I'm in the mood for something really depraved. Any suggestions?

Last exit to brooklyn, Thats really depraved...

I just want something mindlessly trashy. Preferably non-fiction.

Apart from the aforementioned leisure reading, I am also (for work) delving into the exciting world of the European Waste Catalogue. It's a 'harmonised, non-exhaustive list of waste types, with each waste type being assigned a six digit code made up of two three digit codes'. It's just great, and you'll no doubt be chuffed to bits to discover that the whole, fully interactive (!?) document can be downloaded RIGHT HERE! I know you're just gagging to have a read.





I do not like the European Union.





At all.

i'm reading osamu tezuka's Buddha series at the moment and i'm on volume 2, it's great, a good old fashioned mythological epic

Sexus: Henry Miller
Tarantula: Bob Dylan

I recently finished:

Alec Foege - Confusion is Next: The Sonic Youth Story
Philip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (a.k.a. Bladerunner)

And am now reading:

Nikolai Gogol - Dead [Fucking] Souls
Willian Gibson - Neuromancer
H.D.B. Clark - Colloquial Japanese
Roger Love - Set Your Voice Free

Recently read: Breakfast Of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut (****/****) Magician - Raymond E. Feist (****/****)

Now Reading: Grimus - Salman Rushdie

Breakfast of Champions is the best thing that has ever been printed on paper and called a book.

Just finished Taichi Yamada's In Search of a Distant Voice.

This is the second of his books to be published in English, after Strangers. Very low key ghost stories.

I have not come across this before. More information please.

I'm dipping in and out of a lot of books. Augustine's confessions and Voltaire's Miracles and Idolatry are the two that seem to spring readily to mind. Also, going back over Derrida for the millionth time. One day, it'll all make sense. One day...

I'm halfway through Alice Miller's 'The drama of being a child'.I'm enjoying every single page on it.

Just finished The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq.

http://www.vertical-inc.com/buddha_top.html

http://www.bookslut.com/comicbookslu..._03_001681.php

http://www.time.com/time/columnist/a...519424,00.html

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...473263-1778327

So you're reading comics? What are you, a spacker?

you didn't know osamu tezuka was a comics writer???
anyway, comics are better than normal old-fashioned boooks

Im sort of readin Malloy by Beckett

Whatever, spacker.

you've got some catching up to do, old man!

What T&B said.

What are you some pathetic snob?

I work in a bookshop & so consider book snobbery to be acceptable for me.

And I do have to resist the urge to tell comic-buyers that we do sell real books, with WORDS and no pictures. Don't know if I'd call them spackers, I've just always thought they must be a bit lazy.

Jesus christ. It's called having a broad spectrum of readig. If you actually sat down and read some of the good comics out there you'd be surprised how well it compares next to books for emotion and feelings.

True.

the (comic) books of chris ware, dan clowes, the hernandez brothers, charles burns, yoshihiro tatsumi, joe sacco, katsuhiro otomo, to name just a handful are just as intelligent, thought provoking and insightful as any words-only book, and probably more enjoyable because not only to do you get great writing you also get to see some beautiful art work.

there is something odd about men who read comics i find. open to counter post etc. although i do find some of them to be quite good. i mean the comic comic type. i used to live with a guy like that, i am scared by it and thankfully not him.

Thank god someone here has sense. Rep coming your way T&B hon.

there's more to fucking comics than superheroes and shitty gag strips.

that is what i am saying as well.

hernandez bros rule



however, claiming for them to have some kind of supreme intellectual caliber is a bit misguided...

Read that a couple of months back, found it comfortable if a little bland. Think the weight of the middle-class angst kind of over-balances it, but a nice readable little sketch all the same. I'd be interested to get other opinions.

At the moment I'm reading Querelle by Jean Genet which I'd reccommend.

The apologies for comic books not being as "high brow" as other literature just don't work for me. Fans of comic books know many of them are better than much of the supposed great works of traditional literature. And we don't have to call them "graphic novels," either, to give them merit.

The same kinds of apologies have been tried by people who say they only like "intelligent" rock and roll, while the true fan knows rock and roll is great even when it's dumb.

I read books all the time, but I like comics, too. Less for reading value than for collectability, though. I used to love X-Men, so I still like X-Men comics. I have an extensive collection of Gambit comics. Trying to find all of them is way more fun than reading them.

i love comic books

i love books

but in a good book the meat is more densely packed-- you can't beat the bandwidth of well-chosen words. in the sense that words can more closely pursue a thought. give me the comic-book equivalent of cervantes & we'll do a comparison. or shakespeare if you prefer dee eenglish.

I was addicted to this as a kid:

i think this guy is a genius btw

I've still yet to read anything solely by him. Although I have read American Splendourof which he drew some comics for.

And this:

Helter Skelter?