Interesting Reading

[owain_k]

For anyone interested....

War on Iraq - Scott Ritter (Former Chief UN Weapons Inspector) - Associated Press

Gets to the heart of the issues relating to facts which the Bush Administration has chosen to ignore !

[invisibleplanet]

Information, Activism, and Resistance to U.S.
Militarism, War, and Corporate Greed,
Linking with Struggles Against Racism and Oppression
within the United States

The International
Action Center website
(http://www.iacenter.org)

interesting website founded by Former Attourney General of USA, Ramsey Clark

[gunjack]

http://www.fnord.net/~phollmer/war.txt

[invisibleplanet]

not about the war, but looks like an interesting read
Words on Words: Quotations about Language and Languages
David and Hilary Crystal (http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/referenceandlanguages/0,6121,343399,00.html)

[JE:5]

I read "Porno" by Irvine Welsh the other week, that was good.

[invisibleplanet]

http://www.sacred-texts.com/sex/index.htm

[old skool]

I'm not really one for reading books, well haven't been for a while anyway.

The last books I read were on my hollibobs.

Buddha of Suburbia and American Psycho (picked them up in the airport)

Liked them both, although saw the film American Pyscho on telly last night and it was wank.

Never mind eh ...

[platinumray]

@gunjack

that was indeed an interesting read. it confirmed my suspicions.

[marcel]

Originally posted by old skool

Buddha of Suburbia and American Psycho (picked them up in the airport)


american psycho is the shit! this book really hit me. havent seen the film yet, but heard its bullshit. this book just can't be made up to a film, can it? ellis is the king

[old skool]

Originally posted by marcel


american psycho is the shit! this book really hit me. havent seen the film yet, but heard its bullshit. this book just can't be made up to a film, can it? ellis is the king

The film ain't up to much really mate. I wouldn't recommend you go and rent it or owt, if its on telly catch it then.

Christian Bale ain't that bad in it, but it cuts loads of stuff out of the book and it seems dead disjointed because of that. Obviously to transfer to film some of the goings-on in the book would be hard, so if its gonna cut chunks out, then why bother ?

Frightening thing for me is, that whilst watching the film, some mates said that Patrick Bateman reminded them of me ?!!!

I mean I like a few skincare products and the odd Robert Palmer track but what the fuck man ?!?! ;-)

[phil]

i hate recommending books, cause i find it personal.

but must haves=

A Scanner Darkly - Phil Dick
Neuromancer - William Gibson
George marverlous medicine - Dahl
Cosmic trigger - RAW
Ulysees - Joyce
Finnegans wake - Joyce
Frank - jim woodring

RECOGNISE.

[maudular]

I've just read Irvine Welsh's Exctasy... really good I think, gave me some right laughs... I think any Poe, Vian/Sullivan, Bataille, Orwell, Buzzati, Voltaire, Rilke, Houellebec, Selby Jr... are good to take...

[marcel]

Originally posted by old skool

Frightening thing for me is, that whilst watching the film, some mates said that Patrick Bateman reminded them of me ?!!!


maybe they do because of your platin AmEx?

[JE:5]

Virtual Light by William Gibson is a good read aswell, but one of my alltime faves is Cryptonomicon - by Neal Stephenson, It's better than Snow crash which is also good.

[wheezer]

virtual light is good, but I think idoru remains my favorite gibson book. I'm currently reading lynch on lynch, very interesting interviews with david lynch (who would've guessed?)

[Ubik]

Agotha Kristoff (sorry i don' t know the english title, should be something like "Trilogy...")
Philip K Dick "Ubik"
Bruce Sterling "Islands in the net"
Henry Miller "Air conditioned nightmare"
Walter Benjamin "The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction"
Jean Baudrillard "The spirit of terrorism"

[dirtyho]

A Scanner Darkly is my all time favourite K Dick - and like almost all his stuff