The Books thread.

SuperH · Post by **SuperH** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 10:49 pm

Naked Lunch you might be the one to ask, although biased, how good is reading Burroughs? I am interested, I have only seen the movie atm and I know it is pretty far different but - enlighten me?

atoga · Post by **atoga** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 10:54 pm

Naked_Lunch wrote:audiobooks sound pretty . Hook me up with da linx

i got dem off of oink. pm me an email address if you want an invite, son

Thor Kaufman · Post by **Thor Kaufman** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 11:08 pm

Bedingt dienstbereit from Norbert Juretzko

It's a book from the former BND (german CIA

) agent Norbert Juretzko about interna of the particular agency. It's pretty dope so far.

Naked_Lunch · Post by **Naked_Lunch** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 11:10 pm

SuperH wrote:Naked Lunch you might be the one to ask, although biased, how good is reading Burroughs? I am interested, I have only seen the movie atm and I know it is pretty far different but - enlighten me?

It's good reading if you don't mind the oftentimes bewildering prose and plots mainly inferred from subtext or just made up from the whimsy of your own imagination. I enjoy his writing style a lot and many people just think he was a one-shot trickster with the cut-up technique but in reality he was an extremely capable writer on his own.

For starters, check out Port of Saints or City of the Red Night. Enjoy. 10-4 that good buddy

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 11:22 pm

You might find Burroughs' stuff to read somewhat awkwardly at first, but you get used to his style pretty quickly. Having some previous experience with experimental prose will probably help.

Also, check out his 'spoken word' albums.

SuperH · Post by **SuperH** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 8:33 pm

Yeah I got Naked Lunch last night, both ebook and spoken word.

I have to read along with him though because he sounds crazy, my ceramics teacher was right when he said it sounds like he read it on heroin

Naked_Lunch · Post by **Naked_Lunch** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 8:56 pm

He probably did

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 9:01 pm

SuperH wrote:Yeah I got Naked Lunch last night, both ebook and spoken word.

Audio book, you mean? 'Spoken word' is another thing entirely. Check out Dead City Radio.

atoga · Post by **atoga** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 9:07 pm

Nicolai wrote:
SuperH wrote:Yeah I got Naked Lunch last night, both ebook and spoken word.

Audio book, you mean? 'Spoken word' is another thing entirely. Check out Dead City Radio.

never heard of that. any good?

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 9:24 pm

Yeah, it's pretty bueno. Check out his Wikipedia page for a complete list of his audio stuff.

SuperH · Post by **SuperH** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 9:45 pm

It might be an audiobook I donno, he's talking the book and there's bizzaro quazi-jazz freakout stuff going on at pauses. It's longer than a CD though eh?

johnnygothisgun · Post by **johnnygothisgun** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 8:51 pm

I just bought Bryce Courtenay's The Power of One, because I loved the movie when I was little. It's about Nazis and boxers and South Africa and suppressing savage negro beasts - I can't wait to start!

Redeye · Post by **Redeye** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 10:38 pm

johnnygothisgun wrote:I just bought Bryce Courtenay's The Power of One, because I loved the movie when I was little. It's about Nazis and boxers and South Africa and suppressing savage negro beasts - I can't wait to start!

Racism museum lol

Cthulhugoat · Post by **Cthulhugoat** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 4:51 pm

Finished Machines That Think, in the middle of Supernatural Horror In Literature, from guess who.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 6:15 pm

Really original.

SuperH · Post by **SuperH** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 9:20 pm

Cthulhu wrote:Supernatural Horror In Literature, from guess who.

vx trauma · Post by **vx trauma** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 2:17 am

the road by cormac mccarthy - nice. postapocalyptic despair, cannibalism, ash and a dying biosphere. read mf - do you do it?

TelemachusSneezed · Post by **TelemachusSneezed** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 8:02 pm

"Distraction," by Bruce Sterling.

Just gets weirder and weirder, and you don't even notice it until half way through the book!

http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/distract.htm

POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 6:19 am

I'm reading Access All Areas by Ninjalicous for my english class. It's a guide to urban exploration(which is the topic of my project thing) and its pretty fucking dumb. The guy thinks that there is a lot of skill and thought involved in urban exploration, like ZOMG COVER UR FLASHLIGHT LOL. It goes into stuff about practicing hide and seek to improve your exploration skills.

The exploration community are kinda jackasses too, you have to be approved membership to see locations of all the good places to go which I kinda understand but if your willing to go to an urban exploration website then your not very likely to just go to these places to steal or vandalize stuff. I can understand from their point of view but I don't want to fuck around just to find the good areas. I might end up exploring an urban dumpster.

baby arm · Post by **baby arm** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 9:43 am

Wait, what the fuck is urban exploration?