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by culturejam » Wed Jul 07, 2010 3:05 pm
I'm re-browsing (as you can't really read it straight through, as such) William Cooper's
Behold a Pale Horse .
If you're into wack-job conspiracy theory "non-fiction", you have to own this book for sheer reference. Warning, it will make you consider a tin-foil hat.
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by smile_man » Wed Jul 07, 2010 4:01 pm
deadbeatriot wrote: hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world was great, though.
this is true.
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by Bobby D » Wed Jul 07, 2010 4:51 pm
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by Seizurema » Wed Jul 07, 2010 4:55 pm
Red Harvest, Dune, Count Zero, VALIS...
I really have to like finish books before I start other books.
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by smile_man » Wed Jul 07, 2010 4:59 pm
Seizurema wrote: I really have to like finish books before I start other books.
Nahhhhhhhhhhhh.
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by analog orange » Mon Jul 12, 2010 5:12 pm
The Shadow Effect, Deepak Chopra.
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by smile_man » Mon Jul 12, 2010 5:23 pm
Finished Microserfs, and am now going 50/50 with House of Leaves and Gravity's Rainbow.
I need to finish more books.
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by blicero » Mon Jul 12, 2010 5:34 pm
haha reading gr and house of leaves at the same time... that's pretty hardcore anyone read any cormac mccarthy books? blood meridian is probably my favourite book (up there with confederacy of dunces at least). it's just so incredibly violent but at the same time starkly beautiful. mccarthy's prose is unparalleled imo "...the slant black shapes of the mounted men stenciled across the stone with a definition austere and implacable like shapes capable of violating their covenant with the flesh that authored them and continuing autonomous across the naked rock without reference to sun or man or god." badass .
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by smile_man » Tue Jul 13, 2010 2:02 am
House of Leaves isn't so bad yet, still retaining normal structure.
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by bubstance » Tue Jul 13, 2010 4:50 am
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by Gunner Recall » Mon Jul 19, 2010 11:51 pm
Debating momentarily stopping Foccault's Pendulum so I can blast through Demon Theory. The cover claims "...akin to watching Wes Craven's Scream trilogy with David Foster Wallace whispering in your ear" I'm sold.
There are some that call me...morningstaru?
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by smile_man » Tue Jul 20, 2010 7:29 am
Gunner Recall wrote: The cover claims "...akin to watching Wes Craven's Scream trilogy with David Foster Wallace whispering in your ear" I'm sold.
Go for it!
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by RossCanyonsofstatic » Tue Jul 20, 2010 9:58 am
reading Milan Kundera's "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" just finished Jonathan Ames "I Pass Like Night" which reminded me a lot of Bukowski
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by smile_man » Tue Jul 20, 2010 7:49 pm
I found a copy of VALIS!