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You read it recently, right?
Top Ten Books
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- alan brazil caligula cool reasons bro corpsey's terrible preoccupation do you want to hurt me? gamergate i am a dead white man myself monocle man nomad's sexy list numerous books about psychopathy stick to your guns john the msm acquires linebaugh's problematic list the telephone book is very good transyuggothian power secrets
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I expected to like Kafka more than I do. I think I'm more interested in the general thrust of an author's work, their ideas, moreso than the actual books. That's why I can't include DeLillo. I dunno if I like any of his books that much, but the subject matter and bits and pieces of them have made a big impression. I'd say the same of Burroughs too, despite including one of his.
pattycakes_
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Yeah. It was like a grenade. Like you, I read it in less than 24hrs
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It pains me to admit that the only books I read ravenously like that are nonfiction books about serial killers.
Ballard says somewhere that the artist has the courage of their own obsessions. But my obsessions depress me, and aren't improving, as far as I can tell.
Mind you I tend not to allow myself to read fun books. Isn't that sad? I can't help but feel they lack nutritious content if it isn't at least a bit like eating my greens.
Ballard says somewhere that the artist has the courage of their own obsessions. But my obsessions depress me, and aren't improving, as far as I can tell.
Mind you I tend not to allow myself to read fun books. Isn't that sad? I can't help but feel they lack nutritious content if it isn't at least a bit like eating my greens.
pattycakes_
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The other books I read that fast were The Game as a pdf (it was entertaining!) the 2nd half of the Da Vinci Code in an empty bath, I assumed I wouldn't like it, opened it about halfway through and then read until it was over early the next morning, and Fear and Loathing around 14 or so and at that time didn't know such things existed. The very first line was so unexpected and what followed didn't let up. Took a few days. Annoys me that I don't read more. Nothing quite like getting hooked in
pattycakes_
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Was about to track this down the other day, but was put off by the posts about it on here
IdleRich
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I think that you would like it Version. I don't know why but I reckon. And it's short, what have you got to lose?
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I think it's brilliant. Bleak, but brilliant. Really funny too.
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I will at some point. I'm not averse to reading it, just haven't gotten round to it yet. I'm trying to read Ulysses, The Odyssey, that big book of J. H. Prynne poems, Sontag's Against Interpretation and Nick Land's Fanged Noumena simultaneously. Also just finished that Tom McCarthy book of essays.