Fist 666 Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 try post office. you'll read it in ~3 hours. he's an asshole, and if you're concerned about how he is to women, then avoid it, but if you want to read a good book, do so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudpuddles Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 i'm generally an asshole too (in my head anyway) so no problem! thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weapon X Posted January 27, 2010 Share Posted January 27, 2010 i am very excited to crack this tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IOU Posted January 27, 2010 Share Posted January 27, 2010 I've never really thought of Bukowski as ever writing poetry. It's just a bunch of anger and bitterness that's written out in a lazy and drunk manner. Bukowski is awesome. Check out the documentary they did on him to get a real feel of how fucking much of an asshole he is. Great writer, shitty person. Also, "Tales of Ordinary Madness" is good collection of short stories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Camus Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 RIP Howard Zinn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SystemFailure Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 He was a great people's historian. I remember getting into an argument with a patriotic nutcase in class, dude was sayin Zinn is not a credible source because he doesn't even support his own nation. Head shaking and eye rolling aplenty. Been reading Modesitt is on point with his Fantasy and SciFi Think of a SciFi Vietnam war and social commentary. Oh, and mech suits. /fanofnerdlybooks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schnitzel Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 embarassed to say it but am reading this: haven't read anything by him since just after highschool and I'm not loving it. but I'm only about 60 pages in and there like 7,000,000,000 pages to go. I keep thinking of the simpsons movie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SystemFailure Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 I personally don't like Stephen King books for the most part. The Dead Zone was kinda cool though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Schnitzel Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 I personally don't like Stephen King books for the most part. The Dead Zone was kinda cool though. oh I hear you on that keeping it hidden when I'm on the train to work. Just wanted to read something that might be different and got suckered by the cover Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudpuddles Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 I personally don't like Stephen King books for the most part. The Dead Zone was kinda cool though. oh I hear you on that keeping it hidden when I'm on the train to work. Just wanted to read something that might be different and got suckered by the cover i get what you guys mean but i grew up reading him. he is a great at describing things, i think that's the only reason his books are a billion pages long. it's good for me cause i am horrible at picturing things in my head. maybe why i got into his books. i totally stand by the dark tower series though. it fell off a little at the end but it is a great series. and i don't really get into sci-fi . it's not as much a horror story as it is a time traveling sci-fi kinda knights tale. i might check out that dome one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banana fishd Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 I somehow didn't even know a movie had been made until I got the book and saw Viggo Mortensen on the cover. Banana Fishd, google "david foster wallace consider the lobster" and click the second link, which is a PDF version of an article he wrote for Gourmet Magazine. The first link is a link to the article also, but Wallace uses footnotes often, and really well, so they're worth reading immediately rather than at the end of the article, making the pdf format better imo. Also, here here is a commencement speech he gave at Kenyon College in 2005 that they turned into a small book post-mortem. Pretty inspiring stuff. Both of these obviously are non-fiction, but he also wrote fiction, none of which I have read yet. I hear it's really rewarding but really dense stuff. But I'm way way into his non-fiction, reading it is like witnessing an incredibly creative and critical mind running at full speed. ^^That commencement speech was really refreshing. Thank you for giving me that link. I think I will go on to read some of his books. For now though- Barve new world by Aldous Huxley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 man, i read the magic of recluce, and was just not sold on modesitt. fantasy is a deep dark secret that my wife makes fun of me for with a near-daily regularity... besides wheel of time's first four books, i would highly recommend raymond feist's rift war saga. magician: apprentice, magician: master, silverthorn, and a darkness at sethanon. feist in general is a fucking genius (relatively speaking...) sigh. my secret's out... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackfatsoe Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 RIP Howard Zinn sad had no idea he was 87 though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fondles Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 ^^ I've read all the Recluse and Raymond Feist's as well. Both were good, and recommended, by me. Currently I'm reading a newish trilogy, by Brent Weeks. Fantasy setting concerning with assassins (called wetboys, a superior version of an assassin) among other things. On book 2 atm, pretty dark and gritty, but well done. Recommended. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Camus Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 Fuckin J.D. Salinger died yesterday too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SystemFailure Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 RIP to both. What about Modesitt's writing did you dislike Fist666? My appreciation is his character development, unity of stories, and the system of magic he devised which lines up with my belief in Chaos theory. And right on Seldoon haha, definitely an underrated author. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CACashRefund Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 Im glad i got to see Howard Zinn talk in person before he died, he looked really frail when i saw him I need to see Noam Chomsky before he goes on that dirt nap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gasfacevictm Posted January 29, 2010 Share Posted January 29, 2010 i get what you guys mean but i grew up reading him. he is a great at describing things, i think that's the only reason his books are a billion pages long. His short stories are easier to read. They also happen to become great fucking movies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonsai Bill Posted January 29, 2010 Share Posted January 29, 2010 The Mole People by Jennifer Toth 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackfatsoe Posted January 29, 2010 Share Posted January 29, 2010 ^ yeah dude, just read that. Was awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughslast Posted January 29, 2010 Share Posted January 29, 2010 i was wondering if any of you guys have heard about/read this Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature by Donna Haraway The lady is coming through my town. Wanted to kind of get a feel for the material. Right now I am currently reading a bunch of school stuff but these have been pretty interesting and Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fat ralphy Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 just got this at the library... graphic novel about jack the ripper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weapon X Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 ^ hell ya! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chode Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 under and alone by william queen! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALIgula Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 just picked up this book at a thrift store for $2 today: I was actually going to buy it for $14 a couple months ago at barnes and nobles and decided to hold off on it and buy a couple other books instead...cant wait to start it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topfloorbasement Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 just finished reading "women" by bukowski.. that shit was ill as well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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investwit.thabest Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 the gentle axe by rn morris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poes Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 Different cover, same book. Enjoying this one alot. This kind of books are always easy reading. Dont know much about this dude but he sounds fucking nuts. Its hard to remember that it is actually an autobiography and not a novel. So many murders. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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