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Inhuman · 09.19.2009, 02:05 PM

Keeping It Simple · 09.19.2009, 02:21 PM

Ignore what people say about Tolkien. The US has produced far superior stuff in the fantasy genre. I'm talking "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant", and this, which I'm reading at the moment.

Lamont Cranston · 09.21.2009, 01:51 PM

Book of the New Sun is awesome Keeping It Simple!

Reading Collected Short Short Stories Vol IV - Philip K. Dick.
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Keeping It Simple · 09.21.2009, 02:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Lamont Cranston

Book of the New Sun is awesome Keeping It Simple!

Reading Collected Short Short Stories Vol IV - Philip K. Dick.
LibraryThing profile: http://www.librarything.com/profile/LamontCranston

The book reads like a psychedelic cross between Mervyn Peake, Charles Dickens and Geoffery Chaucer.

Toilet & Bowels · 09.21.2009, 05:33 PM

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Originally Posted by simulated stereo

Whose translation?

Desmond Lee

simulated stereo · 09.21.2009, 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels

Desmond Lee

Haven't read that one. How is it?

reading now:

demonrail666 · 09.21.2009, 06:21 PM

automatic bzooty · 09.21.2009, 06:32 PM

rip it up and start again

gravity's rainbow

bukowski - sifting through the madness

Toilet & Bowels · 09.21.2009, 06:46 PM

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Originally Posted by simulated stereo

Haven't read that one. How is it?

reading now:

i've only read about 20 pages, but it's readable, it's not live shoveling bricks through your eyes or anything, and it's the only version i've read so i've got nothing to compare it to

Kloriel · 09.21.2009, 07:04 PM

i'm reading the ambassadors by harry jim

simulated stereo · 09.21.2009, 07:32 PM

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Originally Posted by automatic bzooty

rip it up and start again

gravity's rainbow

bukowski - sifting through the madness

Sweet.

Better_Than_Deux · 09.22.2009, 09:45 AM

ishmael-daniel quinn

automatic bzooty · 09.22.2009, 03:01 PM

i hit the library on my lunch break and picked up white light/white heat: the velvet underground day by day. i'm so excited.

(i also hit the coffee shop, bought an overpriced but delicious mocha. the mocha eventually ended up hitting me. all over my shirt. grand.)

Keeping It Simple · 09.22.2009, 03:05 PM

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Originally Posted by automatic bzooty

i hit the library on my lunch break and picked up white light/white heat: the velvet underground day by day. i'm so excited.

(i also hit the coffee shop, bought an overpriced but delicious mocha. the mocha eventually ended up hitting me. all over my shirt. grand.)

I hope you didn't hit a person.

automatic bzooty · 09.22.2009, 03:19 PM

i didn't! hahaha. though people reeeeaaaally test my nerves these days...

i almost hit a tree. with my me. i felt really stupid.

Lamont Cranston · 09.22.2009, 04:37 PM

Just about done with the PKD short story collection.
One thing that was unexpected was the unrelenting misogyny. Men hate their wives and women in general; Women are of little value beyond domestic help and gratification, they are helpless, their intellect is inferior. The one exception to all this doesn't count for much as she is a paranoid schizophrenic. This is all played entirely straight with no attempt to subvert such 1950s/1960s sterotypes.

youthoftomorrow · 09.22.2009, 07:44 PM

Lamont Cranston · 09.22.2009, 09:14 PM

Well I finished it. I'm going back to finishing my Conan the Barbarian omnibus.

demonrail666 · 09.22.2009, 09:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Lamont Cranston

Just about done with the PKD short story collection.
One thing that was unexpected was the unrelenting misogyny. Men hate their wives and women in general; Women are of little value beyond domestic help and gratification, they are helpless, their intellect is inferior. The one exception to all this doesn't count for much as she is a paranoid schizophrenic. This is all played entirely straight with no attempt to subvert such 1950s/1960s sterotypes.

That's a really interesting point, and one that i'd not noticed in pkd when i read him. now that you mention it though it does seem very true.

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Lamont Cranston 100% Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 781	Just about done with the PKD short story collection. One thing that was unexpected was the unrelenting misogyny. Men hate their wives and women in general; Women are of little value beyond domestic help and gratification, they are helpless, their intellect is inferior. The one exception to all this doesn't count for much as she is a paranoid schizophrenic. This is all played entirely straight with no attempt to subvert such 1950s/1960s sterotypes. __________________ This is how it will all end: not with floods, earthquakes, falling comets or gigantic crabs roaming the Earth. No, doomsday will start simply out of indifference.
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