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Help, I'm still stuck in the UNDERGROUND! And reading about math.
Got a new Tape Op in the mail yesterday, I suspect I'll be leafing through that the next few days. Also reading manuals on how to use Reason and Ableton Live. Not much though. Seriously, reading manuals is kinda retro at this point. You Tube videos explain it all.... *************************************************** * MEB_Registered: 20122002 |
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Currently reading Nation by Terry Pratchet, Absolute Death by Neil Gaiman and about to start The Adventures of Luther Arkwright by Bryan Talbot.
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I'm rereading Gaiman's "American Gods" for the first time in years i.e. I've only just got hold of the 2005 author's preferred text. I'm loving it.
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The Handmaidens Tale by Margaret Atwood, and The Fat Duck Cookbook by St Heston of Blumenthal *swoons* Total gastro porn!!!
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I Love You Beth Cooper by Larry Doyle. A little brain candy coming of age story. No depth, but entertaining.
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Finished Mieville's "Un Lun Dun" last night. I gotta say, that boy is pretty creative. It took me a few chapters to really get into it, but I enjoyed the book very much. I am now trying to get my friend Susan to go by "Zan" but she's not going for it.
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Working my way through Moorcock's 'Eternal Champion' series, or at least what I have of it.
So far I've gone through the 2nd Hawkmoon series, and am reading the 1st Corum series. After that, a re-read of Elric, and then hopefully I'll find Erekose or Urlik Skarsol somewhere. ~I'm in a mental cage, I'm locked up.~ |
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*total nerd alert* I need to maybe read the non-Elric books. Elric was cool when I was a teenager, but now I'm distracted by all the noticeable things TSR stole from Moorcock's Melniboneans to make the Drow, and the most feared/coveted weapon in D&D. And how heavily Games Workshop sourced that material for the Dark Eldar. */end total nerd alert* _______________________ "The things I want to buy haven't been invented yet" - Sheldon Cooper |
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Generation A: A Novel (2009) by Douglas Coupland
 Skiffy. Just started. I don't think of Coupland as a skiffy author. Otherwise, its Coupland-esque. ____________________________________________________ Armageddon was yesterday – today is just a serious problem. |
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Charles Stross, "Iron Sunrise".
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Sarah Vowell "The Wordy Shipmates" - I didn't think it possible but Sarah Vowell made the Puritans seem interesting to me. More than just religious nutjobs, which is something I'd have never expected myself to think.
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Allright! More than halfway through UNDERGROUND now. Looks like I might finish it before the holidays!
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Corum was nifty, and (as far as I know) was not plundered to produce role-playing supplements. |
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Damn, spent most of the day finishing UNDERGROUND! Well worth it.
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Blood Meridian
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That book really punched me in the guts.... Not sure what mood I am exactly in after UNDERGROUND. Contemplative I suppose. Picked up Sartre's NAUSEA, figured it might be the thing. *************************************************** * MEB_Registered: 20122002 |
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I don't remember a lot about Nausea, but I don't remember it being a fun read. But it's been quite a while. ------------------------------------------ Looking to escape reality at every turn. |
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I tried reading it once before, after a friend recommended it to me, but it was difficult to make headway back then. I'm breezing through it this time. I don't expect anything titled NAUSEA to be much fun, except that song by X....
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 Amazing, right up there with Ian Macdonald's River of Gods for sheer audacity and creativity.  -- sig files suck |
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Got the second volume of Alan Moore's Swamp thing run. It's quite good. I really enjoy the depth of the story and the sorrowful tone that permeates most of the stories. The art also is pretty incredible as well, particularly any full page picture of the Swamp Thing himself.
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