had a book called "Foundation's Edge" which is the fourth of the series, so rather than start a series not from the beginning, I decided to try something else.
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