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Lex if ya into those sorta books, check out Harold Schechter's books. Deviant (about Ed Gein) was a good read(wow he was messed up) and looking forward to getting into the one about Albert Fish(still say he's the baddest man the planets seen:P)
shocking ending. mid sentence errr wtf?
Currently reading the Stand by Stephen King. 400 pages to in only 1000 to go lol Like it so far though, just unsure how its gonna hold my attention for that long. May read it in halves
Naked Lunch by Burroughs as well.
just had a look through my bookcases last night, and i can bring you over my copy of this when i see you next week if you like
just had a look through my bookcases last night, and i can bring you over my copy of this when i see you next week if you like
intriguing name. Before tackling the Stand, i read a book by Will Baer called Kiss Me Judas. Twisted shit!
So what kind of stuff do you people normally read?
I like reading a lot of history stuff, I guess the literary equivelant of documentaries.
I'm big on good science fiction too. I generally go for the "hard" sci-fi where it story has a lot of technical detail and the cyberpunk stuff . Isaac Asimov, Arthur C Clarke, William Gibson & Tom Maddox are all pretty epic sci-fi writers.
Gangs.
the follow up to Gangland Britain by Tony Thompson
interesting
finished Scar Tissue while I was away and wasnt that great IMHO
good still, but not worth buying
i read LOADS of science fiction (especially the golden age writers, such as asimov, clarke and then also the trippy psychedelic guys like heinlein and philip k dick), speculative fiction (bit less sciencey, but more trippy n futuristic, like lots of JG Ballard's novels), history (usually the pop-history stuff), some contemporary fiction (i really like japanese novels, such as After Dark), short fiction, n SOME fluffy chick lit (if I am desperate!). used to read a lot of horror/thriller/fantasy, not as much now.
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Nah, I really enjoyed Scar Tissue. It may not have been written super fantastic like, but it really appealed to me. I'm glad you got through it
Yeah, speculative fiction is really cool. I guess there's a bit of an element of it with a lot of cyberpunk and hard sci-fi too. Asimov is a legend though, I love his non fiction stuff too.
Hopefully I'll be getting William Gibsons latest book today. I still can't get over the fact he wrote Neuromancer and came up with the word "cyberspace" on a typewriter!
yeah no shit!!!! what's the new purchase??
i cant wait to read cryptonomicon by neal stephenson. read teh start of it last year, but really want to give it a proper go. neal stephenson is prob one of my fave sci fi writers now!
I'm reading Vernor Vinge atm, here is an essay about the technological singularity - i gather from this that it's definitely going to be "hard" sci fi in his books. Pretty interesting.
http://mindstalk.net/vinge/vinge-sing.html
So what kind of stuff do you people normally read?
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Crime & Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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by Fyodor Dostoevsky
I've read that a couple of times. Great book, definitely not light reading though (much like most Russian authors, might be something to do with the translation).
Raskolnikov is a weak-ass bitch
Just take the dough and pimp it up already!
2 books to go on to. One is Chuck Palahniuks,Haunted.
the aptly titled auto biography "Between the Lines" By Jason Donovan
worth it for the first chapter alone!
really keen to get into this book.
i've had a new found respect for jason donovan ever since i saw him collapse on stage coked out of his tiny little mind whilst playing frank n. furter in the rocky horror picture show... he scraped himself up off the floor, took one look at the audience, had a big sniff, wiped his nose on the back of his hand and on with the show.
really keen to get into this book.
i've had a new found respect for jason donovan ever since i saw him collapse on stage coked out of his tiny little mind whilst playing frank n. furter in the rocky horror picture show... he scraped himself up off the floor, took one look at the audience, had a big sniff, wiped his nose on the back of his hand and on with the show.
I still reckon the best books I have ever read would be the dark tower series by stephen king.
Hell yes this will be awesome!
well im giving up on Haunted. As much as i love Chuck, this book has taught me i dont like short stories. Yes theres an underlying story linking them all but yeah, just doesnt do it for me. At least i know now
Haha, I was discussing Chuck with a friend the other night, and he told me I had to read Haunted...Is it just your dislike of short stories or should i be adequately forewarned?
Haha, I was discussing Chuck with a friend the other night, and he told me I had to read Haunted...Is it just your dislike of short stories or should i be adequately forewarned?
just dont get into short stories. I love sick books:) Currently reading Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z Brite. Its basically a book around what it would be like if Jeffrey Dahmer and Dennis Nielson were lovers. Good shit
Holy crap! I want to read that one!
Yeah youd dig it Lex. Pretty full on. Doesnt mind killin the odd boy or two, THEN fuckin em
Yeah youd dig it Lex. Pretty full on. Doesnt mind killin the odd boy or two, THEN fuckin em
Awesome! Did you buy it? Where from?
The Library Journal found Giraffe to be "a profoundly affecting novel that will wake you up and break your heart." The reviewer for the UK'sThe Independent described it as a "superb novel, filled with compassion, yet never sentimental." The Chicago Tribune critic likened Giraffe to T. S. Eliot's The Wasteland, while the review in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution thought Ledgard's prose closer to that of Italo Calvino. Other reviews drew comparison with the German writer, W. G. Sebald. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reviewer argued that Giraffe is "a potent, disturbing dream, as if Radiohead's 'Idioteque' had mixed with something by Haruki Murakami." The New York Times critic was "continually reminded of Harold Bloom's remark about all great books being strange."
According to one of the novel's publishers, Penguin Press, "Giraffe marks the debut of an unforgettable talent.... At once vivid and unearthly, Giraffe is a meditation on suffering, on the strangeness of vertical creatures, and on the inhabitants of a middling totalitarian state, sleepwalking through the ‘communist moment’."
Im about to read 'the alchemist' again, i heart that book.
i just got marching powder, look forward to getting into it
marching powder is great!!! matty lent me 'reefer men', along the same vein - drug lords in south america n stuff
I've been trying to get my hands on a copy of Reefer Madness by Eric Schlosser for a while now, but the bookstores in Adelaide don't seem to stock it anymore.
good to relate to 
what da fuck nothing about cigars in it thou 
havent u ever read it?? OMG its part of the HORROR CANON!!!! I read it in primary school, scared the CRAP out of me and I still rate it as one of the best horror novels ever written.
Spent over $100 on Bond books haha. U should read Russka, by Edward Rutherford. He;s written a pile of historical/saga fiction, including Sarum, and London ) )
was SUCH an easy read! but quite interesting. i think she really glosses over some aspects, ie getting tested for hep and aids and stuff. she never really discusses being worried about that sort of thing, which was surprising. guess it wasnt as interesting! 
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Posts: 1,682 speaking of bookends, who the hell would use one of these as a bookend??!! or a lamp?!
@keyser @keyser @ Keyser. @ Keyser. He is also head of a few companies and nominated twice for Young Australian of the Year, so I put some merit in his suggestions! It looks great, and is cheap too! 
I care too much. *cries* havent started on the series, will do soon tho! http://aidanmoher.com/blog/?p=186
cheers! best books ever tho, they even had a graffiti-art colouring book for kids! cool.) 
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