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Post by Marcus on Oct 20, 2008 18:25:39 GMT 1
Finally got off my arse and finished The Liar by Stephen Fry. Not too many strong thoughts about it. About halfway through Don't Read This Book If You're Stupid by Tibor Fischer, which is a style I'm growing to like more and more. Good selection of short stories. Just got Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski out of the library, because it's a name I've heard increasingly often, but have no idea of his work. About 50 pages in, and it's fairly entertaining.
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Post by colindardis on Oct 20, 2008 20:54:25 GMT 1
The Liar is fantastic- especially love the part (about 50 pages form end I think) in which Fry describes the three different types of lies possibly, involving the french name for an onion and a trouser eating dragon called George. I might check out that Fischer book since I was with you when you bought it. Also, Ham On Rye is good read- entirely different from anything else Buk has written, but if you are interested in Buk the man, as well as the poet, it's essential.
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Post by caoimhe on Oct 22, 2008 2:49:50 GMT 1
I just started Saki. Anyone read him before?
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Post by paddy on Nov 5, 2008 2:50:32 GMT 1
just finished mishima's The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea perverse, arousing, disturbing
yeah!
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Post by mark on Jan 6, 2009 22:49:50 GMT 1
Currently I'm reading Joseph Campbell's The Masks of God Volume III and the complete poems of Robert Graves. OOOH and I just got the revised White Goddess by Graves in a lovely edition, having read my third paperback copy to death. No really, it's in several bits now, too delicate to take out of the bookcase, too heavily annotated and loved to dispatch. Well, as Spike Milligan once said If Robert Graves misbehaves It's the talka Majorca
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Post by paddy on Feb 5, 2009 21:14:58 GMT 1
Prose I'm reading Trilby by George du Maurier and poetry Under the Mackerel Sky by Stephen Potts I'd recommend the first but not the last
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Post by Séamus on Apr 15, 2009 4:43:42 GMT 1
Hey guys I am reading Raymond Carver again "Where water comes together with other water" It's a great book highly recommend it.
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Post by Séamus on Apr 26, 2009 2:56:04 GMT 1
Poems of the late Tang dynasty. Check this shit out folks it's like a thousand years old and still prophetic as fuck.
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Post by discopirate on Aug 20, 2009 18:40:05 GMT 1
I'm reading Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson. It's a brain-recalculating melt-fest. I love it. Try combining philosophy, psychology, science and mysticism into one big melting pot, and then being scared because it actually all makes sense, even though you at the same time are aware it's all shite. Imagine Timothy Leary met Carl Jung at Butlins and they went off and had an absinthe party on the beach because they were bored, and God showed up with a pipe. That's this book.
I'm also reading House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, which I've been slowly indoctrinated into finally reading over the past year by my friend Smo, and I'm fucking glad I did. It's IMMENSE.
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Post by tk on Oct 8, 2009 20:43:37 GMT 1
Just started reading The West Pier by Patrick Hamilton. Brilliant book. Very underrated. Slow to start but it soon picks up so stick with it.
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Post by mary on Nov 21, 2009 23:38:49 GMT 1
An Ordinary Genius, a guide to the poet within is a great book. Its by Kim Addonizio and you can get it from Amazon. I got it and its one of the best books ive read.
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