axlfan88 Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 I can't wait for this one.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 Speaker for the dead was excellent! Should I move on to xenocide? I've heard mixed reviews about it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 girlfriend got me zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, really excited about this one~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaBellaVita Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Can someone reccommend me some titles ? My two favorite books are "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov and "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" by Hunter Thompson. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFormerSoul Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 anyone read any good books recently? i want to know any good books to read, last actual book i read which wasnt a biography was fear and loathing in las vegas which was good!Ive been sucked into Dean Kontz "The Watchers" Im about halfway through it and I love the characters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Budweiser Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 An interesting read. Pretty tough to read for extended periods of time because of the massive amount of information in each sentence. But interesting, nonetheless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axlfan88 Posted March 14, 2010 Share Posted March 14, 2010 Miguel Delibes died Friday. He was known for his gritty depictions of rural life in post-civil war Spain. He was one of those authors who would have deserved the Nobel.Published in 1981, Los santos inocentes ("The innocent saints") illustrates the impoverished existence of peasants living under a selfish and wealthy landowner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hans_moleman Posted March 14, 2010 Share Posted March 14, 2010 He was one of those authors who would have deserved the Nobel.Agreed. Cinco horas con Mario (Five hours with Mario) is absolutely recommendable as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAC185 Posted March 14, 2010 Share Posted March 14, 2010 Just finished a Richey Edwards biography. It was written decently enough but contained nothing I did not already know, although that is as much my fault as it is the authors. Also just finished the Donnie Brasco book which was gripping from start to finish, and am about to re-read Kerouacs Big Sur to get me on a writing kick again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
appetite4illusions Posted March 14, 2010 Share Posted March 14, 2010 Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone.A classic in it's own right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axlfan88 Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 (edited) Can someone reccommend me some titles ? My two favorite books are "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov and "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" by Hunter Thompson.I would recommend you Belle du seigneur by Albert Cohen. One of the best books I've ever read." This book's range of themes is wild, from the vicious and hilarious pastiche of the petty bureaucracy of international organisations through the hypocrisy of Geneva polite society, the hilarious antics of Solal's Marx Brothers-like uncles, fresh off the boat from Cephalonia, to the tenderest, most earth-shattering moments of love, the bitter self-loathing of a man who percieves the shallowness of his womanising and the shallowness of women's attraction for him, the torture of the outcast and the first flush of european pre-war antisemitism. Solal is Christ the cynic, crucifying himself to find something truly beautiful in which he can believe, taking his beloved own with him to keep that thing alive, and being crucified by two societies to which he does not belong for his quest, for his distain for their values, and for his race. This book is an emotional boxing match from which the reader emerges punch-drunk but strangely transfigured. "He was one of those authors who would have deserved the Nobel.Agreed. Cinco horas con Mario (Five hours with Mario) is absolutely recommendable as well. I'll try to read it when I find some time. I read The Heretic, and it was great. Edited March 18, 2010 by axlfan88 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GivenToFly Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Barry Eichengreen Globalizing Capital and H.P. Spahn From Gold to EuroI'm trying to write this essay on the Bretton Woods system but it's so fucking difficult to write it down! And I'm running out of time! Why the fuck did I take this module! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axlfan88 Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 (edited) Nick Kent has published this month his second book after The Dark Stuff. I can't wait to read it.Pitched somewhere between "Almost Famous" and "Withnail & I", Apathy for the Devil is a unique document of this most fascinating and troubling of decades - a story of inspiration, success and serious burn out.As a twenty-something college dropout Nick Kents first five interviews as a young writer were with the MC5, Captain Beefheart, The Grateful Dead, Iggy Pop and Lou Reed. Along with Charles Shaar Murray and Ian MacDonald he would go on to define and establish the NME as the home of serious music writing. And as apprentice to Lester Bangs, boyfriend of Chrissie Hynde, confidant of Iggy Pop, trusted scribe for Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones, and early member of the Sex Pistols, he was witness to both the beautiful and the damned of this turbulent decade. Edited March 21, 2010 by axlfan88 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Budweiser Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 planning for a possible trip this summer... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Izzy's Gurl Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 I'm reading this book called Fallen by Lauren Kate right now. It's okay...I'm hoping it's gonna get better though. I'm getting Slash's bio on Tuesday I think though and that should be really good. Maybe I'll learn some new Izzy info. B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supercool Posted March 22, 2010 Share Posted March 22, 2010 i know that book, it's a masterpiece here is another masterpiece:'call it sleep' by henry roth, the most profound novel of jewish life ever written by an american, the best work of fiction about immigrant lifehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_It_Sleep Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axlfan88 Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 Following his acclaimed history of the Situationist International up until the late sixties, The Beach Beneath the Street, McKenzie Wark returns with a companion volume which puts the late work of the Situationists in a broader and deeper context, charting their contemporary relevance and their deep critique of modernity. Wark builds on their work to map the historical stages of the society of the spectacle, from the diffuse to the integrated to what he calls the disintegrating spectacle. The Spectacle of Disintegration takes the reader through the critique of political aesthetics of former Situationist T.J. Clark, the Fourierist utopia of Raoul Vaneigem, Rene Vienet's earthy situationist cinema, Gianfranco Sangunetti's pranking of the Italian ruling class, Alice-Becker Ho's account of the anonymous language of the Romany, Guy Debord's late films and his surprising work as a game designer. At once an extraordinary counter history of radical praxis and a call to arms in the age of financial crisis and the resurgence of the streets, The Spectacle of Disintegration recalls the hidden journeys taken in the attempt to leave the twentieth century, and plots an exit to the twenty first.http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Spectacle-Disintegration-Situationist-Twentieth/dp/1844679578/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1372918919&sr=8-1&keywords=wark+situationist Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 American Desperado by Wright and Roberts. It's a great read.Spectators of suicideExploding in society's eyeDemocracy is an empty lieDead like our yesterdays tonightThe only free choice is refusal to pay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Val22 Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 My favorite authors are:Dean KoontzJames PattersonLisa GardnerTess GertisonJeffery DeaverJackie CollinsIf you like mysteries James Patterson is the man.I love and have read everything by Dean Koontz. He's my all time favorite author.I love Michael Connelly too. I read mostly horror and mysteries. I love reading because it takes you to different places and gets your mind off your troubles. It's also very relaxing.I started reading when I began working in NYC and if anyone knows on the NY subways you don't stare at anyone and if you ride the subways alone you usually read a book. I've read many books throughout my life and I continue to do so today.I have many favorite authors and usually read whatever books they publish. I have four bookcases full of books that I've read and have to read. I usually keep the books from my favorite authors, so I am running out of room. lol Usually I will donate the books to the library when I'm done with some of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Sandman Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 Patterson is the master of the two page chapter! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 I was reading NYPD Red by Patterson. The Winner by Baldacci pretty classic thriller.The Choirboys by Wambaugh is a classic modern crime novel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axlfan88 Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 (edited) I just discovered Dwight Macdonald, what a great author!(He was friend of George Orwell)http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/books/review/dwight-macdonalds-war-on-mediocrity.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0An uncompromising contrarian, a passionate polemicist, a man of quick wit and wide learning, an anarchist, a pacifist, and a virtuoso of the slashing phrase, Dwight Macdonald was an indefatigable and indomitable critic of Americas susceptibility to well-meaning cultural fakery: all those estimable, eminent, prizewinning works of art that are said to be good and good for you and are not. He dubbed this phenomenon Midcult and he attacked it not only on aesthetic but on political grounds. Midcult rendered people complacent and compliant, secure in their common stupidity but neither happy nor free. Dwight Macdonald (illustration by Riccardo Vecchio) Edited November 1, 2013 by axlfan88 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 Bambi vs. Godzilla by David Mamet. I'm re-reading it. Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse is a book collection of sic-fi short stories.The Bat by Jo NesboInfinite Jest by Wallaceare in rotation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetchild88 Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 My favorite authorsStephen KingAnne Rivers SiddonsChris BohjalianDennis LehaneMark ChildressJoshilyn JacksonHonorable mentionsGillian FlynnSue MillerPam LewisIsabelle AllendeReading is my favorite pastime and I love the feel of a book in my hand. One of the few without a e-reader. Love mystery, thriller, and drama. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 American Bankruptcy - wasted A seminal work in the history of literature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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