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Character assasination du jour

Started by Adrian Brezhnev, May 12, 2005, 12:53:44 PM

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Has anyoone read "Into the Silent Land" by Paul Broks?

It's got quite a sedate cover with a blurred tree* on the front.

Supposed to be a cross-between a fictional novel and a thesis on Neuropsychology.  Can't see how that'd work, but it sounds intriguing.

*very blurred, as it's a flock of seagulls....  My eyes are going.

there's another cover with an eyelid.

Big Jack McBastard

Quote"House of Leaves" by Mark Z. Danielewski

Quote'Jennifer Government'

I've read both of these, I'd go with House of Leaves, but you might find yourself going past your stop by a few stations through not wanting to put it down though.

'Understanding Power' and 'Power and Terror' by Noam Chomsky are shaping up to be good reads so far and will get any left wing blood you have right up. Also Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku though heavy on the quantum physics is a thumping good read for anyone interested in just what the hell is going on inside an atom, what the universe and all it's dimensions (11 of them apparently according to some folk) might be like and the progress we've made trying to figure it all out.

Deadman97

Quote from: "Big Jack McBastard"
I've read both of these, I'd go with House of Leaves, but you might find yourself going past your stop by a few stations through not wanting to put it down though.
That's so true. And when the conductor taps you on the shoulder to ask why you're the only one left on the train three hours later, you'll jump so hard you have an on-the-spot coronary. House of Leaves is that damn good.

hands cold, liver warm

Quote from: "micanio"Futebol - The Brazilian Way of Life by Alex Bellos. Rereading it actually. A great book about how football has become so dominant in Brazil... well worth a read even if you don't like football...

I'm just about to read that. It looks great.

Rubella

Quote from: "Lady Beaner"Rubella, I am definitely going to try and get my hands on that book.  Sounds interesting!

It's really interesting and a very intriguing look into the world of high class call girls.  The most amazing thing is that she has a boyfriend and he knows about her day job and doesn't seem to mind.  I guess you just have to be good at separating things: Sex with clients = work.  Sex with boyfriend = pleasure.

Highly recommended book by me.  And also 'Star Crossed' by A.A. Gill - another excellent read.

hansen mork

"Everything is illuminated" by Jonathan Safran Foer is rather good and is being made into a film. Always the sign of a good book. Always.


hansen mork


kjkinky

Can anyone imagine how awful "House of leaves" as a film would be (those who have read it)...but then it is purely a readerly experience and an experiment in form...

falafel

Quote from: "kjkinky"Can anyone imagine how awful "House of leaves" as a film would be (those who have read it)...but then it is purely a readerly experience and an experiment in form...

I'd be intrigued to see an attempt at The Navidson Record though. Wouldn't you? It'd be fairly useless for people who hadn't read the book, but it would be a very postmodern thing for someone to do. In the strictest sense of the word.

vladyeti

I recently read "Day Of The Triffids" by John Wyndham, which I thoroughly enjoyed.  It was written in 1951, so the language is a bit "I say old chap", but once I got used to it I found it a cracking read - one of the best books I've read for ages.

Cerys

I'm reading that at the moment, for the first time in years.  I had a triffid dream this morning.  It was great.

Adrian Brezhnev

In the dream, were you the triffid, one of its victims, or neither?

This thread is going off topic.

Books.  not dreams.

Adrian Brezhnev


chimpoo

Richard Powers - Plowing the Dark

My gran of all people made me get this, but beware, its dense stuff.

What the fuck happens at the end of Sphere?  I've completely forgotten!

Frinky

Quote from: "chimpoo"What the fuck happens at the end of Sphere?  I've completely forgotten!

Beautiful :)

vladyeti

Bollocks.  I hardly ever post, and yet I always seem to time it so that I'm the first post on a new page.  I should be safe with this one though, unless eight other fuckers have posted while I've been typing this.

Peking O

Vladyeti just character assasinated himself. Well done that man.

slim

Quote from: "Saturday Boy"Douglas Rushkoff - The Ecstacy Club
That's the second book you like that I like. Stop it, before we fall in love.

Cerys

Quote from: "Adrian Brezhnev"In the dream, were you the triffid, one of its victims, or neither?

I was one of the survivors who was helping save everybody else, as well as semi-simultaneously being a middle-aged lady who was escaping them by climbing stairs.  Hello, Dr Freud!

Quote from: "The Man With Brass Eyes"This thread is going off topic.

Books.  not dreams.

Yes, you're right.  So ... before cavorting with Mr Wyndham, I read Winnie the Pooh.  Definitely not just a kids' book.

Deadman97

A girl know really well described Clan of the Cave Bear to me so nicely that I went and read it (and three of the sequels). It was the maddest insight into female psychology I've ever recieved, they're like Heidi meets Jurassic Park via forty Mills and Boon paperbacks. Books, eh?

dan dirty ape

'Revolt Of The Cockroach People' by Oscar Zeta Acosta is the best book I've read recently. The memoirs of the 'other guy' from Fear In Loathing In Las Vegas, recounting his days as a firebrand Chicano lawyer.

Just started on Bob Dylan's 'Chronicles volume 1', digging it so far.

TraceyQ

Quote from: "Lady Beaner"Have you ever read a book that you were totally geared up for thinking 'this is bollocks', but then found it amazing?

I did that with Laura Esquivel's 'Like Water For Chocolate', which later became a C4 film.  I am not one for fantasy and romance, but this book blew me away and to this day I still have no idea why.  Just one of the books that I never get tired of reading!

Oh, Beany, you are a lovely. That's my favourite book ever. It made me sob so much I had to lock myself in the bathroom and curl up in the corner for a while. I'll have to pick it up again for my travels.

Cerys

Of course Beany's lovely.  Even when she mentions chocolate and makes me want unavailable Cadbury's Whole Nut.

Anyone else read Joseph Cambell's The Masks of God?  Four books of sizzling mythological and anthropological analysis that quite possibly makes your brain seep out through your fingertips.

Adrian Brezhnev

Quote from: "The Man With Brass Eyes"What's your favourite book Ade?
I need to think about that one, but I'd say that Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is fairly high up on the list.

kjkinky

Quote from: "Cerys"

I read Winnie the Pooh.  Definitely not just a kids' book.

You are right Cerys its not just a kids book hence my favourite quote:

"Oo Eeyore you are wet" Said Piglet feeling him

:)

Cerys


Adrian Brezhnev


kjkinky

btw Cerys its a true quote...(re-read the story where they play pooh sticks)

and just in case you may have thought I was just trying to imply fictional animal porn...

nah you are right I am a bad bad person

:)