The all new....what you reading? - erutufon|nofuture

Level · 30th March 2005

Apart from this thread smart arse.

HMV must have been doing one of their book sales. My little sister drop off a copy of "Touching from a Distance" (£4) by Deborah Curtis wife of Ian. I've just started it.

30th March 2005

Well seeing you arereading a book with that title. I'll get it off you when you are done mind you.

dSort · 30th March 2005

still "Diaries of W.Gombrowicz" , Jan Hennel "Basics of semiconductors electronics" , Papoulis "Signals and Systems"
and i got back to Schaeffer "XXth century music guide"

30th March 2005

Quicksilver, Neal Stephenson

TheWasp · 30th March 2005

green harvest - George Mayfield

Level · 30th March 2005

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green harvest - George Mayfield

Look forward to you reaping what it teaches you to sow mate.

**WON'T DO IT** · 30th March 2005

"THE DICE MAN" Luke Rhinehart - sickly hilarious and an interesting idea

**thembuzz** · 30th March 2005

charles bukowski's pulp

content · 31st March 2005

i gotta read bukowski.

*Lady E* · 31st March 2005

tale of two cities - charles dickens.

mr franks · 31st March 2005

getting through bleak house by dickens, also starting krautrocksampler by julian cope.

bracket · 31st March 2005

All Crew Muss Big UP - Brian Belle-Fortune

Brownthing · 31st March 2005

Dr Bloodmoney - Philip K Dick

**thembuzz** · 31st March 2005

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Originally posted by content
i gotta read bukowski.

bukowski's brill. the only other book of his i've read is post office, which also rocked - i'm definitely gonna be hunting down the rest of his stuff after this one

stinkfinger · 31st March 2005

bloody hell you're a serious dickens head emma, u always seem to reading something by him! i'm still reading the bible, i'm at corinthains just now.

**grobelaar** · 31st March 2005

I'm still reading Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 I've turned into a very slow reader. I actually started reading it during the US elections.

Still it was quite funny to watch 'All the President's Men' the other night and actually know some of the random names that crop up like Muskie and Lindsay and so on.

**grobelaar** · 31st March 2005

Although there's been a copy of The Girl Who Played Go left on the refridgerator in our office for about a month now - I might nick it.

trippingadget · 31st March 2005

Italo Calvino - Mr. Palomar

*Lady E* · 31st March 2005

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Originally posted by stinkfinger
bloody hell you're a serious dickens head emma, u always seem to reading something by him! i'm still reading the bible, i'm at corinthains just now.

i have read most of his books, but i think i said 'tale of two cities' in the last reading thread - they tend to take a while to get through especially if you only read for 1/2 hour before sleep every night like me.

but yes, he's one of my top ten authors.

*Lady E* · 31st March 2005

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Originally posted by thembuzz

bukowski's brill. the only other book of his i've read is post office, which also rocked - i'm definitely gonna be hunting down the rest of his stuff after this one

i reckon post office is the only one worth reading. the others are all the same.

*mdk* · 31st March 2005

Huysmans 'a rebours'

and

Goethe 'faust'

( I often have 2 or more on the go at the same time..)

Just finished reading another Huysmans - 'la bas'

definitely recommended..

**thembuzz** · 31st March 2005

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Originally posted by grobelaar
I'm still reading Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 I've turned into a very slow reader. I actually started reading it during the US elections.

i've been reading burroughs' nova express for 6 years. beat that

@ emma: i think there's a huge stylistic difference between post office and pulp, although buk seems to have narrated them using the same drunken low-life persona (no surprise, really). or do you mean post office is the only one of his books that really stands out?

brainard · 31st March 2005

the godfather by mario puzzo
glue by irvine welsh
porno by i.welsh

labrat · 31st March 2005

nearly finished "the system of the world" by neal stephenson, started with cryptonomicon last july and followed the whole thing through up to this point. i think this man is my favourite storyteller, i wish he'd been my history teacher, i'd be a learned man by now with god knows how many grandchildren sat on my knee listening to me witter on about how it used to be etc...........oh SHIT there's still a chance o that int there

CV · 31st March 2005

Naked Lunch by William S Burroughs - an absolute masterpiece, i can't believe i waited so long before reading it. A complete inspiration. And easily the dirtiest book i've read. He knocked it up in 1959. Incredible.

Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany - apparently another masterpiece, raved about by some of my other favourite authors, Eco, Lethem, Sturgeon.... but i'm finding it way over the top stylised...

Level · 31st March 2005

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Originally posted by cristian
Naked Lunch by William S Burroughs - an absolute masterpiece, i can't believe i waited so long before reading it. A complete inspiration. And easily the dirtiest book i've read. He knocked it up in 1959. Incredible.

Totally!

I'm only just on Junkie which I also can't believe has taken me this long to get to especially as I have had it for ages.

love_tempo · 31st March 2005

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Originally posted by trippingadget
Italo Calvino - Mr. Palomar

Mr. Palomar watches the waves

I love that story...Italo Calvino is a nutter. Bought my grandad that book once as a present, I don't think he liked it.

**Orang Utan** · 31st March 2005

I loved Our Ancestors - proper mental

love_tempo · 31st March 2005

I'm just finishing Gertrude Stein's - Three Lives. Its like a kick to the gut. 'Melanctha' had me nailed to the spot until I finished it.

It's hard to believe that Q.E.D. was written by the same person only two years earlier. It's almost like Robert Johnsons supposed pact with the devil. It goes to show that sometimes you just have to persist even if you know your current work is rubbish.

trippingadget · 31st March 2005

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Originally posted by love_tempo

Mr. Palomar watches the waves I love that story...Italo Calvino is a nutter. Bought my grandad that book once as a present, I don't think he liked it.

Yeh its good,though my favourite Calvino as yet has to be if on a winters night a traveller.

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Level smuthut Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: U.K. Posts: 1,591	The all new....what you reading? Apart from this thread smart arse. HMV must have been doing one of their book sales. My little sister drop off a copy of "Touching from a Distance" (£4) by Deborah Curtis wife of Ian. I've just started it.
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CV cristianvogel.neverengine.org Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Berlin Posts: 2,983	Naked Lunch by William S Burroughs - an absolute masterpiece, i can't believe i waited so long before reading it. A complete inspiration. And easily the dirtiest book i've read. He knocked it up in 1959. Incredible. Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany - apparently another masterpiece, raved about by some of my other favourite authors, Eco, Lethem, Sturgeon.... but i'm finding it way over the top stylised...
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love_tempo Registered Erutufon Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Mankchester Posts: 5,175	I'm just finishing Gertrude Stein's - Three Lives. Its like a kick to the gut. 'Melanctha' had me nailed to the spot until I finished it. It's hard to believe that Q.E.D. was written by the same person only two years earlier. It's almost like Robert Johnsons supposed pact with the devil. It goes to show that sometimes you just have to persist even if you know your current work is rubbish.
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